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Friday, January 13, 3 pm, there will be a memorial service for badgerthorazine at the chapel at MIT followed by a reception in room 491 at the Student Center. There will be a shuttle bus from the arisia hotel (Westin Waterfront, Boston) running from 2-6 pm.
For clarification; the MIT chapel is the round brick building with a bit of stained glass, across the green from Kresge Auditorium, and also across the concrete walkway from the Student Center. The Student Center is across Mass Ave from the main entrance at 77 Mass Ave. The chapel is building W15 on the MIT Campus Map. | {
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Movie “Thrones” Reveals Big Secrets & Exciting Trailer
“Thrones” Reveals Big Secrets & Exciting Trailer
Following tonight’s fifth episode, HBO has released the trailer for the sixth episode of the seventh season of “Game of Thrones”. This is the penultimate episode of the season, which is almost always considered the biggest of each year, and the trailer promises intense action.
Tonight’s fifth episode not only setup the action in the trailer below, but also dropped two scenes that have left fans with questions.
MINOR SPOILERS BELOW
The first is the note handed to Littlefinger, the other is Gilly’s all too quickly dismissed reading of one of the High Septon’s notes about a marriage annulment – one that has major implications. Turns out the note was the one Sansa penned under duress in the first season (see here) in which she said:
“Robb, I write to you with a heavy heart. Our good king Robert is dead, killed from wounds he took in a boar hunt. Father has been charged with treason. He conspired with Robert’s brothers against my beloved Joffrey and tried to steal his throne. The Lannisters are treating me very well and provide me with every comfort. I beg you: come to King’s Landing, swear fealty to King Joffrey and prevent any strife between the great houses of Lannister and Stark.”
Littlefinger is now using that scroll to lead on Arya and drive a wedge between the sisters so that Sansa will turn to him. Glimpses of that feud can be seen in the trailer for next week.
The records read aloud by Gilly on the other hand confirm that Prince Rhaegar, Daenerys’ older brother who died before events seen on screen, annulled his marriage to his first wife Elia Martell (Oberyn’s sister) in order to marry Jon Snow’s mother Lyanna Stark. That means Jon Snow isn’t a bastard after all, rather he’s a legitimate Targaryen heir (and Daenerys’ nephew).
That complication isn’t likely to be dealt with until next season, and when it does it will leave things in an interesting position for the two main characters who have become the likeliest winners of the ‘Game’.
About the author
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Odiso Edim is a freelance web and android developer, Odiso is a film aficionado actively interested in publishing movie reviews and cutting edge articles related to movies and the various film industries. E-mail: [email protected] | {
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Giant Flag project hailed as a ‘game changer’
Project founders say the giant flag will be created over 66ha of the Karoo and will be visible from space. Image courtesy of Giant Flag website
A world-first project to create a massive South African flag out of desert plants and solar panels in the Karoo has been billed as a ‘game changer’ for the region’s economy by the national deputy minister of tourism.
Speaking at the launch of the Giant Flag project at the Valley of Desolation at Graaff-Reinet in the Eastern Cape on Thursday 23 October, Tokozile Xasa said it would encourage tourism to the area.
The initiative will see 66ha in the Camdeboo region transformed into the South African flag. The project’s founders say the flag will be visible from space.
The Giant Flag will see colourful desert plants alongside white roads and black solar panels to recreate the ’rainbow’ flag.
Supporters from around the world can donate to the project by buying the plants, solar panels and sections of road that will be used to build the flag, for between $10 (for the plants) and $250 (for a solar panel). The site shows that around 24% of the money needed to buy the materials (a total of $600 000, or around R6.6-million) has been raised so far.
Speaking in a promotional video for the project, founder Guy Lieberman says around 2.5-million plants will be used and a 4MW solar field will be created.
’We expect to create 740 ”green-collar“ jobs and they’ll all tie into each other, and the knock-on effect is going to impact the entire community,’ he says.
’It’s beautiful for South Africa, but it will be symbolic in terms of what’s possible. It’s unique, like us,’ he adds.At the launch, Xasa said citizens of the Camdeboo municipality – which has an unemployment rate of around 40% – will be given priority in public tenders for the project, which will likely become a major tourist attraction.
‘In addition to these socio-economic issues, there are also the questions of climate change and food security. We can explore innovative tourism initiatives that also address these issues, in blended and robust developments such as the Giant Flag,’ she said.
The project is being supported by the Department of Environmental Affairs, and global giants, Google and Toyota.Xasa said the Giant Flag project is further proof of the critical role the tourism sector plays in the South African economy.
’In a time when there are perhaps not as many silver linings to the hovering clouds in the global economy as we would all desire, it is befitting that we acknowledge the golden lining that tourism generally represents internationally, but more specifically for us in South Africa,’ she said. | {
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I was given a heads up from a birder who I don't know when I asked about the snowy. I was told it was just seen at Long Beach. I asked if it was in range to photograph ... yes. Park at the far end of lot then look into the brush it's hunkered down but be patient. Sure enough ... before I could even focus a person with a dog flushed it by barking. It flew west very low to the ground where I lost it. I then spent time on the water with several hooded mergansers ... 2 grebes a flock of sandpiper looking birds long grey bills dabbling on the water line. Then I found 5 horned larks. A first for me. I was advised of this at Birdseye by the person who gave me the heads up about the snowy. Apparently very cordial birds. Then came to me. Just stood still and took pictures ... very striking birds. I then noticed at the far west end of the dunes the snowy flew north west towards the airport the last I saw it.
Birdseye more hooded mergansers than I could count. Been trying for years to get decent pictures today was the day. Very cool bird. Gadwals present a long with common mergansers.
Three northern harriers gave a good show also very good photo-ops. All in all a good day.
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Go Cashless and Enjoy Your Holiday in Digha
Worried about your next Weekend Holiday to Digha? There has been a huge uproar following the announcement of the Indian Government’s announcement that Rs 500 and Rs 1000 would cease to be legal tenders effective from the 9th Of November 2016. These are to be replaced with new currency bills of Rs 500 and Rs 2000. Yet the new notes are yet to reach many banks and ATM’s, thus this has lead to temporary crisis of the cash. These have resulted in long queues both in the bank branches and in front of ATM’s. Though it is perceived by many as a very bold and positive step over the long term, in the short term it is causing severe impact on many. This is particularly affecting travelers. If you were in the midst of a long vacation far away from home, you might have been totally unprepared for this dramatic step.
With cash still being a dominating way for transacting, the sudden step has been impacted almost all sectors of the economy. Thus the travelling and hospitality sector has also been impacted too. With the situation likely to continue in days to come we thought it would indeed be helpful to provide you with some simple tips which could help you ride through it, if you are planning a holiday in digha now.
Go Cashless On Your Next Holiday in Digha.
The indications are clear. With the emphasis on “Digital India“, plastic money is set to slowly but surely rule the market place in future. So you need to go with the trend and travel accordingly. The only thing you need to be careful about is the security of your transactions. Thus you need to strictly follow all the instructions while transactions for the safety of your funds.
For Booking Hotels in Digha.
With the internet big and growing, much of the hotel bookings of today happen online. Most of the payment needs to be made online. You could make use of internet banking. Many experts are of the opinion that this is one of the safest ways to transact online. Thus in case you are still not activated your internet banking account you can do so and learn how to use it to make more convenient for you. You can also make use of Debit cards and credit cards to book hotels in digha.
For your railway and flight bookings.
Instead of being in the queues for obtaining cash in the banks for cash, where there happens to be ceilings on withdrawals, you can book your railway and flight bookings online. This will save you much time and harassment. You must make use of various electronic modes of payment. Apart from the regular debit and credit cards and internet banking you can also make use of other popular modes like PAYTM. These have gained much popularity and having a might wider acceptance in recent times. There are a lot local establishments which now have accepted these new modes of payments as well.
For Travelling.
In case you are travelling locally you can now download the PAYTM App and other similar apps which can hep you to pay without cash. These have now become simple and secure too. As an example Uber has a tie up with PAYTM for payments.
For Shopping in Digha.
For the local shopping too you can now pay by mobile apps. All you need to do is fund your account and pay smoothly.
Go Cashless and avail benefits of online Coupons.
It is the age of tie ups. So if you are paying by online means you have a fair opportunity of availing attractive online discount coupons. These could help you win many attractive deals as well.
In case you are planning Holiday in Digha, then you could go cashless and make payments to Hotel Coral Digha, one of the leading luxury hotels of Digha for hotel bookings and other services.
About Coral
Being a resident of Kolkata, Digha has always been a favorite weekend spot ever since my childhood days. But although over the course of last 20 years the hotel scenario has changed drastically in Digha. I have never found a hotel in here that provides luxury accommodations & doesn’t burn a hole in the pocket either.READ MORE | {
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Friday, February 5, 2010
All about a book contest
So I'm been wanting to bring this blog to life (or a different blog) for awhile but never get around to it. Today may be the day, but probably not.
I'm posting because I want to win Rosemary & Rue by Seanan McGuire & and an ARC of the sequel. Why do I want to win this book? Because it looks good. I really enjoy books with strong feisty female leads. I've read all of Tamora Pierce's Tortall based books and find myself longing for more but impatient to wait. Why wait when there are other exciting female characters to meet? I want to meet the main character October "Toby" Daye as soon as possible. | {
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Brave Comedian Makes the Breast Cancer Documentary She Was Looking For (VIDEO)
Caitlin Brodnick is just like lots of women in their late 20s. She lives in NYC, chases her passions as a comedian and has a day job as a legal secretary, is married, and is also BRCA1 positive. Yup, that same gene that prompted Angelina Jolie to get her preventativedoublemastectomy. But well before Angie had the buzz-worthy surgery, Caitlin was considering going under the knife, given her odds of developing breast cancer. Yet, it wasn't until recently that she finally took the leap ... all while being documented by Glamour magazine's cameras for a docu-series called Screw You Cancer.
For doing this, Caitlin is both bold and brave. She's also hilarious, sweet, real, and willing to chat with us about her experience on- and off-camera ...
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What inspired you to do the series in the first place? When did you start filming?
One of my friends works at Glamour, and I was just going to do personal blogs, but then they got a documentary team. September 5 was the surgery, so everything is in real time. I still need one more operation to be finished, which is on November 9, and then I'll be finally done. It's a long process.
What factors lead to you deciding to have the surgery?
My dad's whole family has been affected. My dad's sister got it at 27 or 28 ... ignored it 'til it became too terrible. They did chemo, [but] she died at 32. So it was always this understanding -- you have to get your screenings. My dad told me about this 9-10 years ago, I didn't want to get the screening for about 6 years, because I was so stressed out by it. I had a feeling I'd have breast cancer. I had this feeling of impending doom. My sister got the genetic test about 6 years ago, and she was negative. So everyone was asking me to get it, too. So, 3 years ago, I got it [and found out I was positive]. And it took me 3 years and a lot of tears and late night talks with my husband, wondering, "What if I die of cancer?" I talked it out for a while. There were a lot of irrational fears with rational fears.
I was waiting to be 40, so I could be finished having kids and see if I could breastfeed. [But that also meant] having to go for extra screenings and being a patient who could get cancer. I hated being that patient. And when I thought about it, what I really wanted was to get the surgery. ... I went to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and I got to work with some of the best doctors. It's also covered by my insurance.
Do you feel like the financial aspect is one of the biggest misconceptions about the BRCA testing and surgery?
It's not for the rich and famous, for Angelina Jolie only. She was just one of the first to [discuss] it. There was a law passed recently -- insurance has to cover it if you have the gene.
How do you feel about having your journey covered in this sort of reality show documentary format?
I wanted to do it on my own. A friend said, "You lose the narrative if you don't do it yourself." But Conde Nast found a documentary filmmaker who had the same vision I had. And that was really important, and they were sensitive. If there was someone I didn't like, I had veto power. There were times I kinda had a panic, like, "I don't want cameras, and I don't want people to look at me." [But, Screw You Cancer] is exactly what I was looking for when I was Googling around about the surgery. I didn't want them to come with me on the day of surgery, but they need to see what's happening. It was overwhelming at times, but it made me really brave. Cuz I can't do it for me. There are times I don't feel like sitting up and putting on lip gloss and talking to anyone, but I can do it for this other girl who may be confused or afraid out there. It gave me so much more strength.
Could you describe the vision you had for the series?
I didn't want it to be a sad, intense, depressing cancer story. I'm sick of those! It's like why do you wanna sit around and cry? There are moments where it may be too sensitive for some people, but I wanted it to have elements of light. This is a preventative measure, not some fantastical thing. I wanted to demystify the whole process.
There are several clips in which your mom is having a really tough time with your decision to have the surgery. How did you feel about her reaction?
She had a harder time with the reality. It was interesting ... I didn't know she had any reservations. In my mind and in my bubble, I had thought it wouldn't be so traumatic for her to hear. She'd been through four really intense cancer journeys [in our family], and they had all failed, and she's buried a lot of amazing people. I think no matter what, she felt like it's coming to her daughter next.
How do you feel about the backlash against testing and preventative mastectomy and the argument that maybe diet and stress are bigger factors than DNA?
Melissa Etheridge has a point! Some things can be caused by environment and food. But with this genetic mutation, it doesn't matter. I understand the confusion. There are different ways you can come across breast cancer, and I think it's important to be healthy. I remain on a very healthy diet, but when I looked at the numbers and saw my risk percentage ... And I do think there's something about mind over matter in health. If I am walking around thinking I'm going to get it, it's putting me in a sick place. But I'm the worst patient. I was seeing other people being treated for cancer the same time I was getting [MRI] screenings every 6 months. But I stopped going for 2 years, and that was very dangerous. I couldn't bring myself to go, and I told my family members, and they got incredibly upset. That was a huge key for me. I thought I could just do screenings, but I wasn't making the appointments, seeing the doctors, etc. I wasn't able to treat myself in that way. Surgery was an effective way for me. If I were left to my own devices, I wouldn't have gone.
What do you hope women take away from the series?
I wanted to be as informed as possible, and I wanted to provide that to the next person. I think for me, I feel so relieved that this is something that is really important to talk about -- people are thanking me for talking about it. My biggest thing -- if you think you could have [BRCA1 or BRCA2], at least get screenings, go get your bi-annual mammograms. Don't let the cancer sneak up on you and win and catch you off-guard. People are comfortable getting checked for other things, why not this?
Here's Caitlin in the current episodes of Screw You Cancer:
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Keith McMillen - QuNeo Rogue
The Keith McMillen - QuNeo Rogue lets you control your QuNeo in a wireless setup. The QuNeo is the answer to a lot user demand: users wanted a touch controller with plenty of assignable functions and a build-quality that will never disappoint you even when it is the hardest on the road... So here it is: the QuNeo is a new set of standards for any digital controller.
The Keith McMillen - QuNeo Rogue lets you control your QuNeo in a wireless setup. The QuNeo is the answer to a lot user demand: users wanted a touch controller with plenty of assignable functions and a build-quality that will never disappoint you even when it is the hardest on the road... So here it is: the QuNeo is a new set of standards for any digital controller.
What is the Keith McMillen - QuNeo Rogue?
Rogue is an accessory for the QuNeo that supplies long lasting battery power and an incredibly robust wireless connection to a computer. Rogue attaches quickly and easily to the bottom of your QuNeo with low-profile velcro.
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The Beginning of the End for Carson Palmer
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INDIANAPOLIS - SEPTEMBER 02: Carson Palmer #9 of the Cincinnati Bengals watches from the sidelines during the NFL preseason game against the Indianapolis Colts at Lucas Oil Stadium on September 2, 2010 in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Carson Palmer
Updated at 10:00 AM CDT on Wednesday, Nov 3, 2010
To me, there have been fewer sad stories over the past five years in the NFL than the steady deterioration of Bengals QB Carson Palmer.
Back in 2005, Palmer looked like one of the five best quarterbacks in football. He had a passer rating over 100. He threw over 30 TD passes. He led the Bengals to a division title. It seemed like the Bengals were going to become contenders for the next decade under his watch.
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But then you know what happened. He got his knee torn apart against Pittsburgh in the playoffs, and since then he has grown more and more insecure and incompetent. And it’s all coming to a head this season, with Bengals wideout Chad Ochocinco all but pinning the team’s woes on his QB:
"What am I supposed to do? I'm out there. I'm on the field. What do you want me to do? I'm on the field, I'm available, I'm wear number 85, I'm out there, I'M OUT THERE. I'm going to leave it at that. There's nothing I can do but make myself available. Period."
You can say Ocho is a loudmouth or a bad teammate all you like, but the fact is that he’s being diplomatic when dancing around the real issue here. Over his past four fully healthy seasons, Palmer has experienced steady drops in passing efficiency and touchdowns, and his completion percentage is now under 60%, the usual barometer for decent passing. The Bengals have now lost four straight, and Palmer’s only good showings have come in garbage time, at the end of key losses against Atlanta, Cleveland, and others.
Palmer has dealt with assorted injuries over the past five years, but that fails to fully explain why he’s gradually become one of the league’s worst starting QB’s. Palmer is signed with the Bengals through 2014, but there’s a very good chance he’ll be released at the end of this season, so that the Bengals don’t have to pay him franchise QB money. And if that happens, then they’ll be forced to start from scratch, which is sad when you consider that the Bengals spent ages looking for a decent QB. They went through David Klingler and Akili Smith, only to fail time and time again. And now, once they finally seemed to find a truly great QB, he mysteriously falls apart.
The only reason Palmer probably hasn’t been benched by now is that he lacks a capable backup (his current backup is his own brother Jordan, who lacks experience). But Cincinnati is bound to go shopping for a QB this offseason. And when that happens, the chapter will close on an era that once seemed so full of promise, only to end up crashing in flames. | {
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The Little Nell is pleased to announce that Bryan Moscatello will return to the property as executive chef. Moscatello served in the position from 1992 to 2000 and has since worked at a variety of acclaimed restaurants around the country. Moscatello most recently has been the chef partner at Storefront Company in Chicago, where he… Read more | {
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The view off the master bedroom was perfect. The floors were nice. There were a few problems that needed to be addressed while we were there. Hopefully they have replace the washer dryer combo. We ended up having to go to a laundry mat to wash our clothes. That was a problem from the beginning. There were a few other minor things like the toilet constantly running that was fixed fairly quick by maintenance. For some reason the cleaners leave the fridge open for long periods of time and it takes about 24 hours for food and drinks to get cold. Beware not to buy cold foods until after it has cooled.
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Friday, September 24, 2010
Beautiful Women
In preparation for a big wedding weekend in San Francisco with the opportunity to take photographs of lots of college friends, I couldn't resist renting the king of all portrait fixed focal length lenses, the Canon 85mm f/1.2L USM. While I was surprised how far back I needed to stand from my subjects given my crop sensor camera, I was blown away by the ease and beauty with which it snapped portraits. I couldn't help but turn the lens on the beautiful women around me, namely Molly, her sister, and their mother.
I love each of these photos individually, but you'll see I combined them into a proof at the bottom of the blog entry. Molly, Hanna, and Nancy - thanks for your patience in letting me capture these portraits of you. You're all radiant in them. | {
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Connect Living Big: Stories from the Big Sky Life
It never fails! Each night after our evening adventure, my husband and I look at each other and ask, "what's for dinner?" Summer is active time. Longer days after work give for more hours of play. Majority of the time we don't want to cook. Thank goodness there are plenty of restaurants that do. Big Sky Resort recently put together Feasts of the Week which helps take the guess work out of "what's for dinner."
We've tried to make Monday our golf night because of the Bunker Bar & Grill's Burger Night where we can get a burger and a beer for $12. After chasing a golf ball around for 9-holes, one gets a bit parched and famished. The Bunker grills up amazing burgers and I happen to love the Cold Smoke beer on tap.
On Tuesdays we like to go for long walks and combining the Carabiner Wine Night we save 40% on bottles of wine from their Wine Spectator list. This is a great ‘friends' night where we can enjoy lovely wine on a budget. Add in some great appetizers to share and we're sliding into our week rather well.
Hump day should be a weekly celebration. You're halfway to another weekend of fun. This is a great ‘date night' with a mountain bike ride on the new flow trails at Big Sky Resort and cap it off with a fine cuisine dinner paired perfectly with Montana Microbrews at Chet's Bar & Grill for their Beer Pairing Dinner.
Double dipping another round of 9-holes, the Big Sky Resort Golf Course on Thursday is convenient with Happy Hour at the Bunker where all appetizers are ‘fore' bucks (except the wings) and all Montana craft microbrew drafts are $3. For me, a refreshing summer drink involves vodka and happily (I think this is why it's called Happy Hour) all Stoli flavors are $5. Heck, it's almost the weekend!
TGIF is in full swing after work with a hike from the Scenic Chair Lift. If you're a 2015-2016 season pass holder, remember, you ride the Scenic Chair Lift for free or if you're a guest lodging in Big Sky Resort managed properties, it's free for you too. Now this is a great Friday night date. A good hike to ‘get to know each other' followed by a ‘picnic' from the MT Smokehouse Grab-n-Go you can either take with you to eat at the top of the Swift Current chair lift (hint: the outdoor bar at the closed Burrito Shack is the perfect place for a romantic meal with a view) or after your hike in the Mountain Village plaza at the picnic tables. When you discover you don't want the night to end, head to Andiamo restaurant for an adult lounge experience featuring craft cocktails by Dave McCune.
Saturday won't be beat out by Friday for amazing food and drinks. Whatever your mountain adventure is on Saturday, don't miss the Aperitivo at Andiamo Italian Grille for a traditional Italian happy hour on the patio and in the bar (Italians love to eat, so why would happy hour be drinks only!) with a variety of small plate specials and wine for $6 or cocktails for $8. Even if you aren't Italian, you feel Italian.
I'm not sure if Bloody Marys were invented to recover from your weekend or to prepare you for your work week, but the Bunker Sandtrap Sundays at the Big Sky Resort Golf Course works either way. They have an amazing Build-Your-Own Bloody Mary Bar for $7 (with thick, yummy bacon) and Mimosa Buckets for $20. Surprising enough, some people don't even come for the golf on Sundays.
Trying to plan a date night in the near future or maybe something a little special during your vacation? Andiamo Italian Grille is putting together some delicious specialty nights:
I learned golf from my Dad. It would be the two of us on a Saturday or Sunday after the chores were done. Hours of special father-daughter time. We'd be full from lunch and meet downstairs, I'd plop on the loveseat and he would lounge on the couch. With a press of a button, the boob-tube would come to life and... ahhh... we'd settle in on a televised golf game. Honestly, the most sound afternoon naps I've ever had. The lull of the announcers voices, the golf claps, my Dad snoring... I loved golf.
As I traded in chores for a career, my golf experience changed too. I remember a boss once telling me, as I was leaving for a business trip to Florida, "you have to play in the golf scramble, it's where business is done." Golf was a couch sport for me. Sure, my Dad actually did get me off the couch a couple of times to the driving range and my only experience in putting was at the local Putt-Putt with a windmill obstacle. I told my boss I didn't know how to play golf. His response, "it's a scramble, you don't have to know how to play."
In that first scramble, I sucked. I played with a kind man, Hank, who took all the newbie conference attendees on his team. I'm not saying I sucked, Hank told me I sucked. Yet, with each business trip, I played in the scheduled golf scramble, networking, averaging double par on most holes, and starting to enjoy golf. One day, I was actually asked to play in a foursome outside of the golf scramble. I'd never played my own ball before. I must be getting better to be asked to ‘play my own ball' for 18 holes. Not really, I was just a decoy so the other three could avoid another player wanting to join. Heck, I'll take it. Here I began to learn the game and the etiquette. I could drive the ball, but the rest of my game was still newbie status. But I loved it. My drives that sailed 200 yards straight. The occasional connection of a 5 or 7 iron that put me on the green. Then there's sinking a putt in... well... in less than 4 strokes. It's what brings you back for another round.
Years later, after being mostly taught by my work industry on the golf course, Big Sky Resort gave me the chance to take some lessons. How could I not, when it's so affordable at Big Sky Resort Golf Course for their Tuesday Ladies Clinics ($15 for each session or $125 for all 13 sessions). It doesn't matter if you're a beginner or looking to improve multiple aspects of play from chipping to putting to knowing why and when to use the various clubs in your bag. You will get better at the game (Mark Wehrman, the PGA Pro, is a great instructor). Best yet, after a lesson, everyone's encouraged to play 9-holes together, utilizing what we were just taught (and it's included in your session cost). Gives a whole new meaning to ‘ladies night out.'
It's rare to find me participating in the couch golfing sport anymore because Big Sky has too much to offer wasting it on the couch. I've traded in my couch club for a set of Callaway's and I actually own a push cart (pink too). I've gone from a handicap of ‘yes' to an actual number. Never think you can't play golf or your only skill is watching it from the couch. Get out there to the golf course, take a lesson, meet new people, and find out how much fun it can be chasing a white ball 18-holes and discover how tasty a beer can be at the Bunker Bar & Grill when the game is done.
Around mountain ski towns we talk a lot about the Norse god of winter, Ullr, not just because it's everyone's favorite icy cool drink, but because we live and breathe snow. But this time of year it's important to know who the summer god is, and maybe ask ourselves why we don't talk about him.
Odur, also known as Od, is the Norse god of summer and sun. Very little is known about Odur. In fact, more stalk is taken with his wife, Freya, and her love, beauty, and exploration. However, one of the reasons little is known about Odur is because he too would take long journeys, which were not chronicled. Traveling and exploration is one of the most important aspects to Norse culture. While we may never value Odur as much as we value Ullr in our little mountain town of Big Sky, perhaps it's time we give a little more attention to the god of summer travels as we make our way in and out of Yellowstone National Park, Grand Teton National Park, and up and across Lone Peak on a Lone Peak Expedition.
Summer exploration be nigh for all those who hear the call of Odur; wherever he may be. -Anna
I had a chance to sit down with mountain bike-lover and Big Sky Sports retail manager Dylan Hall to chat about Big Sky Resort's trials, weather, and his favorite parts of downhill mountain biking.
How long have you been riding downhill?I've been riding downhill in Montana for 9 years now. I started mountain biking in the Midwest but it is a completely different game out here. I love the Midwest, but for me Montana brings more of a technical side of riding and of course being bigger, it has something for everyone.
What's the best tip you could give someone just starting out?Overall get comfortable with the bike and try not to get in over your head. Understanding the bike and what it is and isn't capable of doing is key.
If you could describe mountain biking in three words what would they be?Freedom through adventure.
What's the coolest thing you've seen while riding?The weather can produce some really cool shows, but really the overall trail can lead you into some cool places you might not have a chance to get to or at least not have as easy access to if you weren't on a bike.
What's your favorite trail at Big Sky Resort?The recently built flow trail Otter Slide. Otter Slide brings more of a new approach to Big Sky trails, it has a flow with a series of jumps that makes it exciting and it makes you want to keep coming back.
Small, yet significant quotes introduce each section in Cheryl Strayed's Wild, reminding us of the value of nature and impact of it on human life. At first these quotes seemed almost kitschy to me. Strayed is not the first author to use other author's decontextualized quotes to pack a punch, but after nearly completing the book (and the movie) it became clearer that these are snippets of someone's mind perceiving nature. I too cannot stay away from the mountains, and it is more often than not that I cannot explain how the mountains make me feel. So I'll let some authors do it for me. Imitation may not be as successful as originality, but it still leaves an impression.
Down the edges, through the passes, up the mountains steep. Conquering, holding, daring, venturing as we go the unknown ways. -Walt Whitman
I clearly remember my first view of that outcrop, rising dramatically from deep spring snow, high above the surrounding forest-its features, distinct and striking, with premium climbing lines obvious from miles away. I was smitten.-Pete Tapley from Outside Magazine on Beehive Basin | {
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Grace Potter rocks Red Butte
SALT LAKE CITY — A sure sign that Grace Potter has her mojo going full tilt while she’s on stage is when she kicks her shoes off and does the rest of the show barefoot.
Sunday night at Red Butte Garden, Potter’s heels lasted all of half a song before being tossed to the side of the stage.
Potter has said that last year’s concert at Red Butte was one of the most memorable of the tour. Based on Sunday night’s show and the enthusiasm she and her band, the Nocturnals, brought to the stage from the first note, this year’s show should be well in the same category.
Opening with “Hot Summer Night,” Potter started the show from the back of Red Butte and walked through the crowd to the stage while singing to join her bandmates. Many audience members in the nearly sold out venue couldn’t figure out where the vocals were coming from until Potter made it about halfway down the hill. After that, it was impossible for most to take their eyes off the charismatic Potter and her short sundress.
“Goodbye Kiss” ended with a cover of “Red Red Wine” – one of four cover songs on the evening – which was changed into “Red Red Butte.” A nice tribute to the venue, but the show didn’t really pick up momentum until Potter dug deep into her catalog for “Joey” off 2005’s Nothing But the Water. She followed that up with a one-two punch of great tracks off her most recent album, The Lion, The Beast, The Beat, in “Roulette” and “Keepsake,” making their Utah concert debuts (if memory serves me correctly).
“One Short Night” made a very welcome return to the set list as did the rarely played “Here’s To The Meantime,” both among the highlights of the evening.
An acoustic jam of “Devil’s Train” off the upcoming Lone Ranger movie soundtrack turned into a cover of “House of the Rising Sun.”
Potter ended the main set strong with “Medicine,” “Nothing But the Water,” “The Divide” and “Paris (Oh La La).” As one would expect from Potter, when she wasn’t alternating between piano, acoustic guitar and her signature flying V, she was dancing around all parts of the stage like a woman possessed.
For the encore, huge kudos to Grace for seemingly adding songs to the set list as she went along and playing right up until the Red Butte curfew, giving fans a full two-hour show, rather than sticking to the original set list and ending early. Potter added the crowd pleasing “Apologies” followed by the third cover song of the evening, Elton John’s “Rocket Man.” She seemed to also add “2:22″ at the last minute which again turned into the most jamming cover song of the show, The White Stripes’ “Seven Nation Army.”
The evening ended appropriately with the namesake of the current tour, “The Lion, The Beast, The Beat.”
GPN are one of those bands that never play the same set list twice. Although Grace and the Nocs only have a handful of songs that are played on mainstream radio, they’re a band that could play any song off any of their albums at any time. The trap that a person can easily fall into at a Grace Potter show is thinking about all the songs that WEREN’T played rather than focusing on all the ones that were.
On Sunday, Potter, Scott Tournet, Benny Yurco, Matt Burr and Michael Libramento put on another killer performance in Utah. And they still left the audience wanting more because there are so many great GPN songs that they could have played. In other words, as long they keep coming back to Salt Lake City, fans will keep showing up. Grace Potter’s next visit to Utah can’t come soon enough. | {
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Executive Summary
IJsselland Hospital in Capelle aan den IJssel, The Netherlands, is a modern, patient-orientated, commercial, and innovative hospital. It has a staff of 1,300, including more than 85 specialists. IJsselland Hospital wanted to obtain simple-to-use, stable storage for organization-wide digital archives. IJsselland Hospital migrated to a NetApp FAS3020 cluster and use Net App Snapshot technology in combination with SyncMirror and SnapMirror to create Snapshot copies, backups, and mirrors of recorded data. | {
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Description
Universal Studios Original Three Sheet Poster for the comedy film MCHALE'S NAVY (1964) starring Ernest Borgnine, Tim Conway, Joe Flynn and Carl Ballantine. The film was directed by Edward J. Montagne. This poster was used in a theater and the two panels which make up the poster are not joined. Three sheets are large-format posters so be sure you want a poster this large. There is some minor damage and this poster should be regarded as theater-used, fine plus to very fine condition. Original, authentic movie poster dating from 1964. MovieArt Austin will sell NO reproductions. The art on this poster is by Joe Smith. | {
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More than just housing.Thu, 08 Mar 2018 11:30:32 +0000enhourly1http://wordpress.com/https://secure.gravatar.com/blavatar/e78befdb0294a39ed3fc1988d3713fc5?s=96&d=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.wp.com%2Fi%2Fbuttonw-com.pngBMENationalhttps://bmenational.wordpress.com
Investing in housing leads to greater health benefits in the long termhttps://bmenational.wordpress.com/2018/03/08/investing-in-housing-leads-to-greater-health-benefits-in-the-long-term/
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]]>https://bmenational.wordpress.com/2018/03/08/investing-in-housing-leads-to-greater-health-benefits-in-the-long-term/feed/0bmenationalHuman City Institutehttps://bmenational.wordpress.com/2018/03/08/human-city-institute/
https://bmenational.wordpress.com/2018/03/08/human-city-institute/#respondThu, 08 Mar 2018 11:08:09 +0000http://bmenational.wordpress.com/?p=3525Read all the latest news and events on the Human City Institute website
]]>https://bmenational.wordpress.com/2018/03/08/human-city-institute/feed/0bmenationalChanging the statistics on BME leadership by Jackie Aduseihttps://bmenational.wordpress.com/2018/02/02/changing-the-statistics-on-bme-leadership-by-jackie-adusei/
https://bmenational.wordpress.com/2018/02/02/changing-the-statistics-on-bme-leadership-by-jackie-adusei/#respondFri, 02 Feb 2018 11:35:21 +0000http://bmenational.wordpress.com/?p=3522Continue reading →]]>Securing a place on the Leadership 2025 programme, together with acquiring the role of Director of Operations/Deputy CEO at YMCA West London, alongside turning 50 years of age were a few of my most momentous accomplishments of 2017.
]]>https://bmenational.wordpress.com/2017/11/07/bmenational-meetings-2017/feed/0bmenationalHousing Minister visits affordable homes projects in Leedshttps://bmenational.wordpress.com/2017/11/03/housing-minister-visits-affordable-homes-projects-in-leeds/
https://bmenational.wordpress.com/2017/11/03/housing-minister-visits-affordable-homes-projects-in-leeds/#respondFri, 03 Nov 2017 13:13:37 +0000http://bmenational.wordpress.com/?p=3494THE MINISTER of State for Housing and Planning has been in Leeds to see the work Unity Homes and Enterprise is doing to provide high quality affordable homes across the city.
]]>https://bmenational.wordpress.com/2017/11/03/housing-minister-visits-affordable-homes-projects-in-leeds/feed/0bmenationalBME HAs must play an ‘expanded role’https://bmenational.wordpress.com/2017/10/12/bme-has-must-play-an-expanded-role/
https://bmenational.wordpress.com/2017/10/12/bme-has-must-play-an-expanded-role/#respondThu, 12 Oct 2017 11:36:06 +0000http://bmenational.wordpress.com/?p=3484Continue reading →]]>A raft of official inquiries and reports have confirmed what we in the black and minority ethnic (BME) housing sector have long known – that BME communities continue to suffer disadvantage and discrimination because of their ethnicity despite decades of equality legislation, statutory codes, and voluntary initiatives.
The latest – a comprehensive racial disparity audit by the government of the economy and society – looks like underscoring how BME communities, by and large, remain left behind when it comes to the best jobs, the most in-demand housing, and access to vital public services.
Alongside, BME communities have borne the brunt of austerity and welfare reform, which have contributed to growing racial inequality in the UK.
All of this forms a worrying backdrop to the BME National annual conference, taking place in London on 19th October. The conference will focus on the disproportionate effects of austerity and persistent racial inequality, together with how BME housing associations are rising to meet these challenges.
Our conferences, which go back many years to the days of the Federation of Black Housing Organisations, are opportunities for us to discuss how we might increase our impact and extend our sector with others from social housing and from a range of organisations and individuals from other sectors. In recent years, our conferences have been augmented by comprehensive research and an external consultation exercise with our stakeholders, key partners, tenants and communities, run in partnership with the Human City Institute (HCI), resulting in a forward looking as well as a ‘state of the sector’ report, and a comprehensive review of forty years of racial discrimination and disadvantage in housing and neighbourhoods.
Working mainly in the major towns and cities of England, our presence has been a long-term bulwark against poverty, disadvantage, discrimination and austerity, HCI’s report concluded. We have offered rehousing opportunities for many BME people not well-served by the wider housing system: BME people are still more likely to be homeless, live in poor and overcrowded housing, experience fuel poverty, and have higher mortality and morbidity rates.
HCI’s report also underlines the pivotal importance of BME housing organisations in disadvantaged communities. It recommends that our sector should be expanded to make a greater contribution to meeting the housing, care, support, health and employment needs of BME communities, since these are not adequately met by mainstream social landlords.
There is considerable scope for BME housing organisations to access new markets. Integrated health, social care and well-being policy areas offer various and multiple opportunities; especially since health inequalities persist in BME communities. Promoting community cohesion, along the lines advocated by the All Party Parliamentary Groups (APPG) Social Integration, is a longstanding specialism.
BME housing organisations are also increasingly engaging with new migrants, refugees and asylum seekers. We have recently launched our pledge to new migrants together with a range of larger, mainstream housing associations.
These future options for BME housing organisations, and the wider challenges to the social housing sector, will be discussed at length at our London conference on 19th October. So if organisations and individuals want to help us make even more of a difference to racial equality in housing, come along and say hello.
]]>https://bmenational.wordpress.com/2017/10/12/bme-has-must-play-an-expanded-role/feed/0bmenationalIt’s time to address the racial injustice in Britain’s social housinghttps://bmenational.wordpress.com/2017/10/12/its-time-to-address-the-racial-injustice-in-britains-social-housing/
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The government’s racial disparity audit confirms the extent and persistence of racial injustice in Britain, but includes precious little on housing beyond commenting on lower levels of home ownership among ethnic minorities… read the full article on the Guardian Website.
]]>https://bmenational.wordpress.com/2017/10/12/its-time-to-address-the-racial-injustice-in-britains-social-housing/feed/0bmenationalCreating a more diverse housing sectorhttps://bmenational.wordpress.com/2017/10/10/creating-a-more-diverse-housing-sector/
https://bmenational.wordpress.com/2017/10/10/creating-a-more-diverse-housing-sector/#respondTue, 10 Oct 2017 11:26:42 +0000http://bmenational.wordpress.com/?p=3477Continue reading →]]>The review by David Lammy of the UK’s criminal justice system, the report by the APPG (All Party Parliamentary Group) on Social Integration on the integration of new migrants, and a range of new evidence on employment have underscored how far the UK still has to go to offer full equality on the grounds of ‘race’.
Mr Lammy’s review confirmed the long observed inequalities in how black and minority ethnic (BME) citizens fare under our nation’s policing and sentencing practices. For example, the proportion of BME young offenders in custody rose from 25% to 41% between 2006 and 2016, despite the overall number of young offenders falling to record lows.
The APPG on Social Integration, chaired by Chuka Umunna, recognised a “rising concern about anti-immigrant sentiment and the demonisation of newcomers”. It further remarked that, following the Brexit vote, there has been a striking increase in racist abuse and hate crime directed at both new migrants and settled BME communities.
And new research by The Guardian and Operation Black Vote – as part of its Inequality Project – has recorded the under-representation of BME people in the UK’s power structure. The research has revealed that the UK’s top 1,000 organisations have just 3.5% BME people in senior positions in contrast to more than 17% of the total population.
The Guardian research has shown how many BME people in major organisations are over-qualified for their roles compared with their white counterparts, who are more likely to climb the career ladder. It concludes that BME talent “is not necessarily lacking in abundance, but it is seriously lacking in support”.
This is confirmed by a 2014 study by the University of Manchester that showed higher levels of qualification of BME adults when compared with their white peers, although the generally ‘younger’ age profile of the BME population partly accounts for this. The study concluded that this educational shift has failed to translate into the workplace, with BME people more likely to be left in low-paid jobs.
While the employment picture in social housing is not as bleak – the 2015 Chartered Institute of Housing’s (CIH) Presidential Commission on leading diversity showed that 11% of CIH members and 7% of housing’s leaders are from BME backgrounds. There remains much to be done.
One of the great achievements of BME housing organisations, as the report by the Human City Institute from last year pointed up, is their ability to recognise talent, nurture BME staff and help advance their rise to the highest levels within BME housing organisations. Historically, this has provided the wider housing sector with a wealth of talent in terms of staff, senior managers and board members.
The BME housing sector has long shown that diversity is crucial for creating successful, thriving community businesses. After all, championing equality and diversity enables social housing greater access to innovation and new ways of working.
It also recognises the changing nature of our economy and society. This is more important in social housing since one in five tenants are from a BME background, and in many of our major conurbations where the majority of social housing is located, the BME population represent more than one in three households.
And it cannot be stressed often enough that BME communities bear the brunt of housing deprivation – especially poor and overcrowded housing – are more likely to become homeless, have far less housing wealth than white people, and more frequently live in the most disadvantaged neighbourhoods.
Today, social housing helps to rectify such disadvantages which have deep roots going back to the early days of migration to the UK from the West Indies, Asia and Africa, and have yet to be full dismantled.
On control of social landlords by board and senior staff, the CIH’s Presidential Commission established a number of challenges for the social housing sector. To be achieved by 2020, these included challenging all employer and external agencies responsible for recruitment to ensure that all shortlists include qualified candidates from under-represented groups. Alongside, the commission recommended an aspirational target for board recruitment from these groups.
Publication of ‘diversity data’ on the composition of the boards, executive teams and total workforce of social landlords was advocated, too – to be presented annually. Identifying and providing mentoring and coaching opportunities for staff and board members from under-represented groups was also on high on the list of challenges set.
Rising to these challenges is good business sense for social housing and promotes value for money, as well as dovetailing with the fair housing approach supported by BME National. Improving equality and diversity across social housing fits not only with our historic social purpose but sets us apart as a modern, fair and committed sector for all communities. | {
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Best Directing Team
Three of the Oscar acting frontrunners, Frances McDormand (“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”), Sam Rockwell (“Three Billboards”) and Allison Janney (“I, Tonya”), are up for Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday, and all but Janney are predicted to win in our combined odds. But those who are looking for an upset by Laurie Metcalf (“Lady Bird”) in Best Supporting Actress might want to reconsider, because the Independent Spirit Awards have progressively become less independent in choosing their acting winners.
Needless to say, there isn’t a perfect overlap in nominees between the Spirit Awards and the Oscars, and only 23 Spirit winners across all four categories have gone on to win the Oscar the next day. But a majority of those winners have occurred since 2000. Here they are by category:
2013 was the first year all four winners matched between the Spirits and the Oscars. 2014 produced three of four, with Best Actor Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne (“The Theory of Everything”) AWOL at the Spirits, which awarded his chief rival Michael Keaton (“Birdman”). This year will probably go three-for-four as well, with the ineligible Gary Oldman (“Darkest Hour”) taking the Oscar over predicted Spirit winnerTimothee Chalamet (“Call Me by Your Name”).
The eventual Oscar winners didn’t always win when eligible and nominated at the Spirits. Sean Penn (“Dead Man Walking”) beat Oscar winner Nicolas Cage (“Leaving Las Vegas”) for Best Actor 22 years ago. The reverse happened to him 13 years later when Mickey Rourke (“The Wrestler”) edged Penn (“Milk”) in one of the closest Best Actor races in recent memory. Penn is the last Oscar nominee to lose the Spirit to another Oscar nominee, but go on to win the Oscar.
Oscar winners James Coburn (1998’s “Affliction”) and Marcia Gay Harden (2000’s “Pollock”) lost the Spirit Awards to non-Oscar nominees Bill Murray (“Rushmore”) and Zhang Ziyi (“Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”), respectively, though neither Coburn nor Harden were runaway Oscar favorites. The Spirits also gave Best Supporting Actor to Benicio del Toro for “The Usual Suspects” (1995) and didn’t even nominate his co-star Kevin Spacey, who won the Oscar. And there have been many years in the ‘90s where there wasn’t an Oscar nominee in sight in an acting category.
What happened to that independent way of thinking? The changing industry and Oscar tastes — big studio movies don’t dominate the Oscars like they used to — are major factors, but it also feels like Spirit Awards, like many precursors, are content to move in lockstep with one another and just want to go with the frontrunners. While Spirit Awards nominations are determined by committee — leading to weird snubs like no Greta Gerwig (“Lady Bird”) in Best Director and “The Shape of Water” MIA completely — the entire membership votes for the winners, which is more likely to generate rubber-stamping.
The Spirit Awards will make another non-Oscar-predictive pick one day — maybe it is Metcalf — but it’s clear that ol’ saying “Win on Saturday, lose on Sunday” doesn’t really apply anymore.
Be sure to make your Oscar predictions so that Hollywood insiders can see how their films and performers are faring in our odds. You can keep changing your predictions until just before winners are announced on March 4. And join in the fierce debate over the 2018 Oscars taking place right now with Hollywood insiders in our movie forums. Read more Gold Derby entertainment news. | {
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A prison on an isolated, icy patch of land, surround by miles of freezing water—and no guards? If you’re like me, right about now you’re thinking of the frozen prison planet where William Shatner and DeForest Kelley were sent after they were framed for the murder of the Klingon ambassador in Star Trek VI.
[crickets]
No? Well, even if you knew what I was babbling about, I can assure you—a social experiment in Norway where prisoners are sent to a remote island to serve out their sentences in eco-friendly isolation is nowhere near as harsh as it sounds. It actually sounds kind of like … camp. Solar panels, wood heat, fresh fish, eco-friendly veggies, and recycling? Sign me up!*
Norway has a sustainable prison! Yes the bucolic oil-rich Scandinavian Shangri-la has decided to do a 10 year test of a prison designed around their idea of “human ecology.” Their philosophy stems from the notion that “living [within] an environment gives them [the inmates] individual responsibility, challenges, and demands [and] can motivate inmates to change their behavior.”
The minimum security Bastoey Prison is located about 21 miles south of the Norwegian capital, Oslo, on an island some 1.5 miles from the mainland. Prisoners must apply to become one of the 115 inmates serving time on the island, and once accepted they remain there to serve out their sentence under no guard. The only buffer is the 1.5 miles of chilly Baltic sea water and the knowledge that should they be caught trying to escape, they will be returned to a not so friendly maximum security prison. | {
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1959 Chevy Apache - How Do You Like Them Apples?
One of the coolest things about old trucks is that they all have a story to tell. Once upon a time they were bought off the lot, brand new, and as they went from one owner to another, new locations, aesthetics, and so on became a part of their legacy. Being utilitarian in nature, they often worked their whole lives until someone took mercy on them and decided to make them a fun cruiser. Whether it’s as a stock resto or tricked out hot rod, sometimes it’s hard to believe the practical purpose these pickups once served when you see them in their current state.
So who’d ever guess that this 1959 Chevy Apache spent most of its life as a work truck at an apple orchard in New England before Joe Dittmeier saw its hot rod potential and transformed it into what you see now? Joe had been in the market for a project truck for a while when he came across the ad for it and knew he had to start the next chapter in its evolution. After driving it for a few years he decided the time was right to give this truck some new digs and find the right builder for the job. A referral led Joe to Dave Jordan of Dave’s Rod Shop in Kaiser, Missouri, and a collaborative effort to turn the ’59 into a fun driver began.
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For suspension duties, the truck now sits on a Fatman chassis complete with IFS, coilovers at all four corners, and 13-inch six-piston Wilwood front disc brakes with 10-inch units in the rear. The rearend sports 3.73 gears and 32-spline axles. The truck rolls on 20-inch Billet Specialties wheels in the rear with 18-inchers in the front, all clad in Yokohama rubber.
The body mods of this truck run the gamut from tip to tail. The stake holes and tailgate were all closed up to give it a seamless appearance. Aftermarket motorcycle taillights were frenched into the custom rollpan with side-exit exhaust plumbed into the rear fenders. The doors were shaved and given remote bearclaw latches, driprails removed, and the original sunvisor was cut down about 4 inches and molded into the roofline. Hickory bed wood from LMC Truck was stained to complement the DuPont Torch Red and custom black paint.
Originally Joe wanted a small-block to power the Apache until Dave convinced him that going big would fill out the engine compartment better and be nice and loud to boot. We’re glad Joe listened to reason. The firewall was recessed to accommodate the fuel-injected 502 with a Vintage Air serpentine system, which Dave created a custom air-induction system for. It all flows through a 700-R4 trans and exhaust is pumped through Sanderson headers and custom stainless exhaust.
At first glance inside the cab, you’d be inclined to compliment the incredible woodwork. Actually that wood-grained airbrushing is so dead on that it’s easy to be fooled. The dash was refabbed to move the Classic Instruments cluster to the center directly above the custom console with a Pioneer head unit/DVD player and Vintage Air controls. A Billet Specialties wheel and tilt column keeps Joe in control of this beast and plenty of sound deadening material keeps the tunes loud. A custom mold was made for the fiberglass headliner that stares back at the Wise Guys seats stitched up in black leather with ostrich inserts.
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The previous owners probably would’ve never guessed that their produce hauler would become one bad apple after its service life ran its course. Joe’s having plenty of fun cruising the streets of St. Louis in the truck’s current iteration and turning plenty of heads as proven by the fact it was chosen as one of the finalists for Truck of the Year at a Goodguys event. We’re sure its payload will consist primarily of trophies instead of fruit from now on.
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“Joe’s having plenty of fun cruising the streets of St. Louis in the truck’s current iteration and turning plenty of heads as proven by the fact it was chosen as one of the finalists for Truck of the Year at a Goodguys event.” | {
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Monday, January 30, 2012
In the 80's he did what every high school student wishes they had the guts to do. Now, he's doing it again...well, sort of.
In a "tease" that went viral last week, Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) shows up again in what appeared to be a present day take on the iconic film. Well, today...we found out what it actually was all about. | {
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Saturday, September 08, 2012
Green is the Color of Today's Teachers
With three years of teaching under her belt, Allison Frieze nearly
qualifies as a grizzled veteran. The 28-year-old special education
teacher at E.L. Haynes Public Charter School here already has more
experience than the typical U.S. teacher.
She remembers her first year and says no new
teacher really wants to relive that. "You have so many pressures on you
and you're kind of swimming, trying to keep your head above water with
all of the things you have to do," Frieze says.
Research
suggests that parents this fall are more likely than ever to find that
their child's teachers are relatively new to the profession, and
possibly very young.
Recent findings by Richard Ingersoll at the University of Pennsylvania
show that as teacher attrition rates have risen, from about 10% to 13%
for first-year teachers, schools are having to hire large numbers of new
teachers. Between 40% to 50% of those entering the profession now
leave within five years in what Ingersoll calls a "constant
replenishment of beginners."
The end result: a
more than threefold increase in the sheer number of inexperienced
teachers in U.S. schools. In the 1987-88 school year, Ingersoll
estimates, there were about 65,000 first-year teachers; by 2007-08, the
number had grown to more than 200,000. In the 1987-88 school year, he
found, the biggest group of teachers had 15 years of experience. By the
2007-08 school year, the most recent data available, the biggest group
of teachers had one year experience....
1 comment:
Anonymous
said...
Well there shouldn't be any problem with green teachers leading our classrooms. They have all their lessons and curriculum mandated, cutting edge strategies that worked great for their predecessors (just with different anacronyms) private vendors lined outside the school door chomping at the bit to sell them programs which will make all children learn at high levels and of course lets not forget all the fantastic technology. Who in the world would want an old teacher who had experience educating hundreds of students and most likely even the green teachers who are taking their place.
Dog gone folks are just taking all the fun out of teaching these days.
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The 2017 Volkswagen e-Golf is absolutely the most normal, invisible, unremarkable electric car you can buy today. The thought came like a flash while on the highway heading into New York's Catskill Mountains: This is what all cars will be like soon. No one knew it was electric, or paid it any attention; it was simply another VW Golf in the. plug-in cars Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV
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Electric motorcycles have seen a year of growth and challenges, both reflected in the offerings for 2017. Zero continues to push for its lineup to have more power, greater range, and lower prices, while new entries from Alta Motors and Energica expand available offerings. The demise of Victory motorcycles, however, seems to be the end of the. Harley-Davidson electric motorcycles Zero Motorcycles Polaris Energica Ego
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is pricing the 2017 e-Golf starting at $30,495, plus $820 destination. For 2017, Volkswagen is using an updated lithium-ion battery with an increased energy capacity of 35.8 Improved battery chemistry also helps improve the overall fuel economy of the 2017 e-Golf.
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This makes it the first electric car from the 2017 model year to receive an IIHS award. The Chevrolet Bolt EV has just been awarded a Top Safety Pick by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS).
It should be pretty simple and obvious what the solution to our current “Age Of Stupid,”problems is if we want to change course as drastically as we need to, and if we choose to survive instead of hurtling at record speed into the abyss.
The 2017 Hyundai Ioniq comes in two versions: a nationally distributed hybrid-electric version, and an all-electric model that will be sold mostly in California and a handful of other states. There'll also be a plug-in hybrid version coming for 2018. We liked the Ioniq Hybrid when we first drove it at the launch event in February, and now we've. Fuel Economy
Here is a list of the most viewed episodes released in 2017, in order of views. The post Top Remarkable TV Episodes of 2017 appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning. Each Tuesday we release a new episode of Remarkable TV – and we have been doing so since 2014.
As the first mass-priced electric car with more than 200 miles of range to hit the market, the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV has attracted a great deal of attention. It's won numerous awards, including the Green Car Reports 2017 Best Car To Buy title, and received rave reviews from a wide variety of media outlets. But what do actual owners think? DON'T. plug-in cars Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV
In 2017, total gross U.S. The decrease in total greenhouse gas emissions between 2016 and 2017 was driven in part by a decrease in CO 2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion. Relative to the 1990 baseline, gross emissions in 2017 were higher by 1.6%, down from a high of 15.7%
With the technology that the automotive industry has today, it is not surprising to see cars out performing records on an annual basis. Over the years, we were made to believe that petrol is the best option to run cars.
The 2017 Hyundai Ioniq isn't one car but three, with a unique choice of powertrains. The volume seller will be the Ioniq Hybrid, a dedicated hybrid (as is the Toyota Prius) with a 58-mpg combined EPA fuel-economy rating for its base model. But you can also get it as a battery-electric car (starting in April, in California) and late this year, as a. Hyundai Ioniq Hybrid
The BMW Group was the top seller of electric mobility in Germany the first half of 2017, with just under 5,000 units registered ; registrations are about 175% over the same period in 2016. In the first half of 2017 alone, around 2,100 customers opted for the compact, up 155% compared to the first half of 2016. Almost one in six of the BMW 2 Series Active Tourers registered in Germany in 2017 was electrified.
2017 represents a turning point in the adoption of electric cars, with sales in key regions increasing significantly. As a result, China is now the biggest market in terms of volume, with 227,000 EVs sold January through September 2017.
Acura’s first hybrid SUV, the 2017 MDX Sport Hybrid ( earlier post ), will arrive at showrooms in early April with more than 30 additional horsepower and a 45 percent higher EPA city fuel economy rating as compared to the conventionally-powered MDX SH-AWD.
For 2017, the compact crossover utility vehicle has added a new model, a hybrid that competes with the very successful Toyota RAV4 Hybrid—of which 44,000 were delivered last year. Last year, Nissan sold almost 330,000 Rogues in the U.S., making it by far the brand's most popular model. We recently spent four days and almost 380 miles with. hybrid SUV
The 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV is the first mass-priced electric car with more than 200 miles of range to go on sale in the U.S. That alone makes it a landmark vehicle, and has led to significant interest in the first electric car that provides comparable range to that of Tesla cars over the last nine years. Its maker, however, often refers to the. Chevy plug-in cars Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV) charging infrastructure Fast Charging Combined Charging Standard (CCS
However you choose to view the 2017 Kia Niro hybrid—Kia says it's a crossover utility, we call it a wagon—it's a good-looking and relatively capacious small car. The debate over segments comes because the Niro has neither the ground clearance of a utility vehicle nor available all-wheel drive, making it more of a wagon or "square. Fuel Economy
The 2017 Subaru Impreza is one of the most fuel-efficient all-wheel-drive vehicles in the U.S. The entirely redesigned 2017 Impreza rides on new underpinnings, but it's easily recognizable as an evolution of the company's popular compact sedan and hatchback. market, and has been for many years. One of a few firsts for this year's Impreza, however. all-wheel drive AWD
The 2017 Geneva Motor Show marks the next stop on the annual auto-show circuit. With press days beginning March 7, we aren't expecting an overwhelming number of green cars at the Swiss show this year. A smattering of production and concept cars with some green elements will debut there, though. DON'T MISS: 2018 Lexus LS 500h hybrid luxury sedan to. Geneva Motor Show Plug-In Hybrids Geneva Auto Show
Arriving in US dealers this summer, Mercedes-Benz’ 2017 smart fortwo electric drive coupe will start at just $23,800; the electric drive cabrio will start at $28,000, excluding federal and state incentives.
When the first Chevrolet Cruze Diesel was launched back in 2014, it made a lot of sense. Diesel was in vogue. German manufacturers were pushing diesel power in a huge way, with Volkswagen's "Clean Diesel" leading the charge. Oh, how things have changed. DON'T MISS: Volkswagen diesel scandal - all our stories Diesel for passenger cars today is, for. Fuel Economy
Prices for the 2017 Smart ForTwo electric coupe and cabriolet begin at $24,550 and $28,750 respectively. The market for electric vehicles normally comes with a high price of entry, though Smart is proposing that its new two-seat battery-powered minicar is a value proposition. If you've followed Smart's electric offerings, the starting price for. minicar Electric Car plug-in cars
The 2017 Toyota Prius Prime is an automotive enigma. I hopped into a Titanium Glow (think beige) 2017 Prius Prime for a three-day visit to Dallas for the State Fair of Texas. It proudly flaunts its eco-friendly credentials, yet its factory-rated 25 miles of electric range simply pales in comparison to the 53 miles advertised by the Chevrolet Volt. toyota prius prime
Tesla has released updated pricing and features for its 2017 Tesla Model X all-electric crossover utility vehicle, including lower prices for both the 75D and 90D models. Like the changes released at the same time to the Model S sedan, the new lineup increases the distance between the two lower-end models and the top-of-the-range 100D and P100D. Tesla Motors plug-in cars Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV
The 2017 Nissan Leaf might well be the hottest electric car deal on the market right now, with a slew of potential discounts. Nissan is working with numerous partners to provide $10,000 off a 2017 Leaf lease, which adds to the $7,500 federal income-tax credit, giving a total of $17,500 in incentives. Among the partners offering the $10,000. incentives electric utilities plug-in cars Incentives and Rebates eVgo charging network
According to a new report from Navigant Research, sales for plug-in electric buses increased 40% from 2016 to 2017, as the technology on offer from bus companies has improved in performance and in price. Global bus sales are expected to grow from just more than 800,000 in 2017 to more than 1 million in 2027. In 2017, the conventional diesel powertrain is expected to account for about 58% of total bus sales; by 2027, this is forecast to fall to about 51%. | {
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student loan disability discharge
I'll keep this short. I have 14 years credit history. On my report, I have 4 credit cards, 2 of which are over 10 years old. I also have 2 student loans that I have been repaying for 5 years with no missed or lates. In the past, I've had a mortgage, car note, and other student loans all of which are paid in full. Basically, here's what happened. I graduated college and became disabled (blindness). I bought a house 2 years ago. I had an 805 credit score at the time. My income is low, so I bought a fixer upper.
I sold that house and used some equity to buy another house. That house did not qualify for a mortgage since it was in disrepair. I bought it cheap and paid cash. I used my credit cards to fix it up (assuming I would get a home equity line or mortgage and pay off the balances once the house was up to par.) Well, the house is fixed. I have three cards that are at the top of their limits, but with no lates or overages.
I was recenlty turned down for a home equity line. The letter said my credit score was 662 (I reviewed it, and nothing is different than I described). They said the "key factors" were 1. serious delinquency, 2. proportion of balance or limits too high, 3. time since delinquency too recent.
I've been turned down for 2 credit cards for the same reasons. I called transunion, got some guy in India, who just wanted to sell me a score. He could not tell me what was delinquent. I find no delinquency anywhere.
Two questions. !. Would a credit score drop from 805 to 662 just because I took 3 cards close to their max (total 20k, but the house is worth 85k and has no mortgage).
The only other factor that occured during this time is that a student loan I had was finally forgiving due to disability. (I have others that I have paid and am still paying on). The Department of Education said it would be reported as a transfer and would be neutral on the credit report. In fact, several of my student loans have been "transfered" to different servicers and it doesn't hurt my score. It is not listed as an adverse event on the report.
so, do you think they are calling this "forgiveness" a delinquency? It hit my score like a foreclosure. That is not fair to me. The loan was paid under an insurance clause that had nothing to do with my credit worthiness. If they are making a mistake here, how do I begin to dispute it? I now own a house on credit cards with 4k per year in interest. I assumed this would be a short term thing. Thanks
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Website Of The Day 2015 Jul 8
Birra dell'Eremo
ABOUT: A website that is a feast for the eyes of users, as pleasing as the tasteful beers of Birra dell’Eremo. SVG and special animations lead the user to individually discover every product and highlights important news about the company. | {
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Beautiful Amethyst Double Set Earring. Beautifully facetted double amethyst earrings fit for any princess. A must have by Julleen. 26mm
Price: $180.00
Want some instant glamour? bring on the regal Amethyst..always spectacular in a good cut stone….when you get double amethysts the magic really begins. Amethsyts! one of the world’s most popular gemstones. They suite just about everyone..any time.
Nikki shows here how good quality facetted amethysts should sparkle with or without light ..a stunning look..worn alone or with a matching necklace. | {
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Urgent News
Action Alert
How to protect your child's privacy & safety
Are you going to be ok with your daughter sharing her school bathroom or locker room with a biological boy?
How about your son sharing his school bathroom or locker room with a biological girl?
Will it bother you if your daughter has to compete against biological males on her basketball or volleyball team?*Coming this fall thanks to MSHSL's "transgender policy"...
If any of these scenarios bothers you, we'd imagine that you're like most parents--you are concerned about your child's basic privacy and safety rights. And you're right. Every child has a right to know that his or her privacy and safety will be the highest priority of those entrusted to caring for him or her, particularly in intimate settings away from home.
The bad news is--threats to your child's safety and privacy are already emerging in our state.
The latest wave of "political correctness" demanded by the LGBT lobby requires that students' privacy and safety be sacrificed for their agenda. They insist that students who identify as transgender (those students struggling with gender identity, identifying themselves as opposite their biological sex--or somewhere in between on the "gender spectrum") must be granted access to bathrooms, locker rooms, and athletic teams opposite their biological sex.
Yes, this means they're insisting that biological boys be allowed to use the girls' bathroom and compete on the girls' volleyball team.
Yes, this means they're insisting that the proper place for a female child struggling with gender identity is in a bathroom or locker room with a bunch of adolescent boys.
Going to the bathroom at school is already awkward enough--why make it more difficult for kids for the sake of an unyielding agenda?
That's all the bad news.
The GOOD news is that we all have an opportunity to work together to protect our kids in Minnesota.
MSHSL's "transgender policy" doesn't go into effect until this Fall, and St. Paul Public Schools is still working on their "transgender policy." And other schools can still be deterred from following their lead.
How do we work together to protect all kids?
1.We ask the officials we elected to represent us to pass a law clarifying that school bathrooms need to continue to be for biological girls only and biological boys only.
If a small number of students have different needs, schools are certainly well-equipped to address those individual needs without violating everyone's privacy rights.
We ask the officials we elected to represent us to pass a law clarifying that our girls sports teams were intended to be for...biological girls--for obvious safety and fairness reasons!
Will you join us and other parents all around the state asking the Legislature to pass a law protecting the privacy and safety rights of all students? | {
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This kind of sounds like the time my uncle tried to drive me to school in my grandpa's Standard and I dropped my tacos (I was eating Del Taco for breakfast) all over me..This was super funny please write more))
Oh my XD I am not jelouse of Kiba though XD someone told me once either making a comment on how to teach me how to drive a standard or how he was taught how to drive one which was by the parent putting them on a hill in the car... yea you would surely learn how to drive it while you're rolling down the hill .'
Wasn't it hot? When the hot chocolate spilled? XD
Too busy laughing i guess Heheee
at least you didn't drive into a curb the first accelerate, I did that. Which is probably why I still don't have a lisence. x_x hah!
Well, I never went for lessons anyway maybe later.
You know when I saw the "Kiba I. & Naruto U." my mind went elsewhere... HAH!
I can imagine this situation easily... when I was learning to drive, I was all buttons! (I was taught to drive standards, Are they really THAT different?). Kiba and Naruto laughing to death, fun thing! When I go with a friend in a car that's not theirs, I go almost crazy with stress! Thank you for the fic!
Omg, XDD that's too funny. I'm kind of glad that when I had to take driving lessons my instructor only made me use a standard car, both left-hand and right-hand drive. Imagining these two panicking in the car was just too hilarious but I can imagine how it must feel since nowadays everyone drives in automatic ones. | {
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Steer euthanized at Calgary Stampede
The steer had difficulty standing following a run during the steer wrestling event Saturday and was later put down by on-site veterinarians.
"You never want to see something like this," said steer wrestler Casey Martin in a statement. "I run horned cattle on my ranch and I throw them down often to do medical and field doctoring. When I realized this steer was injured I held him still to prevent any further injury."
Event organizers said in a release the incident will be reviewed, although no post-mortem will be performed. | {
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A video of newly elected Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren went viral this past week. No, she wasn't doing the Harlem Shake, but she did something equally amazing by taking charge at a Senate hearing and asking top officials a simple question: 'When did you last take a Wall Street bank to trial?' The answer, of course, is that they haven't taken any to trial. Warren already knew this fact, but good on her for make U.S. officials squirm and confirm this fact for the record. After campaigning on a platform of representing the middle class and challenging the big banks, it's great to see her beginning to follow through so quickly.
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Do we really need 2 threads for this crap? I'm sorry, and I'm not trying to be mean but this is possibly the weirdest thread/topic we've had on SOC. If you want to discuss this, you can use the other thread. You don't need 2. | {
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August 2016 Neighs
STRAIGHT FROM THE HORSE’S MOUTH
Hello Neigh-Bours! We are just over a month away from #Medieval2016 and we are almost beside ourselves with excitement!
HEAR YE, HEAR YE, HEAR YE!! Our 5th Annual Medieval Fayre is coming up on 3 September 2016!We've come a long way from our very first Medieval Fayre held in our admin's back garden in 2011 - we were so shocked when over 1500 of you turned up!
How we've grown! Now in a new, bigger venue - 2016's Medieval Fayre will be at Inanda Country Base, centrally situated in Kyalami to accommodate over 3000 visitors .. as usual, tons of horsey stuff to see, and we are VERY proud to announce that Mix 93.8 FM is our official media partner for the event... have you heard our ads on the radio?
Do you know about all the awesome events we promote?To make sure you don't miss out, you can now subscribe to Neigh-Bours Facebook events coming up in your area!So if you click here, you will now see a subscribe button, click it to get Facebook notifications of events coming up near you.
Speaking of events, because we love all our Neigh-Bours so much, we are offering ALL YARD OWNERS a special on ALL our event listings!
As you know, social media is a super effective way to advertise your event and ensure success, so make sure your event is visible to the 32 000+ South African horse fans on the Neigh-Bours Facebook page, as well as our 8400+ members on the Neigh-Bours website.
List 5 of your yard's upcoming events in 2016 (free or featured) on our calendar and we'll sponsor a Featured Event Listing for your sixth! That means it gets listed on the site and our Facebook page for free!Make sure your yard jumps at this amazing special and secures your events' success for 2016 - tell your yard owner!
We are proud to announce that we had over 3 500 000 (yes, that's over three and a half MILLION!) views on our forums & classifieds in 2015, so Neigh-Bours is definitely the right place to be for ALL things equestrian!
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Our video this month features the equestrian show from Medieval Times, to get you in the mood for our Medieval Fayre! | {
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Step 6: Reporting
Step 7: Resources
Learning more about the systems you interact with will help you work more efficiently. These instructions explain the basis for enhancements made to t...
The ELM (Enterprise Learning Management System) is a database designed to work in tandem with a human resources database to help manage training and development. The ELM can help users manage courses, manage student profiles, attendance tracking certifications and much more. In 2013 we have introduced enhancements to help administrator and coordinators of the system perform the most common tasks. Activity end date, Reminders, and Monthly Communication.
This instruction will explain In 7 steps enhancements made to the system and you will be on your way to managing within the ELM!
Disclaimer: The steps outlined in these instructions are for persons who have a security role in PeopleSoft’s Enterprise Learning Management System.If you are attempting to access menus outlined in the steps and do not have these options please contact your IT helpdesk to submit a request for access.
Step 1: Log into MyLearning
Navigate to the MyLearning log in screen (this will be dependent upon your workplace system access.) Once you are connected to your workplace network, log into MyLearning using your user ID and password credentials. | {
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Toolbox Helps You Join Betas And Download APKs From Google Play
Chrome: Google's web version of the Play Store is handy, but it's still missing a few features after all these years. Toolbox for Google Play Store helps fix a lot of minor issues to make it easier to use your apps.
Toolbox, created by the site Android Police, offers a ton of handy tweaks. Most notably, in addition to the Install button, you'll also see a button for APK Mirror. This site (which is also owned by Android Police) hosts APKs for apps that may not be uploaded yet. This is particularly handy if you're sideloading an app that hasn't rolled out to everyone yet. You'll also see buttons for AppBrain (an alternative way to explore the Play Store) and Android Police's coverage for that app, if any exist.
The extension will also show you if there's a beta version of an app available. Many companies run beta programs for their apps to test out new features before they roll out to everyone, but you have to find them on your own. This extension will now show you a handy link where you can sign up for the beta and download the most bleeding edge version immediately.
Best of all, you can turn off any feature of Toolbox individually. So, if you don't know or care what AppBrain is, you can disable that button in the extension's options. For now the extension is pretty bare bones, but the few features it does have are pretty handy. | {
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SEEN Magazine | Up to Code
What K-12 Administrators Need to Know About the Building Code Process
In what has become a standard three-year code cycle at a national level, the International Code Council (ICC) and its supporting committees revise and update the International Codes and standards to evolve with industry trends in design, manufacturing and safety practices. Every three to six years, the time comes for all 50 states to review the new code changes provided by the ICC.
Every state has the option to adopt or amend new codes, but as new construction materials become available and standards to mitigate risk are reevaluated and affect the way we design and build schools, it is imperative for school administrators and design and construction professionals working in the K-12 school arena to understand how code changes impact their schools.
The process for code adoption and implementation affecting K-12 schools can become confusing and often presents its own unique set of challenges, especially when dealing with renovations, which is usually the case with K-12 schools.
Understanding the Various Types of Codes
There are several codes often discussed and reviewed when working on K-12 projects, and it is important to be knowledgeable of each before submitting a project for permitting.
The International Building Code (IBC) is intended to provide minimum requirements for new construction and repair and alternative approaches for renovations to existing buildings. Additionally, it determines aspects like building occupancy type, construction types, maximum heights and square footage, fire-rated construction, wind provisions and occupancy numbers for special areas like gymnasiums and auditoriums.
The International Mechanical Code (IMC) is a convention concentrating on the safety of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems. Simply put, it outlines how HVAC systems, appliances and appliance venting should be installed in school buildings.
The International Fuel Gas Code (IFGC) regulates the addition of any fuel-fired appliances such as gas-fired or oil-fired furnaces, water heaters and gas stoves. This code determines and effects the way gas piping and systems are installed in schools, especially kitchens and the gas piping running to roof top units.
The Americans with Disabilities Act Code (ADA) outlines the inclusion of accessible design for handicapped and disabled students and teachers. This includes handicap parking spots, wheelchair accessible-tables, door vision panels and automatic doors in schools.
The International Fire Code (IFC) outlines ideas surrounding where fire detectors and safety hydrants should be placed throughout the school. From 2011-2015, fires on educational properties accounted for one percent of all reported fires and resulted in one death, 70 injuries and $70 million in direct property damage.
The International Plumbing Codes (IPC) outlines plumbing regulations, including fixture installations and minimum plumbing fixture (i.e. water closets, sinks, drinking fountains) counts for school buildings. This is especially important as more schools begin to implement water conservation programs, including installing low-flow and no-flow fixtures.
The International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) establishes the minimum design and construction requirements for energy consumption – the second-highest operational expense to schools each year, after salaries.
The National Electric Code (NEC) is published by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) and deals with the electricity of the building, including the placement of all electrical outlets and panelboards as well as the voltage allowed in places such as classrooms, cafeterias and football stadiums.
NFPA 101 Life Safety Code regulates emergency exits, life safety provisions, maximum occupancy counts and exit signage. This code is unique from most codes as it applies to all existing structures as well as new structures. In states that enforce the Life Safety Code, it is heavily used by architects and designers during the design stage of K-12 schools when trying to determine the egress of the building. Since this code is a valuable source when determining liability in accidents, it is also used by insurance companies to evaluate risks and set rates.
TheInternational Swimming Pool and Spa Code (ISPSC), which regulates and outlines the addition of swimming pools in K-12 schools. This code outlines the entire process from the design and construction of the swimming pool to repair and maintenance.
Navigating the Code Approval Process
ICC’s multiyear code review process tends to incorporate updates to almost every single code it publishes. In most states, there is a process that allows industry stakeholders, like contractors, architects, engineers, manufacturers, trade associations and facility managers, to amend a code that may negatively impact a single building type, such as schools. In some cases, if the code language is unclear, or could pose a safety concern, it might also be amended.
For example, if a company manufactures a new device that might be prohibited or limited by the code, that company has the right to propose changes and testify at a hearing to have changes in the code approved. Many companies will attend these public hearings in order to advocate for their products and they may even testify against a proposed code change. Design professionals also might testify for a code change because the language is confusing and might lead to problems during future renovations or construction.
States adopt a list of codes that are typically considered to be a minimum State Code. The code adoption process can be different in each state. Some states use the ICC codes as a base to create their own versions and incorporate their state amendments to each code book that is then also published by ICC. Some states may publish a separate document that amends the ICC codes. Since these amendments could impact school design and renovations, it is important to be familiar with them and what state agency may oversee the code adoption process.
Some local jurisdictions may adopt local ordinances that are stricter than the state minimum. A good example of this would be the cities of Kennesaw and St. Marys in Georgia. They have adopted the state’s optional Disaster Resilient Construction Appendices as mandatory for renovations and new construction. This appendix requires all new schools and some renovations to add storm shelters for students and staff. This code provision was modeled after Alabama’s state law requiring storm shelters in new schools.
The applicable codes required for each building are determined by the timeframe in which the permits for that project are approved. For example, if permits to renovate a school were approved before a new edition of the code goes into effect, that project would not be required to be revised to incorporate any new code changes.
Changes in codes are communicated in a chain-like order. First, each division of the local government must be notified of the new code regulations and changes. This is often shared via a memo or posted on the state government website. After that, the agency responsible for building code adoptions distributes a memo or letter to the superintendents of all the schools throughout the state that outlines which codes have been adopted.
Design professionals and facility managers can readily find training sessions, seminars, online webinars and conferences to learn first-hand what these new codes and regulations mean for the industry and how they will change or alter various projects.
New Codes, New Challenges
Adopting new codes always comes with challenges. Most often, these challenges are caused by lack of communication between administrators and local jurisdictions. The best thing an administrator can do before beginning the construction process is to communicate with all the parties involved. Contractors and industry professionals will often call and make sure they are aware and well-informed of any new code changes that could affect pending permits for new constructions or renovations.
The design team will then begin to look at the new codes to ensure they plan and design each building up to code. These processes take a large amount of time and local jurisdictions will often have the final interpretation. The best way to avoid confusion and ensure the timing of your project stays on track is to regularly communicate with the local building authority during the design process to make sure your project meets code before you start moving dirt.
Renovations present the largest set of challenges when adopting new codes, as there are many variables when dealing with an existing building and its systems. The approach is not always straight forward since no code can predict every scenario. Additionally, the codes for renovations have more area for interpretation, especially on a local level. Depending on the extent of the renovation, a good rule of thumb is the 50 percent rule, meaning that if the renovation consists of 50 percent of the project’s cost or construction or changes to the building systems, then new code regulations may need to be applied.
Renovations can be tricky depending on how much needs to be done. For example, the design team might not be adding sprinklers to its renovation plan, but an official might tell the design team it is impacting enough of the building that a sprinkler system must be included. Although this seems like a minor addition, sometimes changing a few smaller items can add up quickly and put the project over budget.
Code Communication is Key
Provisions to new codes can also increase overall costs, especially if the official decides to make a design team bring the renovation up to current code for all the systems. This is when communication and great relationships with local building and fire officials are beneficial.
By hiring experienced team members and educating themselves, administrators can remove most of the challenges associated with the changing codes and regulations and implement a seamless process for designing and building in the ever-changing world of K-12 schools.
As you can see, the process outlining, adopting and implementing codes can be complex and time-consuming. Educating oneself and keeping up with the various code changes will prevent future challenges. Learn more about this year’s code additions by visiting ICC’s official website at https://www.iccsafe.org/. To see the ICC codes adopted in each state and links to key contacts within those states visit https://codes.iccsafe.org/public/. | {
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Boosting Biosecurity Defences: Royalties for Regions
Please note: This content may be out of date and is currently under review.
The Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) has been conducting a three and a half-year project to strengthen the State’s biosecurity defences and underpin efforts by industry to capture a share of growing international demand for agriculture and food.
Project background
The $20 million Boosting Biosecurity Defences project is funded by the State Government’s Royalties for Regions program, as part of the Seizing the Opportunity in Agriculture initiative. The project is supported by leveraged funds from Horticulture Australia Limited, Carnarvon Growers Association, the Council of Graingrower Organisations, State NRM, as well as DPIRD in-kind.
Project summary
The project is improving the management of biosecurity risks in WA by:
enhancing surveillance
boosting response and recovery systems
supporting the community to address biosecurity threats.
The wide-ranging project addresses early detection of declared pests and diseases, preparedness to respond to incursions of significant pests and diseases, awareness and compliance with new legislation, community engagement and the adoption of new technology.
These activities will protect the State’s enviable biosecurity reputation, which is crucial to securing access to valuable export markets.
More effective management of regionally significant declared pests through the establishment of five new, self-governing and self-reliant regional groups (Recognised Biosecurity Groups under the BAM Act), and the re-invigoration of five existing Recognised Biosecurity Groups. See sub-projects Transforming regional biosecurity response.
Increased knowledge of the effectiveness of new technology to eradicate the pest Medfly, through piloting the technology in Carnarvon in partnership with the local horticultural industry and community. See sub-project Piloting new techniques for control of fruit fly.
Increased knowledge of the costs, benefits and impacts of a suite of control measures on wild dog predation on livestock production, which may be applied to other regions. See sub- project Evaluation of wild dog control.
Increased knowledge and innovative solutions to better manage significant pests and diseases through an agricultural biosecurity research and development Fund. See sub-project Research and development fund. | {
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WP Theater and Segal NYC Productions celebrated the Off-Broadway opening of Theresa Rebeck's What We’re Up Against November 8. The production, directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt, marks the first time the 1992 play has been seen in New York City.
Performances began October 28 Off-Broadway for a run scheduled through November 26.
Flip through photos of the opening below:
Take a Look at the Opening Night for What We’re Up Against Starring Skylar Astin, Krysta Rodriguez, and Jim Parrack
Take a Look at the Opening Night for What We’re Up Against Starring Skylar Astin, Krysta Rodriguez, and Jim Parrack | {
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New York: American comedian Steve Schirripa has said that people think that dads have a place in the lives of their sons but can't see that they have to be just as present with daughters. In his new book 'Big Daddy's Rules: Raising Daughters Is Tougher Than I Look,' he has written that a father can lay down the law in a way that a mother can't, a news daily reported.
The 55-year-old actor said that a mother-daughter duo can negotiate over anything, and can go on longer than it took to settle the Vietnam War. He wrote in his book that sometimes, the daughters need the dad to just step in, say as loudly as they can, "Do what your mother told you now," and leave the room. They will bond over the fact that their father is being such a jerk.
He also wrote that when it comes to girls, there is an insecurity that starts early on and hangs around them, like an irritating kid from down the block who won't take the hint and go home when dinnertime comes.
Schirripa said that mothers are often not great at giving their daughters confidence, one of the reasons being is that they grew up with the same insecurity-the same treatment from the mean girls, the same self-doubts that their daughters are facing. So when a daughter starts expressing that fear, a father has to step up and say forget about it and you are the best. | {
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Past Speakers
Garfield Society - Featured Speakers
Each year, the Garfield Society invites renown individuals to give the annual keynote address. Through the years, featured speakers have included the following public officials, business leaders, community influencers, authors and more.
2016 – Richard Hyde – “Reach and Grasp
2015 – Jo Ann Davidson – “A Spotlight on Ohio”
2014 – Candice Millard – “Finding James Garfield”
2013 – Molly Corbett Broad – “Higher Education at a Crossroads”
2012 – Gordon Gund – “Some Lessons Learned”
2011 – David Franklin – “The Director’s Vision for the Next 100 Years” | {
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Infinity Hall Coming To Life In Hartford
Infinity Hall Coming To Life In Hartford
(Ryan Bernat/FOXCT)
Story By Ken Gosselin, Hartford Courant; Video By Jim Altman, FOX CT
The planned opening of Infinity Music Hall and Bistro in downtown Hartford is the topic of conversation at many a city gathering this year, with plenty of talk about the boost the venue will give the city’s revitalization efforts.
Work is well underway — concrete was drying Wednesday on the mezzanine level — but Infinity Hall founder Dan Hincks said the venue at the Front Street entertainment district isn’t likely to open until June or July. That’s a month or two later than the most recent prediction of May.
We had some challenges in how everything would be designed,” Hincks said.
Infinity Hall is viewed as the linchpin of the entertainment district, which now includes the Spotlight movie theater and The Capital Grille.
Two other restaurants — Nix’s seafood restaurant and Ted’s Montana Grill — are under construction.
Hincks said the biggest challenge was a column that had to be moved because it was in the middle of the performance space.
“We had to jump through a lot of engineering hoops to get rid of the column so there would be no obstructive views,” Hincks said.
The $5.2 million project, including $1.3 million in state funding, is the second venue for Infinity, which opened in Norfolk in 2008.
In Hartford, the orchestra will accommodate about 400 people with traditional seating but more when set up with tables and chairs. The space also will be leased for private parties and other events and could be used without any seating.
Hincks said he has not booked an opening night performer yet because a firm date has not been set. Infinity Hall has had continuing discussions with possible performers and is making commitments for this fall. He declined to identify any performers.
Hincks said Infinity plans to give the public a sneak peek of the venue soon.
Infinity intends to film musical performances periodically to show the evolution of construction. The public wouldn’t be invited to the performances, but short videos would be posted on youtube.com.
During a visit to the space Wednesday, Hincks said the Hartford community has been “extremely supportive” of the venture. | {
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A god game[1] is an artificial life game[2] that casts the player in the position of controlling the game on a large scale, as an entity with divine/supernatural powers, as a great leader, or with no specified character (as in Spore), and places them in charge of a game setting containing autonomous characters to guard and influence.
This is not to be confused with god mode, a state found in many video games (usually afforded the player through use of a cheat or granted as an unlockable in-game reward) wherein the player-character is granted invincibility, invulnerability, or both.
Contents
Definition
God games are a subgenre of artificial life game, where players use supernatural powers to indirectly influence a population of simulated worshipers. The genre is separate from strategy video games, because players are unable to tell specific units what to do. The genre is also separate from construction and management simulations, because gameplay revolves around growing and utilizing their supernatural powers to indirectly influence their worshipers, such as by placing a target marker or goal for the worshipers to conquer, or affect those of their opponents, such as by creating natural disasters.[2] God games are typically single-player games played against a computerized opponent, but some involve competition between rival players.
Game design
God games allow players to take on the role of a god with limited powers, similar to the gods from the mythology of ancient Greece. The player's power comes from simulated worshippers, who are usually simple or tribal in nature. It is common for most people in god games to look alike. Early god games only featured models for full-grown men and women, while Black and White introduced children. Players must economize quantities of power or mana, which are derived from the size and prosperity of their population of worshipers. The player consumes this power by using godly powers to help their worshippers, such as blessing their crops or flattening hills to make better farmland. This results in a positive feedback loop, where more power allows the player to help their population grow which helps them gain more power. However, more powerful abilities typically require more power, and these usually take the form of natural disasters that can damage rival populations rather than improve life for the player's worshipers. Games typically utilize an aerial top-down perspective, similar to a real-time strategy game.[2]
God games are classified as a subgenre of artificial life game because players tend to a population of simulated people that they control only indirectly. Although god games share qualities with both construction and management simulation games and real-time strategy games, players in god games are only able to exercise indirect control over their population. They cannot tell specific units what to do, as seen in strategy games, although players may sometimes compete against other players with their own population of supporters. Moreover, players are given godlike powers not seen in construction or management games, such as the ability to control the weather, transform the landscape, and bless or curse different populations.[2]
History
Although there are many influences on the god game genre, the first god game is widely considered to be Populous from 1989.[3][4][5] Developed by Peter Molyneux of Bullfrog Productions,[4] the game established the gameplay template where the player's godlike powers would grow in proportion to the population of their worshipers.[5] The game was notable for giving players supernatural powers over land and nature that could be used for good or evil,[4] and some of this gameplay was emulated by other real-time strategy games with more direct control.[5] Notable hybrids of the genre included the action-god game ActRaiser for the Super Nintendo in 1990.[6] It was also an influence on the real-time strategy hybrid Dungeon Keeper,[5] developed by Molyneux in 1997.[7] | {
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Sub-Saharan Africa: Why hotels, why now?
The receptionist realized her mistake immediately. The hotel was overbooked and there was no room for me.
In almost any other city in the world this would be an annoyance, forcing me to move to the nearest hotel with a vacancy. But in Luanda, Angola, in 2004, this meant I was out of options and found myself sharing a room with a stranger. Today, you wouldn’t expect this to happen in Luanda, or anywhere else in Sub-Saharan Africa, where hotels are no longer in such short supply. Instead, you should expect to pay $350 for a decent hotel in the city.
It’s a remarkable transformation. Sub-Saharan Africa’s hospitality industry has moved from embryonic to emerging in just 10 years.
High economic growth, increasing political and social stability, foreign investment and positive demographic variables have led to favorable real estate development and investment potential across the asset class board.
Africa’s hospitality boom is business-driven. Global corporates are flocking to take advantage of growth in industries such as pharmaceuticals and finance, as well as regional corporate expansion. For the hospitality sector, this has proven particularly profitable as global hotel operators pursue growing levels of business travel dollars.
Bridging the supply gap
As a result, global hotel investors increasingly are turning their attention to the region’s largest developing economies such as Nigeria, Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Angola, and a number of hotel specific investment platforms are being raised. Four have launched in the last six months. Duet Group, for example, signed a partnership agreement with Bouygues Batiment International to establish Duet Africa Hotels, a hotel investment, development and asset management company.
New global platforms such as this could inject as much as $1 billion of hotel-targeted equity in the region in the next five to seven years. This should create much needed growth in investment grade hotel stock; development, to date has, largely, been led by local and regional players teaming up with international and regional operators. Major hotel groups now are stepping up the pace of development in the region.
In Nigeria, for example, the number of projects in the pipeline from the major hotel parent companies represent more than half of the existing supply, according to HNN sister company STR Global. The same applies in Ethiopia, and project pipelines are picking up pace in markets such as Tanzania, Rwanda and Angola.
Scaling up
As many of the markets emerge from decades of instability and resource dominated economic growth, investors, who are predominantly from Europe and Asia, are still concerned with Africa’s ability to offer them scale. Mature markets like South Africa and the Indian Ocean are thriving, yet they’re competitive. Developing markets such as Kenya and Nigeria are growing, albeit from a low base, but with high potential returns.
While full-service hotels in gateway cities remain in favor among most investors speculating on the Africa growth story, it’s the midmarket segment that demands greater attention. It’s often overlooked by local and regional investors in favor of more prestigious developments.
The lack of transparency and liquidity are key concerns for investors and operators alike. Further to this there is a need for more robust governance; further development of capital markets; development of local talent; infrastructure expansion; and the removal of myriad administrative barriers.
But what cannot be overlooked is the overwhelming potential to participate in what’s widely regarded as the final frontier market for hotel real estate.
About the Author
Xander is Executive Vice President of JLL’s Hotels and Hospitality Group in Sub-Saharan Africa and leads assignments and projects in the region. Xander focuses on delivering Strategic Advisory, Investment Sales, Financing and Asset Management services to local, regional and global clients across the region. Xander has over 11 years of experience in hotel advisory, investment and operations in 20+ countries in Africa and the Indian Ocean region. He is a graduate of Hotel School The Hague and has further education in real estate, company law and finance.
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q: “What options do we have left in working with North Korea? Better/more insulating weapons, multiplied pressure by China, Talks with North Korea or business as usual, Craig Burzain, lots of states
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From a physical standpoint, Malone hasn't exactly been bestowed the same physical gifts as his young teammate. At 6-foot-2 and 220 pounds, Malone is considered by many to be an undersized linebacker. For Malone to excel, especially against bigger opponents, his mind and technique have to take over where his body leaves him short.
With a much-hyped game against the physical Michigan State coming up this week, Malone said his performance on Saturday against South Dakota just wasn't up to standard.
"I feel like I wasn't good enough," Malone said. "I'm a pretty hard critic on myself. I felt like I was a little over-aggressive. A little over-amped."
In the box score, Oregon's 62-13 win over South Dakota on Saturday would appear as an OK performance. With the amount of possessions the Coyotes received due to Oregon's fast-hitting offense, the Ducks allowed 370 yards of total offense, a touchdown and two field goals.
But new defensive coordinator Don Pellum said the performance was far from great. Outside the stats sheet, the Ducks saw a bevy of missed tackles, easy runs up the middle and found themselves on the fortunate end of a South Dakota red zone opportunity that was squandered by a pair of false start penalties.
"No one, at least from the sideline ... played great," said Pellum, a career Oregon assistant who succeeded longtime coordinator Nick Aliotti in January. "Just a lot of guys making plays but no one really stood out."
"I didn't like the urgency," head coach Mark Helfrich added.
They'll have to find it against the Spartans.
The knock on Oregon over the years has been its inability to compete against bigger, more physical opponents. Last year, Stanford upset the Ducks for the second year in a row, stifling Oregon's offense while pounding four-yard gains after four-yard gains up the middle. After watching tape on Michigan State early this week, Malone said making a comparison to Stanford was fair. And the stigma of shrinking against a sizable opponent provides a chip on the Ducks' shoulder.
"It's definitely a pride issue," Malone said. "It's something where we have to step up to the challenge. We really just have to play our game and stay focused on the little details."
The big details for the Spartans are a capable quarterback, strong receivers and a running back who rushed for 1,422 yards and 18 touchdowns a season ago.
The Michigan State offensive line may be a little depleted with injuries, but Jeremy Langford is one of the best running backs in the Big 10 and quarterback Connor Cook is a different animal than what the Ducks saw in South Dakota's Kevin Earl.
"I thought their quarterback was a good player and it was very unfortunate he got hurt," Helfrich said of Earl, who broke his thumb in the third quarter. "But Connor Cook is a man. He's a great football player. Tough guy making plays with his arm and his feet. I think the similarities end there as far as the formations. That's no disrespect to South Dakota. I thought they played well to the end."
The Spartans had little trouble getting out of the blocks in their 45-7 win over Jacksonville State on Saturday. Cook was nearly flawless, throwing for 285 yards on 12-of-13 throwing before sitting out the second half. Tony Lippett caught four balls for 167 yards and two touchdowns while the Spartans combined for 211 yards on the ground. This was all while the vaunted Michigan State defense held the FCS-level Gamecocks to 244 yards of total offense.
Needless to say, the Spartans are going to be bigger, faster and more talented than what Oregon saw on Saturday. None of those concepts are new to Malone, who said they'll be OK as long as the focus is right.
"I always feel like it's more of a game of technique," Malone said. "It's being in the right place at the right time. If I don't play with good technique, I'm going to get tossed around." | {
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The drone has completed nine test flights so far up to 9.4 hours in length and at a cruising height of 50,000 feet.
Operators have also tested the structural capability of the aircraft.
Mike Mackey, Northrop Gumman’s Triton UAS program director, said: "During surveillance missions using Triton, Navy operators may spot a target of interest and order the aircraft to a lower altitude to make positive identification.
"The wing’s strength allows the aircraft to safely descend, sometimes through weather patterns, to complete this manoeuvre."
The Navy obviously seem impressed with the results - they've ordered 68 of them at a cost of over £700 million.
5 Uses For Drones When Not Using Them To Blow Up Things
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This is perhaps the most well-known use of drones outside of wartime: the snack-delivering drone. From Star Simpson's Tacocoptor to Darwin Aereospace's Burrito Bomber, these drones have been a surprise hit in the techie press. As HuffPost's Jason Gilbert reported, the Tacocopter "boasts a business plan that combines four of the most prominent touchstones of modern America: tacos, helicopters, robots and laziness." Unfortunately for those hungry today, the Tacocopter is just a concept now and not a full-fledged business.
It's no surprise that drone services might be more popular than delivery boys; after all, drones can go as the crow flies and don't need to worry about pesky highways or the grid-laid streets of cities. Due to their use as weapons of war, we know they can be piloted precisely and deliver payloads (deadly or not) to locations on demand. And hey, even if your food has to survive a bit of a drop, it still tastes the same, right? | {
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Yes. The book is worth its cost. Hanon will help like any other set of technical exercises, Czerny, scales etc. However I would not recommend using Hanon without a teacher. There is a possibility of incorrect mechanics which can cause injury.
My suggestion would be to avoid Hanon exercises if you don't have a teacher. To be useful, you will have to play the exercises many hundreds of times. That's a whole lot of practice time devoted to what will likely be bad or at least inefficient playing habits. In my case almost all the changes my teacher made to the way I played Hanon were very worthwhile but changes I would never have discovered on my own.
I agree with SoundThumb, I would not try the Hanon exercises without a teacher. As you could go wrong quite easily. What I would suggest instead is to practice four octave scales in all the majors keys followed by the harmonic and melodic minors. Which has done more for the dexterity and strength of my hands than my previous work with Hanon had accomplished.
Im using Hanon to try to get my fingers moving after not playing after many years. The beauty of Hanon is they are easy excercises to learn that dont require much time to learn the "notes". With that being said, what methods of playing Hanon are recommended with out causing bad habits? Holding fingers high, playing notes staccoto, hand position???? I currently dont have a teacher either and am doing this own my own accord.
Some love Hanon. Some hate Hanon. Either way you end up going, just realise these things will take time and you won't notice improvements overnight.
I think you also need to know what you want to improve, and ask yourself why you want to do these exercises. You can't rely on luck, playing things mindlessly and hope you get out the other side a better player.
The problem with starting scales and Hanon (and difficult pieces) too soon is that you're playing the same thing every day and you may not be using correct technique. By playing only technically easy pieces for the first two or three years your fingers will develop as your range of pieces expand and they will adapt more naturally to increasing demands being made of them. Because in your formative years you learn throwaway pieces and you drop them once learnt you also drop immature techniques with them.
Without professional guidance I would suggest you ignore scales and Hanon until you have either a teacher or three years of solid repertoire experience.
Unless you're going for exams, scales and other technical exercises are not as beneficial as a good variety of pieces for the first two or three years. And doing exams without the guidance of a good teacher is foolhardy; not because you can't learn without a teacher but you don't have the knowledge of the procedures and the required standards for a pass.
Someone starting scale practice after three years of playing pieces only on a daily basis will catch up with someone who's played scales daily for that time in a few short weeks and not have acquired poor practise habits and attitudes borne from starting too soon with insufficient technical skills and knowledge of their benefits.
Scales are for training the ears, not the fingers. Hanon is too often a vehicle for velocity. It should be understood that velocity comes naturally from daily practise not from forcing the speed. Hanon is for getting all five fingers to play evenly, not fast, and to give the impression that they are equally strong and agile - they aren't nor can they be.
Many people use scales as a warm up. Your warm up does not count towards your practise time; it is simply a warm up. How much benefit, really, are you going to get from practising scales with cold ineffective fingers and ears that haven't yet adjusted to the sensitivity required for creating good music?
Use a selection of repertoire pieces for a warmup; pieces that you will often be required to play with cold fingers. Start with slow and easy stuff and move to pieces requiring more speed or precision. If you're going to do scales and similar technical exercises on a daily basis then warm your ears and fingers up first.
A daily regimen of good, enjoyable selections from Bach, Clementi and Schumann, or work heading in that direction, is far more beneficial and doesn't smack of drudgery.
A boxer spends but a few scant minutes in the ring but many hours in the gym and on the road. You won't make a good boxer if you don't enjoy the endless hours of training. It's just the same with piano. It's a long road to mastery and we can only get there by long hours of daily practise. Precious little time is given to actually playing the pieces we love so make sure you enjoy your practise time.
Skip scales and Hanon until you know what they're for and understand how and why they're going to deliver.
The printed version is about ten bucks, the online version is free; at least you will not need to take out a second mortgage. Yes, it is worth it, if only to find out which camp you land in. If you can abide it, it is a useful book for several reasons.
So far, I have never found a teacher who has taken the slightest interest in supervising what I do with the Hanon exercises, though I can understand why there is concern. Most of the difficulties lie in taking things to excess--- doing it for too long, exaggerating the movements of the fingers (such as the instruction to 'lift the fingers high,' which should be ignored), pounding too hard, failing to stop if the hands become sore, etc.). For beginners, these practices can open the door to repetitive stress injuries.
But, so can many other immoderate practices--- almost any good thing, in fact--- and the Hanon exercises can also help to prevent RSI problems as well as they can cause them. They are quite good to use as a warm-up, they accustom the fingers to move in a way pianists often use them, but which others seldom do. They help a student come out to meet an experience of touch, using the momentum of the keyboard, in a way that is useful in later studies. And there are the little challenges in counting, the scales and arps, fragments of many movements that will be encountered in the course of keyboard study, which it is useful to be familiar with, and which will make later study easier.
Last, but not least, they help the eye and brain associate the ink spots on the page with the movements of the hand and fingers, and the resulting sounds. There are other famous books that help with this, but the drill is very valuable for students in the early years.
I do think that working with a teacher who can explain and demonstrate things, and head off problems, is valuable, especially for beginning students. But as long as you use a little good sense (like, 'if it hurts, stop doing it'), I can't think of any good reason why a student should be discouraged from giving it a try. The scales alone are worth the ten bucks.
Someone starting scale practice after three years of playing pieces only on a daily basis will catch up with someone who's played scales daily for that time in a few short weeks and not have acquired poor practise habits and attitudes borne from starting too soon with insufficient technical skills and knowledge of their benefits.
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A daily regimen of good, enjoyable selections from Bach, Clementi and Schumann, or work heading in that direction, is far more beneficial and doesn't smack of drudgery.
Thank you very much for your detailed post. While I don't consider tackling Hanon - with- or withou my teacher - at the moment - I still benefited from it.
I'm about 2 1/2 years into guided piano playing (+ 1 year of selfteaching almost 20 years earlier) and a couple of month ago I was frustated with my teacher for *not* putting me on scales. I thought she ought to be pushing me more technically and the lesson time wasn't well suited, too.
I thought that because scales look so easy, they are easy and should be played by a beginner, wether they are from Hanon or whomever, before you "graduate" to more complex pieces.
I decided to stick with my teacher for various reasons: we found a better lesson time, life threw me a couple of curves that left me too exhausted too hunt for another teacher - but most of all because my husband insisted that we was "a good teacher to me". While he plays no instruments, he is good with judging people in general and me specifically, so I stayed.
The reason I stayed was that she puts *a lot* of emphasis on the expression of a piece. No matter how simple technically, we don't necessarily polish it to perfection but to the point where the mood, the point of the piece comes across.
I'm glad I stuck with her.
By now I realize that the Sonatina in G major from Beethoven (I am now in the second movement) contains a couple of short scale runs within the context of the piece. So my teacher *is* guiding me towards these technical challenges, interestingly after about the time that you recommend for playing scales. If you use scales not so much for training speed but the ear and finger evenness, then not starting with scales makes sense.
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Hannon. Front page says it all. "Virtuoso Pianist". If one reads some of the text, the exercise claims to clean up finger independance difficulties. Scales are essential, but Hannon works! The exercises are thoughtfully laid out as to work the problem areas of weak finger transitions that one might not be aware of. You'll see the benefit when the notes "flow like oil".
And of course all the major and minor scales and arpeggios etc. are part of the Hanon exercises anyway. At the end of the day, I think any technical exercises are going to be good in the long run. For instance my left hand is not 'as good' as my right. And I think an awful lot of pianists who've gone through their grades will find this. Hanon showed me just how behind my left hand is. Working on technical exercises helps to ensure the left hand becomes as capable as the right.
FYI when Rachmaninoff graduated he could play Hanon in its entirity in every single key.
Im using Hanon to try to get my fingers moving after not playing after many years. The beauty of Hanon is they are easy excercises to learn that dont require much time to learn the "notes". With that being said, what methods of playing Hanon are recommended with out causing bad habits? Holding fingers high, playing notes staccoto, hand position???? I currently dont have a teacher either and am doing this own my own accord.
Different touches (legato through staccato), different dynamics (pp to FF), transposed into other keys -- it's all good.
The problem with "no teacher" is that there's nobody to watch you and say:
I'd recommend Hanon-practice with a metronome. It's really easy to _believe_ you're playing evenly, when (in fact) your tempos are wandering, and note durations are uneven. Another thing a teacher will pick up.
The nice thing is my digital piano Kawai CA65 has built in Alfred lessons, scales, chords, and Hanon excercises. So I can set it and play along with it and it "grades" my efforts. Ive made a big improvement with this feature becauses it causes me to lock into the tempo so that I dont wander as much. I am going to be very busy for the next 2 months with work, but once the spring hits I think I am going to look for a teacher to try to put things back together. I have made tremendous progress over the last 2 weeks since I have gotten my piano. A 13 year break is rough. It feels good to get back though. | {
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We take it for granted. We understand it. It is obvious what temperature is. Cold, warm, hot…obvious.
But how many of us have asked the next question: what is the real difference between a hot stone and a cold one? The answer is interesting and helps us to realise that measuring temperature is much trickier than we tend to suppose.
Over many hundreds of years, many clever people have devised lots of experiments to understand what temperature is, I hope in this article to round up the facts!
Temperature and Energy
For much of history, there were only a few sources of heat – the sun, fire, lava and of course the warmth of living creatures.
People were puzzled by what created it, but it was immediately obvious that it had one consistency – whenever it had the chance, it flowed – put something hot next to something cold, and the heat would flow.
Of course you could argue that it was the ‘cold’ that flowed (the other way), but there were no obvious sources of ‘cold’. While ice was clearly cold, it was not a sustainable ‘source’ of cold the way a fire was.
It was also noted that heat melted things – like fat or butter and that it make some liquids (like molasses) thinner. It could even boil water and make it ‘vanish’. The mechanisms for these were unknown and a source of fascination for early scientists.
Early experimenters noticed that gases would increase in volume upon heating, and that compressing gases would cause them to heat up. They also investigated other sources of heat, like friction, (rubbing your hands together).
It was the work with gas that led to the big breakthrough. Boyle and Hooke, as well as Edme Marriotte, working in the 17th century, realized that the temperature of a gas would increase consistently with pressure, and like-wise, decrease consistently with pressure. This sounds unremarkable, until you note that you can only decrease pressure so much…
Once you have a vacuum (no pressure), you should have ‘no temperature’. Thus their observations implied that there really was a limit to how cold things could get, and predicted it was around -275 Celsius. They were of course unable to cool anything that far simply by expanding it because heat always flows into cold things, so to achieve this you need much better insulation than they had available.
So they had a big clue in the search to understand what temperature is, but still no explanation.
It took until 1738 until another great scientist moved us forward. Daniel Bernoulli realised you could use Newton’s (relatively new) laws to derive Boyle’s temperature-pressure relationship. He basically asked: what if gas was made of a large number of very small billiard balls flying around crashing into everything? What if pressure was just the result of all these collisions? Using this theory he realised, for the first time I think, what temperature truly is.
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It turns out that his model equated temperature with the speed of the billiard balls. A hot gas only differs from a cold gas in the speed of the molecules flying around. Faster molecules crash with more momentum and thus impart more pressure. Squashing the gas into a smaller volume does not give them more speed, but means more collisions each second, so higher pressure.
This is a pretty serious finding. It basically says ‘there is no such thing as temperature’. There is only lots of little balls flying around, and their number and speed dictate the pressure they exert, and there is no ‘temperature’.
If we put a thermometer into the gas, what is it detecting then? Great question.
It turns out that solids are also made of lots of balls, except, instead of being free to fly around, they are trapped in a matrix. When a solid is exposed to a hot gas, it is bombarded by fast flying atoms. When a solid atom is hit, instead of flying off, it starts to vibrate, like a ball constrained by a network of springs.
So the ‘temperature of a solid is also a measure of speed of motion, but rather than linear speed it’s a measure of the speed of vibration. This makes a lot of sense – as the solid gets hotter, the balls are going literally ‘ballistic’ and eventually have enough speed to break the shackles of the matrix (aka melting).
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So this model of heat as ‘movement’ not only explains how gases exert pressure, but also explains how heat flows (through molecular collisions) and why things melt or vaporise.
More importantly, it shows that temperature is really just a symptom of another, more familiar, sort of energy – movement (or kinetic) energy.
Energy is a whole story of its own, but we can see now how energy and temperature relate – and how we can use energy to make things hot and cold.
Making Things Hot
There are many easy ways to make things hot. Electricity is a very convenient tool for heating – it turns out that when electric current flows, the torrent of electrons cannot help but buffet the atoms in the wire, and as they are not free to fly away, they just vibrate ever faster, ‘heating’ up.
Another way to heat things is with fire. Fire is just a chemical reaction – many types of molecules (like methane, or alcohol) contain a lot of ‘tension’, that is to say, they are like loaded springs just waiting to go off. Other molecules (often oxygen) hold the ‘key’ to unlocking the spring, and when the springs go off, as you can imagine, it is like a room full of mousetraps and ping-pong balls – and all that motion – means heat.
Making Things Cold
Manipulating energy flows to make things cold is much trickier.
One way it to just put the thing you want to cool in a cold environment – like the north pole. But what if you want to make something colder than its surroundings?
Well there is a way. We learned earlier that gases get hot when compressed – it turns out they do the opposite when decompressed or ‘vented’. This is the principle that makes the spray from aerosol cans (deodorant, lighter fluid, etc) cold. So how can we use this? First we use a compressor to compress a gas (most any gas will do); in the process it will warm up, then you let it cool down by contacting it with ambient air (through a long thin copper tube, but keeping it compressed), then decompress it again – hey presto, it is cold! Pump this cold gas through another copper tube, inside a box, and it will cool the air in the box – and hey presto, you have a refrigerator.
Measuring Temperature
Before we had thermometers, temperature was generally estimated by touch.
However this is where temperature gets tricky. Because the temperature we feel, when we put our hand on the roof of a car is not really the temperature of the car, it’s really the measure of energy flow (into our hand), which relates to the temperature, but also relates to the conductivity of the car.
This is why hot metal feels hotter than hot wood, why cold metal feels colder than cold wood – the metal, if at a different temperature to your hand, is able to move more heat into you (or take more heat away) faster than wood can. Thus our sense of temperature is easily fooled.
The ‘wind-chill factor’ is another way we are fooled – we generally walk around with cloths on, and even without clothes we have some body hair – therefore, we usually carry a thin layer of air around with us that is nearly the same temperature as we are. This helps us when it is cold and when it is hot – however, when the wind blows it rips this layer up and supplies fresh air to our skin – making us feel the temperature more than usual. Also, because our skin can be damp, there can be evaporative effects which can actually cool you below the air temperature.
Scientists have long known that we cannot trust ourselves to measure temperature, so over the ages many tricks have been developed – can the object boil water? Can it freeze water? A long list of milestone temperatures was developed and essential knowledge for early scientists – until the development of the lowly thermometer.
It was noted that, like gases, solids and liquids also expand upon heating. This makes intuitive sense if you think of hot molecules as violently vibrating – they push one another away, or at least if the charge (electric charge is what holds these things together) is spread just a little thinner, adjacent molecules will have slightly weaker bonds.
The expansion of liquids may only be very slight, and if you have a big volume of liquid in a cup, the height in the cup will change only very slightly, but if its in a bottle with a narrow neck, the small extra volume makes a bigger difference to the level. This principle is used in a thermometer – it’s just a bottle with a very narrow and long neck. The bigger the volume and the narrower the neck, the more sensitive the thermometer. Of course the glass also expands, so it is important to calibrate the thermometer – put it in ice water, mark the liquid level – then put it in boiling water and mark the new level. Then divide the distance between these marks into 100 divisions – and hey presto! you have a thermometer calibrated to the centi (hundred) grade (aka Celsius) scale. Now you know where that came from!
Every time I hear another pundit explaining their theory behind England’s failure at the world cup I get all hot and bothered. My wife could literally not care less about football or my feelings on the subject, so I thought I would share my them with you
You see, it seems that football does not benefit, as cricket and baseball do, from that important type of pundit, the statistician.
For if they did, they would realise that failing to make it into the last 16 this year is not a failure at all.
Why? Because we have to remember that there are, at time of writing, 209 national men’s teams registered with FIFA – and that FIFA estimates that 250 million people play the beautiful game. So just getting to the finals is a real achievement.
On the other hand you can argue that England should be in the top flight – it has a decent population, it has money to spend and many aspirational heroes.
Well.. it does do well, currently, England is ranked 10th in the world, and has often been higher. But does that mean it should always reach the last 16 of the world cup? No.
Take a step back. Even with so many teams, that world ranking should mean a team like England should make it ‘usually’, but certainly not always. Indeed, it has made the last 16 every time since 1958, indeed it’s a surprise to me that they have run so long without missing out.
It has always been known that football has a ‘luck factor’ indeed this is one of its best features – upsets happen – and that is why the league has a round-robin design, and also why some tournaments are done by knockout – the league aims to find the best teams, tournaments aim to find the best moments.
England did not play badly this world cup. The goals conceded were really pretty darn good, and England had more shots on goal than their opponents. But for the rub of the green, they could have been through and lauded by all. So how can the pundits have such strong opinions?
Easy. Because it’s their job to sound like they know.
Addendum
So how have teams like Brazil, Spain, Germany, Italy, France and the Netherlands managed to spend so much time in the top 3? If it was all luck, they would not. Well, this means that there are actually recipes for better performance, elusive but real…
However, just as the government would hate for you realise they do not control the economy, football pundits and administrators alike would not like you to know (or indeed to know themselves) that this recipe is largely outside of their control – the biggest factors being: population size, other games to play, weather, virtuous circles (inspiration, promise of fame, etc) and last but certainly not least, luck.
Well no wonder there’s a sudden surge of doubt about vaccination – not because we’ve realise how well it works, but because we’ve forgotten what life was like before vaccines.
I am a parent. I can understand the idea of injecting my child with something that turns out to be harmful would be hard to bear. First do no harm, they say. Can we be sure there is no harm?
Sounds a like a fair question… but… isn’t. It’s not that simple.
Having a vaccine may seem like a dangerous intervention, and surely no action is better than a risky one?
Well if you believe that, you are not alone, but are making a cognitive error, the error to assume inaction is a virtue. As Haile Selassie said “Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.”
In order to help those stuck in this cognitive trap, I would ask them to consider this thought experiment.
Rather than choosing to go to a doctor for a vaccine, say the famous ‘MMR’ triple-jab, or choosing to stay at home, let’s imagine the choice was one of two medications, one the MMR, with its supposed* risk of autism, but which gives immunity to measles, mumps and rubella – and the other is a compound with no known benefits, but a known risk of causing measles, mumps and rubella. And of course the added possibility of causing an epidemic at the same time.
(*) Let’s add to the mix the fact that there is zero evidence of any link between MMR and autism, and also point out that failing to immunise your kids is reckless cruelty not only to them, but also to all those who cannot be vaccinated for ‘real’ reasons, such as being too poor, too young or too sick.
To those still on the fence, this last bit is for you.
Do you not realise that what seems like concerned parenting has actually cost real people their lives? For what?
Yes, drugs go wrong. Yes, corporations are often tempted to hide bad news. Yes, the human body is complex and we do not understand every last detail.
But if you think that those pressures overwhelm the ‘good’ in mankind that has led life expectancy to climb gloriously every single decade this last century, then you are missing all the good news.
No small part of the doubling in life expectancy was due to vaccines.
Please don’t take me with you back to 1900. Rather look at this picture of what smallpox does and thank your lucky stars she’s not your child.
I have been keeping my eye on the evidence that ‘life experience’ can be passed on in your genes.
It has been proposed many times as a mechanism of evolution, and indeed was considered likely before the concept of ‘selection’ was understood. It’s attractive because saying that ‘survival’ is the one and only way to adding value to the genes seems, well, wasteful.
Surely, you’d think that a fear of snakes based purely on the idea that people who were not afraid of snakes were ‘taken out’ of the gene pool by snakes, is less efficient than a mechanism that captures experience – that snake killed my dog, I should avoid snakes, and so should my kids…
However, once DNA was understood and shown to be dense with what seemed to be all information that could ever be needed, dissent waned to an all time low. The mechanisms of DNA were pretty clear – your DNA was set at birth and while it might mutate a little randomly, had no way to ‘learn’ from your life before being combined with a partner’s to create offspring. The case seemed pretty settled.
There remained niggles though. I worried about the speed of evolution as we have so very much to learn and so little time to evolve! So I looked for ways evolution could amp up its power. It seemed to me that nature, so darn clever at self-optimisation would make improvements to our design based on non-fatal experience, or indeed passive observation.
Others similarly concerned continued, often in the face of deep scepticism, to study what is called epigenetics, the science of heritance not coded by DNA – and thus having the potential to be edited during our lives.
I first heard about it around 10 years ago when media reported that the actual DNA sequence was not the only way info could be stored in cells – in theory the histones present can affect how the DNA ‘works’ (how genes are ‘expressed’) and their presence could thus change the characteristics of any lifeform coded therein. The type and number of histones may be few (relative to the number of base pairs in DNA) however, the many locations and orientations they can take create a fair number of possible combinations and permutations.
When I heard about this theory, I was put into a state of high curiosity. On the one hand, it was a little blasphemous, but on the other hand tantalising. If nature could find a way to combine the power of selection with the potential benefits of life experience, we could get much faster and more effective evolution.
My curiosity was soon rewarded with another possible mechanism for smuggling info to the next generation. DNA methylation – the idea is that DNA can host little ‘attachments’ in certain places. These may be temporary, and reversible, but they have now been clearly shown to alter how the DNA expresses itself.
On the face of it, the evidence that DNA expression is environment dependent is rather strong, but the idea that the environment around the DNA coil actually contains consistent and persistent intelligence picked up during our lives is much harder to prove.
And so teams have been beavering away trying to get to the bottom of this, and this week one such group has fresh news for us. A Nature Neuroscience paper has tested the theory in a rather clever way.
They started by teaching some mice a new fact (that a certain smell would be associated with trauma) and then later, tested their kids. Lo and behold the kids whose parents had been taught fared significantly better in the test than untrained, unrelated mice.
This may sound a little trivial, but you must remember that the current ‘popular’ understanding of genes is that they only gain intelligence by surviving – or more precisely they shed stupidity by dying. However, here we are seeing information pass between generations without the need for anyone to die.
Furthermore, because of the carefully selected lesson taught to these mice, the researchers were actually able to see that a specific part of the DNA, while not different in design was nevertheless more active.
Now, I do not know enough about DNA to double-check this claim, but you can rest assured others will – because that’s what journals are for – and in this case the implications are huge.
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Like what, you ask?
Well, off the top of my head, it means that much of what we do between birth and reproduction will affect all our descendents – this undermines the idea that one’s body is one’s own to do with as one pleases.
It also indicates that there is potential for us to deliberately control the expression of our DNA, allowing us to do some genetic engineering without actually changing the DNA sequence.
More importantly, and more controversially, it would mean natural selection would not need to explain all the marvellous diversity we see around us on its own.
It remains to be seen what proportion of our ‘design’ is coded for outside the DNA, or indeed how much this mechanism can improve or speed up evolution, however I for one hope it works out to be right and that mother nature has indeed figured out how to seriously boost the power of selection.
I read some comments on Scientific American today that instantly made my blood boil. Or cavitate at least.
It was an explanation of how tall trees get water right up top. No I never thought about that before either.
Anyhow, anyone who’s drilled a borehole knows you can only suck water up 33 ft before you get a vacuum forming, water boiling and general pumping failure. Hence the need to put a pump at the bottom of a deep borehole.
Now, I had always thought capillary action was what sucked water up plants, handily bypassing this issue, and there, right in the comments, it was asserted that this was a ‘common misconception’…
What, me wrong!? Never!
After the shock, I did what a good scientist is supposed to do, fighting the desire to simply namecall, I watched her darn video.
I remained skeptical. Very skeptical. I again overcame desires to write rude comments in youtube and went a read up on it properly…
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Ok, so it turns out that there is some sort of truth to it: indeed some clever people believe water can be ‘sucked’ to the top of tall trees, which does indeed require negative pressure.
So I ask, why won’t the water boil?
Because, they say, it’s ‘meta-stable’. Like super-cooled water, or superheated water, water can supposed go to ‘tension’ without boiling if only you can prevent that initial bubble forming. Simple!
A little more thinking and internal wrangling, and I slowly conceded it just might be. Yes, ok, negative pressure is not really all that radical, it is essentially tension. It’s common in solids, it’s just the idea that water can be ‘tense’ that is difficult to get one’s head around.
So, the process had begun; I started to consider that maybe I was wrong. It’s not pleasant folks, and I am not trying to beat my own drum, I am sure there are plenty of other times when I’ve failed this test, it was just interesting because here I think I passed it…
Anyway, back to the point. Alas, I then read even more deeply, that though I find myself agreeing that water can indeed be under tension, and that sort of does mean negative pressure, I’ve yet to be convinced that ‘wicking’ it not at least involved in tree sustenance. Anyone who has dropped a dry cloth in water knows the water climbs into the fabric.
Furthermore, if there was negative pressure in the tree’s ‘pipes’ why wouldn’t they collapse?
It took deeper digging, but now all my cognitive dissonance is resolved, and I feel just fine by closing my investigation with this makeshift conclusion: that while trees do suck water up (via transpiration and the pull of surface tension in narrow openings) the pressures needed are not too crazy BECAUSE OF THOSE GOOL OL’ WICKING EFFECTS!!
Yup, I have to conclude that the attraction of the fluid for the xylem walls helps ‘keep the water up’ and thus preventing it from pulling too hard on the water above it.
It turns out this is what many others think [great minds for sure], and some [’nuff respect] took the steps of building a pressure probe small enough to poke into a plant’s pipework. What they found supports my newly cherished (but alas already 120-year-old) Cohesion-Tension theory of tree hydration.
In other words, while wicking (capillary action) is not a sole actor, it is there in a critical supporting role. Aaah that’s better, as you can see I wasn’t totally wrong
PS. On the other hand, negative pressures seem to be a new and reproducible fact for us to worry about!
Ok, if you’re tired of being lectured about your sweet tooth or laziness (or both), and just want the straight dope from an engineer, you’ve come to the right place.
You see, over the next couple of minutes, we’ll see that a human body is not much different to, say, a tractor. It’s a tough machine and just like a tractor has very few needs – a little fuel, a little air and a little water.
Ok, ok, we’re a little more complex, but when push comes to shove, we are pretty similar, let me show you…
Food = Fuel
My wife despairs, but she I must point out that she chose to marry an engineer with hardly any niceties. Yes, ok, food is more than just fuel, it’s one of the joys of life yadda-yadda, but, to the engineer in me food is just a handy Continue reading →
Yet bacteria get around, and indeed are remarkably successful. Same with viruses. So thriving as a species does not require planning, studying, concentration and imagination, all the things we humans are so arrogant about.
And I’m not just talking about surviving, I’m talking about achieving the incredible. Think of the fungi that take control of ants, get them to climb up to a good spot and hunker down so that when the fungus bursts out from the corpse like a slow motion firework (see the picture) it’s got a fair chance of spreading its spores.
Did the fungus plan it? Of course not, the trick ‘evolved’ as the most successful of many different permutations, via, of course the process of natural selection.
So what?
Well, what about humans? We like to think we are the pinnacle of evolution with our big brains and our consciousness and our self-awareness. Our abilities to plan, co-operate and imagine have led us to dominate the planet. Or have they?
Could it be, that just as no ant envisions the design of the anthill, none of us can claim to have masterminded very much? Yes perhaps a building, a harbour or a town’s zoning, but who can claim to have masterminded New York or world trade or democracy?
Surely these ‘real’ achievements are not ours to claim, but should also be laid at the door of the power of evolution, of the unstoppable force of trial and error, of the natural emergence of order from the chaos?
I have been reading some pretty strange stuff about Gravity recently. It seems there are some pretty odd folk out there who have taken thinking about physics to a new, possibly unhealthy, level.
Basically, they are crackpots. Well I guess it’s a slippery slope – one day you wonder why the earth is sucking down on you, the next you decide to spend some time on the knotty question. Soon enough you think you’ve got it, it is clearly that the earth is absorbing space which is constantly rushing down around us dragging us with it. Or similar.
So yes, its true, Einstein did not ‘solve’ Gravity, and there is still fame and fortune to be had in thinking about gravity, so this is the example I shall use today.
The trouble with Gravity is that Einstein’s explanation is just so cool! He explained that mass warps space and that the feeling of being pulled is simply a side effect of being in warped space. It sounds so outlandish, but also so simple, that it has clearly encouraged many ‘interesting’ people to have a crack at doing a better job themselves.
So, as a service to all those wannabe physics icons, I offer today a service, in the form of a checklist – what hoops will your new scientific theory have to jump through to get my attention, and that of the so-called ivory tower elite in the scientific community?
Requirement 1: Your theory needs to be well presented
Yes, it may sound elitist to say, but your documentation/website/paper/video should have good grammar. Yes, yes, one should not use the quality of one’s english to judge the quality of one’s theory, and I know prejudice is hard to overcome, but this is not my point. My point is that in order to understand a complicated thing like a physics theory it needs to be unambiguous. It needs to be clear. It needs to use the same jargon the so called ‘elite’ community uses. Invented acronyms, especially those with your own initials in them, are out.
Requirement 2: Your proposal needs to be respectful
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Again, this is not about making you bow to your superiors in the academic world. Indeed in the case of Gravity, the physics community is one of the most humble out there. While I agree academia is up it’s arse most of the time, this is about convincing the reader that you know your stuff. In order to do that, you need to show that you know ‘their stuff’ too. If you have headings like “Einstein’s Big Mistake” it is a bit like saying to the reader ‘you are all FOOLS!’ and cackling madly. Don’t do it!
Respect also means you need to answer questions ‘properly’. That means clearly, fully, and in the common language of the community. You cannot say “its the responsibility of the community to test your theory”. This is a great way to piss people right off. It is your responsibility to make them want to. This usually means dealing with their doubts head-on, and if you can do that, I promise you they will then want to know more.
Requirement 3: You need to develop credibility
Sorry, as you can see we have yet to consider the actual merit of the theory itself. I wish it were not so, but we are humans first and scientists second. We cannot focus our thoughts on a theory if we doubt the payback. And if you say that aliens came and told you the scientific theory, then people are unlikely to keep listening, unless, perhaps they’re from Hollywood.
But seriously, credibility is the hidden currency of the world, it opens doors, bends ears and gets funds. It takes professionals decades to build and it is really rather naive to waltz into a specialism and expect everyone to drop their tools and listen to you.
That said, the science world is full of incomers, it is not a closed shop as some would you believe. If you follow requirements 1 and 2, and are persistent (and your theory actually holds water) then you are very likely to succeed.
Now this is rather remarkable. Can it really be that you can calculate the speed of light to 9 significant figures from just the earth’s gravitational acceleration and the length of a year? Intuitively I suspect you could (eventually), but then I started to think, well, what if the earth was irregularly shaped? The gravitational constant is actually not all that consistent depending on where you are either. So I checked, then I noticed he said ‘lunar year’. What? Why? What is a lunar year? Then I calculated that the time he used was 354 days, which isn’t even a lunar year. Add to that that he gives the acceleration of gravity on earth to 9-figures despite the fact that nobody knows it that well (like I said it is location dependent). Does he do the same test for other planets? No. Well what if they have no moon!
Requirement 5: The theory needs to be be consistent with well-known observations
Now if your theory has got past requirements 1-4 , well done to you, you will be welcome to join my table any time. Now is when you may need some more help.
Once a theory is consistent with itself, it now needs to agree with what we see around us. It needs to explain apples falling, moons orbiting, light bending and time dilating. This is the hardest part.
It cannot leave any out, or predict something contrary to the facts. It cannot be vague or wishy-washy. It needs the type of certainty we only get from the application of formal logic – and that old chestnut – mathematics.
No you cannot get away without it, there is no substitute for an equation. Equations derived using logic take all the emotion out of a debate. And they set you up perfectly for requirement #5.
Requirement 6: The theory needs to make testable predictions
If your theory has got past the 5 above, very nice job, I hope to meet you one day.
We are all set, we have a hypothesis and we can’t break it. It has been passed to others, some dismiss it, others are not so sure. How do you create consensus?
Simple, make an impressive prediction, and then test that.
Einsteins field equations for example, boldly provide a ‘shape’ of space (spacetime actually) for any given distribution of mass. With that shape in hand you should then be able to predict the path of light beams past stars or galaxies. These equation claimed to replace Newton’s simple inverse square law, but include the effects of time which creates strange effects (like frame dragging), which, importantly could be, and were, tested.
The beauty of these equations, derived via logical inference from how the speed of light seems invariate, and now proven many times, is that they moved physics forward. Rather than asking, ‘what is gravity’, the question is now ‘why does mass warp space’. It’s a better question because answering it will probably have implications far beyond gravity – it will inform cosmology and quantum theory too.
Conclusion
So if you are thinking of sharing with the world at last your immensely important insights, and want to be listened to, please remember my advice when you are famous and put in a good word for me in Stockholm. But please, if, when trying to explain yourself, and are finding it tough, please please consider the possibility that you are just plain wrong…
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Jarrod Hart is a practicing scientist, and wrote this to shamelessly enhance his reputation in case he ever needs to peddle you a strange theory.
Yes, we are pretty awful, and it’s pretty amazing we manage to get through the day. The reason we do is that our brains were not designed to remember long numbers or to calculate square roots, we were designed to …get through the day.
Thus it’s no surprise that we can spot tigers hiding in the shrubbery, and judge someone’s intent from the curl in the corner of their mouth – things computers can’t even dream of!
Amazing Things the Brain Can Do
There are some really remarkable abilities the evolutionary arms race has given us. Consider for a moment how hard it is to teach these skills to a computer:
Theory of mind – our ability to realize that others have motives and intentions and the ability to guess them reasonably well
Inventiveness – our ability to make connections from disparate fields
Much has been said about these skills, and in particular, much value has been placed on theories about our inventiveness – if only we can understand how we invent, we can unleash a torrent of innovation!
The ideas usually run something like this: the human mind is so highly integrated that many concepts are forced to overlay one another so connections are inevitable – while others suggest the mind reviews new learning each night during sleep and tries to spot patterns, suggesting our innovative spark is really just our pattern recognition skill in disguise [1].
While I suspect there is truth to both theories, there is probably more to it than that…
Another Amazing Skill Often Overlooked
Now – if you have ever caught a child being naughty, you may have been lucky enough to see another remarkable human talent…
Lying.
Lying is tricky. Lying requires amazing computation – it needs theory of mind, it requires creativity, and does its invention under pressure.
Lying requires creating an entire alternate reality that fits the evidence but makes you look innocent of all crimes! It’s so hard that young kids don’t always get it quite right, but at some point most of us master the art. Our brains can also be switched to this mode of inventive overdrive in another way: when we attempt to explain incomplete data.
The most common opportunity to fit a narrative to incomplete data is when we recall faded memories – it turns out many of us can bring out our internal Dr. Seuss when recounting our roles in past events.
And because we all like to think of ourselves as pretty darn awesome, our memories cannot contain any information that could contradict this most evident truth. Thus when we recall situations when we did something downright shameful, our brains become positively electrified and we will magic up perfectly good reasons for what we did out of thin air.
Almost everyone can do it. However, if you ask us to write a short bit of utter fiction, our ability instantly vanishes.
Leveraging Brain Power
So the question is this… how can we tap into these remarkable abilities? Do creative people already do it?
To most people, maths is just something we learned in order to avoid being ripped off. To some, maths is an essential tool, helpful in modelling plague outbreaks or cracking encryption ciphers.
However, for an elite few, maths is simply a parallel universe and they are its explorers.
Today let us discuss what I consider perhaps the most beautiful discovery to date. But first, some introductions…
Part 1: Consider, to start, the circle
If you have a wheel a metre across, it will roll out about 3.14159…metres each revolution. This number, which we call π turns out to be some sort of fundamental property of ‘space’.
The Greeks were not very happy about the ‘messiness’ of this number. They preferred numbers that could be expressed as fractions – while 22/7 was close to π, it was not exact and they lost a lot of sleep trying to find a neat way to write π.
Mathematicians have since grudgingly accepted that it cannot be written as a fraction, and indeed it cannot be written down at all because it has no ‘pattern’ and never ends, those digits just keep coming at (almost) random! Here are the first 100…
Understandably, they decided to call this sort of number ‘irrational‘.
Part 2: Consider now, ‘powers’
Mathematicians may work tirelessly on some very pointless looking things, however, they are still fairly lazy when it comes to writing stuff down. They like shorthand. So rather than writing 3+3+3+3+3 they invented ‘multiplication’, giving them 5×3.
Likewise, rather than writing 3x3x3x3x3 they invented ‘powers’, so they could write 35.
Of course they then realized these tricks could be extended past ‘whole’ numbers. 2.5×3 is 7.5. But what about 32.5?
It works of course, the answer turns out to be about 15.59 plus change.
But what does it mean? 32.5 is three, times by itself, 2.5 times! or 3x3x30.5. What on earth is that?
Well it turns out, when you ponder this (maybe I should say, if you ponder this), that 30.5 is the same as √3. So ‘root three’ is three times itself half a time…
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Ok, let’s look at it another way
Consider, for example 32x33, which is the same as (3×3)x(3x3x3) which is the same as 3x3x3x3x3 which is the same as 35 , so 3(2+3).
So using that logic…
3 = 31 = 3(0.5+0.5) = 30.5 x 30.5
And what times itself is equal to 3? Well √3! So 30.5 is √3…
It makes sense now, and we can even get used to saying things like 31.9 x 30.1 = 9.
Of course, these fractional powers also commonly yield those ‘messy numbers’, so abhorred by the Greeks. √3 is, roughly:
1.73205080756887729352744634150587236694280525381038062805580…
The logic follows through for negative numbers. 3-2 is just 1/32 which is 1/9.
Part 3. Now consider ‘e’
y=e^x. The slope is always the same as the value! This has the interesting effect that the tangent to the line always intercepts the y axis precisely 1 unit back…
y=e^x
Here is a third sort of messy number, one which the Greeks are probably glad they missed. We have Leonhard Euler to thank for discovering this one.
He noted there was a number ‘e‘ giving an equation of the form y=ex (see the graphs pictured), where the slope of the curve is the same as the height of the curve at each point.
Strange and pointless sounding perhaps but pretty simple. So y=2x doesn’t work, y=3x doesn’t work, but by trial and error you can find a value for a that works, which is, roughly:
Now solve for x. Seems pretty easy, but really you are cheating. There is no number that solves that equation. Really, to solve it you had to ‘invent’ the concept of a negative number.
Ok. Now consider the equation x2 + 1 = 0
Ah. Trickier! However it turns out that we can do the same trick; this time we simply invent another sort of number – the ‘imaginary’ number. Now if you’ve never heard about these numbers before, you may think I’m joking. Alas I am not. This is what mathematicians have been up to for the last few hundred years, just making stuff up as they go along.
So we define i as √-1, or a number, that when multiplied by itself, yields the more respectable -1.
Aside: Just as -1 is a number which, when multiplied by any negative number renders it decent (i.e. positive) once more.
So i2 + 1 = 0 and the equation is solved. It turns out mathematicians were suddenly able to solve loads of really tedious equations using this trick, which made their entire week.
So we have now got i! At last we are ready to put the puzzle together.
Simplicity emerges from the complex…
So, now I ask, what happens if you raise e to the power of i? What does it even mean? It means, e times itself √-1 times. Ouch. Nonsense surely?
Well it works out at roughly 0.540302306 + 0.841470985 i, which is a right mess, something they call, for fairly self-explanatory reasons, a complex number.
So now lets stick our old friend from the circle, π, in there and see what happens:
What is eiπ?
Surely an even bigger mess? I mean its all these messy irrational numbers combined with this home-made imaginary number…
Today we heard that a group of seismologists have been jailed over the advice they gave prior to the 2009 quake in L’Aquila in Italy which killed over 300 people.
Is this good and right?
Well let’s start by imagining you lived in l’Aquila and a series of tremors had the town worried. A group of experts comes to town, and after a long meeting, come out and declare the risk is miminal. So rather than evacuating, you go home, rest assured, only to lose your family two days later.
I would want blood. I would want to lash out. My family could have been saved!
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So at first glance this judgement may seem like a last sad ripple from a tragic event, however, it isn’t. Upon further reflection, this judgement has serious implications for the relationship between science and the law.
I have always been troubled by how a guilty verdict means ‘you did it’ even if you didn’t, turning ‘beyond a reasonable doubt’ into no doubt at all. I have previously blogged about pragmatism in law, and how you cannot be 80% guilty and thus serve 80% of a sentence.
With such pressures on the law to come to a clear conclusion, it was only a matter of time before a court was asked to decide on whether scientific advice was correct…
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So today, when a court decided that scientists were ‘too reassuring’ to the public, my alarm bells were set ringing and still haven’t stopped.
Armed with the hindsight that an earthquake in fact did occur, it is natural that the families of the victims are appalled by the advice they got. However, in this case it is critical to also put yourself into the shoes of the scientist – in the days before the quake.
They must have honestly doubted a quake would happen. If you had expected a quake you would surely have said so!
In their statements they confirmed a quake was possible but unlikely. So what we have to ask is this: based on the data they had, was that conclusion faulty?
To answer that you only need to ask – do all tremors lead to quakes? Well no, most don’t. So the quake was by no means likely, let alone inevitable. They were not covering up. None in the group was suppressed or censored. I can only conclude that they, after years of chasing tremors, had come to discount the value of tremors as indicators.
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And today, a judge decided that their advice was not only wrong, but criminally wrong.
The problem here is that science is not a PR exercise. If scientists put spin on data, they lose credibility. If they cry wolf, they lose credibility. The only safe way to do science is to stick to the facts. The facts did not indicate an imminent earthquake. The judge does not seem to realise: scientists cannot, and do not claim to be able to, predict earthquakes.
Perhaps the judge should read Taleb’s treatise on rare events, and he’d seen that just because something is unlikely (as the scientists said) does not protect us from the possibility it may still happen.
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So what we have seen today is this: scientists, giving their edified analysis, have been thrown in jail. The mob are satisfied, but you should be distinctly worried. | {
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Pam Tillis — They Don't Break 'em Like They Used To lyrics
You're here in my arms right where you say you wanna be
While across the room I watch the one who set you free
It didn't take me long to mend the heart she tore in two
I guess they just don't break 'em like they used to
I bet she thought that wounded pride of yours would never heal
But you don't have one single scar as far as I can feel
And I see nothing but perfection when I look at you
I guess they just don't break 'em like they used to
They don't break 'em like they used to, darling that's for sure
We're living proof there's nothing that true love can't cure
We put the pieces back together now you're good as new
I guess they just don't break 'em like they used to
All the tears have disappeared without a trace
Makes me think that heartaches don't last as long these days
We put the pieces back together now you're good as new
I guess they just don't break 'em like they used to
They don't break 'em like they used to, darling that's for sure
We're living proof there's nothing that true love can't cure
We put the pieces back together now you're good as new
I guess they just don't break 'em like they used to
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“Slider” Theft, Unsafe PINs and Advance Fee Scams
You’d think we would have exhausted all the variations of the advance fee scam by now. But you’d be wrong.
As we’ve reported many times, this trick involves sending a victim a check as upfront payment for a product or service, with a request that part of the sum should be returned or passed on to a supposed third party who is somehow involved in the deal.
The victim banks the check, wires the sum requested, then learns the check is a dud, and they are out by however much they sent on to the other person, who is, of course the scammer.
In their search for new ruses, the crooks have hit on another idea, targeting artists and hobbyists who offer their work for sale online, especially on social networks.
They may also try the same trick with artists and others who publicly exhibit their work and price it for sale.
Either way, the scammer makes contact by phone or email, expressing interest in the work and offering to buy it, usually as a supposed gift for a special occasion, like a wedding or anniversary.
They turn on the flattery, saying how the piece fits precisely with their taste or the recipient’s tastes.
In some cases, they claim to have consulted an art expert for an opinion, which turned out to be highly favorable.
All this flattery is intended to make victims drop their guard and feel they’ve established a sort of friendship with the buyer, who then sends them the phony check.
Then the crooks use a variety of explanations for the “overpayment,” for example claiming they made a mistake and need a partial refund. Or they may say it’s a fee for a shipper or appraisal expert.
Whatever the explanation, they always, of course, want the sum to be sent electronically, and untraceably, as quickly as possible (that is, before the bank notifies the victim that the check is worthless).
Action: Beware of flatterers! But one simple and familiar rule will defeat this: Don’t wire money to people you don’t know, no matter how plausible they seem.
Beware of Sliders
“Sliders” is the name for a new type of theft at the gas station.
While you’re pumping gas (unless you’re in Oregon or New Jersey where drivers aren’t permitted to pump!), another vehicle slides up alongside yours.
The driver yanks your passenger door open or puts his hand through an open window and grabs whatever valuable you left within reach — usually a purse, wallet or phone.
You might not even see the incident, which takes only seconds, if your back is turned. And the crooks usually ensure their license plates and their own appearance are suitably disguised.
In a more sophisticated trick increasingly seen in parking lots, thieves use a jamming device to block a lock signal from a remote key used by the driver after parking.
Once the owner is out of sight, the crooks simply open the unlocked car door and help themselves to whatever they want.
Action: At the gas station, keep valuables out of sight and reach. Make sure any doors next to empty seats are locked and windows closed.
Even if there’s a passenger in the car, that won’t stop the sliders if they see something worth grabbing on the passenger’s lap or an empty seat.
And if you use a remote device to lock your car, do it while you’re beside the vehicle and check that it’s locked by simply tugging the handle.
What’s Your Number?
PINs (Personal Identification Numbers) add a valuable layer of security to all manner of transactions — most often with the use of debit cards and cash cards at ATMs and store registers.
Most have four numbers which means 10,000 possible combinations (from 0000 to 9,999), which should be more than enough to defeat a crook who’s stolen your card or card number and only has a limited number of guesses at the PIN before he or she is stopped.
That’s the theory. Of course, scammers have all sorts of tricks for finding out what your actual PIN is, using hidden cameras, card readers and just their eyesight to monitor the number you key in.
But even without these, they also have another weapon: the fact that certain numbers are more popular than others.
A recent report by security specialists Data Genetics recently identified the 10 most common, and therefore the most vulnerable PINs — in order of popularity: 1234, 1111, 0000, 1212, 7777, 1004, 2000, 4444, 2222, and 6969.
The company also published a list of the least popular numbers, but since they’ve now made it public, we won’t bother to give them to you because we imagine crooks have now added them to their list of numbers to try first!
Action: If you use one of the top 10 numbers we’ve listed, change your PIN as soon as possible.
If you don’t know how to do this, ask your bank or the card issuer.
Instead, select a number that doesn’t have a sequence or repeated digits.
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It's just unnecessary in a lot of the situations they show in that video. Falling rocks, for instance? Come on, if you're too stupid to watch for shadows in a 3D environment, you should be playing Gameboy.
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Wow, at first I was going to disagree thinking this is traditional telegraphing(where you can tell an npc is about to do a specific attack by his action before hand), but this is extremely past that. The big red boxes are a bit rediculous, and tacky. I like skill and identifying moves from memory, but this hand holding approach is very dumbed down to the point where I can't even possibly think about playing this game now.
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I'm thinking that they can't be using these for every combat move, that would be stupid. It would be ok if it was used sparingly like TSW. Making people move is a nice thing just not for every single combat skill. It did start to look like some dance game after a while...lol.
Also the shapes on the ground were there for quite a while before anything fired off for almost all of those skills...way too easy and dumb. I suppose telegraphing every move would make sense with the crowd they appear to be shooting for indicated by their ultra cartoon art style.
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I actually dont have a problem with it, but it should be only for aoe attacks and that type of thing. I play TSW and some of the critters in there show these. As long as you can dodge or get out the way i dont have a problem.
I think it all comes down to the combat. If its fast paced and they dont have much of a build time for mass damaging abilities, then sure a little warning is nice. I am not saying that they should have it for all abilities just those that do mass damage.
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GW2 has it and last night a few guild mates were nerd raging over this being in dungeons (I think CoF) where they try to avoid the red circles but roll into one that wasn't there before. xD It's apparent some folks will be ok with it and some won't...different tastes I guess. If you don't like it then the game isn't for you, simple as that.
I never understand why some people will complain about a major feature in a game, you either like the features in a game enough to play it, or you don't. No need to spend money on something that is supposed to be entertainment just to complain all the time, yet gamers do. :p
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GW2 has telegraphs, The Secret World has them, and so does TERA. It works well in all those games and GW2 and TERA especially are generally regarded as having quite good combat. I think especially with TERA, despite all the stuff that it's lacking, many would agree that it's combat is one of the best out there and Wildstar seems to be doing something quite similar to TERA.
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Originally posted by snapfusionNon stop dodging in a dungeon raid or even PvP gets real old real fast. Another feature I just found annoying.
I think since Wildstar is following the traditional trinity role system there will be a bit of dodging when necessary but a tank will be there to keep aggro and a healer to keep you alive if you make mistakes. So I think it will be more like TERA than GW2 which I'm excited for. As much as I like GW2, I do prefer the trinity setup because it just works.
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Wildstar just took a radically wrong turn with their combat design. in one stroke, my interest in Wildstar just completely deflated.
this is how you "keep us interested"???!! this is what you call "exciting"!??! this is keeping us from being "bored" ??!! omfg horrendous idea. Wildstar... scrap this idea now. before its too late. put out a press release and call it a bad joke. your combat was already loooking alot of fun and exciting. THIS TRIVIALIZES AND COUNTERACTS ALL THAT FUN YOU ALREADY WERE CREATING!!! terribad just badbadbad
i really liked the blend of aimed attacks and traditional targeting. i also still enjoy the Trinity if its executed by a class system with interesting and flexible classes. but all that wonderful thrilling mix of possibilites gets completely negated and defused and rendered trivial by this completely moronic telegraphic mechanic. it will overshadow and tarnish all of the very awesome vibe that Wildstar was creating.
so gimmicky. instead of paying attention to the monster's animations and sound effects and learning the mechanics and patterns of an encounter. this is so sad. and used in pvp as well. GAH i was sooo excited for this game. now.. theres little chance i will play this.
and i keep hearing people say "dont worry it will get harder as you level up!!" rofl ya.. i bet the Giant Robot Boss will spell out "L A M E" in big red letters all over ground... so sad
You are defnitely not the best of the best of any type of game, simply because the reason of you bitching is telegraphing attacks. I bet you can't dodge anything that is telegraphed, simply because you're tunnel visioned.
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I don't think this is a bad idea, the holy trinity and traditional hot key mechanics is just... boring. Don't get me wrong, I love EQ, WoW, Rift and all those games... for the first ten years!! We playrs tend not to like the changes, especially for something that worked so dame well for such a long time, but at some point they need to put some elements that's more reallistic into their combat system. Like it or not, this "action based combat" trend is happening. Hopfully for the best.
As for the telegraphs... yeah I admit they're just way too easy to get out of. In my opnion they shouldn't show those boxes at all. And if they must have those on screen, just show them exactly the moment when they hit you and not before, plus the boxes should be provided in a much less obvious way. In that case we can learn how to dodge from our experence of previous encounters but not from the stupid visual aid... and you'll still get hit from time to time if you're just not careful enough.
It's a nice move to step out of the industry's comfort zone and try to improve the game's combat. Carbine is a good company, lets hope they can get it right.
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Some typical responses here....
Guy suggests adding an option to turn off the telegraphs for players who don't like it. Idea is immediatly shot down because it's not about what "we" want but whats good for the game? LOL And you know whats good for the game better then everyone else right? An option to disable it is the perfect solution...I happen to think telegraphs are a great idea and will only help them attract more people to the game. I guess I shouldn't expect anything less with the way todays society is...it isn't enough to have your way...you gotta force you way on everyone else as well.
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I like the idea of a telegraph warning rather than having to learn from experience. Learning from experience gets old after your third and fourth death. However, I am disappointed that the game is leaning heavily towards the GW2/Tera action combat. I do enjoy GW2 (still playing it) but the constant dodging is getting REALLY annoying. I am still hopeful on Wildstar so I can live with action combat. However, if they take away the trinity then I say goodbye.
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I have to agree, that is too much. But looking at the combat, it looks pretty much essential. Most of those area attacks were non intuitive and were dropping down all over the place in odd patterns.
I would rather see the start of a spell effect, like rumbling ground, a shadow over my character, wind starting to blow around me, or an obvious animation from the mob rather than those hideous orange signs.
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I'm never playing a MMO that does this again. Quit Rift mostly because of the telegraphing, and what seemed like mechanics that were based around it. GW2 would have been fine without it, but that whole game was for 12 year olds so I don't fault them for it.
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I agree with majority here.. It's bad, silly and bad ! Lets keep these markers only on attacks that will take away like 80% or ALL of your hp in single hit or something. If there are no lethal attacks like that in the game, just get rid of it.
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This is making raids and teaming more complex not easier. Because of telegraphs they can makes attcks more complex. Also telegraphs work with players attacks and support spells. This makes combos more complex and will help players work together in a deepers ways then you will see in most MMO. When you get to the elder game and everyone has been trined to work together and because of this raids willo be smoother and developers wont need to hold back for fear not everyone will get how mob and players skills work. This is a good thing!!!
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Some typical responses here....
Guy suggests adding an option to turn off the telegraphs for players who don't like it. Idea is immediatly shot down because it's not about what "we" want but whats good for the game? LOL And you know whats good for the game better then everyone else right? An option to disable it is the perfect solution...I happen to think telegraphs are a great idea and will only help them attract more people to the game. I guess I shouldn't expect anything less with the way todays society is...it isn't enough to have your way...you gotta force you way on everyone else as well.
Remember that guy in your raid that always stood in the fire? Turnig off telegraphs for the few that hate it would make you that twit the stands in the fire. Wildstar has really stepped up the types and styles of attacks and how they interact with eachother. Turning off telepraphs would not only make this game to hard but you will look like the worst MMOer on the server. Telegraphs in this game are not like you have seen before. They are here to make the game harder not easy. | {
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Canada today: Day 12
By BOB MACKIN, Special to QMI Agency
Canada's Adam van Koeverden reacts after competing in the men's kayak single (K1) 1000m heat at the Eton Dorney during the London 2012 Olympic Games August 6, 2012. REUTERS/Darren Whiteside
LONDON - Big at the Games
On the basketball court, it’s quarter-finals time and the U.S. meets Australia. The men from Down Under, coached by American Brett Brown (an assistant with the San Antonio Spurs), dealt Russia an 82-80 loss to advance to the knockout round. The Aussie point guard is Spur Patrick Mills. At Horse Guards Arena, women’s beach volleyball wraps up with the medal round.
Big for Canada
Adam van Koeverden of Oakville, Ont., races for gold in the men’s 1,000M kayak final at Eton Dorney. Thirty-year-old Van Koeverden, Canada’s Beijing 2008 opening ceremony flagbearer, won gold (500M) and bronze (1,000M) at Athens 2004 and silver (500M) in Beijing 2008. Later at Eton Dorney, Mark Oldershaw of Burlington, Ont., is in the canoe single 1,000M final, carrying on a family tradition. His grandfather Bert Oldershaw competed at London 1948, father Scott (his coach) was in Los Angeles 1984, unclea Dean at Munich 1972 and Montreal 1976 and uncle Reed at Montreal 1976.
Elsewhere
At the Olympic Stadium, Sultana Frizell of Kamloops and Heather Steacy of Lethbridge, Alta., seek to qualify in the women’s hammer throw. Curtis Moss of Burnaby, B.C. is in men’s javelin qualifying.
Melissa Bishop of Eganville, Ont., is in the women’s 800M first round. Hilary Stellingwerff of Victoria and Nicole Sifuentes of Winnipeg are entered in the women’s 1,500 m semi-final.
The men’s 200M semi-finals include Jared Connaughton of New Haven, P.E.I., and Aaron Brown of Toronto race, but Brown has the honour of being in the same heat as Jamaican superstar sprinter Usain Bolt.
Damian Warner of London, Ont., performs the first five events of the men’s decathlon: 100M, 400M, shot put, long jump and high jump.
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Four years ago today, on Aug. 8, 2008, the Beijing Olympics opened in grand style at the Bird’s Nest Stadium. Canada ended those Games with 18 medals (three gold, nine silver and six bronze). China had the most gold (51) and the U.S. the most medals overall (110). | {
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This Sunday June 9th(Sunday 10 AM Eastern Time, 7AM Pacific Time in North America, 3pm London Time and 4pm Paris Time), our Sangha will welcome new novice priests through the ritual of 'Shukke Tokudo' Homeleaving Ordination.
As is typical of our Sangha, the ceremony will be conducted simultaneously in four places around the world ... dropping all thought of here and there, now and then ... with the Preceptor (Jundo) in Japan, and our Ordainees, Kyonin Barros in Mexico, Shokai Maxwell in Canada and Yugen Kemos in the United States.
If you would like to witness the ceremony, and join in our celebration, the netcast will be seen at this link ...
The ceremony will be about an hour or so. So far, Shingen (Michael) has agreed to join us on Google+ "as a witness, and we have room for 3 additional folks who have webcams and know how to join a Google+ Hangout. If you can commit to being there, and are already familiar with Google+, please post below. While everyone else will watch "one way" at the link above, Shingen and the others will be representing the warm hearts of everyone witnessing the ceremony from home.
If you cannot join us live, FEAR NOT, as the entire event will be recorded and shared with everyone at the above link for all to witness later.
Thank you to all in our Sangha for joining us in this time of celebration.
If you would like to read a bit more about the meaning of Shukke Tokudo Homeleaving as a Novice-Priest here at Treeleaf, please look here ...
My Brother Kyonin is right. This is a very special time for us - I am nothing but the recipient of the grace, and opportunity, that you all have created by practicing here. This opportunity is something to be cherished, nourished, and recognized for its renewal, day by day. I shall do my very best to be worthy of your practice.
We celebrate what you all have created here.
Thank you.
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Please take all my comments with a grain of salt - I am a novice priest and anything I say is to be taken with a good dose of skepticism - Shodo Yugen
All life is change, and that has certainly been so here at Treeleaf. This is the first post I saw upon checking in after a regrettably long hiatus. I am pleased to see and congratulate some familiar old friends on this wonderful occasion.
Excellent. and hello to all again.
~Hogo.
"All things are fresh and New"... How Beautiful.. The sincerity of Kyonin, Shokai, and Yugen was very clear. I have witnessed ordinations under the late Daido Loori Roshi before, and there is no difference in the emotions the ceremony elicits, be it in a physical monastery or here in this space-less space that Reverends Jundo and Taigu have been kind and wise enough to offer us. I am deeply moved.
Congratulations again to Kyonin, Shokai, and Yugen; may you carry this great way forward with pure and humble hearts. From what I have seen of you all in my short time here I have no reason to doubt that you will. I look forward to continuing along the way with you all in your new roles as Treeleaf Unsui.
Congratulations Kyonin, Yugen and Shokai and thank you for your commitment to the Dharma.
Gassho, Jakudo.
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Bourbon History
Maysville and Paducah are two river towns on the Ohio River that are rich in Bourbon History. Both are beginning to use that heritage to attract more tourism and both have some exciting plans on the table. I thought I would look at each town’s heritage and what they can do to attract more Bourbon tourism. Both towns have decent Bourbon bars and nice restaurants but there can never be too many of either. A growing tourism business would encourage the growth in the food and beverage selection. It would help the local economy as well as promote Bourbon.
I will start with Maysville. They have a rich heritage that includes the legend that it was whiskey shipped out of Limestone, the early name for Maysville, which gave Bourbon its name. I have my doubts about the legend, but they were definitely a major port of trade out of frontier Kentucky. The town is filled with beautiful old store fronts and it would be nice to see them create a museum based upon that early trade and river life. Look at life on a flatboat and the dangers of river pirates and other threats to the traders. Bourbon would play a major role in this presentation. There could be exhibits of the early distillers from the area that includes all of old Bourbon County.
Maysville does have a rich heritage in the Pogue family as well. The Old Pogue distillery is in Maysville but it is not a very easy distillery to visit. It is high on the bluff overlooking the river with limited parking space and visitor space. It would be difficult to get a bus load of tourists into the distillery. Tours are by appointment only so as to keep John Pogue from being overwhelmed. With that said that is part of the charm of the distillery. It is a small operation making about a barrel a week but John is a very talented distiller making great whiskey. The Pogue family have a long history of making Bourbon in Maysville and even have letters dealing with George Remus during prohibition. It would be nice if Maysville had an exhibit in town for tourists to visit as they are waiting on their appointment to visit the distillery.
At the other end of the Ohio River is Paducah. Founded by William Clark of Lewis and Clark fame in the early 19th century it too was an important port of call along the Ohio. A charming river town with some great old storefronts along the river, Paducah has a rich heritage in Bourbon. It was an important river port that saw a lot of steamboats carrying Bourbon from all over the state to markets in the west and south. The town had an influx of Jewish settlers in the last half of the 19th century and many of them entered the Bourbon trade. This includes I.W. and Bernard Bernheim amongst many others. It would be nice to see a small museum that would focus on the Jewish tradesmen that included the whiskey men and the brands they created.
Paducah is also the logical place to stay when visiting the growing craft distilleries in Western Kentucky. It would be good to have plenty of maps to these distilleries and maybe even a tour company focusing on taking people to these rural location. The city has a thriving Paducah Bourbon Society so there is local interest in Bourbon and Bourbon tourism. The craft distilling side of tourism will continue to grow and the town should take advantage of that growth in their part of the state.
Maysville and Paducah are two great river towns in Kentucky. They are working to promote themselves in the growing tourism business in Kentucky and have made great strides over the past decade to do so. Bourbon can help them do so. I have offered some suggestions here but I am sure that there are many other ideas that can be brought to fruition with some effort and investment. They are already wonderful places to visit and will be even better in the future. | {
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The Dynamics of Social Practice: Everyday Life and how it Changes
Everyday life is defined and characterised by the rise, transformation and fall of social practices. Using terminology that is both accessible and sophisticated, this essential book guides the reader through a multi-level analysis of this dynamic.
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Healthy Communities Coalition Stand Tall groups from every high school in Lyon, Storey and Mineral counties will gather for a winter leadership training at Fernley High School on Feb. 23.
Churchill County's Stand Tall group will also participate in the training, where the teens will learn ways to promote a sober and healthy lifestyle among their peers and in their communities, and learn more about new trends in prescription, alcohol and illegal drug use and how to bring a message of prevention to their schools and towns.
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The knowledge-based economy we live in today demands a strategy of lifelong learning and knowledge development. Lifelong learning has become the single most important driver of success, and with it the driving force behind innovation. This makes the issue of learning and skills, as it relates to transformational adaptability, the most business-critical factor of our times.
Education is no longer an isolated event, but a lifelong learning opportunity. How can we optimize our efforts to continuously build on and develop our knowledge and talents? At EdTech Sweden 2017, we will bring focus to the structures, technologies and formats that enable lifelong learning while highlighting the major players in edtech today. We have chosen to divide the day into four areas all addressing different topics related to The Learning Economy:
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Toyota Motor Europe Hybrid sales keep rising, up 16% year-on-year
This brings the January-September total sales to 662,000 units and the group’s market share to 4.7% for the nine-month period.
Hybrid sales represent 23% of the total sales, up from 20% versus the same period last year. Toyota Motor Europe (TME) sales results were driven mainly by the increase of sales in Western Europe (+9%) and Central Europe (+10%). Toyota and Lexus combined market share in Eastern Europe (Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Caucasus) increased by 0.1 % points year-on-year to 7.8% in a decreasing market (-35%).
Sales of Toyota and Lexus hybrid models reached 152,000 units during the same period, making up to almost one quarter of the total sales for the whole Europe, and one third of sales in Western Europe. The progression of hybrid sales for both brands for the first nine months of the year stands at 16% year-on-year, confirming the popularity of the alternative powertrain on the European market. Toyota and Lexus hybrid sales, which stood at 70,000 in 2010, will surpass 200,000 units this year.
Karl Schlicht, Executive Vice-President of TME, said: "From where we stand, we clearly see that European customers are more and more convinced by the benefits of hybrid, and with eight Toyota and eight Lexus hybrid models soon to be in our range, covering around 60% of the market segments, we are well placed to meet customer needs. We just achieved the milestone of 1 million hybrid vehicles sold in Europe and 8 million worldwide."
Hybrid Highlights
Sales of Toyota and Lexus Hybrid models reached 152,000 units for the nine months of the year, a 16% increase versus last year. Hybrid sales represent 23% of total TME sales, up from 20% versus the same period last year, confirming the ever strengthening customer interest and confidence in our hybrid technology. The Toyota Yaris Hybrid is extremely popular, with a 25% increase in sales versus the first nine months of 2014 to 53,000 units, with over one Yaris out of three sold in Europe being a hybrid.
Toyota Motor Manufacturing France (TMMF) just produced its 200,000th Yaris hybrid vehicle earlier this month. Yaris Hybrid production represents nearly 40% of the total Yaris production, up from the initial 25% in April 2012 when Toyota’s plant in the north of France began hybrid production of the Yaris. The launch in Europe of the first mass produced fuel cell vehicle powered by hydrogen, the Toyota Mirai, in Germany, UK and Denmark in 2015 followed by Belgium in H1 2016, is complementing our strategy towards future clean mobility, initiated 18 years ago with the launch of the Toyota Prius Hybrid.
Toyota Highlights
The new AYGO keeps performing extremely well, with sales reaching 69,000 units for the first nine months of the year, representing a 33% increase versus last year. Sales of the Toyota Yaris increased by 12% to 152,600 units with the strong performance of the Yaris Hybrid, which registered its best sales month in September , reaching 53,000 units in the first 9 months of the year. The new Auris and Avensis that have just launched across Europe are showing a positive sales start, and will contribute to our annual sales in the remainder of the year. | {
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High-end Camera Series ImageIR®
At the Hannover Fair Industry 2009, the thermography expert InfraTec GmbH from Dresden presented its newly developed high-end camera series ImageIR® with its outstanding metrological performance data and its unheard-of compactness and variability. The new ImageIR® thermography systems have been designed for high-demanding applications in the field of R&D, for non-destructive material testing as well as for process control. They have been designed as a modular basic system enabling comfortable adjustment to the respective application.
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Default Lines and Darker Asphalt
You dislike the color of the default asphalt of ETS2 and/or the short traffic lines used in the ProMods map? No problem! This mods replaces the traffic lines of every map to its default one. Also, the main asphalt was darkened a little bit.Works with everything, make sure to load this mod ALWAYS AT LAST. | {
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The following is how checkAccess does:
1. For each assigned auth item of the user, it first checks if the bizRule for the assignment returns true.
2. If true, it calls the item's checkAccess method. If the item's bizRule returns true,
2.1. If the item name is the same as the name passed in the original checkAccess() method, it returns true;
2.2. Otherwise, for every child item, it calls its checkAccess.
mydarkpassenger, on 01 March 2011 - 10:38 AM, said:
updateObject works, it's just the biz rule that doesn't. The config file is correct as well. The problem is just limited to the updateOwnObject task. | {
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This Thunderbolt™ 3 (20Gbps) cable lets you connect to any Thunderbolt 3 port (USB-C™) to deliver video and data to your Thunderbolt, USB, and DisplayPort devices. Plus, the cable can provide power for charging your devices, and you can link up to six Thunderbolt 3 devices as part of a daisy-chained connection.
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Friday, April 1, 2011
Jay Steele & Nashville Chamber: Keep Your Hands Off Our Kids
Metro Nashville Schools have been swept up in yet another contentious battle, this one over the firing of a beloved teacher (technically she is being fired from a program she started and ran for nearly 30 years, not fired from Metro. She’s to be moved to another school). For my non-Nashville readers, go to the link and brush up on the controversy.
The removal of Mary Catherine Bradshaw is a political not performance-based move. She appears to have stood in the way of our corporate overlords a shiny-sparkly new education philosophy:
Her firing from the program comes at a time when new Metro schools associate superintendent Jay Steele is restructuring the district's high schools into a collection of "career academies," a hand-in-glove enterprise with the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce to funnel students into high-demand career tracks like information technology.
If the name Jay Steele sounds familiar it’s because I wrote about another of his “pet projects” last April:
Naming rights to academic programs in Metro Nashville's high schools are for sale, and one school has a buyer.
The Tennessee Credit Union now owns the signage to Antioch High School's academy of business and finance for a price of $150,000. The school board approved the two-year contract Tuesday night.
Administrators hope this is the first of many naming deals. It's the brainchild of Metro's new high school czar, Jay Steele, who had success with the idea as an administrator in Florida.
"It's not marketing to kids," Steele told The Tennessean in December. "It's tight guidelines that would align a targeted industry with a theme."
Tight guidelines that align a targeted industry with a theme! Just what Nashville’s schools need!
WTF does that even mean? It sounds like business school clap-trap to me. It seems Jay Steele is hell bent on turning our city’s youth into fodder for the jaws of commerce, and I guess we’re supposed to cheer along and marvel at what a great start in life our youth are getting, what great business skills they’re learning and how they will be wonderful worker bees for the corporatocracy. Is that it? Forgive me if I’m wrong here, but was there a problem of some kind I’m unaware of? Were businesses not choosing to locate in Nashville because our kids are dumb?
Look, I get that we need to educate our kids so they can go to college and get jobs; I get that we need to start them off in life on the right foot. I even applaud the idea of offering classes that educate kids for high-demand fields. But for crying out loud this Chamber of Commerce crap has got to stop. Y’all can just wait in line before you get your greedy paws on ‘em, okay? Let them be kids for a little while.
This is dehumanization, plain and simple. It’s telling our kids their value is only in their earning power. They aren’t human beings, they’re human doings. The message is: You’re not valuable to our community because you’re alive, because you’re a child of God and a member of the human family, because when we see you and your friends we’re reminded that there’s another generation coming behind us. You’re valuable because you have potential earning power, someday you too can fight and claw your way up to being an independent contractor with no benefits and a crappy credit score. And someday you can look forward to an exciting retirement, maybe when you’re 75, whereafter you can spend your days on your feet as a WalMart greeter.
This is a really hard concept to articulate and so many others have done it so much better. I just think commerce is a corrupting influence that does not belong in our schools. Anywhere. So to the Nashville Chamber of Commerce: wait your fucking turn. You can have our kids when we’re ready to give them to you. Right now, they belong to us.
And to Jay Steele, look: I know this is a radical idea for some of you young whippersnappers raised in a post-Reagan age, but I don’t happen to think that capitalism is the cure for every problem.
Like a single species taking over an ecosystem, like an elephant on a see-saw, the problem today is disequilibrium. Why is every Crisis in American Education cast as an economic threat and never a civic one? In part, because we don’t have the language for it. Our focus is on the usual economic indicators. There are no corresponding “civic indicators,” no generally agreed-upon warning signs of political vulnerability, even though the inability of more than two thirds of our college graduates to read a text and draw rational inferences could be seen as the political equivalent of runaway inflation or soaring unemployment.
Of course, as I wrote at the time we do have those civic indicators: low voter turnout being a major one.
Slouka’s point was that an emphasis on math and science education at the expense of the humanities is a great way to create worker bees to feed the machinery of capitalism, and also a great way to starve the nation of critical thinking skills and knowledge which breeds dissent. It also devalues art, music, literature and the entire cultural spectrum of things which make life worth living.
It’s hard not to see capitalism’s creep into our schools, and watch as teachers are being devalued at every step, and then read about efforts to roll back child labor laws around the country and not wonder if there’s a connection. | {
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Kielder Art & Architecture
Over the past 25 years, the landscape around Kielder Water & Forest Park has become home to a unique collection of visual art and architecture, inspiring the creation of work in response to the scale and complexity of its unique environment and the area's varied and fascinating history.
Many people visit the park for this open-air art experience, located at sites around the lake, in the forest, and within Northumberland National Park. It's an ideal location, close to Hadrian's Wall and other Northumberland attractions
You might choose to visit the award winning futuristic shelter ‘Kielder Belvedere’ by Softroom Architects; experience James Turrell’s light sculpture ‘Kielder Skyspace’; discover the story of Freya and Robin in Studio Weave’s ‘Freya’s Cabin’; or contemplate the play of water on the waves in Chris Drury’s ‘Wave Chamber’. There are many other varied works of art and architecture with their own stories to tell such as Fiona Curran’s ‘The grass seemed darker than ever’ , an artistic response to the history of Kielder Castle and ‘Bakethin Hide’, a new wildlife watching space at Bakethin delivered in collaboration with Newcastle University’s School of Architecture as part our Testing Ground programme.
Most pieces are fully accessible to visitors and along the Lakeside Way there is the opportunity to explore many of these contemporary works, including the three large rotating Janus Chairs and the ever-popular Silvas Capitalis, also known as the 'giant forest head'! Purchase a copy of the Trails Guide from any visitor centre or download it here to find out how to get to each art piece and make the most of your experience.
Kielder Art & Architecture
Overview
Over the past 25 years, the landscape around Kielder Water & Forest Park has become home to a unique collection of visual art and architecture, inspiring the creation of work in response to the scale and complexity of its unique environment and the area's varied and fascinating history.
Many people visit the park for this open-air art experience, located at sites around the lake, in the forest, and within Northumberland National Park. It's an ideal location, close to Hadrian's Wall and other Northumberland attractions
You might choose to visit the award winning futuristic shelter ‘Kielder Belvedere’ by Softroom Architects; experience James Turrell’s light sculpture ‘Kielder Skyspace’; discover the story of Freya and Robin in Studio Weave’s ‘Freya’s Cabin’; or contemplate the play of water on the waves in Chris Drury’s ‘Wave Chamber’. There are many other varied works of art and architecture with their own stories to tell such as Fiona Curran’s ‘The grass seemed darker than ever’ , an artistic response to the history of Kielder Castle and ‘Bakethin Hide’, a new wildlife watching space at Bakethin delivered in collaboration with Newcastle University’s School of Architecture as part our Testing Ground programme.
Most pieces are fully accessible to visitors and along the Lakeside Way there is the opportunity to explore many of these contemporary works, including the three large rotating Janus Chairs and the ever-popular Silvas Capitalis, also known as the 'giant forest head'! Purchase a copy of the Trails Guide from any visitor centre or download it here to find out how to get to each art piece and make the most of your experience. | {
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PSP Homebrew - Xmb Multi Customizer for Windows
XMB Multi Customizer is a homebrew app for all the PSP owners out there who love tinkering with their XMB themes. The app itself has a pretty intuitive GUI and allows for a wide range of customization options for the XMB.
The developer, Takeshi, has released an update for XMB Multi Customizer that gives it support for Dark AleX's custom firmware 5.00 M33. That's the only thing added in this release. Oh, note that this app is for Windows only. | {
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from the passing-the-buck dept.
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Defining Elections And Democracy, From China To Italy
There is no set recipe for democracy. Still, we can agree that the ingredients must include basic guarantees of free speech and free elections: If you don’t have the right to speak out against those in charge — and eventually vote them out of power — you are living under some form of rule that cannot be called democratic.
Over the past 48 hours, China, the world’s largest autocracy, has inadvertently reminded us what a democracy is. It is true that few have considered the country anything approaching democratic since the 1949 revolution that brought on Mao Zedong’s decades of brutal dictatorship. But the decision in the early 1980s, by then Chinese Communist Party Chairman Deng Xiaoping, to set a limit on the presidency of two five-year terms has at least given some semblance of renewal. On Sunday, that was swept away by the current leader, as Xi Jinping has moved to extend his rule beyond 2023, effectively giving him the right to rule indefinitely.
That other component in any would-be democracy, free speech, is a bit harder for the powers-that-be in Beijing to control. The BBC has noted that the decision to end term limits set off rounds of criticism on China’s social media site Sina Weibo. Not surprisingly the censors quickly stepped in, banning such basic phrases as “I don't agree,” “election term,” and “proclaiming oneself an emperor.”
A sprinkling of free speech does not change the fundamental flavor of an autocratic regime.
Meanwhile in China’s grayest area of democracy, the former British colony of Hong Kong, the prominent daily newspaper, The South China Morning Post, went ahead on Tuesday with a front-page article, raising major questions about Xi’s decision. The daily quoted Yanmei Xie, a China policy analyst with consultancy firm Gavekal Dragonomics, who blamed current problems on “Xi’s concentration of power at the top level: where the person making policy is increasingly insulated from criticism or feedback, leading to bad decisions and poor results.”
An interesting exception to prove the rule, for a sprinkling of free speech does not change the fundamental flavor of an autocratic regime.
Meanwhile, in countries that pride themselves on guaranteeing free speech and free elections, there are other kinds of risks. Ahead of national elections in Italy on Sunday, we are reminded that people saying what’s on their minds, and politicians looking to unseat those in power, is not in itself always a good thing.
The increasingly popular leader of the Northern League, Matteo Salvini, has made anti-immigrant rhetoric the centerpiece of his campaign, and Milan-based Corriere della Sera daily reports on at least one of the consequences. A mother of two adopted children wrote a bitter Facebook message to the candidate: “Dear Salvini, I am a mother of two splendid adopted African children … I wanted to thank you for the gift you’ve given to my children of moments of terror quite out of the ordinary.” The 49-year-old mother says that her daughter now cries at night with the fear that if Salvini wins, she will be sent back to Africa, while her son has recently been subjected to virulent racist insults from his soccer teammates.
One of the great weaknesses of a democracy is that bad people can wind up in charge. The only antidote, of course, is that same democracy that guarantees they won’t stay there forever. | {
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It Follows
London Film Festival: David Robert Mitchell offers us his twist on the slasher film and it's a ripper
David Robert Mitchell continues his visually arresting exploration of teen life with a horror film that recalls John Carpenter’s Halloween but puts its own unique spin on the slasher film. The same leafy streets of suburban Michigan in which Mitchell shot his first feature, The Myth of the American Sleepover, take on a nightmarish quality here, intensified by a throbbing synth score from Rich Vreeland.
When Jay (Maika Monroe, who turns in a deeply affecting performance) hooks up with a new lover her whole life is turned upside down as he reveals, in a rather nasty manner, that he has infected her with a curse that could possibly kill her.
From the very start, when a panic-stricken teenager flees the supposed safety of her family home - running in her nightwear from an invisible enemy – an unsettling ambience is established, which proceeds to trickle down through every fibre of this film. Whether Jay is swimming in her pool at home whilst boys peer over the garden hedge at her, or queuing up to see Charade at her local cinema a quietly sinister presence looms.
That Mitchell lingers in the company of these teenagers recalls the lyricism of his first feature, but this time instead of the heady delights of a first kiss, the consequence of sexual encounters proves menacing to their minds. The sexually transmitted monster manifests itself as a shape-shifter, determinedly stalking its prey in the same terrifying manner as Michael Myers.
Though sex forms the start of their fearful journey it is also revealed as a potential saviour, which further confirms Mitchell’s modern and mature approach to the subject. Skilful experimental camera work draws the viewer enticingly in, and often proves disorientating, while the supporting cast of Keir Gilchrist, Olivia Luccardi and Lili Sepe are all excellent too.
It Follows is suspenseful, atmospheric and spine-tingling horror cinema which nods at the masters and completely astounds as it manages the tough feat of being striking, sensitive and utterly disturbing.Screened on Sat 11 Oct and Mon 13 Oct as part of the London Film Festival 2014. General release TBC.
It Follows | Official Trailer 2
Jay (Monroe) is a Michigan teenager whose lover reveals that he's infected her with a potentially deadly curse. Sensitive, visually arresting and utterly disturbing horror about the possible consequences of a sexual encounter, with a deeply affecting performance from Monroe and an excellent supporting cast. | {
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Comodo Vs Kaspersky 2020 | Independent Tests Reviewed
(Last updated on February 22nd, 2020)
Comodo or Kaspersky, which antivirus software is a better option in 2020?
Read this comprehensive Comodo versus Kaspersky comparison to make a wise decision.
Just like the real world, the digital world has its dark side. You can’t put your guard down if you want to be safe in unfamiliar territory. The thing about the virtual space is that you probably won’t even know unless you have already been harmed. Unless of course, you have your guards up in the form of excellent antivirus software.
If you want to browse the web and conduct online business safely, antivirus software is no longer just an option for you. It is necessary. Or as Kevin Mitnick would put it, “It is a must.”
Malware attacks are only increasing in frequency and intensity. In 2018, for instance, 10 billion malware attacks were registered. In the US, 8 million computers were infected as a result of those attacks. So without decent antivirus protection, pretty much the only defense you have is luck, and we know that that can’t last forever, don’t we?
But tempting as it may seem to download a free antivirus immediately, you have to hold your horses. A freemium is nothing more than a ghost of an actual functioning antivirus software. It is ill-equipped to protect you against the fast-emerging sophisticated malware threats. Of which, by the way, 350,000 new samples are registered every day by the AV-TEST Institute.
So, what’s the solution? A paid premium antivirus software is your best bet to guarantee decent protection on multiple levels against malware, ransomware, dark web spying, unauthorized use of financial information, and more. You do, however, have the choice to get the antivirus service that best suits your interests and gives you greater bang for your buck. Above all, it should guarantee your peace of mind.
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Here, we have prepared a detailed comparison between two of the top antivirus companies: Comodo and Kaspersky. We’ll explain where each company excels and help you to decide which antivirus software is more worth your time and money.
In a rush? Check out this quick rundown which breaks down the battle into each category to show you who wins according to what measurement.
A Quick Rundown of Winners in Each Category
1. FeaturesWinner: Kaspersky. Kaspersky offers a much better range of functional characteristics compared to Comodo, including a compelling suite of parental controls.
2. Malware ProtectionWinner: Kaspersky. While they tied on one independent evaluation, Comodo wasn’t available for the second, leaving Kaspersky as the winner.
3. System PerformanceWinner: Kaspersky. Once again, Comodo abstained from taking up one of the evaluations, while Kaspersky won the other assessment.
4. User-FriendlinessWinner: Comodo. Both companies have a simplistic interface for their software, but Kaspersky’s interface has the annoying design with grayed-out options in a bid to get you to upgrade. So Comodo wins this category.
5. PricingWinner: Kaspersky. Kaspersky offers the same numbers of licenses as Comodo for less money, standing out as the better choice in terms of value for money.
6. Customer SatisfactionWinner: Kaspersky. Neither company is particularly capable in this area, as both of their customer satisfaction ratings are low. Although Kaspersky did show a little better score from the second source, which was neither tremendous nor worst.
Short Verdict
Kaspersky is the overall winner as it offers more security-enhancing features and utilities in its security products than Comodo. Also, independent tests show that Comodo is better than Kaspersky in terms of both malware detection and system performance.
Our recommendations: If you want to get the highest level of security and performance, there's no better choice than Bitdefender, which protects over 500 million devices worldwide. We have reviewed, ranked, and rated all the best antivirus software products out there, and we think that Bitdefender Total Security 2020 (currently at 50% off) is the best antivirus package you can buy right now. You can protect up to five devices (PCs, Macs, or smartphones) with just a single subscription of this suite. If you need protection for more than five devices, Bitdefender Family Pack 2020 is the best option for you. Looking for Mac-specific protection? Check out Bitdefender Antivirus for Mac for complete peace of mind.
1. Features
The antivirus software that offers the best features at each tier of coverage is naturally going to be the preferred choice. So, let’s see what both Comodo and Kaspersky bring to the table with their range of features.
Let’s start with Comodo.
Comodo’s first software is free, called Comodo Free Antivirus. Although its firewall isn’t too great, it does have a few useful features such as an anti-rootkit function, an automatic sand feature, and bot protection. Overall, though, this software isn’t competent enough and doesn’t carry advanced features of the paid versions.
Comodo Advanced Antivirus is the first paid service from the company. The product provides comprehensive protection against all types of malware, including live expert virus removal service. This utility enables you to enlist the services of a trained professional to help remove malware from your computer.
There’s also a designated gamer mode that lets you suspend any pop-ups or notification so you can fully engage in your gaming or cinematic experiences. This version of Comodo’s software also stops any untested or unapproved files from entering your computer without your express approval.
Next up is Comodo Internet Security Pro. This software has everything included with Advanced Antivirus as well as unlimited product support for the entirety of the software’s lifetime. There’s also a $500 virus-free guarantee for you that covers up to $500 worth of malware damage so long as your computer is under the protection of their software. This amount is often enough to cover the cost of a new computer.
Internet Security Pro further comes with a secure shopping feature that allows you to bank or trade securely without risking identity or credit theft.
Then we have Comodo Internet Security Complete. This product comes with everything included with Internet Security Pro, but you also get access to 500 GB of online data storage. This utility will allow you to store any sensitive files off your computer, away from where malware can infect them. Moreover, you get 10 GB of Wi-Fi security from TrustConnect, allowing you to secure a network away from home, such as a hotspot in a café.
Comodo Antivirus for Mac is the solution for users of Apple products. This is a free product that uses a firewall to guard your device against different kinds of malware. In addition, there’s a one-click scanning feature and a scheduler that lets you take control of the scheduling routine for scans or malware checks.
Now, let’s take a look at what Kaspersky has in comparison.
Kaspersky Free is the company’s free antivirus software. This version uses a pretty barebones firewall that doesn’t protect you from much in terms of malware or viruses. It’s better than nothing, though, as it does protect you against phishing websites and offer the capability to scan USB drives for malware. But that’s about it.
Kaspersky Anti-Virus is the first paid coverage for PCs. You get top-notch protection against all kinds of digital threats as well as multi-layered ransomware protection. In addition to that, a vulnerability scanner checks your computer for potential security risks like outdated software.
There’s also a silent mode option that lets you suspend notifications while gaming or watching a movie, much like the Gamer mode offered by Comodo.
Kaspersky Internet Security is the next step up. This version applies to PCs, Macs, or mobile devices. You get everything from the earlier package as well as a two-way firewall and a hardened Internet browser. This browser lets you surf the web or shop online with complete peace of mind.
You also get access to an antispam module that operates a lot like an ad blocker for your email. This feature will guard you against spam or junk email. The package also offers protection against webcam spying and a limited-use VPN that lets you access otherwise unavailable region-specific content.
Kaspersky Total Security is the highest tier of protection offered by Kaspersky. You get everything included with Internet Security, plus some more advanced features like a password manager and a file shredder. This file shredder is, basically, a permanent delete function that completely erases any sensitive files that you don’t want leaking out accidentally or stolen.
Furthermore, you get to use a backup utility, allowing 2GB of data storage on a Dropbox Cloud at no extra charge. Total Security also comes with an extensive suite of parental controls to prevent your kids from accessing unsolicited content.
For a new exciting software suite, there’s Kaspersky Security Cloud. This product has everything that comes with the Total Security package. But it makes use of the innovative “adaptive technology” that applies all of the settings necessary for maximum protection based on your most common activities and Internet browsing habits. Primarily, it optimizes your security settings based on what it believes you need. It comes in two versions: Personal or Family.
There’s also a selection of business security solutions from Kaspersky. You can check those out right here.
Winner: Kaspersky. Comodo has some excellent features, but Kaspersky offers more functionality in its features that is of more benefit to most people. Kaspersky’s suite of parental controls is an excellent utility that adds tremendous value.
2. Malware Protection
Any premium antivirus worth its cost should be able to protect your computer in the face of daily emerging malware and hacking technologies. To determine which antivirus software is better at providing top-drawer protection, we are going to look at unbiased tests from independent organizations and find out their respective competences.
AV-test.org is one such independent organization testing different antivirus software for their Protection, Performance, and Usability capabilities. They use a scoring metric of 1 to 6 for rating the software, 6 being the highest possible score. Their recent test results came out in June 2019. Comodo received a perfect 6out of 6 for this test.
Kaspersky tied them with a 6 out of 6 of its own.
The results indicate that both companies are pretty good at protecting against malware attacks. You can see the details of the evaluation here: Comodo and Kaspersky.
AV-Comparatives is another popular testing organization we can look towards for an unbiased assessment of antivirus products for protection against malware attacks. For their June 2019 Real-World Protection Test, Kaspersky received the highest award given out by AV-Comparatives: an Advanced+ Award. Comodo refused to participate in this test either due to unpreparedness or unwillingness to risk their reputation.
Winner: Kaspersky. In the first test, both companies tied effectiveness. But in the second, Comodo abstained from participation for one reason or another, leaving Kaspersky as the victor.
3. System Performance
A highly desired capability of a premium antivirus is its smooth system performance. This means that the computer can continue to carry out front-end operations without being slowed down by the antivirus software working in the background. We’ll use the test results from the same independent testing organizations to assess both our competing companies on this metric.
As per the recent Performance Test conducted by AV-test.org, Comodo received a modest 4 out of 6.
Kaspersky bagged the perfect score, a 6 out of 6. According to this source, Kaspersky employs minimal sources on your system.
AV-Comparatives also issued their version of the Performance Test in April 2019. Once again, Comodo wasn’t available for this evaluation for unknown reasons. Kaspersky, on the other hand, kept up the record for high-level competence with an Advanced+ Award.
Winner: Kaspersky. During the first evaluation, Kaspersky beat Comodo by a significant margin. On the second test, Comodo once again refused to participate, meaning that Kaspersky wins this category as well.
4. User-Friendliness
The user interface of any given antivirus software will directly impact who can use it and how effectively they can marshal it in their defense against malware. A competent interface should be intuitive, but also allow you to specify custom settings without being too complicated.
Let’s see how both companies fare when we look at their user interfaces.
Comodo’s interface uses a simplistic design that is mostly dominated by a host of square blocks. One large block on the left-hand side informs you of your computer’s security status. It will flash red or yellow if there’s something that requires your attention, as well as lighting up the required button to solve any problems. This innovative design makes it an excellent pick for beginners or those who are not computer literate.
However, there is a distinct lack of personalization as specifying settings for certain operations can be a little tricky. You do have the option to roll back the interface to an earlier design if you used Comodo products before. There’s no denying though that this interface was made to be more straightforward rather than thorough.
Now let’s turn our attention to Kaspersky.
Kaspersky’s user interface has a pretty simplistic design with green and white as primary colors. There’s one large green panel on the top of the screen. Below it, the panel is contrasted by tow rows of big icons that each symbolize different functions. Casual computer users will be able to navigate the interface pretty easily.
One downside to Kaspersky’s interface is that any software that is lower than the premium offering will display grayed -out icons. This is intended to inspire you to upgrade to the premium tier but can become rather annoying.
Winner: Comodo. Both companies have intuitive and simple interfaces, but Comodo’s ability to automatically direct you to a required operation gives it a slight edge. By contrast, Kaspersky’s vexing attempt to get you to upgrade to a higher tier of coverage puts it at a disadvantage.
5. Pricing
A company needs to watch what they charge for even a premium product that encompasses as broad a demographic as antivirus software does. The ‘money vs. value’ ratio is of paramount importance here. After all, even the best antivirus software won’t be worth your while if it’s too expensive to afford. So, let’s see what each of our competing software costs at each tier of coverage.
Comodo’s free software is, of course, free. But it’s not as good as the paid options. Comodo Antivirus for Mac is free as well.
Comodo Advanced Antivirus is the first paid software that gives you three licenses for PCs only, costing $34.99 per year. Comodo Internet Security Pro also provides you with three PC licenses for five more dollars, at $39.99 per year.
Comodo Internet Security Pro, the highest tier of coverage, costs $89.99 per year for three licenses.
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Comodo Advanced Antivirus
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Comodo Internet Security Pro
$39.99 per year
Comodo Internet Security Complete
$89.99 per year
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Now let’s look at how Kaspersky prices its products.
Kaspersky’s Anti-Virus, the first paid product from the company, gives you three licenses for PCs only, and this costs $29.99 per year. This is cheaper than the same number of licenses from Comodo.
Kaspersky Internet Security, the next tier of coverage, gives you three licenses for PCs, Macs, or mobile devices, costing $39.99 per year. Kaspersky Total Security also provides you with three universal licenses for $49.99 per year.
Finally, Kaspersky Security Cloud is available in two different options: Personal or Family. Personal costs $49.99 for three licenses, just like Total Security, while the Family option gives you up to 20 different licenses for $149.99 per year.
Winner: Kaspersky. You get the same number of licenses for less money from Kaspersky as opposed to Comodo. Kaspersky also has an option for multiple licenses for families.
6. Customer Satisfaction
Finally, let’s take a look at how actual customers for each company rate their satisfaction for their customer service. This insight will give us an idea of what to expect from each company in the event of an issue.
Our first platform to look for some answers is the Better Business Bureau. They collect customer feedback and process it into a scoring metric comprising letter grades from A to F. Comodo received a rather poor D- while Kaspersky went even lower with a pretty terrible F rating.
Now let’s see how consumeraffairs.org, a similar service, rates the two companies on a five-star rating scale. Comodo has not released enough reviews for the site to compile a rating, indicating that they may not be comfortable releasing what their customer responses. Kaspersky earned a 3-star rating, which isn’t too great but does provide us a statistic to work with.
Winner: Kaspersky. Both companies don’t appear to be particularly great at customer service, both receiving poor ratings from the BBB. Although Kaspersky has a modest rating from the second source.
Final Thoughts
It’s a close call! But overall, Kaspersky is a better pick for most people. Comodo has some useful features, and its interface is better. But Kaspersky can provide you with a better selection of features, a much better pricing plan, and excellent protection and performance competencies. It’s an excellent pick for antivirus protection.
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Video Of Mentally Ill Florida Man Shot By Cop Shows Fatal Encounter
Relatives of a mentally ill Black man who was fatally shot in February by police in Miami Gardens, Florida have released footage of the frightening encounter, according to the New York Daily News.
The 19-minute police video released Wednesday shows an officer ordering Lavall Hall, 25, to “get on the f—ing ground or you’re dead,” moments before shooting five deadly rounds on Feb. 15.
A second video shows Hall running away from police just seconds before the officer’s commands and fatal shots, the publication notes.
During a news conference Wednesday, Hall’s mother, Catherine Daniels, who called police about 5 a.m. on the morning of the shooting to get help controlling her schizophrenic son, joined family members and lawyers to debunk the police account of the killing, the report notes.
The video comes just a day after an officer in North Charleston, South Carolina, was charged with murder in the shooting death of Walter Scott, an unarmed 50-year-old Black man, following a traffic stop, underscoring the problem of police violence against unarmed African-Americans.
Authorities say Hall was wildly swinging a metal broom handle before the shooting and that the officer who fired feared for his life, but Melissa Edwards, the mother of Hall’s 8-year-old daughter, saw things differently. | {
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Translation of negate in Spanish:
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Archive for That Hellbound Train
If you’re like more and more comics readers, you probably think Scott Snyder is pretty ginchy. He’s got a new horror series out now, created with Scott Tuft as co-writer, and art by Attila Futaki.
The story is set in 1916, as young Jack Garron prepares to leave his home for music school. Something weird’s going on with him, though — he jokes around with his mom about becoming a hobo, proudly shows off his new school uniform, talks about his hopes for success at the new school — and then he sneaks out of the house in the middle of the night to actually hitch a ride on a boxcar in hopes of meeting his adoptive father and performing with him. Of course, things don’t go well for him — a railroad cop steals everything he has and throws him off the train, leaving him relying on a bunch of tramps.
But the real danger is taking place not too far away — an orphan named Frederick is offered an apprenticeship with an electrician named Mr. Porter who works for General Electric. Porter is friendly but very, very weird. He tells about working for actress Mary Pickford, makes morbid jokes about his teeth, shows the Frederick the basics of working with electricity, and sends him into a deserted “trainer house” to learn how to hook up the power to a fusebox. But you know what happens down in dark, deserted basements, right?
Verdict: Thumbs up. So far, it’s very early in the story, but what we do have is a nice creepy beginning, and that’s probably enough for now.
Robert Bloch’s That Hellbound Train #3
Martin’s affair with his secretary — a woman who secretly works for the diabolical Conductor in exchange for youth and beauty — leads to more trouble. His wife suspects and hires a private detective to shadow them. When his secret is uncovered, his wife divorces him, his boss fires him, and his whole life plunges straight downhill. And to top it all off, he falls in a river and dies very briefly before he’s revived. So now the Hellbound Train has come to collect him, and it’s too late to unwind the magic watch that’ll allow him to live forever. Or is it?
Verdict: Thumbs up. A faithful recreation of Bloch’s old story, along with plenty of great, creepy art.
Gwen and her boyfriend, Horatio, are heading into the caves under the cemetery to look for Spot, who is lost in the catacombs being stalked by zombies. Horatio thinks he has to protect Gwen, since he’s the big, tough monster hunter. But of course, the zombies aren’t interested in Gwen at all, since she already is a zombie. But that just leads to Gwen worrying about whether Horatio would actually kill her if he ever found out she was undead. Meanwhile, Spot has stumbled into an underground temple to a dark god, Galatea is performing unauthorized brain surgery, and Spot’s father, trapped in the body of a chimpanzee, goes out looking for his son. All that, plus the Dead Presidents, supernatural agents of the government, finally make their way to Oregon to take on the city’s zombie invasion.
Verdict: Thumbs up. Lots of stuff happening, but it all ties together pretty well. As always Chris Roberson’s plot and dialogue are grand, and Mike Allred’s artwork is complete fun.
Robert Bloch’s That Hellbound Train #2
Martin has made a deal with the Devil, in his guise as the conductor of the Hellbound Train, that all he has to do is unwind his watch, and time will stop for him, allowing him to live forever in whatever moment he chooses. He faces numerous temptations to stop the watch, but he realizes there are other opportunities for him to gain greater happiness. He works his way up from the street, gets a job, gets a home, gets a car, gets his pick of pretty girls, and finally falls in love and marries. But there are other temptations, and not all of them are the earthly kind.
Verdict: Thumbs up. Like I said before, I love the stuffing out of this story, and it’s fun to see it re-created here in comic form. The art is still brilliant and creepy and cool, so I’m still very enthusiastic about it.
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I think we can make this official: DC’s new “Red Hood and the Outlaws” series has the worst new costumes of the entire reboot.
Well, here’s something I wasn’t expecting — a comic based on a classic story by Robert Bloch, adapted by Joe R. Lansdale and John L. Lansdale. “That Hellbound Train” has been one of my favorite old stories for decades — it even won a Hugo Award in 1959. So this looks like it might be a fun surprise.
Our lead character is Martin, the son of a railroad man who filled his head with stories about the Hellbound Train, a ghost locomotive that carried the souls of the damned down to Hell. Martin’s dad was a heavy drinker after his wife ran off with another man, and he died one night after being hit by a mysterious train. Orphaned, Martin was pushed into an abusive orphanage, which he ran away from. After that, he made do with small jobs and petty theft. And then one night, he meets up with a monstrous train out in the middle of nowhere, with a conductor who lights his lantern by blowing on the wick. The conductor offers him a special watch — all he has to do is stop the watch, and time will stop for him. He’ll be able to choose his moment of greatest happiness, stop the watch, and that moment will go on forever. Not a bad deal, right? Right?
Verdict: Thumbs up. So far, this story has all the magic I remember from Bloch’s original. And Dave Wachter’s artwork is gloriously, horrifically beautiful — the Hellbound Train is a gigantic, bloody, smokey, sticky horror, and it’s just flat gorgeous. I’ve got high hopes for this one.
Dungeons & Dragons #8
Adric Fell and his band of adventurers are trapped in the Feywild, where the Faeries, both good and bad, hang out. It’s a wildly dangerous place — filled with monsters, stuffed with dangerous magic, and unhinged from time. After the group saves a gnome and kills the quicklings trying to eat him, they find themselves betrayed, drugged, and strung up to distract the invading Fomorian armies while the gnomes flee to a safer location. Will Fell and his group escape? Do they have allies in the Feywild? And are their allies just as dangerous as the invading monsters?
Verdict: Thumbs up. Great action and story, and the dialogue here is just plain fantastic. You’re reading this, aren’t you? You should be reading this.
Dark Horse Presents #2
The revival of Dark Horse’s great anthology series continues, with stories ranging from: A new story about Concrete by Paul Chadwick; Robert Love and David Walker’s story about a small boy in a post-apocalyptic hell; Neal Adams ongoing story about a hero that lives in people’s blood; Howard Chaykin’s tale of a schlubby assassin; Michael T. Gilbert’s new story about Mr. Monster; and David Chelsea’s oh-so-cool adventures of Snow Angel.
Verdict: Actually, thumbs down. I loved the Concrete and Snow Angel stories, but the rest were either not particularly good or entirely forgettable. Yes, even the ones with really awesome artwork. And I hope this gets better fast, because $8 is a lot of money to spend on an anthology series that doesn’t deliver the goods.
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Besides reading comics, my interests include horror fiction, heavy metal, playing the City of Heroes computer game, being a colossal pessimist, and trying in vain to find time to write.
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Outspoken, Opinionated and Anti-Elitist: Why Ukip is on the Rise [BLOG]
By Michael Heaver
February 7, 2013 16:39 GMT
Ukip boss Nigel Farage (Reuters)
A lot has been written about the rise of Ukip, focused mostly on it biting into what is described as the Eurosceptic Conservative vote. That simplistic view represents a great folly in British politics that exposes the shallow depth most journalists have actually bothered to examine Ukip with.
The most important thing to note is that to most Ukip voters, David Cameron and Ed Miliband represent much of the same thing: privileged, out of touch, seeking to please all. They seek to placate everyone by aiming for the "centre ground" whilst paradoxically standing against British public opinion on the EU, immigration, grammar schools, crime and so on.
The rise of Ukip is about more than the issue of the EU. It is a strike back against stage-managed, monotonous Westminster cosiness. Nigel Farage quite happily lights a cigarette and shares a beer or two with journalists who interview him. Whilst this is hardly radical to those in the UK who go out and graft all day, it somehow just doesn't fit into the quasi-glossy British political game which has become more airbrushed than most lads mags.
People are sick of political correctness and politicians who earn their coin by dodging every question they get asked. No one can accuse Ukip of fitting into that mould; the party is comprised of the opinionated and outspoken who are determined to challenge the ruling political order. People tend to find that refreshing.
A voice for the majority in Britain right now is badly required. People are growing angry about issues such as uncontrolled immigration from Eastern Europe which has pushed down wages and harmed the prospects of many working-class youngsters in England looking to get their foot on the ladder.
This policy has been backed by Labour and the Conservatives alike and indeed, they both support Turkey joining the EU which would bring economic and social chaos to the UK.
To support the EU's open borders is an extremist view. In the first year of the coalition government, the Office for National Statistics revealed that only 8 percent of new jobs created went to British-born workers. It's no wonder that 79 percent of Brits in a recent poll were against opening Britain's borders to Bulgaria and Romania post-2014.
Ukip's stance against this and many other things does not appeal particularly to the rich or the poor - all demographics in that poll were against the further relaxation of British border controls. The proof is in the pudding: Ukip has had very strong by-election results recently in Labour areas and continues to surge in Tory heartlands as well.
Quite simply, the Ukip rise isn't dependent on the fall of another party. It's about the British people waking up to a new viable electoral choice. That's a very positive thing for my country.
Michael Heaver (@Michael_Heaver) is a right-wing activist and author of the political blog Heaver Hits. He was the first elected chairman of Ukip's youth wing, Young Independence, and has spoken on platforms alongside Nigel Farage | {
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PFI is perhaps the most Tory policy of all
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THE sheer scale of the ongoing costs of private finance initiative (PFI) contracts should shock but not surprise.
The National Audit Office (NAO) calculates that, even with no more dodgy PFI deals struck, the public is on the hook for £200 billion of payouts — over £10bn this year and with payments stretching off into the 2040s.
And for what? For contracts with a capital value of £60bn!
From start (under John Major in the 1990s) to finish (whenever Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour gets the keys to No 10), PFI and all its related concoctions have been and continue to be a swindle of the most extreme proportions.
PFI is perhaps the perfect Tory policy: pay the private sector to build something, and then pay the private sector for the privilege of paying the private sector to build something.
It is the privatisation of not only the construction and servicing of what should be fully public services, but the privatisation of their funding too. And at every link in the chain — and well after you run out of chain, it seems — privateers get to pad their pockets from the public purse.
PFI was taken up with gusto under New Labour, a bid to repair basic infrastructure that the Tories had let rot for nearly 20 years — such as crumbling schools and hospitals — while keeping the books clear of any big costs (supposedly), buttering up big business bosses, and forcing “flexibility” and insecurity on public-sector workers.
Of course, you always end up paying — and PFI contracts have the public sector paying for terms of 25 to 30 years, long after it would have paid off any bonds issued to build whatever it was that needed building.
Fifteen years ago, amid Blair and Brown’s PFI boom, the European Services Strategy Unit estimated that the average extra cost of PFI contracts was 72 per cent of the original budget.
And more recently, in 2010, the NAO’s report into PFI in housing found that nearly all of the contracts surveyed had seen costs exceed the original plan — and more than half of those had seen costs double. The cost of one PFI housing project was more than three times that originally forecast.
But so what? For the neoliberals, that’s a benefit too. You pay the private sector for letting you pay the private sector, and when the eye-watering payments become too much for whichever poor NHS trust or council or whoever is burdened with them, you get to blame supposed public-sector inefficiency and sell off the whole lot (again).
Luckily, the government can rely on the fabled efficiency of the private sector — firms such as, er, Carillion.
Carillion which got fat on PFI contracts, whose bloated size — everything from construction, where it notoriously blacklisted workers, to school dinners — and the enormous consequences of its collapse could never have happened without the mass privatisation of government investment and services.
Of course, private-sector efficiency is a myth — one that has been busted time and time again, and is easily pierced when one thinks about the benefits of co-ordination and co-operation over wasteful and destructive competition.
It’s long past time we buried this shambling zombie and took our essential services back into public control, and ensure those who work for and all of us who depend on them never have to suffer the deprivations and indignities that are the market’s bread and butter. | {
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Digital Transformation deserves more than monolithic IT – it’s the time of containerisation
Containers have become a viable option for organisations looking for better control of their IT infrastructure.
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In an era where the preferred application platform is the cloud and DevOps is set to drive performance in today’s digital economy, industry sceptics still view containers as “over-hyped”, with no long-term value in the enterprise. However, with large investments from Amazon, Google and Microsoft, the option of containers is becoming a viable solution - and over the next three years, predictions are that it’s set to see a huge rise in its implementation.
DevOps Skills Shift: The Growth of Containerisation
There is a seismic shift in the demand for IT Tech Talent in the market today with a new report by BMC Software highlighting that, over the next two years, IT decision makers believe that IT spending will move towards investments into workload automation, containerisation and DevOps training.
And as skills are shifting, the lines between the developer and IT operation teams are blurring, meaning enterprises of all sizes are harnessing powerful technology tools that require software engineers who are not only software-coding-savvy, but platform agnostic in terms of infrastructure development.
DevOps in the enterprise has always been mostly focused around tooling and processes in the development of software, with “operations” such as support and monitoring still handled by separate teams. However, utilising deployment platforms such as containers brings that final piece of the puzzle back to the development teams; highlighting that the skills required in maintaining a containerised infrastructure extends beyond the traditional enterprise skills.
Developers and DevOps engineers who can embrace methodologies such as containers are more attractive to organisations as times are shifting beyond the “it works on my machine, so I’ll let the ops guys handle it.” IT skills are changing and the shift in demand for DevOps IT skills can only be considered a positive move for the growth of containerisation.
Speed Demon - Containerisation vs. Virtual Machines
Despite industry scepticism, containerisation is increasingly gaining recognition from organisations across all major industries as an exciting new method of OS virtualisation - an alternative to virtual machines. When implemented correctly, containers enable a more agile and portable software development environments to virtual machines.
Across all industries, digital transformation is on the business agenda with a keen desire and need to scale a company globally. Therefore, speed is everything and by having a scalable and adaptable platform with systems that offer flexibility when they have to change or adjust applications, is essential. And all this must be implemented affordably, with minimal disruption. Containers allow for more control over the infrastructure, because there is no need to create a Virtual Machine for every instance of an application, meaning deployments are rapid and the overhead of the operating system is significantly lower. This combination is powerful as it means that when an upgrade or change is issued it will take effect almost immediately, without disruption to the general use of the portal.
Coats, an international thread manufacturer, recently announced the launch of its customer web portal on a container-based platform, marking them the challenger to industry sceptics who define container solutions as simply ‘hype’. Speed was fundamental to them, so the decision to use containers came from Coats’ requirements for an adaptable, scalable and easily manageable platform that would adhere to the strict regulations of international trading. They needed to find a system that would offer flexibility when they needed to change or adjust applications and they were able to find a partner to help create a system that not only challenged container-use perception at an enterprise level, but also did so in a timely and cost-effective manner.
Chris Gray, Technical Director of Amido, adds: ‘Containers give you more control over the infrastructure you are deploying. This is because you are not creating a Virtual Machine for every instance of an application, meaning deployments are rapid and the overhead of the operating system is significantly lower. This combination is powerful as it means that we can issue an upgrade/change that will take effect almost immediately, without disruption to the general use of the portal.’
For companies where Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) is severely monitored, this advantage of application upgrades and changes is vital, especially when, like Coats, they are committed to digitally transforming their services - without the added costs legacy systems can bring.
The industry still views containers as hype with no long-term value in the enterprise. For Coats, however, the opposite is true. As one of the first enterprises to use Azure Container Services in a customer facing environment, they are breaking new ground in their industry with this platform.
Not a magic fix
However, despite the advantages of containers, they are not a magic fix for all. Not every organisation can benefit from its use as some applications are not suitable for containerised deployment, and so the decision to containerise software must be considered carefully.
Monolithic applications, favoured by traditional enterprises, are not as well suited to containerisation owing to the considerably different tooling required by Microservices. Containers are far better suited for a microservices environment where large projects can be broken down into a set of manageable, independent and loosely-coupled services.
For some legacy or monolithic solutions, the decision to containerise software needs to be considered carefully. Containers are valuable when monolithic applications can be split into smaller components which can be distributed across a containerised infrastructure; but this is not to say that any application will work, just that care needs to be taken to see if it is suitable for containerised deployment. Similarly, with the shift in IT skills, those organisations reliant on monolithic architectures must ensure their in-house infrastructure is ready for containerisation before any commitment can be made.
Organisations like Coats are working with agile, cloud-first consultancies like Amido, to revolutionise the perception of container solutions. Despite not being a magic fix for all, containers can no longer be dismissed so readily, and with the growing investment into containerisation, coupled with the shift in demand for IT skills, enterprises of all sizes will soon seek to reap the benefits of containers. | {
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Spike: A case study
September 5, 2012
Although experts in email marketing, Spike recently realised that they weren’t “eating their own dog food”. They hired us, the content experts, to whip them into shape and get their email marketing sorted… Following a chat about what they want their enewsletter to achieve, we put a plan together as well as a framework of regular sections for each issue.
Spike promised their customers an enewsletter on the last Tuesday of every month and, with our help, they have been able to deliver that every time. We’ve got the dates jotted down, so a week or so before it’s due, we have a quick chat about what’s new, and the topics they want to cover off, before we get writing.
Not only do they always get it out on time, they’ve had excellent feedback from their clients about the valuable information shared. Every month, the enewsletter generates at least a couple of enquiries straight away, as Spike’s clients get ideas and see examples of what they could also do. As well as keeping Spike front of mind for their contacts, it provides a talking point throughout the month and the Spike team are thrilled with the “really high open rate”, meaning lots of people are reading it.
As well as writing polished copy for Spike themselves, we also work as an extension of their team… providing professional, well-written copy, for a number of their clients. In this way, we’re enabling them to extend their valuable offering and get even better results for their clients.
If you’ve been thinking about an enewsletter and are just not quite sure where to start, give us a call. Likewise, if you think professional copy works well with what you offer, we’d love to talk to you too!
Intranet software is not the easiest topic to write about but the folks at Intelligent Ink are the just the right type of content solution we need at the moment as part of our overall team. I feel we’ll be using them for them for a long time. | {
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Bishop Jones is going to be treated as a dangerous man by the Anglican right–and as a silly one by the Anglican Communion Institute/Fulcrum crowd who would condescend to Einstein on the topic of relativity. But the risk may be worth it if he is truly committed to the let-and-let-live solution he has articulated to the Anglican crisis over homosexuality.
Many, many bishops expressed a preference for this sort of solution at the Lambeth Conference in 2008, but Rowan Williams would not lead in that direction, preferring to place the burden of keeping the communion together on the backs of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered Christians, who were asked to abandon any hope of first-class citizenship in the Church until Williams had persuaded some of the most bigoted men in the Communion that it wasn’t such a bad idea.
Williams’ approach hasn’t worked. It has done tremendous damage to the witness of the Church in the United States, Canada, and in his own country, where the public has turned away from a Church viewed ever more widely as a seat of reaction. Jones’ speech points the Church of England, and perhaps the entire Communion, in a new direction. Whether it has the wisdom to follow is another question.
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Chris Epting
March 9, 2010
Well, every voice of reason, especially from the evangelical wing is helpful!
“Williams’ approach hasn’t worked. It has done tremendous damage to the witness of the Church in the United States, Canada, and in his own country, where the public has turned away from a Church viewed ever more widely as a seat of reaction.”
That’s putting it mildly. The Church of England has become an object of derision and disgust.
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Introduction
This book has many positive qualities. The author’s sincere faith and desire to see Mormons saved cannot be questioned and, where biblical truths are presented, they are often presented in a persuasive way with better-than-average illustrations. For instance, every true Christian could surely endorse remarks explaining the book’s title: “Christianity is the only religion…that starts at the finish line. Salvation,” Wallace writes, “is guaranteed up front! And every bit of obedience and good work flows from that salvation as opposed to the LDS teaching, which is that obedience and good works are necessary for salvation” (111; partly inspired by John Coursin, 163; perhaps with Paul in mind, 1 Corinthians 9:24). And who wouldn’t like the following illustration (related to Galatians): “Like crabs pulling their comrades back into the bucket, the Judaizers continually sought to pull their ‘brothers’ back into bondage under the Law” (137). As well, Wallace’s decision to avoid discussing many Mormon beliefs and practices that critics of Mormonism often stress, and to focus instead on the gospel (and such Mormon teachings as contradict it), is just the emphasis I would look for in a book to give my Mormon acquaintances.
I cannot recommend Starting at the Finish Line as an outreach tool, however, because it also has some negative qualities that, taken in combination, convince me that other outreach literature should be preferred. If you’re one of those people who reads lots and lots of books rapidly, drawing out what works for you and ignoring the rest, you might wish to purchase and read the book. It contains some very good material. If, on the other hand, you prefer to closely analyze and master a smaller selection of the most useful texts on a subject, or if you’re looking for something consistently sound in its arguments and doctrine, something you could give to others without worrying they might be led astray, I’d counsel leaving this book off your buy list. I have given the book a neutral (three star) rather than negative (one or two star) rating because it does have positive qualities and because persons whose theological convictions are nearer Wallace’s than my own may judge the book’s defects less severe, and so see it as more suitable for outreach, than I do. As well, though (as will become evident) I find some theological convictions prevalent in Wallace’s particular denomination (Calvary Chapel) objectionable, I know that denomination to be one that makes a greater effort than most to honor Scripture’s authority (biblical creationists who speak in my area are often found using Calvary Chapel meeting halls for their presentations, for example). I therefore take no relish is having to write a non-positive review.
Less than Optimal Defense of the Bible
The least severe of the book’s weaknesses (least severe of those meriting their own review section, anyway) is a a not-very-detailed and arguably too generic (not tailored to Mormon readers) defense of the Bible’s trustworthiness that, in addition, adopts a prevalent but suboptimal defense method. Since this area of weakness would not by itself prevent me from recommending the book, I might not have discussed it in this review were it not for Wallace’s chapter one assertion that “There is really only one section in this book that matters, and it happens to be the very next one, which I’ve entitled A Defense of the Bible” (7). My own discussion with some Latter-day Saints (in an online discussion forum some while back) confirms that whether the Bible is infallible or not is indeed a key issue for outreach to Mormons, so I can see why Wallace considers defense of the Bible of first importance. Still, his emphasis on the importance of these early chapters does make discussion of any defects in them essential to a critical review.
In deciding whether to treat Scripture as the infallible, unquestionable, God’s-own-word authority it claims to be (2 Timothy 3:16-7, 2 Peter 1:21), one can either (1) accept it on its own divine authority because, as God’s own words, it speaks with more innately obvious truthfulness and greater divine attestation to full correctness than can any evidence or argument external to it, thereafter welcoming external evidence and argument as confirmation of a faith based on Scripture’s own greater authority; or (2) accept Scripture as fundamentally reliable as an historical document, and so useful in determining historical truth, on the basis of corroborating extrabiblical evidence and arguments, thereafter (if one is consistent) granting Scripture itself no greater authority than the evidence and arguments on the basis of which one holds Scripture reliable. While true Bible-believing Christians tend to function in their faith in terms of 1, more often than not they defend their trust in the Bible in terms of 2.
The inconsistency of this combination can be seen by asking Bible-believers who prefer method 2 whether they are willing to reject, or simply hold doubtful, all that Scripture says that cannot be externally validated. If the Bible is really to be treated like any other historical text, then claims in it that would be doubted if made today should be doubted. While belief in the historicity of Jesus’ resurrection seems sustainable on purely historical grounds (no one ever having proven that group hallucinations can happen, and the New Testament documents reliably attesting that multiple individuals at once, even large groups of them, encountered the resurrected Christ), it would seem that most one-on-one encounters (and most single-person experiences) recorded in Scripture, particularly those reporting supernatural occurrences unlike anything in our normal experience, would have to be doubted. While we might consider the reports reliable records of individual impressions, the text’s supernaturalist interpretation of such occurrences could (should) be doubted, just as similar reports in other documents (whether ancient or modern) are routinely (and, in the view of most who think critically, rightly) doubted. As well, assertions about the doctrinal meaning of historical events seem impossible to corroborate; one either accepts the judgment of those making the assertions or one does not (unless such assertions can be corroborated philosophically….). Given this, one who wishes to live out method 2 consistently seems obligated to doubt, or at least permit others to doubt, anything Scripture says that can be identified as interpretive assertion rather than (corroborated) historical fact. (One might also argue, as implied in a prior parenthetical, for disallowing doubt where philosophical arguments sufficiently corroborate scriptural claims, such as when the appearance of design in nature proves so complex and pervasive as to make theism less faith-based than theism.)
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not claiming no sort of Christian faith could possibly be maintained in terms of method 2. I’ll leave such extreme claims to more self-assured sorts. Believing philosophers and historians might well be able to construct from their arguments something sufficiently substantial to merit the “Christian” label. This will not be a faith grounded in infallible Scripture that speaks with God’s own authority, however, but something more provisional in which, in the final analysis, it is clever human minds amassing evidence and constructing arguments that will be the final authority. In this approach to “faith” (I can’t help but consider this provisional variety of Christian belief something less than true faith), personal religious experience (subjective sense of God’s presence and guidance, for example) becomes just one more bit of supporting evidence for maintaining one’s (ultimately always provisional) belief. Subjective, self-trusting sorts that we humans tend to be, we may often make this last sort of evidence entirely decisive (“Personally, I don’t need scholars or clergymen to help me trust in the reliability of the Bible. I have experienced (and continue to experience daily) the rich spiritual feast that is available to me through the Bible.” [18]), but doing so fails to apply method 2 consistently. Objectively speaking, my personal experiences as I interpret them should be given no greater weight in my belief-formation than anyone else’s personal experiences as they interpret them. (So, in terms of method 2, unbelievers’ profession that they experience no spiritual feast when they read the Bible must be weighed equally with my subjective impression that I, and the profession of other believers that they, do experience such a feast.)
In his defense of Scripture’s authority against Mormon detractors, Wallace adopts method 2. “I am hoping that even this small sampling of extra-biblical writings is helping you appreciate the bigger picture and see that the New Testament is an accurate, reliable, historical record of real people and real events” (26), he notes early in his discussion. While there can certainly be no harm in presenting evidence of these things, it is not at all clear that what Mormons doubt about the Bible is its historical claims about people and events. When they speak of “plain and precious things” lost from the text of the Bible (Book of Mormon 1 Nephi 13 and Elder McConkie, quoted on 13-14, 15), when they hyperbolically suggest that one might well suspect any verse of the Bible polluted (Orson Pratt, quoted on 15), is their focus not the doctrinal assertions, the theological interpretation of historical events, not the events themselves? Method 2 might be able to demonstrate that Paul and other Bible writers did very likely believe and assert the doctrines presently found in Scripture, but such a demonstration would seem to call for more coverage of textual criticism than currently found in Starting at the Finish Line. Wallace’s discussion of the reliability of the New Testament’s transmission and earliness of its composition currently only runs about three pages (21-24, with coverage on the first and last of these pages a bit less than would cover a full page). The treatment is sufficiently superficial (not objectionable, just not thorough) that is can at once say “25,000 manuscripts can’t be wrong” (22) and fail to note that modern Bibles (excepting the New King James Version, 21st Century King James Version, and perhaps others too little publicized for me to know about) favor minority readings over majority readings in most cases where extant manuscripts differ.
Granted, differences affect a small percentage of the text as a whole and one can prove orthodox doctrine on the basis of the readings preferred by contemporary translators who follow mainstream textual critics. (Since the whole issue goes unaddressed in Starting at the Finish Line, what I here grant is not mentioned. Mentioning it would strengthen the defense.) Still, it is the position of those mainstream critics that certain long-lived witnesses from (preserved in) a fairly isolated geographic area (Egypt, where environmental factors favor manuscript longevity) can be assumed more reliable indicators of what the original New Testament writings said than can the majority and traditional readings accepted by believing Christians until the late 1800s. (Not all traditional readings are in the Greek manuscript majority, hence my reference to “majority and traditional.” The textual notes in study editions of the New King James Version nicely lay out the differences for curious English readers.) In other words, where preferred long-lived witnesses and majority or traditional readings differ, most extant manuscripts (the mainstream maintains) in fact can be and are wrong. This viewpoint is neither heretical nor an obvious threat to orthodoxy (though it does seem to have helped along Bart Ehrman’s departure from the faith), but it is something other than a “25,000 manuscripts can’t be wrong” affirmation of majority readings. Wallace may mean merely that the manuscripts can’t be wrong where they all agree, but he does not say this, and a writer who chooses to quote primarily from Bibles whose New Testaments adopt minority readings, as Wallace does, might wish to express his stance with greater precision. Added nuance and more detailed discussion of the issue would make Wallace’s case more persuasive.
In defending the Old Testament, Wallace opts to focus on “the historical reliability of the Old Testament” as he focused on the historical reliability of the New (31). Setting aside my basic conviction that method 2 coheres poorly with Bible-believing faith, this is standard and unobjectionable Bible-defense fare. As in the case of Wallace’s New Testament defense, however, I wonder if his Old Testament defense might fail to address the issues most responsible for Mormon doubts that Scripture is a perfectly reliability guide to correct belief and proper practice. Do Mormons typically doubt the Bible’s reliability where it relates historical information? Is their suspicion not instead that doctrinal inaccuracies have been introduced, or that important doctrinal assertions have been removed? Wallace is making to Mormons the sort of evidential appeal many have found effective in outreach to secularized unbelievers or helpful in their own coming to trust the Bible. (In my case, only presuppositional appeals built on the work of Cornelius Van Til proved sufficient to bring me around, but my case is not the norm.) Wallace’s earlier discussion of Acts 28:1-2, 7-10 in the New Testament (27-8) nicely illustrates how this sort of appeal works. Noting how the previously-doubted identification of Publius as “leading man of the island” has been confirmed by archaeological discoveries, so that “No one questions the existence of Publius anymore” (28), Wallace suggests that this confirmation of Luke’s accuracy in turn favors trusting Luke’s attestation to Paul’s miraculous healing of Publius’ father, which in turn favors accepting Paul’s claim to be truly God-sent (an Apostle), which in turn favors accepting the correctness of Paul’s doctrinal assertions in various epistles (28). This progression to trust in Paul’s doctrinal assertions hinges entirely, of course, upon acceptance of Luke’s judgment that the healing in question was in fact miraculous and in fact effected by Paul, and upon the additional assumption that persons who can perform miraculous healings necessarily write with God-granted infallible authority….But, many find the line of argument persuasive. Still, given that Mormons do not question Paul’s status as God-sent Apostle, and as someone empowered to perform miracles, it is unclear how this argument, or equivalent arguments supporting the reliability of the Old Testament (such as appeal to fulfilled prophecy, which favors accepting prophets’ claims to speak for God, which in turn favors accepting prophets’ doctrinal assertions), is supposed to address the specific doubts of Mormons. Mormon doubts seem to hinge entirely on the transmission of doctrinal assertions; generic evidential appeal in support of the Bible’s basic historical (or prophetic) reliability, joined to the idea that such reliability favors trust in original doctrinal assertions, seems to risk missing the core source of Mormon mistrust. A more exclusive focus on issues of transmission of the Old and New Testament texts might more effectively address Mormon concerns.
Aside: Is Wallace Qualified to Write This Book?
Notably, Wallace admits to having ceased being a “true believing Mormon” (TBM) when, as a junior in high school, he first encountered a uniquely Mormon doctrine, that which makes God something other than “an omniscient, powerful, benevolent being who had always been God ‘from everlasting to everlasting’” (4-5). Though he remained actively involved in the Mormon church for twenty years thereafter, he did so as a “cultural Mormon” (CM) just “going along to get along,” not as a true believer in Mormon doctrine. Does this background favor his assertion that he “can still think and even feel like a Mormon”? Like a CM, perhaps. But like a TBM? I doubt it. If Wallace can feel and think like a TMB, this ability must result from his empathetic and imaginative abilities, not his personal experience, which TBMs are sure to judge lacking. Wallace seems aware that this is the case, granting that he does not expect TBMs to be among his persuadable readers. “I really wrote this book for the Mormon who…is going through the motions, who values and enjoys all the wonderful benefits of being a member of the church…but who secretly doesn’t believe the Joseph Smith narrative in its entirety, if at all….I wrote the book I needed twenty-plus years ago” (8).
Wallace’s background as a long-term CM who really never believed uniquely Mormon doctrines (ceasing to view himself as a TBM as soon as he heard one) does prompt reflection. Imagine someone who was a member of the Roman Catholic Church for twenty years, but admits he never believed Christ really present in the Mass, never believed human choice and effort played a role in the salvation process along with God’s grace, never believed Peter was the first Pope and all Popes since have inherited unique authority granted Peter by our Lord, never believed church tradition an authority on par with (and necessary to properly understand) Scripture, never believed offering prayers or special reverence to Mary or the Saints was appropriate behavior, and in fact never believed any of the doctrines that uniquely distinguish Roman Catholicism from, say, Reformed Protestantism, but says he stayed in Catholicism all those years because he liked the social aspects of it and was actively engaged in various ministries. If this “cultural Catholic” were to write a book calling Catholics to leave their church, how valuable would most readers judge his background as a Roman Catholic? His many friendships among the Roman Catholics he’d long walked among might explain his motivation for writing, and his long exposure would doubtless give him some greater awareness of Roman Catholic beliefs than members of the general public, but few would view his personal experience as making him an expert on the topic.
Were this analogy fair, one might wonder where Wallace gets off writing a refutation of Mormonism. Fortunately, the analogy is unfair at an essential point. The point at which the analogy fails is where it speaks of our hypothetical “cultural Catholic” as having “never believed human choice and effort played a role in the salvation process along with God’s grace.” During his twenty years as a CM, Wallace does seem to have bought into the idea that his own choice, works, and effort were what would make him righteous and fit to stand in God’s presence (54). Since this, not the various Mormon doctrines he never accepted, is Wallace’s focus, one can affirm that he has indeed written on those topics into which his personal experience should give him special insight. True, as a non-Reformed Christian, Wallace does still treat human choice as ultimately determinative of who ends up saved and who doesn’t, holding that Christ paid the penalty even for the sins of persons who will never repent and believe the gospel, making salvation freely available to all who will just exercise their free will to choose it (IX-X). Still, he has rejected the Mormon non-gospel of self-salvation through ceaseless effort (assisted by grace) in favor of a Scripture-informed (if not perfectly Scripture-compliant) belief in salvation that is, after an initial free human decision (one must actively choose to receive God’s gift of salvation), all of God’s grace.
Human Choice Sovereign in Salvation & Sins Paid for the Damned
As just noted, Wallace treats human choice as ultimately determining who ends up saved and who doesn’t, holding that Christ paid the penalty even for the sins of persons who (unrepentant and unbelieving) will end up in hell, making salvation freely available to all in exchange for their free decision (read: their work of freely deciding) to receive it (IX-X). Like others who hold this view, Wallace describes Ephesians 2:8-9 as identifying salvation alone, not both salvation and the faith through which it is acquired, as wholly of grace (17). Though freely choosing to have faith and so acquire salvation, while others equally free choose not to have faith and so remain condemned, seems to me obvious cause for boasting, persons of non-Reformed persuasion never seem to think so. Nor does Wallace.
Nearly halfway through the text, at the conclusion of the final chapter of section IV, Wallace assures Mormon readers that “It turns out that there is a role for you to play in your salvation! And it is to this role that we now turn our attention” (86). This role, as one might expect, is that of voluntarily choosing to have faith and so be given new life and saved. Note the order: unlike in the Reformed (biblical) understanding, where one is able to answer God’s call to repent and believe the gospel because God has given one new life (Jesus’ sheep answer his call because theyare his sheep [John 10:26-7]; they do not become his sheep after or because they answer his call), in Wallace’s understanding it is as a result of one’s answering God’s call and believing the gospel that one acquires new life: he writes of the time “when [he] finally surrendered [his] life to Jesus Christ and [as a result] was born again of God’s Spirit” (96). I have heard this viewpoint referred to by some Reformed persons as “the heresy” of “decisional regeneration.” While I think the “heresy” label overused (not too long ago, an Independent Baptist fundamentalist sent me an email warning about “the heresy of Calvinism”), “decisional regeneration” seems apt. Whether one adopts this terminology or not, the non-Reformed view does seem to permit boasting on the part of those who finally give up their rebellion and yield to God’s loving offer of salvation.
Persons who hold this view have a remarkable talent for ignoring what seems grammatically evident. “Perhaps the most succinct passage in the entire New Testament on this teaching,” writes Wallace, “is found in Paul’s letter to the saints in Ephesus: ‘For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast’ ([Ephesians] 2:8-9)” (97). Now, Wallace chose to quote this English wording rather than search for some other. (I’m not aware of any version that would better suit the reading he wants to impose, but perhaps there is one. If no Greek scholar translating into English has ever found a different-meaning rendering plausible, suggesting one now would be quite an act of hubris.) In this English construction, the normal and natural reading would always be one understanding the “that” that is “not of yourselves” to be the “faith” mentioned directly before the “that.” (“Faith” is the “nearest antecedent.”) No human work, not even the work of making a voluntary decision, brings about the faith through which grace saves us: God’s sovereign grace gives us the gift of faith, making spiritually alive we who were spiritually dead and incapable of any positive response to God, enabling us to repent and believe as we could not do before (there being no inclination in us to respond in any way but with continued rebellion). This is the clear and natural understanding. This is not Wallace’s reading, however. Not faith itself, but only “our salvation” is “by grace, through faith, and…a gift from God” (97, 98), he asserts. Further: “These verses also tell us that our faith (in Christ) activates God’s grace unto salvation” (98). Are he and I reading the same passage? Where is the reference to sovereign human decision to freely place faith in Christ making God’s grace, powerless to move absent human choice, active and effective? I don’t see it.
I admit it: I hate the popular “a gift doesn’t become yours till you actively receive it (reach out and accept possession of it)” analogy. The reader will doubtless recall that one bit of symbolism originating in the Christian West (symbolism that has now lost any Christian meaning it might once have had) has a gift-giver bestowing his gifts while recipients sleep. It may be true that you cannot use or enjoy a gift you never do anything with (a gift could be left in its wrapping unopened for as long as one liked), but it doesn’t seem to be the case that a gift isn’t yours until you “actively receive it.” Regardless, the basic issue is not so much whether or not one must receive God’s gift of salvation, but why some people presented with the opportunity do receive it while others do not. The biblical view, in agreement with the natural reading of Ephesians 2:8-9 (the reading Wallace contradicts), holds that a secret gift from God, the gift of spiritual life and a new heart capable of new wants and new choices, a gift bestowed upon some while they are “asleep” in spiritual death, is what causes the distinction. Some hear and respond to Jesus’ call because they have already been made his sheep; others reject the call because they are not his sheep (John 10:26-7). No one becomes the Lord’s sheep by making a choice; some choose the Lord because God has already made them his sheep. True Christians, who know their own unworthiness, are of course perplexed by this. Why me? Why not, say, the Dalai Lama? Perplexity is no justification for misreading Scripture, however. Human choice does not in any way determine whether God’s will is done: God’s counsel always stands and all that it pleases him to do gets done (Isaiah 46:10).
Granted, Wallace, like others who promote the view that human choice (not divine choice) ultimately determines who will and will not be saved, tries as best his view will allow to eliminate justification for boasting by those who choose Jesus while others refuse him. “God,” he writes, “is continually scanning the horizon, searching for those who find themselves sufficiently broken and lost, those who have come to that place of complete desperation, having no other option but to place their faith and trust in Jesus Christ” (98). However, the case of Judas Iscariot demonstrates that, so long as God leaves us to autonomously choose what we will, there is no life situation so desperate that we cannot persist in rebellion: ultimately, we can destroy ourselves rather than turn to Jesus, and without new life from God and the divine gift of faith, that is what we will do. If, then, we (unaided, unchanged, still unregenerate) somehow freely choose in our desperation to turn to God, whereas others equally desperate do not, we do have cause for boasting. In our hour of desperation, we choose to have faith and thus activate the grace of God that is powerless to move without us; we do not persist in rebellion and destroy ourselves; by our better decision making, we merit salvation; we’re special.
Wallace drives home his belief in the supremacy of human choice in matters of salvation forcefully in many places throughout Starting at the Finish Line. For example, in his discussion of the need for repentance, a “radical change of one’s mind,” where one sincerely affirms, “I believe this message [of the gospel], and I’m ready to turn from this world, away from my life of sin. I no longer want to live for myself. I want to know this God and begin to live for Him!,” he writes: “The fact is, until someone makes this conscious choice, he or she cannot possibly make good on his or her new commitment because….God’s Spirit doesn’t come in to empower and inspire until after one has made this conscious choice! So you see, there really is a tangible role we play in our own salvation” (99). So, someone dead in trespasses and sins (Ephesians 2:1), an enemy of God unchanged by God’s Spirit and incapable of discerning spiritual truth (1 Corinthians 2:14), must consciously choose to forsake (want to forsake, albeit without actual power yet to do so) everything his unregenerate nature loves and values, consciously choose to embrace (want to embrace, albeit without actual power yet to do so) everything his unregenerate nature hates and opposes, before God’s Spirit transforms him into a new creature capable of making such choices (wanting such things)? Wow! Seriously?
One additional demonstration of Wallace’s belief in the sovereignty of human choice merits mention. (Actually, instances might be multiplied until this review was very long even for me, which is saying something. I’ll resist the temptation.) Recalling the first sermon he heard at the church he has attended for the last fourteen years (Calvary Chapel Westgrove), Wallace writes: “What Pastor Brad said that day is something he incorporates into virtually every sermon…: that our salvation is a free gift from God. There is nothing we can do to earn it, and there is nothing we can do to lose it as long as we maintain our faith that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and that He suffered and died on a cross to pay the penalty for our sinfulness…” (94). How could a passage that began so well end so badly? As long as wemaintain our faith? So, not only is our initial decision, that miraculous choice we make unaided in contradiction to our nature, sovereign over our first becoming saved, but our ongoing maintenance of that choice (now at least supported by a new nature) is sovereign over our remaining saved?
How someone who believes this can have “the supreme confidence with which…to say, ‘I know that I am going to heaven when I die’” (95) is not at all clear. Could this talk of the need to “maintain our faith” if we are to avoid losing our salvation after we have actually acquired it (hardly compatible with John 10:28-9 and 1 John 2:19) be simply a misstatement, an inadvertent communication error? Alas, this seems not to be the case. Another verse Wallace discusses, Hebrews 3:14, does indicate that true believers will persevere in their belief. It does not say, however, that true believers themselves are the causal agents responsible for this endurance. Such, however, appears to be Wallace’s understanding. “This is our fifth responsibility [in salvation]: after we believe, repent, receive, and abide, we endure” (186). Further: “Since we are saved by grace through faith in Christ, the only way we could ever lose our salvation would be if we lost our faith in Christ as Savior” (187). In other words, “eternal security” is only “for the faithful” (186). If one reads Ephesians 2:8-9 properly, and so understands that faith in Christ as Savior is not the product of autonomous human choice but a gift of God, one knows that neither it nor the salvation grounded upon it can, once acquired, ever be lost, because God does not take back his gifts (Romans 11:29). In the grips of the error of decisional regeneration, however, one must grant that, just as an Adam with no natural inclination to sin could nevertheless sin and be cast out of paradise, so might any true believer go against his new nature and lose faith in Christ as Savior, thereby becoming unsaved.
(Such is the consistent outworking of the non-Reformed view. Wallace, perhaps subconsciously drawn to the Reformed position, at another point expresses a contradictory understanding: concerning John 10:27-30, he writes that “No one steals us away from [Christ] (or His Father) once we truly belong to Him. And who truly belongs to Him? Who is truly saved? I have no idea, but He does” [187]. Here, Wallace seems to rightly understand that no one truly saved can ever become unsaved. However, contrary to his seeming belief that 1 John 5:13 means that all true believers should know with perfect certainty that they are going to heaven when they die [186], he here seems to say that believers in this life can’t necessarily be certain they are true believers. Yet, on the same page [187] he indicates that he in fact does have “100 percent certainty” of his salvation. At this point, I’m at a loss to say which he really believes. The consistent Reformed view, by the way, is that evidences of true salvation, ranging from personal spiritual experience to changed beliefs and attitudes to transformed behavior, provide strong and reliable support for assurance that one is saved, but that claiming “100 percent certainty” is a creaturely presumption fallible and finite humans should avoid, as even Paul seems to have done [1 Corinthians 9:27].)
Besides all this, Wallace’s view of salvation does not quite fit the “there is nothing we can do” rubric, since it proposes that we first earn salvation through the work of making a free decision contrary to our nature, and (in most but not all cases where he addresses the topic) that we can lose it if we later make an opposite free decision contrary to the new nature we acquired as a result of the first decision. Simply refusing to use the accurate word “earn” here, or similar refusal to speak of autonomous human choices as “works,” doesn’t change the reality that humans in Wallace’s system bring about their own salvation through meritorious works of decision making. This system may be a relief to someone who previously thought that only long striving after moral perfection could effect salvation, but it is not the biblical gospel of free grace sovereignly bestowed by God on whom he will (Romans 9:18) and where we who are saved have nothing to boast about, not even the superiority of our decision to accept Christ over others’ decision to reject him (because it was only by God’s grace that we acquired the spiritually alive nature that could want to accept Christ).
(Like others on his side of the debate, Wallace can’t manage to be perfectly consistent in his rhetoric. One inconsistency was noted in a parenthetical paragraph above; an additional inconsistency merits comment here. “We are natural-born enemies of God,” Wallace observes, “and yet His love overwhelms our animosity” [71]. To be consistent with the viewpoint he expresses most often throughout the text, where human choice has final say in these matters, Wallace would have to add the phrase “if we so choose” to the end of this eminently biblical statement; he does not. Probably, he also prays for God to save people he knows without adding, “unless they’re just determined not to accept you, in which case you of course must be a gentleman about it and leave them be.” Evidently, the true believer just can’t help expressing the beliefs of that Spirit that dwells within him from time to time, no matter how pressingly the believer’s theology may demand otherwise.)
I’m aware that advanced and careful non-Reformed thinkers do express things with a nuance lacking in Wallace’s presentation. For instance, they suggest that a non-saving prevenient grace is what empowers decisions for Christ by not-yet-regenerate persons. This does nothing to remove cause for boasting from those who become saved, since they make good use of this prevenient enabling while equally-enabled others do not, but it is at least superficially plausible. Wallace, however, actually seems to place the ability to make a free initial decision for Christ in unregenerate persons themselves. He does this by confusing an immaterial aspect of all humans, even unregenerate ones (“spirit”), and the personal presence of God in the regenerate enabling them to live increasingly holy lives (“Spirit”)(49). (“Spirit,”/“spirit” is how we make the distinction in English. The correct meaning would typically be obvious from context even if translators failed to make the English distinction for us.) Basically, he seems to hold that unregenerate humans are not “dead” in sin but just terminally ill; their “flesh” may be totally depraved, but their “spirit” still has some life in it. Though near death, they do have enough good in them to allow the voluntary choices he requires them to make before God, in response, can give them new life. His much earlier identification of sinners as merely “imperfect” [IX] comports with this. While this doesn’t seem to agree with Scripture, is does have sufficient intuitive appeal to explain why someone who thinks he can reread Scripture in a way compatible with it might want to do so.
Those who hold that, for want of a free personal choice to receive Jesus, one can end up in eternal hell in spite of Jesus already having paid the full penalty for all one’s sins, typically make analogies central to their argument. Wallace is no exception. For instance, he suggests that Christ’s actual payment of the full penalty for a person’s sins is equivalent to a piece of paper permitting that no penalty should be paid by anyone for a given crime (101-2). Thus, “like George Wilson,” a man who refused a pardon issued by Andrew Jackson, “we must apply our pardon for it to actually grant us life” (102). “Christ’s payment for our sins…,” it turns out, “does not make us any less guilty of those sins”; rather, it only “removes the penalty that would normally be attached to those sins” (102). This is, I’ll grant you, a valiant effort to make plausible the idea that Christ paid the full penalty for the sins of persons who will end up paying eternally for the same sins themselves, but is Christ’s actual payment of the full penalty God’s perfect justice requires analogous to a U.S. president’s issuance of a piece of paper permitting that no penalty should be paid at all? Jesus’ work on the cross fully satisfied the requirements of God’s perfect justice; any person for whose sins Jesus paid the penalty cannot possibly be punished for those sins, because imposition of such punishment would be an unjust act incompatible with God’s perfectly just nature. The only way to believe in both universal atonement (this view that Jesus paid the penalty for all persons’ sins, whether those persons will ultimately be saved or not) and substitutionary atonement (the belief that Jesus paid the actual penalty for actual sins committed by those for whom he atones) in a logically self-consistent manner is to become a universalist (hold that everyone will ultimate end up saved). Analogies, no matter how clever or complex or superficially persuasive, can’t change this.
Another bad analogy Wallace uses likens our avoidance of the need to pay our sin debt, by virtue of our engagement to be Christ’s bride, to a woman’s avoidance of the need to pay her debt at a store chain, by virtue of her engagement to the chain’s owner (102-4). Like the prior analogy, this one suggests our situation, where Jesus has in fact paid the full debt we owe, is analogous to a quite different situation. In this case, the situation is one where an unpaid debt is simply never collected because the person who owes the money happens to know someone with special authority. “Isn’t it ironic,” Wallace asks, “that when it’s all said and done, it’s all about who[m] you know?” (103) Likening the situation where God’s perfect justice required God himself (in the person of his Son) to pay the full sin debt of those whom he would save(in spite offacts that he created and owns all that exists, including those he would save, and is himself the very person to whom the debt is owed), to a human situation where a store’s owner simply dismisses a debt unpaid, does not strike me as God-honoring argumentation. This second analogy is perhaps not so bad as the first, but I can’t help but think that one who would give all glory and honor to God should find it both unsatisfactory and troubling.
Now, a couple paragraphs back, I mentioned “universal atonement.” This stands in contrast to particular atonement, often (if unfortunately) called “limited atonement” (the “L” in the famous-or-infamous Calvinist/Reformed T.U.L.I.P.; I guess T.U.P.I.P. just didn’t sound right). No true Christian who takes time to reflect will suggest that Christ’s atoning work on the cross had other than infinite value (Calvinists believe it limited in intent and application, not in value). God is infinite, hence everything he does has infinite value; Christ is God; therefore, what Christ does has infinite value. (After all, sins against an infinite God, being thus infinitely egregious, seem to merit infinite punishment; so, an atonement with infinite value seems necessary for the saving of even one person.) If one wishes to maintain belief in substitutionary atonement, if one wishes to maintain (as Scripture in its plain sense certainly seems to) that Jesus suffered and died for specific sins of specific sinners, one must decide whether he died for every sin of every sinner (universal atonement) or only for the sins of those (“the elect”) who will end up saved (particular atonement). Substitutionary atonement is not the only “theory of atonement” out there, of course, but it is the “theory” both Wallace (IX, 73-4) and I think biblical, so the question, “For whose sins did Jesus pay the penalty?,” is a key one.
Wallace makes his belief in universal atonement clear throughout Starting at the Finish Line. The “gospel of grace” involves “God accepting the substitutionary offering of His Son as payment in full for every sin ever committed” (IX). After later reiterating that Jesus “paid the price for every sin ever committed,” Wallace adds that “when something has been paid for in full, the balance is zero” (77). Yet, inexplicably, as we’ve already seen, Wallace holds that God will still exact payment for already-paid debt from persons who fail to make a voluntary choice to receive Jesus. Were someone to secretly pay off all your massive student debt (anyone interested in really doing this, please call me), it wouldn’t matter thereafter if you “believed” he’d done it, wished he hadn’t, or wanted him to “take it back.” You would of course be free to donate all the money you liked to Federal Loan Servicing, but the debt would have been paid in full, the account marked accordingly, and further payment would not be possible. If your sin debt has been paid, you cannot be called upon (ever) to pay it, no matter how stubbornly you might refuse to “receive” the already-accomplished payment. Either Christ paid everyone’s penalty, in which case no one can ever be required to pay it (universal atonement with universal salvation), or he only paid the penalty for those who will ultimately end up saved (particular atonement with particular salvation). The hybrid view that Wallace, and perhaps a majority of today’s evangelical Christians, promote is, I’m sorry to say, nonsense. If you want to hold to substitutionary atonement and to universal atonement, you can only do so consistently and rationally if you become a universalist.
What has long troubled me as I’ve interacted with extreme and uncompromising partisans of universal atonement (advocates of universal atonement I interact with invariably seem extreme and uncompromising, viewing any contrary view not simply as wrong, but as heresy) is that even the non-Reformed belief that human choice is ultimate in salvation comports best with particular atonement, at least if one also holds to God’s perfect foreknowledge (believes that God knows everything that will ever happen, including every choice that every individual will ever make). Wallace not only believes in God’s perfect foreknowledge, but embraces the strongest possible form of such belief. Speaking of fulfilled prophecy, he writes: “for those of us who believe that God, who, outside of space and time, sees past, present, and future as one continuous realm, revealed His mysteries to ancient prophets, it’s easy to see the supernatural on display here” (33). Advocates of particular atonement must wonder why someone who clearly believes that God knows who will and will not accept his Son, since he sees them making the decision from his timeless and spaceless realm of transcendence, should nevertheless have his Son pay the penalty for the sins of both those who will and who will not accept the Son. How does this make sense? Additionally, advocates of God’s sovereignty (not human choice) as ultimate in salvation, will wonder how a God who creates all of time and space and everything in them (or, more properly, all of space-time and everything in it) from such a transcendent realm could somehow not sovereignly determine everything (including human decisions for or against Christ) that occurs within space-time. If God creates from beyond space-time, it’s hard to see how his one act of creation could do anything but create the entire sweep of events that make up space-time, including every human decision. Those unwilling to call “free” any human decision that does not fall impossibly outside God’s sovereignty (persons who insist on “libertarian free will” and reject “compatibilism”) may find this unsettling, but placing God outside space-time doesn’t seem to allow such “freedom” to anything within created space-time. Perhaps one could place some immaterial aspect of the human person with God outside space-time and get past his comprehensive sovereignty that way, but I’m not currently aware of any biblical justification for such speculative philosophizing.
Sin Nature without Representation
Wallace’s non-Reformed theology also introduces problems into his understanding of the origin of human sinfulness and how it comports with God’s perfectly just character. During discussion of the Mormon tendency to view Adam and Eve’s fall and expulsion from Eden as good and necessary, Wallace notes how, in addition to feeling the fall was “in a sense, something to be celebrated, not lamented….Mormon theology also maintains that there is a fundamental disconnect between Adam and Eve’s choice (of disobedience) in the garden and the basic nature of their posterity.” Mormonism’s founder, Joseph Smith, “felt so strongly about this that he included it as the second of thirteen Articles of Faith: ‘We believe that men will be punished for their own sins, and not for Adam’s transgression.’” To this, Wallace responds, “You’ll get no argument from the Christian on this point; we are all accountable for our own choices in this life. However, what’s missing here is the transmission, the conveyance if you will, of Adam’s (and Eve’s) willfully disobedient nature to his children, children’s children, and so on to this present day” (45). Note that Wallace accepts Smith’s dichotomy: one either pays solely for one’s own sins, or one also pays for Adam’s sin (his transgression in Eden). Wallace’s solution is to propose that, by sinning in Eden, Adam and Eve both acquired a sinful nature, and that this nature is thereafter passed along (apparently by a spiritual equivalent of genetic inheritance, albeit of a sort where acquired characteristics are inherited by offspring).
Is this a workable solution? If, because of Adam and Eve’s transgression and through no voluntary choice of my own, I have transmitted to me a sinful nature Adam and Eve only acquired through their voluntary sinful action, am I not then being punished for their sin? It sure seems like it! The problem with Wallace’s approach is that it leaves out the concepts of representation and imputation. When it comes to imputation of credit forrighteousness to those whom Christ represents, Wallace has no trouble; he dedicates a whole chapter to the topic (113-116). Somehow, though, the imputation of guilt for sin to those whom Adam represents never finds it way into Starting at the Finish Line. Yet, the principle that one person may stand in the place of, may represent, other persons before God, is the very aspect of God’s just character that makes our salvation possible. Failing to recognize how Adam (not Adam and Eve; sorry feminists) functioned as the legal representative of Eve and of all his natural descendants (all humans save the second Adam, Christ, who stands as the representative of a new line of supernatural descent), makes the transmission of a sinful nature to Adam and Eve’s descendants unjust and arbitrary. (Doubtless egalitarians will bristle at my identification of Adam as even Eve’s representative. That the male partner, “father” in families where there are children, is the representative or “covenant head” of the family—this is a reality blatant throughout Scripture. Much as I’d like to avoid being persecuted by egalitarians, I cannot recant. There’s a reason Romans 5 speaks of “one man,” not “one woman” or “one couple,” as responsible for bringing guilt and sinfulness upon us.) With representation taken into account, however, God imposing upon me (from conception) a sin nature is neither unjust nor arbitrary: it is the just penalty for the sin Adam committed acting as my God-appointed representative. If it is unjust for persons other than Adam to suffer the negative consequences of actions he took as their representative, how is it any more just for persons other that Christ to benefit from the actions he took while representing them?
This seems like a both-or-neither issue to me. Wallace’s halfway version doesn’t work.
Minor & Miscellaneous
Ha! Made you look! While I initially planned to address some additional matters of concern, I’ve decided this review is sufficiently long to meet my always-write-a-really-long-review method of operation. If the mood someday strikes me, I may create a second post taking Wallace to task for various issues no one less hyper-critical than I is likely to care about. Stay tuned!
End of Review…For Now
Versions of this review may be found posted elsewhere. To find out where, see the introduction.
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UK lending pick-up lifts hopes
British bank lending to businesses rose for the third month in a row in March.
Net lending to non-financial firms increased by STG2.7 billion ($A5.24 billion), its strongest increase since the Bank of England data series began in May 2011.
There were increases of STG1.3 billion in February and STG1.9 billion in April.
Within the lending totals, small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) saw growth of STG293 million in March, though this was lower than February's STG584 million.
However, the 12-month growth rate was still a negative, at -0.5 per cent and -1.0 per cent for SMEs.
Howard Archer, chief UK and European economist at IHS Global Insight, said: "The pick-up in bank lending to businesses in March supports hopes that the UK economy is still well placed for decent growth."
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21510: My wife is not beautiful!!
I have been married for a few years. During the first two years I was happy with my marriage and I loved my wife, but after that I started to feel that I disliked my wife. That is not because of religion, because she is religiously committed and has a good character, praise be to Allaah. Rather it has to do with her beauty, because she is not beautiful enough to keep me chaste and make me lower my gaze. I am afraid of mistreating her because I do not feel happy with her and sometimes I frown at her for no reason. The problem is that I cannot marry another wife because I am not financially able. I thought of taking a loan in order to marry but then I would be living in poverty because of the loan. I have thought a lot about divorcing her and letting her go in kindness and replacing her with another, but I have children from her and she loves me a lot. I have thought about this a great deal and it is disturbing my sleep, because I do not know what to do. What should I do, may Allaah reward you.
Praise be to Allaah.
My dear brother, I appreciate your confidence in me and I ask
Allaah to make us and you strong and steadfast, and to guide us. With regard
to your question, I offer the following comments:
1 – The problem you have is not with regard to marrying a
second wife, or divorcing your wife. The problem, as you mention, is a
financial problem. So long as you are not able to marry another wife, then
you should keep the wife with whom Allaah has blessed you.
2 – Whenever you are able and have the financial means, and
praise be to Allaah that He has permitted plural marriage to you… In my
opinion that is easier for a woman to bear than divorce, especially since
you have children from her.
3 – Try to look at the matter from a different angle. You may
find many positive things in her, and beauty is not everything, believe me.
How she behaves and treats you… and many things which are ultimately more
important than appearance. For with time you will get used to her
appearance, and how she behaves will be what matters…
4 – Imagine that you find a very beautiful woman and marry
her… then she starts to treat you in an arrogant or impolite manner… or she
treats you and your family badly… what would you do?!
5 – You should be objective and not burden yourself with more
than you can bear. Look at the matter from different aspects.
“it may be that you dislike a thing and Allaah brings through
it a great deal of good” [al-Nisa’ 4:19 – interpretation of the meaning].
And remember the advice of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah
be upon him): “Look for one [a wife] who is religiously committed, may your
hands be rubbed with dust [i.e., may you prosper]!”
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Tutukaka, NZ – Adventure Day
We had connected with a dive company yesterday. They agreed to take Ty diving, while the kids and I could snorkel and kayak. We met them at the marina at 8:15am. We packed our own lunch, and lots of extra clothes. Ty took his Dramamine and we hoped for the best. Unfortunately for him and R, though the seas were quite choppy. The sky was blue but the ride out was 50 minutes of being slammed about. R had her nausea bands on her wrists, which I think helped. However, Ty was in the back of the boat with a bucket. By the time we got to the dive site he was so pale and sickly looking.
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I got R and L suited up. We’d brought their shorty wetsuits but they’re not very thick. So the dive company loaned us extra suits to put on top of theirs. As extra insulation against the cold water. But the moment L jumped in he was screaming from the cold. He especially had just two shortie wetsuits so his arms and legs were exposed. While us adults were provided with extra thick suits and even a head cap! So back he got on the boat after maybe 5 minutes in the water. 🙄 I got him dressed and entertained with some crafts I had brought just for this possibility. R, I finally convinced to go back in the water, for five more minutes. I also gave her my neoprene cap. Ty was finally able to get ready for diving now. R and I paddled around a bit but she didn’t want to put her face in the water. ☹️ She finally did and we were able to see Ty scuba diving below us. About 5 minutes and she was ready for the boat as well. So I got her dressed, warmed up, and with her craft before I could head out and snorkel by myself. Thankfully the captain said he’d watch the kiddos.
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The fish were beautiful. I enjoyed watching entire schools move as one. The best we’re the jellyfish. Sometimes there were so many I could feel then across my face. Others looked like they were electric, with rainbow colors flashing. I lasted as long as I could, hanging out over top of Ty diving below me. But it got extremely cold so I warmed back up on the boat.
We toured a neat cave before heading to our next site.
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It was a beautiful cove with fur seals at the beach. It was much harder to put that cold wetsuit back on. However, it was worth it! The kelp was flowing beautifully in the current. Colorful fish were everywhere and schools of baby fish were gathered all around the boat near the surface. I snorkeled until I was shivering nonstop.
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Ty came up from his first dive feeling weak and miserable. He threw up a few times, had some snacks, then rallied enough to snorkel. But he wasn’t able to scuba again. We’d hoped to kayak with the kids but ran out of time. The crew showed us a few neat arches before heading back to the marina. We quickly spied a few dolphins, unfortunately they didn’t hang out long. Ty and R started feeling miserable on the return trip but both managed to hold out.
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We ate at the Marina Pizza, while playing a dinosaur match game and Uno. The kids weren’t overly thrilled at New Zealand’s idea of pepperoni.
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The kids built sandcastles till it got dark, while Ty and I started packing up. It’s just after 6pm and we’re putting the kids to bed. Everyone is totally exhausted, so an early night for us all. Tomorrow we drive to Auckland, return the camper, and our flight leaves at 7:30pm. | {
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Biofluorescent sharks, deep sea mining, seafloor vents, underwater drones, and the disturbing effects of ocean acidification: exploring the future of oceanographic discovery.
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Mining: https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/video/2017/jun/28/robots-ocean-floor-deep-sea-mining-video
Sonar mapping: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRQuID0IwbY
Microbes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uktdKw_bJ_8
Biofluorescence: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/explorers/bios/david-gruber/
Susan Avery TED talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMQIgKyX3oU
Triona McGrath TED talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJPpJhQxaLw
Robert Ballard's EV Nautilus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOIOXvU0_qk
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With 95% of the ocean floor unexplored, the deep sea is Earth’s last frontier.
Its pioneers are scientists leveraging the latest technology to cast light on the massive and incomprehensibly dark environment that extends more than 35,000 feet down. Until recently, this world was known only to our planet’s most unearthly species.
This is the story of our largest biome—and the people devoting themselves to understanding it and saving it for future generations.
40 years ago we discovered hydrothermal vents, which act as Earth's plumbing system, transporting chemicals and extreme heat from the molten core of our planet, helping to regulate the chemical makeup of the oceans.
But this seemingly toxic environment is still home to life. Organisms that don’t need photosynthesis to survive can live down here. And with most of the seafloor left to explore, many species remain undiscovered. Studying these unlikely ecosystems can teach us about the earliest stages of life’s evolution here on Earth, and about the possibility of life on other planets.
That’s why NASA is working with oceanographers to help plan the mission to explore Jupiter's ice-covered moon, Europa.
And because these vents form in active volcanic zones, they also help us better understand how landforms and moves over time.
Plus, the sludge that’s constantly spewing from the vents contains some of the most valuable metals known to man.
[Guardian video journalist] “In the deep ocean, where the water is as dark as ink, lie riches that no treasure hunters have managed to retrieve. They are deposits of precious minerals, from cobalt to gold, that have tantalized miners and nations for decades...”
In 2019, a Canadian company will make the first-ever attempt at extracting these minerals. Using the latest technologies and massive, custom designed vehicles, it aims to bring up $1.5 billion worth of metals from a single site 25km off the coast of Papua New Guinea. Nautilus says it will minimize environmental damage by using infrared cameras and sonar to pinpoint the exact location of ore deposits, allowing it to shred less of the ocean floor. But environmentalists aren’t buying it. Preserving a sensitive ecosystem 8,000 feet underwater from the impact of mining is just not that simple.
Unfortunately, we may not have much choice. There’s growing demand for these metals, but dwindling supplies of them on land. Cobalt — for instance — is used in jet engines, lithium-ion batteries, and the computer or smartphone you’re watching this video on—and the machines we made it on.
But this age-old clash between miners and environment is really just one chapter in a much larger story of technology development—innovations aimed at maintaining the delicate balance of the increasingly threatened ocean ecosystem.
One such tool is the EK80 broadband acoustic echo sounder. It uses a range of frequencies to paint a much more comprehensive picture of the amount and types of species living in a selected area of water.
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Using my Yuneec Typhoon Q 500 G model with a GoPro Hero 4 black edition camera to film a weekend gold metal detecting trip to 29 Palms California.
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Four hundred million years ago, California lay at the bottom of a large sea; underwater volcanoes deposited lava and minerals (including gold) onto the sea floor. By tectonic forces these minerals and rocks came to the surface of the Sierra Nevada,[83] and eroded. Water carried the exposed gold downstream and deposited it in quiet gravel beds along the sides of old rivers and streams. The forty-niners first focused their efforts on these deposits of gold.[86]
Because the gold in the California gravel beds was so richly concentrated, early forty-niners were able to retrieve loose gold flakes and nuggets with their hands, or simply "pan" for gold in rivers and streams. However, panning cannot take place on a large scale, and industrious miners and groups of miners graduated to placer mining, using "cradles" and "rockers" or "long-toms" to process larger volumes of gravel. Miners would also engage in "coyoteing", a method that involved digging a shaft 6 to 13 meters (20 to 43 ft) deep into placer deposits along a stream. Tunnels were then dug in all directions to reach the richest veins of pay dirt.
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Highbanking - Clean up of a sluice during a group highbanking project. Sluicing for gold is a popular activity on New 49'er gold claims along the Klamath river during summer months.
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From terrifying home-swallowing sinkholes to picturesque natural caverns, we count fifteen awe-inspiring planetary cavities
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The Bingham Canyon Mine, also known as the Kennecott Copper Mine, is an open-pit mining operation extracting a large porphyry copper deposit southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, in the Oquirrh Mountains. The mine is owned by Rio Tinto Group, an international mining and exploration company headquartered in the United Kingdom. The copper operations at Bingham Canyon Mine are managed through Kennecott Utah Copper Corporation which operates the mine, a concentrator plant, a smelter, and a refinery. The mine has been in production since 1906, and has resulted in the creation of a pit over 0.6 miles (0.97 km) deep, 2.5 miles (4 km) wide, and covering 1,900 acres (770 ha). It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1966 under the name Bingham Canyon Open Pit Copper Mine. The mine experienced a massive landslide in April of 2013 and a smaller slide in September of 2013.
Udachnaya was discovered on June 15, 1955, just two days after the discovery of the diamond pipe Mir by Soviet geologist Vladimir Shchukin and his team. It is more than 600 metres (1,970 ft) deep, making it the third deepest open-pit mine in the world (after Bingham Canyon Mine and Chuquicamata).
The nearby settlement of Udachny is named for the deposit.
As of 2010, Udachnaya pipe is controlled by Russian diamond company Alrosa, which planned to halt open-pit mining in favor of underground mining in 2010.
The mine has estimated reserves of 225.8 million carats of diamonds and an annual production capacity of 10.4 million carats
Chuquicamata, or "Chuqui" as it is more familiarly known, is by excavated volume the biggest open pit copper mine in the world, located in the north of Chile, just outside of Calama, 215 km northeast of Antofagasta and 1,240 km north of the capital, Santiago. The mine is owned and operated by Codelco, a Chilean state enterprise, since the Chilean nationalization of copper in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Its depth of 850 metres (2,790 ft) makes it the second deepest open-pit mine in the world (after Bingham Canyon Mine in Utah, USA).
The Diavik Diamond Mine is a diamond mine in the North Slave Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada, about 300 kilometres (190 mi) north of Yellowknife. It has become an important part of the regional economy, employing 700, grossing C$100 million in sales, and producing approximately 7.5 million carats (1,500 kg (3,300 lb)) of diamonds annually.[2] The area was surveyed in 1992 and construction began in 2001, with production commencing in January 2003. It is connected by an ice road and Diavik Airport with a 5,235 ft (1,596 m) gravel runway regularly accommodating Boeing 737 jet aircraft.
The Grasberg Mine is the largest gold mine and the third largest copper mine in the world. It is located in the province of Papua in Indonesia near Puncak Jaya, the highest mountain in Papua, and it has 19,500 employees. It is majority owned through a subsidiary by Freeport-McMoRan, which owns 90.64% of PT Freeport Indonesia, the principal operating subsidiary in Indonesia, including 9.36% owned through its wholly owned subsidiary, PT Indocopper Investama. The Government of Indonesia owns the remaining 9.36% of PT Freeport Indonesia. FCX operates under an agreement with the Government of Indonesia, which allows Freeport to conduct exploration, mining and production activities in a 24,700-acre area (Block A). It also conducts exploration activities in an approximate 500,000-acre area (Block B). All of Freeport's proven and probable mineral reserves and current mining operations are located in Block A. The 2006 production was 610,800 tonnes of copper; 58,474,392 grams of gold; and 174,458,971 grams of silver.
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Steve Rees book: “Off Grid and Underground" http://www.amazon.com/Off-Grid-Underground-Simpler-Live/dp/1493798510
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A civilization of "Pre-Adamite" giants with elongated skulls appears to have crash-landed on a continent we now call Antarctica some 55,000 years ago.
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Recent years have seen increased survey and sampling expeditions to the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ), central Pacific Ocean abyss, driven by commercial interests from contractors in the potential extraction of polymetallic nodules in the region. Part of the International Seabed Authority (ISA) regulatory requirements are that these contractors undertake environmental research expeditions to their CCZ exploration claims following guidelines approved by the ISA Legal and Technical Commission (ISA, 2010). Section 9 (e) of these guidelines instructs contractors to “…collect data on the sea floor communities specifically relating to megafauna, macrofauna, meiofauna, microfauna, nodule fauna and demersal scavengers”.
There are a number of methodological challenges to this, including the water depth (4000–5000 m), extremely warm surface waters (~28 °C) compared to bottom water (~1.5 °C) and great distances to ports requiring a large and long seagoing expedition with only a limited number of scientists. Both scientists and regulators have recently realized that a major gap in our knowledge of the region is the fundamental taxonomy of the animals that live there; this is essential to inform our knowledge of the biogeography, natural history and ultimately our stewardship of the region. Recognising this, the ISA is currently sponsoring a series of taxonomic workshops on the CCZ fauna and to assist in this process we present here a series of methodological pipelines for DNA taxonomy (incorporating both molecular and morphological data) of the macrofauna and megafauna from the CCZ benthic habitat in the recent ABYSSLINE cruise program to the UK-1 exploration claim.
A major problem on recent CCZ cruises has been the collection of high-quality samples suitable for both morphology and DNA taxonomy, coupled with a workflow that ensures these data are made available. The DNA sequencing techniques themselves are relatively standard, once good samples have been obtained. The key to quality taxonomic work on macrofaunal animals from the tropical abyss is careful extraction of the animals (in cold, filtered seawater), microscopic observation and preservation of live specimens, from a variety of sampling devices by experienced zoologists at sea.
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Planets orbiting other stars, or exoplanets, have become an important field of astronomical study over the past two and a half decades. Recent findings from NASA's Kepler mission suggest that nearly every star you see in the night sky probably has exoplanets orbiting it. The number of confirmed exoplanets is now a few thousand. This talk will present a brief history of exoplanet discoveries, the story of the “super-Saturn” extrasolar ring system, and summarize NASA’s ongoing future plans to discover and characterize “strange new worlds.”
Speaker: Eric Mamajek, Deputy Program Chief Scientist, NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program, JPL
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Just In: Emergency closure of fishery along entire West Coast — Almost no babies surviving since 2011 — “Catastrophic crash… Population decimated… Crisis… Collapse so severe” — “Latest in series of alarming die-offs… mass reproductive failures… strange diseases” — Official: “A lot of weird things out there”
Japan Scientist: “I’ve never seen this before” — White lungs found in dolphins that died during mass stranding near Fukushima — Interruption of blood supply leading to death of tissue — Disease has been linked to radiation exposure
VIDEO: Extremely rare whale washes up in Northeast Japan — Just one sighting of species in history — Similar creature found dead nearby
‘Major blow’ at Fukushima as robot loses control inside reactor — Moved 10 meters before failing — Max radiation readings more than doubled since 2012 — ‘Eerie footage’ shows orange glow in area with highest levels (VIDEO)
Top US Nuclear Physicist: “Iodine-131 will be lethal after ingestion of 30 billionths of a gram” — Main worry is not a Chernobyl-type accident, rather it’s a melt-through of containment vessel — “Not possible to disprove China Syndrome”
Japan Times: Over 150 dolphins wash ashore at multiple locations — 50 miles from Fukushima border — Could be largest mass stranding ever reported in nation’s history — Govt’ Expert: “The dolphins may have had psychological problems… We don’t see any immediate signs of cancer” (VIDEO)
Officials: “Such a bizarre thing” off California coast — “We’re seeing multiple aborted fetuses every day” — 100,000s of seabirds that nest in area now missing… “Huge, unprecedented die-off like we’ve never seen” — Many baby seals dying after mothers led them to a cliff edge… “Brutal to watch” (AUDIO)
Gov’t Experts: “Astounding” levels of radiation measured in U.S. from Fukushima — Around 500,000 times our normal levels…
National Geographic: Newly discovered mass mortality in sea creatures along California coast — Body parts falling off, animals ‘wasting away’
“BREAKING NEWS – Scientists detect Fukushima radiation on North American shores”
13 baby gray whales and 55 dolphins found dead on West Coast
Times: “The worst possible result” revealed at Fukushima — Plant Chief: Centuries may pass before humans find a way to deal with molten cores — Top Official: “We have no idea” what to do, “the technology simply doesn’t exist
Experts: Pacific food web crashing — “What’s going on? Where are the fish? Where did they go?”
AP: Melted fuel may have “dropped even beyond” the bottom of Fukushima plant
TV: Dam gates ‘shifted’ in Fukushima Unit 3 fuel pool —
Times: 200-year wait faced at Fukushima — Plant Chief: “No idea” how to decommission reactors… “the technology does not exist”; “No viable method” to deal with melted fuel
Gov’t Report: Plutonium at 1,000,000 Bq/m3 was detected in ocean off Fukushima — “Contaminated waters will be transported rapidly to east” across Pacific
Expert: Plutonium-241 from Fukushima nearly 70,000 times more than atomic bomb fallout in Japan
Dead sea creatures “covering the sand with a sea of red” on California beach
New images show all melted fuel is “gone” from Fukushima reactor — Experts: Molten core may have reached outer environment,
Gov’t model shows Fukushima radioactive gas near Tokyo skyrocketed to 10,000,000,000 times normal levels soon after 3/11
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The person in charge of decommissioning the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has revealed a possible new way to deal with the radioactive water stored there: just let it evaporate.
"The amount of radioactive water at the plant continues to increase. We need to find a way to reduce it," says Naohiro Masuda, president of the Fukushima Daiichi Decommissioning Company.
Masuda and his team of 6,000 workers have struggled with the problem of contaminated water. Workers must constantly inject water into the crippled reactors to cool molten debris and then pump it out. Groundwater flowing into the reactor buildings adds to the problem.
Executives with the plant's operator, TEPCO, have said they will continue storing the water on site. Masuda says evaporation is one of the options being discussed.
"Diluting the contaminated water and discharging it into the ocean has been discussed. But another option is evaporating the water. This method was used following the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in the US," he says.
Masuda says the task force of the government is discussing the methods. Masuda's engineers and workers use purification equipment to remove most of the radioactive substance, but they can't remove it all. Local fishermen strongly oppose releasing water directly into the ocean. The evaporation method could be an acceptable alternative for them, although some experts say its environmental consequences are unclear.
Handling contaminated water is just one aspect of the highly complex decommissioning process. Masuda believes that he'll need to rely on the international community for support.
"We'll be cooperating mainly with the United States, Britain, France, and Russia. We're already getting help from people at nuclear-related facilities in these counties. We're learning how to decommission and shut down facilities and deal with contaminated soil," he says.
Govt.: Fukushima cleanup estimated at 6 tril. yen
The Japanese government says in a revised estimate that cleanup costs for the 2011 accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant will be nearly 6 trillion yen, or about 52 billion dollars. That includes decontamination work and intermediate storage facilities for contaminated soil and waste material.
The government adjusted the estimate it made 3 years ago. Officials say costs of decontamination work in Fukushima Prefecture and other places are likely to be about 37 billion dollars.
They estimate the cost of building intermediate storage facilities for soil and other waste generated from the cleanup work will be about 14 billion dollars.
The previous estimate had put the cost of decontamination work at 22 billion dollars and that of building the storage facilities at about 10 billion dollars. at about 10 billion dollars.
Fukushima Daiichi cost estimate hits $188 bil.
The Japanese government says the total cost of cleaning up and providing compensation for the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster may end up being twice as much as an earlier estimate.
It says the figure could reach 21.5 trillion yen, or about 188 billion dollars at the current rate.
The industry ministry announced a new cost estimate at a panel of experts on Friday. The panel discusses ways to share the costs of scrapping the reactors as well as decontamination costs, compensation and other payouts.
The ministry's earlier projection of the total cost was about 98 billion dollars.
Loan ceiling for TEPCO to be raised
Japan's government has decided to lift the ceiling for interest-free loans to the operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
The government now estimates the facility will end up costing Tokyo Electric Power Company more than 194 billion dollars.
Decommissioning the plant is expected to cost 4 times the original estimate of 17 billion dollars. Compensation for farmers is expected to rise to 70 billion dollars from 47 billion dollars.
The cost of decontamination work and constructing intermediate storage facilities for contaminated soil and waste materials is also likely to increase to 53 billion dollars from 31 billion dollars.
Inspection team to NRC: Pilgrim Nuclear plant 'overwhelmed'
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Nuclear Plant on Lake Michigan Plans to Permanently Shut Down
http://www.nbcchicago.com/investigations/Nuclear-Plant-on-Lake-Michigan-Plans-to-Permanently-Shut-Down-405526615.html
REPORT: Half Of All US Nuclear Reactors Are Risking Closure
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Worker transporting materials at Savannah River Site triggers fine for SRNS
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A friendly discussion between Kip Andersen, Dave Asprey, and Dr. Joel Kahn. The question they explore is, "what is the ideal diet?" Each guest approaches this subject in a very different way, and we hope that the dialogue between them can bring more clarity to this perennial question.
Kip Andersen is the director of the documentary "What the Health;" Dave Asprey is the author of "The Bulletproof Diet;" and Dr. Joel Kahn is the author of "The Whole Heart Solution."
Leila Janah didn’t have the money to start her company, but she didn’t let that hold her back. She paid her way through Harvard by cleaning toilets, serving cocktails, and tutoring wealthy students while pitching her sustainable business model to anyone who would listen. Since the inception of her company, Samasource--named as one of Fast Company's most innovative companies in 2016--Leila has employed nearly 10,000 people and helped nearly 35,000 people permanently move above the poverty line. Her customers are some of the world’s biggest companies such as Google, Microsoft, Walmart, eBay and she’s been profiled in The New York Times, WIRED, Forbes, and Inc. Leila also founded LXMI (pronounced luxe-me) which is the first social impact beauty brand to be sold at Sephora. Meet the founder, author, and social entrepreneur who believes in reversing poverty one job at a time in this episode of Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu.
PULLED QUOTES
1. “As an entrepreneur, probably the most important attribute is not quitting.” [3:59]
2.“The only real power we have in the world is choosing our response.” [10:45]
3.“The choice to take that painful experience and mold it into something positive for the world is I think the deepest kind of healing we can have as humans.” [11:40]
4.“The only real thing that matters is love.Loving people and being loved yourself.” [17:55]
5.“It’s important that we don’t absolve ourselves of a moral duty to act. We all have that duty to act. You don’t have to be flawless.” [26:25]
6.“I think the most worthwhile, worthy things in life are just the result of a lot of painful, enduring failure.” [30:12]
7.“I think there’s a certain vulnerability that comes from not having a lot of stuff.” [44:13]
8.“Talent is equally distributed and opportunity is not.” [48:02]
SHOW NOTES
Leila walks through how grit was baked into her upbringing. [3:27]
Leila talks about post-traumatic growth and how you can build resilience. [6:30]
Tom and Leila dive into her personal narrative and how she found refuge in social impact.[8:38]
Leila opens up about her struggle with depression and finding nourishment for her soul. [12:55]
Leila takes you through the 4-step process that you can use to keep yourself grounded. [17:00]
Leila explains the benefits of “the pause.” [19:11]
Tom and Leila discuss how she helps people in the gig economy. [22:46]
Leila debunks the myth that people who work in service of humanity are flawless. [25:28]
Leila shines the light on profit versus non-profit and why she chose to launch a benefit corporation.[27:02]
Leila shares valuable about what she looks for in team members. [30:03]
Tom and Leila go deep on the first steps that she took to start her business. [34:42]
Leila recalls living in Ghana and the reverse culture shock she experienced coming home. [40:36]
Leila talks about the reality of scarcity and the power of unleashing untapped potential.[48:00]
Leila defines the impact that she wants to have on the world. [50:23]
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BOOKS
Give Work: Reversing Poverty One Job at a Time -http://amzn.to/2yAkU2R [2:27]
Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy-http://amzn.to/2yb9KgG [6:53]
Scarcity: The New Science of Having Less and How It Defines Our Lives -http://amzn.to/2ybathU [48:29]
ORGANIZATIONS
Samasource-http://bit.ly/2tukCrw [1:01]
LXMI-http://bit.ly/2iIR3OJ [2:22]
Sama Hope -http://bit.ly/2ycYwfY [12:23]
Sama School -http://bit.ly/2ieFpXS [22:41]
PEOPLE
Sheryl Sandberg -http://bit.ly/2dT0nJ3 [6:51]
Ben Horowitz -http://bit.ly/2afpSlU [30:05]
Muhammad Yunus- http://bit.ly/2yVYIPX [36:23]
TERMINOLOGY
B-Corporation -http://bit.ly/2yVUdoI [29:03]
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•Bad skier competes in the Olympics
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https://www.npr.org/sections/thetorch/2018/02/16/586332388/tongan-skier-finishes-strong-in-olympics-after-just-12-weeks-of-training-in-snow
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After decades of innovative work in the health and wellness field, Dr. Mark Hyman is broadening his focus and hosting disruptive conversations about our food and food systems in this episode of Bulletproof Radio as well as in his compelling new podcast.
Dr. Hyman is a practicing family physician, an 11-time New York Times bestselling author, and an internationally recognized leader, speaker, educator, and advocate in the field of Functional Medicine.
He is the Pritzker Foundation chair in Functional Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine and director of the Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine.
He also is the founder and director of The UltraWellness Center, chairman of the Institute for Functional Medicine, medical editor of The Huffington Post, and a regular medical contributor for national media outlets.
Join host and moderator Neil deGrasse Tyson and his panel of experts for a lively discussion about the past, present, and future of water on Earth.
Earth is the only place in our solar system with liquid water on its surface. Even though water makes up only 0.03 percent of the Earth’s total mass, it covers 70 percent of the planet’s surface. Where did this water come from? Why is it mostly in liquid form? How much of it is drinkable and how vulnerable is this valuable resource? Will we ever run out? Will wars of the future be fought over access to it? Will future generations harness water from space? Is water essential to all life in the universe—or just to life on Earth?
2015 Asimov Panelists include:
-Heidi Hammel, Planetary Astronomer,Executive Vice President of the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy
-Tess Russo,Hydrologist,Assistant Professor in the Department of Geosciences at Pennsylvania State University
-Ellen Stofan, Planetary Geologist, Chief Scientist of NASA
-Kathryn Sullivan, Geologist, Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Administrator
-Charles Wald, General, U.S. Air Force, Retired; Director and Senior Advisor to the aerospace and defense industry for Deloitte LP
The late Dr. Isaac Asimov, one of the most prolific and influential authors of our time, was a dear friend and supporter of the American Museum of Natural History. In his memory, the Hayden Planetarium is honored to host the annual Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate — generously endowed by relatives, friends, and admirers of Isaac Asimov and his work — bringing the finest minds in the world to the Museum each year to debate pressing questions on the frontier of scientific discovery. Proceeds from ticket sales of the Isaac Asimov Memorial Debates benefit the scientific and educational programs of the Hayden Planetarium.
2017 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate: De-Extinction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LnAtMeSVeY&index=1&list=PLrfcruGtplwGKzxDI_Ne06NlpOKt-yonZ
2016 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate: Is the Universe a Simulation?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgSZA3NPpBs&index=2&t=25s&list=PLrfcruGtplwGKzxDI_Ne06NlpOKt-yonZ
2015 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate: Water, Water
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSF79uS3t04&index=3&t=25s&list=PLrfcruGtplwGKzxDI_Ne06NlpOKt-yonZ
2014 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate: Selling Space
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbmFeEIKBFI&index=4&t=25s&list=PLrfcruGtplwGKzxDI_Ne06NlpOKt-yonZ
2013 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate: The Existence of Nothing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OLz6uUuMp8&index=5&t=25s&list=PLrfcruGtplwGKzxDI_Ne06NlpOKt-yonZ
2012 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate: Faster Than the Speed of Light
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qlLW60wOjo&list=PLrfcruGtplwGKzxDI_Ne06NlpOKt-yonZ&index=6
2011 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate: The Theory of Everything
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb8_3BUHcuw&list=PLrfcruGtplwGKzxDI_Ne06NlpOKt-yonZ&index=7
Rose Center Anniversary Isaac Asimov Debate: Is Earth Unique?
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Top 7 Biggest and Largest Machines in the World 2017 || Top 7 Extreme Machines in the World || With Real Footage ||
SLJ 900: The SLJ900/32, made by the Beijing Wowjoint Machinery Company, is a 580 ton, 300 foot long and 24 foot wide mega machine that looks more like a train than a crane and acts a lot like a Stretch Armstrong action figure. Instead of using a stationary or crawler crane to lift the girder of a bridge from the ground and drop it into its place, the SLJ900/32 drives the girder onto the previously placed girder, slowly extends its arms to the next support platform, pushes the girder towards the front of the machine and then lowers it into place.
NASA Crawler: The crawler-transporters, formally known as the Missile Crawler Transporter Facilities, are a pair of tracked vehicles used to transport spacecraft from NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) along the Crawlerway to Launch Complex 39. They were originally used to transport the Saturn IB and Saturn V rockets during the Apollo, Skylab and Apollo–Soyuz programs. They were then used to transport Space Shuttles from 1981 to 2011. The crawler-transporters carry vehicles on the Mobile Launcher Platform, and after each launch return to the pad to take the platform back to the VAB.
Bagger 288: Bagger 288 (Excavator 288), built by the German company Krupp for the energy and mining firm Rheinbraun, is a bucket-wheel excavator or mobile strip mining machine.
The Bagger 288 bucket-wheel excavator. When its construction was completed in 1978, Bagger 288 superseded Big Muskie as the heaviest land vehicle in the world, at 13,500 tons.[1] It took five years to design and manufacture, and five years to assemble with total cost reaching $100 million.[2] In 1995, it was itself superseded by the slightly heavier Bagger 293 (14,200 tons). NASA's Crawler-Transporter still remains the largest self-powered land vehicle in the world, since bucket-wheel excavators are powered by an external power source, and the Overburden Conveyor Bridge F60s hold the title of largest land vehicle of any type by physical dimensions.SK 3500D:
Tunnel Cutter: A tunnel boring machine (TBM), also known as a "mole", is a machine used to excavate tunnels with a circular cross section through a variety of soil and rock strata. They may also be used for microtunneling. They can bore through anything from hard rock to sand. Tunnel diameters can range from a metre (done with micro-TBMs) to 19.25 metres to date. Tunnels of less than a metre or so in diameter are typically done using trenchless construction methods or horizontal directional drilling rather than TBMs.
Wave Power Generator: Wave power is the transport of energy by wind waves, and the capture of that energy to do useful work – for example, electricity generation, water desalination, or the pumping of water (into reservoirs). A machine able to exploit wave power is generally known as a wave energy converter (WEC).
Wave power is distinct from the diurnal flux of tidal power and the steady gyre of ocean currents. Wave-power generation is not currently a widely employed commercial technology, although there have been attempts to use it since at least 1890.[1] In 2008, the first experimental wave farm was opened in Portugal, at the Aguçadoura Wave Park. XGC 8800D:
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Aquarium safe rocks. A basic break down on how to figure out which rocks are safe for your aquarium.
A lot of times, aquarium hobbyists like to find their own rocks, yet a common question they will ask is: Which rocks are safe for my aquarium.
This is my way of figuring out what you can and probably shouldn't use, by using a process of elimination by way of simple testing.
Women who like wearing jewelry usually love diamonds, gold, and silver. Other women prefer pearls.
Pearls are beautiful, hard gems that come in white, red, gray, blue, green, and black. They are typically spherical in shape, but there are those that form unevenly, i.e. baroque pearls. Perfectly round pearls are considered the most beautiful and they are ideal to be used as jewelry.
Oysters produce these precious, iridescent stones. Amazingly, they are the by-product of a biological process that occurs when an irritant or a foreign substance such as a food particle, enters an oyster’s shell. Contrary to popular belief, the irritant is hardly ever a grain of sand.
Clams and mussels can also produce this precious stone, but not as frequent as oysters do. Imagine then this woman’s surprise when she opened a giant clam and found not just one pearl inside, but perhaps more than a dozen! What a very lucky girl indeed.
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Nundle Diamonds or Nundle Quartz Crystals are one of the easiest Crystals to clean. Using water and a little bit of dish washing liquid, the dirt comes off quite easily. Some do have Iron baked on stains that might require using other methods of cleaning.
Music:......1. The Owl Named Orion
2. Living the Daydream
Music by: Dan-O at DanoSongs.com
Jewelry Making Tutorials - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKz21al88ViEih85hG7ZiSZIYQmsv6WV0
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It can happen in an instant: Your car ends up in the water, and it’s sinking fast. Here’s how to get out.
Step 1: Calm down
Stem panic by reminding yourself that your car will usually float for a minute or two before it begins to sink. Use this time to unfasten your seat belt, open the driver-side window or a sunroof, and unlock the doors.
Tip
As long as you keep your keys in the ignition, the electrical system likely will work until the car is submerged enough for the system to short out.
Step 2: Break the window
If you were unable to open your side window, break it with your elbow, heels, or -- better still -- anything pointy you have on hand, like a pen or screwdriver. Aim for the center of the window. Don’t bother with the windshield; it's made to be unbreakable.
Tip
Hardware stores sell tools specifically designed to break car windows in an emergency.
Step 3: Undress
If the car is sinking slowly, take off your shoes. If you’re wearing jeans and you have time, remove those as well. Both weigh you down, making swimming to the surface more difficult.
Step 4: Get out
Climb out the window before the car becomes submerged, and swim to the surface.
Tip
Memorize the acronym POGO: Pop seat belt, Open the window, and Get Out.
Step 5: Wait until car fills
If you were unable to get out through the window, don’t panic! Let the car fill with water, knowing that once it does, the water pressure inside and out will be equalized, allowing you to open the door and escape.
Tip
Hang on to the door handle as the car fills with water so you don’t float and become disoriented if the car flips.
Step 6: Open the door
When the water reaches your chin, take a deep breath and hold it. Then open the door and swim out headfirst. If you’re not sure which way is up, look for bubbles and swim in the direction in which they’re rising.
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If you know anything about ancient history then you know there is not one primary source for anything earlier than 1100 AD or CE, are all of those stories about Ceasar, Mark Antony, Cleopatra, made up by academia? to have scholarship and careers? so first, we have to establish just what ancient is.
Baalbek is not just some big slabs on the ground it is a Temple city made for and by giants, academia has not one clue as to who even built it, but, they don't even mention the place, I think because they know that whoever it was, was the real Rome. The age it is not known.
Velikovsky was all over that. an event like the JFK assassination will happen that opens your eyes to see there is a problem, then eventually there comes a time where you think everything you thought you knew is wrong.
Baalbek giants somebody cleaned the place up for nothing to be found there, who? what is or isn't true about anything on Rome or Greece. We are seen as ignorant eaters. Lol, how ancient is ancient history really? a few hundred years?
Their formula is simple and straightforward, war-killing-disease = profit, peace-good health- longevity = no profit, too many people,
Scaliger has been brought up so I thought to learn a bit about him from a different source etc.After looking at a few sources it looks like he was a real scholar but, standing in the way of those wishing to have their way through the usurping then control of the institutions they threw events much further in the past and succeeded. Scaliger appears to be the scapegoat here, Fair use: nonprofit video, contents are:
Quick recap of Part 1
The Secret of Baalbek - Velikovsky http://www.varchive.org/ce/baalbek/baalbek.htm
The Sceptics https://www.karwansaraypublishers.com/ahblog/heroes-9-the-sceptics/
Joseph Scaliger
Giants in America -http://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends/ancient-race-white-giants-described-native-legends-many-tribes-005774
The Reformation
the 30 years war
The Inquisition - https://youtu.be/ok89WOdz1PI
Femenko New chronology
Ages in Chaos - Velikovsky
Michael Tsarion - https://youtu.be/L0c9sedqzZ
Fake Greek history - https://youtu.be/W6nFQtjb3NE
Polymer pyramids - https://youtu.be/znQk_yBHre4
Ages in chaos Velikovsky https://www.velikovsky.info/Ages_in_Chaos
Marcus Allen on Velikovsky's book - Zohar StarGate Ancient Discoveries
https://youtu.be/BWXNzOtRUe4
A paraphrase synopsis of this video - Ceasar's Messiah - https://youtu.be/5-jDH3Sn9Pw
ET origins - https://youtu.be/bqj4-DE1EIQ
Gunnar's video - https://youtu.be/c876lPZ-UZU
thunderbolts.info
Planet amnesia yt channel
JFK footage -
mythsarehistory.com
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John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ shares with you his favorite organic liquid fertilizer that will provide your plants what they are probably missing in modern agriculture. In this episode, John visits Hippocrates Health Institute in West Palm Beach, Florida and shares with you the fertilizer they use to grow successfully in sand. You will discover how easy it is to apply this liquid fertilizer in an irrigation system or when hand watering. You will also learn the other benefits of using this liquid fertilizer that supplies your plants with 90 elements so your plants can grow huge, be more pest resistant and taste the best,
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Mike Rowe the host of "Dirty Jobs," tells some compelling (and horrifying) real-life job stories. Listen for his insights and observations about the nature of hard work, and how its been unjustifiably degraded in society today.
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1. What Are Your Beliefs?
Beliefs are mental notions and assumptions we have, about ourselves and the world around us, that we hold onto as absolute truths. They are emotional and psychological and often irrational. They are formed through our experiences and interactions with the world. Dr. Rao says that these beliefs make up our mental model. Others simply call them unconscious beliefs. They often do not serve us but rather hold us back from pursuing our dreams and living freely and fully to our potential.
Here are some common beliefs:
I’m not important
Making money is a struggle
I’m not good enough
I’m not smart enough
I don’t deserve it
I am too young, people won’t take me seriously
I am too old, it’s too late to start…
I am a hard worker. I work hard for money.
I’m pretty much doomed, I don’t have good luck, problems always follow me.
Narrated by Ted Danson, this 2009 video is an overview of the issues plaguing our oceans and what Oceana is doing to help. From bottom trawling to overfishing, Ted discusses the ways in which we are drastically changing our oceans and, as a result, our climate and our world. Oceana has already set the stage for far-reaching policy change with many important victories, and continues to work tirelessly to protect our oceans and its incredible marine diversity.
To find out more about Oceana and do your part to protect the oceans, visit http://na.oceana.org/.
John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ shares with you how he organically controls his fungus gnats, fleas, leaf miners, grubs, maggots, root knot nematodes and much more using beneficial nematodes.
In this episode, John shares with you another biologic gardening practice he uses: introducing beneficial worms into his garden that will kill many undesired "bad" insects in the garden, such as: fungus gnats, Japanese beetles, grubs, root aphids, fruit fly, leaf miner, cabbage maggot, cucumber beetles, tobacco cutworm, thrips, root maggots, root knot nematodes, and many more.
First, John will talk about biologic gardening and how he harnesses the power of nature to work with him in his garden to control bad bugs and other plant pests. You will discover some of the many pests that beneficial nematodes can be effective against.
Next, you will discover the best place to order your beneficial nematodes, and why.
Finally, John will demonstrate the proper technique for distributing the beneficial nematodes into your garden using a hose-end sprayer.
After watching this episode, you will know how to get rid of pests like fungus gnats as well as many other pests organically by beneficial nematodes that will work for you even when you sleep!
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If you’re like most people, you use aluminum foil to line a roasting pan and cover your leftovers. You may even use a crumpled up piece of foil to give your pots and pans a good scour. But aluminum foil has dozens of other uses that can save you time and money.
Here are 8 easy ways you can use and reuse aluminum foil that will make your life easier.
1.Improve Your Wi-Fi Signal
If you’re the one who’s not satisfied with the speed of your Wi-Fi or want to increase router Wi-Fi strength, then with aluminum foil, you can increase and strengthen your Wi-Fi signals. Wrap foil to a rectangular cardboard, curve it and place it behind the antenna of your router. This aluminum foil will reflect the wireless signals into the direction that you wanted to be.
2.Fix a battery connection
Over time, the little spring that holds the batteries in place within electronics such as flashlights can loosen. Take a small square of aluminum foil, about an inch squared, and fold it a few times, forming a small pad. Place the pad between the battery and the spring. The foil will keep the battery in place while completing the circuit.
3.Sharpen your scissors
If you need to sharpen your scissors and get rid of rust,
Fold several layers of foil and Cut smoothly through the foil ensuring all the blade touches the foil with each cut. Repeat several times, check the sharpness of scissors and repeat if needed.
4.Remove static electricity from your clothes
Have you ever noticed dust particles getting attached to your clothes while drying your washed clothes? This happens because of static charge. The simple solution is to put some foil balls in the washer together with the laundry. After washing, your clothes won’t accumulate electricity and attract dust and hairs.
5.Move furniture easily
Unless you're the Incredible Hulk, moving heavy furniture across carpet is difficult, back straining process. Make the process a little easier with a bit of aluminum foil.
Just stick it under the furniture's legs and it should drag across the carpet much easier.
6.Protect food from burning
In order to protect food from sticking in the frying pan, put a layer of foil at the bottom. This is also how you can cook without oil.
7.Seal plastic bags
Fold a piece of aluminum foil over the opening of the bag. Make sure the aluminum foil covers all the plastic you intend on ironing so the iron does NOT come into contact with the actual plastic.
Now run the hot iron over the foil for a minute or two, allowing the plastic to melt and seal. Let cool and remove the aluminum foil.
8.Iron clothes from both sides at once
Put some aluminum foil under the clothes before ironing. Foil becomes hot really fast, and this is how your clothes can b
John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ answers your organic gardening questions.
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After watching this episode, you will learn John's answers to these questions, and probably learn a few things along the way as well:
02:20 Is it ok to grow two pepper plants together?
05:04 When do I buy organic plants and when do I plant them in Las Vegas?
10:27 Which edibles do you recommend to grow when you have limited light?
13:03 You would look more distinguished if you didn't dye your hair?
14:44 Is Diatomaceous Earth ok to use? Can you do a video on it?
15:34 When composting do you continually add greens or do you ever stop?
18:15 How can I get ahold of the AquaJet Company?
20:15 How do you donate the $5 for ten minutes of garden tips?
20:31 Is it safe to drink the juice of pinto bean plants?
24:38 Where did you get the clips for your cucumber plants?
25:55 What fertilizer should I use in a hydroponic sprouting system?
28:36 Do you juice Rainbow Chard? I tried to juice it with the Lequip 215XL and it went crazy?
30:37 Is the Wondersoil seed starting mixture that you formulated still available?
32:21 Do you have a video on what you do to your soil when starting a new season?
35:40 Is it more economical to use compost tea or synthetic fertilizers in a hydroponic setup?
Referenced Videos:
Where to get the best plant starts in Southern California (CPG)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y9pWCyuQU0
Eat Fresh & Local Foods without Growing Them (Eating Weeds)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyDOFpltFVk
Organic Non-toxic Pest Control that is Safe Enough to Eat (Diatomaceous Earth Episode)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujpzK3HMlr8
Did the Aquajet work?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQaLEMNelKI
Where I get my plant clips that I use in my garden
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Qms_61RACA
Open Source Compost Tea Recipe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTijkwQaPRI
Best Seed Starting Mixture made with Coconut Coir (Wondersoil Episode)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2c7fzeEenk
Testing Brix levels in peppers I grew
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXRNHGJK1bY
How I ammend my garden beds after every growing season:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hN0LqS1Mac
Best Cold Press Juicer for under $150
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu9GDDcvXWQ
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FiNMAX mobile apps are available for both iOS and Android devices, which ensures that traders can access their accounts through a smartphone or a tablet. FiNMAX offers specific FiNMAX apps for iPhone, iPad, and other smartphones and tablets. Once again, traders can access almost the entire range of platform features that are available on the desktop platform, while advanced charting options from TradingView can be easily accessed through their responsive template.
FiNMAX Trading Accounts.
Even though the minimum investment required for a Platinum VIP account is high, the trading features can more than justify the initial investment barrier. The only concern is that traders may not feel comfortable depositing large amounts of money at FiNMAX without any proper regulatory protection. Regardless, the company has managed to steer clear of any large controversies, which does make it a bit more dependable than brokers that are located in tax havens.
FiNMAX Demo Trading Account.
FiNMAX offers a limited period demo that is valid only for a week, which is not a whole lot of time to learn the concept in detail. Although FiNMAX has limited its demo account to users, it is far better than avoiding a demo offering altogether. Seasoned traders can use the demo trading account to gauge the efficiency of the platform, while amateur traders can also use the demo period to familiarise themselves with the binary options market and put on a few trades to gain market exposure. Nevertheless, we would have appreciated if the company had provided a bit more time with its free demo account option.
FiNMAX Support.
FiNMAX clients can make use of the vast resources for trading, which includes advanced trading charts, personal account manager, and market analytics. Larger account holders have the convenience of trading with signals or use social trading platforms to copy trades from successful traders. The broker also provides market analysis, trading news, webinars, strategy, and VIP trader education. FiNMAX has one of the best trader-oriented resources, which can provide a highly beneficial platform for binary options traders.
FiNMAX Verdict.
CONs.
There is a drastic amount of confusion surrounding regulatory status. Reduced number of binary options assets.
Yes, traders can download dedicated FiNMAX apps for iOS and Android devices.
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David Bowie crossed more boundaries with Heroes.
Photograph: Steve Schapiro/Corbis
Anaïs Mitchell wrote Why We Build the Wall to raise the question:“Imagine part of the world becomes uninhabitable and there are masses of hungry, poor people looking for higher ground.”In the song’s brooding Americana, Hades asks the heads of the hellhound Cerberus “Why do we build the wall?” Their answer: to stay free; to keep out poverty, the enemy; because we have and they have not. Hadestown’s population lives “free” but in perpetual fear and with a wall for scenery. What a limit on their imagination, such constrained lives, propagating the status quo, averting development. All obstacles of their own making.
If they are to thrive, the folk of Hadestown could do with the life, irresistible love and generosity of heart expressed in the gospel stylings of Diana Ross’s Ain’t No Mountain High Enough.
Equally full of passion and spirit is the Bandwagon’s Breakin’ Down the Walls of Heartache. It chips away at those sorrowful walls to a northern soul beat and rebuilds with love.
Even more uplifting is the anthemic Philly Soul of McFadden and Whitehead’s Ain’t No Stopping Us Now. They “refuse to be held down anymore”, although they aren’t sure of where the road will lead them. Of course, it’s also about the expectation that the barriers of racial prejudice are finally being surmounted.
A decade earlier than Ain’t No Stopping Us Now, the evil of racial prejudice had made Syl Johnson write, Is it Because I’m Black? A passionate southern soul song of anger and vulnerability, ambition and incomprehension at the barriers erected due to skin colour.
Sadly, 30 years on, the same ire and perplexity can be heard in Leena Conquest & Hip Hop Finger’s jazzy funk as they question the concept of the Boundaries we create to separate ourselves from each other. “Whose land is it anyway?” she asks after quoting Woody Guthrie and referencing Marvin Gaye. Whose land, indeed?
In complete contrast, Adrian Borland’s obstacle wasn’t anyone or anything; he wanted to shake off his own skin. As part of The Sound he sang, I Can’t Escape Myself. Yet maybe music was his therapy, the aid to help him overcome his depression – that impediment to a “normal” life. He deserved more understanding.
And do we understand the hopelessness of the lovers carrying out an act of reckless bravado in David Bowie’s Heroes? They kiss by the Berlin Wall, taunting the guards, who shoot overhead. Bowie presents it as a futile gesture against the obstacle of an oppressive regime.
But what if Bowie’s lovers had gone Over the Wall? Echo and the Bunnymen’s song could mean anything but suggests that overcoming one obstacle would leave them miserable, confused by their new world, mystified by the freedom to go coast to coast, leaving them seeking solace in each other.
“Double misery” is broached in Tony Allen’s song Boat Journey. Its edgy afro-beat and lyrics urges migrants to turn back because the ocean is wide and the situation is “not so cool” there. Physical obstructions then give way to legal and cultural hurdles. If you’re lucky to arrive, you’ll need more luck to be allowed to stay.
To return Why We Build the Wall, I’m sure there are many leaders who would adopt it as their theme song. I can also imagine certain European leaders gleefully and ungainly trying to whoop it up to Little Richard’s lyrics and joining in as he taunts: “You Keep a Knockin’ but you can’t come in.”
How to fight back against bricks so thick, power so strong? Well, creating awareness like the Reclaim the Streets movement is one way. Roadblock by Stock Aitken Waterman is (surprisingly) the infectious funk that reminds me of that happy carnival atmosphere.
Lastly, Crowded House sing melodically about an ordinary person facing battles, setbacks and endless obstacles. It asks us not to be apathetic. “Don’t let them build a wall between us. Don’t let then win. Don’t Dream it’s Over.”
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