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Actually, let me rephrase that: The whole camera system can be lousy in low light. More often than not, the KEY2 manages to do alright -- lots of my photos taken in bars and similarly dark environs retained a solid level of detail and weren't overly noisy. Other times, though, the KEY2 had serious trouble focusing in dark spaces, leading to photos with few (if any) discernible edges. The inconsistency on display here makes it hard to recommend to people who care a lot about taking good photos. Beyond that, a lack of controls -- there's no pro mode and just a smattering of photo filters -- means there's little for smartphone photographers to dig into. TCL and BlackBerry Mobile probably would've been better off with one very good sensor than this hit-or-miss dual camera setup. Then again, it's a BlackBerry -- were you really expecting unabashedly great photos?
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Our welfare simply is wrapped up in the welfare of the other, and we do not have a choice about it. — Marcus Mumford
Marcus Mumford's acceptance speech of the Steinbeck Award this past September links Steinbeck with Lewis, ostensibly, and, more subtly, draws on the thought of Rebecca Solnit on the communitarian responses to disaster that develop, William Cavanaugh on the ethical dimensions of traveling to other communities, Bernie Sanders, Wendell Berry—anyone concerned with the plight of the poor, which is, of course, our own plight.
His speech is an honest and heartfelt distillation of what his music has always offered me: a map to listening to others, a space for making peace in one's own heart and mind, and a connection with one's neighbor.
Mumford's music puts to action what Mumford's words call for: using art to meet one's neighbor and to love him or her more.
As stories of coronavirus spread as quickly (perhaps) as the virus, stories surface of ludicrous and thoughtless actions: parents whose child has the virus going out about their business, presidents playing golf and CDC Global Response teams having been defunded. Followed by the requiste lifesite news essays forwarded by parents, insisting the corporate media is fear-mongering.
The corporate media, unlike Mumford and Sons, has not recently won Steinbeck awards for radical empathy towards the vulnerable neighbor nor for fostering hope rather than anxiety-fueled clicks. It has seemed to me more and more lately that the news, reported by those whose lives are not at stake in the stories they report, tends to be confused with the circus. It's easy to forget that global affairs are not a spectator sport, but history that eventually will catch up with all of us. That our welfare is, quite simply, wrapped up in the welfare of our neighbor.
But more and more I have found my friends responding to the coronavirus with the same concern: I'm not worried about myself, but what about my grandparents? I know I may be fine, but am I unconsciously spreading the virus to an elderly person on the subway? I may be able to work from home, but what about those who can't afford to take a sick day?
Rebecca Solnit, no Pollyanna about human nature, celebrates how communities respond to disaster:
On the warm night of August 15, 2003, the Milky Way could be seen in New York City, a heavenly realm long lost to view until the blackout that hit the northeast late the afternoon. You can think of the current social order as something akin to this artificial light: another kind of power that fails in disaster. In its place appears a reversion to improvised, collaborative, cooperative, and local society.
However beautiful the stars of a suddenly visible night sky, few nowadays could find their way by them. But the constellations of solidarity, altruism, and improvisation are within most of us and reappear at these times. People know what to do in a disaster. The loss of power, the disaster in the modern sense, is an affliction, but the reappearance of these old heavens is its opposite. This is the paradise entered through hell.
Disasters are—just that—disasters, catastrophes, unwelcome and harmful events. Often they can bring out fear and loathing of those who have something to lose in the chaos. They are crucibles where the mettle of human character is tested, but also human community. Solnit's book charts the many times in which communities have found themselves revealed by the disaster to be kinder, nobler, and more concerned for the welfare of the other than they, in peace time, with the power on, imagine.
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T-D-A and P-E-C-O-T-A
by Bryan Grosnick February 20, 2017
Ask any Mets-watcher at the end of last season, and they might've told you that the team's Achilles heel was the catcher position. Not only has Kevin Plawecki played his way from top prospect to offensive cipher, but the (original) centerpiece of the famous R.A. Dickey trade completely cratered after a breakout-but-shortened 2015 surge. Travis d'Arnaud played poorly enough–when he was healthy enough to play–to be unseated as the starter in September and October by Rene Rivera, a player picked up for free at the start of the season because no one wanted him. Make no mistake, Rivera's a better-than-fine backup, but his rise to the starting role had nothing to do with him and everything to do with d'Arnaud.
When Baseball Prospectus' PECOTA projection system rolled out for this new year, who did it pick to be the second-best position player on the Mets? That's right, with more WARP per plate appearance than Yoenis Cespedes, that honor goes to TdA. Despite his sketchy 2016 performance, the deadly accurate wise and just projection system posits that d'Arnaud will be the seventh-most-valuable among all big league catchers. If we were back in February 2016, I might've been less surprised. After all, BP's value metric WARP gave d'Arnaud credit for four wins despite just 268 plate appearances during the team's magical 2015 run. Last year, even as d'Arnaud spent time on the shelf with a busted shoulder and couldn't hit a lick when he was on the field, WARP took a rosier view than most, giving him 1.5 wins above replacement.
Going into the 2017 season, here is the simplest version of what PECOTA projects for this 28-year-old's season:
To be clear, that's projecting about 110 games at catcher, nine more dingers than last season, and an overall batting mix that corrects to a .265 True Average. That TAv is slightly better than average for any position player, and quite a bit better than what most catchers can put up. (For reference, last season only 16 backstops with more than 200 PA hit that well.)
Before we go any further, I'd like for everyone to remember one thing: PECOTA tends to be conservative, and the numbers here are referring to the 50th percentile outcomes. Yes, players will over- and under-shoot these projections, but PECOTA's going to take the via media. In some cases, you could call PECOTA conservative, avoiding the highest highs and lowest lows. Let me just say that one more time, for emphasis. PECOTA thinks that Travis d'Arnaud being a top-10 catcher in baseball is the rather "safe" projection.
A three-win catcher is a very, very good thing. Jonathan Lucroy, generally considered one of the top three or five catchers in baseball, is projected for just 3.7 WARP in 2017 as an everyday player. But with the system only giving TdA 65 percent of the Mets' catching reps–about 415 plate appearances–the embattled backstop becomes one of the finest twos in the game. There are three main factors that underpin d'Arnaud's projection and each of them are open to some debate.
The first and simplest factor is defense … especially when it comes to pitch framing. d'Arnaud's framing is the one thing that (I think) we can rely on. When TdA is behind the plate, he is going to grab extra strikes and therefore extra value, and he can do this despite receiving some of the hardest-throwing pitchers in the game. Now, there are some people that question framing's absolute value … that is, is it really as valuable as Baseball Prospectus says it is? This is the wrong place to litigate that question, but I believe that the research speaks for itself, and the answer is yes. However, the rest of catcher defense isn't kind to our top receiver. He's abjectly bad at controlling the running game–the metrics at BP, scouts, and the random eye test all seem to agree–and pitch blocking isn't his thing at all, though he made some small strides last season. Add that to the fact that he doesn't seem to get the plaudits that Rene Rivera does when it comes to calling a game and handling the staff, and one might start to empathize with those who think that he may not be a full win better than average over two-thirds of a season when taking into account the whole catcher defense package. (I think he is, but I can at least understand the argument against.)
The second factor is offense, and this is where projecting starts to get complicated. No one thinks that Travis d'Arnaud is as bad of a hitter as he appeared last season, but videotape doesn't lie. He was bad, and he sucked. Looking briefly at some of the stats behind his disappointing .239 True Average, we can see that one of the biggest deltas between his killer 2015 and his killer-but-this-time-we-mean-the-opposite-thing 2016 was in his rate of contact on balls outside of the strike zone.
Pitchers didn't seem to treat d'Arnaud all that much different on the whole, pumping about 51 percent of all pitches in the strike zone, about in line with previous seasons. And while d'Arnaud didn't swing more frequently at balls outside of the zone, he made contact with those pitches much more often. Instead of making contact on 58 percent of pitches out of the zone, he made contact with 76 percent of those pitches.
It may be crazy to think that you'd want a player to swing and miss more often, but that's exactly what I think hurt d'Arnaud last year from a statistical perspective. Making contact on balls out of the zone can be great if you're a scrappy squib-hitter with speed or a bat-control freak of nature like Pablo Sandoval or Vladimir Guerrero. That isn't d'Arnaud's game; he's a guy with doubles-power who needs to wait for a pitch to drive and belt it. Instead, d'Arnaud's ground ball rate shot up, and as we've learned over the past few years, the best way to be a good hitter is to put the ball in the air. In addition to his ground ball rate rising from 37 percent in 2015 to 52 percent in 2016, he also "barreled" only seven balls this last season (per Statcast's metric designed to identify the best possible contact) compared to 12 barrels in 2015.
From a numbers standpoint, it would certainly behoove TdA to swing at fewer pitches outside the zone if he's going to make poor contact like he did this past season. Hopefully this is something of an outlier, a trick of his 2016 performance that perhaps resulted from a shoulder injury that kept him from driving the ball. With rest and recovery, it's possible that he could bounce back to a well-above-average rate of production, though a repeat of 2015's rates is probably out of the question.
For his entire career, the big question about d'Arnaud has been his health. There have been a litany of issues with his body, most recently the previously-noted rotator cuff issue, but also including injuries to his back, foot, brain, hand, and elbow. Many of these have been what we call "freak" injuries–ones that aren't part of a chronic issue or weakness, but rather result from unplanned contact such as getting brained by a backswing or breaking a hand because it was hit by a pitch. That's great, and it tends to give one the hope that this will be the year that he stays healthy … but there's just as good of a chance that he's just slightly more fragile than your average catcher.
The unfortunate truth is that d'Arnaud just doesn't possess a history of staying healthy, and that's the biggest indicator that he won't be healthy in the future. That BP projects 416 plate appearances is wonderful, but there's a reasonable chance he won't make it that far … after all, when you factor in minor-league time, there have only been three seasons in his career (2009, 2011, and 2014) where he's seen that many PAs. Health factors also prevent d'Arnaud from getting the consistent playing time that would benefit his development, and allow him the comfort that many players demand in order to perform at their highest level. (This also doesn't even take into account what might happen if he misses time with injury and Terry Collins falls in love with Rene Rivera all over again, giving away d'Arnaud's starting spot.)
While his defense is very likely to be good, and his offense has the potential to be good, health is the fulcrum on which all of d'Arnaud's performance rests. If he remains injury-free for a full season, terrific … I'd put good money on him reaching his 50th percentile PECOTA projection. If he can't–which I'd give better than even odds on happening–then floor and ceiling both dip lower than the projection system might hazard.
On a recent episode of For All You Kids Out There, Jarrett and Jeff talked a little bit (again) on how if you have a good-but-not-great team, you want them to at least be a high-variance team. That way, there's enough upside to take you to the promised land, and if things don't work out … hey, the drop from the middle to the basement doesn't seem so bad. The Mets are certainly that high-variance team and d'Arnaud is certainly the team's most high-variance player. He could get off to a hot start, push Rivera to a true backup role, hit like 2015, and most importantly stay healthy. If that happens, the Mets should be glad they didn't trade for Jonathan Lucroy last year, because they already have a better version. (That's right, I said it.)
But that's not likely. That's the 90th percentile-plus outcome. The 10th percentile outcome is the hitter d'Arnaud was last year, or worse, and he hardly plays because he's bad and/or injured. There's a three-and-a-half-win swing between the 90th and 10th percentile projections, but that's probably a bit too conservative; as good as his defense is, there's the possibility that he could be replacement-level or not even take the field.
If you listen to PECOTA, the great middle road, you should still be on the side of d'Arnaud over any other option the Mets can throw out there, as well as most everyone else on planet earth capable of donning a chest protector. If you listen to Jeff and Jarrett, you want players who are capable of greatness even if they're also capable of breaking your heart. The PECOTA numbers don't lie, and they don't even dissemble–Travis d'Arnaud is still the kind of talent capable of being a top-tier talent at the game's most demanding position. Terry Collins–not to mention every Met fan out there–has to let go of the fear of TdA becoming the player he was last season, and embrace the possibility that his middle road might be more than good enough.
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Located close to the border with Jordan, the kibbutz grounds are neatly tucked away, just east of Quetura junction, where route 40 from Beer Sheva meets route 90 from Eilat, and just beyond km post 62. The approach road to the kibbutz is 1.5 km long and lined with some very productive Mesquite and Acacia bushes where migrants often include Woodchat Lanius senator and Masked Shrikes L. nubicus, Balkan Warbler Phylloscopus orientalis, Olivaceous Hippolais pallida and Orphean Warblers Sylvia hortensis. Later in spring, Barred S. nisoria and Olive-tree Warblers Hippolais olivetorum are seen, and an IsabelIine Shrike Lanius isabellinus can be seen in the later spring, usually in April.
On entering the kibbutz grounds, please park in one of the two car parks provided and explore the grounds on foot. Spur-winged Plover Vanellus spinosus is often the first bird you will encounter, in the car park followed by Little Green Bee-eater Merops orientalis, and Hoopoe Upupa epops. From here, proceed directly to the tourism office to receive information on what is around.
From the tourism office progress north into the kibbutz residential area and swimming pool. The lawns and gardens can harbour 100s of migrants, especially in spring, including Quail Coturnix coturnix, , Wryneck Jynx torquilla, Tawny Anthus campestris and Red-throated Pipits A. cervinus, Yellow Wagtail Motacilla flava (many races), Rufous Bush Robin Cercotrichas galactotes, Nightingale Luscinia megarhynchos, Thrush Nightingale L. luscinia, Black-eared Oenanthe hispanica and Isabelline Wheatears O. isabellina, Rock Thrush Monticola saxatilis, Blue Rock Thrush M. solitarius, Great Reed Acrocephalus arundinaceus, Savi's Locustella luscinioides and Ruppell's Warblers Sylvia rueppelli, Collared Ficedula albicollis and Semi-collared Flycatchers F. semitorquata, Golden Oriole Oriolus oriolus, Red-backed Lanius collurio and other shrikes, Spanish Sparrow Passer hispaniolensis, Ortolan Emberiza hortulana and Cretzschmar's Buntings E. caesia, all of which can be regarded as common migrants on Lotan, although numbers are subject to annual fluctuations.
In the spring of 2012 we had a Cinereous Bunting E. cineracae hopping around with the Cretschmar's and Ortolan buntings for 11 days straight.
Of course, with these, a number of scarce or rare migrants have been discovered including: Richard's Pipit Anthus richardi (autumn), Citrine Wagtail Motacilla citreola (March-May), Black Bush Robin Cercotrichas podobe (April, although becoming slightly more common), White-throated Robin lrania gutturalis (April), Cyprus Wheatear Oenanthe cypriaca, Menetries' Warbler Sylvia mistacea ( March-April ) , Subalpine Warbler S. cantillans ( April) , Yellow-browed Warbler Phylloscopus inornatus (October-December), Red-breasted Flycatcher Ficedula parua (October-November), Rose-coloured Starling Sturnus roseus, and Syrian Serin Serinus syriacus (March-April).
Once you have completed this circuit, it is worth trying your luck at the eastern organic garden .This a first- rate spot. The compost bins attract local Little Green Bee-eater, Crested Lark, Blackstart, wintering Bluethroat Luscinia svecica, Stonechat Saxicola torquata, Black Redstart Phoenicurus ochruros and Spanish Sparrow, and migrant Redstart Phoenicurus phoenicurus and Spotted Flycatcher Muscicapa striata. All of these will virtually feed at your feet if you are prepared to sit quietly for a few moments. The lush splendour of the organic garden is a haven for tired migrants.
The organic fields east and south of the main garden, are wilder and more exposed, a good place to find Spur-winged Plover and Stone Curlew Burhinus oedicnemus (at dusk). These fields, and the surrounding area of the dairy barn, can attract interesting open terrain species including Hen Harrier Circus cyaneus, Little Ringed Plover Charadrius dubius, Bimaculated Lark Melanocorypha bimaculata, Short-toed Lark Calandrella brachydactyla, Small Skylark Alauda gulgula ( rare ), Water Pipit Anthus spinoletta, Hooded Oenanthe monacha and Desert Wheatears O. deserti (both winter), and Desert Finch Rhodospiza obsoleta (winter). Between July and November, it is worth scanning the dunes, east of the kibbutz perimeter fence between the dairy barn gate and the eastern gate, for Hoopoe Lark Alaemon alaudipes. There are several territories of Hoopoe Lark several kilometers north of Lotan, both on the Israeli and Jordanian side of the border, as well as further south at Yotvata. Under no circumstances leave the kibbutz from these gates to explore the desert. You are less than 100 meters from the Israel-Jordan border and birding out of bounds here is not good for you, the kibbutz or the Israeli army! Signs at both gates remind you not to be tempted.


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Creature Feature Love Letter 'Book of Monsters' Coming to 2-Disc Collector's Edition Blu-ray in the UK this November!
If you live in the UK, you can soon open the Book of Monsters on blu-ray...
...If you haven't seen director Stewart Sparke's Book of Monsters yet, you're missing an incredibly fun, Evil Dead 2-like monster movie full of great practical effects and kickass heroines! KHC has learned that, if you live in the UK, you will soon be able to own a 2-disc collector's edition blu-ray of the film!
In Book of Monsters, written by Paul Butler:
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Limited to only 300 copies, the 2-Disc Collector's Edition features both Blu-ray and DVD versions of the movie, an exclusive hand numbered Slipcover, four collectible lobby cards, signed mini poster and a reversible sleeve signed by Director Stewart Sparke and lead actress Lyndsey Craine.
Both versions are exclusive to UK customers and feature a Blu-ray disc packed with over an hour of bonus features including a feature length documentary, deleted scenes, alternate ending, gag reel and more.
Both the standard edition blu-ray and a collector's edition blu-ray become available in the UK on November 30th from Dark Rift Films.
You can pre-order the film here, and if you live in the U.S. and still haven't seen this creature feature love letter, Book of Monsters is currently streaming on Prime and Tubi.


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Arcana New Music Ensemble just celebrated its first anniversary as the permanent resident ensemble of the non-profit experimental arts music presenter, Bowerbird. Pursuing a mission to perform "interesting, beautiful, and unconventional music," the group closed their 2016-17 season at University Lutheran Church on June 25 with a rousing recital that went from Classical riffs on birds to John Cage's austere, silence-embracing works to an early free jazz piece. For someone like myself who has a free-wheeling taste in music, this recital especially spoke to me.
The Philadelphia-based Arcana New Music Ensemble, made up of 25 musicians, separates itself from the pack by giving their musicians the freedom to take part in programming the recitals. In total, 8 of the Ensemble's 25 musicians performed in this recital.
Messiaen's Catalogue d'oiseaux kicked off the evening. A set of 13 pieces performed by pianist Michael Tan, the impressionistic short works were conceived as homage to birds, both in the rejuvenating sounds of coos and the natural environment of the bird habitat. Messiaen used a flickering of the piano's upper keys to represent the innocence of birds. The pieces also made use of four dissonant chords, complex lines, and wistful colors, all of which Tan evoked wonderfully.
Flautist Emma Resmini performs with the Arcana New Music Ensemble; courtesy of Bowerbird.
The Franco Donatoni-composed Fili was filled with sputtering action from flautist Emma Resmini and pianist David Hughes. Each line was so excitingly sporadic that when Resmini would play the rare long, sustained notes, it felt like the audience earned that calmer change of pace before the piece ended on a whiplash high of pitch and energy.
In contrast, another work for flute and piano by John Cage had many sustained notes and pauses. A long chord played by pianist Tan completely dissipates, creating much space – a bit too austere for my taste. But, another John Cage composition, Aria, was a showstopper, led by a sparkling performance from soprano Alize Rozsnyai, who used many props to bring this solo piece to life: camera, match, soda can, and other objects. These were all in the spirit of the aria's entertaining but super random nature. Cage's composition is vocally demanding, asking the soprano to spin descending vocal lines straight into eccentric character in spoken word — one after the next, showcasing Rozsnyai's acting prowess. Flipping from singing to speaking can get tiring very quickly and Rozsnyai made it seem like this was another day in the office for her.
Trumpeter Tessa Ellis performs with the Arcana New Music Ensemble; courtesy of Bowerbird.
The recital concluded with Stefan Wolpe's Quartet for Trumpet, Saxophone, Percussion, and Piano performed by trumpeter, Tessa Ellis, saxophonist, Aaron Stewart, pianist David Hughes and percussionist Andy Thierauf. The two-movement work was composed in 1950 and sounds like a precursor to the free jazz movement in the 60s when Ornette Coleman was shaking up the jazz world in a controversial way. Charlie Parker was the dominant jazz figure at the time of the work's premiere and I had a difficult time not hearing his influence in the saxophone line. Aaron Stewart and I discussed after the concert that Parker would have likely turned down playing this piece (even though he knew Stefan Wolpe) as he was too consumed by his own compositions to commit any additional time to someone else's musical guidelines.
Included between the longer works in the recital were four interludes composed by Kenneth Amis. An interlude is a short movement in between a longer, significant work, and these by Amis were spread throughout the evening. The interludes were written for trumpet, flute, saxophone, and double bass and played by trumpeter Tessa Ellis, flautist Emma Resmini, saxophonist Aaron Stewart, and double bassist Josh Machiz. All of the interludes showed a contrapuntal mastery of four distinct lines, each with its own voice and story, woven together with respect for each of the individual voices.
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Scrap Mechanic | DEVBLOG 7 IS HERE!
We're back with another exciting devblog! We've got some cool new stuff to share with you, but first of all we'd like to let you all know how blown away we are by the incredible support we're getting from all you Mechanics out there. There's nothing that boosts our motivation more then seeing all the awesome creations being made. We're crazy grateful, and you're all amazing! Thanks! It's been a great month here at Scrap Mechanic HQ, not to mention busy! We started out as a four-man band but as of April, our team has doubled in size to eight with plans for even more growth! Great news for us because who doesn't love new colleagues, and sweet news for you because it means much faster development.
- Welding Tool: in the Works!
Here's your first look at the welding tool! This is quite possibly the most requested tool from our darling community, and with good reason! Some of us were clumsy enough to slice our creations in half by mistake, and shed a tiny mechanic's tear. Well cry no more! The welding tool is in development right now. But why is it taking so long you might ask? Well, there are a range of different situations where the welding tool has to work differently, which means that it needs to have more than just one feature. So making sure the tool works well across all these situations and being certain that it meets the Mechanic's needs is a touch on the time-consuming side. We don't settle for quick and shaky solutions, so when it's done, it'll be awesome!
- Let's Make Music! Farmbot Heads Coming Soon!
Look out! Four creepy Totebot heads incoming! Don't despair though, they're perfectly harmless. For now. In all honesty, they're actually broken, but we've heard them making noise which must mean their internal sound generators are still working! Obviously the only thing to do here is turn their mechanical skulls into musical instruments. Obviously. Whilst they're not the most useful thing in the world, these heads neatly close the creative circle in Scrap Mechanic by allowing you to make music. It's a ton of fun to mess around with and seeing what beats and jams you can come up with. How about a little musical challenge or two amongst your fellow mechanics? We're looking forward to hearing your hit-making skills!
- This New Feature is Really Crate!
Since you'll have limited space in your backpack in Survival Mode, you'll of course need extra storage for all the things that you gather out in the world. These handsome new crates are the storage solution of your dreams! They come in two sizes and can be attached to any vehicle. These crates won't be added to creative mode, but we thought you might like a sneak peek.
We're working on vehicles that were left behind by the farmers who used to populate the planet. You'll eventually be able to find them spread out on the survival map, ready to be used as they are, but also a prime source for scrap and parts! Perfect for beginners, or just lazy mechanics on the run! It's not hard to build better, more stable vehicles than these, though. One neat little detail is that they've got detachable rims so you can change the look of your wheels! As you can see, we sketch a lot when we're in the design phase, just to be sure things are thought out and neat!
We've been hard at work on the crashed spaceship that gets our Mechanic stranded. There's been heaps of work to do with the custom pieces for the craft's interior, but we think it's starting to look really great! By great, we mean that you can't really tell that it's all made out of building pieces inside, but you'll just have to take our word for it. Some stuff we wanna leave as a surprise for you when you get to explore Survival Mode for yourself!
Many Mechanics have been asking for a steering wheel that's three blocks wide, so we're making one! It's really turned out way cooler than we expected, so all you symmetry-loving Mechanics can get your hands on the new Driver's Seat in the coming weeks.
- What's Happening with Survival Mode?
We're putting most of our time into Survival mode right now. Our goal is to make sure that it's really bringing something new to the genre, and making something we'd love to release takes time. Don't go expecting Survival Mode to show up very soon, because we've got some road left up ahead. The good news is that we'll always be keeping you posted in these DevBlogs so that you're always up to date with the latest progress from Scrap Mechanic HQ! Not only that, but we're working hard on updating the game as often as we can with improvements and new content, so stick around because we're not going anywhere! Thanks so much for your patience as we work to produce something we're proud of and that you'll hopefully love.


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A left-wing outsider cautions against alliance with Jobbik
A well-known Marxist philosopher argues passionately against the idea of a Left-Jobbik alliance, as the supposedly only way to vote the incumbent government out of office. He places his arguments in a broad-brush tableau depicting the rise of the right and the demise of the Left and of Liberalism.
On his HVG.hu column, Gáspár Miklós Tamás thinks defeating the ruling Fidesz party is a strategic priority for the Left, but 'not at any price'. An alliance with Jobbik, he suggests, would be just too big a price to pay. The former anti-Communist dissident, turned first conservative liberal and then Marxist finds nothing special in the pathetic state of Hungary's left-wing parties, because as he sees it, the centrist shift provoked by the likes of Britain's Tony Blair, Germany's Gerhard Schröder and other Social Democrat leaders stripped the left-wing parties of their true mission. When the liberal model started to become dysfunctional after its happiest years in the 1990s, new forces emerged to channel discontent – and these were invariably on the right wing. That is why Jobbik has become the number one opposition party in today's Hungary, Tamás explains. He doesn't rule out the possibility that Jobbik leader Gábor Vona may be sincere in moving toward the centre, but suggests that it would be morally unacceptable for the Left to ally itself with him. All the more so, he argues, since a Fidesz victory could not be prevented anyway, as most left-wing voters would refuse to vote for Jobbik candidates and vice versa. The only outcome of an alliance with Jobbik would be for the Left to lose even the chance of coherent and critical speech. 'And that is all that remains to us', he concludes.
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''It is people, not organisations, that collaborate – so their personalities and preferences are hugely important.
How do we better understand that, online as well as off?
Organisations create the cultures which may or may not encourage sharing.
Will blogs and other social media really help change that, when senior managers are often reluctant to use new tools?
Conversations and stories work better than bullet points to get people talking.
So why are many meeting rooms still dominated by immovable Board tables, and conferences by Powerpoint?
Effective collaboration requires trust, relationships and understanding that take time to develop.
I'm not going to attempt to answer the back-questions here, though I look forward to tomorrow's discussion. But I do want to introduce a thought about psychology, collaboration, knowledge and understanding which I think touches upon several of them – not least senior management culture and the persistence of Powerpoint 'lectures' at conferences.
It's this – we still don't believe that we can understand something or, therefore, manage it unless we can encompass and contain it. Individuals still strive to almost literally 'get their heads around' the facts or the process or the problem or the solution. They want to see the edges and they want to be able to see all the feedback in order to know that they are having the effect they desire. So there's a paradox in any place that individuals try to use collaboration, and what I would call 'distributed comprehension', to do something and yet want to drag all the outcomes and consequences back in and contain it within their own heads. Part of the voodoo of this is to capture the soul of the outcome in a Powerpoint presentation – and then let others peek at it in order to confirm your mastery.
I'm subject to this as much as anyone – so this isn't about some stupid group of 'others'. If we believe that distributed groups can now bring about better outcomes and have unprecedented emergent effects then maybe we are just going to have to get used to only seeing part of the picture and controlling or influencing part of the action. On the one hand this looks like a new web2.0 phenomenon but on the other hand it's remeniscent of the experiences of a 19th century general in a major battle.
This is how I feel about the social web itself. I look out at the lightspeed expansion of content, connections, combinations, tools and, yes, rubbish out there and I feel two things. I want to get a handle on it, understand it, see those expanding edges and be able to explain and commend it to others. But I'm also in awe of it and have a growing feeling that I would be (or become) insane to try to capture it. I was suddenly put in mind of the Romantics arriving in the Alps and gazing on mountains of a scale they had never seen before. They talked about 'the sublime' - the uncontainable. They didn't just see really big impressive mountains (that could plausibly be represented on a relief map) they saw something that they realised they couldn't encompass, maybe they saw "nature" in general. They were overwhelmed and changed by it and spent their lives trying to find aesthetic forms which would allow them to communicate it, and express its impact on them, but not to contain it.
How does this translate to collaboration and engagement? I think that David's questions point to the fact that we haven't yet learned to let go. This way of doing things will only really take off when members of groups accept that the group, as a whole, may understand, resolve and do things which no individual member can understand, resolve or do. We do that with societies and economies, give or take the odd outbreak of totalitarianism, accepting that no one of us can determine the flow of the whole. But online collaboration has briefly made collective action look like a process, a system, which can have determinate outputs which can be owned, understood and powerpointed by one person.
Perhaps social media will compel us to accept that we all need to see, feel and participate in the world through other people – at least some of the time.


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Are Art Critics Too Smart to be Journalists?
An earlier post, "Some Writers You Don't Edit," was about the challenge in editing a Washingtonian story by Robert Hughes, the esteemed art critic, about the Phillips Collection, an art museum in Washington, D.C. What caused a debate among editors was this: "And yet the Phillips has never lost its aedicular quality, its gift of intimacy and unhurried ease in the presence of serious art."
As an editor, I resisted publishing words that 99 percent of our readers would have to look up, and aedicular seemed in that category. I suggested it be changed, but Howard Means, the editor working with Hughes, pointed out that Hughes "was very large for an art critic and prone to operatic moments." We left aedicular as Hughes wrote it. (When you look up aedicula, it means a niche or small shrine.)
Now here is art critic Philip Kennicott writing on July 3 about DC's Corcoran Gallery of Art in the Washington Post: "He [Superior Court Judge Robert Okun] will decide whether culture is autochthonous and organically related to the community, or merely a fiction our supposed stewards of culture use to hide their real ambition: to acquire more things, more land, more status and more influence."
Autochthonous? How many Post readers had to look that up?
The dictionary definition is "formed or originating in the place where found."
A friend and I send each other writing we encounter where, we suspect, the author suffered an unfortunate collision with a thesaurus (entries for "indigenous", perhaps, in this case). Thanks for this article!
Who do you think came up with this complete phrase: "…whether culture is autochthonous and organically related to the community." Writer or editor?
This seems redundant and saying the same thing to me — or a way to explain "autochthonous" without deleting it. (How "organically related" improves on plain old "related" can be the subject of a future post.)
Writer or editor? A good question. Autochthonous had to come from Kennicott and a good guess would be an editor questioned the word and insisted that the reader be given some help and the writer reluctantly agreed to make it clearer.
Sounds like a compromise worse than either pure path. Stick with AUTOCHTHONOUS — the reader skips it or looks it up and learns a new word — or go with INDIGENOUS or even ORGANICALLY RELATED. You did not add a synonym to AEDICULAR. (Heck, I had to look up "organic" and in this sentence it seems to mean really really related.)
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Use of anachronisms is just a symptom of their underlying problem. The real issue with critics is that they write from an "insider" perspective with the presumption that the ideas and topics they write about are logical, externally valid, and are true just because they sound so eloquent.
If they were covering city hall or the cops, their lazy habit of taking things at face value, and fear of calling "BS" on the many preposterous ideas coming out of the art world would get them sent back to the obit desk.


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3 things as the Mavericks brace for a visit to Golden State
The injury-riddled Mavericks are looking to steal a W on the road, in one of the toughest NBA environments.
By Jordan Brodess@Jbrodess Dec 14, 2017, 12:00am CST
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After stealing a game from the San Antonio Spurs Monday night, the Mavericks (8-20) have the tough mission of heading west to take on the defending champion Golden State Warriors (22-6). In a nationally televised matchup from Oracle Arena, the Mavs will once again be without their rookie point guard Dennis Smith Jr., who is out for this two-game road trip tending to a hip injury he sustained last week against the Celtics.
These teams last met on Oct. 23 in Dallas, with the Warriors thumping the Mavs 133-103. The Mavericks haven't had a ton of luck against Golden State over the last several years, and with an injury-riddled roster, they will have another tall task tonight.
Will we get to see Johnathan Motley?
The Mavericks haven't played particularly well on the road this season. Going a rough 2-10 away from Dallas, it's asking a lot of this squad to go in and steal a win in one of the tougher environments in the league.
If somehow this game stays close going in to the fourth, we probably won't see two-way contract Johnathan Motley on the floor. But if there could be bright side from the Warriors making quick work of the Mavs tonight, it's the possibility of Antonius Cleveland and Motley getting extra run.
Motley is on ticking time bomb of a contract, so to speak, where each day with the team counts toward his availability on the main roster, so you'd think the Mavericks front office would want to see what he has to offer during actual games. Cleveland has had some run (and spurts of impressive play), but Motley has yet to hit the hardwood since joining the team recently — taking over Noel's roster spot.
If the Mavs get dominated, I hope that means it's Motley Time.
Is there a way to slow the Warriors down?
The Mavericks are dealing with plenty of key injuries (more on that below), but the Warriors are going through a rough patch of their own. Golden State will be without two-time MVP Stephen Curry (ankle) and Nick Young (concussion). To pile on further, Draymond Green (shoulder) and former Maverick Zaza Pachulia (shoulder) are both listed as doubtful game-time decisions.
All of that is to say, this might be the way to slow them down.
This isn't a strategy per se, but the Mavericks might have a slightly easier time matching up and slowing the game down. Of course Kevin Durant, Klay Thompson and a whole slew of other talent the Warriors employ will be enough of a headache for Rick Carlisle and company. But if ever there were a time to catch the Warriors, this might be it.
With all these injuries, are we at a turning point on the season?
Dennis Smith Jr. (OUT), Seth Curry (OUT), Dorian Finney-Smith (OUT), Nerlens Noel (OUT), Josh McRoberts (OUT). It's not a great list.
Now some of these players haven't been available most of the season, and the other is Noel. But in all seriousness, it's hard to field a competitive squad when key players are in suits.
All of this forces the Mavs to face a certain reality: how do they gameplan the rest of this season? No one in the organization surrenders to the idea that the Mavs are tanking, or doing anything that isn't trying to make the playoffs. And that's fine, partially because they just aren't good enough anyway. But there has to be some sense that these setbacks will eventually be too much to handle.
Yesterday Eddie Sefko of Dallas Morning News published an article on Seth Curry's current reality...and it wasn't an optimistic picture. Outside of the giant sinkhole disaster that has become Noel and the Mavs, Curry is the most disappointing story this season.
Here's to speedy recoveries for all of these Mavs, we miss them on the floor!
Tip time is set for 9:30 CT, and can be watched nationally on TNT.
Stats Rundown: 3 stats from the Mavericks 104-102 win against the Oklahoma City Thunder Dallas picks up another win, now 9-1 over their last 10 games
Mavericks waive Willie Cauley-Stein, sign Marquese Chriss Dallas signs Chriss to a two-year contract.


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As a Christian, we experience the presence of guilt when we sin or do something bad. After fallen into the temptation, we start having this condemnation thought in us that God is angry and whatever we have asked will not be answered.
I was surfing through my old notes and saw one of Joyce Meyer's writing about this particular subject.
My friend, your problems are not the root. When you go through an evil day, you are like a sickly plant with sick leaves. You may have leaves of sickness, poverty, a broken marriage or depression in your life. But these are just the leaves. These are just the manifestations of the root. It would be foolish to attack the leaves because they are not the cause of your problems. We all know that there'll be no leaf if there is no root.
Joseph Prince in one of his preaching discussed something similar in dealing with the spirit of condemnation.
When there's condemnation, there'll be fear. When there's fear, there's going to be stress. And when there's stress, there'll be manifestations of the curse.
Now, if you disagree with me that the root cause is condemnation, let me refer you to Genesis, the book of beginnings.
The truth is that Adam was already like God! But Adam believed the devil, ate the fruit and fell. And the curse came.
Before there was poverty, sickness and death in Adam's life, there was stress. How do we know that? Well, God said, "In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread…" (Genesis 3:19) And sweat speaks of stress and self-effort.
But if you go deeper, you will find that there was fear. Do you know what Adam said to God when God asked him where he was? He said, "I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself." (Genesis 3:10) Adam was afraid. He was fearful. So the deeper root of stress is fear. But before he was fearful, he felt condemned.
The deepest root of all is condemnation.


A friend of mine is a professor. She's working on a research project studying employee-referral bonus programs. These are the programs where employees suggest friends and acquaintances for jobs in the company, and get cash rewards if a successful hire occurs. Employee-referral bonus programs are among my top 10 best corporate practices). Appropriately designed and administered, they're win-win-win propositions: Someone gets a new job; the employer gets a new employee who's already been vouched for by another team member; and the referring employee gets some extra cash.
My friend called a number of human resources practitioners to get their views on these programs. Reactions were mixed. A typical reply was along these lines: Sometimes the people employees refer are perfect strangers. They'll post our job openings on bulletin boards and Internet forums and refer anyone. We can't rely on employees' recommendations when they game the system like that.
I sigh when I hear this kind of story. Yes, these incidents are deplorable. Employees who would participate in a cash-for-referred-friends program only to abuse the system are not the sorts of people you want on your team.
The HR people trying to administer such plans must tear their hair out when employees misuse a mechanism that's designed to enrich them and give employment to their friends. But the problem isn't the program itself, much less the overall philosophy.
If the environment isn't healthy, then all the best-intentioned schemes and mechanisms will falter or fail. Employee-referral bonus programs, like so many other management practices ranging from old-fashioned suggestion boxes to cross-training initiatives to flextime mandates, rely on two critical elements: communication and trust.
A carefully designed tool—such as the employee-referral bonus program—can succeed only if the environment is ready for it. If employees like their work and value their reputations in the workplace, they won't sell their credibility for a $500 bonus by handing in the résumé of someone they found on Craigslist and calling that person a trusted colleague.
An employee who squanders his credibility in the office for a $500 check is not a good representative for your organization. And you could make it clear that anyone who abuses the employee-referral bonus program will be disciplined or fired. But that's a short-term fix. If the culture is so damaged that people think nothing of telling perfect strangers, "Look, give me your résumé, I'll give it to my boss and pretend we know each other, and I can make $500 if you get hired," then you've got bigger problems than one unethical employee.
Of course, employee-referral bonus programs don't pay a cent unless a referred candidate is hired. To defeat the system, an untrustworthy employee not only has to refer an "instant friend" for an interview, but that false friend also has to be hired. So, there is responsibility on both sides of the equation. Presumably, a good screening process would uncover these not-so-close friendships before an offer gets extended, but understaffed HR groups and time-pressed hiring managers may not learn about the deception until the ink is dry on the newcomer's offer letter.
It takes time, hard work, and consistency to build trust. People won't believe in their leaders and what they tell them until they're convinced they're being told the truth. Building trust in an organization is much harder than implementing another HR program. Wielding a new hammer is easy, but if the wood is rotten, the hammer—any hammer—will fail.
I had a conversation with a corporate middle manager not long ago that illustrated this. "We do a lot of good things for our employees at my company," he said. "We give them their birthdays off, we help with their tuition, and we have regular employee meetings.


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WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A BF and if you don't know what that means, you are not living.
Marlon Wayans told the pvblic that he along with his co-creators are willing to make a long-awaited White Chicks sequel.
On MTV's Total Request Live, one audience member asked if "White Chicks 2" was actually going to happen.
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Australia's Kim Forge selected for International Olympic Committee Executive Masters in Sport Organisation Management
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Home / News / Australia's Kim Forge selected for International Olympic Committee Executive Masters in Sport Organisation Management
It's been an exciting week for Kim Forge, President of the Australian Curling Federation. Forge was selected by the Australian Olympic Committee from a pool of strong applicants as the sole Australian to secure a place in the International Olympic Committee Executive Masters in Sport Organisation Management.
The programme is designed for professionals working in national or international sports bodies to gain knowledge on how to better manage their organisation.
Forge, who has acted for eight years as the President of the Australian Curling Federation and competed on world stage since 2005, will focus her research on the best strategy to promote sport and reach multi-culturally diverse communities in Australia. With this, she hopes to increase curling participation within Australia.
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The programme lasts 12 months and is scheduled to begin in September 2021. During those 12 months Forge will complete multiple modules, some of which are planned to be held in Switzerland and Kosovo.
"I am so excited to start and complete this programme. I was supposed to begin this programme at the end of January in Lausanne but have recently found out it will start in September due to COVID and all of the travel restrictions in place," said Forge.
Forge added, "I'm so pleased that the Australian Olympic Committee has chosen to invest in winter sport and the Australian Curling Federation. It shows that our continual hard work and efforts over time have been recognised.
"Over the years the Australian Olympic Committee have watched our Federation improve and become real contributors within the national sporting organisations of Australia. It seems that the research project is quite an important factor too."
As a predominantly summer sporting nation, Forge is delighted that she has the opportunity to put curling on the map ahead of the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games – a time when curling receives global exposure to new audiences.
"I am keen to promote curling globally, meet new people within the sporting fraternity and broaden my horizons," said Forge.
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Wire Swiss GmbH is a software company with headquarters in Zug, Switzerland. Its development center is in Berlin, Germany. The company is best known for its messaging application called Wire.

The Wire app allows users to exchange end-to-end encrypted instant messages, as well as make voice and video calls. The software is available for the iOS, Android, macOS, Linux and Windows operating systems and WebRTC-compatible web browsers. It uses the Internet to make voice and video calls; send text messages, files, images, videos, audio files and user drawings depending on the clients used. It can be used on any of the available clients, requiring a phone number or email for registration. It is hosted inside the European Union and protected by European Union laws.

Many employees working on Wire have previously worked with Skype, and Skype's co-founder Janus Friis is backing the project. Audio quality is one of Wire's key selling points.

History
Wire Swiss GmbH was founded in Fall 2012 by Jonathan Christensen, Alan Duric and Priidu Zilmer, who previously worked at Skype and Microsoft. Jonathan Christensen previously co-founded Camino Networks in 2005 with Alan Duric, who also co-founded Telio. Camino networks was later acquired by Skype, a division of Microsoft Corporation. At Skype, Jonathan was responsible for getting Skype into new platforms such as Internet televisions and set-top boxes, while Priidu Zilmer, former head of design at Vdio, lead the Skype design team. On December 7, 2017, the company announced that former Huddle CEO Morten Brøgger had replaced Alan Duric as the company's CEO, and that Duric would join Wire's Board of Directors and resume his role as CTO/COO.

The company launched the Wire app on December 3, 2014. Shortly after its launch, the company retracted a claim from their website that the app's messages and conversation history could only be read by the conversation participants. In August 2015, the company added group calling to their app. From its launch until March 2016, Wire's messages were only encrypted between the client and the company's server. In March 2016, the company added end-to-end encryption for its messaging traffic, as well as a video calling feature. Wire Swiss GmbH released the source code of the wire client applications under the GPLv3 license in July 2016. The company also published a number of restrictions that apply to users who have compiled their own applications. Among other things, they may not change the way the applications connect and interact with the company's centralized servers. Wire Swiss started open sourcing Wire's server code in April 2017. On September 19, 2017, the company announced that they had finished open sourcing the server code, licensed under the AGPL. In July 2019 Wire raised $8.2m investment from Morpheus Ventures and others.  On July 18 of the same month, 100% of the company's shares have been taken over by Wire Holdings Inc., Delaware, USA.

App

Features

Wire allows users to exchange text, voice, photo, video and music messages. The application also supports group messaging.

The app allows group calling with up to ten participants. A stereo feature places participants in "virtual space" so that users can differentiate voice directionality. The application adapts to varying network conditions.

The application supports the exchange of animated GIFs up to 5MB through a media integration with a company called Giphy. The iOS and Android versions also include a sketch feature that allows users to draw a sketch into a conversation or over a photo. YouTube, SoundCloud, Spotify and Vimeo integrations allow users to share music and videos within chats.

Wire is available on mobile and web. The web service is called Wire for Web. Wire activity is synced on iOS, Android and web apps. The desktop version supports screen sharing.

Wire also includes a function for ephemeral messaging in 1:1 and group conversations.

With Wire for Teams, Wire introduced a paid product with a series of features available to businesses. It offers the administration of team members: Adding and removing people, assigning roles, and inviting guests to specific chats.

Technical

Wire provides end-to-end encryption for its instant messages. Wire's instant messages are encrypted with Proteus, a protocol that Wire Swiss developed based on the Signal Protocol. Wire's voice calls are encrypted with DTLS and SRTP, and its video calls with RTP. In addition to this, client-server communication is protected by Transport Layer Security.

Business model

Wire Swiss GmbH receives financial backing from a firm called Iconical. According to an article published by Reuters, Wire Swiss has not disclosed how much funding it has received, and in March 2016, it had yet to discover a sustainable business model. Wire Executive Chairman Janus Friis told Bloomberg that the company will "never create an advertising-based business model", but "might charge for certain premium services in the future".

In July 2017, Wire Swiss announced the beta version of an end-to-end encrypted team messaging platform. In October 2017, Wire officially released the team messaging platform as a subscription based communication solution for small businesses.

See also

 Comparison of instant messaging clients
 Comparison of VoIP software
 Internet privacy
 List of video telecommunication services and product brands
 Secure instant messaging

References

External links

Companies established in 2012
Privately held companies of Switzerland
Mobile telecommunication services
Swiss brands

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Q: Асинхронная инициализация свойств + Lazy В классе ViewModel имеется два булевых свойства, на которые происходит Binding из xaml:
public bool CanPublish => Document.State.CanPublish();
public bool CanCreateToolData => Document.State.CanCreateToolData();

Разметка из xaml:
Visibility="{Binding CanCreateToolData, Converter={StaticResource BooleanToVisibilityConverter}}"
Visibility="{Binding CanPublish, Converter={StaticResource BooleanToVisibilityConverter}}"

Поскольку вычисление статусов достаточно долгий процесс, то у меня в модели внутри методов CanPublish() и CanCreateToolData() используется инициализация некоторых полей через Lazy. Дебаггер показывает следующее:
1) Идём инициализировать свойство CanPublish, натыкаемся на Lazy;
2) Пока Lazy-метод выполняется, начинается инициализация второго свойства CanCreateToolData, которое тоже обращается к тому же самому Lazy-методу. В итоге:
System.InvalidOperationException
HResult=0x80131509
Сообщение = ValueFactory пытается получить доступ к свойству Value этого экземпляра.
Источник = mscorlib
Трассировка стека:
 в System.Lazy`1.CreateValue()
 в System.Lazy`1.LazyInitValue()
 в System.Lazy`1.get_Value()
 в "путь к моему классу"

Вопрос заключается в следующем: почему инициализация свойств производится асинхронно? Это из-за Lazy-методов? Ошибка, как я понимаю, заключается в том, что идёт обращение к одному и тому же Lazy-методу повторно, пока он ещё не закончил своё выполнение. Есть ли возможность как-то явно указать, что эти свойства должны инициализироваться синхронно?
Спасибо за внимание.
Дополню код Lazy-методом:
Тут обращение к свойству ClassConfig
    public bool CanCreateToolData()
    {
        ..
        if (ver.Services.Interpretator.ClassConfig == null) { return false; }
        ...
    }

    public bool CanPublish()
    {
        ..
        if (ver.Services.Interpretator.ClassConfig == null) { return false; }
        ...
    }

А тут вызов метода Lazy:
// поле класса, InvalidOperationException происходит при обращении к mClassDefiner.Value
public IClassDefiner ClassConfig => mClassDefiner.Value;

public Interpretator()
{
    mClassDefiner = new Lazy<IClassDefiner>(GetClassDefiner);
}

private IClassDefiner GetClassDefiner()
{
  // ресурсоёмкая операция
}

A: Рассмотрим пример:
Есть класс с Lazy полем
public class Foo
{
    public Lazy<int> Lazy = new Lazy<int>(() =>
    {
        Console.WriteLine($"{DateTime.UtcNow} - {Thread.CurrentThread.ManagedThreadId} - LAZY ENTER");

        Thread.Sleep(5000);

        Console.WriteLine($"{DateTime.UtcNow} - {Thread.CurrentThread.ManagedThreadId} - LAZY EXIT");

        return 10;
    });
}

Мы логгируем входы и выходы из функции создания для поля.
Далее, запустим параллельно 10 тредов и попробуем обратиться к нашему полю
Console.WriteLine($"{DateTime.UtcNow} - {Thread.CurrentThread.ManagedThreadId} - START");

var target = new Foo();
var threads = Enumerable.Range(0, 10).Select(x =>
{
    var thread = new Thread(() =>
    {
        Console.WriteLine($"{DateTime.UtcNow} - {Thread.CurrentThread.ManagedThreadId} - TASK {x} ENTER");
        var value = target.Lazy.Value;
        Console.WriteLine($"{DateTime.UtcNow} - {Thread.CurrentThread.ManagedThreadId} - TASK {x} EXIT");
    });
    thread.Start();
    return thread;
}).ToArray();

foreach (var t in threads) t.Join();

Console.WriteLine($"{DateTime.UtcNow} - {Thread.CurrentThread.ManagedThreadId} - END");

Вывод в консоль предсказуем: все треды ждут функцию сооздания, и после этого завершаются без исключений
31.05.2018 15:05:55 - 33 - START
31.05.2018 15:05:55 - 32 - TASK 0 ENTER
31.05.2018 15:05:55 - 31 - TASK 1 ENTER
31.05.2018 15:05:55 - 32 - LAZY ENTER
31.05.2018 15:05:55 - 30 - TASK 2 ENTER
31.05.2018 15:05:55 - 29 - TASK 3 ENTER
31.05.2018 15:05:55 - 28 - TASK 4 ENTER
31.05.2018 15:05:55 - 27 - TASK 5 ENTER
31.05.2018 15:05:55 - 26 - TASK 6 ENTER
31.05.2018 15:05:55 - 25 - TASK 7 ENTER
31.05.2018 15:05:55 - 19 - TASK 8 ENTER
31.05.2018 15:05:55 - 18 - TASK 9 ENTER
31.05.2018 15:06:00 - 32 - LAZY EXIT
31.05.2018 15:06:00 - 32 - TASK 0 EXIT
31.05.2018 15:06:00 - 31 - TASK 1 EXIT
31.05.2018 15:06:00 - 29 - TASK 3 EXIT
31.05.2018 15:06:00 - 30 - TASK 2 EXIT
31.05.2018 15:06:00 - 28 - TASK 4 EXIT
31.05.2018 15:06:00 - 25 - TASK 7 EXIT
31.05.2018 15:06:00 - 26 - TASK 6 EXIT
31.05.2018 15:06:00 - 19 - TASK 8 EXIT
31.05.2018 15:06:00 - 27 - TASK 5 EXIT
31.05.2018 15:06:00 - 18 - TASK 9 EXIT
31.05.2018 15:06:00 - 33 - END

А та ошибка, что вы указываете - это да, это именно проблема, когда вы в процессе подсчета значения, прямо внутри вашей ресурсоемкой операции, пытаетесь рекурсивно это значение получить.
Воспроизвести очень просто.
Lazy<int> value = null;
value = new Lazy<int>(()=>value.Value);
Console.WriteLine(value.Value);

на выходе будет исключение ValueFactory пытается получить доступ к свойству Value этого экземпляра., так как невозможно посчитать, чем равно Value, если вы внутри этого подсчета пытаетесь его использовать.

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Four Railway Stations in Uttar Pradesh's Prayagraj will now sport new names, a move aimed at reviving the identity of the ancient city. According to an official communication on Thursday, Allahabad Junction will now be Prayagraj Junction, Allahabad City will now be known as Prayagraj Rambag, Allahabad Chhioki has been changed to Prayagraj Chheoki and the name of Prayagghat has been changed to Prayagraj Sangam.


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Diane Patricia Kilcoyne, Lawyer at
Address: 199 E. Montgomery Ave., Ste. 100, Rockville, MD 20850
Practice:Employment/Labor, State & Local Government Law, Litigation/Defense, Litigation/Plaintiff
Admitted:U.S. District Court, District of Maryland; U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California; 1994, California; 2003, Maryland; 1997, District of Columbia;
Law School:University of California Davis School of Law, Class of 1994, J.D.
Jim Y. Daniel, Member at
Address: 20 Courthouse Sq., Ste. 205, Rockville, MD 20850
Practice:Immigration, Family, Divorce and Separation, Life Sciences and Biotechnology
Admitted:1996, Maryland; 1993, New York;
Law School:Harvard University Law School, Class of 1992, J.D
Elnur Veliev, Attorney at
Address: 110 N. Washington Street, Suite 407, Rockville, MD 20850-2223
Practice:Personal Injury
Admitted:2012, Maryland; U.S. District Court, District of Maryland;
Law School:University of the District of Columbia, David A. Clarke School of Law, J.D.
Lonnie M. Greenblatt, Attorney at
Admitted:1982, Pennsylvania; 1985, Maryland; 1985, District of Columbia;
Law School:Delaware Law School, Class of 1982, J.D., , George Washington University Law School, Class of 1988, LL.M.
Nicholas Albert Schaufelberger, Attorney at
Practice:Correctional Reform, Criminal, Criminal Defense, Criminal Law & Practice, General Practice, Personal Injury, Litigation/Plaintiff
Admitted:2016, Maryland; 2017, District of Columbia;
Law School:Georgetown University Law Center, J.D.
Meg E. Manchester, at
Address: , Rockville, MD
Admitted:2013, Maryland; 2009, California
Law School:University of California at Berkeley, J.D.
Edward S. Geldermann, Member at
Address: 500 North Washington Street, Rockville, MD 20849
Practice:Environmental Law, Federal Regulatory Law, Administrative Law, Permitting and Takings Law
Admitted:1981, District of Columbia; Maryland;
Law School:University of Baltimore, J.D.
Charles Gregory Abney, Member at Abney at Law, P.C.
Address: 20 Courthouse Square, Suite 205, Rockville, MD 20850
Practice:Personal Injury -- Plaintiff, Criminal Law, Family Law, Divorce, Auto Accident, Military Law, Civil Law
Admitted:District of Columbia; 2005, Maryland; U.S. District Court District of Maryland;
Law School:University of Maryland School of Law, J.D.
Michael M. Ain, Member at Ain & Stein, LLC
Address: 401 North Washington Street, Suite 500, Rockville, MD 20850
Practice:Family Law; Business and Corporate Law; Mediation and Arbitration; Personal Injury; Medical Malpractice; Wrongful Death
Admitted:1975, Maryland; 1976, District of Columbia; U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit; U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia; U.S. District Court, District of Maryland; U.S. Supreme Court
Law School:George Washington University, J.D., with honors, 1975
Gary A. Stein, Member at Ain & Stein, LLC
Practice:Family Law; Mediation and Arbitration; Personal Injury; Medical Malpractice; Wrongful Death
Admitted:1980, District of Columbia; 1981, Maryland, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit and U.S. Court of Federal Claims
Law School:Georgetown University, J.D., cum laude, 1980
Alan B. Frankle, Member at Alan B. Frankle
Address: 751 Rockville Pike, Suite 7, Rockville, MD 20852
Practice:Wills; Probate; Trusts and Estates; Estate Planning; Estate Administration; Will Contests; Probate Litigation; Living Trusts; Financial Planning; Nursing Home Placement; Powers of Attorney; Retirement Planning; Estate Planning for the Durable; Estate Planning for Parents of Handicapped Children; Charitable Giving; Charitable Trusts and Foundations; Family Business Successions; Irrevocable Life Insurance Trusts; Living Wills; Small Business Law; Business Formation; Small Business General Counseling; Contract Disputes; Corporate Law; Business Litigation; Landlord and Tenant Law; Homeowners Association Law; Condominium Association Law; Commercial Leasing; Personal Injury; Automobile Accidents; Truck Accidents; Motorcycle Accidents; Wrongful Death
Admitted:1978, District of Columbia; 1979, Maryland
Law School:Georgetown University, J.D., 1978
Alan D. Rothenberg, Member at Alan D. Rothenberg
Practice:Small Business Law; Commercial Real Estate; Buying and Selling of Businesses; Leases and Leasing; Collections; Transportation Law; Environmental Law; Plaintiff Personal Injury; Automobile Accidents; Product Liability; Premises Liability; Domestic Relations; Bankruptcy; Probate
Admitted:1975, Maryland; 1976, District of Columbia; U.S. District Court, District of Maryland; 1980, U.S. Supreme Court; 1998, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
Law School:University of Maryland, J.D., with honors, 1975
Anne Korbel Albright, Member at Albright & Rhodes, LLC
Address: 200-A Monroe Street, Suite 305, Rockville, MD 20850
Practice:Family Law; Criminal Law
Admitted:1987, Maryland; 1988, U.S. District Court, District of Maryland and U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit; 1991, Washington and District of Columbia; 2004, U.S. Supreme Court
Law School:Georgetown University, J.D., with honors, 1987
Laura Kelsey Rhodes, Member at Albright & Rhodes, LLC
Practice:Criminal Law; Immigration Law
Admitted:1987, Maryland; 1990, District of Columbia; 1996, U.S. District Court, District of Maryland and U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit; 2004, U.S. Supreme Court
Law School:University of Michigan, J.D., 1985
Alec M. Lewis, Member at Alec M. Lewis
Address: 51 Monroe Street, Suite 600, Rockville, MD 20850
Practice:Family Law; Estate Administration; Estate Planning
Admitted:1984, Florida; 1985, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida and U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit; 1988, District of Columbia, 1991, Maryland
Law School:University of Miami, J.D., 1983
Gary Altman, Managing Partner at Altman & Associates, P.C.
Address: One Central Plaza 11300 Rockville Pike, Suite 708, Rockville, MD 20852
Practice:Estate Planning(50%); Probate(20%); Trusts and Estates Taxation(10%); Wills(10%); Trust Law(10%)
Law School:New York University, J.D., 1980; Georgetown University, LL.M., Taxation, 1992
Brenda H. Bosch, Attorney at Altman & Associates, P.C.
Practice:Trusts and Estates(100%); Charitable Giving; Charitable Limited Partnerships; Charitable Organizations Law; Charitable Trusts and Foundations; Nonprofit Tax Law; Private Foundations; Tax Exempt Organizations; Contested Trusts and Estates; Estate Administration; Decedents Estates; Estate Bankruptcy; Estate Litigation; Estate Planning; Estate Planning for Parents of Handicapped Children; Estate Planning for the Elderly; Estate Planning for the Disabled; Estate Planning for Unmarried Couples; Estate Settlements; Family Trusts; Family Wealth Transfer; Fiduciary Law; Fiduciary Liability; Fiduciary Litigation; Living Trusts; Pet Trusts; Powers of Attorney; Retirement Planning; Special Needs Trusts; Trust Administration; Trust and Estate Collections; Trust Law; Trust Litigation; Trust Planning; Unclaimed Property
Admitted:1992, Virginia; 1993, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia; 1994, District of Columbia(Not admitted in Maryland)
Law School:University of Virginia, J.D., 1992
Coryn Rosenstock, Associate at Altman & Associates, P.C.
Practice:Trusts and Estates; Estate Planning; Wills and Probate
Admitted:2013, Maryland
Law School:George Washington University Law School, J.D., 2013
Christopher Skinner, Associate at Altman & Associates, P.C.
Practice:Trusts and Estates; Estate Planning
Law School:University of Maryland, J.D., 1991
Melissa E. Aitken, Associate at Altman & Associates, P.C.
Address: One Central Plaza 11300 Rockville Pike, Suite 708, Rockville, MD 20852-3011
Practice:Probate; Estate Administration; Trust Administration; Trusts and Estates
Admitted:1988, Maryland; 1989, District of Columbia
Law School:Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law, J.D., 1988
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