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Star Citizen Selling A $900 Ship
lcpiper
Derangel said:
Sorry I was getting ready to leave for work when I posted and forgot to edit around what I was replying to. I'm talking about how you said it is supposed to be viewed differently from buying traditional virtual items. Both games being so insanely bloated and CIG expanding so quickly that they constantly need larger and larger sums of money does not make what they are doing less of a pay-to-win scheme or any different from the shitty, predatory, practices companies like EA and Activision engage in on a routine basis.
Cool, I get caught up all the time and have to go back and restate things. We're only human.
So I'll say it like this. I play World of Tanks and World of Warships. I have bought "Premium" items in both games. For a long time, there were very few instances where a premium tank on WoT had better performance than it's counterpart non-premium tanks of the same tier, (and arguably nationality).
As an example, the Tier 8 Premium IS-6 was not better than a regular IS-3 when the IS-3 is fully researched, no pay to win there. That has started to change over the last year or so. These days the Premiums are frequently superior vehicles in comparison to their non-premium contemporaries.
Now we have the ship I bought in my starter package for Star Citizen. First, up until the time I uninstalled, waiting on release, I was mostly flying alone, no PvP, no competition, it was me doing the three or so missions, or just flying around experiencing the game and some of the things that were up and running. For instance, I went flying looking for salvage and I actually found some. I was giddy, went back to port, and had no vendor I could find where I could sell said salvage. A let down to be sure, but I'm not seeing any pay to win here. Now as I understand it, there is a little more to do these days, but I'm thinking that overall, the game remains more in a pay to experience state, than any possibility of pay to compete and I don't think winning anything is possible yet.
The last EA or Activision game I bought was The Division (Ubisoft), and I didn't see any pay to win there, if I remember right it was pay to look good and that was it. The last new title I tried was Apex Legends (EA), and it has been free to play with options to buy pretty shit and I have, out of appreciation for a mostly well run free game, I felt it was worth it to support what they had done.
I was looking forward to Anthem and I had heard a lot of people saying it would be bad because it was by EA. I was tempted to try it and got side tracked by Apex Legends. Yesterday I saw a video with a guy berating EA complaining about the loot system. "Just give players their damned loot" he said. Now I haven't played the game. I don't know the extent and details of this "issue". But I do know that I played Diablo2 for many years, hundreds, thousands of hours, I can't say. But I played the hell out of that game and I never ever got a Wind Force Bow to drop, not once. I finally got one in a trade, but I never got one free and clear as a drop or through gambling. There were sets I never completed, like Natalia's, I never got that claw weapon. So I can't say what's wrong with Anthem's loot mechanic, but when the game has only been out a short time, I do wonder if the real problem is just spoiled needy people.
You give money to a developer knowing up front that the virtual items you are getting can't be used because the game isn't playable yet, and the developer tells you up front that you should think of your money spent as an investment and a donation.
I think you should take his word for it.
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Ebernanut said:
FTC doesn't care because there aren't any investors expecting a return, just suckers giving them money.
You have that in writing somewhere? You know that for a fact?
So explain why this "filthy thief" has refunded people their "donations" when asked?
You don't think any of the people who donated to SC, did so expecting a finished game to play?
Or is it that you only think "suckers" donated their money expecting a game out of it?
Grimlaking
lcpiper said:
I will say this. Actually getting a refund for your donation isn't just as easy as asking for it. I have an LTI package (OG backer?) anyway I asked for a refund a couple years ago and got shut down. So now we wait and see what happens. If it fails well lesson learned. If it succeeds I guess I need to get a new flight stick set.
Gottfried Leibnizzle
Wrecked Em said:
The real question is why wouldn't they offer it? The worst that can happen is that nobody buys it, but think of the alternative.
The problem is that this sort of halo model pricing normalizes charging, say, 100$ for other lesser ships... Which is yanking the arse out of the chicken to begin with. They arent aiming to make money off of this ship directly - it only exists to make the other stuff appear cheap by juxtaposition.
motomonkey
M76 said:
And the necromancer of the week award goes to...
Hey now, this is important stuff!
we need the occasional update on game progress, I expect this to be an annual feature for at least the next 10 years. always good for a laugh.
motomonkey said:
Then why not create a new news item about the game ? Like about the fact that after 7 years of hard development they finally managed to get the female player character implemented?
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Dekoth-E-
I think this thread has developed faster and is closer to gold release than this "game".
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This needs a haiku grouping star citizen with dikatana and Duke Nukem. Anyone?
Vader1975
HardOCP News said:
Holy crap, a $900 ship? Someone please explain to me how something like this even exists.
While I agree with the wholy molyness.... If I add up all I have spent on World of Tanks... hangs head in shame.
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whateverer
Dekoth-E- said:
Are you kidding me? This game is ready to go Gold. Ther3e's tons of bug-free content!
Check pout this incredible amount of things to do in game...like spending 20 minutes being bored flying from spawn to ArcCorp in Quantum Travel
These idiots are getting exactly what they want - realistic boredom, so they can have time to play their favorite Pay To Win tablet games, while they're not playing their favorite Pay To Win Space Sim.
And I hope you don't mind our High Fidelity Physics Engine, which continues to eject players and other objects from inside their ships to this very day.
And check out these hot dance moves from the new AI they've added :
https://i.imgur.com/NRrnNXZ.mp4
FIDELITY+++++
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RanceJustice
Normally I wouldn't get involved in a thread like this, but lets try NOT to necro things in the News section. There is already a well populated thread in the PC Games subsection discussing Star Citizen. It is hundreds of pages long with every opinion expressed in this thread and more. So please, lets not thread necro from 2015. Lock, please.
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RanceJustice said:
I dunno, they havn't closed thread in PC Gaming, even though the players have been paving over and ignoring it's huge faults for years.
And they still sell new ships that cost almost a thousand dollars, right?
I think there's still more than enough for us to comment on t the True Believers of this worthless religion, don't you? And there's no better place to do that than a Front Page news post about overpriced ships.
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I think calling out Cloud Imperium Games is a good thing. Wish Kyle was around to give it the Phaeton treatment. (But really it's software so how could he.).
whateverer said:
Both "sides" of the debate on the title are present there. Saying openly "There aren't enough people who shit on the game in its thread, so I'd like to repurpose a news post from 2015 to do so in the hopes people who share my opinion will come here" is not, to my understanding how the News section is supposed to work.
Grimlaking said:
You can "call them out" in the existing thread in PC gaming, if you like.
Lizard Testes
Until either the game is released, or EODetroit pays me the $3,000 he owes me over betting that SQ42 was going to come out literally 4 years ago, I'm going to keep necroing it every 6-12 months.
The fact that SQ42 was supposed to be out 4 years ago and still isn't is news. Get over it.
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Lizard Testes said:
I don't believe that the entire forum should be affected because you believe you have a personal score to settle with someone else - again, not a proper use of the News section. An ongoing grievance against a game much less a single person on the forum is not news. Even at its "best" (and I use that term very loosely) its a "water still wet" situation. You don't see me or anyone else bumping a years old article about a title's launch, without adding to anything aside from "Game X still using horrible microtransactions!" simply because I don't like it, right?
pillagenburn
I've got a $900 virtual Brooklyn Bridge for sale if anyone is interested.
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Derangel
Crowd funding is not an investment. The ONLY time crowd funding is an investment is when its on a platform like Fig where you specifically invest in projects with the promise of returns on that investment if the game does well. Typical crowd funding is either a donation (when there is no incentive involved beyond some kind of "thank you") or effectively a pre-order. You will never see a return on giving projects money through Kickstarter or other platforms. If the product is released you will receive the tier you paid for (hopefully) and that's it. If CIG is telling people that they are "investing" in SC and SQ42 they are out-right lying.
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Maybe you just woke up on the wrong side of the bed, or read half a sentence and had to speak out ignoring all context. I can not say which. But You are taking one word literally without understanding the context of it's use. If you were ignorant of the circumstances surrounding the Pledge Store Items, then I would understand and cut you some slack. But you are not ignorant of the circumstances, so if you detect a little snarkiness you can rest assured that it's intentional.
I think you know full well that I did not use the word investment in a fiscally literal sense. It's a donation, it's always been a donation, Cloud Imperium Games has never portrayed such transactions as anything more than a donation with benefits. Their website for the Store is called the Pledge Store because the purchases are "pledges" of limited financial support. I never suggested that any "investment" would bring financial returns.
So if you can manage to get bent out of shape over something real, by all means, bring it up. But claiming that I intended meaning that I did not intend won't get you anything nice. I can't even believe that you went down this rabbit hole to begin with.
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I misread what you said. Thought you said they were saying that the people pledging were investing, not that the developers were investing the money. The whole notation some people have about crowd funding being an "investment" in a game or project always rubs me the wrong way due to it being a gross misunderstanding of what crowd funding is. So my misunderstanding that a developer was making that claim set me off a bit.
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Dullard
It was worth the necro to see the toilet ejection bug.
The game has been in development for years - they have a zero G toilet that doesn't work and ejects you into space.
Cause or effect?
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Dullard said:
I think it's secretly a message from a dissatisfied worker. "We think you are all shits... so the toilet identifies the player as shit and ejects them into the cold of space as waste removal."
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The toilet ejection bug just highlights the fact that the game has always had serious physics bugs - launching players, cargo, and even ships massive distances.
As they have added features, It's has resulted in all sorts of hilarious bugs, all because someone thought it might be a good idea to modify the physics system from an FPS engine (Crysis) for space flight, instead of building one from the ground-up. So objects are constantly colliding with things that aren't there, and get flung.
They will never fix the physics engine, so each bug has to be hacked-around.
When they need another two years they will just switch engines and start over again.
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Two years? I was thinking five
Nope that's for when they have to recode all of their tools that they spent two 3-5 years designing before to make the rest of the process faster.
Why not, if it's relevant and entertaining, and obviously, from the replies it's generating, it should be perfectly acceptable. this is, after all, the favorite dead horse to beat on the forum.
N4CR
I was looking forward to the graphics until watching that. Is that max graphics? I hope not. It looks like some mid-tier gaming company making some old PS2 game, everything is placed in this theatrically stacked and pasted way. It has almost no atmosphere effects. The texture for a key point (storyline planet) is split right down the middle and you end up after QT exactly looking at it. The city was PS2 level graphics at best, terrible. Even the spaceport once you get out of the main corridor was starting to look pretty lackluster. Ship outside was nasty looked like old graphics.
This is a big letdown seeing that, had expected more polish after 6 gorillion years.
This also makes me even more impressed by what Hello Games/No Man's Sky has achieved. Far, far higher quality level, easier to jump on and play and better graphics to boot, in less time and a fraction of the budget. Plus an OGL based engine (until Vulkan today). SC should be on Vulkan but that's another few years down the drain..


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Your Brain on Books
Neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene explains his quest to understand how the mind makes sense of written language
By Stanislas Dehaene on November 17, 2009
Stanislas Dehaene holds the chair of Experimental Cognitive Psychology at the Collège de France, and he is also the director of the INSERM-CEA Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit at NeuroSpin, France's most advanced neuroimaging research center. He is best known for his research into the brain basis of numbers, popularized in his book, "The Number Sense." In his new book, "Reading in the Brain," he describes his quest to understand an astounding feat that most of us take for granted: translating marks on a page (or a screen) into language. He answered questions recently from Mind Matters editor Gareth Cook.
COOK: How did you become interested in the neuroscience of reading?
DEHAENE: One of my long-time interests concerns how the human brain is changed by education and culture. Learning to read seems to be one of the more important changes that we impose to our children's brain. The impact that it has on us is tantalizing. It raises very fundamental issues of how the brain and culture interact.
As I started to do experimental research in this domain, using the different tools at my disposal (from behavior to patients, fMRI, event-related potentials, and even intracranial electrodes), I was struck that we always found the same areas involved in the reading process. I began to wonder how it was even possible that our brain could adapt to reading, given it obviously never evolved for that purpose. The search for an answer resulted in this book. And, in the end, reading forces us to propose a very different view of the relationship between culture and the brain.
COOK: What is this "new relationship"?
DEHAENE: A classical, although often implicit, view in social science is that the human brain, unlike that of other animals, is a learning machine which can adapt to essentially any novel cultural task, however complex. We humans would be liberated from our past instincts and free to invent entirely new cultural forms.
What I am proposing is that the human brain is a much more constrained organ than we think, and that it places strong limits on the range of possible cultural forms. Essentially, the brain did not evolve for culture, but culture evolved to be learnable by the brain. Through its cultural inventions, humanity constantly searched for specific niches in the brain, wherever there is a space of plasticity that can be exploited to "recycle" a brain area and put it to a novel use. Reading, mathematics, tool use, music, religious systems -- all might be viewed as instances of cortical recycling.
Of course, this view of culture as a constrained "lego" game isn't that novel. It is deeply related to the structuralist view of anthropology, as exemplified by Claude Levi-Strauss and Dan Sperber. What I am proposing is that the universal structures that recur across cultures are, in fact, ultimately traceable to specific brain systems.
In the case of reading, the shapes of our writing systems have evolved towards a progressive simplification while remaining compatible with the visual coding scheme that is present in all primate brains. A fascinating discovery, made by the American researcher Marc Changizi, is that all of the world's writing systems use the same set of basic shapes, and that these shapes are already a part of the visual system in all primates, because they are also useful for coding natural visual scenes. The monkey brain already contains neurons that preferentially respond to an "alphabet" of shapes including T, L, Y. We merely "recycle" these shapes (and the corresponding part of cortex) and turn them into a cultural code for language.
COOK: In the book, you describe a part of the brain as the "letterbox." Can you please explain what you mean by that?
DEHAENE: This is the name I have given to a brain region that systematically responds whenever we read words. It is in the left hemisphere, on the inferior face, and belongs to the visual region that helps us recognize our environment. This particular region specializes in written characters and words. What is fascinating is that it is at the same location in all of us – whether we read Chinese, Hebrew or English, whether we've learned with whole-language or phonics methods, a single brain region seems to take on the function of recognizing the visual word.
COOK: But reading is a relatively recent invention, so what was the "letterbox" doing before we had written language?
DEHAENE: An excellent question – we don't really know. The whole region in which this area is inserted is involved in invariant visual recognition – it helps us recognize objects, faces and scenes, regardless of the particular viewpoint, lighting, and other superficial variations.
We are starting to do brain-imaging experiments in illiterates, and we find that this region, before it responds to words, has a preference for pictures of objects and faces. We are also finding that this region is especially attuned to small features present in the contours of natural shapes, such as the "Y" shape in the branches of trees. My hypothesis is our letters emerged from a recycling of those shapes at the cultural level. The brain didn't have enough time to evolve "for" reading – so writing systems evolved "for" the brain!
COOK: How might our brains abilities, and limits, shape other human activities, like, say mathematics?
DEHAENE: I dedicated a whole book, "The Number Sense," to our native intuitions of numbers and how they shape our mathematics. Basically, we inherit from our evolution only a rudimentary sense of number. We share it with other animals, and even infants possess it already in the first few months of life. However, it is only approximate and non-symbolic – it does not allow us to precisely distinguish 13 from 14 objects. Nevertheless, it gave humanity the concept of number, and we then learned to extend it with cultural symbols such as digits and count words, thus achieving a more precise way of doing arithmetic.
We can still find traces of this evolutionarily old system whenever we approximate, sometimes quite irrationally – for instance when we let go of one thousand dollars on an apartment sale (because it seems a small percentage of the total) while bargaining hard to obtain a carpet at 40 instead of 50 dollars!
Higher mathematics must be constrained in a similar manner by our evolutionary toolkit. Complex numbers, for instance, were deemed "imaginary" and impossible to understand until a mathematician found that they could be described intuitively as a plane – an easy-to-grasp concept for the brain.
COOK: What does this research tell us about how reading should be taught? And does it tell us anything, more generally, about how best to educate?
DEHAENE: Both of my books, "The Number Sense" and "Reading in the Brain," point to the fact that young children are more competent than we think. Learning is not "the furnishing of the mind's white paper," as John Locke said. Even for an activity as novel as reading, we do not learn from scratch, but by minimally changing our existing brain circuits, capitalizing on their pre-existing structure. Thus, teachers and teaching methods should pay more attention to the existing structure of the child's mind and brain.
In the case of reading, very concretely, as I explain in the book, we now have plenty of evidence that the whole-language approach has nothing to do with how our visual system recognizes written words – our brain never relies on the overall contours of words, rather it decomposes all of its letters and graphemes in parallel, subliminally and at a high speed, thus giving us an illusion of whole-word reading. Experiments even suggest that the whole-language method may orient learning towards the wrong brain region, symmetrical to the visual word form area in the right hemisphere! We need to inform our teaching with the best brain science – and we also need to develop evidence-based education research, using classroom experiments to verify that our deductions about teaching methods actually work in practice.
Theory, experiments on brain circuitry for reading, and education research all currently point to the superiority of grapheme-phoneme teaching methods.
COOK: What is happening in the brain of a dyslexic? Are they reading differently, or just more slowly?
DEHAENE: The dyslexic brain shows disorganized circuitry in the left temporal lobe. In the majority of dyslexic children, the phonological circuitry of the left hemisphere seems subtly disorganized, and this seems to cause a failure to learn to properly interconnect visual letter recognition with speech sounds. As a result, their visual word-form area does not develop fully, or not at the normal speed, and they continue to read serially, letter by letter or chunk by chunk, at an age where parallel reading is well established in normal readers.
We should never forget, however, that there is a great heterogeneity in dyslexia – so some children probably suffer from other difficulties, for instance related to the spatial organization of the word. Some children appear to mix left and right, or to be unable to focus on the letters sequentially from left to right without error, and this might be an additional cause of dyslexia, though somewhat less frequent that the phonological problem.
COOK: And if the brain of a dyslexic is organized differently, does that suggest that it might have other abilities -- or is dyslexia purely an impairment?
DEHAENE: This isn't fully known, but I was intrigued by recent research which indicates that dyslexic children and adults can be better on tasks of symmetry detection – they have a greater ability to notice the presence of symmetrical patterns, and the evidence even suggests that this was helpful in a group of astrophysicists to detect the symmetrical spectrum of black holes!
My theory is that mirror recognition is one of the functions that we have to partially "un-learn" when we learn to read – it is a universal feature of the primate brain that is, unfortunately, inappropriate in our alphabet where letters p, q, d and b abound. By somehow managing to maintain this ability, dyslexics might be at some advantage in visual, spatial or even mathematical tasks.
More generally, we are touching here on the very interesting issue of whether cultural recycling makes us lose some abilities that were once useful in our evolution. The brain is a finite system, so although there are overwhelming benefits of education, there might also be some losses. We are currently doing experiments with Amazon Indians, in part to test what are their native abilities and whether, in some domains such as geometry and spatial navigation, they might not be better than us.
COOK: Having done all this research, to you find yourself reading differently now, or experiencing it differently?
DEHAENE: Not really – reading has become so automatic as to be inconspicuous: as an expert reader, you concentrate on the message and no longer realize the miracles that are worked out by your brain! I am always in awe, however, when I watch young children decipher their first words – the pride on their face is a living testimony to the wonders of reading.
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Vale Joy Bear: remembering the scientist behind petrichor
By Felicity Kelly
Isabel 'Joy' Bear passed away on 8 April 2021. We celebrate her contributions to our organisation and science, including describing petrichor.
Isabel 'Joy' Bear passed away on 8 April 2021. We go through her many achievements with our organisation, including describing and identifying petrichor.
You've probably heard the word 'petrichor'. Possibly while listening to Paul Kelly or The 1975. Or watching the Dr Who episode, 'The Doctor's Wife'. Or maybe reading the article: The smell of rain: how our scientists invented a new word.
Did you know Isabel 'Joy' Bear was one of the two CSIRO scientists to invent the word? Sadly, Joy passed away on 8 April 2021. She was a pioneer, trailblazer and mentor, now leaving a lasting legacy. Even after retiring, Joy continued walking the halls of our Clayton offices, chatting with colleagues and mentoring up-and-coming young scientists.
We look back on Joy's amazing life in the world of science. Despite her struggle – and ultimate triumph – over gender bias in her early career, Joy worked hard to become a scientist. This paved the way for many young women to follow in her footsteps.
A life of discoveries and firsts
Joy's love of science began in year seven. It stemmed from one of her high school teachers who occasionally gave impromptu lectures on the stars and planets. By the end of high school, she had developed a strong ambition to become a research scientist.
In 1944, at age 17, Joy started her career with us. She was a junior Laboratory Assistant with the Minerals Utilisation Section of the Division of Industrial Chemistry of CSIR – the forerunner of CSIRO.
It was during a time when the Second World War created employment opportunities for women in traditionally male-dominated workplaces. However, women were required to resign if they married and conditioned to believe they should only fill junior positions.
Early on, fellow scientists advised Joy that scientists delivered their most creative and productive work before they reached the age of 40. So, if you hadn't been reclassified by then, you had little hope of making the grade.
Despite this advice, Joy persevered with her career. In the 1950s, Joy collaborated with Dr Richard Grenfell Thomas to study the smell of rain. This led to Joy's most recognised contribution to science, identifying its cause and giving it a name: petrichor.
The science of petrichor
The two scientists observed the characteristics of the Argillaceous odour, a smell generated by the moisture on dry clay. They realised that clays weren't the only materials to exhibit the odour. It was actually most silicate minerals and rocks!
According to Richard and Joy's article, Nature of Argillaceous Odour: "The material in which silica or various metallic silicates predominated were outstanding in their capacity to yield the odour." Essentially this means if a material had a lot of silicates, it could create this smell. Additionally, freshly ignited materials rich in iron oxide, with or without silica, gave off this peculiar smell.
In Howard Poynton's article, he wrote the smell of rain had already been described in Kannauj, India, by a small perfumery. It had captured and absorbed the scent in sandalwood oil. As a result, they called it 'matti ka attari', which translates to 'earth perfume'.
Joy and Richard identified and described its origin. They discovered the smell came from a yellowish oil created by steam exuding from rocks exposed to warm, dry conditions in the open air. Additionally, they found the odour was particularly prevalent in arid regions. It was widely recognised and associated with the first rains after a period of drought.
Continuing her science
Joy Bear was the first and only woman to reach the research ranks of the Division of Mineral Chemistry.
Joy also discovered a number of previously unknown metastable zirconium sulfate hydrates: two pentahydrates (five water molecules) and a heptahydrate (seven water molecules) in the early 1960s. In collaboration with Dr Gus Mumme, an expert crystallographer, they determined the crystal structures of seven of the compounds. This enabled Joy to elucidate the mechanism by which both these and metastable compounds are formed.
Despite Joy being 40, without a PhD and a woman, this work led to her being reclassified first as a Research Officer. After that, she became a Research Scientist in 1967. She was the first and only woman to reach the research ranks of the Division of Mineral Chemistry.
Joy was a true inspiration, mentor and advocate for women in science. She also led the way for her fellow female colleagues to follow in her footsteps.
Malisja de Vries, one of our scientists, said she had the honour and privilege to work with Joy for many years.
"She was an inspiration to women in science, to anyone who fought for fairness. And, of course, she had a wonderful sense of humour with a 70-year dedication to science and a productive career. Despite the struggles she endured as a woman in the day, she still had time to support young scientists," Malisja said.
Joy mentored early career researchers and took the time to review their scientific papers.
"Joy's enthusiasm and passion for science and to support the next generation of researchers was brilliant and highly valued," Marcus Zipper, Director of our Manufacturing Business Unit, said.
And Joy's advice wasn't solely for people at the start of their STEM career. Scientists at different stages of their work appreciated her advice.
"Joy led the charge for the rest of us," Sherry Mayo, one of our scientists, said.
Mentoring women in STEM
Women continue to hold far fewer leadership positions than men. Particularly in STEM fields, where women only hold 18 per cent of leadership positions.
We're addressing gender equity through our work with the Science in Australia Gender Equity (SAGE) pilot, the Male Champions of Change (MCC) initiative, and as a Champion of the Women in STEM Decadal Science Plan.
It's thanks to role models like Joy who share their stories and knowledge with the next generation of women in STEM. Her determination and hard work helped her reach the ranks of scientist and achieve great success in her career. She is an inspiration to all.
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3rd April 2022 at 5:00 pm
Joy and her cousin Lorraine joined the Volunteers at the Queen Victoria Women's Centre in the 1990's.
We had no idea of the scope of her career but she told us she was still working 2 days a week at CSIRO in a Volunteer capacity. She and Lorraine joined the group of QVWC women who met once month for lunch together at the Restaurant in the Treasury Gardens.
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Julie Simpson
petrichor is a wonderful word. I introduced it to The Hunter Writers Poetry Group at one of our early meetings and the poets fell on it. Watch out for it appearing in Australian poetry. Thank you, Joy (a most appropriate name) for a great word conjured by a poetic scientist. Julie Simpson.
thank you. sorry I don't have a pesonal website. I just get your blog. x Julie
Rod Jamieson
5th May 2021 at 10:54 am
An admirable & worthy life well lived.
Sharon Kennedy
What an absolutely amazing woman and scientist! She showed what ambition and perseverance can present in the way of opportunities to further her brilliant knowledge and inspire others. Truly a wonder woman.
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Remembering a friend, foe and favorite
Jim Johnson spent only one season with the Seahawks, but it was long enough to realize that he was a great coach and an even better man.
Johnson died Tuesday after battling cancer. He was 68.
While it became apparent last week that things were not going well when the Philadelphia Eagles named Sean McDermott as a permanent replacement for the venerable defensive coordinator, Johnson's death still was a shock.
Johnson was hired by then-Seahawks coach Dennis Erickson in 1998 to coach the team's linebackers, after Johnson had blown Erickson away during his interview for the job.
When Mike Holmgren was hired to replace Erickson the following year, he tried to persuade Johnson to stay on as linebackers coach. But Johnson wanted an opportunity to be a coordinator, and Eagles coach Andy Reid gave it to him.
How much impact did the innovative and aggressive Johnson have on the Eagles' run of success that included playing in four consecutive NFC title games (2001-04) and one Super Bowl ('04)?
"The whole Andy Reid regime here that's taken place, wouldn't have been possible without Jim," Reid told reporters at the Eagles' training camp Tuesday night.
Imagine what might have happened if Johnson had stayed with the Seahawks. After Fritz Shurmur, Holmgren's long-time defensive coordinator, died of cancer in 1999 before ever coaching a game, Johnson could have stepped in.
Rather than playing in one Super Bowl, it's a pretty good bet that the Seahawks would have appeared in at least one more with Johnson unleashing his blitz-based genius in Seattle rather than Philly.
Too farfetched? Not to Matt Hasselbeck.
The Seahawks quarterback had this to say via Twitter: "Jim Johnson – one of the best Def Coordinators of all time. Ask any QB."
Hasselbeck should know. In his first home start for the Seahawks, Johnson's aggressive scheme turned Hasselbeck into an unwitting pinball as he whirled from one blitzer only to smack into another.
End result from that 2001 game at Husky Stadium: Seven sacks for 41 wrong-way yards in the Eagles' 27-3 victory.
I kept in touch with Johnson after he left the Seahawks, and it was always entertaining and informative to get his brutally honest – and spot-on – assessments of players and their performances.
As Eagles middle linebacker Stewart Bradley told the Philadelphia Daily News, "He definitely could get into you, but that was Jim – he was an equal-opportunity yeller."
Not to mention one of the best coaches – and men – to ever walk the Seahawks' sideline.
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Former Nayarit prosecutor, Edgar Veytia, pleads guilty in NY court to conspiring to distribute drugs to the US
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https://www.valorportamaulipas.info/2019/01/veytia-culpable-de-conspirar-para.html
The former Nayarit prosecutor, Edgar Veytia, pleaded guilty Friday in the Eastern District Court of New York of one of three charges against him in connection with conspiring to distribute drugs to the United States.
Before the judge Carol Bagley Amon, in the court located in Brooklyn, Veytia accepted the guilt, as well as the suggested sentencing guidelines between the prosecutors and the defense. That agreement established that the sentence could be between 324 months to 405 months in prison.
Amon said that she could nevertheless impose a higher or even lower sentence to the guidelines agreed by the defense. The charge to conspire to import drugs to the United States has a minimum sentence of 10 years and a maximum of life imprisonment.
In addition to the imposition of the jail sentence, Veytia will have to deliver as a penalty a not yet specified amount of money, which will be determined after she delivers a balance of her finances under oath. The sentence will be dictated by Amon on April 25.
Wearing the green gray uniform of the prison, Veytia agreed to have conspired to distribute in the United States at least one kilo of heroin, five kilos of cocaine, 500 grams of methamphetamine and one thousand kilos of marijuana between February 2013 and February 2017.
Prosecutors also stressed that Veytia took advantage of his position as a public official in Nayarit to commit these crimes.
In this regard, Veytia explained that these crimes were committed by illegally releasing convicted drug traffickers in Nayarit, who manufactured and distributed the drugs in the United States.
Veytia, a dual citizen of the United States and Mexico, was arrested in March 2017 in the city of San Diego after crossing the border. Later he was transferred to New York, where his case was settled.
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Edgar Veytia, a former Nayarit prosecutor, pleaded guilty on Friday to drug charges in a courtroom where a drug lord also appeared in a conspiracy trial.
Both Edgar Veytia and Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán are being tried in separate cases in a federal court in Brooklyn.
Shortly after Guzman's ongoing trial concluded during the week, Veytia was moved to another courtroom to plead guilty to charges he was bought to help the cartels smuggle cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine into the US since 2013 until the time of his arrest in 2017.
Veytia, 48, admitted that he arranged for drug traffickers to avoid arrest and / or release from custody. He did not specify which organizations he supported, but it is not believed that the Guzmán cartel in Sinaloa was one of them.
"I used my official position. to help drug trafficking organizations, "he told the judge.
Veytia faces at least 10 years in prison at the time of sentencing at the end of this year, although the term could be more than double if the judge follows the sentencing guidelines calculated by prosecutors. According to an accusation, the government could also seize "an amount of approximately 250 million in the currency of the United States" according to the confiscation laws.
According to media reports, Veytia survived an assassination attempt in 2011 and promoted himself as a candidate for law and order when he ran for the attorney general.
"Nayarit is not a fertile ground for breaking the law," he once said. "There is no place here for organized crime."
The case is adjusted to a pattern of corruption allegations that is exhibited in the trial of Guzmán. Jurors heard testimony from donors who claim multiple instances of several law enforcement officials who received bribes Sinaloa cartel to look away or demanded a share of the profits of drugs in the 90s and 2000.
The former member of Cartel Jesús Zambada has declared that he personally made at least $ 6 million in hidden payments to the former federal security chief, Genaro García Luna. He said the cash was delivered during two meetings at a restaurant in Mexico between the beginning of 2005 and the end of 2007, an accusation denied by Luna.
Earlier this week, Zambada's nephew, Vicente, described a meeting in the mid-2000s in which representatives of corrupt Mexican politicians asked if the cartel could help them send 100 tons (91 metric tons) of cocaine in a tanker. He said he was arrested before he knew if the shipment ever happened.
Re: Former Nayarit prosecutor, Edgar Veytia, pleads guilty in NY court to conspiring to distribute drugs to the US
He was for the Beltran's and switched to CJNG, he plead in a courtroom right down the hall from Chapo's trial, in a sort of ironic coincidence.
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This guy was the fiscalia where I live and this whole deal was well known. It is good he was taken out. Nothing happened in Nayarit without his approval or hand involved. He was cocky and stupid to think his movement between the US and Mexico would go on for too long. A brute.


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Home Sweet Home: Are You Considering A House Renovation?
Are you considering a house renovation? I'm just done with mine recently. Actually it's not for the house that our family used to live in, but for a house where we derived a monthly income. My "for rent" house had undergone major renovation more than two months ago and I had a lot of stressful experiences during the process. Well, I couldn't blame anyone as neither me, nor my husband was personally there in the Philippines to attend to the project. I entrusted the job of overseeing the whole process to a trusted care taker and my teen aged son for the financial side. I really admire my son for being able to handle the finances well at a very young age. I guess that was a good training for him and he had passed it with flying colors. The first part of the renovation project was the roofing services which we obtain from our regular contractor. Since it was our nth time with them, I was too trusting. When I had my vacation before, I made a deal with them and discussed to them everything about what my expectations are. The discussion went on smoothly and we both agreed on payment terms and total cost of the project. I was expecting that everything will go on smoothly, but to my disappointment, most of the agreed conditions were not met and worst than that, some of the contractor's workers had stolen all the door knobs and cabinet handles in the house. The worst part was, the contractor did not not agree to be liable for the "acts" of his men and keeps on avoiding our demands for explanation and compensation for the lost items. Needless to say, I charged everything to experience. I was not there so it's not possible for me to settle things legally. I just allowed them to finish the project and it's over. After that experience, I promised myself not to hire their services anymore. Yes, not again.
Morale of the story? When we deal with major projects such as house renovation, we have to choose the experts and the company that we can trust. How I wish we also have some reputable companies in the Philippines to do such sensitive work like the Dallas roofing company. It's really important that we deal with people who already made a name in the industry. It pays to be careful and choosy with the companies we dealt with to avoid problems in the end.
Now that I will have to work on other future projects such as the preventive maintenance servicing of our air conditioning unit, I better be sure that I will choose the right people to do the work for me at this time. I wish that we also have a better business bureau in the Philippines who could do the job for us finding the right contractors and accredited businesses for our specific needs such as air conditioning Forth worth.
Well, I've learned my lessons and I will just have to be careful next time. But this doesn't stop me for coming up with more future projects on home improvement. Just choose the right people to the job for you, prepare an appropriate budget, come up with a time table for completion and choose the right project at the right season and you will definitely be on the right track.
It's difficult to find trustworthy workers these days. They need to be supervised every day otherwise you never know what can happen. It's a good experience for your son though. Handling the financial side builds up confidence.
Sad but true, very rare that we find trustworthy people nowadays even if we pay them the right amount. Kudos to your son.
House renovation sometimes can be a tedious one to plan or to do. Better consult someone who is an expert at that field.
House renovation is such a pain in the neck if you don't have anyone to oversee how your contractor works. Our house do not just need a renovation sis but a total major major rebuild and maybe we can do it years and years from now pa.
House renovation has a lot of work and cost a lot... so if ever we will do the renovation here must be prepared with financial... specially here in Norway cost a fortune..
You really have to ask around to get a really good contractor. It's like asking a friend who has a gorgeous haircut, "Who did your hair?" A homeowner with a well constructed house would usually be flattered when asked who was their builder.
True, Lucky for me I know a little about this stuff. Sad to say I don't own a house.


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JSON is a lightweight data-interchange format. It can represent numbers, strings, ordered sequences of values, and collections of name/value pairs.
When requests are made that act on the state of Pirl, the last default block parameter determines the height of the block.
The curl options below might return a response where the node complains about the content type, this is because the –data option sets the content type to application/x-www-form-urlencoded . If your node does complain, manually set the header by placing -H "Content-Type: application/json" at the start of the call.
String - The current client version.
Returns Keccak-256 (not the standardized SHA3-256) of the given data.
DATA - the data to convert into a SHA3 hash.
DATA - The SHA3 result of the given string.
Returns true if client is actively listening for network connections.
Boolean - true when listening, otherwise false.
QUANTITY - integer of the number of connected peers.
Returns the current Pirl protocol version.
String - The current Pirl protocol version.
Returns an object with data about the sync status or false.
Returns the client coinbase address.
DATA, 20 bytes - the current coinbase address.
Returns true if client is actively mining new blocks.
Boolean - returns true of the client is mining, otherwise false.
Returns the number of hashes per second that the node is mining with.
QUANTITY - number of hashes per second.
Returns the current price per gas in wei.
QUANTITY - integer of the current gas price in wei.
Returns a list of addresses owned by client.
Array of DATA, 20 Bytes - addresses owned by the client.
Returns the number of most recent block.
QUANTITY - integer of the current block number the client is on.
Returns the balance of the account of given address.
DATA, 20 Bytes - address to check for balance.
QUANTITY - integer of the current balance in wei.
Returns the value from a storage position at a given address.
DATA, 20 Bytes - address of the storage.
QUANTITY - integer of the position in the storage.
DATA - the value at this storage position.
Calculating the correct position depends on the storage to retrieve. Consider the following contract deployed at 0x295a70b2de5e3953354a6a8344e616ed314d7251 by address 0x391694e7e0b0cce554cb130d723a9d27458f9298.
> var key = "000000000000000000000000391694e7e0b0cce554cb130d723a9d27458f9298" + "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001"
Returns the number of transactions sent from an address.
DATA, 20 Bytes - address.
QUANTITY - integer of the number of transactions send from this address.
Returns the number of transactions in a block from a block matching the given block hash.
DATA, 32 Bytes - hash of a block.
QUANTITY - integer of the number of transactions in this block.
Returns the number of transactions in a block matching the given block number.
Returns the number of uncles in a block from a block matching the given block hash.
QUANTITY - integer of the number of uncles in this block.
Returns the number of uncles in a block from a block matching the given block number.
QUANTITY|TAG - integer of a block number, or the string "latest", "earliest" or "pending", see the default block parameter.
Returns code at a given address.
QUANTITY|TAG - integer block number, or the string "latest", "earliest" or "pending", see the default block parameter.
DATA - the code from the given address.
The sign method calculates an Pirl specific signature with: sign(keccak256("\x19Pirl Signed Message:\n" + len(message) + message))).
By adding a prefix to the message makes the calculated signature recognisable as an Pirl specific signature. This prevents misuse where a malicious DApp can sign arbitrary data (e.g. transaction) and use the signature to impersonate the victim.
Note the address to sign with must be unlocked.
DATA, N Bytes - message to sign.
An example how to use solidity ecrecover to verify the signature calculated with eth_sign can be found here. The contract is deployed on the testnet Ropsten and Rinkeby.
gas: QUANTITY - (optional, default: 90000) Integer of the gas provided for the transaction execution. It will return unused gas.
data: DATA - The compiled code of a contract OR the hash of the invoked method signature and encoded parameters.
nonce: QUANTITY - (optional) Integer of a nonce. This allows to overwrite your own pending transactions that use the same nonce.
DATA, The signed transaction data.
Executes a new message call immediately without creating a transaction on the block chain.
from: DATA, 20 Bytes - (optional) The address the transaction is sent from.
to: DATA, 20 Bytes - The address the transaction is directed to.
gas: QUANTITY - (optional) Integer of the gas provided for the transaction execution. eth_call consumes zero gas, but this parameter may be needed by some executions.
data: DATA - (optional) Hash of the method signature and encoded parameters.
DATA - the return value of executed contract.
Generates and returns an estimate of how much gas is necessary to allow the transaction to complete. The transaction will not be added to the blockchain. Note that the estimate may be significantly more than the amount of gas actually used by the transaction, for a variety of reasons including EVM mechanics and node performance.
See eth_call parameters, expect that all properties are optional. If no gas limit is specified pirl uses the block gas limit from the pending block as an upper bound. As a result the returned estimate might not be enough to executed the call/transaction when the amount of gas is higher than the pending block gas limit.
QUANTITY - the amount of gas used.
Returns information about a block by hash.
number: QUANTITY - the block number. null when its pending block.
hash: DATA, 32 Bytes - hash of the block. null when its pending block.
parentHash: DATA, 32 Bytes - hash of the parent block.
extraData: DATA - the "extra data" field of this block.
Returns information about a block by block number.
Returns the information about a transaction requested by transaction hash.
blockHash: DATA, 32 Bytes - hash of the block where this transaction was in. null when its pending.
blockNumber: QUANTITY - block number where this transaction was in. null when its pending.
gas: QUANTITY - gas provided by the sender.
gasPrice: QUANTITY - gas price provided by the sender in Wei.
hash: DATA, 32 Bytes - hash of the transaction.
input: DATA - the data send along with the transaction.
nonce: QUANTITY - the number of transactions made by the sender prior to this one.
transactionIndex: QUANTITY - integer of the transaction's index position in the block. null when its pending.
value: QUANTITY - value transferred in Wei.
Returns information about a transaction by block hash and transaction index position.
QUANTITY - integer of the transaction index position.
Returns information about a transaction by block number and transaction index position.
QUANTITY|TAG - a block number, or the string "earliest", "latest" or "pending", as in the default block parameter.
QUANTITY - the transaction index position.
transactionIndex: QUANTITY - integer of the transaction's index position in the block.
to: DATA, 20 Bytes - address of the receiver. null when it's a contract creation transaction.
cumulativeGasUsed: QUANTITY - The total amount of gas used when this transaction was executed in the block.
gasUsed: QUANTITY - The amount of gas used by this specific transaction alone.
logsBloom: DATA, 256 Bytes - Bloom filter for light clients to quickly retrieve related logs.
// logs as returned by getFilterLogs, etc.
Returns information about a uncle of a block by hash and uncle index position.
DATA, 32 Bytes - hash a block.
QUANTITY - the uncle's index position.
Note: An uncle doesn't contain individual transactions.
Returns information about a uncle of a block by number and uncle index position.
Returns a list of available compilers in the client.
Array - Array of available compilers.
String - The source code.
DATA - The compiled source code.
topics: Array of DATA, - (optional) Array of 32 Bytes DATA topics. Topics are order-dependent. Each topic can also be an array of DATA with "or" options.
Creates a filter in the node, to notify when a new block arrives. To check if the state has changed, call eth_getFilterChanges.
Uninstalls a filter with given id. Should always be called when watch is no longer needed. Additionally Filters timeout when they aren't requested with eth_getFilterChanges for a period of time.
transactionHash: DATA, 32 Bytes - hash of the transactions this log was created from. null when its pending log.
data: DATA - contains the non-indexed arguments of the log.
Returns an array of all logs matching filter with given id.
blockhash: DATA, 32 Bytes - (optional) With the addition of EIP-234 (pirl>= v1.8.13 or Parity >= v2.1.0), blockHash is a new filter option which restricts the logs returned to the single block with the 32-byte hash blockHash. Using blockHash is equivalent to fromBlock = toBlock = the block number with hash blockHash. If blockHash is present in the filter criteria, then neither fromBlock nor toBlock are allowed.
Returns the hash of the current block, the seedHash, and the boundary condition to be met ("target").
Array - Array with the following properties: 1. DATA, 32 Bytes - current block header pow-hash 2. DATA, 32 Bytes - the seed hash used for the DAG. 3. DATA, 32 Bytes - the boundary condition ("target"), 2^256 / difficulty.
Used for submitting a proof-of-work solution.
Boolean - returns true if the provided solution is valid, otherwise false.
Used for submitting mining hashrate.
Boolean - returns true if submitting went through succesfully and false otherwise.
Returns the account- and storage-values of the specified account including the Merkle-proof.
storageHash: DATA, 32 Bytes - SHA3 of the StorageRoot. All storage will deliver a MerkleProof starting with this rootHash.
accountProof: ARRAY - Array of rlp-serialized MerkleTree-Nodes, starting with the stateRoot-Node, following the path of the SHA3 (address) as key.
key: QUANTITY - the requested storage key value: QUANTITY - the storage value proof: ARRAY - Array of rlp-serialized MerkleTree-Nodes, starting with the storageHash-Node, following the path of the SHA3 (key) as path.
Stores a string in the local database.
Note this function is deprecated and will be removed in the future.
String - String to store.
Boolean - returns true if the value was stored, otherwise false.
Returns string from the local database.
String - The previously stored string.
Stores binary data in the local database.
DATA - The data to store.
Returns binary data from the local database.
DATA - The previously stored data.
Returns the current whisper protocol version.
from: DATA, 60 Bytes - (optional) The identity of the sender.
to: DATA, 60 Bytes - (optional) The identity of the receiver. When present whisper will encrypt the message so that only the receiver can decrypt it.
topics: Array of DATA - Array of DATA topics, for the receiver to identify messages.
payload: DATA - The payload of the message.
priority: QUANTITY - The integer of the priority in a range from … (?).
ttl: QUANTITY - integer of the time to live in seconds.
Boolean - returns true if the message was send, otherwise false.
Creates new whisper identity in the client.
DATA, 60 Bytes - the address of the new identiy.
Checks if the client hold the private keys for a given identity.
DATA, 60 Bytes - The identity address to check.
Boolean - returns true if the client holds the privatekey for that identity, otherwise false.
DATA, 60 Bytes - the address of the new group.
Adds a whisper identity to the group.
DATA, 60 Bytes - The identity address to add to a group.
Boolean - returns true if the identity was successfully added to the group, otherwise false.
Creates filter to notify, when client receives whisper message matching the filter options.
to: DATA, 60 Bytes - (optional) Identity of the receiver. When present it will try to decrypt any incoming message if the client holds the private key to this identity.
QUANTITY - The newly created filter.
Uninstalls a filter with given id. Should always be called when watch is no longer needed. Additonally Filters timeout when they aren't requested with shh_getFilterChanges for a period of time.
Polling method for whisper filters. Returns new messages since the last call of this method.
Note calling the shh_getMessages method, will reset the buffer for this method, so that you won't receive duplicate messages.
hash: DATA, 32 Bytes (?) - The hash of the message.
from: DATA, 60 Bytes - The sender of the message, if a sender was specified.
to: DATA, 60 Bytes - The receiver of the message, if a receiver was specified.
expiry: QUANTITY - Integer of the time in seconds when this message should expire (?).
ttl: QUANTITY - Integer of the time the message should float in the system in seconds (?).
sent: QUANTITY - Integer of the unix timestamp when the message was sent.
topics: Array of DATA - Array of DATA topics the message contained.
workProved: QUANTITY - Integer of the work this message required before it was send (?).
Get all messages matching a filter. Unlike shh_getFilterChanges this returns all messages.


The number 11 bus route leaves Las Palmas for Agüimes at 50 minutes past the hour every hour from 05.50 until 21.50, calling at all the stops in the route above.
Following the route above in reverse order the route 11 bus leaves Agüimes for Las Palmas at 05.30. After this there is a route 11 bus leaving Agüimes every hour on the hour until 22.00 with the following additions to the service.
At 06.40 the number 11 bus leaves Agüimes and goes to the university campus at Las Palmas.
At 07.25 the route 11 bus leaves Paletilla and goes to IES Calero via Ojos de Garza.
Ther are additional number 11 buses that leave Agüimes for Las Palmas at 14.05, 14.30, 17.30, 18.30, 19.30, and 20.30, all of which follow the route above in reverse order.
The route 11 bus leaves Las Palmas for Agüi,es at 50 minutes past the hour every hour, calling at all the syops in the route above, starting from 05.50 until 21.50, when the last bus leaves.
The route 11 bus leaves Agüimes for Las Palmas, on the hour every hour, calling at all stops in the route above in reverse order from 06.00 until 22.00 when the last bus leaves.
Outside of school term times the following route 11 buses are omitted from the Monday to Friday schedule. The 14.00 route 11 bus from Las Palmas to Agüimes does not run.
The route 11 service from Agüimes to Las Palmas University at 06.40 does not run.
The route 11 service from Paletilla to IES Calero via Ojos de Garza does not run.
The route 11 service from Agüimes to Las Palmas at 14.05 does not run.


This spring I was asked to join the Icelantic crew on their yearly sailing retreat. The trip has become something of legend for anyone in their sphere. Partying at Bryan Adams' house, lost dinghies in French Polynesia, and plenty of other epics and antics defined what seemed to be the coolest company retreat in the history of the humanity.
When Sam Warren asked if I wanted to join this year I stuttered out some kind of vaguely affirmative answer, I think not even believing it was a possibility, and before I could question it I started receiving emails about tickets and logistics. I had a slight moment of questioning, "What if another shoot comes up?", "Can I take the time off other projects?", and other all the other perpetually worried questions the modern busy-trap of society puts in your head. The questions only lasted a moment before I put priorities in line, anxieties in check, and booked the tickets.
Was I hoping a well paying job would come through so I could save up and maybe afford to go on a sailing adventure when I retire in 40 years? Screw that! I had the opportunity to go now, with a group of some of the most talented inspirational people I could imagine joining on such an epic quest.
I was shooting photos both for Icelantic and for The Moorings Vacations who have been an amazing partner and have made these epic trips possible for the Icelantic crew.
Icelantic team manager, Scotty VerMerris, was our trusty captain. I have always admired and respected Scotty and it was a privilege to hang, sail, and learn from him. He has a background in wilderness education and is in the process of building a sailing based wilderness therapy business. Sailing, like any wilderness activity creates a forced accountability for your actions. It provides a level of freedom, independence, and self reliance that I have only found in hunting and mountaineering. It is also extremely team driven and everything from keeping the decks swabbed and keeping food on the table to navigating and the actual act of sailing is a group effort. I absolutely loved learning from Scotty. Sailing is now alongside getting my pilot license with must do life goals.
Spearfishing is another passion ignited on this trip. I have always followed @donkeyshow and @riffeinternational's instagrams with wide eyes and deep curiosity. I've even gone as far as to start working on my static breath holds but I never touched fins to water until this trip. I never dove more than 20 feet and never speared anything more than a couple pounds but Sam Warren and I were able to put enough protein on the table for our crew of 12. Harvesting my food directly from the planet is something that excites and fulfills me more than anything else I've accomplished in life.
I've been doing more and more research and the depths people are diving and the size of fish people are hunting is mind boggling and it is something I am passionate about wanting to get more involved with in the future.
The crew is what really made this trip. I'm lucky enough to have an amazing tribe of people around the world brought together by a shared love of life and the earth. I often (but never often enough) find myself surrounded by people I admire in beautiful places and this was one of the most meaningful, life affirming, trips with the most genuine, passionate, hilarious, fun people I know.


If you were to take a magnifying glass and look at surfaces throughout your home, you'll find allergens. It's almost impossible to escape them outside a hospital quarantine clean room. Despite their presence inside and outside the house, you can keep them to a minimum and make your house as allergen free as possible.
Mold spores are just about anywhere you go in the world, including throughout your home. Most of the time, they lay dormant and don't cause problems. However, if they're on a surface that offers moisture and nutrients in a warm environment, the spores can open and begin growing. Once the mold takes hold, it will start producing a lot more mold spores.
Pet dander can stick to just about any surface in your home. Even if you don't have pets, friends and family who do have pets can bring dander into your home on their shoes and clothing. Pet dander has certain proteins to which some people are allergic.
Dust seems innocent enough. However, if you look at it closely, you'll find that it's an accumulation of many things, including pollen, insect waste, pet dander and mold spores. Dust can settle on to any surface of the home.
High levels of allergens inside the home cause poor indoor air quality. People with allergies can suffer with symptoms like irritated eyes, a runny nose and sore throats. People with allergy-triggered asthma can suffer with labored breathing or a full-blown asthma attack.
Having allergens in your home is a given, unfortunately. However, you can take certain steps to cut the quantities and keep as much of it outside your home.
Clean the house. Vacuum carpets and sweep hard floors regularly. Dust flat surfaces. This removes loose deposits of pollen, pet dander and dust from the home.
Repair leaks. Moisture is the main trigger for mold growth. If you have a leak under the sink or tub, get it fixed. Let the surfaces surrounding dry out, then clean them with mold-killing agents like bleach.
Replace wall to wall carpeting with hard flooring materials. Carpet fibers grab and keep the tiny allergen particles. Even daily vacuuming cannot extract them all. If you cannot replace the carpeting immediately, use a steam cleaner often.
Upgrade the air filters. If you're using a standard fiberglass filter, you're likely not getting any protection against airborne particles. Go with a filter with a MERV rating between 8 and 12. This will remove many of the allergen particulates. (Going higher isn't recommended since most blowers and air handlers can't handle the higher pressures required for moving air through higher MERV rated filters).
Add an air cleaner to your home. An air cleaner pulls air out of your normal ducts, pressurizes it, then sends it through HEPA filtration. This captures almost all allergen particulates in the air. You can add an ultraviolet accessory to the air cleaner to kill any bacteria or germs floating around.
Brush pets outside daily. Ideally, this should be done by a person without allergies. By doing it outside, a lot of the loosened dander gets left.
Wash human and pet bedding in hot water. Dust mites live off dead skin cells, often in bedding where there are large deposits. Washing both pet and human bedding in hot water can kill the mites.
Keep pollen outside by closing windows and doors. Some forms of pollen are airborne and come inside the house through any opening.
Ventilate your attic and crawl space. Stagnant air, warm temperatures and a moist dark space are the perfect environment for mold to start growing. Make sure your attic and crawl space have good airflow to keep moisture levels down.
Make bedrooms off-limits to pets. This gives the allergic person a place where allergen levels are lower.
Wash pets weekly. This helps to reduce the amount of dander they scatter throughout the house.
Keep insect populations in check. Insect debris, especially that of the cockroach or dust mite, can trigger allergic reactions or asthma attacks in certain people. Routine pest control makes a big difference.
If you want more advice on how to keep allergens out of your home, contact Meyer's. We've been serving Northwest Indiana and southern Chicagoland since 1951.


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"""Code useful for interpreting Personal Genome Project surveys

Classes:
    SurveyData: contains survey data from PGP survey

Methods:
    get_trait_surveys: find and parse trait surveys
    get_participant_survey: parse participant survey file
"""

import csv
import os
import re

this_dir = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
TRAITS_FILE = os.path.join(this_dir, 'PGP_trait_list.txt')

def _latest_matching_file(regex_string, directory='.'):
    """Find most recently edited filename matching regex in directory."""
    local_filenames = os.listdir(directory)
    all_matches = []
    for filename in local_filenames:
        if re.match(regex_string, filename):
            all_matches.append(os.path.join(directory, filename))
    if all_matches:
        return max(all_matches, key=lambda x: os.stat(x).st_mtime)
    else:
        return None

class SurveyData():
    """PGP Survey Data from Google Spreadsheets

    Data attributes:
    by_huID:       Key is huID (str), value is results (array of str).
                    Results exclude timestamp and participant indentifiers.
    header_titles: Header titles for results (array of str)
    sourcefile:    Path to file that was parsed to create this object.

    Methods:
    get_huIDs:            Return huIDs that completed survey (set of str)
    get_latest_responses: Return most recent set of survey responses.
    get_

    """
    by_huID = dict()
    header_titles = []
    sourcefile = ''

    def __init__(self, filepath):
        self.by_huID = dict()
        self.sourcefile = filepath
        file_input = open(filepath)
        file_data = csv.reader(file_input)
        header_data = file_data.next()
        self.header_titles = [header_data[1]] + header_data[3:]
        for row in file_data:
            huID = row[0]
            # Assumes that the file is sorted chronologically.
            # Data for a given huID is stored with the most recent first.
            if huID in self.by_huID:
                self.by_huID[huID].insert(0, [row[1]] + row[3:])
            else:
                self.by_huID[huID] = [[row[1]] + row[3:]]

    def __repr__(self):
        return 'SurveyData from ' + self.sourcefile

    def get_huIDs(self):
        """Returns (set): all huIDs that have completed the survey."""
        hu_IDs = set(self.by_huID.keys())
        return hu_IDs

    def get_latest_responses(self, huID):
        """Returns (list): most recent survey response for an huID."""
        if huID in self.by_huID:
            return self.by_huID[huID][0]
        else:
            return None

    def get_responses(self, huID):
        """Returns (list of lists): all survey responses for an huID."""
        if huID in self.by_huID:
            return self.by_huID[huID]
        else:
            return None

def get_trait_surveys(directory='.'):
    """Returns tuple containing trait surveys list and possible traits lists.

    [0]: An array of SurveyData objects containing data from each of the
         trait surveys.
    [1]: An array of arrays of str, one for each trait survey in [0].
         Each array lists the traits covered by that survey.
    """

    # Find the most recent survey files, which should match the regexps below.
    surveys_regexps = [
        r'^PGPTrait&DiseaseSurvey2012-Cancers-[0-9]{14}.csv$',
        r'^PGPTrait&DiseaseSurvey2012-Endocrine,Metabolic,Nutritional,And' +
         'Immunity-[0-9]{14}.csv$',
        r'^PGPTrait&DiseaseSurvey2012-Blood-[0-9]{14}.csv$',
        r'^PGPTrait&DiseaseSurvey2012-NervousSystem-[0-9]{14}.csv$',
        r'^PGPTrait&DiseaseSurvey2012-VisionAndHearing-[0-9]{14}.csv$',
        r'^PGPTrait&DiseaseSurvey2012-CirculatorySystem-[0-9]{14}.csv$',
        r'^PGPTrait&DiseaseSurvey2012-RespiratorySystem-[0-9]{14}.csv$',
        r'^PGPTrait&DiseaseSurvey2012-DigestiveSystem-[0-9]{14}.csv$',
        r'^PGPTrait&DiseaseSurvey2012-GenitourinarySystems-[0-9]{14}.csv$',
        r'^PGPTrait&DiseaseSurvey2012-SkinAndSubcutaneousTissue-[0-9]{14}.csv$',
        r'^PGPTrait&DiseaseSurvey2012-MusculoskeletalSystemAndConnective' + \
            'Tissue-[0-9]{14}.csv$',
        r'^PGPTrait&DiseaseSurvey2012-CongenitalTraitsAndAnomalies' + \
            '-[0-9]{14}.csv$',
        ]
    survey_files = [_latest_matching_file(x, directory) for
                    x in surveys_regexps]
    assert not [x for x in survey_files if not x], \
        "Can't find files for all trait surveys. Check that you have files " + \
        "matching all items in this regex list: \n" + '\n'.join(surveys_regexps)
    surveys = [SurveyData(x) for x in survey_files]

    # Read the list of all possible traits, available in another text file.
    survey_traits = [list() for x in range(len(surveys_regexps))]
    traits_file = open(TRAITS_FILE)
    # Find which traits are in each trait survey.
    for line in traits_file:
        data = line.strip().split('\t')
        index = [x for x in range(len(surveys_regexps)) if
                 re.search(data[1], survey_files[x])][0]
        survey_traits[index].append(data[0])

    return (surveys, survey_traits)

def get_participant_survey(directory='.'):
    """Find and return the PGP participant survey (SurveyData)."""
    survey_regex = r'PGPParticipantSurvey-[0-9]{14}.csv'
    survey_file = _latest_matching_file(survey_regex, directory)
    survey = SurveyData(survey_file)
    return survey

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All my wife and I had to do was choose a color we liked (one that coordinated with our house and would cover the rusty old deck paint) and wash the surface the day before the contractor came to do the work.
Now the deck, which is 15 or 20 years old, looks new and will last us for several more summers. Most important, my kids can finally run around on it without getting splinters in their feet.
The happy ending: Refinishing the deck made a huge difference for only $500.
I like to take good care of my home. That's why I scheduled a tune-up for my 8-year-old furnace with the same heating and cooling firm I'd used for many years. I also like to save money. And that's why, when their technician told me I needed $1000 worth of repairs, I decided to do some homework and get a second opinion.
After researching other local HVAC companies, I ended up hiring a family business with just a few technicians. They're not hugely diversified, which for me was great. I didn't need one company to do electric, plumbing, heating, cooling, and whatever type of home repair they decided to branch out into – I just wanted a heating expert!
When the new tech checked my furnace, he found the situation was not as bleak as I had been led to believe. Of the two components I'd been told needed complete replacement, one simply had to be cleaned and the other just required lubrication.
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The happy ending: A "can-do" kitchen remodel contractor gave our kitchen a whole new look we love … for only $8,000!
Thank you, but I do love the old kitchen.
Living in a 150 year old house I find projects get worse before they get better.
Thanks - maintenance and renovation always pays off in the valuation of your home.


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OPINION: "There is such danger in watching YOU on Netflix while women in Australia are dying."
Laura Brodnik
Entertainment Editor
This week, many people in Australia are taking part in a web of contradictory and public lies.
One one hand they are actively voicing their concern, outrage, and sorrow over the death of Israeli student Aiia Maasarwe in Melbourne , who is believed to have been attacked while walking home at night, chatting to her sister on the phone.
They are also tearfully following the abduction and escape of Jayme Closs, the 13-year-old Wisconsin girl who was taken from her home after watching her parents be murdered by a man who then kept her imprisoned under his bed.
Also in the thoughts of these same people no doubt is Melbourne comedian Eurydice Dixon, whose body was found in a suburban park in June 2018 after she was followed home, raped and then murdered.
Of course, these horrific news stories should never leave our minds, just as the names of these women should be forever on our lips, they deserve both our outrage and our continued calls for action.
However, in this same week and adjacent to these events, thousands of people in Australia are also devouring, eagerly discussing and even waxing lyrical about the "thrilling and sexy new stalker drama" YOU on Netflix.
In YOU a seemingly shy and charming bookstore manager named Joe Goldberg (played by Penn Badgley) meets and falls for aspiring writer Guinevere Beck (played by Elizabeth Lail) against the backdrop over everyone's favourite rom-com city, New York.
After becoming beguiled by her, he proceeds to insert himself into her life in different ways, standing outside her home at night and peering through her window, stealing her phone, following her to cafes and bars and then murdering her ex-boyfriend and best friend all before locking her up beneath his bookstore.
Pretty romantic and compelling content, isn't it?
Penn Badgley as Joe Goldberg and Elizabeth Lail as Guinevere Beck in YOU. Source: Netflix.
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Now, I can already feel the wave of impending eye rolls and exasperated sighs stemming from the majority of people reading these words, all threatening to crash down on me like an indignant tsunami.
How, I hear you all ask, how can you dare to talk about a Netflix show in the same breath as you talk about real women who have been assaulted, stalked and murdered? One is entertainment and one is real life, they shouldn't exist in the same conversation or even in the same thought process.
But the problem here is not with placing these two ideas in the same sentence or even so much with the TV show itself, the issue with YOU is in fact....you.
The fault is with the consumer as much as with the product itself.
As groundbreaking as we like to think YOU is, it has actually been created using a very tried and tested story formula that has been in place for decades, one designed to make you see a violent and dangerous man as a complicated and intriguing character and the women within his story (HIS story, always) to be flawed, faceless and deserving of some of the things that happen to her.
The way we consume shows like YOU and the characters within them directly plays into how we view the roles of men and women in the real world, whether we are actively aware of that fact or not.
YOU feeds into the idea that it is socially acceptable to see TV shows through one of two lenses.
If a show involves a woman being murdered, raped or assaulted we feel obliged to label them "gritty" and "compelling" but if the show is about female career or friendship they must be passed off as "frothy" and "guilty pleasures".
After all, how will the world know how smart you really are unless you post publicly on social media about how you enjoy crime-themed dramas where a woman (preferably conventionally attractive, partially naked is best) is assaulted and then has her bloodied body dragged across the screen?
There is no doubt that YOU has already been a phenomenal hit for Netflix. In a letter to shareholders this week the streaming service confirmed that the TV show will be streamed in an estimated 40 million homes within its first month.
And while the number of people watching the series is impressive, the conversation around it continues to be alarming.
With the actions of Joe, because he is played by a conventionally attractive actor and is a well-spoken character, viewers of the series have been easily able to romanticise, explain away and even fetishises his actions towards Beck.
It is because we are privy to so much of his inner monologue that we begin to see how his actions make sense, how his controlling behaviour is almost longed for by an audience who see his fascination with her as something they would want for themselves...minus the murder, one would hope.
For context, conversations around Joe tend to go a little like this...
"Yes he followed her home...but he also saved her from being hit by that train."
"Yes he broke into her home...but he also really cares about her and her career."
"Yes he followed her out of town and to a hotel...but he supported her when her dad abandoned her."
lowkey wanting Penn Badgley to stalk me too after watching You. pic.twitter.com/rr95dpwm1Q
— Kai. (@KaStuWiiII) December 30, 2018
In contrast, here's how conversations tend to go when discussing the character of Beck.
"Yes he stood outside her window...but why doesn't she have curtains for God's sake?"
"Yes he stole her phone and used it to manipulate her...but then she calls herself a writer and hardly ever writes, so who is really the liar here?"
"Yes he spied on her in bars and restaurants...but why the hell couldn't she recognise him in that hat?"
"Yes he stalked, manipulated and eventually murdered her...but is she even pretty enough to warrant that level of stalking, what's so special about her?"
You know, main concern about 'YOU' is not that Beck doesn't have curtains, but more how she can't see Joe lurking ACROSS THE ROAD from her curtainless house #YOUnetflix
— Martin Campbell (@mwcampbell_) January 15, 2019
The way Beck is depicted in the series is part of a larger issue in pop culture where female characters are seen as interchangeable plot devices that can be tortured or raped in order to either progress a male storyline or to enrich a male character.
This story device is known as "fridging", a term coined by writer Gail Simone for the website Women in Refrigerators created in 1999. It is used to describe scenes where female characters are injured, raped, killed, or depowered solely as a plot device. It stems from a comic book where a hero returns home to find his dead girlfriend's body stuffed in a fridge.
The stalking, assault and ultimate murder of Beck in YOU is done in a way that not only romanticises the actions of Joe, but also seeks to shift the blame from in. A way of thinking that can translate into how we view cases like this in real life.
Take into consideration what we know about the recent case of Jayme Closs, who was kidnapped and held hostage for three months after her alleged abductor spotted her board a school bus.
After clocking her, he then began to meticulously plan how he would abduct and imprison her. He allegedly stole license plates to replace his own, checked out her family home twice, purchased a black ski mask and shaved his head to avoid leaving any hairs at the crime scene, according to police reports.
Now, are you swooning over that, dear Netflix viewer?
Would you find his actions romantic, endearing or thrilling if he, say, had the face of Penn Badgley and you were able to put his actions into context via charming voice overs?
I really hope not.
The reality is, we need to stop romanticising stalking and violence against women on our TV shows if we expect the same to happen in real life.
The TV shows we watch and promote, the books we read and share and the podcasts we devour and revel in may have been created for entertainment purposes and not as a response to reality, but they still matter. They help form the culture we accept, the conversations we have and the world we all live in.
We cannot continue to fan over a TV show that romanticises the actions we are also fighting against.
What are your thoughts on the Netflix series YOU?
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As per usual, the preview version of the TCW episode guide for "Death Trap" (S2 Ep. 20) is now online with the following synopsis:
"A young boy wages war against the Jedi Knights who left him orphaned, bitter and alone."
We'll be sure to update when the full version goes online!
UPDATE: The full version of the episode guide is now online along with the video commentary, "The Return of Boba Fett." The full episode should be online for repeated viewings as of Monday. Enjoy!
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