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I'm in the process of coming out with an fitness info product in the next couple of months and this blog will be my new home to build relationships with my list and post cool things.
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My blog is called http://www.leanbodylifestyle.com so I would like the logo to incorporate the "Lean Body Lifestyle" words into it.
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Why Does C++ Allow Arithmetic on Null Pointers?
My last two notes [1, 2] discussed a subtle language-design issue that simplifies programmers' lives in ways that they often don't suspect. This theme seems useful, so I'll continue it.
C++ explicitly allows two kinds of pointer operations that are undefined in C: Adding zero to (or subtracting zero from) a null pointer yields a null pointer, and subtracting one null pointer from another one of the same type yields zero. This difference in behavior is not an accident. Rather, it is behavior that the C++ committee explicitly decided to allow, even though C does not. This difference in behavior follows, in a roundabout way, C++'s desire to support efficient generic programming. A key principle of generic programming is that it should not be necessary for algorithms to know the details of the data structures that they traverse. Instead, algorithms use iterators that implement the requisite knowledge of those data structures. For example, C++ programs often contain code such as:
template <class Iter> void process(Iter begin, Iter end) { while (begin != end) { // Do something with *begin ++begin; } }
This code differs from its likely C counterpart in two important ways. First, because C does not have templates, C programmers are more likely than C++ programmers to write code that relies on a specific data structure. Second, a C programmer will usually find it easier to pass a pointer and a count rather than two iterators.
In the interest of generality, C++ algorithms avoid count-based data structures. So, for example, C++ programmers usually do not pass a pointer and a count to an algorithm; instead, they pass a pointer to the first element and one past the last element. This technique avoids making it necessary to know in advance how many elements the data structure has.
Suppose you wanted to design a C-like interface to this algorithm to allow it to handle an array of
const char. You might write something like this:
void Cprocess(const char* array, size_t n) { process(array, array + n); }
Now you can call, for example,
Cprocess("Hello", 5), which will call
process with two appropriate iterators (i.e., pointers to
const char).
What if, for some reason, you want to pass
Cprocess an empty array? The logical way of doing so would be to call
Cprocess(0, 0), where the first
0 gets converted to a null pointer and the second one represents a count. However, if you do so, then when
Cprocess calls
process, the second argument in that call is the result of adding zero to a null pointer. Unless the language is defined to require this expression to yield a null pointer, this seemingly simple example will fail.
Retracing our steps, we find:
- C++ explicitly supports generic programming.
- Generic programming includes writing algorithms that work on data structures that are not known at the time the program is written.
- Incomplete knowledge of these data structures yields a desire to avoid knowing in advance how many elements the program will process.
- This desire biases C++ programs toward using a pair of pointers to express a range rather than a pointer and a count.
- If you have a pointer and a count, the logical way to use such a program is to add the count to the pointer.
- It is useful for this addition to work even when the count is zero, in which case there is no need for the pointer to point to an object.
- Therefore, it is more useful for C++ than for C to define the result of adding zero to a null pointer.
Incidentally, it is possible to construct an analogous example that illustrates why it is useful to be able to subtract one null pointer from another to get zero. I'll leave that as an exercise.


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Vengeance opened with a video package putting over the "Night Of Champions" theme for the show, and focusing on the WWE and World Title matches. Jim Ross welcomed us to the show, and then former World Tag Team Champions Mike Rotundo & Barry Windham (who both work for WWE now, although that wasn't mentioned) were introduced to the crowd. They were sitting at ringside, and they showed a short video package on Rotundo & Windham while Ross and Jerry Lawler discussed their history.
World Tag Team Champions Lance Cade & Trevor Murdoch vs. The Hardys.
Ross and Lawler called this one, and JR talked about the history of the tag titles before the bout. Cade started out with Matt, and broke clean in the corner as they locked up. They locked up again, and Cade broke clean again. Cade offered a handshake, and Matt kicked him in the gut, then hit a shoulderblock. Murdoch complained that Hardy wasn't following the rules. There was a chant for the Hardys. Matt grabbed a side headlock, and Cade leapfrogged him, but Matt hit a cross bodyblock and a series of rights. Murdoch came in, but was knocked out by Matt. Jeff tagged in for a double elbow and a fistdrop/senton combo. Murdoch got a blind tag and hit Jeff with a neckbreaker for a two count. Jeff gave Murdoch a mule kick and tagged in Matt, who hit a second rope elbowdrop. Jeff tagged in for Air Hardy, then hit an elevated kick in the corner. Cade ran in and was clotheslined to the floor by Matt. Jeff dropkicked Trevor to the floor as well. Cade and Murdoch regrouped on the floor, then started to leave.
The Hardys ran after them and dragged them back to the ring. Trevor slapped Matt, then Matt chased him around the ring and missed a bling tag to Cade, who clipped Matt's leg. Cade went to work on Matt's leg, which had been hurt during his match against Finlay on Smackdown last week. Murdoch tagged in and continued to work on Matt's leg, then hit an elbowdrop. Cade tagged in and clipped the leg, then slammed Matt knee first to the mat for a two count. Murdoch dropped a knee on the leg, and Matt tried to fight back, but Murdoch applied a single leg Boston crab. Murdoch had his left eye swelled up from a match last night. Matt struggled in the hold, and eventually turned over and kicked free.
Matt made the hot tag to Jeff as Murdoch tagged Cade. Jeff cleaned house on Cade and Murdoch, sending Murdoch to the floor after a backdrop and hitting a Slingblade clothesline on Cade for a two count. Jeff nailed Cade with Whisper In The Wind, but Cade kicked out at two. Jeff hit a gourdbuster and went to the top rope, but Murdoch went to stop him. Jeff kicked him away, but Murdoch managed to knock him off. Matt went after Murdoch on the floor, and Cade hit Jeff with a spinebuster in the ring for the pin at the nine minute mark.
Winners: Lance Cade & Trevor Murdoch.
Backstage, Queen Sharmell told King Booker to be careful in tonight's main event. Booker talked about his championship past, and said that tonight he would prove that the "Night Of Champions" belongs to King Booker.
JBL and Michael Cole then continued the "Night Of Champions" theme by discussing Eddie Guerrero, then showing footage of him winning the WWE Title from Brock Lesnar.
Cruiserweight Champion Chavo Guerrero vs. Jimmy Wang Yang.
As Chavo came to the ring, JBL and Cole discussed former Cruiserweight Champion Dean Malenko, showing some clips of him, and they showed Malenko (now a WWE agent) watching the match on a monitor in the back.
Yang grabbed a cradle at the bell for a one count. They locked up and Yang grabbed a side mare. Yang worked into another cradle for a one count. Chavo complained to the referee, then clipped Yang with a punch and went to work, ramming him into the turnbuckles. Yang came back with some kicks to the gut, then a huge dropkick. Yang hit a vertical suplex for a two count, then grabbed a keylock. Yang whipped Chavo in a corner and walked up his chest with a flip, but Chavo grabbed Yang and threw him to the floor. Chavo hit a baseball slide, then a stiff forearm on the floor. Chavo tossed Yang in the ring and went to the top rope, but Yang kicked him off and Chavo fell to the floor. Yang hit a top rope bodypress to the outside on Chavo.
Yang rolled Chavo back in the ring for a two count, but Chavo then hiptossed a charging Yang into the turnbuckles. Chavo put Yang in a surfboard, but Yang twisted out of it. Chavo gave Yang a drop toe hold and hit a forearm to the back, then hit a rolling senton. Chavo whipped Yang hard into the corner, then snapmared him and applied a chinlock while driving a knee into his back. Yang powered up and dropped back to escape the hold. Yang hit an inverted atomic drop, elbowed a charging Chavo, then hit a second rope dropkick. Yang hit a spinkick in the corner, then hit a top rope bodypress for a two count. Yang went to the ropes, but Chavo kicked him in the gut. Chavo went for the Three Amigos, but Yang floated over the third suplex and hit a spinkick for a two count. Yang went for the moonsault, but Chavo moved out of the way. Chavo went for the Gori Bomb, but Yang turned it into a sunset flip for a two count. Chavo grabbed Yang by the jeans and pulled him face first into the turnbuckles. Chavo put Yang on the top rope for a back superplex, but Yang elbowed him to the mat. Yang stood on the top rope for the moonsault, but Chavo knocked him off. Chavo went to the top rope and hit a frogsplash to the back of Yang for the pin at the nine minute mark.
Winner: Chavo Guerrero.
A half hour into the show, Jim Ross had the honor of making the first mention of the Mr. McMahon storyline. Lawler and Ross reviewed the footage of Vince going boom, and analyzed Vince's mindset that night, noting he felt there was a "black cloud" over him. They analyzed every aspect of Vince's walk to the limo, right down to how he opened the door. A fan had a sign that said "Vince is not dead". We then had a plug for the poll on WWE.com to select who might have done the heinous act.
Todd Grisham interviewed Bobby Lashley backstage. Lashley said he wished Vince McMahon was here, so he could see the look on Vince's face when he wins the WWE Title tonight.
Joey Styles & Tazz made their first (and probably only) appearance on the show. They talked about the recent history of the ECW Title, then showed some classic ECW clips of Tazz (back when he was Taz), with Joey Styles stating he was the greatest ECW Champion ever. Tazz said being ECW Champion was the highlight of his career.
Johnny Nitro vs. CM Punk for the vacant ECW Title.
The announcers explained that Benoit had a "family emergency" to the audience watching the PPV, so Nitro was replacing him. The fans in the arena were chanting "We Want Benoit" as Punk and Nitro did some mat work at the start. Punk hit some kicks to the leg of Nitro, then kicked him in the head, knocking him to the floor. Nitro got on the apron and slapped Punk. Punk chased him around the ring, and when Nitro got back in, Punk tripped him from the floor, then hit a slingshot legdrop. Punk slapped Nitro across the face, but Nitro reversed a whip into the corner then hit a springboard kick to the head for a two count. Nitro hit some forearms to the face, then covered Punk for a near fall. Nitro applied a trapped arm choke. Punk fought out of it, but Nitro nailed him with a clothesline for a one count.
Nitro applied an armbar, and the "We Want Benoit" chants started up again. Punk broke free, but Nitro hit a double kick out of the corner, then a backbreaker and a cross armbreaker. Nitro went back to the trapped arm choke. Fans chanted "boring". Punk broke free and hit an enzugiri. Nitro and Punk traded shots, with Punk getting the better of it. Punk hit a sidekick for a two count. Nitro caught a charging Punk with an elbow, but put his feet on the ropes for leverage on a cover, which the referee caught. Punk grabbed Nitro in an STO variation for a two count, then went for the GTS, but Nitro elbowed out of it into a sunset flip, but Punk dropped down on him for a two count. Punk hit some knees to the head, then a jumping knee in the corner and a bulldog. Punk went for a springboard clothesline, but Nitro ducked. Punk rolled across the mat to the opposite apron. Punk went to shoulderblock Nitro from the apron, but Nitro caught him with a knee to the head, then pulled Punk into the ring and hit a flipping neckbreaker for the clean pin at the eight minute mark.
Winner and new ECW Champion: Johnny Nitro.
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Some unfortunate news, the D-Backs selected Starlin Peralta, and intriguing arm that pitched in the Cubs system last year, but never above A ball. The news doesn't really get any better as the Cubs lost Michael Burgess to the Astros, and Matt Cerda to the Cardinals. Both guys are not considered "top prospects" and might not make it to the big leagues, but it isn't a lot of fun to see guys you covered all year disappear from the organization. News coming in that the Jays just selected RHP Alvido Jimenez from the Cubs as well, they are getting poached! Don't worry, none of these guys are considered major league level talent, except for Peralta maybe.
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Those of us who built the internet are saddened by the dark
 turn of events that the Silicon Valley oligarchs have steered it towards...

I helped invent the internet. How did it go so wrong?

- Facebook, Google-YouTube, Netflix, Linked-In and the sociopath Sandhill Road VC's turned it into a sex-trafficking, spy-ridden, election-meddling hell and the politicians that those companies bribe like to keep it that way!

Scientists inadvertently created the perfect formula for the "dark" side of the internet to spread like a virus by enabling anyone to reach millions of people inexpensively and anonymously.

(Rafe Swan / Getty Images/Cultura RF)

When I was a young scientist working on the fledgling creation that came to be known as the internet, the ethos that defined the culture we were building was characterized by words such as ethical, open, trusted, free, shared. None of us knew where our research would lead, but these words and principles were our beacon.

We did not anticipate that the dark side of the internet would emerge with such ferocity. Or that we would feel an urgent need to fix it.

How did we get from there to here?

While studying for my doctorate at MIT in the early 1960s, I recognized the need to create a mathematical theory of networks that would allow disparate computers to communicate. Later that decade, the Advanced Research Projects Agency — a research funding arm of the Department of Defense created in response to Sputnik — determined they needed a network based on my theory so that their computer research centers could share work remotely.

My UCLA computer lab was selected to be the first node of this network. Fifty years ago — on Oct. 29, 1969 — a simple "Lo" became the first internet message, from UCLA to Stanford Research Institute. We had typed the first two letters of "login" when the network crashed.

This quiet little moment of transmission over that two-computer communication network is regarded as the founding moment of the internet.

During its first 25 years, the internet grew dramatically and organically with the user community seeming to follow the same positive principles the scientists did. We scientists sought neither patents nor private ownership of this networking technology. We were nerds in our element, busily answering the challenge to create new technology that would benefit the world.

Around 1994, the internet began to change quickly as dot-coms came online, the network channels escalated to gigabit speeds and the World Wide Web became a common household presence. That same year, Amazon was founded and Netscape, the first commercial web browser, was released.

And on April 12, 1994, a "small" moment with enormous meaning occurred: The transmission of the first widely circulated spam email message, a brazen advertisement. The collective response of our science community was "How dare they?" Our miraculous creation, a "research" network capable of boundless computing magnificence had been hijacked to sell … detergent?

By 1995, the internet had 50 million users worldwide. The commercial world had recognized something we had not foreseen: The internet could be used as a powerful shopping machine, a gossip chamber, an entertainment channel and a social club. The internet had suddenly become a money-making machine.

With the profit motive taking over the internet, the very nature of innovation changed. Averting risk dominated the direction of technical progress. We no longer pursued "moonshots." Instead advancement came via baby steps — "design me a 5% faster Bluetooth connection" as opposed to "build me an internet." An online community that had once been convivial transformed into one of competition, antagonism and extremism.

And then as the millennium ended, our revolution took a more disturbing turn that we continue to grapple with today.

By suddenly providing the power for anyone to immediately reach millions of people inexpensively and anonymously, we had inadvertently also created the perfect formula for the "dark" side to spread like a virus all over the world. Today more than 50% of email is spam, but far more troubling issues have emerged — including denial of service attacks that can immobilize critical financial institutions and malicious botnets that can cripple essential infrastructure sectors.

Other dangerous players, such as nation-states, started coming onto the scene around 2010, when Stuxnet malware appeared. Organized crime recognized the internet could be used for international money laundering, and extremists found the internet to be a convenient megaphone for their radical views. Artificial intelligence, machine learning, facial recognition, biometrics and other advanced technologies could be used by governments to weaken democratic institutions.

The balkanization of the internet is now conceivable as firewalls spring up around national networks.

We could try to push the internet back toward its ethical roots. However, it would be a complex challenge requiring a joint effort by interested parties — which means pretty much everyone.

We should pressure government officials and entities to more zealously monitor and adjudicate such internet abuses as cyberattacks, data breaches and piracy. Governments also should provide a forum to bring interested parties together to problem-solve.

Citizen-users need to hold websites more accountable. When was the last time a website asked what privacy policy you would like applied to you? My guess is never. You should be able to clearly articulate your preferred privacy policy and reject websites that don't meet your standards. This means websites should provide a privacy policy customized to you, something they should be able to do since they already customize the ads you see. Websites should also be required to take responsibility for any violations and abuses of privacy that result from their services.

Scientists need to create more advanced methods of encryption to protect individual privacy by preventing perpetrators from using stolen databases. We are working on technologies that would hide the origin and destination of data moving around the network, thereby diminishing the value of captured network traffic. Blockchain, the technology that underpins bitcoin and other digital currencies, also offers the promise of irrefutable, indisputable data ledgers.

If we work together to make these changes happen, it might be possible to return to the internet I knew.

Leonard Kleinrock is distinguished professor of computer science at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering.

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How the Internet lost its soul

Janet Abbate, The Washington Post

This week, we celebrate what many consider the 50th birthday of the Internet. The underpinnings of the World Wide Web originated in an American communications network built for national defense and the pursuit of knowledge: ARPANET. Funded by the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency, the network was designed so that scientists could share computer hardware, software and data.

It worked. In the ensuing decades, the ARPANET, and after the 1980s, the National Science Foundation Network (NSFNET), did indeed allow scientists to collaboratively build knowledge around networked tools and information. But expanding access to the Internet, combined with looser government regulations, ultimately produced a situation no one foresaw or intended. On today's Internet, conspiracy theories run rampant, identities can be faked and our real-life elections are vulnerable to manipulation. A network designed for spreading truth became a profit-driven industry, a public sphere that threatens to undermine the public good.

The original ARPANET was designed for a relatively small community of people united by a technical challenge. At the time, computers from different manufacturers ran incompatible software, and long-distance data communications links were costly and unreliable. Networks connected only a few identical computers within a small region.

But ARPANET had an audacious proposal: It would span the continental United States to connect 15 research sites encompassing a diverse array of computers.

"Almost every conceivable item of computer hardware and software will be in the network," project leader Larry Roberts pointed out. "This is the greatest challenge of the system, as well as its greatest ultimate value." As a leading funder of computer science research, ARPA was able to mobilize a talented group of faculty and graduate students to design, build and debug the network, sending the first message on Oct. 29, 1969.

Like many academic environments, the ARPANET community was open and informal, and security was lax; in the early 1970s, students were rumored to have used the network to conduct transcontinental drug deals alongside their official research. But the relatively closed world of networked computing was opened up with the introduction of personal computers in the 1970s. The Defense Department soon found "unauthorized penetrations" of the ARPANET by hackers, complaining that "the availability of inexpensive computers and modems have made the network fair game for countless computer hobbyists."

By 1983, security concerns were so acute that Defense split off military users into their own network, ceding the rest of the ARPANET to academic researchers. In 1990, the ARPANET was absorbed into a new network built by the National Science Foundation that consisted of several regional networks connected by a high-speed backbone. As a nationwide civilian network, NSFNET rapidly increased the size and visibility of the Internet.

Politicians and businesses wanted to capitalize on the potential of a national network to connect citizens and consumers. In the early 1980s, the general public, though not yet allowed on the Internet, had begun using commercial dial-up services such as CompuServe and AOL to access servers offering chat rooms, games and email. In 1986, Congress, prompted by Sen. Al Gore, began debating whether the nation needed an "information superhighway" to connect K-12 schools and libraries for all citizens. Congress included funding for a National Research and Education Network (NREN) in its High-Performance Computing Act of 1991.

Had this plan come to fruition, the Internet would have remained under federal control until the late 1990s, potentially allowing time to upgrade security or create regulations to protect users. But before the NREN could get underway, the industry contractors providing the NSFNET infrastructure rushed ahead with plans to offer commercial network services, ultimately causing Congress to abandon the NREN.

The result was the de facto privatization of the Internet. The nonprofit organizations that had operated the NSFNET's backbone and regional networks reinvented themselves as the first commercial Internet service providers, serving both the NSF and private customers. The NSF now had the option to outsource its networking needs to these commercial providers, which it did as it retired the old NSFNET in 1995. While this removed an administrative burden from the NSF, the hasty transition left little time to consider the policy implications. So a commercialized network developed without public oversight of the Internet's operation.

Privatization opened the floodgates for new services: social media, gaming, e-commerce, and millions of personal websites and blogs. Industry advocates insisted that the Internet should not be regulated, lest innovation be stifled. Regulatory models that had been developed for common carriers, publishers and broadcasters did not fit a new medium that combined aspects of all these media and whose services and business models were in constant flux. Online businesses were free to experiment with ways to make money, eventually landing on the advertising-based business model that led to escalating surveillance and collection of user data to better target ads.

None of this has prevented scientists - the Internet's original users - from continuing to build reliable knowledge based on networked data and computational tools. The scientific community has time-tested processes to validate and protect the information it shares. But the general public is in a more precarious position. Anyone can be a publisher online, and the obvious clues to legitimacy that came with print and broadcast media - the investment in reporting and fact-checking, obligations to paying customers, an identifiable organization that could be held liable for false content - can be absent or faked online. The same type of user profiling that stimulates business also enables bad actors to target inflammatory social issues and widen political divides. We have inadvertently created a culture where misinformation can be spread without accountability.

Long-term trends of increasingly open access and diminishing government oversight have fueled the Internet's growth and unleashed the creativity of millions. They have also left a vacuum where the public interest should be. Can we work together to build a better Internet for the next 50 years?

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Abbate is a professor of science, technology and society at Virginia Tech and the author of "Inventing the Internet."
 Article: The Character Assassination And Defamation Attack On Nikola Tesla By His Big Tech Competitors urn:md5:1314eba667a83cfd6b068ca9936948a1 2018-11-13T12:53:00+00:00 2019-12-28T03:03:34+00:00 2iow9TEXASNY NEWS 18-cv-08048aircraft ion drivesAmerican inventorAmerican Jobs Actanti-corruptionBay To Breakers Footstock FestivalCEOCongressionalCongressional consultantCTOdecentralized energyDepartment of EnergyDepartment of Energy Reformdigital worldsdisaster relief consultantDriving Simelectronic aircraft propulsionenergy storageenergy storage technologyFacebook VRFederal law enforcement advisoryFlight SimFlight simulatorsfuel cell systemsgaming technologyHolodeckinnovationIntel analysisIntelligence analysisinventorion propulsionlaw enforcement techlaw enforcement technologyMajor public programsmesh networksmotion SimulatorsNikola Tesla Vs JP MorganNikola Tesla VS Thomas EdisonNikola Tesla Vs. MarconiNVIDIA VROculusp2p mediap2p mesh networkspeer to peer patentsPhilo FarnsworthQuantum communicatorQuantum EntanglementRonan Farrow s Book: Catch And KillRonan Farrow s book: CATCH AND KILLSan Francisco Blues FestivalScott Douglas RedmondScott Douglas-RedmondScott Redmondscott redmond project teamscottdouglas-redmondscottredmondSF Blues FestivalSGI-VRsocial mediasolid state electronic aircraftstrategic innovationstrategic innovation servicestactical simulatorsteam oneteam one deployment groupThe CAVEThe Character Assassination And Defamation Plot Against Nikola TeslaThe HolodeckThe NowhouseThe Nowhouse projectUnsworth v. MuskVirtual Game SoftwareVirtual RealityVRVR automotive electronicsVR CaveVR digital camerasVR experience productionVR GlassesVR GogglesVR medical equipmentVR smartphonesVR tabletsVR Theme Park ExperienceWhite House commendationsWhite House consultantwho invented bitorrent

We are actively assisting the government with public rights projects. We owned a global vehicle design and manufacturing business and a global clean energy production and storage business financed by the U.S. Government. White House and California politicians owned our competitors and re-routed our funding to our competitors, who were the friends and campaign financiers of those politicians. Those politicians contracted Fusion GPS, Black Cube, Gawker/Gizmodo, Crowd-strike, etc. (Read Ronan Farrow's book: CATCH AND KILL) to run hit-jobs on us to blockade our business for their benefit. Those politicians engaged in felony bribery, anti-trust violations and racketeering and they are still being protected by regulators who have conflict-of-interest relations with those politicians. The FBI, FEC, SEC, FTC and Congress are now hot-on-the-trail of the dirty politicos involved. This isn't the first rodeo for us inventor types. The playbook was created in the 1800's against Nikola Tesla:

The Character Assassination And Defamation Plot Against Nikola Tesla And His Inventions Is The Same Set Of Tactics That Google and Facebook Run Against Indiependent Innovators

(See the new film: The Current War, about this story)

Hundreds of newspaper defamation and character assassination articles were paid for and published against Nikola Tesla by his oligarch enemies!

Who filled the newspapers with these attack articles designed to demoralize and financially damage Nikola Tesla?

It was Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, Guglielmo Marconi and J.P. Morgan!

Oligarchs in Silicon Valley try to destroy inventors today just like the oligarch's did in the 1800's. They do it because the oligarchs are sociopath, egotistical frat boys who can buy their way out of any legal repercussions. Elon Musk, Tim Draper, Tom Perkins, Eric Schmidt, Steve Jurvetson, Larry Page, and the other nut-ball tech billionaires of today, use their windfall cash, daily, to hire Black Cube, Gizmodo, Fusion GPS, Crowdstrike and other "kill services" to destroy inventors and small companies who compete with them. In Ronan Farrow's Book: Catch And Kill, you can read about the dirty tricks services these oligarchs use today to criminally end the lives of those they dislike.

Per Tia Ghose: The Serbian-American scientist was a brilliant and eccentric genius whose inventions enabled modern-day power and mass communication systems.

His nemesis and former boss, Thomas Edison, was the iconic American inventor of the light bulb, the phonograph and the moving picture. The two feuding geniuses waged a "War of Currents" in the 1880s over whose electrical system would power the world — Tesla's alternating-current (AC) system or Edison's rival direct-current (DC) electric power.

Tesla had an eidetic memory, which meant he could very precisely recall images and objects. This enabled him to accurately visualize intricate 3D objects, and as a result, he could build working prototypes using few preliminary drawings.

"He really worked out his inventions in his imagination," Carlson told Live Science.

Edison held 1,093 patents, according to the Thomas Edison National Historic Park. Tesla garnered less than 300 worldwide, according to a study published in 2006 at the Sixth International Symposium of Nikola Tesla. Edison had scores more assistants and underlings helping him write up inventions, and also bought some of his patents from others. Tesla was the more effective, disruptive and sole inventor of amazing technologies!

Most forward thinking

Though the light bulb, the phonograph and moving pictures are touted as Edison's most important inventions, other people were already working on similar technologies, said Leonard DeGraaf, an archivist at Thomas Edison National Historical Park in New Jersey, and the author of "Edison and the Rise of Innovation" (Signature Press, 2013).

"If Edison hadn't invented those things, other people would have," DeGraaf told Live Science.

In a shortsighted move, Edison dismissed Tesla's "impractical" idea of an alternating-current (AC) system of electric power transmission, instead promoting his simpler, but less efficient, direct-current (DC) system.

By contrast, Tesla's ideas were often more disruptive technologies that didn't have a built-in market demand. And his alternating-current motor and hydroelectric plant at Niagara Falls— a first-of-its-kind power plant — truly electrified the world.

Tesla also spent years working on a system designed to wirelessly transmit voices, images and moving pictures — making him a futurist, and the true father of radio, telephone, cell phones and television. [Creative Genius: The World's Greatest Minds]

"Our entire mass communication system is based on Tesla's system," said Marc Seifer, author of "Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla," (Citadel Press, 2001).

Unfortunately, Tesla's grand scheme failed when his financial backer, J.P. Morgan sabotaged Tesla in an ego battle.

Biggest impact

Edison's enduring legacy isn't a specific patent or technology, but his invention factories, which divided the innovation process into small tasks that were carried out by legions of workers, DeGraaf said. For instance, Edison got the idea for a moving picture camera, or kinetoscope from a talk by photographer Edward Muybridge, but then left most of the experimentation and prototyping to his assistant William Dickson and others. By having multiple patents and inventions developing in parallel, Edison, in turn, ensured that his assistants had a stable financial situation to continue running experiments and fleshing out more designs.

"He invents modern innovation as we know it," DeGraaf said.

Tesla's inventions are the backbone of modern power and communication systems, but he faded into obscurity later in the 20th century, when most of his inventions were lost to history. And despite his many patents and innovations, Tesla was destitute when he died in 1943.

At the height of his career, Tesla was charismatic, urbane and witty. He spoke several languages and counted writers Mark Twain and Rudyard Kipling, and naturalist John Muir as friends, according to Seifer.

Edison also had a mean streak, which he amply displayed in his vicious attacks against Tesla during the War of Currents. He also gave advice on how to build the first electric chair using direct current (DC), going into gory detail about the techniques needed to do the deed, Seifer said.

Edison vs. Westinghouse: A Shocking Rivalry

The inventors' battle over the delivery of electricity was an epic power play

By  Gilbert King

smithsonian.com

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. They were genius rivals: two American titans who transformed the technology industry and lived to see their visions of computers and electronic devices in billions of homes and offices around the world. Still, their philosophies and personalities were as different as night and day, or Macs and PCs, and over the years, they could not resist needling and antagonizing each other as they staked their claims in the global technology marketplace.

"The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste," Jobs famously said in 1996. "They have absolutely no taste. And I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don't think of original ideas, and they don't bring much culture to their products."

In 2006, when Apple released its popular Mac vs. PC ads, wherein a hip young Jobs-like character interacts with a bumbling, back-office, brown-suited Gates type, Gates was clearly irritated. "I don't know why acting like it's superior. I don't even get it," Gates said. "If you just want to say, 'Steve Jobs invented the world, and then the rest of us came along,' that's fine."

Yet despite the barbs, (and occasional lawsuits) and despite the obvious competition, both Jobs and Gates were smart enough to know that there was room in the consumer market for Apple and Microsoft to coexist, and over the years, neither was too proud or too stung by the other's words to stop them from entering into various partnerships along the way. (In fact, in 1997 Microsoft infused Apple with $150 million in cash at a time when Jobs was brought back by the board of directors to serve as interim CEO, as Apple was suffering crippling financial losses.) The same, however, cannot be said for Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse, who, more than a century ago, engaged in a nasty battle over alternating and direct current, known as the "War of Currents." Both men knew there was room for but one American electricity system, and Edison set out to ruin Westinghouse in "a great political, legal and marketing game" that saw the famous inventor stage publicity events where dogs, horses and even an elephant were killed using Westinghouse's alternating current. The two men would play out their battle on the front pages of newspapers and in the Supreme Court, in the country's first attempt to execute a human being with electricity.

After Edison developed the first practical incandescent light bulb in 1879, supported by his own direct current electrical system, the rush to build hydroelectric plants to generate DC power in cities across the United States practically guaranteed Edison a fortune in patent royalties. But early on, Edison recognized the limitations of DC power. It was very difficult to transmit over distances without a significant loss of energy, and the inventor turned to a 28-year-old Serbian mathematician and engineer whom he'd recently hired at Edison Machine Works to help solve the problem. Nikola Tesla claimed that Edison even offered him significant compensation if he could design a more practical form of power transmission. Tesla accepted the challenge. With a background in mathematics that his inventor boss did not have, he set out to redesign Edison's DC generators. The future of electric distribution, Tesla told Edison, was in alternating current—where high-voltage energy could be transmitted over long distances using lower current—miles beyond generating plants, allowing a much more efficient delivery system. Edison dismissed Tesla's ideas as "splendid" but "utterly impractical." Tesla was crushed and claimed that Edison not only refused to consider AC power, but also declined to compensate him properly for his work. Tesla left Edison in 1885 and set out to raise capital on his own for Tesla Electric Light & Manufacturing, even digging ditches for the Edison Company to pay his bills in the interim, until the industrialist George Westinghouse at Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company, a believer in AC power, bought some of Tesla's patents and set about commercializing the system so as to take electric light to something more than an urban luxury service. While Tesla's ideas and ambitions might be brushed aside, Westinghouse had both ambition and capital, and Edison immediately recognized the threat to his business.

Within a year, Westinghouse Electric began installing its own AC generators around the country, focusing mostly on the less populated areas that Edison's system could not reach. But Westinghouse was also making headway in cities like New Orleans, selling electricity at a loss in order to cut into Edison's business. By 1887, after only a year in the business, Westinghouse had already more than half as many generating stations as Edison. The concern at Edison was palpable, as sales agents around the country were demoralized by Westinghouse's reach into rural and suburban areas. But Thomas Edison had an idea. Surely Westinghouse's system must be more dangerous, what with all that voltage passing through the wires. "Just as certain as death," Edison predicted, "Westinghouse will kill a customer within 6 months after he puts in a system of any size."

In November 1887, Edison received a letter from a dentist in Buffalo, New York, who was trying to develop a more humane method of execution than hanging. Having witnessed a drunk man accidentally kill himself by touching a live electric generator, Alfred P. Southwick became convinced that electricity could provide a quicker, less painful alternative for criminals condemned to death. Perhaps the Wizard of Menlo Park might have some thoughts about the best electric current "to produce death with certainty in all cases." Edison, who opposed capital punishment, at first declined to get involved with Southwick's project. But when the dentist persisted, Edison, recognizing the opportunity that had landed in his lap, wrote back to say that although he would "join heartily in an effort to totally abolish capital punishment," he did have some thoughts about electric currents in which to dispose of "criminals under sentence of death."

"The most effective of these," he wrote, "are known as 'alternating machines,' manufactured principally in this country by Mr. Geo. Westinghouse, Pittsburgh."

In June 1888, Edison began to demonstrate the lethal power of alternating current for reporters. He rigged a sheet of tin to an AC dynamo and led a dog onto the tin to drink from a metal pan. Once the dog touched the metal surface, it yelped and"the little cur dog fell dead."

Sketch of the execution of William Kemmler on August 6, 1890, using alternating current. (Wikipedia)

Electricity will kill a man "in the ten-thousandth part of a second," Edison told one reporter shortly after the demonstration, and he was quick to remind him that "the current should come from an alternating machine."

The battle of the currents had begun. Westinghouse recognized what Edison was up to and wrote the inventor a letter, stating, "I believe there has been a systemic attempt on the part of some people to do a great deal of mischeaf and creat as great a difference as possible between the Edison Company and The Westinghouse Electric Co., when there ought to be an entirely different condition of affairs." Edison saw no reason to cooperate, and he continued his experiments at varying levels of voltage with dozens of stray dogs purchased from neighborhood boys in Orange, New Jersey at 25 cents each. Edison's research was soon proving that alternating current was, as he said, "beyond all doubt more fatal than the continuous current." By the end of the year, Edison arranged a demonstration before a New York State committee impaneled to investigate the use of electricity in executions. At his West Orange laboratory, the inventor wired electrodes to several calves and a horse; even though the animals' deaths were not quick, the committee was impressed. New York State expressed a desire to purchase "three Westinghouse alternating-current dynamos," but Westinghouse refused to sell them for the purpose of what was now being described as "electrocution." It did not matter. An electricity salesman named Harold Brown was commissioned by the state to build an electric chair, and Edison was paying him behind the scenes to use alternating current in his design. Somehow, Brown got his hands on some AC dynamos.

When New York State sentenced convicted murderer William Kemmler to death, he was slated to become the first man to be executed in an electric chair. Killing criminals with electricity "is a good idea," Edison said at the time. "It will be so quick that the criminal can't suffer much." He even introduced a new word to the American public, which was becoming more and more concerned by the dangers of electricity. The convicted criminals would be "Westinghoused." Where Elon Musk has exploited billions of taxpayer and VC dollars to self-promote himself, Nikola Tesla spent very little money on self-promotion.

Westinghouse was livid. He faced millions of dollars in losses if Edison's propaganda campaign convinced the public that his AC current would be lethal to homeowners. Westinghouse contributed $100,000 toward legal fees for Kemmler's appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, where it was argued that death in the electric chair amounted to cruel and unusual punishment. Both Kemmler and Westinghouse were unsuccessful, and on August 6, 1890, Kemmler was strapped into Harold Brown's chair at Auburn prison and wired to an AC dynamo. When the current hit him, Kemmler's fist clenched so tight that blood began to trickle from his palm down the arm of the chair. His face contorted, and after 17 seconds, the power was shut down. Arthur Southwick, "the father of the electric chair," was in attendance and proclaimed to the witnesses, "This is the culmination of ten years work and study. We live in a higher civilization today."

Yet behind the dentist, Kemmler began to shriek for air.

"Great God! He's alive!" someone shouted.

"Turn on the current! Turn on the current instantly!" another screamed. "This man is not dead!"

But the dynamo needed time to build its current, and Kemmler wheezed and gasped before the horrified witnesses as the electricity began to course through his body. Some witnesses fainted while others vomited, as it appeared that Kemmler was on the verge of regaining consciousness. The back of his coat briefly caught fire. Minutes passed until Kemmler finally went rigid. The current stopped and he was pronounced dead by Dr. Edward Spitzka, who predicted, "there will never be another electrocution."

Westinghouse was horrified by the reports of Kemmler's execution. "It has been a brutal affair," he said. "They could have done better with an ax."

Topsy the Elephant was electrocuted by Thomas Edison's technicians at Coney Island before a crowd of thousands. (Chicago Tribune)

Thomas Edison believed that future executions by AC current would go more smoothly, "without the scene at Auburn today." To further demonstrate the lethal nature of alternating current, he held a widely attended spectacle in Coney Island, New York, where a circus elephant named Topsy was to be executed after she was deemed to be too dangerous to be around people. The elephant had killed three men in recent years—one a trainer who had tried to feed Topsy a lit cigarette. Edison had Topsy fitted with copper-wire sandals, and before a crowd of thousands, an AC current of 6,000 volts was sent coursing through the elephant until she toppled to her side, dead.

Despite all of Edison's efforts, and despite his attempts to persuade General Electric otherwise, the superiority of the AC current was too much for Edison and his DC system to overcome. In 1893, Westinghouse was awarded the contract to light the Chicago World's Fair, bringing all the positive publicity he would need to make alternating current the industry standard. For his part, Edison later admitted that he regretted not taking Tesla's advice.

Sources:

Books: Mark Essig, Edison & The Electric Chair, Walker and Company, 2003. Craig Brandon, The Electric Chair: An Unnatural American History, McFarland & Company, Inc., 1999. Gilbert King, The Execution of Willie Francis: Race, Murder, and the Search for Justice in the American South, Basic Civitas Books, 2008.

Articles: ""Wait Till the NEXT One!" Newsweek, February 11, 2007. http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2007/02/12/wait-till-the-next-one.html Creating Jobs" by Steve Lohr, New York Times, January 12, 1997. "Steve Jobs and Bill Gates: It's Complicated" by Jay Greene, CNET News, Microsoft, August 24, 2011. "Coney Elephant Killed" New York Times, January 6, 1903. Google's Larry Page stealing ideas: How Larry Page's Obsessions Became Google's Business

The most important point about the Tesla- J P Morgan business relationship is: In essence, it was a clash between being led by greed and egotism, on the one side, vs being driven by the wish to benefit humanity, on the other. J P Morgan funded Tesla's electrical projects for a while. When Tesla explained to him that his wireless transmitter-receiver would produce free electricity for the whole planet, and J P Morgan realized that it would not bring any profits for him, he withdrew his support. This way he, along with others like him, denied humanity of free energy. Free energy would have bankrupted their energy industries, including the oil industry. He was responsible, along many other ruthless businessmen, politicians and people without scruples, for denying the world free access to electricity, among other technological breakthroughs made by Tesla, and also for ruining and discrediting the greatest scientific mind of the 20th century.

About Edison's relationship with Tesla, it is true that he stole some of Tesla's patents. Most of Edison's inventions were made by other people, who worked for him. He patented those discoveries under his name, and payed the real inventors very little money. Tesla said he was promised by Edison a much higher sum for his inventions, than the one he was given. So Edison criminally defrauded Tesla.

And Then There Was Philo

"All the people that stole Philo Farnsworth's intellectual property knew him, came and looked at his inventions, copied them and then started multi-billion dollar companies around those inventions that they stole from Farnsworth. Farnsworth, and his friends, hunted them for the rest of their lives and cost every single one of the thieves over one billion dollars in stock market valuation losses..." - Tales of Philo

 If you don't know who Philo Farnsworth is, read up on him...and never, ever, steal IP. It is ALWAYS economically better to pay the inventor than to go through all of the legal, media, doxing, exposure and interdiction hassle of ripping off the inventor. You never want to go through the "Philo-Effect"! ;-) Who invented Television Philo Farnsworth versus Sarnoff

READ MORE ABOUT THE SILICON VALLEY OLIGARCHS IN THESE REPORTS:

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COURT RECORDS AND FEDERAL INVESTIGATION EVIDENCE REVEALS THAT ELON MUSK HIRES HIT-MEN TO ATTACK THOSE THAT COMPETE WITH MUSK

In September, Musk revealed in court documents that one of his trusted aides, Jared Birchall, paid $50,000 to hire a private investigator who looked into Unsworth. Attorneys for Unsworth said the investigator was offered a $10,000 bonus if he was able to confirm nefarious behavior -- which was never paid.

Birchall worked at Morgan Stanley until 2016 and is the manager of Excession LLC, Musk's family office.

He took the stand after Musk.

Birchall testified he hired James Howard.

After Howard came up with what later turned out to be fake dirt on Unsworth, such as that he had been visiting Thailand since the 1980s and that he met his wife when she was a teenager, Birchall, using the name James Brickhouse, told Howard to leak the information to media in the U.K.

"I believed him to be a credible investigator," Birchall told the jury. "I understood these things to be facts. I asked him to share facts."

Musk also enlisted help from a second investigator at the Palo Alto, California-based law firm Cooley LLP. Cooley didn't respond to a request for comment. But pay records and emails from Cooley have been acquired.

The case is Unsworth v. Musk, 18-cv-08048, U.S. District Court, Central District of California (Los Angeles). The issue of Musk hiring Gawker, Gizmodo, Jalopnik and the rest of the Nick Denton/Univision attack tabloids (To seek to destroy competitors) is sure to be raised.

Elon Musk Maybe Doesn't Understand Words That Begin With 'P'

Jon Shazar

Elon Musk is a billionaire entrepreneur, and as such is not used to be called to account for his actions, whether those actions are alleged securities law violations or smoking weed on camera while under scrutiny for a Twitter habit at the heart of those alleged securities law violations or inability to meet either profit or production goals. Certainly, he's not interested in being called to account for rather apparently alleging that a man seeking to rescue children from a cave is an actual child rapist.

We say "apparent," because in spite of the fact that the prefix "pedo" literally means "child," Musk went through with his plan to testify that on the mean streets of Pretoria, it instead refers to creepy old men rather than serving as an abbreviation of pedophile.

Musk, 48, said the term "pedo guy" was a common epithet in South Africa, where he grew up.

"It's an insult, like saying mother-effer doesn't actually mean someone having sex with their mother," he testified, using a sanitized version of a more vulgar expression.

This is not the only "don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining" moment from Musk's turn on the stand. The alleged 34-richest person in the world also told the court, which will presumably turn to how much of his $26.5 billion fortune Musk's target, Vernon Unsworth, will get after it determines that, yea, pedo means exactly what you think it means, that being the 34-richest person in the world doesn't mean what you'd think it means.

"People think I have a lot of cash. I actually don't," Musk reportedly testified in Los Angeles, adding that he also has debt against his stock holdings.

Unlike his "pedo guy" etymology, this is actually notionally believable. Indeed, Bloomberg calculated his net worth by adding up the value of his stakes in Tesla, SpaceX and The Boring Company, none of which constitute cash, per se. On the other hand, crying poverty is a bit hard to take given this:

Over the last seven years, Mr. Musk and limited-liability companies tied to him have amassed a cluster of six houses on two streets in the "lower" and "mid" areas of the Bel-Air neighborhood of Los Angeles, a celebrity-filled, leafy enclave near the Hotel Bel-Air.

Those buys—plus a grand, 100-year-old estate in Northern California near the headquarters of Tesla, the electric car concern he heads—means Mr. Musk or LLCs with ties to him have spent around $100 million on seven properties. He didn't respond to requests for comment.

Bright side: This does bolster Musk's case that he doesn't understand what words mean.

British cave explorer felt 'branded a pedophile' by Elon Musk tweet [Reuters]
 Tesla CEO Elon Musk claims he doesn't have much cash during 'pedo guy' trial [N.Y. Post]
 Elon Musk Buys Out the Neighborhood [WSJ]


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FAIRFIELD, Calif. (AP) -- Investigators trying to determine what caused the crash of a vintage airplane during a stunt at a California air show said Monday they will start by examining the wreckage and ground scars.
Howard Plagens of the National Transportation Safety Board said his team will also review the amount of time it took for emergency crews to respond.
Witness Geoff Arnwine, who attended the show on Sunday with his son, was among the people who said it seemed like a long time before fire crews arrived at the scene of the crash at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield.
Another witness, Roger Bockrath, said nearly 2 1/2 minutes went by before someone appeared with a fire extinguisher. By then, the aircraft was fully enflamed and collapsing from the heat. He said it took a total of five minutes before fire crews arrived.
Arnwine couldn't say exactly how long it actually took and wondered if the pilot died on impact or from the ensuing fire.
"The people around me were almost screaming," he said. "What is going on here? Why aren't they trying to get him out? Where is the fire engine?"
Base spokesman Jim Spellman said crews were dispatched promptly and responded within a minute or two. A hotshot team from the base was among the responders, he said, adding that a person's sense of time is often disoriented in a moment of crisis.
The crash brought a quick halt to the "Thunder Over Solano" show attended by an estimated 100,000 spectators. No one else was injured.
The Air Force identified the pilot as Edward Andreini, 77, of Half Moon Bay. Federal Aviation Administration records show he was the registered owner of the 1944 Stearman biplane, a World War II-era plane commonly used to train pilots.
Andreini was trying to perform a maneuver known as "cutting a ribbon" where the inverted plane flies close to the ground so a knife attached to it can slice a ribbon, Col. David Mott, 60th Operations Group commander at the base, told the San Francisco Chronicle.
The plane, flying low over the tarmac, crashed and caught fire, creating a thick plume of black smoke seen in video.
Bockrath, a retired photojournalist, was taking pictures of the show and said Andreini, flying into a sometimes gusty wind, passed on two attempts at the stunt before trying a third time, when he hit the tarmac and slid to a stop in an open field.
Investigators will review the many videos of the crash they have gathered and also look at environmental factors and the pilot, Plagens said. After the examination of the crash scene, the plane will be taken to a secure location for a more detailed look, he said.
"Right now we're focusing on the perishable evidence that will leave today," Plagens said.
Andreini's website said audiences would be "thrilled at the sight of this huge biplane performing double outside loops, square loops, torque rolls, double snap rolls, and ... a heart-stopping, end-over-end tumble maneuver." The website said he had flown since he was 16.


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Anthony (Tony) Carmen Ganino died Aug. 31, 2011, in Moab from cancer.
He was born to Rosario Aloysious Ganino and Edna Jean Millius Ganino on March 30, 1954, in Maryville, Tenn. He graduated from Emery High School in 1972.
He was a carpenter and worked construction throughout his life. He loved to gamble and travel and was an excellent artist. He was always smiling and very content with just the basics. He was a gypsy at heart.
He is survived by his son, Cody (Jessica) Briggs, Chico, Calif; daughter Melissa (Jess) McKimmey, Moab; siblings Rusty Ganino, Rawlins, Wyo; Maria (Joe) West, Moab; Joey Ganino, Idaho Springs, Idaho; Danny (Kate) Ganino, Moab; Susan (Ervin) Feichko, Huntington; sister-in-law Kathy Ganino, Huntington; and very special friend Norma Larabee, Moab.
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SAN DIEGO -- The Majors on Tuesday celebrated Jackie Robinson Day, which meant it was a time to remember Robinson breaking the color barrier in 1947. But it was also an opportunity to reflect on the dwindling number of African-American players in the Majors and the game in general.
Rockies manager Walt Weiss said it's "above my pay grade" to specifically address some of the cost-related issues -- especially the private instruction and club/travel-ball system -- that is narrowing the pool of players in the U.S., at a time when underprivileged Latin American countries are producing Major Leaguers like never before. But Weiss sees a lot of good happening.
Although the Rockies have just one African-American player, veteran pitcher LaTroy Hawkins, Weiss sees a diverse team. He also believes the game is strong enough to find answers.
"You look in our clubhouse, it is a melting pot," Weiss said. "I think baseball will always be that way. We have Jackie Robinson to be thankful for that in a lot of ways. I don't know if I have the answer to how do you do that at the youth level and all those things. But I do know you look at every clubhouse in baseball and it's a melting pot."


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 152 diseños de 45 diseñadores freelance.
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The latest gruesome, yet touching, mystery starring Inspector Thomas Lynley and his friends.
Elizabeth George's long-awaited 18th installment in the Inspector Thomas Lynley mystery series sees our Tommy back at New Scotland Yard, having returned from wandering the English countryside mourning his murdered wife. His new illicit relationship with a superior officer is interrupted by a mysterious secret assignment–to look into a drowning that has already been ruled accidental. A powerful patriarch (like Lynley, a peer of the realm) requests further investigation into his own family–most obviously, the recovering drug addict prodigal son. But as Lynley, with the assistance of the reliable Deborah and Simon St. James, delves deeper into this family's history and entanglements, he uncovers myriad lies, betrayals, deceptive identities and plenty of cause for scandal.
Fans of the series will rejoice in rejoining Lynley, the St. Jameses and Sergeant Barbara Havers, who unwillingly undergoes a makeover in this book. George also delivers the fully wrought, sympathetic, very human minor characters her readers have come to expect. Longtime fans may find Deborah's increasingly obsessive distress over her failure to conceive beginning to wear thin; the subject becomes a full-fledged plot thread here. But George's strengths–character development, plot twists and shocking tragedy–continue to shine.
While Believing the Lie can stand alone, series readers will find a deeper appreciation of the complex relationships at play. Look out for a serious cliffhanger at the end, which will leave George's fans panting for the next Lynley episode.
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As anyone who's used Adobe's powerful RAW photo processing software Lightroom will attest, there is a hell of a lot you can do with it, and oftentimes all that functionality can overwhelm your machine's screen size. But what about that unused real estate on your iPad?
LRPAD, a $13 app that lets you control various Lightroom settings via a plug-in installed on your main machine, lets you put those pixels to use, with your fingers, no less.
The app gives you sliders for all Lightroom's main sections - Basic, Detail, Colour, Camera and Metadata - allowing photo fiends to fiddle with saturation, exposure, sharpness and the like. Over at Wired, Charlie Sorrel points out that there's a slight lag from the time you make adjustments to the time they show up on screen, which is frustrating, and he yearned for the ability to create his own custom layouts of buttons. Hopefully that's what updates are for. [iTunes via Wired]


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Hi, I Just installed 22.214.171.12400 to get around network slowness, it's a huge improvement over an old version I had before, but I've a strange problem. I have 2 monitors using extended desktop (XP home). Pocomail is open on Main monitor, but when I open a message to read it, it always opens on the 2nd monitor (which is not normally switched on). I have tried the usual trick of moving it to correct place, then closing the message whilst holding down the shift key. This works until I close & restart pocomail, then it just reverts to the 2nd monitor.
I have played with the position.ini file, and found that the ViewWindow / Left entry controls the window position, but this gets overwritten each time poco starts or closes, and this Left entry seems to get random values written into it. I had it working fine by changing this value, then for some reason it was overwritten with -1000, putting the view window back onto the 2nd screen.
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Hosein Alizadeh Foroutan-Red Ring Ring
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(Excerpt) Interview with Hosein Alizadeh Foroutan : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. Hosein Alizadeh Foroutan : The main idea is to produce a symbolic object that shares peace and will act against war as a symbol. The ring design is inspired from the form of battle bullets covered with blood (an alert to be aware of anti humanity acts of war.) .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. Hosein Alizadeh Foroutan : My purpose was to produce a reminder that may be used in the way of peace. .Frank Scott: What are your future plans for this award winning design?. Hosein Alizadeh Foroutan : My plan is to nationalize the idea, that every single object can be used in a positive way. And besides it, I wish to produce my design in a large quantity to produce peace. .Frank Scott: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?. Hosein Alizadeh Foroutan : It took about 3-4 months. .Frank Scott: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?. Hosein Alizadeh Foroutan : The design was a self work, and designed for the purposes I told above. .Frank Scott: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?. Hosein Alizadeh Foroutan : I plan to co-work with a company, or sell it, to produce it in a large quantity. .Frank Scott: What made you design this particular type of work?. Hosein Alizadeh Foroutan : The violence and anti humanity acts in these days world made me to think, and produce this design. .Frank Scott: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?. Hosein Alizadeh Foroutan : Yes, the designs of Friedrich Becker helped me a lot to find my style in jewelry design. .Frank Scott: Who is the target customer for his design?. Hosein Alizadeh Foroutan : Not as the materials used in the concept, the final product is wishing to be made of cheap materials, to give the chance to every one to own this symbol. .Frank Scott: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?. Hosein Alizadeh Foroutan : I think that the symbolic usage of this design may apart it from other designs and products. .Frank Scott: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?. Hosein Alizadeh Foroutan : As the name of design (Red Ring) shows, I think the name reminds us the red color of blood, and it also turns to an alarm in our mind. .Frank Scott: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?. Hosein Alizadeh Foroutan : Well, I used simple sketching tools for the first idea, and then made it 3D and rendered by computer. .Frank Scott: What is the most unique aspect of your design?. Hosein Alizadeh Foroutan : I think being used as a reminder of peace, is the most unique aspect of my design. .Frank Scott: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?. Hosein Alizadeh Foroutan : Three of my friends helped me to concentrate on the project and finalize this design, whom I thank them with honor. (Keyvan Zarei, Mahmoud Motiee, Shahab Sadeghi) .Frank Scott: What is the role of technology in this particular design?. Hosein Alizadeh Foroutan : I think technology can improve the process of production and publication in this design. .Frank Scott: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?. Hosein Alizadeh Foroutan : Just a little knowledge of color and form effects in human mind, but cannot be told a particular research. .Frank Scott: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?. Hosein Alizadeh Foroutan : Designing the final form was a hard work that took most of the process time. .Frank Scott: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?. Hosein Alizadeh Foroutan : As told before, my go.[ End of Excerpt: Read complete interview with Hosein Alizadeh Foroutan on Red Ring Ring at design-interviews.com ]
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