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In what is reportedly a North American first, Lehigh Cement has launched a feasibility study of a full-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) project, working with the International CCS Knowledge Centre, to reduce the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of its Edmonton-based cement plant.
The project aims to capture 90 to 95% of carbon dioxide (CO2) currently emitting from the plant's flue gas, for an estimated total of 600,000 tonnes annually. The study will include engineering designs, cost estimations and business case analysis.
A pre-feasibility study has already sourced 'capture proponents' through a request for proposals (RFP), defined activities for engineering support teams and scaled estimates of costs, schedules and budgets.
The objectives of this second phase include securing one or more vendors to provide engineering designs tailored to the plant and developing a budget for a front-end engineering design (FEED) study. Emissions Reduction Alberta (ERA) is investing $1.4 million—proceeds from carbon prices paid by emitters—in the project.
The feasibility study will be based on the International CCS Knowledge Centre's foundational lessons from SaskPower's Boundary Dam 3 (BD3) facility, a world first in full-scale CCS from a coal-fired power plant. As the centre explains, post-combustion flue gas is similar in cement and coal plants—and if Lehigh's project moves forward, it will become the world's first implementation of full-scale CCS in the cement industry, which currently contributes up to 8% of global CO2 emissions.
"With this study, the application of CCS moves its value beyond coal into cement," says Beth Hardy, the centre's vice-president (VP).
Lehigh Cement is an affiliated company of Lehigh Hanson, the North American operation of the HeidelbergCement Group.
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Alfa Romeo Giulia Gets the New 2.0TBi Engine
Eduard Huma • December 16, 2016 • No Comments •
Alfa Romeo unveiled the all-new Giulia around six months ago, the entire lineup being already announced in Europe, the United States and Australia.
Now, the Italian carmaker has big plans for the model, as it is reportedly to introduce a new high-performance to the current lineup, in the shape of a 2.0TBi engine.
Even if the company has not officially confirmed the news, there was a Dutch tuning company called Squadra that had browsed Fiat Chrysler`s website and found, accidentally, the table that reveals the car`s new components.
Squadra tuning has also revealed on Facebook that it has no intentions of spreading the news about the car`s new engine, declaring:
"We are not really intended to spread new facts [about the Alfa Romeo Giulia]. But this is something we found remarkable. Surfing on the parts site of the Alfa Giulia, we stumbled upon brake discs for the 280PS model, but also for a Giulia 2.0 TBi with 350PS (257kW)."
Once arriving on the market, the new Giulia 2.0 Tbi engine will become the most powerful, standing side-by-side the carmaker`s 2.0-liter with 205 kW and 470 Nm of torque.
So far, the Alfa Romeo Giulia engine lineup comprises a petrol version consisting of a 2.0-liter turbocharged engine, with 280 horsepower, available at 5,250 rpm and 400 Nm of torque, while the diesel refers to a 2.2-liter turbo with 210 horsepower, available at 3,500 rpm and 470 Nm of torque. Besides the two versions, there is also a third variant in the shape of the "Advanced Efficiency" variant, this one packing a 2.2-liter diesel with 180 horsepower and coming with a fuel efficiency of just 4.2L for every 100 km, while the CO2 emissions will be standing at just 99g/km. The sprint from 0 to 100 km/h is set to be done in a good 7.2 seconds, at a topping of 230 km/h. The top of the line QV comes with a Ferrari-powered 2.9-liter twin-turbocharged V6 engine, with whopping 375 kW and 600 Nm of torque, enough to deliver a sprint from 0 to 100 km/h in just 3.9 seconds, at a topping of 307 km/h.
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Re: Trinity de Guzman - Ayahuasca Healings (WA, USA)
Posted by: liminal ()
princecurt Wrote:
> I met a guy who went on a retreat and used this
> stuff. He was completely screwed up by it. Not
> sure he will ever recover.
I'm sorry this happened to your friend.
Can you tell us more about what retreat he was on? Was it through Trinity de Guzman or another group?
My hope is that recovery is possible. Going to a licensed physician could be a first step, to address any possible physical health concerns.
Unfortunately, I believe Trinity de Guzman and Ayahuasca Healings have gotten worse. More dangerous.
Earlier in this thread there has been some discussion of Dylan Guss. At one time, he seemed to know that he needed to break away from AH. Now he is once again fully integrated into the group, given the title "the bridger of worlds". He is a young man and in the past has been drastically overworked by Trinity.
Along with Dylan, listed on the team publicly are:
Shakti Selina Quinn, "the divine mother"
Angelica Mastrogiuseppe, "the sound priestess"
Jennifer Flaherty, "the intuitive"
Paul Diamond, "the shaman"
Trinity de Guzman, "the messenger"
Paul Diamond says he is an ayahuasquero, a Mongolian Buryat shaman,a "Phurba Priest in Nepalese Jhankri Tradition, Houngan Asogwe in Haitian Vodoun and has been initiated into various strands of Taoist, Tantric, Buddhist and Sufi Mystism".
[ayahuascahealings.com]
Prices for the retreats have gone up.
Posted by: corboy ()
(Slow shake of head)
In classical music even the most talented musician usually focuses on mastering
just one instrument for public performance.
Exploring the full potential of playing saxophone, violin or piano is enough to occupy a virtuoso for an entire lifetime.
ayahuasquero, a Mongolian Buryat shaman,a "Phurba Priest in Nepalese Jhankri Tradition, Houngan Asogwe in Haitian Vodoun and has been initiated into various strands of Taoist, Tantric, Buddhist and Sufi Mystism.
It takes an entire lifetime to become wise in just one of those traditions.
Sufism developed within the cultural context of Islamic monotheism - there is one God, nothing and no one is ever equal to God, God is the first cause, creator of all.
By contrast, Buddhism posits no belief in God and posits no first cause.
Vodoun, ayahuasca shamanism and Buriat shamanism are each rooted in specific
cultures and specific regions, each with its indigenous plants, animals and native spirits.
To get an idea of what life is like for a Sufi adept in a leadership role,
here is a description of a Sufi leader who was a refugee in Pakistan.
That man was busy from dawn to nightfall.
[forum.culteducation.com]
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/13/2017 11:39PM by corboy.
Why You Will Never Get a Traditional Ayahuasca Treatment
[chacruna.net]
(Excerpt)
Ayahuasca, Means and Ends
The first difference lies in the role that ayahuasca plays. Locally, it is tool that the healer employs to enter the world of the spirits, channel the chants he receives from the spirits into his healing, and capture information about the illness of the patient and the medicine the patient needs. It often happens that the local patients do not drink ayahuasca, as in the case of the ceremonies run by the Shipibo, who are currently the most popular "shamans" in Iquitos. In the 10 ceremonies I participated in the small Shipibo settlement of Vencedor, on the river Pisqui, I did not see a single patient drink ayahuasca.
In the lodges, everything revolves around the drinking of ayahuasca, which is known as the "Medicine," capitalized for emphasis. A client may drink it up to six times in ten days, which is exorbitant in local terms. In some lodges they do not adhere to the practice of "diets" (the abstention from sex and certain foods), nor do they give the patients medicinal plants other than ayahuasca, even though those two practices are locally regarded as crucial for an effective cure with ayahuasca.
The Purge and the Visions
The inhabitants of the region refer to ayahuasca as the "purge," which is a metonymy for the main effect of drinking ayahuasca: the expulsion, through defecation and vomiting, of the "filth" in the patient's stomach, which is related in turn to his or her bad energies; it is a purge both of the body and spirit. The term mareación (dizziness/nausea) refers to the physical effects of the plant. On a local level, drinkers also seek to have visions but, generally, it is only to discover the cause of the illness the person is suffering from or ascertain whether a relative who is not present in the ritual is or is not well.
For Westerners, the main attraction is DMT, the active ingredient in chacruna, the jungle plant which is cooked with the ayahuasca, and to which the visions are attributed. It is not so easy to see visions; however, the obsession foreign novices have with visions exerts pressure on the ayahuasqueros and, in order to meet their expectations, in some cases, they add another plant to the usual mixture of the ayahuasca vine and the chacruna leaf: toé (Brugsmansia sp.), which contains scopolamine, said to intensify the visions but with possible dangerous side effects.
This bias towards visions and DMT clashes with the ethnographical evidence of local use. The terms most widely used for the medicinal brew—ayahuasca (in Peru and Brazil) and yajé (in Colombia)—refer both to the vine and to the brew itself, whether or not it contains chacruna. Some ethnic groups only cook the vine, without any additives, like the Tucano Oriental, the Marubo, the Achuar and the Matsiguenga. The latter's word for the vine, kamarampi, means "the medicine for vomiting."2
We Asked a Veteran Peruvian Ayahuasca Shaman About Dumb Tourists
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Ayahuasca Tourism Is Ripping Off Indigenous Amazonians
Some groups are pissed about the influx of Westerners visiting the Amazon to dress up like the indigenous people and bastardize their rituals.
Crappy Ayahuasca Shamans Can Kill You
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In a discussion of new wave gurus, such as Bentinho Massaro, one
person mentioned Trinity De Guzman and mentioned his or her own reasons for once feeling attracted to the scene.
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Used to really dig Bentinho a couple years ago. That was when I was desperately trying to find a story for what was happening. Same kind of affection was there for Trinity De Guzman who was at one point trying to start an Ayahuasca church in the US. They were young guys who, in my eyes, were in on this mass Awakening that made some people special.
I was desperately trying to find a story to be special. So there was an exchange from wanting to be special for the sake of my talents or ambitions to wanting to be special for having discovered some great truth.
There was also a sneaky kind of envy with regards to Bentinho and Trinity because it had been an ambition to also launch out with some sort of preaching. I wanted to sell it, badly, and my image of being a light worker right along with it. It was something not only to make myself feel special but to sell others on my sense of being special.
Then, feeling guilty for my own ambition, I grew annoyed with Bentinho and any of the other younger guys (like Infinite Waters and GoldJacketLuke), stewing in a strange hypocrisy.
Anyway, it seems to me that Bentinho, Trinity and others like that are still trying to figure themselves out in this whole thing. There's a personal story still playing out. There's a personal story playing out for anyone who buys their products. This is the same (and I'm guessing, don't take my word for it) for anyone who buys into the specialness of someone else.
There's such a beauty to not being special, to being no one in particular, to getting so lost in the character that there isn't a sense of self. That's the stuff that sells, because, despite what the awakening story is, we didn't come here to realize we've always been here. We know that. That's why it feels like remembering. We came to forget who we are.,,,
Date: May 05, 2018 09:54PM
The Bizarre Murder Case of a Revered Ayahuasca Shaman
Peru Prosecutors Say Canadian Killed by Lynch Mob May Have Shot Ayahuasca Shaman
Posted by: JosephSmith ()
It's worth mentioning that Ayahuasca Healings (Trinity de Guzman's group) is an affiliate group of the Oklevueha Native American church. I made a thread called "Oklevueha NAC death toll" with an overview of ONAC's illegal practices. Trinity's group is just a fraction of what is going on.
I used to be a member of another ONAC affiliate. Definitely a cult. Glad that I left.
He can recover. I was part of an affiliate group that did similar things. I'm not sure if I'll ever get over my old thinking patterns, but he can get get better. Trust me. It's a matter of time till something goes wrong and he snaps out of that. At least that is what happened to me.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/03/2018 10:21AM by JosephSmith.
Trinity is still at it. He's married with children now and uses that fact as part of his ongoing sales and branding.
He says that his Ayahuasca Healings venture in USA never did earn DEA permission. That they have not heard from the DEA since November 2016.
Trinity de Guzman penned a lengthy "humble confession". It's b.s. He pretends to apologize to the people that he has ripped off. But the "confession" is actually a long long sales manipulative pitch.
[web.archive.org]
Trinity is still selling unsafe ayahuasca retreats in Peru. He also sells "post retreat coaching".
Gabriel Ng continues to be an enthusiastic promoter.
Marc Shackman now works at a sketchy drug resort in Hawaii.
One of the many red flags about these folks is that they all extol the supposed virtues of constantly being in "bliss". No thank you. This sets up unrealistic expectations and instability. Along with priming people to be easily persuaded and manipulated.
According to Ayahuasca Healings' pseudo-messaianic figurehead, Trinity de Guzman, there is a deep cleanse happening right now to karmically pay for the pain and suffering we humans have caused and brought upon the planet.
"The Corona Virus is a necessary purge of what is no longer in resonance," Trinity wrote in a recent email to his followers. "As these souls return back to the Source, those who are left have the choice to continue in our old ways, or to create a DRASTIC re-evaluation of all that is important to us and all that drives and motivates us."
This purge, Trinity wrote, will identify those who are willing to be part of "birthing a New Era" and shows the "NEED for us to do the work we are doing." While it's not entirely clear what type of "work" he's referencing, in particular, Trinity has spent more than a few years working to craft an image of himself as some type of "plant medicine" guru.
[www.psymposia.com]
This entire article is worth reading, including mention of our work here.
Trinity's former partner Marc Shackman's occupations now are real estate, cannabis, and New Age tourism.


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Les Chefs-d'oeuvre d'Architecture et Sculpture du XIIe au XIXe Siecle.
Paris: Ch. Massin, n.y. Hardcover. Folio (18¼" X 13¼"). Grey cloth spine and marbled paper over boards with paper label string-tied portfolio housing 120 heavy stock rectos-only plates (+ half-title page, title page, 4pp table of contents). Extensive illustrations (1-2 photographs per plate). Overall very good. Portfolio soiled and age...	More about Les Chefs-d'oeuvre d'Architecture et Sculpture du XIIe au XIXe Siecle
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The Outbreak of the Rebellion in the United States 1861
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Chickamauga Monument Photograph.
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Bestride the Narrow World.
BEECHER, John.
Phoenix, AZ: Rampart Press, January 1963. Broadside. 4to (9" X 12½"). Titled in red. Edition limited to 200 copies. Fine. First separate printing. Presumably inspired by the Ap Bac hamlet encounter in Vietnam, in which the Vietcong for the first time took on the American military and the South Vietnamese... More about Bestride the Narrow World
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Homage to a Subversive.
Scottsdale, AZ: Rampart Press, 1961. Leaflet. Small 4to (6¼" X 9¼"). Near fine. Single horizontal fold, else pristine. First separate printing, a handsome production handset and pulled by the Beechers on their own press. One of Beecher's most famous poems, a tribute to Henry David Thoreau on the occasion of... More about Homage to a Subversive
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A Humble Petition to the President of Harvard.
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On Acquiring a Cistercian Breviary.
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To Alexander Meiklejohn.
Oakland, CA: Morning Star Press, 1956. Broadside. Folio (9¼" X 17"). Fine. Hand set and hand printed by Beecher. First separate printing. A tribute to the controversial educator and important civil libertarian Meiklejohn (1872-1964), a philosophy professor who founded the University of Wisconsin's radical Experimental College in 1928 (folded in... More about To Alexander Meiklejohn
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News Agency Photographs.
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Trio of three vintage 7" X 9" black and white glossy news agency photographs issued in 1956 by International News Photos in Chicago. The first (condition good only) shows the then-agriculture secretary testifying before a Senate committee; the second (condition fine) shows Benson and other agriculture officials meeting with Eisenhower;...	More about News Agency Photographs
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BIEDERMAN, Jerome D. (artist).
Elk Grove Village, IL: Bruce Offset Company, n.y. [1973]. 4 full-color prints (16" X 12") with accompanying promotional handbill and "spec sheet." Fine. Handsome, pristine prints by this noted transportation artist, created as a promotional gimmick for this printing firm. Depicted are the 1906 Autocar (Runabout), 1904 Franklin (5 Passenger...	More about Antique Automobile Prints (4
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Partridge Shooting.
BRADLEY, Basil.
London: G.P. McQueen, 1880. Color aquatint. Large folio (ca. 29" X 21"). Fine. A bright, crisp, large-margined print by this well-known English painter and illustrator (1842-1904), remembered for his landscapes and animal scenes -- especially dogs. This scene, engraved by William Summers, depicts two hunting dogs in the foreground sniffing... More about Partridge Shooting
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Publicity Photograph ("Freebie and the Bean").
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Andrew Jackson.
CARTER, Dennis Malone.
New York: Ritchie & Co., n.y. [ca. 1860]. Mezzotint. Folio (21" X 29"), framed under a single tan matte in a contemporary 1¼" simple dark wood frame (overall dimensions 30" X 39"). Print is near fine -- bright and clean, delicately colored in subdued shades. 1970s vintage framing, plain but...	More about Andrew Jackson
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E. Whitefield's Views of Chicago.
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Chicago: E. Whitefield, 1860-63. Remarkable and rare grouping of five color lithographs from Edwin Whitefield's series of seven downtown Chicago scenes, lithographed and printed by Charles Shober in Chicago. The prints each measure about 10¼" X 18¼", and all are uniformly matted and framed to 26½" X 20½". In order...	More about E. Whitefield's Views of Chicago
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Libby Prison. The Only Picture in Existence. As It Appeared August 23, 1863.
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Well-known lithograph of the notorious Confederate prison in Richmond, second in infamy only to Georgia's Andersonville Prison. Richmond, VA: Wm. A. Mountcastle, 1882. Ca. 9" X 8". Very good. A clean and handsome example of this famous image of this prison, with six large tents in the middle ground. One...	More about Libby Prison. The Only Picture in Existence. As It Appeared August 23, 1863
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According to the front page of AORUS's website, Gigabyte's high end gaming brand, a combo of extreme proportions will now be sold dubbed the AORUS Extreme Combo. The combo consists of a Z390 AORUS Xtreme Waterforce motherboard paired with an Intel Core i9-9900K. What makes this combo appealing is that Gigabyte has taken the liberty of tweaking the CPU's BIOS settings to provide a stable 5.1GHz overclock to the processor.
While pricing at this point hasn't been released, the combo will likely not be cheap… the completely liquid cooled Z390 AORUS Xtreme Waterforce motherboard which features a full coverage waterblock retails for an already high $1000 USD. The Intel Core i9-9900K processor retails for around $510 USD, so we can expect this combo to set you back at least ~$1500.
More information about the AORUS Extreme Combo can be found on AORUS's product page. At this point in time, the webpage appears to be under construction so we're not getting a whole lot of information regarding the combo other then motherboard specs which we already know. We will, of course, provide more details as they come to light.


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Battletoads: Review
On August 22, 2020 September 12, 2020 By Enigma
Developer: Dlala Studios, Rare
Publisher: Xbox Game Studios
Platforms: Steam, Xbox One
Take note, it has taken almost 20 years but Microsoft has finally realized "Hey guys, don't we like own ALL these Rareware IPs? Maybe we should do something with them" and with that Battletoads has made a come back. For anyone too young to remember, Battletoads was one of Rare's first original titles, releasing in 1991 on the NES it was one of best looking and most difficult games released for the system. The series would see several sequels and spin-offs with titles like Double Dragon and even an arcade release in 1994 before fading away into obscurity when Rare started working on titles like Donkey Kong.
This is the basis for the brand new game, which is just another in a long line of games that use the name of the original, something me and my filing system hate very much. Apparently, our three roided up amphibians, Pimple, Zits and Rash have been locked in a simulator bunker for 26 years, the same time since the last release and have emerged into a world where they are completely forgotten. Yearning to be world famous again, they team up with the Dark Queen to defeat the evil and effeminate Topians that locked them all away.
Much like the original title, Battletoads plays like a 2.5D Beat-em-up, I for one am a huge fan of this art style especially in games like Streets of Rage 4 the only issue with these types of games is continuously missing your opponent on the 3D plane. You can select which of the 3 toads you want to play with (I picked Rash for obvious reasons), but in single player mode, there really isn't any point to it. If your character dies, one of the other two toads takes their place while they rest for 30 seconds, if all 3 of the toads die then it is game over.
The original Battletoads was remembered for being one of the hardest games on the NES, with the Turbo Tunnel being especially brutal. It returns in this game but with a few major tweaks, firstly the camera is behind you as you drive and the game thankfully has checkpoints, ones that will give you encouragement when you die. However, that doesn't mean the game is any easier, this may be because I don't really play a lot of beat-em-ups but I found the controls incredibly hard to work around. The tongue mechanic is a great touch being able to lasso enemies with it or jump to background platforms, but half the time I kept forgetting which of the button combinations to press so my Toad was just hanging there with his tongue out. But even weirder in regards to the controls, I found the vibration to be incredibly intense, pulsating hard all the time during fights. I'm talking girlfriend satisfying levels of intensity.
Battletoads is clearly a game designed to be played with other people, while playing through the levels solo I found myself constantly being overwhelmed on all sides with more and more enemies just taking huge chunks of your life bar, having to dodge more incoming projectiles and break their guards, it became a huge headache just trying to advance anywhere. While the game does offer local co-op, what surprised me is the complete lack of online. Even Streets of Rage 4 allows for 2 players teaming up online and considering the situation we are in right now, lacking online co-op especially these days, is a serious failure in my book.
While the game is a beat em up at heart, that hasn't stopped the game going completely off the wall and throwing everything from platforming puzzles to a full-blown twin-stick Bullet Hell Shooter into the game, this is accompanied by self-aware dialogue that ends up being 50:50 between hilarious and cringe worthy. The entire game feels like a jumbled schizophrenic mess where they felt the beat-em-up sections on their own weren't enough to carry a new Battletoads game and chuck a whole bunch of random affairs into the second half of the game, some work like the aforementioned Bullet Hell levels and others just frustrated and confused me like the elemental Jeff slide.
There is the semblance of a good game here with the 2D art style and mechanics like swapping between the fore and background but it is just stuffed with so much extra padding, that I wouldn't blame you if you went back to Streets of Rage 4 or River City Girls for your Beat-Em-Up fix.
Played on Steam
Superb 2D Artstyle
Hilarious Fourth Wall Breaking Moments
At its core, a functional Beat-Em-Up Game
Writing can be just as cringy as it is funny
Playing solo can prove difficult
No online Co-op
The founder and Editor in Chief of UnboxedTV. Nintendo lover and not afraid to admit it, can always go for a good Indie Metroidvania with a nice cold Cider.
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VIVO X70 PRO 5G SMARTPHONE SERIES HAS BEEN LAUNCHED IN INDIA. TWO SMARTPHONES – VIVO X70 PRO AND VIVO X70 PRO + HAVE BEEN INTRODUCED IN THIS SERIES. BOTH THE PHONES COME WITH ALMOST THE SAME DESIGN. THIS UPGRADED MODEL OF VIVO X60 SERIES, INTRODUCED EARLIER THIS YEAR BY THE CHINESE SMARTPHONE MAKER, OFFERS UP TO 12GB OF RAM, UP TO 256GB OF STORAGE AND UP TO 50MP CAMERA
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Bobcats try to extend franchise-record winning streak vs. Toronto
=== Bobcats try to extend franchise-record winning streak vs. Toronto ===
(Sports Network) – The Charlotte Bobcats hope to extend their franchise-record
winning streak this evening when they conclude a six-game homestand against
the Toronto Raptors.
Charlotte won its third straight game for the first time in team history on
Wednesday, as Melvin Ely paced a balanced attack with 19 points and 10
rebounds to lead Bobcats past Philadelphia 100-92.
Rookie Raymond Felton added 15 points before leaving the game with a sprained
ankle for Charlotte, which had endured a franchise-worst 13-game losing streak
prior to its impressive run of late.
Former Sixer Jumaine Jones recorded a double-double with 14 points and 14
boards, while Brevin Knight had 13 points and dished out 14 assists in the
win. Kareem Rush (13), Primoz Brezec (12) and Bernard Robinson (12) also
reached double figures for Charlotte.
Felton also sprained his big toe in the win and will be a game-time decision
tonight. Ironically, the Bobcats are handing out 5,000 Felton bobbleheads this
Charlotte also made some news off the court on Thursday when it acquired
forward Lonny Baxter from Houston for guard Keith Bogans. It's uncertain if
Baxter, who averaged 3.6 points and 3.7 rebounds in 23 games for the Rockets,
will play Friday.
The Bobcats, who will visit Milwaukee on Saturday, are 10-15 in their arena
Toronto, meanwhile, comes in on a sour note after falling in overtime to the
Tim Duncan-less San Antonio Spurs on Wednesday at the Air Canada Centre. Mike
James scored 36 points to pace the Raptors, who lost their second straight
Chris Bosh notched 30 points and 14 boards, while Morris Peterson scored 25
points, as Toronto fell for the sixth time in nine contests.
The Raptors, who will host Portland on Sunday, are 8-16 away from home this
season.
Toronto has beaten the Bobcats twice already this season and has won three
straight and four of the last five meetings.
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Share this Story: Do we dare hope COVID-19 is becoming milder with Omicron? 'Hope isn't science'
Do we dare hope COVID-19 is becoming milder with Omicron? 'Hope isn't science'
While lower severity to Delta could be a good thing, the benefits could be washed away if Omicron spreads more easily or is better able to elude some immunity
Sharon Kirkey
Dec 02, 2021 • December 2, 2021 • 6 minute read • 379 Comments
It will take weeks before scientists get a firm handle on how Omicron compares to Delta in terms of severity of disease. Photo by Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images
Sarah Otto's hope, her "dream scenario," is that the Omicron variant does prove milder, that the variant rattling nerves, airlines and stock markets causes only mild disease, as some early anecdotal reports would suggest.
"That would mean let it run," the University of British Columbia evolutionary biologist said. "Let it run its course and reach the world."
Do we dare hope COVID-19 is becoming milder with Omicron? 'Hope isn't science' Back to video
"For the unvaccinated, mild COVID could train the immune system, much like vaccines," Otto said. "For the vaccinated it would be like a natural booster."
But she is ever so cautious. "I dare not even hope," she said. "Hope isn't science."
There are now reports of toddlers in hospital with Omicron , and while some South African doctors have said the cases they have seen appear mostly mild , with fever, cough and aches and pains, those cases involved mostly younger adults — university-aged students and people healthy enough to get on a plane. Not the medically fragile.
And while lower severity to Delta could be a good thing, the benefits could be washed away if Omicron spreads more easily or is better able to elude some immunity from vaccination or past infections.
"Maybe it causes half the amount of hospitalizations and deaths," Otto said. But if there are many more infections, "that's still a lot of hospitalizations and deaths."
Canada expands airport COVID testing, bans flights from three more countries over Omicron fears
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Viruses new to humans tend to cause more severe disease at the early stages of an outbreak or pandemic, partly due to the fact we don't have pre-existing immunity, said Matthew Miller, an associate professor of infectious diseases and immunology at McMaster University in Hamilton.
"For viruses to evolve to become less severe there needs to be 'selective pressure,'" Miller said in an email. If, like SARS-1, people get very sick, very quickly, they are less efficient spreaders, because they're too sick to go out in public. The virus peters out. But viruses aren't thinking animals. "They don't 'care' about how sick they make people, as long as they can spread," Miller said.
With SARS-CoV-2, people can spread the virus quite efficiently already, even if they aren't yet showing symptoms or never do, meaning "it's not clear that there's much pressure on the virus to cause less severe illness," he said.
Overall, SARS-CoV-2 already causes fairly mild symptoms in most, though not for the elderly or those with chronic health problems, "and when there are high caseloads, the number of severe illnesses increases," Miller said.
It will take weeks before scientists get a firm handle on how Omicron compares to Delta in terms of severity of disease, he and others said.
South Africa also has a high background of immunity: Studies suggest 40 to 50 per cent of South Africans were exposed to SARS-CoV-2 in earlier waves. One paper estimated that the number of infections was likely 7.8-fold higher than recorded cases. That immunity, combined with vaccination, could be providing protection against serious disease, which could help explain why Omicron infections so far appear milder.
What concerns scientists is that Omicron has a surprising number of mutations on the spike protein adorning the surface of SARS-Cov-2, especially the part that the virus uses to glob onto the cells in our bodies and that authorized vaccines target. Three changes in particular each make the spike better able to bind to our cells, more magnetic. "We've seen some of these three mutations in different variants of concern," Otto said, but none before Omicron have all three. "When my colleagues saw that they were like, 'Uh, oh.'"
Seven cases of Omicron had been confirmed in Canada as of Wednesday. Cases have been reported in Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Portugal and Italy and the United Kingdom.
At this point I give it about a 50-50 chance of being more or less severe. That's how unsure science is at the moment
It's not clear where or when Omicron first separated off from other SARS-CoV-2 variants, but it may date back to 2020. "It could be in a population that was so isolated that Omicron evolved there and it never got out until now," said Otto, a professor in UBC's department of zoology.
It may also have been living within one or two immunocompromised people unable to clear the virus. SARS-CoV-2 can reproduce to high loads, or linger much longer, in people with immune systems weakened by malnutrition, unclean drinking water, untreated HIV and other conditions, Miller said. And the longer the virus hangs around in the body the more opportunities to accumulate mutations.
"It's possible that Omicron has been hiding out for most of 2021 inside somebody," Otto said. "That would suggest that all these changes in the spike that we're seeing actually weren't selected to help transmit from person to person," she said. "They were selected to survive and propagate within that person's body."
And if that's the case, it's possible Omicron selected to be less severe, "so that it didn't kill that individual, and that individual was able to move around and eventually infect somebody else," Otto said.
"But we really have zero idea. At this point I give it about a 50-50 chance of being more or less severe. That's how unsure science is at the moment."
While Omicron has a jumble of mutations in the spike protein, "there's still a lot of spike that's not changed, and our immune reactions should recognize other parts well if we've been vaccinated," Otto said. "But it will spread like wildfire among the unvaccinated."
While Moderna's chief told the Financial Times this week he's anticipating a "material drop" in vaccine efficacy, Otto is more optimistic. With a high vaccination rate, "we've got a base of immunity, and it's not like (Omicron) has changed at hundreds of sites in the spike. It's just changed at 30." In the South African city of Tshwane, where Omicron was first detected, 87 per cent of hospital admissions are among the unvaccinated, The Guardian reported.
University of Manitoba's Jason Kindrachuk: "We're all trying to figure out very quickly what this is." Photo by Supplied
What Otto does find unnerving is that a fully vaccinated traveller who arrived in Hong Kong from Vancouver contracted the variant virus from another traveller from South Africa who was staying across the hall in the same airport quarantine hotel.
Though just one case, it could mean that Omicron is better able to transmit through smaller particles in the air, which would mean more longer-distance aerosol transmission, Otto said.
If it can spread much more easily through the air, "and you need even smaller particles to get infected because it's so good at getting inside our body, that is a game changer," Otto said. "That's my nightmare."
Jason Kindrachuk is already losing sleep. "The last five days have been just chaos," said Kindrachuk, a member of Canada's coronavirus variants rapid response network. "We're all trying to figure out very quickly what this is."
Even if Omicron does cause milder infections, "the question is, how much milder would it have to be for us to be more comfortable," asked Kindrachuk, Canada Research Chair in the molecular pathogenesis of emerging and re-emerging viruses at the University of Manitoba.
And even though Omicron does appear to have some transmission advantage, is it able to out-compete Delta, or is it going to fizzle out? "We don't know," Kindrachuk said. "Right now we don't have any conclusive data to say anything."
But while the focus is suddenly on Omicron, "we still have Delta circulating widely across the globe and making a lot of people sick and still causing a lot of fatalities," Kindrachuck said. "We can't lose sight of the situation we are already in."
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We honored a dozen CP360 winners during a special networking event at Channel Partners Evolution on Sept. 26.
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At long last the Book charting the highlights of BBC Backstage is available for everyone to download and read.
Originally I wanted to celebrate the 5th Anniversary of backstage in May 2010 with a book made up with the contributions of the actual people who made it work over the years. So I contracted Suw Charman Anderson back in early 2010 to start work collecting the material for the backstage book and newspaper.
By April 2010, she collected and started to write up whole sections of the book with help from Kevin Anderson (Suw's husband and good friend of Backstage). The whole thing was done over Gmail, Google Docs, Basecamp and Dropbox. The plan was to go to print with the book by Thinking Digital 2010, which was also the time when I was going to announce the closure of BBC Backstage. Of course we all know what happened in May/June to me (I had the bleed on the brain if you don't remember).
This of course put everything in a tail spin and so we missed all the dates for printing, publishing and announcing the end of Backstage.
So fast forward to the point when I'm out of hospital and things are shifting at work. It made sense to pick up the large body of work which was almost finished back in May and put it out in the public domain. Of course this was easier said that done.
Brendan Crowther, Ant Miller and Adrian Woolard worked there socks off collecting together all the bits which were floating on these different services. Not only that, they built a small team of professionals who helped manage the process of making the ebook (as it became).
….We finally give the world Hacking the BBC: A Backstage retrospective.


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Seven projects have been awarded funding from the Theatre Improvement Scheme Improving Accessibility grants, in partnership with the Wolfson Foundation.
Everyone should be able to enjoy the full experience a trip to the theatre offers, regardless of their access requirements. With this funding, in partnership with the Wolfson Foundation, we are able to support seven great projects and 13 theatres around the country, who, by working with their audiences, have found meaningful solutions that allow better access - and that show other theatres how they too can better cater for their audiences' needs and make theatre going more accessible.
For me it took a major stroke in 2006 to make me aware of the appalling lack of provision for people with disabilities in many of our public buildings. Naturally, in my case this applied to most theatre buildings. Since then, much progress has been made. The recent initiative by the Theatres Trust with its Improving Accessibility scheme will enable seven theatres including (naturally closest to my heart!) Scarborough's Stephen Joseph Theatre to do exactly that. I do hope other theatres will follow suit, so that soon talk of improving accessibility is a thing of the past - I look forward to that day.
For the first time in its 200-year history the Grade II* listed Old Vic in London will provide wheelchair users direct access to the box office. Similarly the Oxford Playhouse, also Grade II*, will provide wheelchair users full access to the ground floor box office ticket desk and hire space for meetings and functions, thanks to funding from the Theatres Trust.
Meanwhile disabled audience members at Newcastle's Tyne Theatre and Opera House, one of the few Grade I listed theatres in the country, will have better access to front of house, toilet and Grand Circle facilities because of internal reconfiguration.
Wolfson has a strong commitment to supporting people with disabilities, and removing barriers to their participation in all elements of society. We also have a long term commitment to the performing arts, including through our fruitful partnership with the Theatres Trust. I am delighted that this year's funding partnership brings these two elements together, and we are enormously grateful to the Theatres Trust for its expertise in administering this programme so adroitly.
The next round of the Theatre Improvement Scheme, in Partnership with the Wolfson Foundation will be announced shortly.
Find out more about our grants schemes.


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Q: How to pull image from private Docker registry in KubernetesPodOperator of Google Cloud Composer? I'm trying to run a task in an environment built from an image in a private Google Container Registry through the KubernetesPodOperator of the Google Cloud Composer.
The Container Registry and Cloud Composer instances are under the same project.
My code is below.
import datetime
import airflow
from airflow.contrib.operators import kubernetes_pod_operator

YESTERDAY = datetime.datetime.now() - datetime.timedelta(days=1)

# Create Airflow DAG the the pipeline
with airflow.DAG(
        'my_dag',
        schedule_interval=datetime.timedelta(days=1),
        start_date=YESTERDAY) as dag:

    my_task = kubernetes_pod_operator.KubernetesPodOperator(
        task_id='my_task',
        name='my_task',
        cmds=['echo 0'],
        namespace='default',
        image=f'gcr.io/<my_private_repository>/<my_image>:latest')

The task fails and I get the following error message in the logs in the Airflow UI and in the logs folder in the storage bucket.
[2020-09-21 08:39:12,675] {taskinstance.py:1147} ERROR - Pod Launching failed: Pod returned a failure: failed
Traceback (most recent call last)
  File "/usr/local/lib/airflow/airflow/contrib/operators/kubernetes_pod_operator.py", line 260, in execut
    'Pod returned a failure: {state}'.format(state=final_state
airflow.exceptions.AirflowException: Pod returned a failure: failed

This not very informative...
Any idea what I could be doing wrong?
Or anywhere I can find more informative log messages?
Thank you very much!

A: In general, the way how we start troubleshooting GCP Composer once getting a failure running the DAG is finely explained in the dedicated chapter of GCP documentation.
Moving to KubernetesPodOperator specifically related issues, the certain user investigation might consists of:

*

*Verifying the particular task status for the corresponded DAG
file;

*Inspecting the task inventory logs and events;, logs also can be found in GCP Composer's storage bucket;

*With any K8s related resource/objects errors it's strongly
required to check Composer's relevant GKE cluster log/event
journals.

Further analyzing the error context and KubernetesPodOperator.py source code, I assume that this issue might occur due to Pod launching problem on Airflow worker GKE node, ending up with Pod returned a failure: {state}'.format(state=final_state) message once the Pod execution is not successful.
Personally, I prefer to check the image run in prior executing Airflow task in a Kubernetes Pod. Having said this and based on the task command provided, I believe that you can verify the Pod launching process, connecting to GKE cluster and redrafting kubernetes_pod_operator.KubernetesPodOperator definition being adoptable for kubectl  command-line executor:
kubectl run test-app --image=eu.gcr.io/<Project_ID>/image --command -- "/bin/sh" "-c" "echo 0"

This would simplify the process of image validation, hence you'll be able to get closer look at Pod logs or event records as well:
kubectl describe po test-app

Or
kubectl logs test-app

A: If you want to pull or push an image in KubernetesPodOperator from private registry, you should create a Secret in k8s which contains a service account (SA). This SA should have permission for pulling or maybe pushing images (RO/RW permission).
Then just use this secret with SA in KubernetesPodOperator and specify image_pull_secrets argument:
my_task = kubernetes_pod_operator.KubernetesPodOperator(
    task_id='my_task',
    name='my_task',
    cmds=['echo 0'],
    namespace='default',
    image=f'gcr.io/<my_private_repository>/<my_image>:latest',
    image_pull_secrets='your_secret_name')

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The high-stakes decisions made by testing are carried by students for a lifetime. And so, the missteps outlined in the APA apology continue to reverberate through American schools, impacting our children, their potential and outcomes, as well as the achievement and progress of our entire nation. Therefore, the attitudes and perceptions about minoritized groups must be examined, and a systematic review should be undertaken of training and pedagogical approaches used in educational institutions.
The association's apology should have happened decades ago. The opportunity presented itself when the Civil Rights Act passed, during so many discussions of psychological health and well-being and, nearly two years ago, when George Floyd was murdered. Because of the outsized influence of psychology in other disciplines, organizations should self-examine and follow suit, including the National Association for Gifted Children, Council for Exceptional Children, National Association for the Education of Young Children, American Educational Research Association and the American Counseling Association, to name a few. All have observed their members' impact on education and life outcomes using misguided "science" rooted in racist ideology. It is time to come clean, recognize our complex history and outline a path forward that is indicative of an authentic and sincere apology that leads to new possibilities.
Issuing statements does not fix the historical harm done. To make meaningful change, we must do the hard and messy work of examining the impact and finding commensurate solutions by going deep and wide. Lukewarm, band-aid solutions will not suffice. Gone is the time for allyship that only leads to more webinars with little outcome and accountability. The APA and education field can broadly begin here: Assess who uses psychological tests today, and how. Examine how life-changing decisions are made based on the results. Evaluate how their implementation allows some people to treat others unjustly.
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