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Florian Ruck (* 6. Februar 1992 in Bad Mergentheim) ist ein ehemaliger deutscher Fußballspieler. Der Innenverteidiger stand zuletzt beim SC Paderborn 07 unter Vertrag.

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Ruck begann seine Karriere beim TSV Markelsheim und spielte später für den FSV Hollenbach. 2008 wechselte er in die Jugend der TSG 1899 Hoffenheim. Ab der Saison 2010/11 kam er für die zweite Mannschaft der Kraichgauer zum Einsatz, die zunächst in der Regionalliga Süd und ab 2012/13 in der neu gegründeten Regionalliga Südwest spielte. In der Saison 2014/15 führte er die Mannschaft als Kapitän aufs Feld.

Zur Saison 2015/16 wechselte Ruck zum damaligen Zweitligisten SC Paderborn 07. Am 14. August 2015 debütierte er bei der 0:6-Niederlage im Heimspiel gegen den SV Sandhausen in der 2. Bundesliga, nachdem er in der 60. Minute für Mahir Sağlık eingewechselt worden war. Am Saisonende stieg er mit Paderborn in die 3. Liga ab, verlängerte seinen Vertrag aber bis 2018. Nach der Spielzeit 2016/17 löste Ruck seinen Vertrag in Paderborn auf und beendete seine Karriere, um in Bad Mergentheim eine Ausbildung zum Physiotherapeuten zu beginnen.

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New $1 Trillion U.S. Infrastructure Bill Brings Big Funds and Attention to Cybersecurity
The $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act that was just signed this week contains roughly $2 billion earmarked for cybersecurity improvements on the Federal, state and local levels.
The Act also singles out critical infrastructure, specifically energy, water, and transportation for funding.
This funding includes about $1 billion spread over four years for the State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial (SLTT) Grant Program to help these entities develop and implement cybersecurity plans. FEMA will administer the program.
The Act sets aside $100 million over five years for the Cyber Response and Recovery Fund. The funding will allow the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to provide direct support to public or private entities that respond and recover from cyberattacks and breaches designated as a "significant incident."
Bill Rucker, President of Trustwave Government Solutions shared his reaction to the $1 Trillion Infrastructure Bill: "The bipartisan infrastructure bill signed into law this week by President Biden represents a needed and significant investment in the protection of our nation's cyberinfrastructure. Funding to secure state and local government's critical assets is a welcome investment. I am pleased that this law also focuses on securing essential segments of our critical infrastructure such as hardening of our electric grids and requiring planning with an eye towards proactive cyber security to protect our SCADA systems. Finally, the creation of the cyber response and recovery fund to help provide for a quicker and more effective response to major cyber incidents is a positive development. A continued focus and investment in cyber security to protect sensitive data, key assets and critical infrastructure is crucial. This new law is an important step in that effort, but more work remains."
The government will make federal funding available for states to create energy security plans to secure their energy infrastructure against cybersecurity threats.
Additionally, $250 million will be made available over five years to fund the Rural and Municipal Utility Advanced Cybersecurity Grant and Technological Assistance Program.
The DOE is tasked with creating a program to develop advanced cybersecurity applications and technologies for the energy sector. This section authorizes $250 million to be spent over five years for the Cybersecurity for the Energy Sector R&D program, $50 million for the Energy Sector Operational Support for Cyber resilience Program, and $50 million for Modeling and Assessing Energy Infrastructure Risk.
The Act has set aside $400 million to cover several water projects, including over five years for the Midsize and Large Drinking Water System Infrastructure Resilience and Sustainability Program. Another $175 million is set aside over five years to extend an expired fund to help mitigate threats and emergencies to drinking water caused by a cybersecurity incident or other situation.
And $25 million over five years for the Clean Water Infrastructure Resiliency and Sustainability Program to provide grants to owners/operators of publicly owned treatment works to increase the resiliency of water systems against cybersecurity vulnerabilities and natural hazards.

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Q: scheduled chkdsk on Windows 7 blinking the hard disk light every 5 seconds, what can I do? PG&E (the local electricity company) came and took out the old power meters and put in a new ones by brute force and with no advance notice in our neighborhood, so my computer went down in power.
So I went to Windows 7's drive C and schedule a Disk Cleanup (chkdsk) on the next boot up.
When it boots up, it says
A disk check has been scheduled
To skip disk checking, press any key within __ second(s).

and then after it shows
To skip disk checking, press any key within 1 second(s).

it just sits there, with no further message.  the hard disc light blinks every 5 seconds.  So what is to be done now?  I certainly don't want to brute force power off again.

A: You will have to run the chkdsk via a different method to overcome the issue you are experiencing at this time.
You need to boot up with your Windows CD and select repair to access the Recovery Console.
Then you can run "chkdsk /r" from the prompt.
For more details about the Recovery Console see Improved Recovery Options in Windows 7.

A: I actually had this same issue, and it was not resolved by running a chkdsk through the recovery console - that check ran fine, but the same problem presented upon reboot.
However, I was able to resolve the issue - try removing all peripherals except for your keyboard from your machine and rebooting. Unplugging my second keyboard, mouse, and usb sound card solved the issue for me - chkdsk ran normally after boot and the disk was subsequently flagged as clean.

A: Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in Win7. When some files are moved, the 'tmp' version overwirtes part of the file which results in a corrupt error flag being set. The file is intact, i.e. no error, but chkdsk is scheduled to run at next boot.

A: I'm too new to upvote this, but Zxaos is right, unplugging your peripherals solved it for me. I unplugged my main keyboard, and it was fine.

A: My laptop is experiencing this problem. There are no additional peripherals plugged in. I believe the constant hdd activity gives me about a 45 min. battery life...I just got the laptop.

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Supreme Court of Canada permits disclosure of mortgage document over debtor's privacy objections
The Supreme Court of Canada has recently applied common sense to prevent debtors from using Canadian privacy laws to tie the hands of lenders looking to enforce their legal rights.
In a proceeding brought by the Royal Bank of Canada against a debtor, the bank required the mortgage discharge statement held by Scotiabank in order to complete a sheriff's sale of the property. Scotiabank took the view, following Citi Cards Canada Inc. v. Pleasance, 2011 ONCA 3, that the discharge statement is "personal information" and that the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act ("PIPEDA") prohibits its disclosure unless there is consent or a court order. The debtor would not consent.
The Royal Bank brought a motion for such an order and was denied, citing the Citi Cards case. The Ontario Court of Appeal upheld this decision.
Ultimately, in front of the Supreme Court of Canada (Royal Bank of Canada v. Trang), the Court overruled Citi Cards and made some interesting observations that likely have broader application. The Court principally considered two questions: first, would the order sought by the Royal Bank satisfy the consent exception in PIPEDA that permits disclosure pursuant to a court order? Secondly, is there implied consent so that a mortgage discharge statement can be disclosed to a judgement creditor?
On the first question, the Court was clear that a creditor can seek and obtain such an order, and that the order would satisfy the provisions of PIPEDA:
[31] Further, it is clear that this is a case in which it was appropriate to make an order for disclosure. The majority of the Court of Appeal observed that a party seeking an order under rule 60.18(6) must demonstrate "difficulty" in enforcing its judgment, and that "courts should be reticent to require strangers to the litigation to appear on a motion" (para. 77). Hoy A.C.J.O. concluded, however, that rule 60.18(6)(a) can be applied less cautiously where a mortgagee is being examined in order to obtain a mortgage discharge statement. I agree. As Hoy A.C.J.O. noted, a mortgagee is not a stranger to the litigation in the sense that its interest in the property is at issue as well — the sheriff requires the mortgage discharge statement in part to settle the priority between mortgagees and creditors. Moreover, in practice, only the mortgagee can produce a mortgage discharge statement.
[32] I also agree with Hoy A.C.J.O. regarding the application of rule 60.18(6). I conclude that an order requiring disclosure can be made by a court in this context if either the debtor fails to respond to a written request that he or she sign a form consenting to the provision of the mortgage discharge statement to the creditor, or fails to attend a single judgment debtor examination. A creditor who has already obtained a judgment, filed a writ of seizure and sale, and completed one of the two above-mentioned steps has proven its claim and provided notice. Provided the judgment creditor serves the debtor with the motion to obtain disclosure, the creditor should be entitled to an order for disclosure. A judgment creditor in such a situation should not be required to undergo a cumbersome and costly procedure to realize its debt. The foregoing is a sufficient basis to order Scotiabank to produce the statement to RBC, and I would so order. But there is more in the present case.
On the second question, the Court effectively determined that an order – while available – is not necessary. It can be given under implied consent. PIPEDA provides that implied consent can be applicable where the information is less sensitive. Though financial information is generally considered to be sensitive, the Court noted that the information in a mortgage discharge statement is at the less sensitive end of that spectrum. PIPEDA also states that the reasonable expectations of the individual are relevant in the circumstances.
[43] Turning to the reasonable expectations of the individual, the parties disagree on the appropriate scope of the inquiry. The Privacy Commissioner submits that only the relationship between the Trangs as mortgagors and Scotiabank as mortgagee is relevant to assessing the Trangs' reasonable expectations in the circumstances; the relationship between the Trangs and RBC has no role to play. On the other hand, RBC argues that the party receiving the disclosure is a relevant consideration when determining the Trangs' reasonable expectations.
[44] In my view, when determining the reasonable expectations of the individual, the whole context is important. This is supported by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner's consideration of context in various decisions: PIPEDA Report of Findings No. 2014-013; PIPEDA Case Summary No. 2009-003; PIPEDA Case Summary No. 311. Indeed, to do otherwise would unduly prioritize privacy interests over the legitimate business concerns that PIPEDA was also designed to reflect, bearing in mind that the overall intent of PIPEDA is "to promote both privacy and legitimate business concerns": L. M. Austin, "Reviewing PIPEDA: Control, Privacy and the Limits of Fair Information Practices" (2006), 44 Can. Bus. L.J. 21, at p. 38.
[45] As the motion judge observed in the initial motion, and as I have already noted, a mortgage discharge statement "is not something that is merely a private matter between the mortgagee and mortgagor, but rather is something on which the rights of others depends, and accordingly is something they have a right to know" (2012 ONSC 3272 (CanLII), para. 29). In other words, the legitimate business interests of other creditors are a relevant part of the context which informs the reasonable expectations of the mortgagor.
Looking at the situation and assuming a "reasonable debtor", the Court found implied consent:
[48] Here, RBC is seeking disclosure regarding the very asset it is entitled to, and intends to, realize on. A reasonable person borrowing money knows that if he defaults on a loan, his creditor will be entitled to recover the debt against his assets. It follows that a reasonable person expects that a creditor will be able to obtain the information necessary to realize on its legal rights. From the opposite perspective, it would be unreasonable for a borrower to expect that as long as he refused to comply with his obligation to provide information, his creditor would never be able to recover the debt.
Interestingly, the Court did not consider or comment on whether this implied consent that would have existed initially had been or could be overridden by the debtor's clear refusal of consent that was communicated during the collection proceedings.
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Eye bags are bulges underneath the eyes that make you look more tired and aged than you are. Some people have had them since young while others develop them at a later age. Whatever your case, there are very effective treatments that can treat this common problem.
What is Eye Bag surgery?
Eye bags are caused by weakening of the tissues supporting the fat around the eye. This weakness may be present at an early age or it can develop as you get older. When the fat bulges out over the orbital bone, it creates the bulge known as an eye bag. Older patients may have excess skin under the eyes as well. The surgery to treat these problems is called 'lower blepharoplasty'.
In lower blepharoplasty the fat can be removed or redistributed to hide the bulge. Excess skin may be removed and the lower eyelid may be tightened. Your surgeon will advise you on which technique is best for you.
Who is an ideal candidate for Eye Bag surgery?
There can be different bulges under the eye that make you look younger or older. A bulge within 5mm of your lower eyelid is considered youthful and attractive, this is associated with a smooth check contour immediately beneath it. If the bulge extends further down to your bony orbit, you most likely have eye bags and would benefit from corrective surgery.
What is the best method to remove Eye Bags?
The best method will depend on what is troubling you. If you are relatively young and do not have a lot of excess skin to remove, a scarless technique would be appropriate. Even if you need to remove skin, the end result is essentially scarless as the scar is hidden in the lash line. Whether the fat is removed or redistributed will be decide by your surgeon.
Your surgeon will have to assess you and decide what's best for you.
There is a small risk of infection and bleeding with any surgical procedure. The lower eyelid can be pulled to a lower position, this complication is usually temporary, but if it persists, revision surgery may be necessary.
I've had Eye Bag removal before, can I still improve my condition?
If you've had surgery before, but are still dissatisfied with your appearance, there are still procedures that can be done to improve your appearance. Possible treatments include revision surgery or fat grafting.
I have a lot of excess skin under my eyes, can I have scarless blepharoplasty?
If you have excess skin that needs to be removed, it would be best to place an incision just under the lash line to remove the skin.
Any cut in the skin will leave a mark, but for these procedures they will be very fine and hidden.


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This article is about an entity that either no longer exists or that may no longer be active in solar cooking promotion. It is retained here for archival purposes.
In late 2011, the UK based peacebuilding charity Cord began a solar cooking project in the Farchana Refugee Camp in collaboration with the US NGO Jewish World Watch. This project has brought thousands of CooKits to the refugees there.
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June 2017: Cord reports: Currently Cord has finished its successful Solar Cooker project, and are instead working in Burundi providing vocational training materials, as well as on going policy development work in other countries.
February 2014: Integrated cooking helping in refugee camps - Cord reports that they have now distributed 5,520 solar cookers. However, during the rainy season, with stormy landscapes and cloudy skies lasting from June to October, the cookers are relegated to occasional use. A pilot scheme with Afrah ovens, in operation in eastern Chad since 2010, was identified as the perfect choice. A manufacturing workshop has been established, training is underway and the first ovens will be available prior to the beginning of the rainy season; with 2,520 of the ovens being constructed, distributed and in daily use by the end of the year. The Afrah ovens will partner perfectly with the solar cookers, to provide a year round, energy efficient, cooking solution — whatever the weather. Read more...
December 2012: Jewish World Watch, originator of the Solar Cooker Project for Sudanese refugees, reviews their current programs at several of the refugee camps in Chad – As a result of a joint security force between Chad and Sudan, violence against women has declined some since the project began seven years ago. Cord, their partner at the Farchana refugee camp, sees solar cooking as a way to keep girls in school, and not spending hours finding fuelwood for cooking. For others, the project has meant help for the environment and the air quality conditions for women previously using open fires. When the Jewish World Watch contingent first visited the camps many years ago, the refugees had just arrived and the encampment was meant to be temporary. The hope and expectation was that within a few months or a couple of years at most; they would return to their homes. But now, seven years later, it is clear that returning to Darfur is not a reality and the camps are turning into permanent settlements. As a result, the programs for the refugees must begin to move away from survival resources and begin to address ways of achieving self-sufficiency and permanence. In other words, helping to create a life, not an existence. Future larger scale solutions will be needed to address and benefit the surrounding communities, as well as the refugee camps, to help with the integration of the Sudanese residents. Read more...
March 2012: On March 13 at the House of Commons, the charity Cord is going to announce an extension of its innovative program of solar cooker deliveries and essential training. Cord originally commissioned research by Bolivia Inti-Sud Soleil, who identified the difficult task of it often taking ten hours to look for wood needed for cooking and warmth, as well as the damaging environmental impact it is having on tree cover in Chad. Cord is hosting its parliamentary reception with MP for Warwick and Leamington Chris White, who is backing the scheme.
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December 2012: Forward With Intention: Solar Cooker Project - Huffington Post
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Bernice Schneider
Bernice Schneider is an award-winning documentary film editor. Her training and background is as a documentary filmmaker. She received her Masters of Science in Visual Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab under the direction of pioneer cinema-verité filmmaker Richard Leacock. Bernice has worked as an editor of independent and broadcast documentary films for over 20 years.
Bernice edited numerous films for PBS's premiere television series including Henry Hampton's Blackside series on The Great Depression, the American Experience series, The Presidents (George H.W. Bush: Echoes of the Wise Men, Part 1), and American Experience's Douglas MacArthur: Destiny and The Politics of War which won a Prime Time Emmy. Bernice has also edited films for Frontline, the Nova Science Unit and American Masters. Among the films Bernice edited is The House We Live In for the groundbreaking series Race: The Power of an Illusion. She was an editor on the series Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality making Us Sick?, which won the 2009 DuPont Columbia award and many others. Independent Lens' Lives Worth Living, edited by Bernice, has been given a number of encore broadcasts on PBS and is screening at film festivals internationally. Bernice recently completed editing an independent documentary film, Rebel, for Iguana Films scheduled to premier at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. and on PBS in 2013.
Bernice also worked in the field with national correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault for PBS's Newshour in Nairobi, Kenya, Johannesburg, South Africa, Haiti and Somalia where she edited stories on political and cultural change in the developing world, including a series on the historic election of Nelson Mandela as President of South Africa.
Films she edited have screened at prestigious museums both nationally and internationally, including at the Museum of Modern Art, the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Corcoran Gallery, the Museum of Fine Arts, and the Folkwand Museum in Essen, Germany.
She has received honors and awards for her work including a Wallis Annenberg scholarship for women filmmakers, a Cine Golden Eagle, the Biographical Video Award, and an N.E.A. Regional Fellowship. Bernice also received several grants from the MIT Arts Council.


I dropped out of school in 2012. I was miserable studying mathematics and going through some personal issues. I returned to finish my last year of undergrad in fall 2014. I had an option to take Intro to Programming in C, which would fulfill a requirement for my math degree. At the time, I didn't know what computer science or programming was. I thought, why not give this a try? I'd do anything at that point to take one fewer math course. That course ended up changing my life. The professor was a visionary. He took his job as professor very seriously.
How about you? What or who inspired you to go into programming?


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NHL operating income of the Columbus Blue Jackets 2006-2020
Published by Christina Gough, Feb 2, 2021
This graph depicts the operating income of the Columbus Blue Jackets franchise of the National Hockey League from 2006 to 2020. In the 2019/20 season, the operating income of the franchise was at -10 million U.S. dollars.
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Brightside Crossing By Alan E Nourse
forays into the furnace:
alan e nourse's
brightside crossing
other writers' Mercurian days
Extreme conditions are a challenge not only to those who brave them in real life, but also to those who would describe them in fiction. Brightside Crossing meets that challenge triumphantly - and gives us one of the classic tales of the Old Solar System.
How did Nourse do it? Here's a clue from C S Lewis' A Preface to Paradise Lost.
...Towards the end of Book III Milton takes Satan to visit the sun. To keep on harping on heat and brightness would be no use; it would end only in that bog of superlatives which is the destination of many bad poets. But Milton makes the next hundred lines as Solar as they could possibly be... Heaven and Earth are ransacked for simile and allusion... to guide our imaginations with unobtrusive pressure into the channels where the poet wishes them to flow...
In other words, to succeed in this game you have to be indirect. You have to manipulate the reader subtly, rather than bludgeon him with adjectives and gosh-wow.
a planetary hell
Nourse displays the power to thus "guide our imaginations", but because the short story we are considering is so short (only 23 pages), he needs to combine indirect manipulation with the direct punch.
His technique is to make them work in tandem.
..."Brightside of Mercury," the Major said.
I whistled cautiously. "At aphelion?"
He threw his head back. "Why try a Crossing at aphelion? What have you done then? Four thousand miles of butchering heat, just to have some joker come along, use your data and drum you out of the glory by crossing at perihelion forty-four days later? No, thanks. I want the Brightside without any nonsense about it..."
But this is not straight narration; this is a flashback; indeed, most of the tale is flashback; that's its main indirectness.
The straight narration - by Peter Claney, sole survivor of the expedition - is simply his effort to convince his would-be successor, James Baron, that any further attempt to cross the Brightside of Mercury would be equivalent to suicide.
Peter Claney shook his head. "I can't tell you anything you want to hear."
"But you've got to. You're the only man on Earth who's attempted a Brightside Crossing and lived through it! And the story you cleared for the news - it was nothing. We need details. Where did your equipment fall down? Where did you miscalculate? What were the trouble spots?" Baron jabbed a finger at Claney's face. "That, for instance - epithelioma? Why? What was wrong with your glass? Your filters? We've got to know those things. If you can tell us, we can make it across where your attempt failed - "
"You want to know why we failed?" asked Claney.
"Of course we want to know. We have to know."
"It's simple. We failed because it can't be done. We couldn't do it and neither can you. No human beings will ever cross the Brightside alive..."
Indirectness, talking about the dangers, tensing the reader by dire implications, comes with discussion of the equipment for the Crossing. Baron asks:
..."What kind of suits did you have?
"The best insulating suits ever made," said Claney. "Each one had an inner lining of a fiberglass modification, to avoid the clumsiness of asbestos, and carried the refrigerating unit and oxygen storage which we recharged from the sledges every eight hours. Outer layer carried a monomolecular chrome reflecting surface that made us glitter like Christmas trees. And we had a half-inch dead-air space under positive pressure between the two layers. Warning thermocouples, of course - at 770 degrees, it wouldn't take much time to fry us to cinders if the suits failed somewhere."
"How about the Bugs?"
"They were insulated, too, but we weren't counting on them too much for protection."
"You weren't?" Baron exclaimed. "Why not?"
"We'd be in and out of them too much. They gave us mobility and storage, but we knew we'd have to do a lot of forward work on foot." Claney smiled bitterly. "Which meant that we had an inch of fiberglass and a half-inch of dead air between us and a surface temperature where lead flowed like water and zinc was almost at melting point and the pools of sulfur in the shadows were boiling like oatmeal over a campfire."
The build-up takes 9 pages. Then we have 13 pages in which Claney narrates the actual attempt at the Crossing. Then we have one final page in which the two explorers argue some more, in the light of the story Claney has now told.
This includes a few lines right at the end, which form the perfect, ironical ending to the tale. I won't give away the punch line, but it really does provide a perfect comment on that aspect of human nature which drives us to attempt the impossible...
Harlei: So what about the direct stuff, Zendexor? The central part of the story, Claney's experiences during the Crossing -
Stid: Yes, it's time we looked at how the author faces up to it directly. As you started by saying, Zendexor, that's the challenge. You've said enough to convince readers that the build-up is good. But many a tale has been good on promise and poor on delivery -
Zendexor: Let me tell you, it's good. The narration weaves and flows like some brilliant orange river of lava, bearing along with it the terrifying landscape, the men's feelings, their psychology, the practicalities of the expedition, its discoveries...
...I kept my eyes pasted to the big Polaroid binocs, picking out the track the early research teams had made out into the edge of Brightside. But in a couple of hours we rumbled past Sanderson's little outpost observatory and the tracks stopped. We were in virgin territory and already the Sun was beginning to bite.
We didn't feel the heat so much those first days out. We saw it. The refrig units kept our skins at a nice comfortable seventy-five degrees Fahrenheit inside our suits, but our eyes watched that glaring Sun and the baked yellow rocks going past, and some nerve pathways got twisted up, somehow. We poured sweat as if we were in a superheated furnace...
What do I most remember about those next few pages? The discovery of the remains of a previous expedition... Claney's vehicle almost being sucked down into a pool of molten lead... and what for me was the greatest terror, a brittle zinc shelf overhanging an abyss... and the overarching theme of the horrendous, stark, baked landscape and the challenge that could not be met.
And then there's the human element, which the author handles memorably.
Peter Claney's attempted Crossing was a four-man expedition, led by "The Major" Mikuta, a strong, stable character, and including, besides Claney, a flamboyant character named McIvers, and lastly a youngster called Stone. The tension between McIvers and the rest gives an extra dimension of drama to the tale, and a thought-provoking aspect too - for Baron and Claney disagree afterwards as to the verdict. When disaster struck, was McIvers to blame? Baron thinks it obvious that this was so. Claney denies it.
..."We had to keep to our schedule even it it killed us, because it would positively kill us if we didn't."
"But a man like that - "
"A man like McIvers was necessary. Can't you see that? It was the Sun that beat us, that surface..." Claney leaned across the table, his eyes pleading. "We didn't realize that, but it was true. There are places that men can't go, conditions men can't tolerate. The others had to die to learn that. I was lucky, I came back. But I'm trying to tell you what I found out - that nobody will ever make a Brightside Crossing."
a wan successor
No close rival exists to Brightside Crossing. But there is another realistic Hot-Hemisphere tale which appeared seven and a half years later, in the same magazine, and which is worth reading at least once or twice.
On this page we're proceeding by gradual steps from utterly inorganic to life-bearing Mercury. We began with a tale that depicts a Mercury where life is not only absent but inconceivable. Now we shall turn to a slightly different version of the innermost planet, one in which people at least thought it worth checking to see if it might harbour life -
Galaxy, August 1963, cover for "Hot Planet"
"...Tom, any use asking you?"
The biologist grimaced. "I've been shown two hundred and sixteen different samples of rock and dust. I have examined in detail twelve crystal growths which looked vaguely like vegetation. Nothing was alive or contained living things by any standards I could conscientiously set."
The story is Hot Planet, and since the author is Hal Clement, we can expect a hard-science story; and that is what we get. The style is as dry as the planet, though both liven up somewhat when a volcano erupts.
Across the riven plain, whose cracks were now nearly hidden under the new ash, the black cone towered above the nearer elevations. It was visibly taller than it had been only a few hours before. The fountain from its top was thicker, now jetting straight up as though wind no longer meant a thing to the fiercely driven column of gas and dust... patches of red and yellow incandescence showed briefly in the pillar, and glowing sparks rather than black cinders rained back on the steep slopes. Far above, a ring of smoke rolled and spread about the column, forming an ever-broadening layer of opaque cloud above a landscape which had never before been shaded from the sun. Streamers of lightning leaped between cloud and pillar, pillar and mountain, even cloud and ground. Any thunder there might have been was drowned in the howl of the escaping gas, a roar which seemed to combine every possible note from the shrillest possible whistle to a bass felt by the chest rather than heard by the ears...
Stid: Note the reference to "wind". I suppose eruptions could create an atmosphere on Mercury...
Zendexor: Yes, both Nourse and Clement have that as a theme. Quite interesting, this hard-science speculation, these might-have-beens of a synchronous Mercury. But as I say, Hot Planet is an extremely dry story. The plot does allow for real danger, but nothing like what we get in Brightside Crossing, and the explorers are not traumatized in the Clement tale as they are in Nourse's. Neither is the reader.
Stid: So you were traumatized, you poor thing, by the stronger tale?
Zendexor: That's putting it a bit strongly, I admit, but let's just say that Alan Nourse's epic is bound to score deep grooves in the imagination of any youngster - impressions which will last a lifetime. It will also have influenced subsequent writing.
All this is likewise true of our next example, which appeared many years before, in 1932.
Enter Mercurian life -
a captive bound to a salamander
...The glaring light and scorching heat could mean only one thing - that he had been carried into the sunward lands of Mercury. That incandescent thing toward which he dared not look was the sun itself, looming in a vast arc above the horizon.
He tried to sit up, but succeeded merely in raising his head a little. He saw that there were leathery thongs about his chest, arms and legs, binding him tightly to some mobile surface that seemed to heave and pant beneath him. Slewing his head to one side, he found that this surface was horny, rounding and reticulated. It was like something he had seen.
Then, with a start of horror, he recognized it. He was bound, Mazeppa-like, to the back of one of those salamandrine monsters to which the earth-scientists had given the name of 'heat-lizards'. These creatures were large crocodiles, but possessed longer legs than any terrestrial saurian. Their thick hides were apparently, to an amazing extent, non-conductors of heat, and served to insulate them against temperatures that would have parboiled any other known form of life.
The exact range of their habitat had not yet been learned; but they had been seen from the rocket-ship, during a brief sunward dash, in deserts where water was perpetually at the boiling point; where rills and rivers, flowing from the twilight zone, wasted themselves in heavy vapors from terrible cauldrons of naked rock...
Clark Ashton Smith, "The Immortals of Mercury"
Stid: I see the progression. We now have water on Mercury. Boiling water instead of boiling lead.
Harlei: You might still get the boiling lead, too, further into the dayside.
Zendexor: Aside from these observations, let's also note Smith's superb vocabulary and turns of phrase. "That incandescent thing..." "Slewing his head..." "...horny, rounding and reticulated." "...bound, Mazeppa-like..." "...salamandrine..." "...parboiled..." "...cauldrons of naked rock..."
Stid: And who was Mazeppa?
Zendexor: I don't know - refers to something by Byron, I think. But here's another point: for some reason, such literary allusions seem to work by a kind of sonorous effect, whether one understands the reference or not.
Here's another literary point to ponder. Harking back to my quote from C S Lewis at the top of this page - to his disparagement of "the bog of superlatives" - well...
Stid: You're not sure what to say now, are you? I see the problem! For consider the direct hammering the reader gets by Clark Ashton Smith as his luckless hero gets borne deeper into the hell of Sunside:
...The heat-lizard, with an indescribable darting and running motion, went swiftly onward into the dreadful hell of writhing steam and heated rock. The great ball of insupportable whiteness seemed to rise higher momently and to pour its beams upon Howard like the flood of an open furnace. The horny mail of the monster was like a hot gridiron beneath him, scorching through his clothes; and his wrists and neck and ankles were seared by the tough leather cords as he struggled madly and uselessly against them.
Turning his head from side to side, he saw dimly the horned rocks that leaned toward him from curtains of hellish mist. His head swam deliriously, and the very blood appeared to simmer in his veins. He lapsed at intervals into deadly faintness: a black shroud seemed to fall upon him, but his vague senses were still oppressed by the crushing, searing radiation. He seemed to descend into bottomless gulfs, pursued by unpitying cataracts of fire and seas of molten heat...
Zendexor: So how can this escape the charge of being a "bog of superlatives"? I'm on the spot, now. Must defend Smith - for his stuff works; there's no doubt at all that it's brilliantly effective.
Here's my view of how he avoids the boringly monotonous "bog of superlatives".
If you're narrating an extreme condition which demands superlatives, you make sure you "un-bog" them by roughening up the flow of them. You keep them - you have to - but you shake off any monotony by means of variation in technique.
So for instance here we have Smith's cleverly compressed pairings of adverbs ("struggled madly and uselessly"); his unexpectedness ("with an indescribable darting and running motion" - not like the inexorable plodding one would expect of a giant saurian); his use of the pathetic fallacy (the horned rocks "leaned"; the cataracts are "unpitying"); his adjectival sophistication (the "great ball of insupportable whiteness"); his effective similes, not too many of them ("like the flood of an open furnace"; "like a hot gridiron")... Readers can no doubt add to the list. Try it. Work on the following:
...he saw his surroundings in broken glimpses, through turning wheels of fire and bots of torrid color, like scenes from a mad kaleidoscope.
The heat-lizard was following a tortuous stream that ran in hissing rapids, among twisted crags and chasm-riven scarps. Rising in sheets and columns, the steam of angry water was blown at intervals toward the earth-man, scalding his bare face and hands. The thongs cut into his flesh intolerably, when the monster leapt across mighty fissures that had been made by the cracking of the super-heated stone.
Howard's brain seemed to broil in his head...
a more evolved threat
This site already has a vast number of references to that unique novel of the Twilight Belt, Valeddom. Let me briefly add just one more.
Imagine you are in a vehicle having explored a little way into the Bay of Cholvg in the Dayside inferno, and you want to get back. You get to the cliff-tunnel which will lead you back to base - to the city of Vutu on the edge of the Twilight Belt.
And something is in between you and it.
...I gaped at the image of dinosaur-length strokes of green fire splayed on the ledge. Salamanders, whispered the memory of legend. Sketchily beautiful like the prehistoric Uffington White Horse on the English chalk downs, so that I could see the cliff face through their transparent interiors, their reptilian outlines seemed to fumble jerkily as they climbed and jumped over one another...
Robert Gibson, Valeddom
So we come full circle, from the terror of going out to the terror of not being let back in...
Alan E Nourse, "Brightside Crossing" (Galaxy, January 1956); Hal Clement, "Hot Planet" (Galaxy, August 1963); Clark Ashton Smith, "The Immortals of Mercury" (booklet, 1932); Robert Gibson, Valeddom (2013)
See the page NOSS - How Far Can We Go? where the foolhardy explorers' mind-set in Brightside Crossing comes into the debate quite often.
For musings inspired by Hot Planet see the OSS Diary, 23rd September 2016.


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Human smugglers thrive amid refugee desperation in Greece
Anna K. Poole, WORLD News Service
An estimated 1 million asylum-seekers flooded Europe last year from Syria, the Middle East, and North Africa, leaving the continent reeling as it struggles to address issues of humanitarian aid, viable resettlement policies, and legal documentation. But even as Europe bolts its borders, thousands of refugees are slipping out of sight.
IMB file photo
In recent months, police in northern Greece have reported a rise in organized human trafficking activity, with smugglers targeting the migrant community stuck in villages like Idomeni, on the Greek-Macedonian border.
In May, Greece cleared out a makeshift migrant camp in Idomeni, leaving more than 8,400 refugees doubly displaced. In the aftermath of the camp closure, trafficking activity increased significantly, according to border guards, national police, and a division of Greek security forces interviewed by the Associated Press.
Greece is home to more than 57,000 refugees divided between about 60 government-run shelters. Physicians working in Idomeni say the conditions are squalid, with insufficient sanitation or medical care.
"Europe has the capacity to deal with this," Dr. Tomislav Gijatiz of Doctors Without Borders told The New York Times. "Typically, camps are set up in Third World countries because there is no capacity there. These camps are purely the result of policy decisions."
For undocumented migrants in Greece, it is easy to disappear. Local police say traffickers use increasingly elite tactics: motorcycle spotters, police informants, and maps of dead spots in border surveillance.
Police recently arrested 29 suspects in connection with two trafficking rings in northern Greece. The alleged smugglers moved at least 600 migrants during several months, using a sophisticated fleet of taxis, scout vehicles, and code language. One gang received an insider tip from a Greek police officer on gaps in the night vision border surveillance network.
"At least six [Greek] taxi drivers were involved in the smuggling rings, charging a regular fare while knowingly participating in the illegal activity," said George Pantelakos of the Greek Police Brigade.
Capitalizing on desperation, smuggling rings are demanding higher fees to move migrants north across Europe. In the first six months of this year, trafficking fees across the continent skyrocketed, with the rate to cross a single border in 2016 equaling the rate of an entire war zone exodus in 2015, according to a Europol analysis of anti-smuggling operation data.
Despite the inflation, many refugees agree to pay the sum, promising to work to pay back traffickers. But most migrants have limited options for employment. Human rights groups are increasingly concerned that refugees in Europe – particularly children – are in danger of being forced into sex slavery and drug trafficking.
Of the 96,000 refugee children who arrived in Europe last year, 10,000 are missing – invisible to official agencies – according to a European Union report released in May. These children may have reconnected with family without registering with the government wherever they ended up. But rights groups fear many, alone and defenseless, have instead been spirited away by human traffickers.
"Unaccompanied minors from regions of conflict are by far the most vulnerable population," said Mariyana Berket of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
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WROTE Podcast > Review > Contact (A New World, Book One) by M. D. Neu
Contact (A New World, Book One) by M. D. Neu
February 10, 2019 Reviewbigotry, featured guest, M D NeuJayne Lockwood
There were a lot of expectations I had heaped on this book, mainly because my favourite sci-fi of all time (even trumping Close Encounters) is Contact, with Jodie Foster. And I KNOW that is really unfair, but once lodged, it couldn't be shifted, so I turned my gimlet gaze on this book thinking "this has better be good."
Well, reader, I was not disappointed. It was a bold move to start with the alien POV, but it turns out they aren't all that different from us, with similar thoughts and emotions, and cute pets to cuddle when they are feeling down. But don't let that put you off. Their rituals, expectations, way of talking and manners are very alien, as are their names and clothing. The author has taken a lot of trouble to build their world from the tiniest details (drinking tuma, and the name for the pet as a youngster) to the major issues. There IS a glossary at the back, and usually I wish the author had drawn attention to it earlier, but actually, I didn't need it. The writing makes it clear enough, without long drawn-out explanations, but the Glossary is a good reference.
Then we have the humans, Todd and his husband Jerry, and their uber-camp friend, Dan. I found Dan a bit irritating at first but I really warmed to him when disaster strikes. Todd has a heads-up that alien craft are approaching the planet but he can't tell anyone. Even his husband, Jerry, doesn't believe him. The author captures how they deal with having to keep quiet, as well as their everyday existence as a gay couple, brilliantly.
So with the characters established, the author sets about telling the story from the human and the alien point of view. Humans are dealing with their own problems: rising bigotry and world unrest, environmental issues, overpopulation. And the Nentraee, who are homeless due to the destruction of their world and running out of resources, need somewhere to settle their remaining population. Naturally, the humans have something to say about that when the Nentraee make tentative contact with
To the Nentraee, humans are an odd race who don't appreciate the beauty of the world they live in. And to the humans, the Nentraee are patronising, preachy and want to wipe them all out. There is mutual distrust as both sides slowly learn about each other, but after a terrible event, Todd is the one who ends up being the link between the two races, a role he feels unprepared for.
This was a very human story as well as an alien one. Todd and Jerry have to deal with homophobia on a daily basis. It even gets in the way of negotiations with the Nentraee, something the aliens find incomprehensible. The aliens also have complex and close family units and social delicacies. I hope we find out more about how they became such an itinerant race and what happened to their original planet.
There are also self-serving politicians, an indictment of American society at the moment and a study of how we would look to extraterrestrial visitors. It isn't any surprise they view us with some suspicion.
So a great start to the New World Series, with solid character development, appealing characters on both the human and Nentraee sides, and the potential for things to get really messy in the future. I'm looking forward to the next one!
A little blue world, the third planet from the sun. It's home to 7 billion people with all manner of faiths, beliefs and customs, divided by bigotry and misunderstanding, who will soon be told they are not alone in the universe. Anyone watching from the outside would pass by this fractured and tumultuous world, unless they had no other choice. Todd Landon is one of these people, living and working in a section of the world called the United States of America. His life is similar to those around him: home, family, work, friends and a husband.
On the cusp of the greatest announcement humankind has ever witnessed, Todd's personal world is thrown into turmoil when his estranged brother shows up on his front porch with news of ships heading for Earth's orbit. The ships are holding the Nentraee, a humanoid race who have come to Earth in need of help after fleeing the destruction of their homeworld. How will one man bridge the gap for both the Humans and Nentraee, amongst mistrust, terrorist attacks and personal loss? Will this be the start of a new age of man or will bigotry and miscommunication bring this small world to its knees and final end?
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We all know it's important to keep our bathrooms clean. We also know that we must wash our hands when we've been to the loo.
But it turns out there's something else we're meant to do once we've used the facilities.
Which is putting the toilet seat down, closing it completely, before you flush it.
And there's a very important reason why.
Not putting the seat down means the flush can send showers of nasty germs and bacteria flying out into the bathroom.
These germs can land everywhere and anywhere – including on your toothbrush.
Yep, just think about that horrific information for a moment.
Think about those germs landing on your toothbrush – which then go in your mouth each time you brush your teeth.
You'll never want to flush without shutting the seat again!
According to Realtor.com, this is what's known as the 'aerosol effect'.
Charles P. Gerba, a professor of microbiology at the University of Arizona, told the website: "You get a good spray out of the toilet area.
The average person is said to flush the toilet between five and six times a day.
This adds up to roughly 2,000 flushes per year.
And while many people think that the germs are washed away with each flush – really this isn't the case.
Many germs survive the flush and live in the bowl of your toilet.
A study by Leeds Teaching Hospital found that bacteria can fly up to 10 inches into the air.
So as well as shutting the lid, it's also worth moving your toothbrush (and other toiletries) far away from the toilet.
If you're not feeling disgusted enough by this, it's important to know that keeping the lid up could also make you physically ill.


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Q: How does potential energy work out for floating things? Seeing a ship canal lift in TV spawned the following thought:
"Oh my, this sure is a heavy ship and it can be lifted by simply adding water. What a marvellous machinery. After all, I could lift that ship with my teacup and a bit of water in it"
Which in turn spawned the following thought experiment:
Given some basin of know area, I can pour my teacup filled with water into it.
The water level will be raised by a certain amount, depending on the volume and area.
Seems legit so far.
The water level will always rise by that amount, no matter what is floating in the basin. I have my rubber duck floating in my basin and it is raised by the teacup amount after pouring. Now let's add a big lead duck (or a ship if you want, but ducks are that much cooler, aren't they?) that floats in my basin.
I still raise all that floating stuff by the teacup amount, even if I added the ship.
And this is where things started to feel a bit dubious.
How is it possible that I "invest" a (constant) teacup worth of potential energy, yet "gain" the potential energy of rising an arbitrary big mass that is floating in my basin by the constant amount caused by the water from the tea cup?
That right there doesn't sound dubious any more, that sounds plain wrong to me.
Because wouldn't that allow the teacup ship lifter gain more potential energy out of the process than he needs to re-rise the water into his teacup?
Where did my thought experiment took a turn for the worse?
Update:
I try to describe my problem in more detail:
A big ship needs more space, so the basin gets bigger, right?
I'm afraid that's not the case and pretty much the core of my problem:
The geometric properties seem to be independent enough to allow a "gain" in potential energy.
Here's how:
Let's say the basin area is constant.
This means the water level rises a constant amount (depending on how much water is in the teacup)
Now how does the constant basin support "arbitrary large masses"?
By varying its depth.
In order to make a bigger mass float, it has to displace more volume (of water).
As the area is fixed, the ship/boat/duck can extend its volume in the third dimension (down) to displace more water, thus supporting more mass to float, yet being raised to the same height as the basin area stays constant.

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How is it possible that I "invest" a (constant) teacup worth of potential energy, yet "gain" the potential energy of rising an arbitrary big mass that is floating in my basin by the constant amount caused by the water from the tea cup?

The mass cannot be "arbitrarily big".  Since it is floating, it has a net density that is less than that of the water.  Therefore the mass of the ship is identical to the mass of water that is "missing" from the lake/pond.
If your teacup takes an empty pond from height $y$ to $y'$, then it would take one with a ship  floating in it to the same height.  The mass of an empty pond at height $y$ and one with a shipping barge in it are identical.
If the barge weighed more than the empty pond, it would not be floating.

To address the specific concern of raising a ship that is longer/deeper in a pond, let's imagine that we have two cylinders in a pond.  Each has identical densities and cross section, but one is twice the length (and twice the mass) of the other.  As both are floating, the larger one extends deeper into the pool.  In fact, the lowest point will be twice as deep as the other (independent of the actual density).
For a moment, imagine that the water does not flow, but maintains its location as we directly lift the cylinders (like it's jello).  We raise both cylinders by $1cm$.  Since one is twice the mass, it takes twice the total energy to raise it that amount.
But before we let the water move around, we fill in the void underneath the cylinders with the water from our teacup.  As we are at the shore, dropping the water down to the void created by moving them will release energy.  And in fact dropping the water down to the void under the more massive cylinder will release twice the energy.  So raising a taller ship is not a problem, because water drops down farther to displace it

A: Think about a body floating in a cylinder of water. The body has a diameter that's only a little less than the cylinder. If it's a small body in a small cylinder, like your rubber duck, your teacup full of water lifts it up a lot. If it's a big body in a big cylinder, like your ship, your teacup full of water lifts it up a little. There's nothing dubious about it. Like everything in physics, it's simple once you see how simple it is.

A: Well, I guess see floating things are yet to reach the ground level, because ofcourse an object submerged at the bottom most part of the seabed would have less potential energy than the object which is floating right? Implying that floating objects do have potential energy


The elect are called, justified, and also sanctified. Through the Holy Spirit and the word of Scripture dwelling in them, they are freed from sin's rule, and that remaining corruption of sin that believers possess is put to death. This sanctification is a constant battle in this life, but victory is assured.
Look at what the confession says: "the dominion of the whole body of sin is destroyed". Sin no longer has any power over you. Is there any part that still reigns? No, for the whole body of sin is destroyed. When you are in Christ, there is not one sin that is still master over you. You are free to live to righteousness!
We will still succumb to temptation. Knowing we are no longer slaves to sin should make our grief over the times we do sin more keenly felt. Thankfully, through Christ we are forgiven and cleansed from all unrighteousness.
Through the grace of sanctification, our corrupt nature is progressively weakened and put to death. It doesn't always feel that way, does it? As believers, we have heightened senses to the sin in ourselves, so we see it for the hydra it is: one head is slain and two more pop up in its place. Despair can tempt us to give up. Yet the Holy spirit is dwelling within us, with the same omnipotence that raised Christ from the dead. We need not doubt that He will accomplish what He says. Christian, your sin is being stamped out; trust Him to give you strength to continue the fight!
Are you drawing strength to fight sin from the Holy Spirit?


We all need a shift dress in our wardrobe! This easy-to-wear dress by Sew Crafty can be made in sizes 6-28, and has an optional waist belt and pockets.
With no fiddly fastenings and clear step-by-step instructions, this pattern is perfect for beginners.
Fabric suggestions: Lightweight cotton, cotton lawn, crepe de chine, georgette, corduroy, brocade, denim, poplin, jersey, ponte roma, polyester, satin, silk, tweed, linen.


Can Precious Metals Save Crypto?
It has been over two weeks since the second large crypto market crash of 2018, and many believe that the bubble we all know as Bitcoin has finally burst. This is the year when BTC has hit its highest value ever, only to gradually drop back down.
While the entire year was progressively bearish, Bitcoin has successfully held its ground at the price of $6,400 for months. However, in mid-November, this changed, and the coin continued to sink. As a result, the same year that gave it the value of $20,000 per coin also brought it down to $3,700. Those who invested in it when it was at its all-time high have lost over 80% of their investment within 11 months.
The drop is not only limited to Bitcoin, however, but to all top currencies, such as Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, XRP, and countless others. However, while many believe that these cryptos are going down, this doesn't necessarily mean that they will all disappear. It is possible that some of them will manage to survive. Even if they don't digital currencies are hardly going away for good.
Their utility is a real thing, recognized around the world. Blockchain in crypto came in a pair, and will likely remain together, especially since they provide people with online transactions outside of banking system. This is not only practical for black market merchants anymore, and numerous businesses are already considering this as an alternative to traditional payment systems.
For some of them, this is not only a choice but a necessity as well. Banks often tend to deny services to some of their customers, as do credit cards. Sometimes, the reason is nothing more than their political views. One example of this is what happened to an alternative social networking website called Gab. Gab is known for allowing its members to express controversial views on various topics, which is something that did not sit well with banks. As a result, its founder stated that Gab will be turning to BitPay and Bitcoin.
As this continues, more and more such cases are expected to appear, which is why alternative payment systems have grown to become a necessity. However, major Bitcoin exchanges, like Coinbase, for example, are also becoming very politically correct. So much so, in fact, that they have also started blacklisting those who they don't like.
In addition, they are collecting their customers' personal data and giving it to the IRS. In the end, Bitcoin users can only guarantee their privacy by never actually using their coins for anything. This is only one of the problems connected to Bitcoin. It is also very slow when it comes to confirming transactions, it consumes a lot of energy, and there is a constant risk of loss if investors lose their private key. Not to mention outside threats, such as fraud, hack, government crackdown, and alike.
However, the biggest problem with Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, by far, is their volatility. Since they don't have any asset backing them, it is nearly impossible for these coins to have a stable, constant price. This is one problem that can be solved by bringing real assets on the blockchain.
One idea that might solve this issues revolves around using precious metals to back cryptocurrencies, just as they were used for backing fiat money some time ago. While there are numerous challenges — legal and technical — as well as a constant threat of scammers, there are many who support this solution.
These are optimists who believe that we are approaching the time when precious metals such as gold can be used on the blockchain for buying things such as shares of stock, real estate, and more, without ever having to us fiat money. This would mark the return of demand for gold and other precious metals, and the entire idea is a bullish view on the future of crypto and blockchain.
However, there is a bearish view as well. Numerous banks around the world are researching the crypto space, with some of them already making plans on launching their own coins. Doing so could potentially satisfy public policy goals, provide customers with protection and security, and even provide privacy in payments, which is something that the private sector failed to do.
While their claim would be that they only have security, privacy, and protection of their customers in mind, they would effectively eliminate competition to fiat currencies, and move to an all-digital economy at the same time. While Federal Reserve officials continue to deny that they are planning to issue their own coin, they still looked into the possibility.
The crypto space is evolving rapidly, and predicting the next turn is impossible. This includes the potential direction that crypto will take, as well as the intentions and potential interventions from the governments, banks, and alike. While precious metals may come into play once again, even this is still only a speculation, with no certainty about anything at this time. One thing is certain, and that is that a big change of a financial sector is happening right now, and it will take a few years for things to stabilize again. During those years, pretty much anything is possible.
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Sonoma, Calif. – Kyle Kaiser, from nearby Santa Clara, Calif., this afternoon celebrated his first victory in the Pro Mazda Championship Presented by Cooper Tires following a fine performance for Juncos Racing at his home track, Sonoma Raceway. Equally significant was the Lap 4 collision between title rivals Spencer Pigot and Scott Hargrove which ended with series points leader Pigot on the sidelines and Hargrove in third place.
Hargrove, who won last year's Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship Powered Mazda, is now in the catbird seat as he bids to become the second driver in successive years to claim back-to-back titles in USF2000 and Pro Mazda. The 19-year-old from Vancouver, B.C., Canada overturned a 19-point deficit and now leads Pigot by two points entering tomorrow's season finale.
The start was relatively uneventful as Hargrove maintained his advantage from pole position to lead outside front row qualifier Pigot past the green flags. Entering the tight Turn 11 hairpin on Lap 2, however, Hargrove locked up the brakes on his Cape Motorsports with Wayne Taylor machine as he struggled to keep Pigot in his mirrors.
Next time around he did it again, this time running wide at the exit and allowing Pigot to take a tighter exit and take the lead as the duo accelerated toward the start/finish line. Unfortunately, contact between the pair on the uphill climb to Turn Two sent them both spinning. Pigot was briefly able to continue but his Juncos Racing car's left-hand sidepod was severely damaged, causing the engine to overheat and ultimately expire just a few corners later. Several other cars also spun on the spilled fluid, bringing out the caution flags for a lengthy cleanup.
Kaiser took advantage of the melee to move into the lead but remained under intense pressure from Hargrove's teammate, Neil Alberico, at the restart before edging clear in the closing stages to secure the victory.
Hargrove briefly passed Alberico for second with a fine move under braking for Turn 11 on Lap 10, one lap after the restart, only for Alberico to retaliate immediately and regain second place on the entry to Turn Two. That's the way it ended, with Kaiser taking the checkered flag 1.6194 seconds ahead of Alberico, with Hargrove in third.
Shelby Blackstock (Andretti Autosport) looked set for fourth until experiencing mechanical problems in the waning laps. He eventually nursed the car home in fifth behind Nicolas Costa (Team Pelfrey). Alex Keyes, from Folsom, Calif., drove impressively on his Pro Mazda debut to rise from 13th on the grid, passing Dalton Kellett (Team Pelfrey) on Lap 13 to snag sixth at the finish.
Stan Kohls finished 16th to earn top Expert honors (for drivers over 30 years of age) over World Speed Motorsports teammate Bobby Eberle, for whom second place was enough to clinch the season title.
The Team Championship is even more finely poised than the drivers title-chase, with second and third-place finishes for Cape Motorsports with Wayne Taylor Racing ensuring a single-point advantage over Juncos Racing prior to tomorrow's season finale which will start at 3:40 p.m.
Keyes took home the Quarter Master Hard Charger Award for a gain of seven positions from 13th to sixth. He also claimed the Staubli Award. Joey Bickers with World Speed Motorsports gained three positions following the restart on Lap 10 to earn the RePlay XD Move of the Race Award.
The PFC Award and customized Race Energy charger – the official battery of the ladder series – went to the winning team, Juncos Racing.


Note: I originally published this article in my monthly column in Lake Magazine. I am proud to write about Lake Martin Real Estate for Lake Magazine.
It truly takes a village of people to help buyers purchase a home here at Lake Martin.
Sure, you might be tempted to think that the only people involved are real estate agents and lenders. While they are a great idea, agents and lenders are not necessary. I will say that, according to the National Association of Realtors, 87 percent of buyers used Realtors last year to help them in their purchases. Since I am an agent, this recommendation won't surprise you, but I do think a great agent more than pays for himself or herself. Choose one wisely.
Your agent should also be able to help you find additional people to assist in your purchase. An effective agent should have the contact information of the below folks ready at a moment's notice.
A first person you might need is a good general contractor or GC. A GC's advice can give you the data you need to be confident about your decision to negotiate with the seller and get a written contract. You may need them to walk through the home on which you have selected to make an offer if there are big repair items, but please do not drag the GC around to every single home you view. You want them to actually return your call when it really counts.
One of the first things to do after you have a written contract is to think about the land on which the home sits. Before you even get to the house, it is a good idea to hire a surveyor.
When you consider that most of the value of a waterfront home is in the dirt, it's a good idea to get data on that dirt. A surveyor can help. Some buyers elect to go pretty light here and only ask the surveyor to "mark the corners." This means simply finding each point of the property line and putting up some sort of marker.
Another option, albeit more expensive, is to get a complete survey of the property and its improvements. At the end of this operation, you would be handed (or emailed) a survey that shows the home, the dock, the driveway and just about anything else that is on the lot. A drawing like this can be extremely useful for future expansions but also could be helpful in case your neighbors get – shall we say – liberal with the placement of their yard art.
Most buyers are attuned to the fact that a home inspector is a critical part of the process. Make sure the one you hire after you are under contract is certified.
My personal theory on home negotiation is not to use the inspector as a way to nickel and dime the seller into having to repair every little scratch on the home; remember, most of the time the value of a Lake Martin home is in the lot anyway. It's just my opinion, but even though I like an inspector to point out every blemish, I am just looking for the big things. I am mainly concerned about the expensive systems or potential repairs. I think buyers should approach inspections with the mindset of priority, ranking the repairs according to their preferences.
Contrastingly, some aggressive buyers in our current seller's market are forgoing a home inspection. The mindset of these buyers is that they want to make their offers more attractive to the sellers, thus beating out any potential competing offers, since the purchase is not subject to an inspection. If you choose that route, be careful, and be sure you understand all the risks.
A septic inspector is also a very important person, and this inspection also should be set up after the contract is signed. A septic inspector is needed because of two factors: 1) most home inspectors will not include the septic system in the scope of the home inspection; and 2) almost every single home on Lake Martin is on a septic system.
Many of the septic tanks were built in a time when there was no building code in effect. In fact, the only time the word 'code' came up back then was to describe the Lake's temperature in January. Septic inspections are not a must for every purchase, but a buyer would be wise to at least consider it.
Next comes a termite inspector, who is usually paid by the seller, but that's negotiable. This is a totally separate inspection, done by a pest control professional.
Usually a termite inspector issues a Wood Infestation Report, or a WIR. A WIR will tell you if, on the particular day and time inspected, the home had active or previous infestations of termites, powder post beetles and/or wood-decaying fungi.
Many people I talk to think this is a bond that guarantees against the cost of future infestation. It is not the same thing. If you want a termite bond, negotiate for it. A WIR is only a snapshot of that day.
Also, unless the house is brand new, I would expect previous infestation. Most waterfront homes on Lake Martin are older and have battled the humidity of the South. This usually yields some sort of previous infestation. Don't let this freak you out unless the damage is so great that your home inspector is concerned.
An active infestation, however, is a showstopper. You had better get those nasties out of there before you buy the house.
A dock person is another lake-specific professional that might not translate to your hometown. Every Lake Martin home is different, but this could potentially be an expensive repair or an important part of a planned renovation.
If the home you like has a dock that only needs a few top boards replaced, then it is no problem. Your solution could be a carpenter if the job is that light; however, if the dock is about to fall in, or if illegal foam has been used on the floating dock, you need to get the advice of a contractor that specializes in dock construction. A regular home inspection does not usually cover the dock or seawall; so don't rely on it here. Get a specialist to review the situation.
Similarly, you might need to get a dock contractor's advice if you plan a big expansion. What if your planned expansion would run afoul of dock regulations? Is that a deal breaker for you? Then you had better include that in your negotiations with the seller.
Selecting a good attorney is often the last choice made in the purchase process, but that does not mean it is an unimportant one.
First of all, pick someone that is a good explainer. I have been selling real estate on Lake Martin for more than 10 years, and I still learn something new at each closing. When you have questions about something as important and expensive as a home purchase, it helps to have a good teacher on your side instead of a person that just spouts legal jargon.
Another critical point in selecting an attorney is his or her local title search expertise. Just because your cousin Vinny is awesome at health care law in New Jersey doesn't mean he is good at searching title at Lake Martin. Our lake counties are rural areas (thank the Lord), and the title chain often includes some cornbread and collards stains. The local title agents know the twists and turns of the local courthouses. Pick a good one and trust the one you pick, but get the title insurance anyway because no one is perfect.
I may have left a few villagers out, but hopefully, I have named most of them.


Tauil & Chequer Advogados in association with Mayer Brown LLP has announced the promotion of four of its lawyers to partnership. Following this initiative, as of January 1, 2012, Tauil & Chequer Advogados will have 14 partners. The newly promoted professionals are Roberta P. Caneca, from Tax, Leonardo P. Costa, who focuses on oil and gas, Guilherme Vieira da Silva, from mergers and acquisitions, and Salim Saud, who will take care of projects; the last three lawyers are from Corporate and Mergers & Acquisitions. "We are very happy with the promotion of our new partners. They are extremely well qualified and their promotion was the natural course for their careers to follow with our firm", said Alexandre Chequer, one of the firm's founding partners.
"In addition to their top quality legal skills and unquestionable experience in their practice areas, each lawyer has shown leadership, commercial awareness, excellence in the provision of services and commitment to team work and the special characteristics of the firm. They have already made significant contributions and now as partners they will have an important role in the ongoing development of our ability to offer global solutions for our clients' legal and business needs" added Chequer.
Roberta Caneca focuses her practice on the tax aspects of infrastructure projects involving multinational corporations in different sectors and jurisdictions, like oil and gas (upstream and midstream), energy, chemical, and constructing. She advises them on all issues relating to indirect taxation and special customs regimes, and also represents them in tax litigation before both administrative and judicial courts.
Leonardo Costa's practice is focused on domestic and international energy transactions. He represents oil and gas companies and oilfield service companies structuring, negotiating and documenting energy projects, including exploration and production contracts, joint operating agreements, drilling contracts, mergers and acquisitions, and LNG projects, with focus on Brazil and West Africa. He has also significant experience representing clients in domestic and international arbitrations regarding oil and gas exploration and production contracts.
Guilherme Vieira da Silva focuses primarily on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and capital markets. Guilherme has assisted buyers, sellers and financial advisors in the process of stock and asset acquisitions, structural finance, mergers, tender offers, stock for stock acquisitions, shareholder's agreements, corporate governance structuring involving both Brazilian and foreign corporations.
Salim Saud Neto is a transactional lawyer whose practice focuses primarily on contracts, M&A, construction, infrastructure, and arbitration matters. Being highly specialized in construction and praised by clients for his experience in the field, Salim is responsible for some of the most relevant projects conducted in Brazil in the past few years, such as the first ethanol pipeline in the world.
Founded in 2001, Tauil & Chequer is one of the most successful and fastest-growing law firms in Brazil, with more than 80 lawyers and offices in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. The firm serves clients across a range of practice areas, including corporate, M&A, intellectual property, real estate, tax, project finance and construction.
Mayer Brown is a leading global law firm with 20 offices in key business centers worldwide. The firm has more than 1,650 lawyers, including approximately 900 in the Americas, 450 in Europe and 300 in Asia. Mayer Brown is noted for its commitment to client service and its ability to assist clients with their most complex and demanding legal and business challenges. The firm serves many of the world's largest companies and organizations and is particularly renowned for its US Supreme Court and Appellate, Litigation, Corporate and Securities, Finance, Real Estate and Tax practices. For more information, please visit www.mayerbrown.com.


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