Ideas that the U.S. can or should go 100% renewables are beyond crazy and those who irresponsibly suggest such fantasies are endangering the country.
We take it for granted in the world's richest and most advanced economy that things will work when we want them to work, but a 100 percent renewable plan would put that in jeopardy. This brief looks into the intermittency, land requirements, capacity factors, cost of transition and construction materials that limit the ability of the U.S. to adapt to 100% renewable energy.
Advocates for wind and solar energy are trying to convince Americans that the economy can thrive on 100 percent renewable energy. However, wind and solar energy are intermittent sources that currently need back up power from reliable energy sources like coal, nuclear, and natural gas to keep the lights on, keep our homes heated, and keep our factories running.
The truth is, the physics of wind and solar energy render 100 percent renewable energy nothing more than a myth. These technologies can only operate if the sun shines or the wind blows, requiring large amounts of storage for back up. Additionally, their land mass requirements are immense, they have much lower capacity factors compared to traditional sources, and the cost of transition would be enormous. Bottom line: setting a national goal of relying upon 100 percent renewable energy within a decade would lead to catastrophe.
Wind and solar power's intermittency means they are not available 24/7. In fact, the Germans have a term lamenting wind and solar's intermittency, "Dunkelflaute" (dark doldrums). Because we require power around the clock, there must be a back-up system at all times that is either battery-based, which is extremely costly and unproven on a large scale, or provided by traditional generating units, which would also be expensive since those technologies would not be operating to their maximum potential, having to spread costs over a lower amount of electricity production than they are capable of producing.
Both wind and solar require significant amounts of land. Based on Harvard engineering data published in the Environmental Impact Letters, for the U.S. to reach 100 percent of its electricity through solar and wind power projects, it could require one-third of the country to be covered by solar and wind facilities.
The Suncyclopedia estimates two and a half acres are required per one megawatt of solar panels and four acres if the outbuildings associated with industrial solar power projects are included in the estimate. That estimate is dependent upon whether the solar arrays have trackers that move with the sun. If they do not, the estimate increases to six acres per one megawatt.
For wind turbines, the land required per megawatt of power produced varies based on their optimal position to capture the winds in the terrain that they are to occupy. Besides topography, setback regulations, which regulate the amount of distance that an industrial wind turbine must be placed away from homes so that noise pollution remains within legal limits, also affect the land area needed.
Setback regulations vary from state to state from twice the height of a turbine to two kilometers. Setbacks for ports and military-controlled lands are typically larger. Some researchers, however, find that on average, wind turbines should be spaced two-thirds of a mile from each other for optimal efficiency and others find that one to three acres are needed per turbine.
In The Footprint of Energy: Land Use of U.S. Electricity Production, Strata Policy found that wind power requires 70.64 acres per megawatt and solar power requires 43.50 acres per megawatt. In contrast, natural gas-fired power plants require 12.41 acres per megawatt. This means, solar power requires more than three and a half times more land per megawatt and wind requires more than five and a half times the amount of land per megawatt.
Winds do not blow at optimal speeds 24/7, 365 days of the year. At certain times, wind turbines may not produce electricity even when winds do blow. The speed at which most wind turbine blades start turning, known as the cut-in speed, typically ranges between seven to ten miles per hour.
Most turbines can produce their maximum rated power around 30 miles per hour, but that design speed is contingent upon the blades being new, clean, and without nicks or fractures from bird or bat impacts. When wind speeds are too high, turbine blades can lock into a stationary position to avoid damage—a condition that can occur between 35 and 55 miles per hour, known in the industry as the cut-out speed. According to the Energy Information Administration, wind turbines in the United States perform at 34.6 percent of their nameplate rating or the intended full-load output capacity.
Similarly, solar units in the U.S. perform at 25.7 percent of their nameplate rating. This is in contrast to natural gas units that can perform at as much as 85 percent or more of their nameplate ratings.
The subsidies are paid by either electricity users or taxpayers or, many times, both. In the United States, the federal government subsidizes wind with the production tax credit and solar power with the investment tax credit. U.S. states subsidize solar and wind power with mandates for their production, forcing utilities to invest in them or purchase their power, regardless of the cost or impact on grid stability. States also give net metering subsidies for rooftop solar. In Germany, ratepayers subsidize the renewable industry, which has resulted in residential electricity prices three times those in the United States.
Furthermore, the subsidies for intermittent wind and solar discourage other innovation because they lead to low wholesale prices for innovators to compete against. In essence, the subsidies force intermittent power into the system regardless of need. Doing so drives down the efficiency and economics of the other sources of electricity, which consumers are required to pay for anyway in order to ensure the system does not break down and fail to deliver electricity to homes and businesses.
Germany and Denmark have been world leaders in wind and solar investment. From 2006 to 2016, prices of electricity in Germany increased 51 percent and since 1995, electricity prices in Denmark have doubled as a result of wind and solar installation.
In the United States, electricity prices increased 7 percent from 2009 to 2017, while electricity from solar and wind increased from two to eight percent of generation. In 2017, California generated 23 percent of its electricity from wind and solar sources and its residential electricity rates were 18.24 cents per kilowatt-hour, at least 40 percent higher than any other western U.S. state. Other states that have increased their use of solar and wind generation have also seen large increases in their electricity prices.
North Dakota's electricity prices increased 40 percent while electricity from solar and wind increased from nine to 27 percent.
South Dakota's electricity prices increased 34 percent while electricity from solar and wind increased from five to 30 percent.
Kansas's electricity prices increased 33 percent while electricity from solar and wind increased from six to 36 percent.
Iowa's electricity prices increased 21 percent while electricity from solar and wind increased from 14 to 37 percent.
Oklahoma's electricity prices increased 18 percent while electricity from solar and wind increased from four to 32 percent.
Hawaii's electricity prices increased 23 percent while electricity from solar and wind increased from three to 18 percent.
California's electricity prices increased 22 percent while electricity from solar and wind increased from three to 23 percent.
A UK analysis of 3,000 onshore wind turbines found that they generate electricity efficiently for only 12-15 years—generating more than twice as much electricity in their first year than when they are 15 years old. Even when faced with the data, the wind energy industry and the government base their calculations on turbines having a lifespan of 30 years. Thus, the cost of wind is being underestimated, particularly when their costs are compared to other technologies.
According to an analysis by the American Action Forum, the proposal to transition 100 percent of U.S. electricity production to renewable sources by 2030 would require at least $5.7 trillion of investment in renewable energy and storage. This is a ballpark estimate and not an in-depth projection, and may not include all the contingencies necessary to make the system work. The group also notes that it is likely to be a significant underestimation, as it reflects the lowest possible cost.
The current electricity generating capacity of the United States is 1,085 gigawatts, which provides enough capacity to satisfy peak electricity demands, plus reserve capacity, which acts as a safety net in the event of supply disruptions, equipment failures, or other issues that prevent generation from meeting demand. To maintain an available capacity of 1,085 gigawatts, the United States would need to have well over 1,085 gigawatts of solar, wind, hydroelectricity, and storage because of the low capacity factors for solar (25.7 percent) and wind (34.6 percent), noted previously.
Manufacturing wind turbines is a resource-intensive process. A typical wind turbine contains more than 8,000 different components, many of which are made from steel, cast iron, and concrete. One component is magnets made from neodymium and dysprosium—rare earth metals mined almost exclusively in China, which controls most of the world's supply. Thin-film solar panels use rare earth metals like indiumand tellurium.
Converting the world's largest economy to renewable energy would vastly increase demand overnight for these materials. It would also shift the United States' self-reliance on electricity generation to a reliance on Chinese and other suppliers, unless countless new mines were started in the U.S. to develop the copper for electric motor windings and the strategic and critical rare earth metals that are essential to these technologies. The United States would be much more dependent on China for these materials than the United States was ever dependent on the Middle East for oil before the horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing revolution came along.
Without the use of fossil fuels, the wind and solar industries would also need to obtain substitutes for the cement and steel needed for producing and installing the turbines and solar panels. Further, it is not clear whether enough rare earth metals are available to build all the required units, particularly in the time frame of the Green New Deal.
Intermittent wind and solar cannot stand on their own. They must have some form of back-up power, from reliable coal, natural gas, nuclear units, storage capability from hydroelectric facilities, and/or batteries. Batteries of the size and scope needed for 100-percent renewables are unproven and not cost effective. Even if a 100 percent renewable future were feasible, the land requirements and costs of transitioning would be enormous and would require subsidies to ease the electricity price increases that would result. Germany's experience of phasing out its nuclear plants in favor of wind and solar projects should be taken as a warning against the ludicrousness of this undertaking.
Electricity is not something with which to trifle. We take it for granted in the world's richest and most advanced economy that things will work when we want them to work, but a 100 percent renewable plan would put that in jeopardy. The various pronouncements that glibly peddle reliance on wind and solar energy should be met with demands for verifiable, in-depth analysis of how to do it. No such analysis has yet been delivered.


I've been running Parallels on my MacBook so I can boot up a few of the Windows applications I still rely on… which I can tell you is a dwindling number. I noticed a few weeks ago that the clock in Windows XP had gone out of sync on the machine. Basically, if the virtual machine was not running, the Windows clock was completely asleep.
For the first few weeks of running Parallels, I solved this by writing a very simple .bat file that would execute at startup of Windows XP. It ran the Windows time manager and told it to check one of the time servers on the Internet and reset the time on my laptop. I don't run on a domain or any fancy network at home, so I don't have a local server I can use for syncing the time.
Save the file as synctime.bat. You may find that Notepad automatically helps you by adding on the default .txt extension. If that happens, just rename the file and take off that extension.
Put the file somewhere in your path, maybe c:Windowssystem32.
Create a shortcut to the synctime.bat file and put it into your Startup folder.
When the operating system is restarted, a command prompt will briefly appear showing the w32tm process running, and then it should go away after your clock has been updated.
The computer did not resync because the required time change was too big.
The default (decimal) value for both of these keys was 54,000, which is 15 hours. This means that if your local clock and the Internet clock that you are syncing to are within 15 hours of each other, the time on your PC will be updated. If they are more than 15 hours apart, forget it.
The TechNet article highlighted a special case for this setting: "0xFFFFFFFF means always make time correction." So fixing this issue is just a matter of editing a couple of Registry keys.
Browse down to the "config" key to find the phase correction settings.
Double-click on MaxNegPhaseCorrection to edit the value. It will read "d2f0" in the hexidecimal value, or 54000 in the decimal value. Select "hexidecimal" and enter "ffffffff" in the field.
Make the same change for MaxPosPhaseCorrection.
Re-run the synctime.bat file and you should fine that the time in Windows has been updated.
If there is a better way to do this, or a different setting that should be used, I'm happy to hear about it. This seems to have fixed my problem with time syncing in Windows, but I'm also pretty new to how Windows manages time syncing on a local network or on a managed domain.
If you have a better suggestion, please post it in the comments area below.
UPDATE: After looking around for a proper solution for this problem, I found that within Parallels, there is an option to install "Parallel Tools". This set of tools allows for automatic time sync, improved network, video, and mouse support, shared folders between Mac and Windows, and a shared clipboard between both operating systems.
This was found in the Parallels Support Forum.
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4-year-old boy shot while wrestling with father in Monroe County dies
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MONROE COUNTY, Ind.– Police say a 4-year-old boy passed away Thursday after an apparent accidental shooting earlier this week.
The incident occurred on Jan. 19 in the 1200 block of East Zinnia Drive in Bloomington. A preliminary investigation by detectives found that a 36-year-old man with a concealed handgun on the small of his back was play-wrestling on a bed with his 4-year-old son.
While the two were playing, the gun fell from the father's person and a shot was fired, striking both the father and the 4-year-old in the head, according to police.
The child was critically injured and taken to IU Health Bloomington Hospital before being flown to Riley Children's Hospital in Indianapolis. He was identified as Tripp Shaw.
The father was expected to recover from his injuries, police said.
The case remains under investigation and no charges have been filed.
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Staying "In Time" with DC's Legends of Tomorrow
By Ed Sum (The Vintage Tempest)
*Spoiler alert; read with caution.
Part two of the pilot to CW's Legends of Tomorrow is a far more productive launch to this series than last week's episode. Instead of a recap and recruitment heavy story to begin the show, this week gets the team figuring out who they are and if the story can move beyond the essential three figures — Kendra Saunders, Carter Hall and Vandal Savage — who drives this series. This second episode places emphasis on Professor Martin Stein (Victor Garber) past and present self. He starts to comprehend who he is, warts and all. To understand where his arrogance comes from is welcomed.
While the series places emphasis on Rip as a not-so reliable leader, perhaps in due time the team can trust his direction. Since he did recruit the team, his motive is just as arrogant as Stein's instead of pure, enacting on virtues of chivalry. He wants to prevent the death of his wife and son moreso than to change the time-line of Earth's unfortunate future, where Savage has become a despot ruler.
In this second episode, the team remains in 1975 and they are looking for Savage. During a skirmish in Norway, where an arms auction goes severely wrong, a piece of Atom's armour falls off and gets left behind. This detail is important because when it gets found, it will be studied since it looks like it's not of this Earth. After Ray reveals that it's an essential part of how his suit functions, it has to be retrieved sooner than later otherwise the consequences of altering the time-stream cannot get changed. Rip compares the time stream to cement, an interesting analogy. Once an action occurs, the results do not settle in right away. That is, while the substance is still vicious, it can be reshaped or molded; but can it be truly cleaned up?
Altering time is tricky, and oddly enough, nothing is said about residues or whether or not branches to alternate time-lines will happen Back to the Future style. Unlike the science fiction comedy where the Doc Brown wants to restore the time-line, this series is trying to prevent paradoxes from happening. That includes Martin Stein getting to meet his younger self. These moments made this episode refreshing. These characters get the chance to see who they are in the past and for their present selves, they can reflect upon the question of do they like who they have become. At some point in the series, Captain Cold and Heatwave will have to evaluate who they are too, and if a life of being a bad-ass criminal is truly what they want. Seeing Heatwave approve of Stein's behaviour in this early act is a memorable moment. Eventually, each of these heroes will see either a younger or older version of themselves.
Another scene where Kendra is trying to understand her destiny is added to remind viewers about where she stands with Carter. With him out-of-the-way, temporarily at least, perhaps the next episode will focus on her examining her feelings for him. The shock to see Hawkman go down fast is left-field. The idea is good because it sets up the fact that Kendra will be the one knowing her destiny, and reactions from the next Carter trying to believe these two are meant to be together for all time will be refreshing. Although he's only been talking about their love for only two and a half episodes, the dialogue is getting stale. Hopefully this change of pace will give the series writers a better way to approach talking about their romance.
However, a piece of continuity will have to get addressed — Hawkman's body is left to rot while Hawkgirl is rushed to get medical attention. To leave Carter behind, especially when he's from the future, should technically cause a new time rift. This issue was addressed with Atom losing a part of his suit, and oddly, leaving a body behind is not even considered. Thankfully, Hawkman did not have any other weapon on him, except for the dagger that was stolen from Savage earlier.
The revitalized Savage will no doubt keep the helmet as a trophy and have the body disposed of. Should this detail come into play for when the next Carter will appear, perhaps more about how Hawkman "awakened" and what he did prior to looking for Hawkgirl will get addressed. As for when the gang will seek out his next reincarnation means travelling to another time where he can be plucked out of the timeline without affecting all the events that has occurred up to 2016. This series will have to be very careful in not to contradict itself with the characters established histories within the series. With only two episodes broadcasted so far, there's not much to get mixed up.
But as the series progresses, just how this series works has to juggle issues that not even The Doctor has to deal with. It's a shame this series is not like Quantum Leap, where every time jump and its consequences are self-contained.
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Why Fiat's classic Italian cars are struggling in the US
Published Mon, Jul 8 2019 8:00 AM EDT Updated Tue, Jul 9 2019 8:54 AM EDT
Robert Ferris@RobertoFerris
Why Italian classic Fiat is failing in the U.S.
In 2018, Fiat sold more than 15,000 cars in the U.S., down from a high in 2014 of over 46,000.
Fiat could be turned into an electrified city car brand, according to Jeff Schuster, president of global forecasting for LMC Automotive
Fiat faces a difficult future in the U.S., less than a decade after an attempted comeback.
The Italian car brand and arguable style icon is suffering from extremely low sales in a market that has less and less interest in the tiny cars that has made it famous.
In 2018, Fiat sold more than 15,000 cars in the U.S., down from a high in 2014 of over 46,000. When the brand had first returned to the U.S. in 2010 after a 27-year absence, Fiat Chrysler and the late Sergio Marchionne, who served as CEO, had hoped to sell 50,000 Fiats in the country in its first year.
At the center of that strategy was the Fiat 500, a small but stylish city car that was invented in the years following World War II as a practical car for the masses of Europe. Over the years, the 500 has become something of a legend of automotive design, even earning a spot in the Museum of Modern Art's collection in New York.
"I think [Marchionne] wanted the Fiat 500 to be the Volkswagen Beetle of the Fiat brand," said Jeff Schuster, president of global forecasting for LMC Automotive. "It has a history, it has a cult following to a degree. It is not just another small car. The brand wanted to connect with those buyers who remember the history of the 500."
But it did not have a Beetle-like impact.
It didn't help that Fiat's vehicles earned less-than-stellar reviews and ratings from groups such as Consumer Reports and J.D. Power, and the U.S. auto market made an unprecedented shift toward pickup trucks, SUVs, and crossovers.
Fiat Chrysler has repeatedly said it doesn't plan to abandon Fiat in the U.S.
"In North America, we continue to offer an attainable, all-turbo lineup of Italian-designed, fun-to-drive cars that get at least 30 [miles per gallon]," FCA representative Bryan Zvibleman said in an interview. "As outlined in our five-year plan last year, Fiat (together with Chrysler and Dodge) will get 25% of investment spend and will represent 20% of net revenues. In fact, we just launched our new Fiat 500X compact CUV/SUV. The compact CUV/SUV segment is one of the fastest growing segments in the industry."
He added that Fiat's results in quality surveys continue to be skewed by limited models and sample sizes, as was the case in the recently released 2019 J.D. Power U.S. Initial Quality Study that did not include the brand in industry rankings.
Fiat's survival in the U.S. seems unlikely, said Jon Gabrielsen, an economist who advises automakers and suppliers. In 2018, FCA sold 4 times as many Jeeps in Europe as Fiat and fellow Italian import Alfa Romeo sold in the U.S. It is unlikely any of the variants of the 500 will survive in the U.S. or Canada, he added.
One way FCA could save Fiat is by turning it into an electrified city car brand, said Schuster. The company already markets the 500e, an electric version of the 500. Both Europe and the U.S. are moving toward electric and hybrid vehicles over the long term, but the size and price point of Fiat's lineup makes it hard to see how they can grow much in sales.
"So I think the outlook is still very limited, and I think it is really hard to sustain volume, even if you got it back up to 20,000 or 25,000 units," he said. "... I think the possibility of Fiat pulling out of the U.S. is there."
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This place houses some of the photographs I make that pass at some point through a traditional – some say analogue – wet process. Nowadays, the conventional printing of negatives onto light-sensitive paper is considered 'alternative' and 'old-fashioned'.
I treat this site as diary of my activity in this area, to remind me how I process and print and what chemicals I use. Sometimes the images posted will be successes, sometimes not so successful. Some may end up in the wastebasket – what Tim Rudman calls 'the learning bin'.
Photographs here may be straightforward silver-gelatin prints from film negatives, others may be toned or alternatively-processed prints made by contact printing pigment-based negatives derived from digital image files*. One thing is for sure, each finished image has spent part of its gestation period bathed in chemical solutions.
Once upon a time, all photography was done this way.
*For a description of the process I use to create digital negatives, please see the article on my main site.
Interesting blog here about Edwin Smith and Olive Cook's contributions to the Saturday Book.
Thanks Garry, a very interesting link. I will add it to the Edwin Smith section on my site, which is currently undergoing reconstruction.


Even though I'm nearly 1/3 of a century old, I still enjoy all the comic/superhero movies!
Never really cared for Thor all that much, but this movie is looking good. Can't wait to download it.
Wait. That almost... ALMOST... kinda looks like a young James Hetfield. Is that Chris Hemsworth? Well, whoever he is, he looks a bit young and soft to be Thor. The guy we need ought to be a bit older and a little bigger. Not by much, just enough to notice.
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Q: Find non-zeros block in sparse matrix and do so process I have a sparse matrix, which is most of its values are zeros.
In this matrix, some groups of consecutive rows and column are non-zeros.
Each non-zero blocks are assigned an ID. Same ID can only be assigned to at most two groups. Example(look at 5 and 8):
         [8 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0]
         [0 5 5 5 0 0 0 5 5 0 0]
         [0 0 5 5 0 3 0 5 0 0 8]
         [0 0 0 5 0 3 0 0 0 0 8]
         [0 0 0 2 4 4 0 0 0 0 8]
         [0 0 0 2 4 4 0 0 0 0 8]

Now, the question is that, how do you change group with same IDs to different one[The new ID can be anything]? The input matrix is numpy matrix. Here is one possible output for above matrix(one of "5"-id group is change to the 50 and "8"-Id group changed to the 66) :
         [66  66  0  0  0 0 0 0 0 0 0]
         [0   50  50 50 0 0 0 5 5 0 0]
         [0   0   50 50 0 3 0 5 0 0 8]
         [0   0   0  50 0 3 0 0 0 0 8]
         [0   0   0  2  4 4 0 0 0 0 8]
         [0   0   0  2  4 4 0 0 0 0 8]

A: For a start, I'd try to build a dictionary by scanning the array for nonzero terms.
scipy.sparse does this with a dok format (dictionary of keys), where a key is a tuple with the i,j coordinates, and the value is the array value.  But for the purposes of this problem I'd make the values (5,8,etc) the keys, and the dictionary value would a list of coordinate tuples.  A collections.defaultdict would do this quickly.
For example:
dd = {8:[(0,0),(0,1),(2,11),(3,11),...], 5:[(1,1),(1,2),...]}

Then I'd scan the dictionary, and using some sort of distance criteria, break up the lists
dd = {66:[(0,0),(0,1)], 8:[(2,11),(3,11)...], 55:[...], 5:[...]...}

I don't think there is a way of avoiding iterating through the array several times.  A dictionary like this a flexible way of collecting and regrouping data like this.  Once the problem is better understood it might be possible to work with the array directly.  But the first step is to get working code.  Efficiency comes later.


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According to a report by Colorado Public Interest Research Group, CoPIRG, a feature called 'activation lock' which is meant to lock users' iPhone's in the event that they're stolen or lost, also prevented 66,000 phones from being reused over a three year period.
The Wireless Alliance, a nationwide electronics recycling facility who was cited in the group's study, said that one in four phones they received in 2018 had an activation lock still present.
'While the activation lock is intended to deter thieves by making stolen phones unusable and therefore not worth stealing in the first place, it has also resulted in making a surprisingly high number of donated or handed-down phones unusable, having negative impacts on our environment and the used phone marketplace,' reads the report.
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JR Mojiko Station Bldg. (Former Moji Station)
Moji Station was opened as the starting station for the Kyushu Railway Company in 1891. Back then, Moji Station was constructed on a site approximately 200 meters away from the current location of Mojiko Station, but as the Mojiko District developed, the station was moved to its current location in 1914, when a second Moji Station was newly constructed. In 1942, the name was changed to the present-day Mojiko Station.
Kyushu Railway was created as Kyushu's first railway company in 1888. From the start, it placed importance on operations that connect to Honshu. Therefore, Moji Station was established as a base for railway traffic, and the head office was also moved from the temporary office in Hakata to Moji.
Kyushu Railway was placed under government control in July 1907. Moji Station continued to develop as the gateway to Kyushu. Moji cemented its status as the headquarters of the Kyushu Railway Administration Office and the distributing center for goods such as coal and rice.
However, with the completion of the Kanmon Tunnel in April 1942, the old Dairi Station was renamed "Moji Station", and the name changed to Mojiko Station. Furthermore, Mojiko Station came under ownership of Japan National Railways after the war, and then the property of the Kyushu Railway Company in 1987.
Later, the head office functions were moved to the Hakata District in Fukuoka City and its cohesive power as the center of the Kyushu railroad was lost, but thedignified building has come to have a symbolic presence in the Mojiko Retro District.
The 2-story station building was constructed under the supervision of the German engineer, Hermann Rumschöttel. Though it is a wooden structure, the outer walls are made of mortar fashioned to give the appearance of stone. A copper mansard roof on top provides the exterior design with its dignified, Neo-Renaissance style. The existing station building is a valuable historical structure comparable to Tokyo Station. In 1988, it was the first railway station in Japan to be designated a national important cultural property.
From the Meiji period (1868–1912) to the early Showa era (1926–1989), the railroad was divided into 1st-class, 2nd-class, and 3rd-class carriages. The station waiting rooms were also divided. The 3rd-class waiting room was to the right of the 1st-floor entrance. On the left were the 1st and 2nd class waiting rooms. A mantlepiece still remains in the location where a waiting room once existed. On the 2nd floor, there is a VIP room and dining hall that in the past were crowded with the upper class who socialized there.
Today, the station building is undergoing extensive preservation and repair work due to deterioration. Large-scale repairs are scheduled to be completed by 2019 when it will have a new, fresh appearance.
Address:1-5-31 Nishikaigan, Moji-ku, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture
Hours : 5:40〜22:00
Closed : Open year-round
Fee : None
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For those of you who read that we entered a contest to win a house... well, the contest was stopped by the state. But thanks to our online friends, we had a huge amount of votes. We get to live in the contest house after all, with an option to buy it. Whee! Thank you to all of you who voted for us.
I spent a week without internet, so that left me time to unpack. Well, almost completely. There are a few discreet boxes still stashed here and there. The kids love it here... we are in the country on an acre. It is sooooo quiet! The cats are climbing all the oak trees, and the rabbits are settled in. On clear nights, it is amazing to see all the stars in the sky. Now if only the cell phone would work while we are on our property... as of this writing, we have to cross the street to get a signal.
I am now getting back into the swing of things online. Keeping up with Facebook, Twitter and writing for the website are definitely on my daily schedule. I have all my midwifery books on a handy shelf behind the couch I work at, and I'm feeling very optimistic about how everything will work out.


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Sloppy play hampers CSUN against San Francisco, lose 65-61
CSUN sophomore guard Micheal Warren drives down the lane against UCLA at the Pauley Pavilion on Nov. 29. Warren led CSUN with nine points as the Matadors lost 77-45 to the Bruins. (Vincent Nguyen / The Sundial)
Julius Lasin
Turnovers doomed the Matadors as they fell to the University of San Francisco Dons on Monday, Dec. 7, 65-61.
The Matadors committed 17 turnovers, which led to 19 Dons points. Their inability to value possession was made worse by the fact that they only accumulated 11 assists.
Turnovers were magnified considering that neither team lead by more than eight the whole game, and that San Francisco did not fare much better when it came to holding on to the ball, turning it over 12 times while having 11 assists as well.
Also, the Matadors had their best 3-point shooting night of the young season, making 7-13 shots from beyond the arc, while also holding the Dons to a 7-18 mark from the 3-point line.
In addition to an advantage from the outside, the CSUN also out-rebounded San Francisco by eight, making the loss even more puzzling.
Again, this was all for naught as the Matadors captured an early 8-2 lead, before allowing the Dons to go on a 16-2 run, allowing them to capture the lead for good.
CSUN would actually climb back into the game, as they tied the game three separate times in the second half. However, they could not find that extra run to recapture the lead, even as they tied the game at 49 with six minutes remaining.
The loss was damaging for the Matadors considering that it was played at a pace that favored their shortened bench, with neither team scoring on fast breaks and the Matadors having 21 bench points.
After their fifth straight defeat, CSUN will have time to regroup and clean up their execution, as they don't play until Dec. 17, when they travel to Portland to face the Portland State University Vikings at 7 p.m.
Julius Lasin, Author


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Posted on April 28, 2016 June 27, 2016 Monthly One-Off, Roleplaying
Monthly One-Off Recap! The One Ring from Cubicle 7!
Every month, I or a guest GM, run a "one-off" for any one who wants to come.
It's always a pre-determined game, set several months in advance, and we use it to teach, learn or try games, we'd not play normally, either due to interest, trepidation or others. It's sort of a time we cut loose, just play an RPG, and enjoy company with out the structure or stricture of a full campaign (which we love, but a break is nice).
I've been heads down on my Kickstarter for my science fiction RPG: Tiny Frontiers, so it was nice to step away and take a break for an evening.
This month, we played The One Ring from Cubicle 7. No one but me had played or read the books before, so we had 5 players new to the RPG, one of which is not a Tolkien fan, and one of which only really knows Tolkien through the movies.
I'll explain: the reason I chose TOR was two-fold. First off, Lord of the Rings is my all-time favorite book series (as a series). I love the films, the associated media, the books, and all things.
Secondly, I selfishly just wanted to play it again (having only ever done a one-off).
So we sat down, and I provided everyone with pregenerated characters I pulled from the C7 website.
I ran through the rules, the dice, how Hope, Shadow, Fatigue and Endurance worked, and did my best to explain the combat rules before we did any combat.
We started with a pretty iconic style of adventure, Gandalf giving a hobbit a quest to recover a piece of treasure that was driving an Orc Warlord made due to it's Dragon-Curse. The Dwarves of the Misty Mountain would have gone in force to recover the lost goblet of King Gamlin the Fat, and Gandalf wanted the land to remain settled after the Battle of Five Armies.
We worked through the Journey mechanics and explained how the Travel Map works. We were able to leverage that to great success, with the party encountering harsh rains, that slowed them by several days, but eventually making the trek to Rhosgobel where we used the social encounter rules to have the party gather information at the Inn of the Leaping Trout.
We had a lot of fun with the introductions, the use of the Riddle and Song skills (which feel very Tolkienian), and learning how fellowship focuses work.
The company eventually traveled off into the deep dark of the Mirkwood where they encountered giant spiders, and the Orc warband of Gathon the Greedy, an orc who survived the Battle of Five Armies, but was driven mad by Dwarven gold he stole.
There was a ferocious battle, and wounds were taken and shed on both sides, but eventually the foul Orc was slain.
The treasure was returned to Gandalf, and all ended well.
We ran out of time, so we didn't get to leverage or use the Fellowship phase, but overall it was great.
The mechanics and style of the game feel very Tolkienian, and the strength of the game is clearly apparently, as it's a master-class in building rules around the form and setting of a game.
I loved it, and all the players were complimentary of the mechanics, agreeing that it fit the idea and feeling of Lord of the Rings.
(Highly Biased) Grade:
Mechanics: A-
Setting: A+
Accessibility: A
Replayability: A+
I think I might be able to run a TOR campaign shortly! Everyone had a good time, and several people were very complimentary regarding the mechanics and feel of the game.
An excellent success and a winning game.
Cubicle 7 fantasy Games I loved roleplaying RPGs Systems the one ring
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1981 Lamborghini Countach LP400 Series II by Bertone Lives up to its Name1981 Lamborghini Countach LP400 Series II by Bertone Lives up to its Name
1981 Lamborghini Countach LP400 Series II by Bertone Lives up to its Name
Man of Many
By Man of Many in Cars on August 2, 2018
Few cars are as readily recognizable as the 1981 Lamborghini Contach LP400 Series II by Bertone. "Countach" is a Piedmontese term that means "stupendous, magnificent, or splendid." It's no wonder that designer Marcello Gandini chose the name for the car he was commissioned to design as Lamborghini's new flagship. Gandini abandoned the swooping designs of the past and went all out with an aggressive wedge shape that features straight lines and sharp corners. Gandini also brought in the most iconic aspect of the Lamborghini design—the scissor doors.
Performance was the name of the game when it came to the Countach. The car was built with a tubular space frame chassis and then topped with aircraft grade aluminum for the body. The result was a car that wasn't just strong, but light as well. The car's first engines were a 5.0 liter V12, though those engines were restricted to the prototypes and show cars. The production cars received a 4.0 liter put together Miura that was rated at 370 horsepower with 266 lb-ft of torque.
That's what Walter Wolf, the owner of the Canadian F1 team, started with. With the help of Lamborghini engineer Gianpaolo Dallara, Wolf put a 5.0 liter engine and Pirelli P7 tires on the LP400 to create the S series. Sothebys is currently offering one of Wolf's designs—a rare, 105 "low-body" model with less than 35,000 km on the odometer, and a cosmetic and mechanical restoration no more than 200 miles ago.
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Lost Girl 5×11 review: 'Sweet Valkyrie High'
September 21, 2015 by Joe Lipsett
Courtesy of Showcase
Lost Girl takes a breather from the Gods/end of the world stuff to delve into the secret life of Tamsin (Rachel Skarsten), dating all the way to her prep school days.
Let's bitch it out…
'Sweet Valkyrie High' is the long overdue Tamsin-centric episode that fans (ie: me) have been waiting for. This is primarily a character piece for Skarsten, who has quietly taken over the role as the most enjoyable character on the show in Kenzi's absence. And while the "Valkyrie falls in love with the succubus and gets her heart broken" story line wasn't my favourite aspect of S5A, it feels like we're finally moving towards closure, particularly in Tam-Tam's final chat with Acacia (Linda Hamilton) about how opening herself up emotionally makes her a stronger warrior. The balance of comedy and character drama in this episode is definitely a plus because it positions Tamsin as both comic relief, but also very much a broken woman. That deft negotiation between comedy and pathos is one of the reasons that the character works.
The smartest decision made in the episode is to keep the focus primarily on Tamsin, with only the occasional detour into B-plot territory with Bo (Anna Silk), Lauren (Zoie Palmer) and Evony (Emmanuelle Vaugier)*. But the focus is firmly on the Valkyrie, exploring how she came under the wing of Acacia and how she ultimately came to work for Hades/Jack (Eric Roberts).
*This is the first episode I can remember without core castmember Kris Holden-Ried and even Rick Howland's Trick barely appears. It's a very female-driven episode of Lost Girl.
With former partner-in-crime Stacey (Kate Corbett) along for the ride, Tamsin heads back to high school looking for an alternative door into Valhalla. She's eager to speak with Freyja (Michelle Nolden), whom she hopes holds the key to sending Jack back to Tartarus. The context for the adventure is secondary, however; 'Sweet Valkyrie High' is actually more concerned with how Tamsin went from honour roll to expelled under Acacia's tutelage. It's an interesting inversion of expectations for the Hamilton character, who has been presented as Tamsin's antagonist but here's proves to be more of a impish troublemaker. Acacia saw something in Tamsin that encouraged her to work with the girl and even though the unorthodox instruction contradicts the rigidity of the school's prim and proper rules, Acacia ultimately frees Tamsin to become the dark warrior we know and love. Seeing the transformation, we now have a better understanding why Tamsin is so attracted to strong figures who can act as mentors/guides. It's never been more clear why she latched onto Bo: the succubus is the kind of powerful leader Tamsin craved, someone with the capacity and tenacity to lead with the heart to do what is right. Bo is basically what Tamsin wishes she could be.
Other Observations:
Perhaps it's just my Lifetime spider sense kicking in, but there's definitely a sexual vibe in Acacia's corruption of Tamsin. Clandestine meetings late at night with Tamsin in her little girl briefs? Scandalous indeed!
Stacey's not the most three-dimensional character, but as a dim-witted recurring character, she's pretty delightful. I especially liked that after losing her plum Valkyrie job in Tartarus, Stacey ends up working at a Mexican fast good job, schlupping the owner. Sounds about right.
In the B-plot, Evony unexpected pops up to reveal that she is dying. There's a lot of talk about cures and tests, but this story line is essentially all about the fact that Lauren has not been honest with Bo. The fact that she tested the serum on herself and became a conduit is immaterial; Lauren is most concerned about how the act connects her to Hades, whom no one trusts at the moment. It's a bit frustrating to see Lauren purposefully lying to Bo (these kinds of plot lines always feel artificially constructed by writers to me), but I'm sure the truth will come out at the most inconvenient time in the near future.
I'll confess I never understood why everyone has been acting like Hades/Jack is imprisoned at the lab. Wasn't it made explicit that he was there of his own volition back in '44 Minutes To Save The World'? It's hardly a cliffhanger, then, to show him escaping at episode's end.
Finally, apologies for no review last week (vacation!). I'm sorry to have missed the opportunity to compliment Kenzi's fabulous outfits, that ridiculous Catherine Zeta-Jones/Entrapment homage, the bizarre use of Toronto's AGO museum and the (initially) shrug-worthy resolution of the Zeus story line. On the other hand, no one would have wanted to read all of the bitching and moaning about those excruciating Dyson/Alycia scenes. It would have just been a lot of "kill this bitch" comments.
Best Lines:
Tamsin (to Jack, when he says there's one thing he doesn't get): "Laid?"
Stacey (to Tamsin, learning that the gate to Valhalla has moved): "This is worse than being dumped by text."
Acacia (wickedly dissing her new class): "There's a fairy beauty school down the road."
Stacey (learning that Freyja is dead): "Did she bleed out? Choke on a meatball?"
Evony (to Lauren): "Now, in the immortal words of Janet, what have you done for me lately?"
Your turn: what did you think of Tamsin's backstory? Were you glad to see Acacia and Stacey again? Do you care that Evony is sick? Did you miss Dyson? Should Lauren just fess up? And why does Jack need to build an army? Please don't say it's because he wants to take over the world! Sound off below.
Lost Girl airs Sundays at 9pm EST on Showcase in Canada
Filed Under: Lost Girl, TV Tagged With: Anna Silk, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Eric Roberts, Final Season, Kate Corbett, Linda Hamilton, Michelle Nolden, Rachel Skarsten, Showcase, Zoie Palmer
John Hall says
It occurred to me as I was watching the episode that I had really no idea what the implications of her eyes turning black was. Maybe that was explained when her character was introduced and I just had forgotten. I had been operating under the assumption it just meant she was angry and about to be bad ass.
cinephilactic says
It refers to the use of her powers of persuasion. For example, last night she used it to force Freyja to tell her about Jack and Tartarus
David K says
I really enjoyed it for sure. I can't remember the last time, I watched a Lost Girl episode that I loved. I liked seeing Stacey again, her banter with Tam Tam was lovely. LOL @ all her one-liners!!! This has been one of the better ones in S5.
thodgins46 says
Good thing you took a vacation. Dyson and Alycia were the worse part of last week's episode. Even Mark was more terrible than usual. Ugh.


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Statement: City of London welcomes UK Supreme Court air pollution ruling
The UK Supreme Court's ruling on air pollution is welcome news. The UK has been breaching legal limits for nitrogen dioxide (NO2) for the past five years, with particularly serious consequences in London, where poor air quality causes over 4,000 early deaths a year.
We have long recognised that more needs to be done by central government to combat the UK's air pollution crisis. That's why we, along with other London local authorities, are already helping in the Department for the Environment's push to meet EU target levels on NO2 by cleaning up our own fleets and banning idling engines, regulating construction activity and using our planning powers to ensure new buildings are energy efficient and low emission.
These measures also support the Mayor of London's reforms but we still need to further reduce pollution from diesel vehicles. In particular, government funding is urgently needed to finance the replacement of diesel taxis with cleaner models.
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Mississippi State's Simmons Takes Home the 2018 C Spire Conerly Trophy
Posted on: November 27,2018
C Spire's Jim Richmond and MS Sports Hall of Fame Board President Chris Correro present 2018 C Spire Conerly Trophy Winner, Jeffery Simmons of Mississippi State University his certificate.
Jackson, MS: Jeffery Simmons, a junior defensive tackle, is the winner of the C Spire Conerly Trophy for 2018. Simmons is the twenty-third winner of the award which has been given each year since 1996. A pre-season All-American, Simmons has lived up to his hype. He made a total of 59 tackles on the season with 24 solo tackles. He also made a team-high 14.5 tackles for a loss. He is expected to be high on NFL draft lists.
Simmons is the eighth Bulldog to take home the C Spire Conerly Trophy in the history of the award. Other Mississippi State players earning the hardware include two-time recipient Dak Prescott who along with Eli Manning of Ole Miss are the only multiple winners.
Haley Fisackerly of Entergy, Elgton Jenkins of Mississippi State, and Kay Hull, of the Hull Foundation
Simmons's teammate, Elgton Jenkins earlier was announced as the winner of the Kent Hull Trophy. The State center was picked as the top offensive lineman in the state this year. He becomes the sixth winner of that honor with the previous five winners all going on to careers in the NFL. He is the fourth Bulldog to take home the trophy.
Players from five of the ten schools in the state that play collegiate football have won the C Spire Conerly Trophy. Simmons' win ties MSU with Ole Miss for 8 trophy wins while the University of Southern Mississippi has won 4, Delta State two and Millsap's one. The annual award is presented the Tuesday following Thanksgiving each year.
The Conerly Trophy banquet has been presented by the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame since its inception and C Spire has sponsored the event each year since 1998 and also sponsors the most outstanding player awards for women's and men's basketball and for baseball.
There were ten finalists for the award, one representing each football playing college in the state.


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Opinion / Columnist
Now we know the culprits behind Zimbabwe's agricultural failure
by Editorial - NewsDay
THE case of former Police Deputy Commissioner-General Innocent Matibiri being dragged to court for failing to pay back a US$189 000 debt is not only very intriguing, but it is also infuriating in a big way.
In the matter, it is stated that in May 2013, Tian Ze Tobacco contracted Matibiri to grow some tobacco for them during the 2014-15 agricultural season. Tian Ze tells us that: "The contract was a novation of previous similar contracts between the plaintiff (Tian Ze Tobacco) and the defendant (Innocent Matibiri), with an aggregate value of US$189 083,82 made up of inputs and cash advanced to the defendant during the 2014/2015 and previous tobacco farming seasons."
But for some reasons, probably to be made known during the course of the trial, Matibiri defaulted paying back the loan given to him by Tian Ze. While we are yet to understand why the former police boss failed to pay back the money, we see in this case the crux of why this country has dismally performed as far as agriculture is concerned.
Here was a whole police boss involving himself in farming and we then wonder how he was managing to juggle the two: The intense demands of farming and the equally arduous police work? In our view, the two can only be possible if one is able to work 24/7, which is impossible. But here was a man who thought he could be a jack of all trades. In the end, we are sure it affected both his chosen trades. He failed to farm the tobacco as he had promised and we can wildly guess that his in-tray at Police General Headquarters was always overflowing.
The saddest and most exasperating issue about all this is that Matibiri was not the only one, but many hundreds other bigwigs with unfettered access to money let the nation down by accessing millions of dollars as well as inputs and machinery which they never put to any meaningful use, which has led to Zimbabwe turning from a bread basket nation to a basket case.
This year alone, nearly half the nation is hungry and our main export crop, tobacco, is an embarrassment, thanks to people who have been masquerading as farmers. It is now increasingly becoming apparent why our agriculture has been such a dismal failure.
We shudder when we wonder whether the country has learnt anything from our poor showing in the past. Last week, Agriculture minister Perrance Shiri told us that those with land are now allowed to lease it. This move only tells us one thing: Much of the country's arable land is idling in the hands of people who haven't got the slightest idea what they are supposed to do with it. It is also apparent that Shiri and President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration is not keen to repossess that land and give it to those who are able to productively utilise it, which is very sad, indeed, to say the least.
Source - newsday
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We used to work with Canvas, which like nearly all LMS, has the "normal" account system with First Name and Surname : we simply enrolled our students through a csv and had no problems with the dashboard used for our students and sent to our partners.
We you have ten students, you can rectify your grades dashboard one your own, but when you have 300, with 20%+ from all over the world, and most names do no match your database, you cannot sort out which is the first name and which is the familiy name, this is a total nightmare.
so with OpenEdX we have chaos, even when we explicitly ask students to enroll with FIRST NAME Last Name 80% of students do not follow this requirement.
I see the full name is culturally correct, and of good intentions for cultures which do not have the same concept for personal name and no first name / family name (which cultures btw?) but we if we could work work with that with a small number of enrollees, we cannot if we want to go to scale and do massive.
Another problem is that we issue official credits (ECTS) and that the mixup in names does not allow us to issue proper official certificates - this problem impacts all enrollees, not only our partner's -.
With "honor" certificates that do not offer any check on identity, we could go on writing down anything : forward, backward, indistinguishable first and last names…. but if we need something that has any legal value => we need to identify with minimum mixup who is the recipient and match the civil register.
Anyone has an idea on what to do to move forward ?
it depends on what you're trying to achieve. but if we assume that you want to make sure students register with the correct Full Name, i'd add an image of the certificate to the register form and "Full Name*" renamed into "Full Name (as it will be used on the certificate)*". Ideally, when they type, the name on the certificate should change so they see if it's ok.
same approach could be applied to the Edit Profile.
The problem here doesn't seem to be that Open edX uses the full name instead of first name and last name. The problem is that you try to use heuristics to match the students in different databases. Most of the problems you describe would also exist if you had first name and last name fields in Open edX.
Even if every student entered exactly the same first name and last name they use in the university database (which will never happen if the names are entered manually), you would have problems matching them up. International names frequently do not have a single canonical Unicode representation, and many characters can be either represented by a single Unicode code point or by combining diacritical marks with other characters. You may have multiple students with the same name. You may have problems with capitalization depending on locales, and lots of other things.
And these problems are not rare pathological cases. They are rather frequent, and overall you wouldn't have much less of a mess than what you describe. The problem simply isn't caused by using a single field for the full name. The problem is trying to link multiple accounts via manually entered names, which is never going to work properly.
The correct solution is to link the students in Open edX to your external database at account creation time. The best way to do this is to configure single sign-on against your university accounts, so the Open edX accounts are always linked to a university account. Alternatively, you can use the API or the mass enrolment tool in the instructor dashboard to invite students to your course using a list of email addresses that matches your database, and then link students via the email address.
The W3C has a great article about this and recommends doing things the way that edX does, and explains why.
Why did we never have to manage this chaos with the 10 previous sessions, when the MOOC run on Canvas, then ?


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"Literature Conference" refers both to a yearlong class for upper grade students desiring an intensive writing experience, and an event held each February on our campus. The conference is structured for students from several small rural schools in our area, who come together to hear a keynote speaker and attend various workshops presented by a variety of local writers.
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Applicants to the fund must meet at least one of the Trust's charitable purposes and demonstrate meeting our funding priorities, these can be found in our Eligibility Criteria.
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We have now set up a new section on the website that will hold all of the publications and past newsletters from the Trust. You can find it under the 'About the Fund' section.
Posted February 29th, 2016 in News.
MCWFT No6 web Here is our latest Newsletter. Be sure to submit any stories, news or forthcoming events to John at news@muaitheabhal.org.uk for next month's edition.
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MCWFT No5 web Here is our latest Newsletter. Be sure to submit any stories, news or forthcoming events to John at news@muaitheabhal.org.uk for next month's edition.
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