Union hockey players Anthony Rinaldi (8), Brett Supinski (18) and Sebastian Vidmar (27) celebrate during a game. Union athletics photo.
The 16th-ranked Union Dutchmen men's hockey team is set to host the Princeton Tigers this weekend, in a best 2-of-3 quarterfinal matchup.
Union is the #2 seed in the ECAC tournament, and received a bye in the first round. Princeton is the #7 seed, and they obliterated 10th-seeded Brown in the first round last weekend, winning 8-2 on Friday and 7-1 the next day. The Dutchmen swept the regular season against the Tigers, winning 4-3 in overtime at home on November 10, and picking up a 4-1 win on the road on February 17. However, this team is certainly one that Union cannot afford to take lightly.
Princeton (15-12-4) boasts two of the top 3 scorers in the entire nation, with Max Veronneau (15-35–50) and Ryan Kuffner (28-20–38). Kuffner's 28 goals also place him third in the country in that category. These two pace the Tigers, who rank 4th in Division 1 with 3.65 goals per game. The success of the top line, consisting of Veronneau, Kuffner, and junior Alex Riche, often causes teams to overlook the other forwards. However, their second line is also extremely dangerous as well. Sophomore Jackson Cressey (12-24–36), and seniors David Hallisey (16-19–35) and Eric Robinson (13-12–25) make up one of the best offensive second lines in the conference. They also get solid goaltending from freshman Ryan Ferland, who has posted a .911 save percentage in 30 appearances. This team can be polarizing, however. They've posted several encouraging games this season, such as a 4-1 win over Bemidji State way back in November, and they tied both games of a weekend set against St. Cloud State, who is currently ranked #1 in the country. They've also gotten run out of the building several times, losing 7-1 at Cornell, 6-2 at home against Quinnipiac, and 7-2 at Yale. If they're on, however, this team is extremely difficult to stop.
Union (21-13-2) is coming off of a bye in the first round of the tournament, after earning a second-place finish in the regular season. The Dutchmen's season has been a year full of up and downs. They began the season at 0-5-0, then bounced back and went 10-1-1 in their next 12 to get their record to 10-6-1. They went 2-6-0 in their next 8 after that to drop to 12-12-1, but again went 10-1-1 over their final 12 games to finish the regular season. The Dutchmen are 6-0-1 in their last 7, including a very strong 4-3 win at home against #2 Cornell in the regular season finale. They're led by senior forward Ryan Scarfo, who ranks 12th in the nation with 20 goals this season. Union boasts a very balanced offensive attack, with Scarfo, Cole Maier, Sebastian Vidmar, Anthony Rinaldi, and Brett Supinski as the main go-to guys. They have a solid group of defensemen, led by senior JC Brassard. Junior goaltender Jake Kupsky has really bounced back phenomenally after a poor start to the season, and has posted a .922 save percentage this season in his first year as the team's starter. With Kupsky shaping into the player that the San Jose Sharks envisioned when they selected him in the 7th round in 2015, a very solid set of d-men in front of him, and the Dutchmen's balanced offensive attack, coupled with the fact that the series will played in Schenectady, it's hard to go against Union here.


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How relieved I was when David Haye slipped over and hurt his arm.
We will all now be spared the pre-fight verbal garbage before his forthcoming bout with Tony Bellew.
Nathan Lyon should be targeted by England.
In my experience the worse the standard of the fight, the more desperate and ferocious the insults and the threats are beforehand, and Haye/Bellew certainly fitted that description first time around. Sadly we are witnessing something similar with an Ashes series that starts in the early hours of tomorrow morning (November 23).
Two pretty ropey sides will square off for two months before Australia regain the Ashes before losing them again when they next come over here.
And, possibly to deflect from an inevitably low quality contest, the build-up has been nauseatingly cringeworthy, led naturally by Australian players, none of whom would go well on University Challenge, or even Tipping Point.
I don't mind a bit of sledging before, during and after cricket, but only if it's witty or intelligent. Fielding in cricket can be tedious so amusing oneself by engaging in banter with mates and opponents is understandable.
David Haye spouts pre-fight garbage.
I was lucky enough to play a lot of cricket with Ajaz Akhtar, a top-class player and a mighty winder-up of opponents. Pulling a fiver out of his pocket and asking David Willey to play for Peterborough when he was rumoured to be getting paid to play in Rutland League cricket for Rushton was a touch of genius. I think Willey found it funny.
Now sledging from local players occasionally involves the 'c' (not cricket) word. Swearing or personal abuse is not uncommon at Test level either and it's not pretty, or even effective.
Australia's innocuous off spinner Nathan Lyon was at it before the latest Ashes series effectively claiming certain England's players were cowards the last time they toured Down Under. A laughable claim when that particular England side were guilty mainly of being useless and badly led.
As for pugnacious Aussie opener David Warner's boast that Ben Stokes has let his country down, a more blatant case of a man lacking self awareness would be hard to find outside of the Peterborough City Council chamber.
David Willey was sledged beautifully by Ajaz Akhtar.
Warner was right about Stokes, but as the man who once tried to punch little Joe Root in a bar it wasn't really his place to say.
For the most part England's main men have kept a pretty low profile which is a sensible tactic when a three-Test hammering (at best) is likely to be coming their way.
Actually it must be hard to sledge an Australian cricketer. Subtle digs won't work because the likes of Steve Smith wouldn't understand them.
The only way to keep them quiet is to get their batsmen out quickly and to flay their bowlers to the boundary. They should start by targeting Lyon. In a four-man bowling attack the slow bowler will be required to keep things tight. England should hammer Lyon and try and get him to retire.


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FILE PHOTO: A Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft carrying ISS crew blasts off from the launchpad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia should consider revising the terms of its participation in the International Space Station, a Russian space industry executive said on Thursday, because it wants to focus on forming its own orbiting outpost after 2024.
The Russian space agency, Roscosmos, has said it will remain part of the ISS until 2024 and that it is open to extending its participation beyond then.
"We have to reconsider the terms of further participation in the (ISS) programme and focus on the implementation of orbital station programmes," Vladimir Solovyov, deputy head of Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, was quoted as saying by the Scientific Russia internet portal.
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(Reporting by Gleb Stolyarov; Additional reporting by Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber; Editing by Timothy Heritage)
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Is this the best Fish and Chip shop????
I know this is not strictly Sheffield to be in this category but we get the 271/272 to get here.
The best Fish and chip shop is ? Bradwell fisheries, the fish is huge, the chips soft and still a little greasy(just as I like them) and the mushy peas yummy!! The prices are good value, we got Haddock, chips and peas, Cod, chips and peas and two cans of pop and it was around £13.00.
The service is impeccable and everything cooked fresh to order.
You get all this and you are surrounded by wonderful scenery, could you ask for more?
Seeing the cement factory brought a smile to my face!
I was installing a heating system at a farm on the hillside over looking Castleton some time in the late 60s.
The farmer was having a running battle with Peak Planning about the sighting of his caravan, Peak Planning wanted it storing out of sight so it couldn't be seen from the Villiage.
The farmer replied using a few choice words!! when you take down that chimney I'll shift my caravan.
Let's expand it out a little to which fish and chip shop from Sheffield's past that's now no longer there did you used to love?
No contest! Furniss' on Hollinsend Road in Gleadless, right-hand side as you went down from the main road. Mum, Dad and I tried one or two others in the area but the equality didn't come close. Ooooh, I can just taste their fishcakes (as in two slices of potato, fish in between, cooked in batter) now, and I'm subconsciously reaching out for a bowl to take the peas home in. Apparently in later years it became a Chinese Chippy, not sure if it is still there now.
Im sure it was called White Hart chip shop on White Lane, near Gleadless Townsend and next door to the old Harrow pub? Its now Rainbow Chinese takeaway.
I know I highly rated Queenies during the 50/60's, but another one for which I have fond memories was Hoskins on Bellhouse Road, Shiregreen. As a young lad ,after an evening stroll with Mum and Dad around ( well, almost) Concord Park a treat walking home was chips and a fish cake...eaten "open" not "wrapped" ...and with lashings of salt and enough vinegar to sip it out of the corner of the bag of chips. Incomparable and, doubtless, unhealthy.
To-days try Whitby fisheries just off the parkway eat in or take away, back in the sixties Alf Jacksons on the cliffe took some beating lived near by, did see one weekend two coaches ,sat night pull up .
Furness chip shop on Hollinsend road is long gone,all the block of houses has gone and it is now a row of bungalows.
Thanks, Jackanne. What a shame.
We started going there about 1960 when Mum decided that she didn't want to cook seven days a week. So every Saturday about one o'clock Dad and I would go down there in the Hillman Minx, returning with that delicious-smelling newspaper-wrapped parcel whose contents would be eagerly devoured once we got home. That was a ritual for some two years until we moved from Sheffield. We did try one or two chippies in our new home of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, but they didn't even come near Furness' standard.
I wonder if there is a photo of the shop.
No sign of any photos of Furness' chip-oyle, but found your posting on 'canalworld', with similar recollections, back in 2013. Amazing what one can find on t'inter?
Oh dear, I have few original ideas so I have to recycle the old ones!
So, are you a narrowboat owner too?
Sadly not, but I rather like the idea of it. I remember a school trip to Wroxham (although most people called it Royston, or Roy's Town for some reason?) and we all piled on one of those blue fibreglass boats for a trip on the broads.
I was too young to notice the pubs - I was not yet 14 when we left Sheffield, though I do remember the name "Hollin Bush". Furness' was on the right-hand side going down the hill from Ridgeway Road, further down than Gleadless School and on the opposite side. I think there were other shops nearby but can't remember what they were, except there was a sweetshop on the left.
Chippy Dixon in Greenhill sold the best fish & chips around our way as far as we were concerned, chips and a threepenny fish, all for a tanner.
As kids we would chant this little ditty just to annoy him. Chippy Dixon sells fish three halfpence a dish "don't buy it" "don't buy it" it stinks when you fry it.
"Fried fish dealer" - how prim. I remember Mrs. Furniss who had a distinctive face - her top lip stuck out further than the bottom one. I had never sen anyone with that feature before. How odd that one remembers such peculiar details after some 55 years.
Dont you all think that Fish and chips used to taste a lot better than they do nowadays?
The chips used to be just the right side of greasy, the batter thinner and crispier, you could taste the fish and the mushy peas were mushier! Plus they came wrapped in proper newspaper which added to the taste!!
Maybe its me, maybe they are just as good as they were now, maybe my taste buds have changed.
I started this topic and as much as the chippy was delicious at Bradwell, they were not as delicious as the chippy I went to as a child and got a "Mix up" (Chips and mushy peas) for thrupence!
The change from frying fish and chips in beef dripping to vegetable oil has without a doubt altered the taste. Plus, the traditIonal 'chippy' is now a rare breed, with kebabs, fried chicken and pizzas, all jockeying for position in many of the old shops.... those who have escaped the transition to the ubiquitous Chinese, Indian, Turkish, etc. takeaways.
There was a time, even in my relatively recent youth, when the chippy 'menu' consisted of cod, haddock, fishcake (proper ones), rissole (imposter fishcake!), roe, saveloy (latterly battered sausage), peas, curry sauce (no baked beans) and buttered bread cakes under a Perspex dome. Pukka Pies, pickled onions, eggs and the ability to buy vinegar, pop and other outsales for consumption off the premises. Waste products of scallops (the potato portion of the fishcake, fallen apart in the frier) and scraps (crunchy clumps of batter, separated from the fish.... or sometimes luckily still containing some!) were given away free on request, if they were visible in the warmer.
'Wrapped'. Packaged securely for eating at home/work and multiple portions of chips were merged into one amorphous mass, separated vaguely with the greasproof bag, almost guaranteed to result in a punch-up as the diners tried to divvy-up!
Wooden (lolly stick wood) forks gave way to plastic, paper wrapping gave way to polystyrene clamshell boxes and the menu expanded to include many other options, which detracted from purist chippy fare.
There may be other chippies in town that still observe the traditional ways, but one near my work on Whitt' Moor in Chesterfield still do and although they only open two lunchtimes and three evenings a week, they have queues down the street, whenever I pass and see them open.
Happy days and how come as a kid, you could scoff them with impunity, whereas nowadays just the smell of them and you put a stone on?!
I ran a chippy in Sheffield for a time while also doing other jobs, our fat mix did include some dripping. We never went in to the foreign stuff, not even curry, there never seemed to be a demand for it at the time, but one thing we did do that has not been mentioned was battered sprats.
Battered sprats? Never 'erd of em!
Sprats were very popular when fish came in fresh from the east coast and even at home we always battered and deep fried them. Talk of fish made me wonder is there a fish market in Sheffield at the moment, and if so, where is it please?
Thanks for the link, I have just come across the film on here showing the Moor Market.
Back in the 1940s/early 50s living with my Grimsby born Granny and Grandad we had fresh fish from Grimsby or Hull almost every week... I remember the occasional parcel of skate, conger eel, halibut, turbot and,of course, plaice, cod, haddock and herring (mackerel was taboo as my granny said it was a dirty fish and wouldn't have it in the house) but I never remember having sprats either at home or in the many chippies around Firth Park and district.
Sprats?? I must admit I had never heard of them, thanks for the info boginspro, what did they taste like? They certainly look tasty.
I wonder if any chippys in Sheffield do them now and if they dont they should!!
Any chip shop owners out there willing to take the challenge?!


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There's a new way to anonymously trade Monero for Bitcoin!
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Cryptmixer is a decentralized exchange that collects neither personal information nor transaction records.
It can be used to privately swap Bitcoin for Monero.
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It's now easy to trade Monero to Bitcoin in a completely anonymous fashion.
Cryptmixer is a way of transferring cryptocurrencies on a separate blockchain — one that is much harder to observe. The company has announced it has added the privacy-first cryptocurrency, Monero to its privacy-centered decentralized exchange.
Customers can trade Monero with a few other assets, including Bitcoin, ETH, BCH, LTC, and XRP.
In theory, Cryptmixer thus makes crypto private again, skirting around recent regulation designed to identify senders and recipients of crypto transactions. For instance, the Fifth Anti Money Laundering Directive, which was implemented earlier this year, and the Financial Action Task Force's "Travel Rule", which was implemented in mid-2019, both require crypto exchanges to collect more information about their customers.
Users on Cryptmixer don't have to submit personal information to participate (that means none of the KYC, or Know-Your-Customer checks, that centralized exchanges require), and the exchange doesn't keep records of addresses, or transaction amounts when choosing to do so.
But there's a catch
The only way privacy can be fully realized is if there's no black hole like Cryptmixer to enter and exit, which only draws attention to the user. If you have a trace in the BTC ledger, you are no longer private. Instead you should make all the transactions equally and uniformly private by only transacting within the Monero network.
The LocalMonero co-founder also said that it's not inconceivable that BTC addresses that are linked to Cryptmixer will automatically get blacklisted (Binance, for instance, blocked withdrawals to the privacy-focused Bitcoin wallet, Wasabi). This would make any Bitcoin coming out of Cryptmixer "worth less than 'clean' bitcoins."
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Binance support number 1844-907-0583 CEO Changpeng "CZ" Zhao really doesn't want to tell you where his firm's headquarters is located.
Binance support number 1844-907-0583 has loads of offices, he continued, with staff in 50 countries. It was a new type of organization that doesn't need registered bank accounts and postal addresses.
To kick off ConsenSys' Ethereal Summit on Thursday, Unchained Podcast host Laura Shin held a cozy fireside chat with Zhao who, to mark the occasion, was wearing a personalized football shirt emblazoned with the Binance support number 1844-907-0583 brand.
Scheduled for 45 minutes, Zhao spent most of it explaining how libra and China's digital yuan were unlikely to be competitors to existing stablecoin providers; how Binance support number 1844-907-0583's smart chain wouldn't tread on Ethereum's toes – "that depends on the definition of competing," he said – and how Binance support number 1844-907-0583 had an incentive to keep its newly acquired CoinMarketCap independent from the exchange.
There were only five minutes left on the clock. Zhao was looking confident; he had just batted away a thorny question about an ongoing lawsuit. It was looking like the home stretch.
Then it hit. Shin asked the one question Zhao really didn't want to have to answer, but many want to know: Where is Binance support number 1844-907-0583's headquarters?
This seemingly simple question is actually more complex. Until February, Binance support number 1844-907-0583 was considered to be based in Malta. That changed when the island European nation announced that, no, Binance support number 1844-907-0583 is not under its jurisdiction. Since then Binance support number 1844-907-0583 has not said just where, exactly, it is now headquartered.
Little wonder that when asked Zhao reddened; he stammered. He looked off-camera, possibly to an aide. "Well, I think what this is is the beauty of the blockchain, right, so you don't have to ... like where's the Bitcoin office, because Bitcoin doesn't have an office," he said.
The line trailed off, then inspiration hit. "What kind of horse is a car?" Zhao asked. "Wherever I sit, is going to be the Binance support number 1844-907-0583 office. Wherever I need somebody, is going to be the Binance support number 1844-907-0583 office," he said.
Zhao may have been hoping the host would move onto something easier. But Shin wasn't finished: "But even to do things like to handle, you know, taxes for your employees, like, I think you need a registered business entity, so like why are you obfuscating it, why not just be open about it like, you know, the headquarters is registered in this place, why not just say that?"
Zhao glanced away again, possibly at the person behind the camera. Their program had less than two minutes remaining. "It's not that we don't want to admit it, it's not that we want to obfuscate it or we want to kind of hide it. We're not hiding, we're in the open," he said.
Shin interjected: "What are you saying that you're already some kind of DAO [decentralized autonomous organization]? I mean what are you saying? Because it's not the old way [having a headquarters], it's actually the current way ... I actually don't know what you are or what you're claiming to be."
Zhao said Binance support number 1844-907-0583 isn't a traditional company, more a large team of people "that works together for a common goal." He added: "To be honest, if we classified as a DAO, then there's going to be a lot of debate about why we're not a DAO. So I don't want to go there, either."
"I mean nobody would call you guys a DAO," Shin said, likely disappointed that this wasn't the interview where Zhao made his big reveal.
Time was up. For an easy question to close, Shin asked where Zhao was working from during the coronavirus pandemic.
"I'm in Asia," Zhao said. The blank white wall behind him didn't provide any clues about where in Asia he might be. Shin asked if he could say which country – after all, it's the Earth's largest continent.
"I prefer not to disclose that. I think that's my own privacy," he cut in, ending the interview.
It was a provocative way to start the biggest cryptocurrency and blockchain event of the year.
In the opening session of Consensus: Distributed this week, Lawrence Summers was asked by my co-host Naomi Brockwell about protecting people's privacy once currencies go digital. His answer: "I think the problems we have now with money involve too much privacy."
President Clinton's former Treasury secretary, now President Emeritus at Harvard, referenced the 500-euro note, which bore the nickname "The Bin Laden," to argue the un-traceability of cash empowers wealthy criminals to finance themselves. "Of all the important freedoms," he continued, "the ability to possess, transfer and do business with multi-million dollar sums of money anonymously seems to me to be one of the least important." Summers ended the segment by saying that "if I have provoked others, I will have served my purpose."
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That he did. Among the more than 20,000 registered for the weeklong virtual experience was a large contingent of libertarian-minded folks who see state-backed monitoring of their money as an affront to their property rights.
But with due respect to a man who has had prodigious influence on international economic policymaking, it's not wealthy bitcoiners for whom privacy matters. It matters for all humanity and, most importantly, for the poor.
Now, as the world grapples with how to collect and disseminate public health information in a way that both saves lives and preserves civil liberties, the principle of privacy deserves to be elevated in importance.
Just this week, the U.S. Senate voted to extend the 9/11-era Patriot Act and failed to pass a proposed amendment to prevent the Federal Bureau of Investigation from monitoring our online browsing without a warrant. Meanwhile, our heightened dependence on online social connections during COVID-19 isolation has further empowered a handful of internet platforms that are incorporating troves of our personal data into sophisticated predictive behavior models. This process of hidden control is happening right now, not in some future "Westworld"-like existence.
Digital currencies will only worsen this situation. If they are added to this comprehensive surveillance infrastructure, it could well spell the end of the civil liberties that underpin Western civilization.
Yes, freedom matters
Please don't read this, Secretary Summers, as some privileged anti-taxation take or a self-interested what's-mine-is-mine demand that "the government stay away from my money."
Money is just the instrument here. What matters is whether our transactions, our exchanges of goods and services and the source of our economic and social value, should be monitored and manipulated by government and corporate owners of centralized databases. It's why critics of China's digital currency plans rightly worry about a "panopticon" and why, in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, there was an initial backlash against Facebook launching its libra currency.
Writers such as Shoshana Zuboff and Jared Lanier have passionately argued that our subservience to the hidden algorithms of what I like to call "GoogAzonBook" is diminishing our free will. Resisting that is important, not just to preserve the ideal of "the self" but also to protect the very functioning of society.
Markets, for one, are pointless without free will. In optimizing resource allocation, they presume autonomy among those who make up the market. Free will, which I'll define as the ability to lawfully transact on my own terms without knowingly or unknowingly acting in someone else's interests to my detriment, is a bedrock of market democracies. Without a sufficient right to privacy, it disintegrates – and in the digital age, that can happen very rapidly.
Also, as I've argued elsewhere, losing privacy undermines the fungibility of money. Each digital dollar should be substitutable for another. If our transactions carry a history and authorities can target specific notes or tokens for seizure because of their past involvement in illicit activity, then some dollars become less valuable than other dollars.
The excluded
But to fully comprehend the harm done by encroachments into financial privacy, look to the world's poor.
An estimated 1.7 billion adults are denied a bank account because they can't furnish the information that banks' anti-money laundering (AML) officers need, either because their government's identity infrastructure is untrusted or because of the danger to them of furnishing such information to kleptocratic regimes. Unable to let banks monitor them, they're excluded from the global economy's dominant payment and savings system – victims of a system that prioritizes surveillance over privacy.
Misplaced priorities also contribute to the "derisking" problem faced by Caribbean and Latin American countries, where investment inflows have slowed and financial costs have risen in the past decade. America's gatekeeping correspondent banks, fearful of heavy fines like the one imposed on HSBC for its involvement in a money laundering scandal, have raised the bar on the kind of personal information that regional banks must obtain from their local clients.
And where's the payoff? Despite this surveillance system, the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime estimates that between $800 billion and $2 trillion, or 2%-5% of global gross domestic product, is laundered annually worldwide. The Panama Papers case shows how the rich and powerful easily use lawyers, shell companies, tax havens and transaction obfuscation to get around surveillance. The poor are just excluded from the system.
Caring about privacy
Solutions are coming that wouldn't require abandoning law enforcement efforts. Self-sovereign identity models and zero-knowledge proofs, for example, grant control over data to the individuals who generate it, allowing them to provide sufficient proof of a clean record without revealing sensitive personal information. But such innovations aren't getting nearly enough attention.
Few officials inside developed country regulatory agencies seem to acknowledge the cost of cutting off 1.7 billion poor from the financial system. Yet, their actions foster poverty and create fertile conditions for terrorism and drug-running, the very crimes they seek to contain. The reaction to evidence of persistent money laundering is nearly always to make bank secrecy laws even more demanding. Exhibit A: Europe's new AML 5 directive.
To be sure, in the Consensus discussion that followed the Summers interview, it was pleasing to hear another former U.S. official take a more accommodative view of privacy. Former Commodities and Futures Trading Commission Chairman Christopher Giancarlo said that "getting the privacy balance right" is a "design imperative" for the digital dollar concept he is actively promoting.
But to hold both governments and corporations to account on that design, we need an aware, informed public that recognizes the risks of ceding their civil liberties to governments or to GoogAzonBook.
Let's talk about this, people.
A missing asterisk
Control for all variables. At the end of the day, the dollar's standing as the world's reserve currency ultimately comes down to how much the rest of the world trusts the United States to continue its de facto leadership of the world economy. In the past, that assessment was based on how well the U.S. militarily or otherwise dealt with human- and state-led threats to international commerce such as Soviet expansionism or terrorism. But in the COVID-19 era only one thing matters: how well it is leading the fight against the pandemic.
So if you've already seen the charts below and you're wondering what they're doing in a newsletter about the battle for the future of money, that's why. They were inspired by a staged White House lawn photo-op Tuesday, where President Trump was flanked by a huge banner that dealt quite literally with a question of American leadership. It read, "America Leads the World in Testing." That's a claim that's technically correct, but one that surely demands a big red asterisk. When you're the third-largest country by population – not to mention the richest – having the highest number of tests is not itself much of an achievement. The claim demands a per capita adjustment. Here's how things look, first in absolute terms, then adjusted for tests per million inhabitants.
Binance support number 1844-907-0583 has frozen funds linked to Upbit's prior $50 million data breach after the hackers tried to liquidate a part of the gains. In a recent tweet, Whale Alert warned Binance support number 1844-907-0583 that a transaction of 137 ETH (about $28,000) had moved from an address linked to the Upbit hacker group to its wallets.
Less than an hour after the transaction was flagged, Changpeng Zhao, the CEO of Binance support number 1844-907-0583, announced that the exchange had frozen the funds. He also added that Binance support number 1844-907-0583 is getting in touch with Upbit to investigate the transaction. In November 2019, Upbit suffered an attack in which hackers stole 342,000 ETH, accounting for approximately $50 million. The hackers managed to take the funds by transferring the ETH from Upbit's hot wallet to an anonymous crypto address.
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Bitcoin Isn't Meant For Conventional Westphalianism (Republicanism)(Statism)
Let me give you an idea of the vantage point and perspective I come from.
I *am a quant, and a trader, and someone well read in law* I hate wallstreet, because I understand how the western economy works, and obviously I understand the technicals of trading and quant work. So I know the angles they play. And I understand regulatory behavior, I have a background in environmental regulatory work ( left because it's corrupt no surprise).
You people obsessed with price at any cost or calling everything FUD have no long term view of things. If we get a economic collapse, a real crash, *the happening*, Bitcoin is going into the hundreds again. At this point, bitcoin is dependent on wallstreet, dependent on the same economy we supposedly disagree with.
They've written the laws in the united state to only benefit the rich and institutions, and banned us off almost all exchanges. The only thing americans can use are basically three major names with piss poor liquidity and catastrophic fees. No one even talks about this. You HAVE to trade on unregulated exchanges to get by. Losing binance was a massive loss. The rich and powerful in united states have plans for bitcoin totally antithetical to cypherpunk.
We don't just need mainstream adoption, we need mainstream adoption of bitcoin WITH mainstream adoption of things like bisq and wasabi. This needs to become the norm, and yet they instead are planning on geofence locking bitcoin on a system of white listed exchanges, institutions, and wallets, trapping and tagging kyced bitcoin.
The thing people have to realize is that the money laundering that is done, is done through Deutsche bank and HSBC and the likes, by the drug cartels, human right violating dictators, war criminals , shell companies for defense companies and spin offs of intelligence agencies. It's all done with cash and the us dollar and banks. The worst people who run the super PAC for election, the worse people who hold trillions offshore and dominate the third world with multinational corporations, Russian oligarchs, all of them use the system and its loop holes to do all the things that they are trying cite as a reason to impose on bitcoin all of these extreme regulations.
They want secrecy for themselves. Period. They want to control and oppress us, and use secrecy for themselves. Most of the reason western governments are broken is because of multinational conglomerate and monopolistic economic cartels buying out regulatory agencies. Period. It's called a inverted totalitarianism. (From Lawerence Lessig's Lost Republic). The economic cartels own the regulatory agencies. No regulatory body in the united states does what it really should do. But more often the opposite, specifically to protect industry, and their trillions offshore. The people who have all this wealth and control these profit entities don't even keep the money in the states or pay taxes. The truly rich live above the law while wrecking democracy.
They want to have the ability to do the worst possible shit with the same level of secrecy that monero implies. So not only do we need encryption and privacy coins and features and anonymous untraceable access to bitcoin just to protect ourselves from them, we need to empower ourselves by having the same level of financial access that they do.
Think about it. What is the effect of the rich institutions making so many loopholes that allow them to move money and participate in functions of the market that the average person is prohibited from? It encourages and enables their ability to subvert democracy secretly with the very financial crimes they accuse of us.
So we need to take very deadly serious interchains and DAPP and DEX and DEFI, the wasabis, the mixers, monero, commerce adoption, and INFRASTRUCTURE that supports it. You people acting like maximalist can be so dense FFS. OPSEC. The world doesn't need bitcoin full node on backdoored windows 10 with zuck and the nsa watching you take a shit. The hardware and ancillary gear and infrastructure that supports bitcoin matters. Linux matters, user interface matters, commerce acceptance matters, server technology and security matters, even the processor matters, there are IBM and RISC V chips now,. The internet and bitcoin along with it needs to be violently dragged into open source models. Corporatization and closed gardening and the mcdonaldification of bitcoin is going to end in tragedy.
Bitcoin really is intended to be an anarchist apparatus. Bullshit to the citadel loving maximalist power tripping on some sort of libertarian randian american centric fantasy. You need to pay attention to why democracy doesn't work, why our political systems are broken, why these aspects of government only seem to empower the worst aspect of wallstreet criminality and financial crisis. Because it's how a late republic behaves, it's inherent in the flaws of republicanism, in electoral politics, in these hierarchical regulatory bodies, which are in no way self governing.
Our regulatory bodies are the literal opposite of Don't trust, Verify
but more Don't verify, Trust.
BTC MIXERS: GOOD OR BAD?
Several major cryptocurrency exchanges, including Paxful and Binance, have recently demonstrated their negative attitude to mixing services.
🤹♀ A cryptocurrency mixing service (cryptocurrency tumbler, Bitcoin mixer) is a special tool intended to mix 'tainted' or pseudo-anonymous coins with others. It makes tracing their origin very hard. It should be noted that a BTC mixer is not always used for money-laundering and other criminal purposes. Some law-abiding people apply it just for the love of privacy.
🕵♀ Obviously, crypto exchanges seek to decrease the level of privacy in order to increase transparency and security. In such a way, they want to ensure better compliance with KYC/AML regulations and avoid getting involved with 'dirty money'. As for exchange users, many of them don't agree with this strategy and see it as an attempt to pry into their business.
The latest event of this kind involved Paxful exchange - they blocked the account of the user Ronald McHodled when he tried to withdraw his funds. The exchange support service was worried that Ronald had tried to withdraw the money to a well-known mixing service and demanded explanations.
🤷♂ McHodled himself declares he did not use this mixing service for any bad purpose. According to him, it was like using an ATM for withdrawing cash.
And what do you think?
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CSW: I am Satoshi Nakamoto. I created Bitcoin - [BitKan 1v1] Craig Wright vs Jiangzhuoer
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Question 1: Both the BCH and BSV communities think that they are the true, original bitcoin from Nakamoto. What do you think was the original idea from Nakamoto?
**CSW:**My original idea is defined in white paper for no limits. And I also described this in the P2P Foundation. It is a distributed system. Users use it to connect to each other, and the miners, to stop double Spending. I explain this further late in 2010, I basically said that the network expands to have a number of nodes that become large data center type operations, because it's not about running nodes. People who run nodes are foolish unless that making money, that's it. When I created Bitcoin, it is a overlay network of the peer-to-peer network, the top of peer-to-peer network. We did peer-to-peer. Peer-to-peer means not what you send to the network, and then another user gets it by the network. That is outside the definition of peer to peer. That is a typical centralized mesh. Why Bitcoin works is that user Alice sends to user Bob,Bob received the transaction. So Bob wrote that he received it. He sent it to the network. IP to IP was one of the fundamental parts of Bitcoin that was removed by core right after I left, basically, I fix Bitcoin and I had the lay out in the first place. There's no question that what happened, and whatever else and what version of things Nakamoto wanted, because I am Satoshi Nakamoto. I created Bitcoin. Very soon, people will notice that. If you don't like it, I don't care.
Question 2. As the main witnesses of BTC to BCH fork, what do you think was the main reason for the fork at that point of time? Now what do you think about the fork at the time? Have you ever changed your mind?
CSW: There was a BCH fork away from Bitcoin, BTC added a number of things to make cryptocurrency more anonymous, which makes it illegal, which means the government can shut it down. Don't ever believe the government can't stop bitcoin. Government, the US government and Chinese government could stop bitcoin in a heartbeat. They are going to follow international law to shut down. The Liberty Reserve closed down involved 42 countries working together. It involved basically a distributive system of 10,000 different operations. Not Raspberry pie nodes because it is only 15 real BTC nodes, operators to ran money system. We can't work to unable governments to see machines. If the criminal use of bitcoin is to become anonymous that government can seize machines, can arrest people, can torture by law. The American government can enforce orders in China. So BTC wanted to make something that was not bitcoin. It wanted to change bitcoin further. So BTC split away from bitcoin. That's the fork. Bitcoin didn't change. I make sure we kept going. Jihan and Bitmain. I would like to have a talk about what we are planning, and the mining, we are building. Jihan and Bitmain, took the information to go into confidence and make sure that there was a fork. So this fork happened because Jihan and Bitmain are basically a bunch of lying stuff, and that would be found out later. The second fork was only last year. That was with BCH. Just to keep it simple. Bitcoin vary again. There's no system of bitcoin is out to try to make it illegal, to make it criminal, to make it anonymous. Roger Ver, who helps from things like Silk Road and Charlie's friend money laundering operation, which Charlie's friend went to jail for. Other people like them that invested a lot of the dark websites, which all under investigation at the moment, which will be founded to watch in the next several years. People like Roger and even Jihan, wanted to use bitcoin to take the illegal money and transfer, they want it to be a dark web system. So they added extra objects to change the bitcoin further. They try to allow it to be more anonymous in a different way. So the simple thing is, there is bitcoin as I created, and there is bitcoin designed to be illegal and then it forks.
Question 3. Finally, can we invite Dr. Craig and Mr. Jiang to talk about each other's technology l and vision? What is the most worthwhile point to learn?
**CSW:**Sorry, I don't look at those broken versions of bitcoin. I have no interest in learning about how people don't want to understand bitcoin, how about you want to see the value and how they want to create the system or see these cryptocurrencies in the 90s. If people want to do that, that's all their choice, but I am not interested in watching them go down in flames. Thank you.
Jiang asked CSW: You have ever wondered why there isn't a 0 in Base58 encodings. (Satoshi, the creator of Base58 explicitly took out 0 and O to avoid confusion). Why didn't you even know the Base58 encoding if you are Satoshi?
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CSW: He's supposedly trying to mislead the audience by making out the checksum to pass off the transaction. He is basically trying to lie to the people and the audience, making them seen that I don't understand bitcoin. If you look at why it works, the address was not part of the bitcoin. Bitcoin is a wallet, exchange peer-to-peer with the template. Basically, why does this work is that you have is a transaction that has a checksum to send between wallets. That checksum is a relevant. It never goes into the bitcoin network. The checksum is added only to ensure the transaction to the network while a wallet is correct. The original version of bitcoin didn't eventually work that way. So what he is trying to mislead you is to say is what I don't understand checksum etc., which is the lie propagate by people like Bitmain, where insists what it is you do a checksum of the code and then you hand it up. And the third part of this is very simply put. Without the checksum, the transaction sends to the network properly. The checksum is purely a wallet function, so you can add any checksum function and Wormhole would allow this work. Wormhole was an attempt to make an illegal system. Wormhole is another of these things because Jihan and the others wanted to take money out of China. They work with people to do money laundering, so the value that they see of bitcoin is to help money laundering. So they want to try and lie to people and make it that I don't understand this technology, because they want to keep their money laundering scam going. So if you actually look at my posts, you will see that I've already explained the checksum in details. If you look at the work bitcoin transaction, you will see there has no transaction checksum. No one wants you to look at that because they want you to stay stupid and ignorant, because spending money out of you requires that you are dumb.
Digest from [BitKan 1v1] debate.
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The Best Privacy Coins Today: A Comparison
A little-known fact about cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, and others, is that, contrary to popular belief, they aren't anonymous. Perhaps the belief that they are anonymous persists because rather than using real names in transactions, crypto transactions such as sending bitcoin from one wallet to another only require a string of text and numbers known as public addresses.
Public addresses, however, are pseudonymous, and still provide anyone with the sophistication and resources the ability to track down the personal details of the actors within an exchange. Within the last year, several well-known and popular figures within the cryptocurrency industry have had their identities and funds compromised, with millions of dollars lost.
Pseudonymity is not Anonymity
Just because your name, birthdate, and geographic location are not apparently tied to your cryptocurrency wallet doesn't mean that they can't be found out using your public address alone. The reason for this is simple: blockchain analysis. What is blockchain analysis? There are two forms of it; one is simple, the other much more sophisticated.
The simple version of blockchain analysis is one that anyone with access to the internet can perform. On any block explorer, whether it's for Bitcoin, Qtum, Neo, Ethereum, or Icon, you will find a search field into which any wallet address can be looked up. If you input your own public address, you will see the entire history of your financial activity on the blockchain laid bare. Who you've sent to, who you've received from, and what you own on the blockchain are all part of the public domain of blockchain information that is viewable by the world. If you're thinking that it's not a problem since you've got your public address shielding your real identity, then think again.
The sophisticated method of blockchain analysis aims to make connections and uncover a logic between different entities on blockchains. Essentially, this type of blockchain analysis views blockchains as massive Sudoku puzzles -- and with enough computer power and effective enough algorithms, patterns can be easily found on blockchains that lead hackers, blockchain analysis startups working for government organizations, and others straight to your actual identity.
Consider the way you entered into the cryptocurrency market in the first place. You had to buy bitcoin using Coinbase, Kraken, Bithumb, or another exchange with a fiat to crypto gateway. Doing so required your personal and bank details owing to the fact that regulated exchanges must comply with KYC (know-your-customer) and AML (anti-money-laundering) laws. After entering all of the required personal information, the exchange set about to confirm your details by sharing them with other third-party KYC organizations.
Finally, your documents and details were verified, allowing the chance to enter the market. After your you bought bitcoin, the natural thing to do was send it away from the exchange wallet and into your own software or hardware wallet. Then, perhaps you sent some bitcoin to Binance in order to buy a cryptocurrency asset such as ethereum. After purchasing ETH, perhaps you sent it back to your wallet before using it to participate in an ICO. This entire web of financial activity may seem disconnected and hard to trace, yet to a powerful enough blockchain analysis engine tracing all the way back to your initial exchange of purchase would have no problem at all uncovering your IP address and, eventually, your identity.
Using Anonymity to Protect your Digital Assets
The above scenario is in large part why privacy tokens such as Apollo Currency, Monero, Verge, and Dash have found popularity and value within cryptocurrency markets. Essentially, users are looking for a cryptocurrency asset which gives them the private, financial autonomy blockchain seemed to promise in its early days without being exposed to the possibility of being hacked, monitored, or otherwise controlled by outside parties.
Which Are the Best Coin for Anonymity?
The top contenders in the cryptocurrency marketplace for taking best privacy coin honors are Monero, Verge, and Dash, and Apollo Currency. Despite having some similarities, they are all in fact quite different. After the comparison, we'll share the reasons why three of these coins fail to provide adequate privacy while only one of them provides true anonymity and more.
Dash is a digital currency and payment network that places its privacy feature as an option rather than as the main feature. For this alone, it is already on the backfoot. Rather than have privacy built into every transaction as a standard, the Dash development team instead opted to give users the option to make transactions private using a feature called PrivateSend.
Despite having started out as Darkcoin, Dash changed paths and began focusing on mass-adoption and placed it's anonymity features to the side. As such, there are concerns around the centralization of Dash masternodes which are largely hosted by cloud AWS services leading to legitimate worry that government agencies could one day demand, and have access to, transaction logs.
Beyond this, Dash does not feature stealth addresses, encrypted messaging, IP masking, or a secure form of coin shuffling. Dash relies on CoinJoin for its PrivateSend feature which requires users to negotiate with each other during the transaction process.
Monero has the largest reputation when it comes to anonymous cryptocurrency. Apart from enjoying wide adoption and a stellar market capitalization, Monero is open-source and uses a proof-of-work algorithm for consensus along with RingCT signatures for privacy.
In sharp contrast to Dash, Monero is not a privacy-optional coin. Every transaction uses RingCT (confidential-transactions) to hide the sources of transactions in a given set. In theory, this should shield every transaction with anonymity, yet in practice, quite the opposite has been found. Researchers from MIT published a report titled "An Empirical Analysis of Traceability in the Monero Blockchain" wherein they revealed that they were able to trace 80% of Monero transactions prior to the integration of RingCT and 45% of transactions after its integration.
Beyond this, Monero lacks an encrypted messaging platform, does not mask IP addresses, does not function as a bitcoin mixer, and its proof-of-work consensus algorithm has significant negative effects on the environment.
Verge deserves a mention if only because of its bold claims. Prior to their Wraith update, Verge developers claimed that they would use Tor and I2P networks to anonymize user IP addresses. Unfortunately, not long after the Wraith update was announced, it appeared that Tor had not been integrated at all and several cryptocurrency whistleblower websites were able to track IP addresses involved in Verge transactions.
Initially called DogeCoinDark, Verge also uses two ledgers -- a private and a public ledger. This is to allow users the option of switching between ledgers depending on the type of transaction made and the level of disclosure the user prefers for that transaction. Like Monero, Verge lacks a coin shuffling function, claims to mask IP addresses but fails in practice, does not offer an alias system (meaning users can not encrypt text), and relies on a slow proof-of-work algorithm for consensus.
Apollo Currency picks up where privacy coins prior to it have left off and then goes several leaps further. Rather than offer a cut-rate privacy coin, Apollo has taken the strengths of other privacy coins and made them stronger, while also containing what they lack -- namely, real anonymity and financial freedom on the blockchain.
Apollo's Olympus Protocol ushers forth a new paradigm of anonymous transactions using a host of innovations. IP masking via Tor will allow for untraceable transactions directly from the Apollo wallet without the risk of having a compromised IP address somewhere down the line. Apollo also features coin-shuffling which, like bitcoin mixing, is a process for coin anonymization that makes shuffled coins resistant to tracing and blockchain analysis.
The way this works is simple - Apollo users simply send their coins through the shuffling mechanism which then pools user coins together, mixes them, then sends each user their specified amount of coins back from different sources than they started with. The result is complete anonymity and a break in the connection between sending and receiving addresses.
Apollo's encrypted messaging platform furthers the total anonymity offered by the currency. Users can communicate and transfer files without a trace, all the while having their IP addresses masked by Olympus Protocol.
Until Monero and Verge clear up the allegations made by researchers from MIT and other institutions that users are vulnerable to having their IP addresses exposed, I would steer clear of them. Dash and Apollo Currency are proven and both offer coin shuffling which is a real, proven coin anonymization technique that offers the best of privacy.
As always, it's best to DYOR (do your own research).
https://docs.dash.org/en/latest/
https://www.apollocurrency.com/documents
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CSW:My original idea is defined in white paper for no limits. And I also described this in the P2P Foundation. It is a distributed system. Users use it to connect to each other, and the miners, to stop double Spending.
I explain this further late in 2010, I basically said that the network expands to have a number of nodes that become large data center type operations, because it's not about running nodes. People who run nodes are foolish unless that making money, that's it. When I created Bitcoin, it is a overlay network of the peer-to-peer network, the top of peer-to-peer network. We did peer-to-peer.
Peer-to-peer means not what you send to the network, and then another user gets it by the network. That is outside the definition of peer to peer. That is a typical centralized mesh. Why Bitcoin works is that user Alice sends to user Bob,Bob received the transaction. So Bob wrote that he received it. He sent it to the network. IP to IP was one of the fundamental parts of Bitcoin that was removed by core right after I left, basically, I fix Bitcoin and I had the lay out in the first place.
There's no question that what happened, and whatever else and what version of things Nakamoto wanted, because I am Satoshi Nakamoto. I created Bitcoin. Very soon, people will notice that. If you don't like it, I don't care.
CSW: There was a BCH fork away from Bitcoin, BTC added a number of things to make cryptocurrency more anonymous, which makes it illegal, which means the government can shut it down. Don't ever believe the government can't stop bitcoin. Government, the US government and Chinese government could stop bitcoin in a heartbeat. They are going to follow international law to shut down. The Liberty Reserve closed down involved 42 countries working together. It involved basically a distributive system of 10,000 different operations. Not Raspberry pie nodes because it is only 15 real BTC nodes, operators to ran money system. We can't work to unable governments to see machines.
If the criminal use of bitcoin is to become anonymous that government can seize machines, can arrest people, can torture by law. The American government can enforce orders in China. So BTC wanted to make something that was not bitcoin. It wanted to change bitcoin further. So BTC split away from bitcoin. That's the fork. Bitcoin didn't change. I make sure we kept going.
Jihan and Bitmain. I would like to have a talk about what we are planning, and the mining, we are building. Jihan and Bitmain, took the information to go into confidence and make sure that there was a fork. So this fork happened because Jihan and Bitmain are basically a bunch of lying stuff, and that would be found out later.
The second fork was only last year. That was with BCH. Just to keep it simple. Bitcoin vary again.
There's no system of bitcoin is out to try to make it illegal, to make it criminal, to make it anonymous. Roger Ver, who helps from things like Silk Road and Charlie's friend money laundering operation, which Charlie's friend went to jail for. Other people like them that invested a lot of the dark websites, which all under investigation at the moment, which will be founded to watch in the next several years.
People like Roger and even Jihan, wanted to use bitcoin to take the illegal money and transfer, they want it to be a dark web system. So they added extra objects to change the bitcoin further. They try to allow it to be more anonymous in a different way. So the simple thing is, there is bitcoin as I created, and there is bitcoin designed to be illegal and then it forks.
CSW:Sorry, I don't look at those broken versions of bitcoin. I have no interest in learning about how people don't want to understand bitcoin, how about you want to see the value and how they want to create the system or see these cryptocurrencies in the 90s. If people want to do that, that's all their choice, but I am not interested in watching them go down in flames. Thank you.
CSW: He's supposedly trying to mislead the audience by making out the checksum to pass off the transaction. He is basically trying to lie to the people and the audience, making them seen that I don't understand bitcoin. If you look at why it works, the address was not part of the bitcoin. Bitcoin is a wallet, exchange peer-to-peer with the template.
Basically, why does this work is that you have is a transaction that has a checksum to send between wallets. That checksum is a relevant. It never goes into the bitcoin network. The checksum is added only to ensure the transaction to the network while a wallet is correct. The original version of bitcoin didn't eventually work that way. So what he is trying to mislead you is to say is what I don't understand checksum etc., which is the lie propagate by people like Bitmain, where insists what it is you do a checksum of the code and then you hand it up.
And the third part of this is very simply put. Without the checksum, the transaction sends to the network properly. The checksum is purely a wallet function, so you can add any checksum function and Wormhole would allow this work. Wormhole was an attempt to make an illegal system. Wormhole is another of these things because Jihan and the others wanted to take money out of China. They work with people to do money laundering, so the value that they see of bitcoin is to help money laundering. So they want to try and lie to people and make it that I don't understand this technology, because they want to keep their money laundering scam going. So if you actually look at my posts, you will see that I've already explained the checksum in details. If you look at the work bitcoin transaction, you will see there has no transaction checksum. No one wants you to look at that because they want you to stay stupid and ignorant, because spending money out of you requires that you are dumb.
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A weekly look at new products, innovations
Editor's Note: Each week, Rubber & Plastics News will take a look at some of the rubber industry's new products and innovations on www.rubbernews.com. Does your company have a new product or new innovation? To be considered for inclusion in this recurring feature, email [email protected]
Rep International has released a simple and economic solution to a problem familiar to manufacturers of pipe seals: an automatic stripping for pipe seals.
When performed manually, Rep claimed the stripping process is often difficult and thus productivity is considerably impacted; however, when being performed automatically, the challenge is to do it quickly without any heat loss and without production stoppages because of overlapping seals.
Rep said it has found a solution that offers customers a competitive and profitable turnkey solution for reduced size on the automatic stripping of EPDM pipe seals of any size. The company reported the solution can be matched to any seal size.
It is based on conveyor belts equipped with rotating belts, Rep explained, which allows for the individual stripping of the seals. The spacing between the bottom and top belts can be adjusted and thanks to a mechanical stopper system, it is possible to switch over from one seal type to another, the company said. The rotation speeds of the top and bottom belts can also be adjusted independently.
The belts are designed in compliance with a multi-layer technology, REP said, in order to ensure the reliability of the stripping process and the speed, while observing the quality of the stripped parts. In addition, the core bar in/out speeds on the kit (low/high speed, depending on the stroke limit) can be controlled. The kit is fully retractable for easy access to the cores on the rear side of the machine, allowing maintenance operations or more rapid production changes.
The automatic stripping process can be watched on Rep's YouTube Channel.
To visit Rep's website, go to http://www.repinjection.com/
APS Elastomers said it has formulated a proprietary thermoplastic elastomer for wheelchair grips.
APS said it began working with Intelliwheels, the maker of handrim grips for wheelchairs, because Intelliwheels wanted a thermoplastic elastomer specially formulated with the right amount of abrasion resistance. This would allow greater control and responsiveness for wheelchair users.
APS Elastomers said it developed the TPE with the precise feel and grip needed for wheelchair users to obtain more power going up hills, over carpet and demanding terrain.
Characterized by its soft feel and cushioning nature, TPEs work well alone or can be bonded to many other harder substrates to improve functionality and design, the company said.
The patent pending design increases the circumference of the hand rim to minimize the strain on hands, wrists and forearms, APS said, while the improved grip allows users to push with less effort. The latex free grips wraps three-fourths of the way around the push rim, providing extra grip on the pushing surface, leaving the underside exposed for fine adjustments and braking, according to APS Elastomers.
Fit Grips stretch to fit over 24 inch -26 inch wheels, including power assist wheels and ergonomic handrims.
For more information about Fit Grips visit intelliwheels.net/fit-grips, or for more information on APS Elastomers, contact [email protected]


WDL Series - WORLDLY INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
In response to the mass demand of various materials and multiple methods in flexible packing markets, WORLDLY provides the WDL multiple functional drying laminating machineries as the ultimate solution. With this machine automatic taper tension settings can also be easily adjusted on the panel according to different technology process applications. Drying temperature is adjusted by PID automatic temperature controller that balances the required temperature. Internal transition rollers in the drying tunnel are connected together with belt and transmitted by an independent AC motor. In addition, to insure smooth and solid firm laminating results, the machines laminating unit uses a three roller design. The counter-roll pulled by pneumatic pistons, and adjustable from both sides to stiffen the rider roll. With these specific designs on the WDL, provided is increases production and minimize loss which are essential for flexible packaging.
- High performance synchronized control system by PLC, provides convenient operation.
- Reversible smoothing roller prevents air bubbles during lamination.
- 4-zone drying: high drying performance and non-volatility remain.
- Drying system options: Thermal oil, Gas burner and Electric heating.
(1)Gravure coating unit is driven by AC vector motor. When the machine stop, the coating roll can be programmed to self rotate preventing the coating glue to evaporate and solidify.
The diffusion roll operating speed is manually or automatically adjustable, operating smoothing angle can also be manually adjusted. It synchronously separated from the film when the impression roller to be raised.
To insure smooth and solid firm laminating results, the machines laminating unit uses three roller press design.
The drying tunnel is opened and closed by pneumatic cylinders, internal guide rollers are connected together with belt and transmitted by an independent AC motor.


Stay on the shore of the Red Sea. If you don't want to be in a hotel and want to give animation a miss, but still want some comfort, our apartment is the ideal alternative.
The apartment is part of a small newly built property located above Sharks Bay in Sharm el Sheikh. Crossing the sandy beach, the dive center is less than 5 minutes away on foot.
Pure bliss is the breathtaking view to the Red Sea from the small terrace / balcony or from the 5 different pool areas. These pools are well distributed through the facility, one is always directly in front of the apartment.
The apartments are available with one or two bedrooms. This is ideal for families as the kids can be among themselves, but still in their own four walls. The apartments all come with air conditioning and a private bathroom. A small kitchen / kitchenette offers cooking facilities with hob, sink and refrigerator.
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Every year in our house we have a running battle to keep Christmas music in Christmastide, particularly as we are setting up our presepio on the first Sunday of the liturgical year. We bought some excellent Advent albums that we enjoy listening to, and it is always delightful to first break those out. Listening to the same albums over and over throughout the 4-week span, however, tends to become tiresome. The temptation eventually becomes—well, in our case nearly overwhelming—to just start the Christmas CDs early.
This year, I've finally channeled that frustration into making good on an old idea: setting up an Internet radio station that closely follows the traditional liturgical calendar and can provide satsifactory listening variety over long periods of time. Holy Nativity Radio was created on October 19th, and is now available worldwide via Radionomy.
The traditional Roman liturgy provides a extraordinarily rich template for 24/7 programming, particularly as it contains multiple overlapping calendars; most obviously, the Calendar of Sundays and the Calendar of Saints. But there are also month-long special devotions, like the Holy Souls throughout November. There are special daily devotions, such as Thursday for the Blessed Sacrament, Friday for Our Lord's Passion, and Saturday for Our Lady. Even the various hours of the day are spoken for: not only in the cycle of the Divine Office from Matins to Compline, but also in common devotions like the Morning Offering and the Angelus.
I have zero experience in radio programming, so there was definitely a learning curve in translating these calendars into a working schedule. There are rules about how often a song or an artist can be played, and it quickly became clear that while it would not be difficult to put together a set for Christmastide, with its huge selection of quality music to choose from, seasons like this one at the end of Pentecost would take more careful thought. How could one find enough quality music to sustain a seasonally appropriate playlist?
The solution to this difficulty came from the liturgy itself: to have two sets of music, Ordinaries and Propers, that would each supply a percentage of the playlist for each hour.
The Ordinaries were comprised of ordinaries from the Mass, general hymns, and texts that would be appropriate for most any time of the year. Since the planning software allows you to specify certain days of the week and certain times of day for tracks, daily devotions and the Psalms can easily be accommodated in this Ordinaries category as well. The various Psalms I assigned to various hours based on the classical Roman Psalter as it was pre-Pius X, giving the listener a little taste of the monastic hours.
The Propers are chiefly seasonal, and include any Mass propers, hymns, and carols that are particular to that season or to the feasts within it. For seasons like Christmas the music is obvious. November draws from Mass propers in these Last Sundays which have consistent themes: the De Profundis reappears time and again, and of course the Dies Irae fits in nicely not only for the Holy Souls but also the apocalyptic themes right before Advent. The period after All Saints' Day turned out to be a happy home for various Commons of Saints that otherwise might not be heard very much in isolation.
I also strove to include unusual pieces of sacred music from a wider cultural and linguistic bank than stations typically do. Alongside Latin texts and beloved carols and hymns from Victorian England I added medieval Middle English selections and sacred music in Native American languages such as Huron and Iroquois. National feast days offered wonderful springboard to showcase other traditions as well—Swedish hymns for St. Lucy, and Spanish and Nahuatl texts for Our Lady of Guadalupe and St. Juan Diego. A few pieces from the Eastern Rites were also included, but these have to be selected with care—although their chant styles are beautiful in their own right, they aren't always natural to untutored Western ears. Polyphony, at least, seems to work well across the board, whether it is in Old Church Slavonic, Syriac, Armenian, or Maori.
Although the station is a free service, Radionomy supports it with advertising revenue. Admittedly, commercials can interrupt what is otherwise an overall prayerful tone. But putting up with a few minutes of ads for an hour of quality sacred music seems an acceptable trade-off for the time being.
Another thing has to be stated, and that is that liturgical radio necessarily presupposes liturgical recordings to draw from. After Mass this past Sunday we sang Edward C. Currie's "O Lord Reprieve the Lonely State" from the New St. Basil Hymnal—but I was not able to find a recording that I could include in a playlist. Likewise, some of my favorite hymns, like "Rex Summae Majestatis" and "Rejoice, O Mary, Heavenly Queen" are apparently commercially unavailable. For the complete Psalms I was only able to find an English-language Anglican recording—it would be wonderful to have a full set of Latin ones as well. Thus, there is a great need not only for professional recordings of these classic hymns but also for newly composed hymns that can cover new or neglected saints and feast days.
Overall, I hope with this experiment to provide a service for traditional Catholics to steep their busy workaday lives in the rhythms of the sacred liturgy. And a happy side-effect is that I've discovered beautiful artists, albums, and pieces that I had no idea even existed. It gives me great pleasure to not only know these better myself but also spread them to a wider audience and further the spread of sacred music within the Church and, God willing, in the culture at large.