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First Look Review - SOUTH MOUNTAIN
A woman readjusts her life in the aftermath of her husband leaving her for another woman.
Review by Benjamin Poole
Directed by: Hilary Brougher
Starring: Talia Balsam, Scott Cohen, Andrus Nichols, Michael Oberholtzer
What a wonderful film Hilary Brougher's (writer/director/actual mother's house used as locations) low-key melodrama South Mountain is. Set within the evocatively fertile greenery of the Catskills range, South Mountain follows Lila (Talia Balsam: giving, in a reverse nominative determinism, a superbly nuanced performance), a matriarch to a brood of not-quite-adults-yet children and step-children, their lively mates, and her handsome husband Edgar (Scott Cohen) who, due to working on the road, very often isn't present at the idyllic shotgun shack where the family live. However, in the grand tradition of feckless men of a certain age who, at a certain point, ask themselves "how did they get there?", it turns out that Edgar has been playing away. We discover this via a phone call Edgar suddenly must take during a family gathering, wherein, behind closed doors, he witnesses the birth of his son over Facetime.
Generalising never helps, but there is truth in the maxim that men have mid-life crises, while their female counterparts face mid-life challenges. Before you can say "it's a boy" (Edgar's other all but grown up children are female), Edgar has fessed up and is off, leaving Lila to pick up the pieces and maintain some semblance of normalcy for their progeny.
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What follows is a vividly detailed, subtle drama which presents a genuinely felt upheaval. Because the thing with actual upheavals is that life does, sometimes in the most callous of manners, carry on, doesn't it? And when the bubble of a relationship bursts, the outside world seems to loom in ways that it didn't when you were safely ensconced within the illusory remove of marriage. For a start, there is always someone who has it worse than you, and for Lila this is her best friend Gigi (Andrus Nichols), who has cancer. Over the episodically paced, year long narrative, we see Gigi reduced from a proud extrovert who has no bones about getting her tits out in the family sauna to a smaller woman in a headscarf as the disease commandeers her. The time transitions imply the inevitable and speedy cruelties of her condition in a way that is both pragmatic and incredibly moving.
The time-step narrative also demonstrates the different velocities of how Lila deals with the abrupt breakdown of her marriage, which ranges from a reasonable and mature acceptance borne from the wider need for stability, to molten fury, to an affair with one of her daughter's mates. The lad is handsome in that American telly way (you know, like the brothers in Supernatural or similar), and the delicacy of how Brougher films the fling - gentle touches, deep anxious kisses - is lucidly sensual and compassionate.
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This affair is central to the thematic resonance of South Mountain. On the face of it, it's just sex: but the generation gap gives the union an (unfair?) illicitness which means that Lila has to furtively hide the interaction from her daughters in a manner which contrasts her ex's actual indiscretions, as the girls still seem quite simpatico with their estranged dad. Following the affair, Lila seems to grow a foot taller, and begins to stand up a bit more to her shagabout ex fella. For his part, finding out about the liaison sends him into a proprietary rage.
Within this elegantly human drama, Brougher draws matter of fact distinctions between our diverse social expectations of men and women: Lila is often seen preparing and serving food for the various comings and goings of the wider circle, for instance. Edgar, along with everyone else, just seems to come and go. It is a measure of this film's quiet strength that it ultimately finds a peaceful purpose within Lila's situation.
A release date has yet to be announced.
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You are here > Home / Sold Post-1900 U.S. Military Arms / Inland Division GM .30 M1 M-1 Carbine MFD 1944 C&R
Inland Division GM .30 M1 M-1 Carbine MFD 1944 C&R
LSB#: 181226DN09
Make: Inland Division of General Motors
Model: M1 Carbine
Serial Number: 5031419
Year of Manufacture: April to June of 1944 (page 28 of Scott Duff's book The M1 Carbine Owner's Guide). Barrel Date 1 – 44
Caliber: .30 Carbine
Action Type: Semi Auto, Detachable Magazine
Markings: There is no visible import mark. The top of the receiver is marked "U.S. CARBINE / CAL. 30 M1" on the front and "INLAND DIV. / 5031419" on the rear. The bottom of the receiver is stamped with an "R" inspection stamp. The top of the barrel is marked "INLAND MFG. DIV. / GENERAL MOTORS / 1 – 44" and "P". The barrel flat is marked with "B.I." and "5" inspection stampings. The right rear of the trigger group is marked "INLAND" which is an Inland mark (page 78 of Craig Riesch's book, U.S. M1 Carbines Wartime Production 7th Edition). The hammer is marked "HI" which is an Inland mark (page 89). The magazine release is marked "M" and "W.I." which is an Inland mark (pages 98). The plain push button safety is consistent with Inland & others (pages 93). The inside of the operating slide is marked "PI" which is an Inland mark (page 65). The bolt is marked "OI in a circle" on the right lug which is an Inland mark (page 36). The bolt lugs are also marked with production numbers, "1" and "11". The inside of the recoil plate is marked "DI" which is an Inland mark (page 135). The front sight is marked "N" which is consistent for Inland and others (page 56). The Type I rear sight is marked with an "S" on the left. All Type I sights are marked this way (page 27). It is also marked with a faded "N-A" on the right. The Type II barrel band is marked "PI in a triangle" which is an Inland mark (page 58- 59). The sling well is marked "OI" which is an Inland mark (page 108-109). The inside of the handguard is marked "OI" which is an Inland mark (page 138).
Sights / Optics: The front sight is a post set between two protective wings. The rear sight is a flip up Type I dual aperture assembly.
Stock Configuration & Condition: The stock has a pistol grip, metal barrel band with sling loop, sling well, sling pass through and a metal buttplate. The buttplate shows scrapes, some small scratches & light oxidation. The wood shows several scrapes, scratches & compression marks. Many are deep and have damaged or removed portions of the wood. The most prominent are on the left, below the receiver. Many of these marks have been oiled over. The LOP measures 13 1/4 inches from the front of the trigger to the back of the buttplate. The stock rates in about Very Good Plus overall condition as refinished.
Finish Originality: Original. The receiver has been treated with cold black oxide.
Bore Condition: The bore is mostly bright; grey near the muzzle. The rifling is deep. There is erosion near the muzzle. The bore shows an M.E. of 1.5.
Overall Condition: This rifle retains about 97% of its metal finish. The receiver has been treated with cold black oxide. The barrel shows some small handling marks and light discoloration. The edges of the muzzle & front sight show light thinning. The right side of the receiver shows thinning from cycling. The trigger housing shows some light scrapes. The screw heads are intact. The markings are deep. Overall, this rifle rates in about Very Good Plus to Fine condition.
Mechanics: The action functions correctly. We did not fire this rifle. As with all used firearms, a thorough cleaning may be necessary to meet your maintenance requirements.
Box, Paperwork & Accessories: There is no magazine.
Our Assessment: This matching Inland M1 Carbine was made back in 1944. It has nice markings on the metal & wood that are all Inland marks. At some point in its life the rifles stock was refinished and the receiver was treated with cold black oxide, so the rifle looks nice. An all matching M1 is a favorable addition to a WWII collection. Good luck.
CA Legal or CA Private Party Transferable:This rifle is curio and relic eligible and can be transferred/sold in California.

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Summer is here and Canada is heating up from coast to coast. The kids are out of school and office/work life seems to generally move at a slower pace. The draw to get away from it all is high – but vacations can be pretty pricey.
With a steady string of long weekends coming up through the summer, you can capitalize on your time away from work by staying close to home.
Stay-cations – not just a buzzword anymore. By taking a vacation in your own city (or close by) you maximize your free time, cut costs dramatically and often get to try out activities you've been meaning to do.
Everyone hates traffic – and we all know that our highways, ferries and airports are slammed during long weekends and summer months. What if you could take a trip without expensive airfare, tolls or accommodation fees? Did I mention that you're already at your destination? See, this stay-cation thing is getting better and better.
This is your time off – sure you want to have a break, but that doesn't mean you can't have fun. Plan activities you usually don't have the time to do and be sure to get away from your regular style of life. Your location might not change, but be sure your mindset does.
This is where some of that great budgeting you've done can pay off. Have a nice meal, go to a local event and really kick back.
Our country is full of space and Canada is meant to be experienced outside. Best of all, our Provincial Parks offer free day camping and amazing sites. There is nothing better than a refreshing dip in a lake, a riverside hike or seeing what our country has to offer – especially when it's free.


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The Affair (Seasons 1-3)
The series The Affair has turned from a love story in its first season to a crime story in the latest, third season. Noah ‒ a writer, a professor, a married father of four meets a married waitress Alison during a summer vacation. They cannot resist each other and start an affair. The second season was like a soap opera ‒ about their passion and love as well as them becoming aware that they still had feelings for their exes. At the end, because the last episode of every season is a kind of a teaser for the next one, we were left with a cliffhanger. Noah said that he was guilty in court and ended up in prison, although it wasn't his fault and was just protecting his ex-wife.
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After three years Noah comes out of prison and Allison and the kids don't want to have anything to do with him. A guard from the prison where he served is chasing him, as well as that someone follows him and even attacks him with a knife. Or is it just all in his head? Also, do the viewers and other characters in the show even care? In the meantime, he starts a relationship with a French woman ‒ a guest professor at his college ‒ and after a brief and not very intimate relationship they become a couple, so we are left with material for season four. And, all of a sudden, his relationship with his oldest daughter Whitney, who until recently did not even want to look at him, starts improving greatly.
In the meantime, Alison had some psychological problems, had a several months long therapy, and is having a custody battle over her daughter with her ex-husband. Even though the baby was born during her happy marriage to Noah, he is not the father. She does not want to communicate with him and the only thing she wants from him is a divorce. How and why she had a baby with someone else, although it was made during a happy relationship, is not the focus of this season.
Noah's first wife Helen wants something, but not even she herself knows what. She is currently in a relationship with a doctor who saved their son, but is in two minds about being with him. She still has on and off feelings about Noah. She wants to plead guilty for the crime Noah went to prison for and she paid his lawyer, and then she doesn't... All in all, we get the feeling that the writers don't know what to do with her character.
In the first season the beginning of every scene had a caption telling us whose perspective we are watching from, because main characters had a very different perception and experience of some events. Now it is not necessary because the protagonists do not even talk to each other, let alone appear in the same scene. If someone who watched only the beginning of season one was to see the end of the third, they might even think it wasn't the same show. On top of that, who knows what awaits us in the fourth season?
In any case, if you really like some of the characters or the actors, watch the show. It looks like a show with the same cast, but each season has a different plotline and goal, as well as that there is no continuity in connection. Suffice to say there are very good shows similar to this one – the same cast, but a completely different plotline – however, this one stands out with its complexity and deep character development. I would personally recommend you check it out if you ever get an opportunity!
Starring: Dominic West (Noah Solloway), Ruth Wilson (Alison Lockhart), Maura Tierney (Helen Solloway), Joshua Jackson (Cole Lockhart)
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Ever since I was a stuntman I have been fascinated by the unrelenting divergence of the zeitgeist. What starts out as contemplation soon becomes debased into a tragedy of lust, leaving only a sense of what could have been and the prospect of a new beginning.
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Eagle Beach, one of the most beautiful in Aruba, is home to the Bucuti & Tara Resort.
This romantic getaway is the Caribbean's first carbon neutral resort
The best beach in Aruba is also home to this eco-paradise.
By Marie McGrory
Guests at Aruba's Bucuti & Tara Beach Resort, a honeymooner favorite, feel the love even if they're not there with a significant other. That's partly because the hotel is located on one of the Caribbean island's best stretches of white sand, Eagle Beach. And partly because a weeklong stay at the resort for average Americans can mean leaving a smaller carbon footprint than they do at home. And that's even including the flight to get there.
How is that possible? It's possible because Bucuti owner and CEO Ewald Biemans thinks in big ideas. The resort has been a pioneer in sustainability in the hospitality industry for over 30 years. From organizing beach cleanups in the very early years, to installing energy efficient appliances and supporting turtle conservation programs, the resort knows the value in environmental preservation.
But two years ago, Biemans and his team set out to take it a step further and become the first carbon neutral resort in the Caribbean.
Becoming carbon neutral is no easy feat. It doesn't simply mean washing fewer towels and turning off lights. The CarbonNeutral certification protocol means accounting for emissions for all resort needs, including daily transportation for staff, the importation of food and goods, as well as any carbon spent for conferences and business travel. And while many companies reduce their footprint through purchasing carbon offsets, Biemans was determined to become carbon neutral within the resort. His team got surprisingly far.
The resort is home to the largest solar panel installation the government of Aruba will allow, and the small amount of offsets they need to purchase come from a local wind farm. But producing energy isn't the only answer to becoming carbon neutral. Over the last few years Bucuti has made more strides in reducing waste and energy overall. Sometimes these are through methods the guests can't see, such as efficient appliances or reducing water and landfill waste. Other times, energy reduction comes through initiatives that also make a better guest experience. The restaurant provides meals with ingredients sourced fresh from local farms, and with lionfish (an invasive species) from local fishermen. And when guests are finished with their meal, food waste goes back to local farms to feed the pigs.
Environmentalism doesn't stop at carbon measurements. The hotel also engages in a variety of programs that help support local artists, species conservation, and even a festive annual recycling competition.
Bucuti & Tara Beach Resort uses solar panels, and purchases additional solar and wind energy to keep their resort carbon neutral.
Photograph courtesy Bucuti & Tara Beach Resort
Biemans will be the first to tell you walking the sustainability path is an arduous one, but the benefits are worthwhile. Bucuti is a place, Biemans says, where staff can feel proud to work, and guests enjoy a relaxing vacation in a gorgeous setting with no amenities lacking. But when they go home, says Biemans, they leave feeling "guilt-free." Many even ask about recommendations on energy-efficient appliances or for other tips to take back to their own houses or businesses.
"I get compliments every day about how good they feel about it," says Biemans. "It builds a lot of good will."


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Last Debenhams Stores Close Their Doors
May 16, 2021 admin	No Comments
The last remaining Debenhams are closing their doors on Saturday, more than 240 years after the department store began trading.
Shoppers have flocked to the last remaining outlets to pick up bargains in closing-down sales.
But the last 28 stores will now be shuttered for good.
The Debenhams brand will continue to trade online after it was bought by the fashion retailer Boohoo for £55m in January.
At its height, there were more than 150 Debenhams stores across the UK, but the chain went into administration in 2019 after several years of falling sales.
The pandemic was the final blow.
In December, its owners announced the business was being wound down with 12,000 job losses.
After lockdown, 97 stores reopened to allow the last stock to be cleared, and they have gradually been closed over the last two weeks.
The last outlets have been plastered with sale signs, offering a mish-mash of items, from bikinis to cafetieres, at bargain basement prices.
Debenhams was an anchor store, especially in many mid-sized town centres, such as Mansfield, where it opened its shopping centre-based site in 1976.
Shelves were empty in the cosmetic department this week, while boxes of left-over coat hangers were free to anyone who wanted them.
But as the shop entered its final few days of trading, there were more customers than there had been for some time, said shop staff.
They recalled that in its early days, the store sold a huge range of goods, from loft ladders to greenhouses.
"It was so thriving in the 1970s and 80s. On a Friday afternoon, it was really buzzing with the girls from the factory," said Glenis Thompson.
Its closure would leave "a big big hole in the town", said Julie Howe, another former Debenhams worker.
"It isn't all about online and Covid. The company lost its way, which is very sad," she added.
image captionA postcard showing Debenham & Freebody department store in London, circa 1905
Debenhams traces its roots back to 1778 when William Clark opened a shop in London's West End, selling fabrics, bonnets and parasols.
By the 1950s, it was the biggest department store in the UK with 110 sites.
However, in recent years, the shift to online shopping ate into sales and the business floundered.
It was put up for sale last year, but in the end, the brand will survive online as part of the internet-only fashion firm Boohoo.
Source: bbc.com
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Air ambulance company disputes Richmond County tax bill
An air ambulance company whose plane was seized last week for unpaid taxes is protesting the tax bill and wants a refund.
Med-Trans, the Texas-based company that acquired Augusta's AirMed air ambulance service in October, paid $98,500 in property taxes Friday to the Richmond County Tax Commissioner's Office.
The payment was sent a day after tax officials seized a Beechcraft B200 plane at Augusta Regional Airport to secure the unpaid debt.
"That was the first time Med-Trans knew about the tax issue and when we were given a copy of the Tax Notice," according to Reid Vogel, a spokesman for Med-Trans, who responded by e-mail.
Vogel said the taxes are owed by AirMed, and the plane that was seized, identified by tail number N771MG, belongs to Med-Trans "sister company," EagleMed LLC.
"Med-Trans and EagleMed told the Richmond County Tax Commissioner's office that N771MG was not owned by AirMed Inc. and that it is an emergency response aircraft serving the general public, but it did not matter to them," Vogel wrote.
Tax Commissioner Steven Kendrick said it was his position that Med-Trans acquired the company and its equipment, and it is now responsible for the tax debt.
The dispute over the tax bill dates to early 2012, when AirMed was sent an assessment notice by the Richmond County Tax Assessors Office for four aircraft operated by the company and hangared in Augusta.
Chief Assessor Alveno Ross said AirMed failed to file a return for business personal property tax on its equipment, so one was created for the company by his office. Ross said that even after the assessment notice was sent out, AirMed did not file an appeal.
On March 22, 2012, AirMed President Dan Gates sent a letter arguing that under Georgia law, AirMed was a commercial airline and thus exempt from local property taxes.
Ross said the exemption cited by Gates doesn't apply; if it did, AirMed would be assessed as a public utility and subject to state taxes. He said the company has not offered any documentation to indicate that was the case.
Gates said the situation was a first for him.
"We've never been taxed in 12 or 13 years of business," he said.
Gates said that even if AirMed owed some taxes last year, he doesn't agree with the amount. He said of the four aircraft – two helicopters and two planes – AirMed actually owned only one, a 1979 Beechcraft F90.
Gates said the two helicopters were leased from another company, BMK LP, and the Beechcraft B200 was owned by another of his companies, Coastal Air Inc.
Since the sale to Med-Trans, the helicopters have returned to BMK and the two planes were sold to EagleMed, a subsidiary of Air Medical Group Holdings, which also owns Med-Trans,
EagleMed sold the Beechcraft F90 in October to a North Carolina company, according to Federal Aviation Administration records.
Read more here: http://chronicle.augusta.com
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Council Puts Medical Helicopter in Limbo
Plans to station an air-ambulance helicopter in Oceanside have hit a snag.
The City Council voted 3-2 Wednesday to send the proposed lease of property to REACH Air Medical Services of Santa Rosa back to the city manager for re-negotiation.
Fire Chief Darryl Hebert was a strong proponent of the plan to lease part of the Fire Training Center at 110 Jones Road to REACH for a heliport, saying it could reduce evacuation time for critically ill or injured patients.
One proponent said it would cut the time in half, from 12-14 minutes to six-eight minutes.
Currently, critical patients are flown from McClellan Palomar Airport in Carlsbad by Mercy Air Service of San Diego to the nearest trauma hospital, usually Scripps Memorial in La Jolla.
Tri-City Medical Center in Oceanside is not an authorized trauma reception unit.
Hebert said Palomar Medical Center in Escondido, which is designated to receive trauma patients, is closer but serves such a large area already that Oceanside patients are to be sent to La Jolla.
Non-critical patients—an average of 39 a day, are taken by Fire Department ambulance to Tri-City.
Councilman Jerry Kern, one of the majority voting against the proposal, said the 269 patients flown last year are less than 1.5 percent of the total of nearly 18,000 patients transported by Fire Department paramedics every year.
He asked if there had been complaints about Mercy Air.
There have been a couple that he knows of, Hebert replied, but he did not have exact data about complaints.
Larry Hall, representing Mercy, said it should have been allowed to present a proposal of its own.
Ken Crossman, chairman of the city's Police and Fire Commission, an advisory body, said it had voted unanimously in favor of the REACH plan.
Larry Barry, speaking in opposition to the proposal, said REACH should pay to use the city's nearby airport and operate privately without city firefighters on board, as outlined in the proposal.
"It's not going to cost the city anything," proponent Joan Brubaker said.
The council majority's main objection was to the proposed use of Fire Department personnel on the air ambulances. It didn't mind the private-enterprise lease of city property for its own operations.
Councilman Gary Felien said, the city faces huge debt from employee retirement. "There's going to be a pension crisis," he said.
Hebert insisted on wanting control of the operation by having his own employees on board and said he could do it with current personnel, not increasing retirement costs. "There is no fiscal impact to the City of Oceanside," Hebert said.
Read more here: http://oceanside-camppendleton.patch.com
Federal Aviation Administration keeps airport gear running: Lee Gilmer Memorial (KGVL), Gainesville, Georgia
Who is responsible for the maintenance at Lee Gilmer Memorial Airport?
A new guidance system was installed onto a wooden structure a number of years ago. This structure is visible from Queen City Parkway and has never been primed or painted to protect the wood from the elements. The wood now appears weathered, cracked and split.
The structure was installed in 1999, according to Terry Palmer, airport manager at Lee Gilmer, and is maintained by the Federal Aviation Administration.
"It is made out of treated lumber, so it's not necessarily something that will have to be restained or anything," Palmer said.
The structure supports a localizer antennae, which basically provides an electronic center line 5 miles south of the airport so that pilots can line up with the runway even during low visibility.
The antennae is monitored 24/7 by the FAA, so if there was some sort of equipment failure, the FAA would know before anyone else since it monitors it, Palmer said. An alert would be sent, which they would then relay to air traffic controllers.
The FAA is responsible for maintenance of that and other antennas and equipment. The city of Gainesville, which owns the airport, is responsible for maintenance of the runways, taxiways, grounds and buildings.
Source: http://www.gainesvilletimes.com
Labels: Airports, FAA
Trenton Mercer (KTTN), New Jersey: Airport ready to take off
Times of Trenton Letter to the Editor - May 2
Mercer Airport ready to take off
If the crowded parking lot at the Trenton-Mercer Airport is any indication, the arrival of Frontier Airlines and its many popular destinations are a runaway success.
While Mercer County has certainly been burned, over the years, with a number of marginal carriers coming and going out of West Trenton, the public seems to have finally signaled its desire to avoid flying out of Newark and Philadelphia.
Interestingly, looking at the airlines that have long anchored the larger hubs, Continental is gone, with parent United ranking at the bottom of customer satisfaction lists, and I wouldn't place a big bet on American Airlines once it deals with the pains of taking over U.S. Airways in Philadelphia. It's only getting worse at the bigger airports with their megacarriers.
Frontier has had its financial problems, and two investment firms are currently in talks to acquire Frontier from parent Republic Airways Holdings. Whether Frontier is still here in five years is anyone's guess, but some airline will see the opportunity of flying out of Trenton Mercer, and that is why there shouldn't be any further delay in getting a new terminal built ("Improvement projects put on hold at Trenton-Mercer Airport," April 24).
Bringing in a private developer is an option. (A Dutch firm manages the new Delta Terminal 4 at JFK.) The recently reported $450,000 loan by Frontier to the county for airport improvements is a temporary fix, at best. Now is the time for bold leadership by Mercer County officials.
-- Gary Smotrich,
Source: http://www.nj.com
The skinny on the rumor: Meadow Lake Airport (KFLY), Colorado Springs, Colorado
In the April 6 issue of The New Falcon Herald, the rumor column noted that a new 6,000-square-foot hangar was being built at the Meadow Lake Airport – but not on the airport property. Mark Shook, Meadow Lake Airport Association Board of Directors vice president, has clarified the rumor, which turned out to be true.
The hangar is on Shook's property. The hangar will store two large aircrafts and three rotor crafts and measure 4,200 square feet; the buildable area on the lot is 6,000 square feet, he said.
Dave Elliott, MLAA president, said there has been confusion surrounding the constitution of the airport and its property. The majority of the hangars considered part of the airport are actually located on private property to the east of the main runway, known as the Airport Hangar subdivision, Elliott said.
"The original idea behind the airport was that it was going to be private and to keep it private with no government interference," he said.
The first airport runway was graded out in 1965 and was 4,000 feet long and about 30 feet wide, which is narrow for a runway, Shook said. It was paved in 1970.
"In 1989, the Federal Aviation Association granted it General Aviation Retriever Status, meaning the airport was available for everybody to use without charge at that time, kind of like a highway in front of your business," Shook said. "It's a public use of the transportation system. There is tax on the sale of gasoline and the dues from the property owners of the MLAA, which is how the public portion of the airport is funded."
All of the runways, taxiways and aeronautical surfaces are owned by the airport association, Shook said. People who pay dues to the association have voting rights to elect the board that manages the nonprofit MLAA, Shook said. "It's a public use airport that is privately owned by a nonprofit airport association," he said.
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How is XRP related to Ripple?
What is XRP? XRP is a cryptocurrency tailored to work on the Ripple network. Discover more what powers XRP holds.
In Ripple, XRP is just one of many digital assets. Ripple is a company that provides financial services to banks and other financial institutions on a global basis. Ripple is also known as the crypto-asset XRP, which is traded on a number of exchanges. Like other cryptos, it lets you move money around nearly instantly (1–3 seconds) worldwide for a very small fee without any middleman.
XRP is a native cryptocurrency, which means it is a currency that is created by the RippleCompany and is stable.
XRP is an open-source project that is an open-source public payment network that allows you to send money quickly, cheaply, and reliably worldwide.
XRP and Ripple are both cryptocurrencies. Ripple is the first cryptocurrency that was used in a widespread manner, and is used by many people for their money. XRP is often used as a secondary currency because of its crypto ties. XRP is the result of a fork of the Bitcoin code that split the digital coin and created its own blockchain.
What is XRP? And what does it have to do with Ripple?
XRP is a digital asset that's used by banks and institutions to move money across borders. It's also the name of the company that created and sells the digital asset. But what is Ripple and what does it have to do with XRP? Let's start with Ripple.
XRP is the name of the digital currency that powers Ripple, the global payments company. It's also often used as a synonym for the cryptocurrency known as XRP. But there's more to XRP than just its value as a digital currency. It's also a technology that enables banks and other institutions to transfer money anywhere in the world in seconds, with little or no cost.
Ripple is a company, headquartered in San Francisco, with a small team of engineers and a long list of partners and customers. It provides a suite of products for sending payments and transferring money worldwide. Most of its products can be used without ever visiting the Ripple website or interacting with a Ripple employee. But Ripple is also much more than a technology company.
Ripple is a San Francisco-based fintech company that focuses on global financial settlement. It uses RippleNet to enable instant, secure and low-cost global payments. It also uses XRP, the cryptocurrency, to help fund and expand the RippleNet platform. The co-founders of Ripple, who are currently CEO Brad Garlinghouse and CTO David Schwartz, are both former executives at Yahoo, Google and Microsoft.
XRP is the name of a cryptocurrency that is closely associated with the company Ripple. It is sometimes referred to as Ripple cryptocurrency or Ripple coin. XRP is often referred to as the digital token of Ripple. But what is XRP actually and what does it do?
Who created XRP?
Christopher Verner created XRP and it was released in 2001 by a startup called Ripple. His vision: a crypto-currency that is fully decentralized, with no single entity controlling it, which would have global reach, and which would be resistant to attack from malicious actors like hackers, miners and nation states.
As XRP first, it was developed by a group of independent engineers and scientists, working in secret, who sought to improve upon the original Bitcoin whitepaper by solving the double-spending problem.
An XRP address and alignment are an important part of the XRP ledger. The XRP ledger is made up of the ledger servers and the validators. It has been a long time since the XRP ledger was created and we are excited to share that journey with you.
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The digital asset rose to fame in 2017 by being the first in its class to be traded on a blockchain, the first to become a global top-tens cryptocurrency, the first to become a top-ten cryptocurrency by market cap and the first to be listed on a major cryptocurrency exchange.
Understanding the Difference Between Ripple and XRP
Ripple, XRP, and XRP Ledger: Main Concepts
Ripple is different than XRP, the other cryptocurrency to achieve mainstream adoption. Ripple, as it turns out, is designed to be used as either a standalone currency or to bridge the gap between crypto-currencies and traditional currencies. It also makes cross-border payments ("borderless payments"). This makes InterLedger solutions, such as xRapid, particularly well suited for international payments....
XRP, formerly known as Ripple, is the native cryptocurrency of the Ripple protocol. It is also known as the "cryptocurrency of XRP", "XRP token", or "Ripple coin" (not to be confused with XRP Ledger).
Ripple and XRP are two different cryptocurrencies. Ripple (XRP) coins are digital currency that is created and distributed without the help of a central bank or government. This fact has led to criticism that XRP is not decentralized because it is based on the Ripple protocol which is the brainchild of the company's chief scientist, David Schwartz, who gives Ripple its "blockchain technology" name. Ripple's blockchain, which requires users to complete a multi-step process in order to transact and which has been criticized for slow transactions, debuted in 2012 and is often compared to bitcoin.
Ripple gives them similar functionality, but is otherwise very different. While Ripple aims to send untraceable digital assets across the world, XRP is primarily used for its decentralized, secure and anonymous nature, and is often considered the "successor" to Bitcoin.
What is XRP used for?
XRP is a digital currency used as a digital asset or currency. It is mostly used as a digital currency, but it can also be used to make transactions much faster than traditional currencies. This is especially useful when making small instantaneous payments, such as buying a coffee or paying for your Uber ride. But the most common way people use XRP is to invest in it.
XRP is the name of a cryptocurrency that is used to settle transactions in the XRP ecosystem. XRP is the primary currency used to move money between accounts in the XRP ecosystem, and it is the only cryptocurrency that can be moved between accounts. XRP is primarily used as a bridge currency to move money between other cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum, but it can also be used to move money between fiat currencies like the U.S. dollar and the Japanese yen. Most people use XRP to send money to other XRP users, and it is also used by banks, payment processors, and other organizations to move money in and out of the XRP ecosystem.
XRP is the name of one of the most well-known cryptocurrencies in the world. It is primarily used as a means of transferring money across borders and is the fourth largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization. However, XRP isn't just used as a digital currency. XRP can be used in a number of different ways, including for digital transactions, for remittance, for digital assets and for lending.
XRP is the official name for the cryptocurrency Ripple. It's the second most popular cryptocurrency in the world, and it's used for sending money across borders. XRP is also used as a digital currency to buy things. You can use XRP to pay for things like plane tickets or online shopping.
XRP is the name of the cryptocurrency that powers the digital asset exchange platform of the same name. The value of XRP is based on the supply and demand of the cryptocurrency, with the current price hovering around $0.30 with a market cap of $20 billion. XRP is widely considered to be the third-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, behind only Bitcoin and Ethereum. Much like Bitcoin, XRP is used as a form of digital currency.
How is the XRP Ledger so efficient?
XRP is known for being distributed in a decentralized manner and for being highly resistant to censorship. This is because the ledger is a decentralized peer-to-peer network, where no single point of failure exists. Any XRP Ledger node, regardless of its geographical location, is connected directly with the rest of the XRP Ledger, and has access to the entire global XRP Ledger through a peer-to-peer network, which means that no single point of failure exists should nodes fail. The ledger is also extremely robust in that it is not vulnerable to censorship or downtime.
The XRP Ledger allows quick and efficient transactions to be made. When you send XRP to someone else, it costs nothing and cannot be frozen. In theory, this would allow anyone to transfer XRP quickly and without charge.
The XRP Ledger is extremely efficient because it's permissionless, decentralized, and public.
XRP has an architecture which makes it very efficient at processing transactions; this is achieved through the use of a special network and the application of the Delegated Proof of Stake protocol. DPoS is a consensus protocol that is a lot like Proof of Stake, but it is designed to allow for easier transaction processing, and to significantly increase the number of transactions that can be processed at any given time, while not requiring the resources of a full-blown blockchain.
XRP Ledger is so efficient because it is built on two layers: a public ledger, and a permissioned ledger. The public ledger is what is well-known to the public, and is run by the Ripple company, allowing anyone to read it. The permissioned ledger is only viewable by Ripple company employees. It is offline and only accessible to those with the proper permissions.
How to use XRP
The use of XRP in Ripple payments is one of its most prominent applications. XRP is a cryptocurrency whose protocol is built on a peer-to-peer network, featuring a novel decentralized architecture without a single entity in the middle. Ripple has also developed its own blockchain, which it calls XRP, leveraging the most advanced technology available on the market today. XRP is the first cryptocurrency to achieve segwit, which allows it to function on a separate blockchain.
XRP is a cryptocurrency, which was created as an open-source project in 2014 and is a member of the Ripple protocol. In this digital asset, you can send or receive money, which is exchanged for other digital assets and vice versa, in a peer-to-peer network. XRP has been called a "cryptocurrency for the Internet of Things", because it can enable quick, easy, and cheap transactions.
XRP is a cryptocurrency with no counter-party. This means it has no central authority or figurehead. Instead, it is maintained by a decentralized network of computers and there is no single person or group that owns the XRP and controls how it is used.
XRP is one of the most promising cryptocurrencies to date. It is a digital asset designed to solve the scalability problem which arises when the network is congested and transactions cannot be scaled to be as fast as transactions in traditional financial systems. Digital assets have also had many different uses, one of which is the issue of remittance. In a remittance, money is sent to a family member overseas, either electronically or by traditional mail.
XRP is a digital asset designed to function as a medium of exchange, store value, and provide an incentive for digital payments. Unlike most digital assets, XRP is not a security - it is an asset that is backed by the entire network, and therefore has no counterparty risk.
Understanding XRP's value
When its market price was first established, XRP was trading at a P/S of around 1,000. However, over the last year the price has appreciated to over 100,000 P/S and the rapid appreciation has received a lot of media attention.
Fun Fact: The xrp supply was originally limited by the number of native XRP users, rather than any official supply or monetary policy. Although Ripple's native token has now officially hit a cap, the number of xrp owned remains high, such that the total supply is still much greater than the total number of native xrp users. This suggests that the xrp supply is likely to be much higher than the supply of native XRP for some time.
While the price of XRP has lagged behind other digital assets like Bitcoin, XRP continues to show demand and value that could justify a future spot price of $1,000 per coin.
XRP, currently the third largest cryptocurrency by market cap, has a market cap of over $1 billion. The Ripple blockchain is one of the most well-known and established, and now XRP is more valuable than bitcoin at $0.49. XRP is the second largest reserve-backed digital asset by market cap. In fact, it is the second largest reserve-backed digital asset by market cap.
The price of XRP has logged more gains this month than any other digital asset — but it's still wasn't enough. Over the weekend, the XRP price surged to a new record high, approaching $1,300. But by Monday, it had dropped back to $1,285. In other words, XRP surged today, but then squeezed back down to almost exactly its Monday price.


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Q: Determining which packet/update arrived first between two machines I have two separate AWS Virtual Machines set up within a region (different availability zones) both are connected via WebSocket (in Python) to a different load balancer (Cloudfront) of the same host server (also hosted with AWS) and receive frequent small WebSocket payloads - every 5ms.
NB: I do not own the host server I am merely on the receiving end.
Both machines are receiving the same updates and I would like to measure on which machine the updates/payloads/packets are arriving first
In essence I would like to figure out which load balancer is "closer" to the host and so has the least latency overhead in transmitting the signal since my application is highly latency sensitive.
I have tried using the system clock to get timestamps of the data arrival however it is not guaranteed that the two instances have their time synced to an appropriate accuracy.

A: follow this.

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*Send a request to the load balancer with the body of the request containing the timestamp when it was sent to the server. You can
  easily do this using the DateTime api of your fav language.

*After that packet arrives to your backend server residing on your instance (can be a simple node server or a rails server), you can get
  that request, and compare it to the current timestamp.

*You can do this on both the servers and can easily compare which was faster.

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Q: Solving the problem : $z z_x + z_y = 0, \quad z(x,0) = x^2$ Exercise :

For the problem :
  $$\begin{cases} zz_x + z_y = 0 \\ z(x,0) = x^2\end{cases}$$
  derive the solution :
  $$z(x,y) = \begin{cases} x^2, \quad y = 0\\ \frac{1+2xy - \sqrt{1+4xy}}{2y^2}, \quad y \neq 0 \; \text{and} \; 1+4xy >0 \end{cases}$$
  When do shocks develop ? Use the Taylor series for $\sqrt{1+\epsilon}$ about $\epsilon= 0$ to verify that $\lim_{y\to 0} z(x,y) = x^2$.

Attempt :
$$\frac{\mathrm{d}x}{z} = \frac{\mathrm{d}y}{1} = \frac{\mathrm{d}z}{0}$$
We yield the integral curves :
$$\frac{\mathrm{d}y}{1} = \frac{\mathrm{d}z}{0} \implies z_1 = z $$
$$\frac{\mathrm{d}x}{z} = \frac{\mathrm{d}y}{1} \implies z_2 = x -zy$$
Thus, the general solution will involve a $F \in C^1$ function, such that :
$$z(x,y) = F(x-zy)$$
For $y=0$ :
$$z(x,0) = F(x) \Rightarrow F(x) = x^2$$
How would one proceed now to find the second branch of the solution ?
(The shock-taylor part is easy)

A: The general solution is :
$$z(x,y) = F(x-zy)\qquad\text{OK}.$$
$F$ is an arbitrary function, to be determines according to the boundary condition.
Condition : $\quad z(x,0)=x^2=F(x-0y)$
So, the function $F$ is determined :
$$F(X)=X^2\qquad\text{any }X$$
We put this function into the general solution where $X=x-zy$.
$$z(x,y)=F(x-zy)=(x-zy)^2$$
$z=x^2-2xyz+y^2z^2$
$y^2z^2-(2xy+1)z+x^2=0$
Solving for $z$ leads to :
$$z=\frac{2xy+1\pm\sqrt{(2xy+1)^2-4x^2y^2}}{2y^2}$$
$$z=\frac{2xy+1\pm\sqrt{1+4xy}}{2y^2}$$
For $y\to 0$ :
Let $\quad 4xy=\epsilon>0 \quad$ because $1+4xy>0$.
$$z=\frac{\frac{\epsilon}{2}+1\pm\sqrt{1+\epsilon}}{2y^2}=\frac{\frac{\epsilon}{2}+1\pm\sqrt{1+\epsilon}}{2\left(\frac{\epsilon}{4x}\right)^2}=8x^2\left(\frac{\frac{\epsilon}{2}+1\pm\sqrt{1+\epsilon}}{\epsilon^2}\right)$$
$\sqrt{1+\epsilon}\simeq 1+\frac12\epsilon-\frac18\epsilon^2+...$
$$z\simeq 8x^2\left(\frac{\frac{\epsilon}{2}+1\pm\left(1+\frac12\epsilon-\frac18\epsilon^2+...\right)}{\epsilon^2}\right)$$
Case of sign $+$ :
$z\simeq 8x^2\left(\frac{2+\epsilon-\frac18\epsilon^2+...}{\epsilon^2}\right)\to\infty\quad$ when $\epsilon\to 0$. This case is rejected because $z\to x^2$.
Case of sign $-$ :
$z\simeq 8x^2\left(\frac{\frac18\epsilon^2+...}{\epsilon^2}\right)\to x^2\quad$when $\epsilon\to 0$. This agrees. Thus the final result is :
$$z=\frac{2xy+1-\sqrt{1+4xy}}{2y^2}$$


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And the People Stay Home - a poem (and the story behind it)
Author: Shelley Hong
Here's a story about a retired school teacher.
Catherine - she goes by Kitty - lives with five rescue dogs and her hubby, Phillip.
A former teacher and chaplain, Kitty is now retired. After years working in palliative care, Kitty was worried for her friends who still work in healthcare and battling the virus in the frontline. She felt helpless because she was no longer in service.
Her hubby, Phillip, knew just what she needed though - because Kitty had always dabbled in poetry.
He simply said: "Write. Just write again."
So Kitty sat down and wrote this...
and learned new ways of being, and were still.
And, in the absence of people living in ignorant,
dangerous, mindless, and heartless ways,
And when the danger passed, and the people joined together again,
they grieved their losses, and made new choices, and dreamed new images,
By Kitty O'Meara
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Then she shared this poem with her friends on social media, the same way she always did whenever she wrote something, and thought nothing of it.
What happened next surprised everybody...
The poem resonated with people instantly. Soon, a Facebook friend asked to share the poem with her own followers, and within three days of posting, her husband encountered the poem elsewhere on the Internet...
Then Oprah magazine asked for an interview!
Kitty was amazed, and a little embarrassed.
Insisted that she's just an everyday person trying to find grace in the free-fall, Kitty was glad that her poem could show the world that something good can come out of this collective state of "together, apart".
"We can wallow... or we can see the invitations.
Anything that you can tap into that allows your feelings to be expressed creatively will do that for you. You will feel better on the other end of it. You will be changed," she says.
Kitty encourages everyone to activate their own creative sides.
"We have gifts.
It's a good reminder that whatever your gift is, and however small it is, keep using it. This is a really good time for that."
- Kitty O'Meara
Right now, we've just been given a huge gift: TIME.
"I would invite people to pick an art form and go for it.
People say, 'All my life, I wanted to do this, I wanted to do that.' Play with those things. Might be a dancing thing. Might be a knitting thing. Might be visual art.
This is the time. Do it."
Kitty encourages. And I couldn't agree more :-)
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La pyramide de Karlsruhe est une pyramide de grès rouge située au centre de la place du Marché de Karlsruhe, en Allemagne. C'est le tombeau du fondateur de la ville, le margrave Charles-Guillaume de Bade-Durlach. Elle a été érigée entre 1823 et 1825, sous la direction de l'architecte Friedrich Weinbrenner, à la place de la Konkordienkirche, une église luthérienne baroque à colombages qui abritait la dépouille de Charles-Guillaume depuis 1807.

La pyramide a une assise carrée et une hauteur extérieure de . C'est un exemple d'éclectisme égyptien, style architectural apparu à la suite de la Campagne d'Égypte menée par Napoléon, et mis en vogue durant le . Les successeurs du margrave ne reposent pas dans la pyramide, mais dans une chapelle funéraire construite au nord-est du centre-ville, dans le parc du château.

La ville de Krasnodar (en Russie), jumelée avec Karlsruhe, a érigé en 2012 une copie miniature de cette pyramide.

Notes et références

Karlsruhe
Karlsruhe

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Prepare the yeast. In the bowl of a stand mixer with the hook attachment on. Stir together 1 1/2 cups of warm water, sugar, and yeast until blended, then let it sit for 5 minutes.
Blend the ingredients. Add about 3 1/2 cups of flour, the salt, and melted butter to the bowl. Mix on low with the hook attachment until well blended. Add more flour as needed for the dough to come together. Raise the speed to medium, and continue kneading for 4 to 6 minutes or until dough is smooth and elastic.
Let the dough rise. Grease a large bowl with the oil, add the dough, turn it to coat, cover with the plastic wrap and place in a warm, draft-free place to double in size, about 1 hour.
Generously grease 2 baking sheets or line with parchment paper.
Prepare the water bath.In a medium saucepan over high heat, add the 8 cups of water and baking soda. Bring to a boil, and stir to blend.
Form the pretzel sticks. While waiting for the water to boil, place the risen dough on a lightly floured surface. Divide the dough in half, then divide each half into 12 balls, for a total of 24 balls. Roll out each ball into a rope 4 to 5 inches long. Dust off any excess flour from the pretzels.
Put the pretzels in the water bath. Gently lower each pretzel into the boiling water, 2 or 3 at a time, and cook for 20 to 30 seconds. Remove the pretzels with a large slotted spoon or spatula, gently shaking off any excess water, then place the pretzels on the baking sheets. Mix the egg yolk with a little water to think in a small bowl. With a pastry brush, lightly brush the egg yolk on top of the pretzels, then sprinkle with the pretzel or coarse salt.
Bake the pretzels. Bake for 12 to 17 minutes, or until dark golden brown. Cool slightly, then transfer the pretzels to a wire rack to finish cooling before serving.
Make the honey mustard dip. In a small bowl, mix together the mayonnaise, honey, and mustard, and serve alongside the pretzels.
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To provide the highest standard of care to marmosets during invasive surgical studies, studies that often lead to weight loss, it is paramount to call upon inherent species-specific enrichment tactics to mitigate weight loss. Weight...
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Every year around 3,000 long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) are imported into the UK to satisfy the needs of pharmaceutical contract research organisations (CROs). CITES, and many NGOs suggest that the demand for macaques used globally...
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The Principles and guidelines for the care and use of non-human primates for scientific purposes is a revision of NHMRC's Policy on the care and use of non-human primates for scientific purposes 2003 (the Policy)...
Reamer, L. A., Haller, R. H., Thiele, E. J. et al. 2014. Factors affecting initial training success of blood glucose testing in captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Zoo Biology 33(3), 212-220.
Type 2 diabetes can be a problem for captive chimpanzees. Accurate blood glucose (BG) readings are necessary to monitor and treat this disease. Thus, obtaining voluntary samples from primates through positive reinforcement training (PRT) is...
Gazes, R. P., Brown, E. K., Basile, B. M. et al. 2013. Automated cognitive testing of monkeys in social groups yields results comparable to individual laboratory-based testing. Animal Cognition 16(3), 445-458.
Cognitive abilities likely evolved in response to specific environmental and social challenges and are therefore expected to be specialized for the life history of each species. Specialized cognitive abilities may be most readily engaged under...
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Clinical Laboratory Animal Medicine: An Introduction, Fourth Edition offers a user-friendly guide to the unique anatomy and physiology, care, common diseases, and treatment of small mammals and nonhuman primates. Carefully designed for ease of use...
Taylor K. 2010. Reporting the implementation of the three Rs in European primate and mouse research papers: Are we making progress? Alternatives to Laboratory Animals 38(6), 495-517.
It is now more than 20 years since both Council of Europe Convention ETS123 and EU Directive 86/609/EEC were introduced, to promote the implementation of the Three Rs in animal experimentation and to provide guidance...
Lee, D. R., Ely, J. J. 2009. Welfare and housing of chimpanzees in captive settings. American Journal of Primatology 71(S1), 105. (32nd Meeting of the American Society of Primatologists Scientific Program, Abstract #230)
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Kulpa-Eddy, J. A., Taylor, S., Adams, K. M. 2005. USDA perspectives on environmental enrichment for animals. ILAR Journal 46(2), 83-94.
This article provides a brief historical background of the events and circumstances that led to the 1985 Animal Welfare Act (AWA) amendments. It describes the development of the regulations promulgated by the US Department of...
Nelson, R. J., Mandrell, T. D. 2005. Enrichment and nonhuman primates: "First, do no harm". ILAR Journal 46(2), 171-177.
Since the 1998 publication of The Psychological Well-Being of Nonhuman Primates by the National Research Council, and the 1991 implementation of the 1985 Animal Welfare Act Amendment, many formal and informal nonhuman primate enrichment programs...
Reinhardt, V. 2004. Flaws in federal regulations pertaining to the welfare of primates kept in research institutions. Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science 7(4), 273-276.
Federal welfare regulations for primates kept in research laboratories fail (1) to include recommendations pertaining to the legal requirement of the avoidance of stress and unnecessary discomfort during handling procedures, (2) to specify how the...
National Research Council. 2003. Guidelines for the Care and Use of Mammals in Neuroscience and Behavioral Research. National Academic Press: Washington, DC, 223 pp.
Expanding on the National Research Council's Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, this book deals specifically with mammals in neuroscience and behavioral research laboratories. It offers flexible guidelines for the care of...
Reinhardt, V. 2003. Legal loophole for subminimal floor area for caged macaques. Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science 6(1), 53-56.
The USDA regulations pertaining to the minimum space requirements of nonhuman primates and the fitting of elevated resting surfaces are contradictory. They implicitly condone the prevailing perch design that allows maximal usage of animal room...
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How to survive and thrive in a world without work
I wrote a book about how survive and thrive in a world without work, where automation and machine learning and artificial intelligence and fuzzy logic take over.
The book is the result of 21 years of R&D and millions invested and over 20,000 hours invested. If a large strategy consultancy had done this work it would have cost about R130 million (US$7.5 million).
I thought it might take us another 15 years to get there. Little did I know that it would take six months and that it has already happened according to the NY Times "About 30 million American workers — one out of every five — are collecting jobless benefits."
My book is here: It is only R30 (US$1.73) until the end of July, after which it will be R60 (US$3.45). I have priced it for wide dissemination among the middle class who are suffering the most at the moment and who can "fix" this if they (we) wish. We cannot rely on the people and systems who got us into this mess and who want to "get back to normal." There is a new normal at the moment. We must grab it and accept it and work with it.
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1029328
Dear Bill Gates
Dear Bill
Whilst you've been building businesses and looking at the next 5 years, others have been looking at the next 100 and 1000 years. No blame. Just let's get on with it and stop being PC and say it as it is.
I did a part time Executive MBA at Cranfield in the UK in 1991 / 1992 and I knew something was wrong, and in 1999, I invented a new retirement paradigm (Note that I define retirement differently to other people), which morphed into a way to survive a world without work, ie the fourth industrial revolution, a world of AI (Artificial Intelligence) and ML (Machine Learning), and now that Covid19 has finally arrived to teach humanity to realise the mistake that most of us have been making for the past 500 years, and wake us up, to the possibility of infinity and real abundance on earth, I realise that I'm here at exactly the right time. I've been praying (and talking and writing) for over 20 years that Office Workers will work from home with all the associated environmental (external and internal) benefits this brings. I didn't know that God (Mother Nature if you like) would provide Covid19, but it has quickly shown that we can work from home. It has closed conference centres, hopefully forever. Conferences are online where they should be and I can attend conferences anywhere in the world without leaving my house! And hopefully business travel will cease except for building and fixing machines and other hands on requirements. People should only be able to travel to visit family and for sport. And schools can close, but schooling can continue.
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Since 1999, I been doing R&D and understanding what's possible in a world without work, and my User Manual for Life on Earth is a result of this. See https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1029328 It is only $345 and at the moment it is on Smashwords with a 25% opening special discount. A really inexpensive way to save the world and bring it into an entirely new age.
Happy to discuss and find a way forward. Please let me know if you are interested in continuing this discussion?
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Making sense in complexity.
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