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The µCAN.4.sg-BOX is a decentralized measurement data acquisition module for acquiring the data of four strain gauges or resistance bridges. The resistance bridge data will be acquired at a total sampling rate of 400 Hz.
Sensor signals are evaluated and linearized in a rugged aluminium die-cast housing. The data is transmitted to the central evaluation point via CAN-bus.
The digitized analogue values of the µCAN.4.sg-BOX are transmitted via CAN bus. The bit rate of the CAN bus interface is adjustable within a range of 50 kBit/s to 1 MBit/s. A terminating resistor may be activated via a switch in the device. The CANopen protocol of the module complies with the CANopen standards CiA 301, CiA 305 and CiA 404. Both 11 bit identifiers (CAN 2.0A) and 29 bit identifiers (CAN 2.0B) may be used on the process data.
4-channel strain gauge data acquisition with CANopen, 4.096 V DS internal power supply of sensors, 16-bit resolution, designed for metric cable glands, connection via screw terminals.
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Innovative Ideas For "Making The Stretch"
The fire service is a great place with an enormous amount of talent. In this discussion, post photos of "outside the box" ideas for stretching attack lines. Whether it involves obstacles, getting to upper floors, using alternative access, etc. Provide material for others to fill their mental toolbox with.
At the firehouse we enjoy talking about new ways to deal with obstacles which lead us to talking about stretching lines around cars and corner of buildings. When dealing with cars the main thing we have to think about is getting the line caught underneath a car tire which could prevent you from making the full stretch with your hose as well as not getting water at the nozzle. This happens because crews advancing the line, pull the line to make sure it gets tight which signifies the crew has brought all the hose with them and didn't leave any behind. Then we talked about getting caught the hose caught, coming up short and realizing it has everything to do with a car tire. During our discussion we saw a car rim laying on the street and we decided to give that a try. A few of us remember seeing a picture of something similar from and engine company in Chicago so we threw the rim down. Well, it worked out with no issues at all. The couplings and hose moved along the rim as if it was a wheel in an assembly system. Below is a picture of what we used.


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Lisa Montgomery executed; first woman in federal death chamber since 1953
As a curtain was raised in the execution chamber, Montgomery looked momentarily bewildered.
The Heisman Trophy winning-receiver put his stamp all over the national title game in the first two quarters, and the Crimson Tide are champions again.
The Crimson Tide's offensive coordinator put on another dominating play-calling clinic in Monday night's 52-24 victory over Ohio State in the national title game. Now Sarkisian will try to work...
Justin Fields, prolific Ohio State attack stifled by Alabama defense
Fields, who passed for 385 yards and six touchdowns in a semifinal win against Clemson, had some outstanding moments against Alabama but not enough to make a difference.
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Parity has left the building in college football, producing a rash of playoff blowouts that have, frankly, sucked all the drama out of the game's grandest stage.
DeVonta Smith's 215-yard, 3-touchdown 1st half keys the Crimson Tide
Under Ryan Day, Ohio State's offense and quarterbacks have taken off
The Buckeyes have become more productive since Day came aboard, and the way they play has helped make the program a more desirable destination for blue-chip quarterbacks. Sort of like...
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The Crimson Tide and the Buckeyes head into Monday night's game with a slew of future NFL players. The matchups will not only determine who wins a title but could...
Top CBs for Ohio State, Alabama could play crucial role in title game
The Buckeyes' Shaun Wade and the Crimson Tide's Patrick Surtain II, both top NFL prospects, will square off with some elite receivers on Monday night in Miami.
Ohio State's Trey Sermon breaks out ahead of national title game
Astonishing efforts in the past two games – including a 331-yard, two-touchdown performance in the Big Ten title game – have brought Sermon the level of national attention he sought...

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I was struck by the imagery presented. Access and inclusion. Reaching out and drawing in. Breathing out and breathing in – what a marvelous metaphor for the life of the church in the world. Thank you Father Don.
It is necessary to boast; nothing is to be gained by it, but I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord. I know a person in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know; God knows. And I know that such a person—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know; God knows— was caught up into Paradise and heard things that are not to be told, that no mortal is permitted to repeat. On behalf of such a one I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except of my weaknesses. But if I wish to boast, I will not be a fool, for I will be speaking the truth. But I refrain from it, so that no one may think better of me than what is seen in me or heard from me, even considering the exceptional character of the revelations. Therefore, to keep me from being too elated, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me, to keep me from being too elated. Three times I appealed to the Lord about this, that it would leave me, but he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness." So, I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me. Therefore I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities for the sake of Christ; for whenever I am weak, then I am strong.
and God himself will be with them; he will wipe every tear from their eyes.
Avalos, Hector. Healthcare and the Rise of Christianity. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1999. Here Avalos offers an alternative vision of the spread of Christianity predicated on the free healthcare that it offered to the poor.
Avalos, Hector, Jeremy Schipper, and Sarah Melcher, eds. This Abled Body: Rethinking Disabilities in Biblical Studies. Semeia Studies 55. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2007. The first collection of essays on disability in the Bible, this volume focuses more on the Old Testament than the New.
Capps, Donald. Jesus the Village Psychiatrist. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2008. A pastoral analysis of the gospels which argues that Jesus' healing stories are akin to the work of modern day psychiatrists. Employs a diagnostic model.
Kelley, Nicole. "The Deformed Child in Ancient Christianity" in Children in Ancient Christianity. Edited by Cornelia B. Horn and Robert R. Phenix. STAC 58. Mohr Siebeck: Tübingen, 2009.
Lawrence, Louise, "Exploring the Sense-scape of the Gospel of Mark." Journal for the Study of New Testament 33:4 (2011): 387-397. Sensory-critical analysis of Mark which argues that the focus on audition is a deliberate effort to reject imperial values.
Moss, Candida R. "The Man with the Flow of Power: Porous Bodies in Mark 5:25-34." Journal of Biblical Literature 129:3 (2010): 507-519. Uses ancient medical theories of disease to argue that the body of Jesus is fundamentally weak.
——"Heavenly Healing: Eschatological Cleansing and the Resurrection of the Dead in the Early Church." Journal of the American Academy of Religion 79: 3 (2011) 1-27. Discusses the eradication of disability in early Christian constructions of resurrected bodies.
——"Blurred Vision and Ethical Confusion: The Rhetorical Function of Matt 6:22-23," Catholic Biblical Quarterly 73:4 (2011): 757-76. Examines the rhetorical function of imagery of blindness and medical conceptions of blindness in the ancient world.
Moss, Candida R. and Jeremy Schipper. Disability Studies and Biblical Studies. New York, NY: Palgrave MacMillan, 2011. This collection of essays is a dialogue between disability studies and feminism, queer theory, Foucault, reception history, source criticism and ancient medicine.
Parsons, Mikeal. Body and Character in Luke and Acts: The Subversion of Physiognomy in Early Christianity. Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2006. Uses Greek Physiognomical treatises to analyze the healing miracles in the Luke-Acts.
Pilch, John J. "Healing in Mark: A Social Science Analysis." Biblical Theology Bulletin 15 (1985): 142-50.
——"The Health Care System in Matthew: A Social Science Analysis." Biblical Theology Bulletin 16 (1986): 102-6.
——"Sickness and Healing in Luke-Acts." Pages 181-209 in Jerome H. Neyrey, editor, The Social World of Luke-Acts: A Handbook of Models for Interpretation. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1991.
Rose, Martha A. The Staff of Oedipus: Transforming Disability in Ancient Greece. Corporealities. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003. One of the standard treatments of diability in classical literature, Rose uses blindness as her entrée into the positive and negative connotations of disability in the ancient world.
Included, something included, encased in something….
Access leans towards perspective of person on the outside. Inclusion the vantage point of the person on the inside..
"Dancing as fast as I can." Woman whose life fell apart, into depression. Doctor, "You do know how to breathe in and breathe out." Later she saw that as a turning point. Image to use for this week.
Ministry is something like breathing, extending of life to the farthest limits, and a drawing in. Reaching out and drawing in. Breathing out and drawing in. Wide embrace and drawing in the whole community, washed and unwashed. Outreach beyond the boundaries. Drawing in. Extraordinary rapport with those on the margins. Importance of the healing stories of people on the margins. Healing was physical transformation but also the dissolving of psychological isolation. Boundary breaking nature of the healing stories in the NT. Reach across the boundaries of life and death.
Distinction between cure and healing. Healing more profound in psychological, social justice perspective.
Lost sheep, son, coin…radical joy over the embrace of those on the outside. In many more stories, draws people in to community, and calls community to embrace. Defended their rights to belong. Those devalued by others were capable. Saw primary mission as "restoring Israel," but when confronted with a Gentile, he showed compassion. Community later took that on as its mission.
Did not come to found a church. Saw vocation as restoration. Ragtag 12, will sit on the thrones of the House of Israel. "You can eat your way through the Gospels." Evocative of meals in dessert with manna and quail. All signs of the communion, the gathering of everyone, Isaiah 25, set a banquet for Israel.
Mission of breathing out and breathe in would lead to his death. Crossed many boundaries. Died because of the way he lived. A transcendent God. Ground of being and foundation of his mission.
An intuition of the mission…God embodies the mission, love surging out into creation, into the life of the people and their history, and intent is draw all creation into God's vitality and being. Ultimate life act. Divine rhythm of life. God of Israel, but also God of the nations. Stand over against in terms of purity, at other times absorbing parts of the nations, or their use in cleansing the nation of Israel. Jonah, gets depressed when the outcast, when they repent.
Be careful and don't try to make people happier than they want to be. Tension between identity and community, election as special people and yet the call to the nations, the children of Abraham. Election and call to mission.
Paul: Practiced exclusion in a violent way at the beginning. Transformed by the vision. You do to them, you do to me. Blinded by love, he sees truth. Acute embarrassment of his early role in his letters. His account of the transformation is different than what Luke says. God had set him apart from his birth. Jeremiah, "the Lord called me from birth, to be a light to the nations." All people, Jews and Gentiles, all embraced. God identified not only with the center but also those on the margins. Defining memories and symbols of the Bible, Paul saw anew in Jesus Christ.
Breathing out, breathing in…Reaching out, drawing in, fundamental mission of the church. Reach out to include. Not optional views or choices, but the fundamental parts of the Christian mission.
Experience of exclusion of so many people also illumines and provides wisdom for so many challenges of our time. Poor, ideology, social and religious prejudice, Islamophobia, anti-semiticism, abuse of children vs protection of power and role, Ability and strength that gives people strength to cross boundaries.
We are human beings first, before Christian, Jewish, Islam.


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Little Packington AP/CP
Parish-level Unit
Social Structure
Agriculture & Land Use
Social class and socio-economic groups. Concentrations of professionals, and of unskilled labourers.
How we use the land; crops and farm animals.
Total Population 1801 to 1961: Population fell from 140 in 1801 to 68 in 1961.
Occupational Structure in 1881:
Ancient Parish
F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 450.
Little Packington AP/CP, Warwickshire
LITTLE PACKINGTON Preferred English F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 450.
PACKINGTON LITTLE Alternate English 1801 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
This unit was associated with the following other units:
Nature of association
was succeeded by LITTLE PACKINGTON EP Ecclesiastical Parish F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 450.
WARWICKSHIRE Ancient County F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 450.
MERIDEN PLU/RegD Poor Law Union/Reg. District F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 450.
HEMLINGFORD Hundred Ancient District F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 450.
MERIDEN RSD Sanitary District F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 450.
MERIDEN RD Local Government District F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 450.
MERIDEN Registration sub-District 1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911'.
We know of no boundary changes affecting this unit.
We know of no units which were contained within this unit.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Little Packington AP/CP through time | Census tables with data for the Parish-level Unit, A Vision of Britain through Time.


I have only started using Winscp today so maybe this is a very elementary error on my part. I am uploading files to 1and1 for a website written with NetObjects 15, I am on XP. When I look at the website online the text html files have all uploaded perfectly but there are no images. I have just tried re-uploading all the images after a local publish from the left hand side of the screen using "Select all" but I get the message saying that "The destination directory already contains..." each and every jpeg. It would seem that the links from the pages to the jpegs are missing. There have been no changes made to the filenames, they are all exactly as they were originally.
Could someone please spot what I am doing wrong? Many thanks.
A common problem is that Windows is case insensitive, while *nix servers are case sensitive. So if your link says Image.jpeg, but the file is image.jpeg, it will work locally on Windows, but won't work on the *nix server.


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PS4 Pro: Dynamic 4K gaming & 4K entertainment
System & Hardware :
Sound & Display
Find out more about visual enhancements the PlayStation Pro brings to gaming and entertainment.
What is 4K?
4K is almost four times higher definition than standard (1080p HD). Though all PS4 systems have HDR capabilities, you can only get 4K with the PS4 Pro system because of its increased processing power. Availability of enhanced image quality depends on your home entertainment set-up.
Whether a game is released in 4K is down to the developer, as they can develop a title in 4K or add a patch. Whether a developer decides on 4K depends on what they choose to use the PS4 Pro system's extra power for; to add frames for smoother gameplay or add pixels for smoother graphics.
There will be no PS4 Pro only games – all games can be played on all PS4 systems, but upgraded image quality will be limited to systems with 4K capabilities.
The PS4 Pro automatically selects the best available resolution. To know more, check how to change PS4 Pro resolution.
When you have a PlayStation VR processor unit and headset connected to your PS4 Pro this may limit the definition displayed on your TV. You can find out more here.
Native vs adaptive 4K
Some games are native 4K while others are adaptive. The difference is whether the developer has created the game in 4K (native) or whether they have added the facility for the PS4 Pro to 'upscale' the standard image (adaptive).
If you're unsure whether a game is native or adaptive, please check with the publisher who will be able to provide the most up to date information on this.
The picture quality you'll see depends on the type of display device (TV, projector, etc.) you have. The following information is dependent on 4K/HDR being correctly set up on both your PS4 system and your display device:
4K (2160p) content
Full HD (1080p) content
Non Full HD (720p or less) content
Full HD (1080p) display device Limited to 1080p Displayed in 1080p Optimised to 1080p
4K (2160p) display device Native 4K (2160p) Adaptive to 4K (2160p)
Games available with PS4 Pro enhancements


Some days creativity comes easy, some days, not so much. I never received formal training in my profession, so there are times when I take on a job and feel like I'm in way over my head. When you're self taught, most of the time you only learn new techniques when you have to use them, and in that moment, its sink or swim. But I've come a long way, and I never would have gotten this far if it hadn't been for the challenges that have come my way.
So even though they're often intimidating, even though I'm tempted to give in to the anxiety and say it can't be done, I'm grateful for the challenges that have pushed me to learn and inspired me to grow.


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Czech spy agency says Russia built cyberattack network
Posted: Oct 21, 2019 / 06:58 AM EDT / Updated: Oct 21, 2019 / 06:58 AM EDT
PRAGUE (AP) — The head of the Czech counterintelligence service says a Russian spying network that his agency broke up last year was meant to be used for cyberattacks against the Czech Republic and its foreign allies.
Michal Koudelka first spoke about his agency's actions against the network last year.
Speaking Monday at a security conference in the lower house of Parliament, Koudelka says his service, also known as BIS, cooperated with police's organized crime unit to completely paralyze the network that was created by Russia's spy service.
The investigation in the case has not been completed and Koudelka has not given any further details on it.
He has identified the Russian and Chinese spy services as the biggest threats to his country.


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Bella Poarch Net Worth, Salary and Earnings 2023
Bella Poarch's net worth 2023: Bella Poarch is a Filipina-American social media personality and singer. Curious to learn more about her? Read on as we take you through the biography, age, height, family, house, personal life, education, salary, earnings, and net worth of Bella Poarch. As a bonus, you'll also learn how the Tiktok sensation made her fortune.
1. Who is Bella Poarch and How Much is She Worth?
7. Bella Poarch Net Worth, Salary and Earnings 2023
Who is Bella Poarch and How Much is She Worth?
Full Name Bella Poarch
Date of Birth February 9, 1997
Profession Social Media Personality
Source of Wealth Social Media
Annual Salary $5 Million
Bella Poarch is a Filipina-American social media personality and singer with an estimated net worth of $10 million. Poarch is famous for creating the most liked video on TikTok with over 56 million likes. As a singer, she released her debut single "Build a Bitch" in May 2021.
As of the time of writing, the social media sensation has garnered over 89 million TikTok followers, ranking third most followed individual on the platform behind Charli D'Amelio and Khaby Lame. In 2021, Poarch signed a music record deal with Warner Records. The social media sensation has earned quite a fortune through her social profile, stay glued as we explore how Bella Poarch earned her wealth.
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Bella Poarch was born on February 9, 1997, in the Philippines to Filipino biological parents. She grew up with her grandmother until age three when she was adopted by her adoptive father. Her adoptive father is a white American who served in the US military and her adoptive mother is Filipino.
Poarch has two older adopted sisters and a brother. At age 13, her family moved to Texas due to her father's need for bypass surgery.
There is no record of her educational background.
In 2015, Poarch was enlisted in the United States Navy where she served for four years before retiring in 2019. She worked with the military based in Japan and Hawaii.
Poarch started her TikTok account in January 2020. She started off by posting gaming and cosplay content. In August 2020, she gained popularity when her lip sync videos went viral becoming TikTok's most liked videos of all time. Thereafter, she launched her YouTube channel and other social media handles.
That same year, she launched a limited clothing line RIPNDIP x Paca Collaboration. She also gained more popularity when two large professional Esports organizations – 100 Thieves and FaZe Clan showed interest in her. In May 2021, she signed a record deal with Warner Records.
Poarch released her debut single "Build a Bitch" in May 2021.
Who is Bella Poarch's boyfriend 25? The 25-year old social media sensation has kept her relationship off the media. Although she is yet to officially confirm her relationship status, we can assume that Bella Poarch is single. However, they have been rumours linking her to Kylie Jenner's ex, rapper, Tyga.
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Bella Poarch has an impressive number of fans on her social media pages where she shares a bit of her personal life and work-related stuff. As of the time of writing, Bella Poarch has over 14.2 million Instagram followers. Poarch has over 1 million Twitter followers. On Facebook, Poarch has over 4.9 million followers. Bella Poarch has also amassed over 89 million TikTok followers.
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As of January 2023, Bella Poarch has an estimated net worth of $10 million. Poarch earns her net worth from social media influencing and music career. She also earns money through brand promotions, endorsements, and promotions.
Poarch has an annual salary of $5 million. Bella Poarch is one of the highest-earning TikTok personalities in the world. According to reports, Poarch earns between $50,000 to $100,000 for a sponsored post on her social media accounts. She also earns about $25,000 annually from her YouTube channel which has garnered over 647,000 subscribers with over 49 million video views.


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Global Warming Contrarians Part 2: 1998, El Niño, and Ocean Heat Content
Global Warming Contrarians Part 3: Hiding the Decline of Ice
Did Spanish Astronomers Steal A Dwarf Planet?
By James Wight in Astronomy
In 2005, a controversy erupted in the world of astronomy over who should be credited with the discovery of a distant dwarf planet then known by the temporary name 2003 EL61. The object in question is located in the Kuiper Belt, a doughnut-shaped icy region of the solar system that lies beyond Neptune. It is classified as a "dwarf planet" — which, counter-intuitively, is not actually a planet. According to the International Astronomical Union (IAU), the official naming body in astronomy, a planet must
(a) orbit the Sun,
(b) be massive enough to have a spherical shape,
(c) be massive enough to dominate its region of the solar system, and
(d) not be a moon.
Dwarf planets are almost planets but not quite – they satisfy criteria (a) and (b), but not (c). There are four other objects officially classified as dwarf planets (although many more may qualify): Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter; Pluto, a large Kuiper Belt Object (KBO); Makemake, another large KBO; and Eris, a large object in the region beyond the main Kuiper Belt, the scattered disk.
Pluto has been known for decades and Ceres for centuries, but Eris and Makemake are much more recent finds, discovered in 2005 by a group of astronomers led by Mike Brown at the Department of Geological and Planetary Sciences at Caltech. As for 2003 EL61, not only has Brown's team claimed its discovery, but so has a rival team led by Jose-Luis Ortiz of the Andalusian Astrophysics Institute in Granada, Spain.
For a decade, Brown surveyed the sky for distant solar system bodies, using the Samuel Oschin Telescope at Palomar Observatory (the search began in 1998 and finally came to an end in 2008). His colleague Chad Trujillo programmed the telescope to look at a small patch of the sky each night and take a series of three images to single out any objects that moved relative to the background stars. Then a computer would sift through the images and pick out anything that did move, and in the morning Brown would view the interesting images in his office in Pasadena, California. When he found a distant object (the slower an object moves, the further away it must be), he and two colleagues (David Rabinowitz and Chad Trujillo) would study it in detail. Brown and his colleagues benefited from advances in technology: rather than the old-fashioned photographic plates that Clyde Tombaugh used to discover Pluto, they used a modern CCD (charge-coupled device) camera which is ten times more sensitive. Because they didn't know in advance where to look to find an interesting object, they systematically surveyed the entire section of sky that could be seen from Palomar. Unusually, their survey had no name, though Brown jokingly referred to it as "Three Guys at a Telescope (TGT)".
Brown and his colleagues already had a track record of interesting discoveries, with objects such as Quaoar, Orcus, and Sedna under their belts. Sedna was more distant than any other trans-Neptunian object then known, but was discovered at the closest point of its 11,214-year orbit, 11 billion kilometres from the Sun, far beyond the main Kuiper Belt. This prompted the team of astronomers to go over all their old images looking for slower-moving objects. It paid off in December 2004 when they found 2003 EL61 on one of those images. They intended to announce their discovery at a conference in September 2005, along with their two other big catches Eris and Makemake, to give them time to study the objects in detail and prepare the relevant scientific papers.
But Ortiz's team made their move first. On 27 July, they announced to the IAU Minor Planet Center that two days before, Pablo Santos-Sanz had discovered a large KBO on images they had taken two years previously. Brown realised at once that it was the same object his group had been studying for months. He accepted defeat gracefully, knowing that priority for scientific discoveries is determined by who is first to publish, and sent an email to Ortiz congratulating him on his discovery. However, some within the Minor Planet Center were suspicious. Ortiz and Santos-Sanz were relatively unknown, and their "discovery" of 2003 EL61 on two-year-old images came less than a week after Brown's team had published an abstract using the codename "K40506A".
At first, Brown naively waved those suspicions aside. Then, on the evening of 28 July, he discovered that a quick Google search for "K40506A" turned up unintentionally public observation logs kept by the Small and Moderate Aperture Research Telescope System (SMARTS), which they had used to track the object. Anyone with an internet connection, a knowledge of orbital dynamics, and a telescope could have located the object and claimed the discovery as their own.
Even worse for Brown's team, the SMARTS website also contained logs of their observations of Eris and Makemake. They realised anybody who accessed the logs would be able to "discover" these objects too. Due to this unfortunate security risk, Brown was forced to flout normal scientific protocol and announce these two other discoveries prematurely. On 29 July, he notified the Minor Planet Center and called a press conference, announcing that he had discovered the "tenth planet" (but that's another story).
Brown explained to the media about the observation logs, and before long a major controversy was raging in the minor planet community. Brown was careful to emphasise that he had no solid evidence of dishonesty on the part of the Spanish team. Ortiz and Santos-Sanz would neither confirm nor deny that they had consulted the American team's observation logs. Then, a SMARTS administrator ascertained that the logs had indeed been accessed by a computer used by the rival team of astronomers — the same computer they later used to email the news of their discovery to the Minor Planet Center. This computer visited the logs several times on 26 and 28 July, each time going straight to the page describing observations of K40506A.
Brown emailed the Andalusian Astrophysics Institute demanding an explanation. Ortiz replied a month later, continuing to evade the question of whether they had indeed accessed the SMARTS records. Instead, he accused Brown of harming science by not immediately announcing his discoveries. Brown responded that he was simply following standard scientific procedure:
Scientists make discoveries, they verify their discoveries, they carefully document their discoveries, and they submit papers to scientific journals. What they don't do is make discoveries and immediately hold press conferences to announce them […] Our intent in all cases is to go from discovery to announcement in under nine months. We think that is a pretty fast pace.
Ortiz repeated the same criticism in a letter published in the Minor Planet Mailing List, where he finally admitted having looked at the SMARTS archive. However, he claimed, 2003 EL61 had already been discovered by Santos-Sanz the day before, and they had only checked Brown's logs to confirm that both groups had discovered the same object. If the observing records were on a publicly accessible website (analogous to books in a library), was it unethical to look at them? Mike Brown's view on this question of scientific ethics was unequivocal:
Any information used from another source must be acknowledged and cited. One is not allowed to go to a library, find out about a discovery in a book, and then claim that discovery as your own with no mention of having read it in a book. One is not even allowed to first make a discovery and then go to the library and realise that someone else independently made the same discovery and then not acknowledge what you learned in the library.
Depending on which Ortiz and his colleagues did, said Brown, their failure to mention the Caltech observations could be considered scientific dishonesty or even fraud. On 14 August 2005, he filed a complaint with the IAU, but no official investigation was ever launched. While the IAU takes no official position, public statements made by Brian Marsden, head of the Minor Planet Center, suggest that he sympathises with Brown for not wanting to announce discoveries prematurely.
During those nine months from discovery to announcement, Brown and his colleagues study an object in detail, so that when they announce the discovery they have some good science to tell to the scientific community and a detailed story to tell to the public. Instead of simply saying "there is a big object out there", which was all that Ortiz's team knew about 2003 EL61 when they announced it, Brown's team are able to make much more detailed announcements.
At the time of Ortiz's announcement, Brown, Trujillo, and Rabinowitz already knew that 2003 EL61 had a small moon (it is now known to have two), which had allowed them to determine its mass, about 31% of Pluto's. 2003 EL61 averages 6.5 billion kilometres from the Sun, and its orbit is tilted by 28° relative to the ecliptic. It is about 1,265 kilometres across, and rotates faster than any other known KBO (its day lasts a mere four hours); this rapid rotation causes it to have an elongated shape which is often likened to a football. Brown and his colleagues have deduced from 2003 EL61's rotation that it has a density of up to 3.3g/cm3. This suggests that it is made almost entirely of rock, but we know from its spectrum that its surface is pure ice. Apparently, 2003 EL61 is a large rocky body with a thin crust of ice, a structure that Brown has compared to that of an M&M. Its moons, on the other hand, appear to be icy.
Brown and his fellow astronomers think all these oddities can be explained by an ancient collision with another large KBO. According to this hypothesis, 2003 EL61 started out billions of years ago as a body similar to today's Pluto, a large ball of half-ice and half-rock. The force of the impact stripped away most of the outer layer of ice, leaving a core of mostly rock. The angle of the impact was such that it caused 2003 EL61's rotation to go into overdrive, which in turn elongated it into its unusual shape. Some of the debris blasted off the surface became 2003 EL61's moons.
This hypothesis is supported by the later discovery that several other relatively large KBOs (ranging from 200-900 kilometres in diameter) appear to have originated from 2003 EL61 in the same manner. Unlike most KBOs, which have more complex surfaces, these objects all have surfaces composed of almost pure ice like 2003 EL61's moons. What's more, they are all in very similar orbits to 2003 EL61, forming a "family" of about ten known objects. There are many such collisional families in the asteroid belt, but this is the first known case in the Kuiper Belt. Interestingly, the impact that created all these bodies is believed to have occurred near a region of space where orbits are unstable because of interactions with Neptune; so many chunks of the debris would have been ejected from the solar system or flung inwards into the inner solar system to become comets. 2003 EL61 itself is in an unstable orbit and may become a comet sometime in the next billion years or so.
For three years, 2003 EL61 remained unnamed because it was unclear which group of astronomers should get the discovery credit and hence naming rights. In 2006, Brown's group submitted a name for 2003 EL61: Haumea, after the goddess of childbirth in Hawaiian mythology. (Brown also wanted to name the two satellites Hi'iaka and Namaka after two of Haumea's children, who were supposed to have sprung from parts of her body.) Ortiz's group also submitted a name: Ataecina, after an underworld goddess associated with the Greek goddess Persephone. Although in September 2008 the IAU finally approved the name Haumea, as proposed by Brown, their press release was vague about who should be considered the discoverer. Brian Marsden, told New Scientist that this was done deliberately to avoid an international incident.
So which group of astronomers do get the discovery credit? Unfortunately, the IAU has no protocol for resolving a dispute such as this one. The controversy has dragged on for nearly five years now, and it may be that it will never be resolved.
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The Booster20A module increases the maximum current of the PGSTAT302N to 20 Ampere. The compliance voltage of the system is 20 V in combination with the Booster20A.
With its fast response time, the Autolab Booster20A has been optimized to perform electrochemical impedance measurements, in combination with the FRA32M module, on fuel cells, batteries and super-capacitors. The booster is able to handle active as well as passive cells. The Booster20A can be used to measure the charge and discharge characteristics of super-capacitors, perform measurements on fuel cells or perform DC or AC measurements on large area electrodes.
50 mOhm dummy cell for testing the Booster20A.
The Booster20A is fitted with an emergency stop button which can be position in close proximity to the instrument. This button can be used to immediatly disconnect the Booster20A from the cell if necessary.


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Monetary charges imposed upon individuals who have been convicted of a crime or a lesser offense.
A fine is a criminal sanction. A civil sanction, by contrast, is called a penalty. The term fine is sometimes used to describe a penalty, but the terms fine and penalty should be kept separate because the consequences are different: nonpayment of a criminal fine can result in incarceration, whereas nonpayment of a civil penalty cannot.
Federal and state criminal statutes authorize fines for certain offenses. Depending on the crime, a fine may be imposed in addition to incarceration, restitution, community service, or PROBATION. The amount of a fine varies with the severity of the offense. State and federal criminal codes generally break down felonies and misdemeanors into classes or degrees. In Kentucky, for example, the fine for a violation or a class B misdemeanor may not exceed $250. For a class A misdemeanor, the fine may not exceed $500 (Ky. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 534.040). For a felony conviction, Kentucky courts are bound by statute to fine the defendant not less than $1,000, and not more than $10,000 or double the gain from the commission of the offense, whichever is greater (Ky. Rev. Stat. Ann. §534.030). Two or more felonies committed through a single act may be fined separately in Kentucky, but the aggregate may not exceed $10,000 or double the amount of the illicit gain, whichever is greater.
In federal court, a felony is subject to a fine of not more than $250,000. A fine of $250,000 is also authorized for a misdemeanor resulting in death. Fines for class A misdemeanors not resulting in death may reach $100,000, and similar class B and C misdemeanors may result in a fine of up to $5,000 (18 U.S.C.A. § 3571). Federal law also allows a court to fine a defendant who has financially benefited from a crime, an amount twice that illicitly gained.
Federal and state laws authorize fines of similarly scaled amounts for organizations. The maximum fine for organizations is much higher than that for individuals. For instance, under 18U.S.C.A. § 3571, an organization guilty of a felony may be fined as much as $500,000. Kentucky
A California roadside sign warns of a fine for littering. The amount of a fine typically varies with the severity of the offense. In California, for example, a person convicted of littering must pay a mandatory fine of no less than 100 dollars and no more than 1,000 dollars for a first time offense.
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also doubles the fine limit for organizations. For example, an organization in Kentucky that commits a felony may be fined $20,000, up from $10,000 for an individual (Ky. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 534.050).
States also authorize fines for specific crimes. In Kentucky, for example, a fine of not more than $2,500 and not less than $1,000 is required for the illegal sale of tobacco to a minor (§ 438.313). Statutes fix the maximum fine for a given offense, and statutes can be changed, so fine amounts can change.
In state courts, sentencing is usually left to the discretion of the judge. If a defendant is found by a court to be indigent, the court generally will not impose a fine (see, e.g., Ky. Rev. Stat. Ann. §§ 534.030, 534.040). A determination of indigence generally involves an examination of several factors, including income, earning capacity, financial resources, the burden the fine may impose on persons dependent on the defendant, and the need to deprive the defendant of any illegally obtained gains. Where an indigent defendant is convicted of an offense that calls for incarceration, the court generally will not impose a fine in addition to the incarceration.
Federal courts must sometimes follow prison sentences mandated by federal statute, but the decision of whether to impose a fine in addition to any sentence is generally within the judge's discretion. Both state and federal courts may later reduce the amount of a fine. The statutory repayment period of a fine may be extended upon request of the court, and payments may be allowed in installments.
The U.S. Supreme Court has placed limits on incarceration for nonpayment of fines. In Williams v. Illinois, 399 U.S. 235, 90 S. Ct. 2018, 26 L. Ed. 2d 586 (1970), the defendant, Willie E. Williams, was convicted of petty theft and sentenced to one year in prison and a $500 fine, the maximum sentence allowed under the applicable statute. When Williams was unable to pay the fine upon completing his year in jail, he was kept incarcerated to "work off" the fine at a rate of $5 a day. Williams appealed, and the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that, under the EQUAL PROTECTION CLAUSE of the FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT, no state may increase the sentence of a defendant beyond the maximum period specified by statute for failure to pay a fine.
Shortly after the Williams case, the Supreme Court ruled that a state may not convert a fine into incarceration if the conviction warrants only a fine. In Tate v. Short, 401 U.S. 395, 91 S. Ct. 668, 28 L. Ed. 2d 130 (1971), the defendant, Preston A. Tate, was unable to pay $425 in fines for traffic offenses and was committed to prison to work off his fine at a rate of $5 a day. The Supreme Court ruled that a state may not "impos[e] a fine as a sentence and then automatically conver[t] it into a jail term solely because the defendant is indigent and cannot forthwith pay the fine in full."
Neither the Williams ruling nor the Tate ruling prevents a court from imprisoning a defendant who is able, but refuses, to pay a fine. The court may do so after finding that the defendant was somehow responsible for the failure to pay and that alternative forms of punishment would be inadequate to meet the state's interest in punishment and deterrence (Beardenv. Georgia, 461 U.S. 660, 103 S. Ct. 2064, 76 L. Ed. 2d 221 [1983]).
In a case of willful nonpayment, the court may order incarceration for a period of time specified under statute. In Kentucky, a prison term of up to six months may be ordered if the unpaid fine was imposed for the conviction of a felony. Nonpayment of a misdemeanor fine may result in a prison term of up to one-third the maximum authorized term for the offense committed. For a violation, the maximum term is ten days. This amount can be cumulative. For example, if a person refuses to pay the fines for ten violations, that person can be incarcerated for one hundred days (Ky. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 534.060).
Fines are often used to pay for incarceration and other sentencing costs. In 1984, Congress passed the Comprehensive CRIME CONTROL ACT (codified in scattered sections of 5, 8, 29, 41, 42, and 50 App. U.S.C.A.), which established the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Commission. According to section 5E1.2 of the act, a federal court shall impose a fine that is at least sufficient to pay the costs of imprisonment, probation, or supervised release order. Many states have followed suit, and fines are increasingly used to defray the costs of punishment.
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You can expect a lot from the 2015 Nissan Pathfinder. With fewer than 35,000 miles on the odometer, this 4 door sport utility vehicle prioritizes comfort, safety and convenience. Under the hood you'll find a 6 cylinder engine with more than 250 horsepower, and for added security, dynamic Stability Control supplements the drivetrain. Four wheel drive allows you to go places you've only imagined. A wealth of standard features means that you no longer have to sacrifice. Like power windows, mirrors, and seats, front and rear reading lights, a blind spot monitoring system, an outside temperature display, heated front and rear seats, front fog lights, cruise control, and leather upholstery. In the event of a rollover collision, side curtain airbags provide additional protection for outboard seated passengers. This vehicle has achieved Certified Pre-Owned status, by passing Nissan's comprehensive certification process, including a comprehensive 156 point inspection! Our team is professional, and we offer a no-pressure environment. We'd be happy to answer any questions that you may have. Stop in and take a test drive!


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using System;
using System.Xml.Serialization;

namespace EnrollmentStation.Code.DataObjects
{
    [Serializable]
    public class EnrolledYubikey
    {
        [XmlAttribute]
        public int DeviceSerial { get; set; }

        [XmlAttribute]
        public string Username { get; set; }

        [XmlAttribute]
        public string CA { get; set; }

        [XmlAttribute]
        public byte[] ManagementKey { get; set; }

        [XmlAttribute]
        public string Chuid { get; set; }

        [XmlAttribute]
        public string PukKey { get; set; }

        [XmlAttribute]
        public DateTime EnrolledAt { get; set; }

        public YubikeyVersions YubikeyVersions { get; set; }

        public CertificateDetails Certificate { get; set; }

        public EnrolledYubikey()
        {
            YubikeyVersions = new YubikeyVersions();
            Certificate = new CertificateDetails();
        }
    }
}


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Tom has no employees, owns his own equipment, and is a one-man show; therefore he has extremely low overhead costs and is why he can perform pool removal so inexpensively. Other company quotes were $6,200 and $7,500 - $10,000. Any and all concerns were thoroughly discussed and Tom was very responsive and willing to adjust to ease any issues that arose. Note that black dirt can be added as an extra expense but no grass seeding or sod is included.
He was very prompt, arriving at the appointment time. His bid was detailed and he followed up with an email suggesting some alternatives to the steps we discussed. We accepted a different bid but I am sure he would have done a good job. We would use him in the future.
They were very responsive and let me know when they were going to be a little late. They provided a very thorough bid with all the specs clearly noted. I'm sure they would have done a very nice job but we went with a different bid.
It was a pleasure dealing with Nate Schumm. He gave a timely estimate that, while not the cheapest, was still well below most of the others I received. He carefully explained how he would address the problem of crumbling foundation and blocks at the front of the garage. He provided pictures of similar problems that he had fixed. The only bids I received that were less were obviously for sub-standard work in comparison, based on how others proposed to solve the problem .Nate was on hand to do the work himself, along with a helper, and they had the necessary equipment to do the job properly.
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Besides electric, I hired him to do a lot of the rehab of the house. Taping and mudding, put up new sheet rock in the bathroom, built closet in 2nd floor and put up access doors, added insulation, removed bathroom window and wall, and matched vinyl siding to cover up window opening. There was no woodwork, he measured oak and put woodwork around windows and all internal doors and floors and replaced 2 basement windows.
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I did not hire this contractor nor any other contractor at this point.
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Writer-director Sang-ho Yeon's animated horror film serves as a prequel to 2016's "Train to Busan". A concerned father struggles to locate his runaway daughter in the vicinity of Seoul Station. When he finds her, he is shocked by the discovery that she has become a prostitute. Before long, both are traumatized and overwhelmed by a lethal zombie epidemic in the metropolis.~Augustine Chay
Yeon Sang-ho
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Rating 5 out of 5 stars with 3 reviews
ViperJoker
Nice prequel
Tied in very nicely with Train to Busan. If you're a fan of zombies you'll enjoy this film.
This is a prequel to train to busan And it's awesome. Love the anime style and story.
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Creepy and entertaining
This movie delivered a thrill ride that kept me on the edge of my seat.


Get into the Christmas spirit with Sidmouth Patcher and Quilter's annual bazaar.
Start or finish your Christmas shopping by dropping in to the Masonic Hall on Monday (November 26).
A selection of wonderful table runners and table mats will be on display, which have been made by members for a recent competition.
Another 25 additional mats and runners will be on sale along with a huge variety of gifts, including wall hangings, bags, soft toys and Christmas decorations that have been made by the group.
Entry costs £1 and a portion of the proceeds will be donated to charity.
The event will run from 10.30am to 1pm.
For further information please contact Christine Badger 01297 624077 or Angela Crowther 01395 519547.


Massive bi-folding doors allow this artist's retreat in Washington by architecture firm Olson Kundig to open to the outdoors and accommodate large pieces of art.
Situated in the rural area of Trout Lake, the compound is made up of four buildings arranged in two clusters. The clients, an artist couple, wanted studio spaces that would be separate from their living quarters.
"Both owners are artists who incorporate the natural landscape into their work," said a statement from Seattle-based Olson Kundig. "He is a painter and multimedia artist, and she is a textile artist, photographer and designer."
The first grouping is a T-shaped structure that comprises the main residence, work spaces, and a carport beneath the same roof. A covered courtyard connects the intersection of the three volumes.
A footpath leads to the secondary building, which contains another large art studio and guest quarters. "Here, the owners work on their own projects, and occasionally host retreats and community-based art workshops," said Olson Kundig.
The main residence has a single bedroom on the upper level, while the ground floor is for living spaces. The sleeping area is accessible via a staircase in the entry foyer.
On the ground floor, a double-sided fireplace separates a library from the open kitchen, living and dining room. Here, expansive folding doors open out to the landscape.
"In all four buildings, large bi-folding doors and sliding barn doors open up the spaces completely to the outdoors, allowing for the movement of large artworks and equipment, as well as an intimate connection with the environment," said the architects.
In addition to these openings, a series of clerestories runs along the length of the longitudinal volume, bringing more light into the space.
Similarly to the main home, the guest annexe draws cues from vernacular architecture. "The buildings recall the agricultural forms of the local built environment, but as is our nature in our designs, we sought to take that context and evolve it to a more emphatic modern language," said Tom Kundig, one of the firm's principals.
The architects sought to use simple materials with easy upkeep. Interior finishes include polished concrete and plywood, and the building's steel structure was left exposed.
Outside, dark wooden cladding covers the sides of the building, while corrugated metal is used for the roofs. The owners participated in the construction process by weathering these materials themselves.
Kundig founded his firm with partner Jim Olson in 1967, and the firm has built extensively in the western United States.
Other projects include a home in Idaho with several automated features, and an expansion to a tiny cabin that Jim Olson built in 1959 as an architecture student.


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18 Cadence
18 Cadence is a new interactive text experience by Aaron Reed: he calls it a "story kit" rather than a story or storyworld or interactive fiction. This is fair enough. Scraps of text describe the rooms in the house at 18 Cadence during each year from 1901 to 2000, as well as the objects and the inhabitants. To manipulate the story, one moves back and forth through the years, or through the rooms by clicking on a floor plan. Different inhabitants have different understandings of what is going on. The story of the house includes both personal histories — deaths, betrayals, love affairs, weddings and births, addiction and depression — and hints of the history of the 20th century, social change and prejudice. During the house's turbulent years in the 90s, inhabitants come and go quickly, and there are lots of roommates, so it is hard to care as much about any one of them as they flicker past: a hint of social disintegration. But there are also props that last through the years, features that persist and change.
If the piece were only that much, it would be interesting, an exploratory text heavily tied to the history of the house. But each scrap of text can be moved and manipulated by the player. Descriptions of objects can be juxtaposed, glued together into new sentences or simply left on top of one another. Characters, ages, room names and dates, actions and motivations can be laid out in new arrangements, and the arrangements shared with other readers. If you want to read things that others have written with/about 18 Cadence, you can browse through, looking at alternate arrangements.
Aaron draws an analogy with fridge magnet poetry, and there's a bit of that feeling of play and sometimes randomness. But it's also an experience that invites the interactor to discover her own themes in the work. Because the scraps can overlap, obscuring one another, it's possible to replace intended meanings with others. Sometimes the effect is intentionally comical:
Sometimes it's not, as in this tale about the deaths of three sons of the household:
And sometimes the juxtapositions call out themes or possibilities that are less explicit in the work. I encountered one disturbing cluster of text that seemed to hint at incest, though that story wasn't obvious on the surface of the text. Working out what is supposed to have happened to all of the characters is one sort of semi-puzzle; working out new or different perspectives on their experiences is another.
As the screenshots should make obvious, this is a really lovingly textured piece of work. When you lay out scraps of words, they drift into attractive positions, perhaps skew a little bit as though you were arranging them on a table. Dragging together two scraps that refer to the same scene will glue those scraps into a continuous sentence, but the X-Acto knife tool will separate them again. It's all a pleasingly tactile, precise and elegant interface, and reminded me of some of the attractive work inkle has done with text; also of Andrew Plotkin's My Secret Hideout. I recommend giving 18 Cadence a look.
ETA: Additional comments from Aaron on his work.
Author Emily ShortPosted on April 4, 2013 April 4, 2013 Categories interactive poetry, narrative of objects, prose and text in games
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Abigail Bowman says:
Great review as always! Was delighted to see that those comical examples were mine :D I also made another (more serious) mini narrative in 18 Cadence called "Emily Cries" based on the two different Emilies in the house: http://18cadence.textories.com/index.html?id=185
I feel like I've been waiting a long time for an IF work/experience like this, Aaron really did an amazing job.
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Fred Dickey's Island of Human Drama
A novelist who believes every life is an adventure.
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They Say Nice Guys Finish Last; Welcome to the Game, Tobiah
By Fred Dickey
Originally published May 20, 2012.
An open letter to Tobiah Pettus:
Tobiah, now that you're officially on the ballot for mayor of San Diego, joining the major candidates, there are some things I must tell you as a follow-up to our interview. For openers, there are four chairs at this table, and you're left standing. That might seem hurtful, but I mean you no harm. Remember, you choose to walk onto this stage.
To your credit, you outpersevered eight other candidates who disappeared along the way, including a guy who calls himself "Rob Girly Girly Harter." For selfish column-writing reasons, I'm only sorry that ol' Girly Girly didn't also make the cut.
Typically, in looking for a mayoralty candidate who has nada-zip-zero chance of winning, the writer seeks out the kook, the loser who provides a guffaw in the morning paper with a quixotic platform. That's not you. You're serious.
But on election night, June 5, your four competitors will be in spacious headquarters strewn with papier-mâché streamers, balloons and other campaign clichés. The winners will be celebrating with champagne, the losers will use it to dull the pain. You, on the other hand, will be at home in Tierrasanta eating pizza with your wife and watching an old movie. There are reasons for that, which I will attempt to explain as we go on.
It's pointless to ask a deep-under dog if he thinks he can win. What's he to say? Instead, I asked your wife, Holly, a friendly elementary school teacher. She hesitated, then declared, "I believe he could get a lot of votes if people knew what a good man he is."
Tobiah, you're getting a taste of political reality. "There are only five candidates now," you complained, "and I haven't been invited to any debates or campaign events. I'm excluded from everything. The media has paid no attention to me. That's not right."
Well, I think that's a righteous beef, but you haven't played the game. You haven't recruited and organized supporters or raised one dollar in contributions outside your family. Money is the mother's milk of politics, as the pros like to say.
My impression is you're a bright, well-meaning chap of 37. Your devotion to your wife and newborn son is lavishly proclaimed on your website. You're a construction superintendent with a good education. You have my admiration for those things. However, it's my grim duty to tell you that some of your ideas need to go back to the drawing board. Don't feel singled out by that; a lot of what your major opponents say doesn't pass the giggle test.
You want to get the homeless off the streets; OK, but wishing won't put them in a warm bed. You need concrete ideas.
You want to fix up the streets. That's good, but, again, you need a blueprint.
You believe in some fine things — rebuilding infrastructure, fighting litter, supporting police, keeping the Chargers in town, protecting city workers' pensions and many other things, including a pledge that "I will be your cheerleader."
You write boldly, in large type: "There is no crisis in San Diego!" You might have a tough sell on that one, Tobiah.
In fairness, you didn't have job-seeking campaign consultants circling your house or policy researchers eager to dig into musty files for stump-speech talking points. No fat-cat money was dangled on its strings in front of you. No, it's just been you and Google and a keyboard.
You're a go-getter with a warm smile. You put together an Internet search engine, Yahogle.com, that shows some inventiveness, though its commercial potential is not apparent. But at least it might annoy Yahoo by the play on the name.
Some people might laugh at you and your preordained last-place finish, but by golly, you didn't shy from the arena. Chutzpah may not always win, but it earns a nod and a smile.
You are being ignored by your four opponents. That's not a compliment, but on the other hand, were you a threat, they would slice, dice, hammer and nail you. There's some comfort in knowing that they'll only be doing that to each other, so just relax and enjoy the show.
Flaws you may have, Tobiah, but that doesn't mean your opponents are from some Lincolnian pantheon. There is Bob Filner, who may have tipped off something he keeps hidden by publicly cussing out a quivering baggage clerk and who, I personally think, is running for mayor because he was elbowed out of his congressional seat; Carl DeMaio, hated by those who see him as a ham-fisted union-buster on a quest to undermine pensions for beleaguered city workers; Bonnie Dumanis, who's put lots and lots of people in jail, and who will either take over City Hall or prosecute it, but will always have her big fat public pension to fall back on; or Nathan Fletcher, who loved the Republican Party until it didn't love back, and who may start campaigning in Marine camouflage any day now.
What each of those opponents has done is spend time at the wheel behind a government engine that sputters, clangs and sometimes runs out of gas, but generally lurches forward. You, however, haven't yet earned your political driver's license.
You tell me you've never been arrested, never gone bankrupt, don't do drugs, don't keep mistresses, don't even have overdue library books, and I'm not going to fact-check you. However, in this election, you're destined to be an afterthought because you haven't yet accepted that you don't earn the playing field without first mastering the practice field.
Some of these words may burn your ears, Tobiah, but you seem a nice fellow, and I do wish you well, so I owe you some parting advice:
If you want success in politics, start by ringing doorbells for your party, practice grinning and nodding every time a big-shot glances your way, run for a minor office, cozy up to money-guys with manicures and tailored suits. Then, who knows, we might someday call you a "major."
Yes, you're chasing a rainbow with a pot at the end, but in politics, that's often a chamber pot.
A final word, Tobiah: You're going to finish fifth in the June primary, guaranteed. But I wouldn't at all guarantee that any of the other four is a better person than you.
Fred Dickey of Cardiff is a novelist and award-winning magazine writer who believes every life is an adventure. He welcomes column ideas and other suggestions; contact him at [email protected].
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HomeFrance-StartupsParis-based Shift Technology becomes the latest insurtech unicorn in France after raising...
Paris-based Shift Technology becomes the latest insurtech unicorn in France after raising €183.2 million
By Arnaud Terrisse
Shift Technology, the French startup that has created a solution that enables its insurance clients to detect fraudulent claims, is now worth $1 billion after raising its fourth round of funding. The startup, which also operates in the UK and the US, will expand its team of data scientists, particularly in France.
The AI-based insuretech startup recently announced that it had raised $220 million or around €183.2 million in a series D from Advent International, Avenir Growth, Accel, Bessemer Venture Partners, General Catalyst, Iris Capital and Bpifrance. This latest funding should enable it to structure its R&D, while its offer has expanded since its foundation in 2013. Shift Technology initially focused on fraud detection, but the startup now intends to offer a tool capable of managing the entire chain. It also aims to continue its deployment in the UK and the US, strengthened by its recent unicorn status, whereby its valuation now exceeds one billion dollars.
Originally, the startup sought to facilitate the customer compensation process offered by insurers in the event of a claim – water damage, car accident, etc. Described as the number one fear of policyholders by Jeremy Jawish, CEO and co-founder of Shift Technology and, as such, a major issue for their clients. Once this brick was laid, during its first years of existence, the startup decided to go beyond declaration fraud by making its solution a decision-making aid for insurers. They now offer automated closure of claims files and detection of underwriting fraud. These complementary products are already in production with its customers, who are, to date, around one hundred in some 25 countries. This production was made possible thanks to the previous funding round of €53 million in March 2019.
Shift Technology says it has already analysed 2 billion claims on behalf of insurers since its inception. According to CEO Jeremy Jewish, they receive the data provided by insurers, as well as a number of public data about the claimant. Their algorithms read, among other things, the claim declaration before determining whether to file an appeal or carry out a check for money laundering. The Banque Postale has adopted its solution to accelerate the management of claims for its customers. So has the Axa group, which is also a user. For the latter, the aim is to "limit the manual actions that its employees have to carry out. And to satisfy its customers, Shift Technology is counting on its team of data scientists, which it claims to be "the largest in the insurance sector" and which will be further strengthened.
With 350 employees, the company says that recruitment will be the main focus of its investment strategy following its Series D. "We're going to recruit a lot in France and a little in the US," says Jérémy Jawish, who also wants to "approach the health insurance sub-sector more aggressively. Shift Technology says it wants to set up "the largest French centre dedicated to artificial intelligence in insurance" with 300 experts by 2023. With an underlying aim, the startup wants to show that "champions are being created in France". CEO Jérémy Jawish adds that the COVID-19 crisis has had "a big impact" on its activities according, but has not slowed down the pace of its market openings. A pace that should remain fairly steady.
Shift Technology aims to become an international player in its market. To do this, the french company is counting on its 'unique' model based on a single vertical – insurance again and again. However, competition, especially in the US, is a key driver for them to stay on top of their game. As a reminder, this Series D round brings the total amount of funds raised by the company since 2013 to $320 million (nearly €267 million).
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Mass Prepares For Retail Cannabis This Summer
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At the end of this month, Massachusetts will officially allow retail sales of recreational cannabis.
Voters first approved legal pot in the November 2016 election. Originally the state had set a deadline of Jan. 1, 2018, for when licensed retailers could start selling. However, Mass legislators soon extended that date to June 1 of this year, wanting more time to study the effects of recreational cannabis in other states that have already passed such laws, like Colorado and Washington.
Now the retail market in Massachusetts is poised to open up as summer sets in. As the Bay State approaches this historic moment, we take a look at what you can expect from the early-goings of commercial marijuana in Mass.
Retailers Are Far From Ready
Although licensed retailers will have the legal go-ahead to open up shop, consumers will be hard pressed to find much product.
July 1 also happens to be the date when the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission (CCC) will start authorizing retail or cultivation licenses. In the meantime, these businesses cannot grow product.
Even after license applications gain approval, the retail market will likely see a slow roll-out. Cannabis plants take time to grow and mature, usually many months, which means that available product will remain severely limited.
Moreover, Massachusetts law requires that potential licensees first perform local outreach by holding a public meeting, and also obtain a community agreement with their town or city, before the CCC will grant approval. This is another barrier against a rapidly developing retail market.
"I think it's going to be sparse, let's just be honest," said CCC Chairman Steven Hoffman about the Mass cannabis retail market after July 1. "There are going to be some number of people that are up and running that have all the municipal approvals necessary and have the ability to have supply. It's not going to be a large number"
"I really think it's going to play out over six to twelve months past July first," he added.
Many Municipalities Are Resisting
Despite the success of cannabis at the ballot box in 2016, the law has not exactly won widespread support among Massachusetts municipalities.
Towns and cities in the Bay State can vote on whether to permit pot retailers within their borders. So far, 189 of the 351 municipalities in the state have voted to ban retail stores, while most others have set restrictions against cannabis businesses.
While public opinion has increasingly swayed towards legal cannabis across the country, it's important to remember that margins at the ballot have been closer. The Massachusetts law garnered more than 3 million total votes, with "Yes" carrying the day by a slim 53.66% majority.
Retail Will First Happen At Medicinal Shops
The initial retail sales of cannabis in Massachusetts will happen at existing medicinal stores. The CCC first considered and approved retail and cultivation applications from these shops, before the July 1 deadline, meaning that some may be up and running for consumers eager to purchase retail product.
Problem is that not all of these shops — there are only two dozen in the state — plan to enter the retail market immediately. In summer of 2018, there may be no more than a handful of retail cannabis destinations in the Bay State.
So while this is the first summer of retail cannabis for Massachusetts, the market will likely not reach maturation for at least another six months to a year.


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The road ahead on the journey to Net Zero
The Government has set out ambitious targets to achieve Net Zero carbon emissions by 2050 – but developers will need to act now. Here's what developers need to know.
The term 'Net Zero' is one most of us have now heard – but it's a relatively new concept. It was first mentioned by climate scientists in 2009 in a paper on the effects of cumulative carbon dioxide emissions on global warming.
Just over a decade later, Net Zero is the driving force behind much national planning policy.
What is Net Zero and how will the UK achieve it?
Net Zero is defined as achieving a balance between the amount of greenhouse gas emissions produced and the amount removed from the atmosphere. In October 2021, the Government published its Net Zero Strategy. Subtitled 'Build Back Greener', the scale of its ambition left no doubt about the likely impact of Net Zero on policies and proposals in decades to come.
The strategy sets out the UK's aim to achieve Net Zero by 2050, describing it as 'a net win for people, for industry, for the UK and the planet' and closely linking the journey to net zero with the overall prosperity of the nation. This would see vast reductions in the use of emission-heavy fossil fuels leading to the growth of green energy industries such as on and offshore wind farms, electric vehicles and carbon capture and storage.
As the then Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, put it: "Our strategy for Net Zero is to lead the world in ending our contribution to climate change, while turning this mission into the greatest opportunity for jobs and prosperity since the industrial revolution."
The pressure has not let up since the publication of the strategy – and at the start of 2023 the chair of the Government's Net Zero Review, Chris Skidmore, made 129 recommendations while admitting that more could be done for the UK to reap the benefits of green growth.
How will Net Zero be delivered?
Net Zero is a hugely ambitious target, only reachable through a transformation of the way we live. It impacts on how we travel, how we heat our homes, use our land, what we buy and where our energy comes from, as well as the methods we use to assess, calculate and capture carbon and manage energy costs. Achieving Net Zero requires us all to play our part.
Planners and developers – both in residential and commercial property – bear a huge level of responsibility for meeting Net Zero targets, as some estimates assess that the built environment accounts for 40% of carbon emissions. The wider built environment sector including investors and financiers are following suit with increasing ethical lending requirements and strategies – for more on this see our piece on 'green financing'.
What does Net Zero mean for developers?
There is currently very little in law that relates to the delivery of Net Zero targets in planning, although we expect the legal framework to evolve over time.
However, there are very clear milestones along the pathway that will need to be met – and developers will need to act now to anticipate them.. For existing buildings, there may be a need to retrofit – a costly and laborious process but still preferable to knocking down buildings and starting again.
Developers will increasingly need to consider the development's whole lifeycle carbon emissions. This means during the construction phase, and also the operational energy consumption. Alongside this, incentives for greener finance options are on the increase, with green and sustainability linked loans becoming ever present. Owners, occupiers, developers and design consultants as well as built environment policy makers will all be required to inform policies and practices to achieve and define future Net Zero development.
These measures include:
Heating for homes and workspaces makes up a third of all UK carbon emissions.
There is a declared 'ambition' of 2035 to phase out gas boilers in new homes – in line with the government's goal of decarbonising the power generation industry by the same date.
The Review states that a key recommendation is to have gas free homes and appliances (which means no new or replacement boilers), and all homes sold to be achieve an Energy Performance Rating (EPC) C by 2033.
The alternatives to gas boilers will be low carbon technologies. Currently, electric heat pumps are the most advanced of these. The Review goes on to say that the Government should provide certainty by 2024 on the new and replacement gas boiler phase out date to drive industry and investor confidence, and recommends bringing the proposed date of 2035 forward and legislating for 2033.
For existing homes, there will a £450million, three-year Boiler Upgrade Scheme to offer £5,000 to £6,000 grants to households towards replacing gas boilers with heat pumps.
Also set for 2035 is the phasing out of fossil fuels for new vehicles – so production of diesel and petrol vehicles will cease in favour of electric, hydrogen or biofuel-powered alternatives. This means developers should plan for electric car charging points to be included as standard in any new development.
Currently, Building Regulations in the UK stipulate that every new home created should have an electric vehicle charge point. For residential buildings with more than 10 parking spaces, there must be cabling for at least one charge point per dwelling, and for all new non-residential buildings with more than 10 parking spaces this applies to 20 per cent of parking spaces.
We can expect that figure to rise and to be vigorously enforced by planners in the years to come – and this combined with increased consumer demand for electric vehicles means that more will probably be better when it comes to allocation of charging facilities.
Energy efficient buildings and EPC (Energy Performance Rating)
No matter how much more efficient and greener we can make energy production, we will fail to reach Net Zero targets if domestic and commercial properties leak that energy.
There will be clear obligations for developers meet to ensure any new builds are as energy efficient as possible. There are several consultations on energy policy under way, with a major focus on how to improve the energy efficiency of existing buildings through better insulation, ventilation and a reduced reliance on gas.
Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs), which give buildings a rating based on set criteria, are seen by some in the industry as a blunt but useful instrument. It is very likely that we will see the criteria updated and tightened to include more metrics, including where electricity in the building comes from and the associated fuel costs.
Increasingly, Passivhaus and similar standards are being utilised in the construction industry as a 'gold' target for energy efficient and carbon neutral eco-buildings.
It is an impossible task to eliminate carbon emissions altogether – as we have said, Net Zero is about achieving a balance, and often the only way to do this is to offset the carbon produced by development activity.
In planning there is an order of preference – first to reduce emissions at source, then to offset locally (for example by planting trees nearby) and then, as a last resort, to purchase biodiversity credits. These Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) schemes represent opportunities for landowners, especially in rural areas. You can find out more in our Take 5 BNG Guide for Developers.
How can I find out more about Net Zero for developers?
The Journey to Net Zero and its implications for developers will be one of the topics at our Clean Energy event on Tuesday, January 24th.
The Thrings Clean Energy and Environment Team includes specialists from across the firm and its disciplines, and advises commercial developers, farmers and landowners on the legal aspects of clean energy, environment and biodiversity. We are here to support you on your pathway to Net Zero. Find out more and contact us here.


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Cowboys training session at QCB Stadium
Morgan looks to JT under weight of leadership
by Peter Badel
MICHAEL Morgan has sounded out Cowboys champion Johnathan Thurston for leadership advice as the injured skipper spoke of the pressures to revive North Queensland as a premiership force.
The Cowboys' season relaunch has suffered a blow with Morgan resigned to missing the next month of football after undergoing shoulder surgery during the coronavirus-enforced suspension of the NRL.
But Morgan is taking a big-picture view, with the Cowboys' chief playmaker recently reaching out to his old partner-in-crime Thurston to discuss ways to haul North Queensland out of the premiership cellar.
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Morgan famously steered the club to the 2017 grand final without Thurston, who required shoulder surgery, but since that magical finals run the Cowboys have slumped to the bottom four in consecutive years.
Thurston's retirement at the end of 2018 cleared the path for Morgan's ascension to the captaincy but the Cowboys' $5 million man has enlisted the help of "JT" to get the club firing again.
"I still talk to JT, I spoke to him during this break about a couple of things," Morgan said.
"We haven't talked a lot about footy lately but he has spoken to me a lot about that (leadership).
Morgan's form struggles have been much discussed. Photo: Alix Sweeney
"Being captain can be challenging. You have to figure your own way of doing it and what works best for the team.
"To be honest, I'm not a confrontational type of person. I want what's best for the club and the playing group. Last year wasn't a good year on the field at all and as captain you feel that responsibility and take the losses hard.
"Replacing 'Jonno' and 'Thumper' (Matt Scott, Thurston's co-captain) was daunting. I'm very different personality to those guys. They were great captains, they took us to the premiership (in 2015). I was lucky enough to pick up their good habits and I'm lucky we have a good leadership group at the club, so all the pressure isn't just on me."
Morgan revealed the extent of his shoulder injury, which dates back more than two years to the 2017 World Cup, when he was five-eighth in Australia's defeat of England in the final.
"I've been carrying it since the World Cup," he said.
Following an future Immortal is an impossible task. Photo: Alix Sweeney
"I rehabbed it and got the strength back into my shoulder, but over the last six to 12 months, it's been giving me a fair bit of grief.
"In the first two games this year, it gave me more trouble than I thought it would.
"My shoulder kept coming out (of the joint), in the first two games it came out four times, twice in each game (against the Broncos and Bulldogs).
"The break was a good chance to get the surgery done, because if I kept playing on with it, the docs said I may not have lasted until the end of the season."
Fitness has played a huge part in Morgan's battles. Photo: Alix Sweeney
Since his golden finals run in 2017, Morgan's career has been decimated by groin, bicep and shoulder injuries. He admits he doesn't want to be remembered solely for the month of magic that piloted the Cowboys to the 2017 decider against Melbourne.
"I want to be playing well again," he said.
"We have had our challenges as a club the last couple of years and I don't want to look back at 2017 and say to myself I need to play like that again. That's in the past. Yes, it was great for what it was, but I don't want to look back, I want to keep looking forward.
"Hopefully I only miss four games, that's the plan at the moment. I don't know the exact date. If my rehab goes well, I will come back quicker, but I won't be rushing it."
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