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Q: Is it possible to use node dependencies without npm? i have looked online for ways of using node dependencies without npm, but have not found any resources. can anybody point me in a direction of how i can do this?
for example, suppose I have sqlite3 compiled on my linux machine, how could i utilize it with node in this form (without using npm to redownload it)? is this even possible?
for context, I do not have internet on this machine (not possible to get internet either without IT, I can only transfer files via an FTP). any suggestions would help

A: Not sure if npm is directly supporting ftp transfer but using a "tarball" should work.
npm install <tarball> see: https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v7/commands/npm-install

A: When dealing with a system that does not have an internet connection, a lot of people put the node_modules directory into their code repository so that whatever you use to get your code onto the machine also installs all the dependencies.

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FARMINGTON -- Republican gubernatorial candidate Peter Mills says the state of Maine is itself a business. So what happens when parts of the state don't function very well?
Mills posed the question to a group of supporters at a reception in his hometown of Farmington yesterday and then offered his solutions.
"Our state and local governments together are almost a fifth of the state's total business," he said. "What happens when state government begins to fail and becomes dysfunctional, as the Department of Health and Human Services has, regrettably?"
Mills suggested increasing assessment and accountability documentation at all levels of Maine government. He suggested that the state services be held to standards that are more like those is the private sector. Forcing departments to prove their efficiency should also provide opportunities to consolidate redundant services.
"When a private business fails to compete, it drops out of the sceneÉ When a state business fails, it goes back to the appropriations committee and raises your taxes." Mills said.
Introduced by his sister Janet, a Franklin County Democratic legislator, Mills shared his concerns for the state's future and his confidence in the voters' ability to make responsible choices. As both an attorney and a Republican senator, Mills has years of experience that he hopes will translate into votes at the primaries in June. He listed several concerns that are part of his "Twelve Steps To A Better Maine."
Mills stressed that he welcomes questions about his less traditional Republican views. He is pro-choice on abortion and is a supporter of gay rights, both controversial stands in a traditionally conservative party. He challenged voters to take more responsibility in the state's decision-making process, rather than leaving it solely to lawmakers.
"Voters should know if local road maintenance is less costly than the DOT (state Department of Transportation) when they go to their town meetings to vote on their budgets," Mills said. "Let's at least get at the truth."
Audience member Scott Landry is the owner of Shiretown Insurance and is a director of the Franklin County Chamber of Commerce. He expressed frustration with the business climate in the state.
"We need to be able to afford to do business in the state of Maine," Landry said. "Mills is a fiscal conservative, and we need that."
Jon and Lois Bubier, owners of Ron's Market, shared the same concerns.
"I think the tax on cigarettes was a waste and didn't solve any of the real problems in this state," Bubier said.
Other announced Republican candidates for governor include: ex-Congressman David Emery, educator and State Sen. Chandler Woodcock of Farmington, and Stephen Stimpson, a concession stand owner and 1996 candidate for state representative.


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So for these darkening days, here are some thoughts about varieties of mind fatigue, how psychotherapy is sometimes helpful, how meditation is sometimes helpful, how medication is sometimes helpful, how patience is always helpful.
A friend of mine, a woman I'll call Eve, began mindfulness meditation shortly before I did, twenty-five years ago. Eve is a psychologist, successful at her work. I met her at my first retreat. She told me that she had the same clinical depression that her mother and grandmother had before her. Eve's particular depression came and went in cycles of several month intervals, not predictable by season or situation. She had been in psychotherapy for long periods of her life, and said it had supported her through some very difficult times. Eve began to meditate years ago hoping it also would help her depression. She went on retreat often and had a regular meditation practice at home.
Mindfulness, in my experience, does not cure clinical depression. But when the mind is balanced and energetic, mindfulness supports the development of insight. And even when the mind lacks energy, paying attention soothes the anxiety about the fatigue. Any lessening of suffering is good.
Grief is different from depression. Grief is the intense sadness associated with the loss of something dear—the death of a loved one, the failure of a relationship, the collapse of a career, the unexpected onset of an incurable illness. Grief is the natural reaction of the mind to a shock. My own experience of it is that the mind feels numbed. Maybe the numbness is the body providing temporary anesthesia for the pain.
Mourning, when the mind is ready to acknowledge the loss, seems the beginning of the process of healing, and it takes however long it takes. My friend Judi told me that the first year after her partner Meg died was the hardest. She said she needed to do one Thanksgiving, one Christmas, one Valentine's Day, one of everything they had done together, by herself, before she began to feel like herself again. It's different for everyone. Another friend of mine told me she needed to wait five years before she was able to even begin to cry about her mother's death.
Talking about sadness is good for the mourning process. Having someone who is able to witness grief with compassion, someone who isn't frightened by pain, eases the burden of keeping it unspoken. Loving friends are good. Grief counselors are good. Grief isn't an illness. Usually it does not need either therapy or medication. It needs time.
Meditations that are comforting might be helpful. Silent meditation retreats, I've discovered, are helpful for some people and not for others. Someone I know came to Spirit Rock Meditation Center a week after the death of his teenage son some time ago. Now he comes every year, for that same week. The silence and seclusion allow him to feel safe enough to cry. For others, the sense of isolation and the absence of stimuli seem to magnify the pain. The insight of impermanence, the deep down sense that everything, including current grief, mercifully passes, is comforting. It doesn't erase sadness. It supports the ability to be sad. It is unwise, though, I think, to remind grieving people of impermanence. They feel unheard. The insight arises by itself, as part of the natural mourning process, in its own time.
Seasonal Affective Disorder is a relatively new term in the psychology lexicon. People used to call it Wintertime Blues. It's a good thing that scientists have named it, and figured out that the absence of daylight is a probable cause. Maybe it is that. Legitimizing Seasonal Affective Disorder makes it possible for people to talk about it, and not feel they need to hide it. It also gives people courage to wait it out. It will pass, soon, after the solstice.
And maybe we also experience Seasonal Affective Disorder because this is a time of endings, and there is a melancholy about endings, especially if some hope for what might have been has not been fulfilled. Perhaps it's a good thing to let ourselves be sad, at least enough to recognize the losses in our lives that we've avoided seeing. Perhaps these days of less sunlight are opportunities for more contemplative time, more looking deeply to see what perhaps can only be seen in the dark.
As we move toward the return of the light, blessings for a new year.
Sylvia Boorstein is a psychologist and leading teacher of Insight Meditation. Her many best-selling books include Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake and Happiness Is An Inside Job.
So, thanks, Sylvia, for everything! You've been an encouragement and an inspiration to me.


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Hotel Bertram – powieść Agathy Christie, wydana w 1965 roku.

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Jane Marple, dzięki uprzejmości swojego siostrzeńca, Raymonda, spędza kilka tygodni w szykownym, londyńskim hotelu "Bertram", który pamięta z lat swojej wczesnej młodości. Jest zachwycona staroświeckim stylem i panującą tam atmosferą. Odnosi jednak wrażenie nierealności tego miejsca. Co jest nie tak? Hotel "Bertram" jest zbyt doskonały, służba zbyt uprzejma, jedzenie zbyt smaczne, a goście jakby żywcem przeniesieni sprzed kilkudziesięciu lat.

Podczas jej pobytu, dochodzi do dziwnego zniknięcia szacownego duchownego, kanonika Pennyfathera. Ksiądz odnajduje się jednak po kilku dniach ze stwierdzonym wstrząsem mózgu. Tymczasem, podczas owych kilku dni widziany został podczas napadu na irlandzki ekspers. Nie jest to już pierwszy podobny przypadek z gościem hotelu "Bertram" i Scotland Yard zaczyna na poważnie interesować się tym miejscem. Podejrzewa się tu działalność szajki przestępczej, która wykorzystuje swoich szanowanych gości do zrzucenia podejrzeń na dokonywane kradzieże i napady.

Tymczasem w hotelu "Bertram" dochodzi do morderstwa. Jego celem miała być Elwira Blake, młoda przyszła dziedziczka olbrzymiej fortuny, pozostawionej jej przez ojca. Dziewczyna zostaje jednak zasłonięta przed kulą przez hotelowego portiera, Michaela Gormana, i to właśnie on ponosi śmierć.

Pierwszym podejrzanym staje się młody polski rajdowiec, Ladislaus (Władysław) Malinowski, z którym widywana była Elwira. W niezbyt dobrym świetle stawia go przede wszystkim to, że w pobliżu miejsca zbrodni znaleziono należący do niego pistolet.

Policja interesuje się też Bess Sedgwick, biologiczną matką Elwiry, która jednak dopiero niedawno poznała córkę i podjęła się opieki nad nią. Jej celem mogła być właśnie śmierć Michaela Gormana, ponieważ panna Marple niedługi czas wcześniej podsłuchała rozmowę, w której portier szantażował czymś panią Sedgwick.

Głównym bohaterem prowadzącym śledztwo jest nadinspektor Davy, nazywany przez kolegów ze Scotland Yardu, "Tata". To właśnie on, przy pomocy panny Marple, wpadnie na rozwiązanie zarówno sprawy morderstwa, jak i sprawy szajki, działającej w hotelu.

Rozwiązanie
W hotelu rzeczywiście działała szajka przestępcza. Jej głównymi mózgami byli Bess Sedgwick oraz Henry, lokaj hotelowy. W interes wmieszana była cała służba oraz wielu gości hotelowych, którzy tak naprawdę byli tylko pozorowani. W rzeczywistości byli to członkowie szajki, którzy pod przebraniem turystów przywozili tu łupy z napadów, ucharakteryzowane na rzekome "bagaże". Prawdziwych gości było tu niewielu i często byli oni, tak jak kanonik Pennyfather, wykorzystywani do zmylenia podejrzeń policji.

Zbrodnię na Michaelu Gormanie popełniła Elwira. Tak naprawdę udawała, że ktoś próbuje ją zastrzelić, a kiedy szlachetny portier podbiegł, by jej pomóc, zastrzeliła go i odrzuciła niedaleko narzędzie zbrodni – ukradziony Malinowskiemu pistolet. Nie była to próba zrzucenia na niego podejrzeń, Elwira nie przypuszczała po prostu, że policja dojdzie, czyj to pistolet.

Motywem jej działania były pieniądze. Przypadkiem dowiedziała się, że jej matka, pani Sedgwick była zamężna z Gormanem i nigdy nie uzyskali rozwodu. W świetle prawa, kolejne małżeństwo Bess (z ojcem Elwiry) byłoby w takim razie nieważne i ona, Elwira, okazałaby się nieślubnym dzieckiem, co (według jej błędnego mniemania) pozbawiałoby ją prawa do majątku.

Kiedy Bess Sedgwick domyśla się winy Elwiry, pragnie ochronić córkę i bierze na siebie winę za śmierć Gormana, po czym próbuje ucieczki. Jednak podczas szaleńczej ucieczki samochodem, rozbija się już za pierwszym rogiem i ginie w płomieniach. Agatha Christie nie wyjaśnia jednoznacznie, czy Elwira poniosła karę za swoją zbrodnię. Z jednej strony wygląda na to, że Bess Sedgewick zostanie pośmiertnie uznana za winną i jej córka nie poniesie kary. Z drugiej jednak w ostatnich słowach powieści panna Marple pyta nadinspektora, czy pozwoli Elwirze spokojnie odejść, a ten uderza pięścią w stół i wykrzykuje: "Na Boga, nie!".

Filmowe adaptacje
 At Bertram's Hotel (2007) z Geraldine McEwan jako Jane Marple
 At Bertram's Hotel (1987) z Joan Hickson jako Jane Marple

Utwory kryminalne Agathy Christie
Powieści Agathy Christie
Powieści z 1965

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The Poor Widow
November 11, 2018 Nate Sutton Compassion, Generosity, Hope, Jesus, Justice Mark, Psalms Time After Pentecost (Ordinary Time)
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Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Pentecost, Year B (11/11/2018)
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It's not enough to place the poor widows of the world on a pedestal and applaud them from a safe distance. Sacrifice is devastating for those who have little to give, and fundamentally unjust when powerful people thrive on the sacrifices of others. Jesus directs our attention to the most vulnerable people in our midst in order to join us to them. The invitation of the kingdom is to come alongside all who suffer, to be drawn together into loving sacrifice for each other's sake.
You might think that the story of the widow's offering in our Gospel from Mark today would be ideal source material for a stewardship sermon. After all, next month we'll make pledges of financial support to Peace for the coming year, and what better illustration of faithful giving than the poor widow who offers her last two coins to the temple treasury? Whether large or small, a generous gift is any gift that involves real sacrifice for the sake of faith and love. So, as the classic interpretation goes, we should all aspire to the widow's example and give to the church accordingly… except that I don't want any of you to go hungry on account of your generosity. This raises the question of whether or not this is a story about stewardship after all. My answer is no, and yes.
There's a reason that today's Gospel reading includes the verses immediately prior to the story of the widow's offering. The scene at the temple treasury is inextricable from Jesus' corresponding critique of the scribes, a statement that epitomizes his teaching against self-serving religion: "Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes, and to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces, and to have the best seats in the synagogues and places of honor at banquets! They devour widows' houses and for the sake of appearance say long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation." In other words, Be cautioned against any system that preserves itself at the expense of vulnerable people. Such a system is rotten in God's sight.
Israel has a long prophetic tradition of defending the interests of the widow, the orphan, the foreigner, the poor – in short, all those whom society relegates to the margins.[1] This tradition is reflected, for instance, in our Psalm for today: "Happy are they who have the God of Jacob for their help, whose hope is in the Lord their God… who gives justice to those who are oppressed, and food to those who hunger. The Lord sets the captive free. The Lord opens the eyes of the blind; the Lord lifts up those who are bowed down…. The Lord cares for the stranger; the Lord sustains the orphan and widow, but frustrates the way of the wicked." Through this lens, Jesus' commentary about the poor widow's offering takes on a different meaning.
Notice that Jesus does not commend the widow for her generosity, but only points out her circumstances. All the others "have contributed out of their abundance," he remarks, "but she out of her poverty has put in everything she had, all she had to live on." A more literal translation of that phrase renders it "she out of her poverty has put in her whole life." As the widow leaves the treasury, in other words, she's ruined. She has even less than the widow in our first story from Kings who possesses at least a handful of meal and a little oil, just enough to prepare a small cake, that she and her son "may eat it, and die."
Is this what faithful stewardship requires, that the poor hand over the very last of what they have in order to prop up the religious institution? Or, is this an illustration of the very system against which Jesus teaches in the previous verses? Is the poor widow's offering emblematic of a structure that benefits the elite at the expense of the powerless?
The traditional interpretation – that the widow's offering is to be celebrated as an example of faithful giving – is more comfortable. It's easy to admire someone else's sacrifice without allowing it to change us. We commend volunteers for their work on behalf of the community without rolling up our own sleeves. We salute soldiers for their service without confronting the price that war exacts from them. We praise working parents for their commitment to their children without asking why so many of them have to put in long hours for low pay just to make ends meet.
But it's not enough to place the poor widows of the world on a pedestal and applaud them from a safe distance.[2] Sacrifice is devastating for those who have little to give, and fundamentally unjust when powerful people thrive on the sacrifices of others. So, Jesus directs our attention to the most vulnerable people in our midst in order to join us to them. The invitation of the kingdom is to come alongside all who suffer, to be drawn together into loving sacrifice for each other's sake.
Of course, Jesus himself embodies loving sacrifice. Like the poor widow, he hands over all that he has, his whole life, for the sake of the world he loves, a world that is filled with injustices. And, his sacrifice establishes the pattern for our own. In this way, the story of the widow's offering is finally about stewardship – not only the stewardship of our individual resources to support the ministry of the church, but also the faithful management of our collective resources, blessings that God expects us to share equitably.[3] Our community is richer, more complete when we uphold the interests of the least among us.[4] True solidarity with poor widows, however, carries a cost. Charity will win you awards, but standing alongside the oppressed, the hungry, and the captive is likely to get you crucified. Nevertheless, the promise of the gospel is that in dying to ourselves, we are raised to abundant life together.
Kindred in Christ, if you are hurting, please reach out for help. And if you are blessed with more than you need, remember the poor. We're not meant to go it alone in this life, but to care for each other, to lift each other up when we're bowed down, and to live together in the hope of God's redemption.
[1] See Rodger Y. Nishioka, in Feasting on the Word, Year B, Vol. 4, 284.
[2] See Emilie M. Townes, in Feasting on the Word, Year B, Vol. 4, 286.
[3] E.g. Deuteronomy 15:4, 2 Corinthians 8:13-15.
[4] See Philippians 2:4-5.
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U of M Asking Students To Take Temperatures 14 Days Before School
Nathan Vandenburg
If you're a student at the University of Michigan, the school is asking you to take your temperature twice a day and avoid social gatherings before returning to the school in Ann Arbor.
"It is an important part of our strategy to minimize risk and keep COVID-19 out of our community," administrators announced, according to WILX.
The University of Michigan announced fall classes start online and in-person on August 31st. Students will be required to complete an online review on COVID-19, and how to stay safe.
"U-M is partnering with Quest Diagnostics to provide testing kits, at no additional cost, directly to students for you to self-administer and then mail back to Quest for analysis," the university announced.
If you're a student attending the University, you're being expected to be tested and cleared prior to arrival.
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Freelancing with a disability or chronic illness
The importance of your physical health
It's easy to let your physical health and wellbeing slip if you're self-employed. Running a business, or freelancing and contracting for clients, can be busy, stressful and all-consuming. And if you're juggling projects and deadlines, it's tempting to let exercise, rest and nutrition fall to the bottom of your task list. But while that's not a major issue if it happens occasionally, ignoring your health and wellbeing can have serious implications for you, and your business.
You might work in an industry which requires you to be active, or happy ignoring the potential long term health problems caused by a sedentary lifestyle. But ignoring your wellbeing can quickly impact your productivity, and start affecting your mood and mental health. Everyone has the occasional sleepless night, and understands how it can impact decision making. Over time, insomnia, a poor diet, and a lack of exercise can contribute to problems including burnout, loneliness and depression, alongside raised cholesterol and blood pressure, and an increased risk of heart disease, diabetes and more.
We want to support you in building a long and successful self-employed career.And that means helping you to set good habits and boundaries to ensure you're performing at your best as much as possible. Whether you are looking for tips on freelancing with a chronic illness, overcoming the challenges of being self-employed with a disability, or need some encouragement to invest some time in self care.
The good news is that freelancing and self-employment gives you the flexibility to integrate physical health and wellbeing into your daily routine. And it doesn't mean you need intensive workouts or to cut all junk food and treats from your diet. Just introducing a few small positive changes can make a big difference. Not only will you feel better, but your business is also likely to benefit.
As Hannah Lewin suggests in discussing the importance of exercise for freelancers, you don't need to go from zero to 100mph overnight. We've spoken to experts and professionals specialising in various fields of physical health to compile these guides, but it's always recommended to get medical advice before making any major lifestyle changes.
Self-employed health issues
Poor health can be one of the main causes of stress when you're self-employed. Whether you're just starting out, or an established freelancer, you may still need answers to questions such as; How to manage freelancing if you get sick, or how to deal with clients and projects during an illness?
Self-employment can be a great option for anyone living with a disability or chronic illness. Working on your own terms allows you to set boundaries for a better work-life balance, create an accessible and comfortable environment, and avoid limitations set by others.
Being aware of the support available can help self-employment become more enjoyable and rewarding. So, we've brought together advice and resources on how you can access grants and financial assistance, support networks and communities, and tips on managing your health and freelance career.
So whether you'd like to know more about freelancing and self-employment with a disability, or you could benefit from useful resources and links for freelancing and self-employment with a chronic illness, we have a growing range of articles designed to help you.
Freelancing and Self-Employment with a Chronic Illness
Discover the range of support and options available for the self-employed to manage working with a chronic illness or condition. And find help from organisation and communities to boost your physical and mental health.
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Freelancing with a disability gives you the chance to define your work and life on your own terms. Our guide offers tips and advice on how to balance everything, create an accessible workspace and explains the financial support and benefits available.
What you eat and drink literally fuels your work. And there's never been a wider choice of positive or healthy options available, whether you're office-based or working remotely at home. So why do so many freelancers find themselves skipping meals, relying on caffeine and sugar for a boost, or surviving on takeaways?
Improving your nutrition doesn't have to be difficult or expensive. Staying hydrated can simply mean upping your water intake to avoid feeling tired and dizzy as the day progresses. Choosing the meals and ingredients you enjoy can be healthier without being expensive. And the rise of online shopping and subscription box deliveries mean you can access good food even if you're working anti-social hours.
And as nutritional therapist Beth Edwards explains, it's more about moderation than denying yourself an occasional treat. Everyone wants to celebrate finishing a project or securing a new client. But taking a little time to organise your nutrition means you'll have the drive and energy to power onto the next challenge.
If you need another reason to think about your food, there is also growing research showing that what you eat also impacts your mental health. Your nervous system includes major connections between your brain and digestive system, with evidence that your diet can impact your mood, anxiety levels and other issues.
Not every self-employed professional works remotely. But whether you're freelancing at home or contracting in a client office, it's easy to find yourself still sat at your desk eight or more hours after sitting down.
While a client workspace should meet Health and Safety Executive guidance and regulations, freelancers are much less likely to perform a home workstation assessment. Especially when remote work quite often involves a laptop on a kitchen table, or fitting your home office into a family space.
Putting the word ergonomic in front of office equipment often means paying a premium, but setting up your home office correctly doesn't have to necessarily be expensive. Fairly quick and simple changes can help you to protect your health, along with taking regular breaks, stretching and exercising.
If you're self-employed, dealing with a repetitive strain injury can have a major impact on your business and earnings. So why not minimise the risks by investing a little time in improving your office setup, and doing a few quick stretches in the privacy of your home?
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None of us know how long we will be working from home for. David Andry, a physiotherapist, explains how we can prevent injuries and the ways to treat them.
Desk Exercises for Home Offices
Home office workers often claim that they simply don't have enough time to do any exercise. However, we will show you in this article how it's possible to stay fit and healthy while working from home by using simple 'deskercise' routines - even with no or very little equipment.
Find more useful IPSE and third party resources for further reading on how to maintain and improve your physical health if you're self-employed. We'll continue to update the list with new and helpful information as it becomes available.
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Methanol as fuel: An accessible early step toward clean shipping
By Loz Blain
Massive cargo ships are an essential part of the world economy, but belch out bulk pollution. Could methanol fuel help with the giant decarbonization effort ahead?
The Methanol Institute's map of global biomethanol (orange) and e-methanol (green) projects
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Methanol is the simplest alcohol, and is a light, volatile, colorless liquid with a distinctive odor very similar to that of ethanol
Reformed methanol fuel cell diagram
The global shipping industry drastically needs to clean up its game, but dragging these massive machines through the ocean requires extraordinary amounts of energy. Cheap, plentiful, filthy marine diesel will be extremely hard to replace. Last year we examined a promising high-density clean fuel candidate in green ammonia, but now we're learning that the industry is starting to potentially tilt toward methanol as the solution instead. So let's take a look at why, and examine methanol's potential as a clean fuel.
Why not green ammonia?
The answer appears to be fairly simple, according to a report from Recharge News. Ammonia is viewed as unsafe, it's difficult to handle and it simply doesn't carry enough energy.
In terms of safety, ammonia becomes harmful to humans at a very low concentration of 30 parts per million (ppm) over long-term exposure, or 300 ppm if exposure lasts an hour. So small leaks in any part of a ship's system could pose a persistent risk to the crew, and any larger release of fuel – say, if the ship runs aground, or hits another ship and the hull's breached, or there's a significant leak during refueling, or somebody drops a shipping container at port and damages part of the fuel system – could easily result in numerous fatalities.
Together In Safety's Future Fuels Report lists no less than six risk assessment scenarios in which ammonia fuels could pose an "intolerable risk."
Handling is difficult, says the same report, since ammonia only remains liquid under low to medium pressure, or when it's kept below -34 °C (-29 °F), and the shipping industry doesn't currently have regulations, rules or guidelines in place for its use as a fuel – mind you, it's most certainly already being carried in bulk as a cargo.
And then there's its volumetric energy density, which is key to viability in the shipping racket. At 3.5 kWh/l, ammonia is considerably more attractive than gaseous or cryogenic liquid hydrogen in this regard, but you get nearly 24 percent more energy per liter with methanol, and it's both easier and safer to deal with.
Methanol as a fuel today
Methanol – chemical formula CH3OH – remains a liquid at ambient temperatures and pressures. It's an established fuel already, with established regulations for its use. It can be used as a combustion fuel in most modern gasoline engines with nothing but a few software tweaks to the fuel injection, and maybe some replacement seals and fuel lines. More extensive adaptations are required to burn it in diesel engines.
Its high octane rating has made it popular as a high-power fuel for race cars, monster trucks and dragsters. Roland Gumpert has even launched the Natalie, a methanol fuel cell-powered supercar. While its gravimetric and volumetric energy densities of 5.5 kWh/kg and 4.3 kWh/l are less than half of what diesel can offer (12.7 kWh/kg, 10.7 kWh/l), methanol stands considerably ahead of other clean fuel alternatives on both measures.
Methanol is highly flammable – but less so than gasoline; it's harder to ignite and slower to burn, producing just one-eighth of the heat. On the other hand, it burns without a visible flame or smoke, which can make it much harder to detect fires and work out where they're spreading. Water can be ineffective at extinguishing methanol fires, but dry chemical, foam, sand or carbon dioxide extinguishers will do the job.
It's toxic to humans if swallowed, or inhaled, or if it contacts the skin, but at least it's a liquid and not an airborne gas, so it scores "broadly acceptable" or "tolerable risk" in all categories in Together in Safety's Future Fuels Report.
It requires extra precautions during storage and handling, and needs to be kept in well-sealed tanks, since it's hygroscopic and will absorb water vapor out of the air, diluting its energy content. Having said that, it would fit very easily into existing fueling infrastructure compared to other clean fuel alternatives.
It's not entirely accurate to call it a clean fuel though, whichever way you dice it. The carbon atom at the center of the methanol molecule always seems to find a pair of oxygens.
Methanol in combustion engines: emissions
At high temperatures, two molecules of methanol (2CH3OH) will combine with three molecules of oxygen (3O2) to produce four molecules of water (4H2O) and two of carbon dioxide (2CO2).
Yes, carbon dioxide. But even in a combustion setting, methanol burns much cleaner than fossil fuels. According to the Methanol Institute, "compared to conventional fuels, renewable methanol cuts carbon dioxide emissions by up to 95 percent, reduces nitrous oxide emissions by up to 80 percent, and completely eliminates sulfur oxide and particulate matter emissions." So it's definitely a positive step, even if it's not a perfect one.
Depending on the availability of methanol, it's possible to design engines capable of running methanol or conventional fuels, or indeed blends of the two. So the barrier to entry here is pretty low, and indeed, according to Recharge News, there are already some 54 methanol or dual-fuel vessels in service or under construction. Most are dual-fuel, because it's currently very difficult to get hold of methanol at cargo-ship quantities, and the fueling infrastructure's not there yet.
Going straight to electricity: methanol fuel cells
As with hydrogen and ammonia, it's possible to power electric drivetrains and propulsion systems using methanol in a fuel cell arrangement. But again, the carbon atom in each methanol molecule finds itself a pair of oxygens.
In a direct methanol fuel cell, or DMFC, the chemical equation works out the same as if you burn it, two molecules of methanol and three of oxygen ending up producing four water molecules and two of carbon dioxide. At this stage, direct methanol fuel cells convert the fuel's energy content to electricity at an efficiency of around 30-40 percent – but in theory, it's possible to get this up to 97 percent, and there's plenty of research going on in this area.
Then there are reformed methanol fuel cells, or RMFCs, which use a steam reformer to convert methanol into hydrogen, and then run the hydrogen directly through a fuel cell stack. These are currently smaller, and capable of reaching efficiencies of 45 percent. They're also effective with lower purity methanol – indeed, some setups are designed for mixtures with up to 40 percent water, although this clearly impacts the volumetric energy density.
In an example of a RMFC, the steam reformer might break methanol into two hydrogen molecules and one carbon monoxide, and then that carbon monoxide would combine with a water molecule to produce another hydrogen molecule and a carbon dioxide, leaving you with a total of three hydrogen molecules to run through a standard PEM fuel cell stack, and roughly the same amount of carbon dioxide you'd get from the other two approaches.
Methanol production overview
You can make methanol in many ways, from the old-school distillation of wood alcohol to renewable methods that involve the recycling of carbon dioxide. Most of it, however, is currently made using natural gas (methane), or coal. In the most common process, natural gas is steam-reformed into a syngas, hydrogen is separated out for separate use, and the remaining methanol/water mixture is distilled to get you pure methanol.
This is of course a dirty process; the steam reforming process results in both carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide by-products. There are some other promising methods, including the use of metal-organic framework catalysis to convert methane and sunlight directly into methanol at room temperature – but any process that involves methane gas must be held responsible for the unavoidable fugitive emissions of this extremely potent greenhouse gas that escape from the well, the transmission pipes and fittings.
Enerkem's Edmonton plant diverts municipal garbage and turns it into methanol, ethanol, and other chemical products
Greener methanol production
It's possible to create "biomethanol" by gasifying "municipal solid waste," or regular ol' garbage including waste wood, plastics and styrofoams, then running it through a reactor and distilling it. Indeed, Enerkem has had this kind of operation running at a commercial scale for several years now in Edmonton, Canada, diverting as much as 30 percent of the city's waste out of landfills.
It's also possible to make methanol using green energy. You'd use the electricity to electrolyze water and separate out the hydrogen, then combine the hydrogen in a reactor with carbon dioxide, presumably captured from another process, and then you'd distil the result to produce e-methanol. However, you're losing energy at each step of this operation. Carbon Recycling International is an example of a company that's been doing this at commercial scale since 2012.
Renewable e-methanol and biomethanol projects are popping up here and there, with Europe leading the way.
What's the overview from a clean shipping perspective?
Methanol would appear to represent a relatively accessible way for shipping companies to significantly reduce emissions in the short and medium term. It's not a totally green fuel, but it's probably fair to view it as a greenish-blue in the spectrum of available options, provided it's produced in a clean process.
It requires minimal changes to existing combustion engine designs, and offers a better safety profile than ammonia, but it's currently not available at most fueling depots. For a given fuel tank size, it carries less than half the energy of diesel, and this could restrict its suitability to medium-range operations, or necessitate additional fuel stops.
It's price-competitive with gasoline, particularly at reduced purity levels, and even at purity levels as low as 90 percent, it'll do the job in a combustion engine. Mind you, it's price-competitive when produced using natural gas or coal – green methanol is more expensive and far less common.
In fuel cell-electric implementations, you don't gain much in terms of overall carbon emissions, but if the efficiency of the fuel cells can be improved, methanol-electric ships may eventually be able to travel farther than their methanol-combustion counterparts on a given amount of fuel.
Overall, this looks to us like a worthwhile transitional step toward clean shipping, with a fairly low barrier to entry and an opportunity to make a significant early contribution to decarbonization. But if we're to reach zero carbon emissions by 2050, methanol's not going to take us all the way – so despite its issues, ammonia may still be the better solution in the long run, or another candidate may surface.
Sources: IEA/Together in Safety/Methanol Institute via Recharge News
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This place sucks ass July 7, 2022 06:08 AM
Methanol is a truly scary chemical, and they want to purposly burn it on a boat in the ocean? Yeah folks have lost their minds. Worked with this stuff in the oilfield. Its cold, incredibly cold, absorbs through your skin to poisin you. Glad I dont work in maritime. Do we have a way to get this out of water? What about spills?
FB36 July 7, 2022 10:11 AM
All light vehicles are already becoming electric & all heavy/big land/sea/air vehicles (like trucks & trains & construction/mining/agriculture/military vehicles & ships & aircraft) just need us to start producing biodiesel/biofuel at large scales from all possible industrial/agricultural/forestry waste/biomass & even trash & sewage!
TechGazer July 7, 2022 10:11 AM
To me it sounds like the fuel production/handling/transport industry is trying to delay their loss of market. As a transition to a greener future, I think it might slow down the development and deployment of greener techniques.
Much of the problem is human selfishness and shortsightedness. Many might agree that we need to think about the future, such as by having transport ships use windpower as much as possible ... but their Amazon order has to get here RIGHT NOW! Ease up on life. It wasn't all that long ago that orders took many weeks or even months to arrive, and people were still happy about that. Some changes to human expectations would probably cut environmental damage far more than switching to methanol would.
Adrian Akau July 7, 2022 02:15 PM
Excellent article.
martinwinlow July 10, 2022 03:14 AM
I'd say 'the answer' for replacing most ship-borne heavy freight lies in trans-Asian electric railway - there's already one working (of course it doesn't help that Russia is run by a despotic lunatic but he won't be there forever) to bring Chinese goods into Europe. Likewise, a rail tunnel under the Barents Sea going to the Americas.
As far as people and light freight goes, synthetic fuels might be a stop-gap for long distance jet aviation but again most of what exists nationally could (arguably *should*) easily be replaced with train travel (even Hyperloop) and later near-space travel for the real long-haul stuff. On top of that there's the possibility of medium distance travel by dirigible which is already starting to gain traction.
Jim B July 10, 2022 05:10 AM
Green Methanol and Green Ammonia could be made economically with molten salt nuclear reactors: https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2022/06/path-to-scaling-up-molten-salt-nuclear-with-green-ammonia-and-thermal-storage.html
GeoffG. July 11, 2022 12:10 PM
@Dan: Methanol isn't "cold." What you mean is that it has a fairly high latent heat of vaporisation together with a relatively low boiling point (65C).


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Too Many Men Can't Handle Being Told No
Content warning for discussion of mass shootings and domestic violence.
Teen Vogue recently published an article about the link between dating violence and gun violence.
But calling it "dating violence" misses a very significant factor. I dug through a list of school shootings from the past few years and tried to pick out every story that seemed to involve any sort of dating/romantic relationship, either real or desired on the part of the shooter.
Anyone want to guess what I found? In every single case, the shooter was male, and the target was female.
Remember last week when I talked about needing to teach kids to hear and accept "No" for an answer? Let me be more specific. Being able to set and respect boundaries is important for everyone. But we desperately need to teach boys and men to respect "No." That male sense of entitlement is literally killing people.
The whole "incel" thing is another example where we see a guy committing murder because he feels the world owed him sex. Yet, despite the fact that both men and women can be "involuntarily celibate," it's only the men lashing out with violence, killing people because they're unwilling to accept women telling them no.
As a society, this is exactly what we teach men to do. We teach them to be persistent, to never accept no for an answer. The entertainment industry is flooded with stories of men essentially wearing down the target of their desire until the woman says yes. We teach them that women aren't people, but things to be won and used.
Again and again, we see where those lessons lead:
Santa Fe High School. Texas. Kole Dixon, 16, a sophomore…said that friends told him that the gunman first entered an art classroom, said "Surprise!" and started shooting. The suspect's ex-girlfriend was among the people shot in that classroom, he said.* Sadie Rodriguez, the mother of Shana Fisher, 16, told the newspaper that her daughter rejected four months of aggressive advances from accused shooter Dimitrios Pagourtzis… Fisher finally stood up to him and embarrassed him in class, the newspaper quoted her mother as writing in a private message to the Times. "A week later he opens fire on everyone he didn't like," she said. "Shana being the first one."
*Per the second link, it sounds like Fisher wasn't the killer's ex-girlfriend, but a girl he'd been aggressively pursuing.
Great Mills High School. Maryland. All indications suggest the shooting was not a random act of violence. Rollins and the female victim had a prior relationship which recently ended.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Florida. Student Victoria Olvera, 17, said that Cruz had been abusive to his ex-girlfriend and that his expulsion was over a fight with her new boyfriend.
Italy High School. Texas. Shook said the girl who was shot had moved to the school district a few months earlier. She said the girl had briefly dated the suspect, but that she did not know much about her.
Rancho Tehama Reserve. California. The wife's car was still there. Her body, shot several times, was hidden beneath the floor. "We believe that's what probably started this whole event," Tehama County Asst. Sheriff Phil Johnston told reporters.
Mattoon High School. Illinois. [T]he teen targeted a female student at Mattoon High School who he said called him gay.
North Lake College. Texas. "He had been stalking her for quite a while but she didn't make anything of it," her mom said. The family says witnesses told them Torres had approached Janeera in front of an art exhibit and yelled at her saying, "You know who I am and you know why I am here!" The family also says the two never dated and were not even friends.
North Park Elementary School. California. The slain teacher was identified as Karen Smith, 53, who police said was Anderson's estranged wife.
Antigo High School. Wisconsin. A school administrator said he does not believe Wagner targeted the victims. Instead, interim district administrator Donald Childs told The Associated Press he believes Wagner planned to enter the prom and start shooting randomly. A student who did not want to be identified told FOX6 News Wagner had been depressed following the break-up with his girlfriend.
Rogers State University. Oklahoma. Sources said a woman was studying in a music hall when she spotted her ex-boyfriend, Fees, outside. Fees shot through the window at the woman, but she was able to run to safety and call authorities, reports say.
We see the seeds in the way so many men lash out with threats of violence when a woman dares to tell them no. We see the statistics showing that the most dangerous time for a woman in an abusive relationship is when she tries to leave.
I know, I know. "Not all men," and all that. Most men don't go on killing sprees when a woman turns them down. But the list of men who do is too damned long.
So many guys are so obsessed with being "real men." Here's a thought. Maybe a real man should have more emotional stability and maturity than a toddler throwing a tantrum when he doesn't immediately get everything he wants. Maybe he should be man enough to hear the word "no" without having to whine, curse, threaten, and/or kill. Maybe that's what we should be teaching boys and men.
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I remember the weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth in some quarters when the states changed their laws so that a husband no longer had the "right" to have sex with his spouse whether she wanted to or not. (Sadly, my home state of Oklahoma was the last one to do so.)
In many ways, this is just the same thing; men complaining when they are asked to treat others as people and to recognize that others have rights, too.
The "not all men" response is B.S. for one great big reason. What does it actually hurt for the "good" men to get a little more empathy education than they need? If a man says we shouldn't teach all boys better because not all men are terrible, that can essentially be read as "My time is more important than someone elses life".
SunflowerP
Psst, Jim – the link you have for the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School incident is a duplicate of the immediately-preceding Great Mills High School link.
SunflowerP – Thank you! That should be fixed now.
Like too many other women, I have firsthand experience with this.
I was stalked for months after breaking up with a guy, including letters to me that veered from "Please take me back" to "I hate you," showing up at my workplace, and showing up at my new apartment (after getting a mutual friend drunk in order to get my address from them).
We still live in roughly the same geographic area and still have mutual friends. I wasn't physically harmed, but to this day, 20+ years later, I still look over my shoulder when I'm out and about. The scars may not be visible but the damage is real.
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Crazed Squirrel Invades Kindergarten Classroom; Bites Teacher, Student
Posted: Dec 2, 2015 9:16 PM CST
(CBS NEWS) NOVATO, Calif. -- A badly behaved squirrel got into a kindergarten classroom in Novato, California and caused quite a ruckus, reports CBS San Francisco.
Pleasant Valley School principal Dana Sadan sent a letter home to parents in November explaining how the aggressive squirrel ran up the 2nd grade teacher's leg and bit her on the shoulder.
The teacher grabbed the critter and threw it off of her. The squirrel then scurried across the hall into another classroom where it bit one child and landed on the shoulder of another. Finally, the school custodian arrived and managed to remove it from the classroom.
"The squirrel sneaked into the hall, into the open door and bit the kid and [the teacher]," said Charlotte Miller, a young student at the school.
By the time The Marin Humane Society arrived and tried to locate the squirrel, it had taken off into the open space area near the school.
"It's a very unusual behavior for squirrels," said Lisa Bloch of the Marin Humane Society. "We've been receiving several notifications of squirrel attacks, actually. In a particular neighborhood in Novato there have been eight victims."
Novato officials said there has been a spike in squirrel attacks in recent weeks. They blame the aggressive behavior on humans who try to feed them. Once the squirrels associate people with food they become more prone to aggression.
"I should have never pet that squirrel," said Kennedy Francis, one of Miller's classmates. Miller couldn't believe her friend's revelation.
"You did?" said Miller.
"I feeded it - I pet it. What?" Francis asked.
"Don't leave any food on the ground!" said Miller.
"I won't," replied Francis.
"I mean your food and my food," Francis added.
The school sent messages to all families explaining the attack and warning students not to feed the animals.
"If a wild animal gets the idea that humans provide food, somehow they get it in their head that all humans provide food. Which means they go up to all people and then when they don't get food from everyone, they can become aggressive about it," said Alison Hermance of Wildcare.
Both the student and teacher who were bitten are seeking medical treatment. So far, there is no indication the squirrel had rabies.


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Four killed in Sao Tome's failed coup bid: state media
Sao Tome and Principe Prime Minister Patrice Trovoada
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Four men, including the former president of the outgoing National Assembly Delfim Neves, tried to attack army headquarters overnight, Prime Minister Patrice Trovoada said in a Friday video message confirmed by the justice minister.
Libreville, Gabon
Four people were killed in a failed coup attempt on Sao Tome, the state news agency STP-Press said on Sunday reporting a toll from the armed forces chief of staff.
The military, which on Friday thwarted a coup attempt in the tiny Portuguese-speaking archipelago considered a beacon of democracy, announced "four human lives were lost" after "exchanges of fire" at a military site.
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He said Neves was one of several people arrested.
A resident speaking to AFP anonymously by phone said she had heard "automatic and heavy weapons fire, as well as explosions, for two hours inside the army headquarters" in the nation's capital.
In the video message, authenticated and sent to AFP by the press office of Sao Tome's prime minister, Trovoada is seen sitting at a desk saying he wants to "reassure" the population and "the international community".
Trovoada initially said a soldier had been "taken hostage" and wounded but "would be able to resume his activities in a few days".
A former Portuguese colony in the Gulf of Guinea, the nation of some 215,000 people is deeply poor and depends on international aid, but is also praised for its political stability and parliamentary democracy.


Lilly Singh is a youtube personality, comedian, actress, and motivational speaker from Canada. She has also taken part in rapping and film acting. She was born in 1988 and has a net worth of $1 million. She became known when her Youtube Channel as Superwoman, who got six million subscribers and had more than 7000 million views.
She is also known for her role in the movie "Dr. Cabbie" (2014) and the YouTube series "Giving Back Glam" (2014) ; "The Tube's Hautest" (2014) and "Lana Steele : Make Up Spy" (2015). She is also known for her rapping skills and has a few songs: #LEH feat. Humble The Poet (2014); IVIVI feat. Humble The Poet (2015) and she is featured in Jassi Sidhu's song "Hipshaker" (2013).


After a successful first edition of the VIB Conference "Metabolism in cancer and stromal cells" in September 2015, VIB has organized a second edition of this international Conference that will focus on how cancer and stromal cells metabolically communicate and how their specific metabolism impacts disease development and progression. These cellular metabolism insights will offer novel therapeutic opportunities for malignant, metabolic, or inflammatory disease. In addition, also the impact of 'omics' technologies to study cellular metabolism will be highlighted during the meeting.
This conference will bring together internationally renowned experts who will showcase their findings on cell-type specific metabolism in cancer and beyond. By bringing together experts from different disciplines, VIB aims to provide a unique platform of interactions and to create a vibrant environment for discussions on novel concepts and recent technological developments. Many META-CAN PIs will participate as well as some of our ESRs, in fact META-CAN is collaborating in this fantastic meeting.
In addition to the scientific program with plenary talks and poster sessions, there will be ample opportunities to network during the breaks, reception and conference dinner.
If you are working in the field of Metabolism in Endothelial Cells, Cancer cells, Immune cells or Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts and you want to share new findings with your colleague-researchers, you can submit your abstract before 24th September! The best abstracts will be selected for oral presentation or can win the poster prize. All accepted abstracts will be included in the program book.
This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 766214.


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onlinecasinoselite.org › Blog › US DOJ's Judge try to Overrule the 2011 Wire Act
What US online gamblers can expect from Judge Barbadoro decision?
U.S. District Judge Paul Barbadoro in New Hampshire has overturned the Justice Department's expanded interpretation of the 1961 Wire Act. In a 60-page opinion, Barbadoro said that the "Text, context, and structure of the Wire Act" is "limited to sports gambling."
This means online gamblers are safe from the ruling that would have made interstate poker, online gambling, and lotteries illegal if the nationwide ban had been set in place.
Barbadoro ruled that the 1961 law only applies to sports betting.
This came after the New Hampshire Lottery Commission sued and requested for summary judgment.
US District Court Judge Paul Barbadoro at the 2016 Kenison Award
What is the Wire Act?
The Federal Wire Act or the Interstate Wire Act of 1961 is a federal law in the US that prohibits certain types of betting activities in the country. Over the years, its interpretation has been the subject of debate.
To put it simply, here are the main points of this Act:
Certain types of gambling are prohibited
The DOJ ruled that the Act relates to online sports betting only
Legal actions against the DOJ are now being pursued by several states which made online betting legal
When Assistant Attorney General Virginia Seitz ruled that the Act applies only to sports betting, it paved the way for a rapid growth in online gambling, with Delaware, Nevada, and New Jersey as early adopters.
In late 2018, however, the Justice Department of the Trump administration reversed the ruling and said the 1961 law also prohibits online betting. This will ban all internet gambling with transactions done between states.
AG Steven Engel, DOJ Office of Legal Counsel Assistant, said that the interpretation of the Wire Act made in 2011 was in error. He said that the Wire Act is not an artful drafting model and that the statue's words are not clear, he concluded.
This caused a sweeping chill among betting operators. In fact, gambling stocks fell several points down.
After the reversal was publicly released, casino operators and suppliers saw a drop of shares. Shares of International Game Technology Plc fell by as much as 3.7%, while MGM Resorts International dropped by as much as 1.3%.
In a memo, the then-deputy attorney general said that the DOJ must wait 90 days after the public release of the legal opinion to enforce the Wire Act. The grace period was later extended to June 14 by Rod Rosenstein to give operators time to get their operations compliant with the federal law.
Barbadoro's ruling was made 11 days before a key deadline that would have cost Mega Millions, Powerball, and other interstate games and lotteries a lot of money.
Why did New Hampshire take legal action?
After DOJ announced in January 2011 their reversed interpretation of the federal law, the New Hampshire Lottery Commission sued the Justice Department in US district court to have the broader interpretation of the 1961 law returned. Otherwise, their operations will be considered illegal and criminal and may have to be suspended. This will cost the business more than $90 million annual revenue from the sale of interstate lottery.
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Michigan, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania backed the state's lawsuit.
Barbadoro granted the state's request for summary judgment and made a decision on Monday. He said that a big risk is being faced by New Hampshire as their operations may be shot down or they will be made to comply with strict measures. Yet, the threat may not be eliminated at all.
Barbadoro also said that the DOJ's reversal was based on faulty readings due to the use of ambiguous grammar in a key passage. He had to focus more on the context of the law and not on the grammar to decide on the meaning of the Wire Act.
Impact of the new ruling on online gambling in the US
Whether the Justice Department will respect Barbadoro's decision is unclear. A spokeswoman from the department only said that decision is under review and no further comment will be made.
Still, the new ruling has given online gamblers hope that their love for bitcoin casino sites, online casinos, state lotteries, and other betting businesses will not come to an end this June 14. There's always the possibility that the DOJ will not respect Barbadoro's ruling, but the judge is confident that the department will agree that the Act is limited to sports betting only. For now, we just have to wait and see.
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Women lawmakers angered by veto of Ledbetter Act
By Patricia Kilday Hart on June 14, 2013 at 3:38 PM
Women opposing anti-abortion bills as a step backward at Thursday hearing
Angered by Gov. Rick Perry's veto of the Texas version of the "Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act," the legislation's female sponsors Friday accused the governor of retreating on women's rights.
"I'm disappointed and I am really heartbroken," said Rep. Senfronia Thompson, D-Houston, who authored the bill that would have given women the opportunity to file an equal-pay lawsuit in state court. "It is amazing that in 2013, women are still fighting for rights enjoyed by males."
The legislation's Senate sponsor, Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, said the bill would have permitted women access to Texas courts for wage discrimination claims under a liberalized time frame. That Perry vetoed what she called "a no-brainer" proves the governor is intent on "eroding women's rights in the state of Texas."
Coupled with Perry's special session agenda, which includes bills imposing restrictions on how and when abortions are performed, Davis said Perry is engaged in "an effort to put women back in their place."
Davis noted that women protesting the abortion bills appeared at a Senate committee hearing Thursday night dressed in 1950s fashions. "It is symbolic of what is happening in Texas."
Forty-two other states have passed the Lilly Ledbetter Act, which resets the time period in which a person can file a wage discrimination claim every time that person receives a discriminatory paycheck. Without this law in place, a complainant only has 180 days from the time the first discriminatory paycheck is issued, Davis said during legislative debate. As she pointed out, many businesses prohibit disclosure of salary information, making it impossible for a woman to detect a discriminatory wage.
The Texas Association of Business and the National Federation of Independent Business both opposed the bill. Cathy DeWitt, TAB's vice-president for governmental affairs, said that the legislation allowed a woman to recover damages from an employer even if a wage gap was "unintentional."
"That would be very problematic for employers and we thought it would be more harmful than helpful," said DeWitt.
In a letter to Perry seeking the veto, TAB president Bill Hammond wrote that the 180-day limit on lawsuits "protects employers from the burden of defending claims arising from employment decisions that are long past." Although wage decisions may have been made many years earlier, Hammond wrote, the Lilly Ledbetter Act would "allows a shift of allege discriminatory intent from a long ago decision…to a later act – the issuance of a paycheck –that comes without any discriminatory intent."
Significant passage of time since the initial salary decision was made would affect "the reliability of evidence" in a wage discrimination claim, Hammond said.
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Decentralization seems to be the least controversial of all the post-Maidan reforms in Ukraine. Yet it is one that has directly affected a large number of citizens.
The Lyubar unified territorial community in Zhytomyr oblast was established in October 2017 during the decentralisation reforms in Ukraine. The community is made up of the majority of the Lyubar administrative district within the Zhytomyr oblast. It includes 37 villages and the town of Lyubar itself.
LINAS JEGELEVICIUS: In recent interviews, you have labelled yourself Homo Sovieticus, a sardonic and critical reference to the average conformist person living in the Soviet Union. How is this compatible with you being a woman who has spoken out many times on woman rights and who has travelled the world after the restoration of independence in 1990?
NIJOLĖ OŽELYTĖ-VAITIEKŪNIENĖ: All of us who were born during the years of Soviet occupation are Homo Sovieticus, more or less. In fact, we – that generation – shouldn't be ashamed of it, deny or repudiate it. When I think of the past, I like to use the example of the victims of Stockholm syndrome.
It is an interesting exercise to compare two types of culinary cultures – the utopian Soviet ideal and the capitalist fast food one. While the totalitarian culture relied on food scarcity and hunger as a tool of authoritative disciplining, the present-day culture relies on temptation and abundance.
Culinary culture is a field of culture that regulates the human experience of food. The need for food is not merely a need for calories and nutrients. Food encompasses a wide range of cultural connotations. Through our food choices we choose who we are, and our adherence to our family, society, culture and even the state. Food also has political meaning. Therefore, food and its consumption has always been of interest to those in power, who often ration, control, distribute and identify food in particular ways.
Behind the cellars we come across a billboard with a mosaic showing a map of today's Hungary. Overlaid on it is the map of Hungary from before the Treaty of Trianon. Marked in blue on the map are "Hungarian rivers" – the Danube, Tisza, Mureș and Sava. This piece of patriotic art reminds everybody that this 1920 defeat hurts Hungarians until today.
The Polish city of Krosno was drenched in sunlight. For a few days the warm wind wafts from the mountain pass. That southern gale is characteristic of this part of the Subcarpathia, or podkarpackie in Polish. In the autumn the wind brings beautiful, warm weather. Scholars call it a tunnelling wind to distinguish it from the foehn wind, or halny as it is called in the Polish Tatra Mountains. The wind follows the path once used by military troops and trading caravans – the lowest part of the bend of the Carpathian Mountains in the Dukla Pass. Today, the pass is known as expressway S19, the road that once served as the route through which Hungarian wines were brought to Poland.
A review of Donbas. A film written and directed by Sergey Loznitsa. Released in Ukraine, October 2018.
It has been nearly five years since the start of hybrid war in Donbas, which has come to resemble something of a frozen conflict in eastern Ukraine. And it is since the separatists, backed by Russian military forces, captured Debaltseve – rather than the Minsk II Accords – that the conflict has evolved into a low-intensity positional fire exchange.


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My nine-year-old nephew gave me a strange phone call earlier today.
"Are you pleased with my performance in the final examination?" he began.
I learned about his good results a couple of weeks ago. He ranked second in the class and seventh in the form. What was he after, I wondered.
Rather than answering me, he said: "You didn't go to Taiwan with me last year. Will you sponsor me for my trip this year?" He even named a price. "Please sponsor two to three thousand dollars." I was taken aback by the request and the way he made it. That was not the nephew I knew.
It did not take long for me to figure out who was behind all this. The innocent kid did not have a clue what he was saying. He was just reciting something the scripted by his mother. This was confirmed by a phone call to my sister later. I did not speak sanctimoniously, of course, but she quickly took the responsibility and was apologetic.
I think what she orchestrated was not a good idea for two reasons. First, the use of reward to reinforce good academic performance not only fosters an instrumental attitude towards, but also kills interest in, a child's studies. Second, adults should not take advantage of children's innocence and obedience to satisfy their own ulterior motives.
Obviously, we have different ideas about what is good for children.


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Alessandro Polita (born 3 June 1984) is an Italian motorcycle racer, winner of the FIM Superstock 1000 Cup in 2006. His sister, Alessia Polita, also ran as a professional rider, until an accident caused paralysis of the lower limbs.

Career
In 2006  he won the World Cup Superstock 1000 with a Suzuki GSXR1000 K6 Celani with the Suzuki Italian team. In 2007 he debuted in the World Superbike championship with the same team. That season, where Polita reported some injuries, he rode his Suzuki GSX-R1000 K6 to eight World Championship points, earned him  24th place overall.

In 2008 he joined team Sterilgarda Go Eleven for racing with a Ducati 1098 in the Superstock 1000 FIM Cup. He ended the season in third place. He won the Grand Prix of San Marino at Misano Adriatico.

In 2009 he returned to World Superbike with the Sterilgarda team, but the economic crisis some sponsors to withdraw, forcing the team from Brescia to play in the season with only Shane Byrne.

After a few weeks, however Polita moved over to the World Supersport Championship riding the Suzuki GSX-R600 for the Hoegee Suzuki team. On 13 June 2009, following the withdrawal by team Hoegee due to economic problems he was again left without a ride.

On July 4, 2009, he inked an agreement with the Celani Race team to participate in the World Superbike, replacing Karl Muggeridge from the San Marino Grand Prix.

In 2010 he participated in the Italian Superbike Championship with a Ducati 1098 Team, Barni Racing . He won the title with a race before the end of the season, winning two races and standing on the podium in all the races on the calendar, surpassing the 41 points of his teammate Stefano Cruciani.

In 2011 he repeated his participation in the Italian Speed Championship with Team Barni Ducati and in some of the World Superbike races as a wild card .

He debuted at the Tourist Trophy for the 2016 edition, reaching 47º in the category Superbike race and 40th in the Superstock.

Since the end of 2018 he started racing in the IDM Superbike 1000 in a Honda CBR 1000 RR for the team Holzhauer Racing Promotion. He managed only one third place, in the Most race 1. He managed to score 152 points at the end of that season. He is still scheduled to race for the team at the 2020 season.

References

External links

 Profile on WorldSBK.com

1984 births
Living people
People from Iesi
Superbike World Championship riders
Supersport World Championship riders
FIM Superstock 1000 Cup riders
Italian motorcycle racers
British Superbike Championship riders
Sportspeople from the Province of Ancona


I've created an online art portfolio and, of course, images are extremely important in displaying my work. Part of the work I'm displaying is photography. I think that there's an art in photography as well as a sort of art in editing. While I could easily manipulate a photograph to remove people in the background, erase blemishes, or appear sunnier, I like the rawness of an un-edited photograph.
This isn't to say that I haven't edited the photos on my page, because sometimes the lighting wasn't bright enough, or I wanted to crop a certain part of the image. But it makes me wonder– at what point is all this editing too much? Is there a point where it isn't considered raw art, but merely talent with the use of PhotoShop?
Often we see before and after PhotoShop pictures of celebrities. The results are utterly shocking and sometimes disgusting. You can have five inches shaved off your waist. Tummy rolls are gone. Wrinkles are blurred and blended. Flyaway hairs are erased. Everything is perfect.
But that's exactly it. There is no rawness. It's a personal opinion, of course, but I think what makes a photo, or celebrity, relatable is their flaws. We all have our own flaws. And when we're looking at that perfect PhotoShopped image, all we want is to be like them. We start to idolize this perfection, when, in fact, none of it is completely real.
So, to answer my own question, yes, I think there is a point where PhotoShop is too much. When an image starts to look completely different than what it actually is, it starts to lose what makes it relatable and its real.
This post really caught my eye because I found myself agreeing with everything you pointed out. Especially when it comes to images, how does one allow his or her work to stand out when it is swallowed up in a sea of other photoshopped and highly edited pictures. I think this is one of the unfortunate things that has come about with the rapid development of technology. Like you said, at what point is a picture no longer a picture, but simply a construction of online editing? I think the struggle here, too, is the ethics behind it. Is it right to work an image so much online and then still call it your own? Does credit have to be given to the program you worked in now? I for one appreciate people who are willing to present their original work as is, because maybe at some point, that simplicity will be the thing that stands out over the fictitious masses.
Definitely, Danielle. There are very unethical uses of Photoshop out there that, as you note, can be downright deplorable. We'll talk about it more on Wednesday, too, but lots of designers have started using Photoshop not to alter photos, necessarily, but to design logos or to bump up the background image on a website. These uses could be helpful to you in designing online webspaces. Your particular project enters a tenuous space, since you're showing off your photography — use of photoshop (or "too much" use of it) might compromise your ethos. These are great questions to keep in mind for our discussion on Wednesday.


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Q: How to find Not Used Pub IP Objects in Azure Resource Manager using powershell How can i find UNUSED or Unassociated PubIP IP Object in a Azure resource group using powershell.
I want to delete those unused pubip.
Could you please guide me here.

A: Using Get-AzureRMPublicIPAddress will list out all of your public IP addresses, if they are assigned the properties don't change all that much from looking at a few of mine.
You could try using the property DnsSettingsText, I noticed on mine that those with null in this property were unassigned. You could also look at IpConfigurationText which contains a string similar to this one:
 /subscriptions/<guid>/resourceGroups/<rg>/providers/Microsoft.Network/networkInterfaces/<nic name>/ipConfigurations/ipconfig1

This tells you which network interface the public IP address is assigned to. Once you've found those unused IP addresses then just pipe out to Remove-AzureRmPublicIpAddress.
Something like this may work for you, but make sure you text it properly.
Get-AzureRmPublicIpAddress | Where-Object { $_.IpConfigurationText -notlike '/subscriptions/*' } | Remove-AzureRmPublicIpAddress


WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A Pulitzer Prize winner and two executives of major companies will receive honorary doctorates during Purdue University's commencement ceremonies in May.
Honorary doctorates will go to Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ken Armstrong; Mauricio Antonio Lopes, president of the Brazilian Agricultural Resource Corp.; and Keith J. Krach, chairman of the board of DocuSign. The three recipients will each be honored in one of the six ceremonies that will take place in the university's Elliott Hall of Music on May 11-13.
Ken Armstrong's work has appeared in the Washington Post, The New Yorker and the Chicago Tribune. He received Pulitzers in 2012 and 2016 and also shared in two others. A 1985 Purdue graduate with a degree in political science, Armstrong was editor of the Purdue Exponent student newspaper. He currently works for ProPublica, a nonprofit news organization dedicated to investigative journalism. He will receive an honorary Doctor of Political Science degree during the 9:30 a.m. Saturday (May 12) ceremony.
Mauricio Antonio Lopes is president of the Brazilian Agricultural Resource Corp. (EMBRAPA in Portuguese) in Brasilia, Brazil. Lopes earned his master's degree in plant genetics at Purdue in 1989 and has made major scientific contributions in maize production. In 2014, he was awarded the Distinguished Agriculture Alumni Award from Purdue, as well as the Ordre du Mertite Agricole, bestowed by the French Republic for outstanding contribution to world agriculture. He will receive an honorary Doctor of Agriculture degree during the 9:30 a.m. Sunday (May 13) ceremony.
Keith J. Krach is chairman of the board of DocuSign in San Francisco and an early pioneer in the robotics industry. Krach earned a degree in industrial engineering from Purdue in 1979. He served on the Purdue Board of Trustees from 2007-2013 and was chairman for two terms. In 2014 the Krach Leadership Center on the university's West Lafayette campus was dedicated in his honor after he and wife, Metta, provided a $10 million donation. The Krach Leadership Center houses student resources including academic help, leadership development programs and student organization meeting space. He will receive an honorary Doctor of Industrial Engineering degree during the 2 p.m. Sunday (May 13) ceremony.
Those attending commencement ceremonies are reminded that the State Street Redevelopment Project construction is in process. This work is closing portions of Stadium Avenue, McCormick Road, Airport Road and Williams Street and significantly affecting surrounding thoroughfares in West Lafayette. For construction and project information, visit www.statestreetwl.com.


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US President Donald Trump speaking to reporters
Conan is a tough cookie: Trump welcomes military dog, who helped kill al-Baghdadi, to White House
Washington DC [USA], Nov 26 (ANI): United States President Donald Trump welcomed Conan, the military dog who was injured during the successful US special forces raid which had lead to the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, to the White House on Monday.
Speaking to reporters on the occasion, Trump praised Conan as a "tough cookie" who "recovered very quickly" from the injuries sustained during the successful operation and "has since gone on very important raids". He said that the dog has arrived in Washington from the Middle East and had received a "medal and a plaque".
At one point during the interaction, Trump said Conan has been trained to turn on reporters who asked questions. "It's trained that if you open your mouths, you will be attacked. You want to be very, very careful," the US President said, as cited by CNN in a report.
"Conan was very badly hurt ... and they thought maybe was not going to recover, (but) recovered very quickly and has since gone on very important raids," Trump said, adding that Conan was not retiring and is in "prime time" age-wise.
Conan had accompanied the US special forces during the raid and played an instrumental role in locating and tracking al-Baghdadi at his compound in Syria's Idlib province. He is said to have chased al-Baghdadi through a tunnel at his compound, following which the terrorist killed himself by detonating a suicide vest. (ANI)
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Buntzen Lake Powerhouses Were Once The Set Of Stephen King's 'It' Miniseries
604 Now | @604now | October 18, 2017
Photo: McKay Savage / Flickr
Did you know that the Buntzen Lake Powerhouses were once home to an evil clown, where you could float too?
The story of Pennywise 'the dancing clown' has terrorized the likes of many since Stephen King debuted the horror novel back in 1986.
'It' follows a group of misfit kids taking on the villainous clown who preys on children. While a remake of the popular storyline was recently released in the theatres; the original was a mini-series released in 1990.
RELATED: Take This Eerie Road Trip To BC's Most Haunted, Abandoned Places
What many may not know, is that the powerhouses in the Coquitlam area's Buntzen Lake were a vital part of the mini-series.
While now it's a beloved spot for hiking and sightseeing, it was once full of evil clown sightings and screaming kids.
Photo: Matthews, James Skitt, Major (1878-1970)
It's easy to see why the century-old power plant was selected to be featured in the film, with its eerie and mysterious exterior. With all of its creepy buildings and the remoteness of the area—it was an idyllic spot for Pennywise to lure the sewers and draw children in.
The old powerhouse has been the set for a number of films, including Placid, Freddy Vs. Jason and Roxanne.
Buntzen Lake Powerhouses
Location: Situated in Anmore, near Coquitlam. Find the first powerhouse by following the trail from Buntzen Lake to Powerhouse Road. The second powerhouse is a bit trickier, but can be seen from the water. It's forbidden to go inside either of them, but it's spooky enough from the outside looking in.
Location: Buntzen Lake


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