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AT&T and Apple stores "unbrick" the iPhone 3G at time of purchase, but for some reason if that doesn't happen, you'll be required to use iTunes at home.
Device purchase limit remains at (3) per customer in AT&T stores.
2G iPhones to remain as demo models in AT&T stores "until further notice".
Launch day will mirror last year's launch. This includes extended store hours, crowd controls, etc. Security will be provided to stores requesting armed police or guards.
AT&T is working with Apple to roll out GPS-enabled applications.
The hype over the iPhone 3G does not deserve all the buzz.
Is the iPhone 3G better than the BlackBerry 8820?


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Tag: original
Today I am writing with exciting news indeed: in a month's time, my next original piece of theatre and very first attempt at writing, producing and performing a one-person show, totem., will be premiering at the Hamilton Fringe! For its tenth season, the Hamilton Fringe has decided to expand into a few art galleries across the city, and I'm proud to have totem. be part of this inaugural addition to an already bustling festival.
This is my first full piece of new writing in a little over a year. It began its life as the product of an exercise in Steady State Theatre's bi-weekly writer's circle and an excerpt from it made its premiere at Theatre Caravel's Sea Change. I've now teamed up with friend and colleague Kallee Lins, a director / dancer / academic, to take my words from page to mind and body. I'm really curious to see how it goes!
I've attached the press release below so you can learn a bit more about it. And check back often for updates!
For Immediate Release: June 17th, 2013
Media Contact: Andrew Gaboury
https://afieldofcrowns.wordpress.com
a field of crowns debuts its premier production, "totem." at the 2013 Hamilton Fringe Festival's Gallery Mini-Series
a field of crowns is excited to bring its debut performance to the Hamilton Fringe Festival's inaugural Gallery Mini-Series. totem. draws inspiration from the tempestuous active-narration inherent in stream-of-conscious writing, as well as the lyricality of spoken-word poetry. In the endeavor of theatricality, writer/performer Andrew Gaboury and director Kallee Lins have embraced physical theatre and dance to help punctuate the world of the piece and emotional journey therein.
a field of crowns is the brand of Toronto-based theatre artist Andrew Gaboury. totem. marks the first step of taking a field of crowns from a screen-name and website to a producing theatre company. totem. is a collaboration between performer/playwright Andrew Gaboury (who recently appeared as Giles in The Mousetrap at the Lower Ossington Theatre, and will appear as Borachio in Much Ado About Nothing at the 2013 Toronto Fringe) and director Kallee Lins (who will be pursuing her PhD on "the body in performance as a means of theorizing the socio-political world" this fall at York University). Andrew and Kallee are artists interested in working in cross-disciplinary platforms; Andrew working mainly in lyrical wordplay and physical movement and Kallee focused on the possibilities of performance art and dance. Together, they are both excited by the animation of space and presenting performance in non-traditional venues.
totem. is an exploration of one man's emotional, mental landscape as he confronts his crumbling relationship and is presented with a surreal manifestation of his ideals. It plays at the James North Studio Gallery from July 19th – 21st.
totem.
at the Hamilton Fringe Festival Gallery Mini-Series
Written and Performed by Andrew Gaboury
Directed by Kallee Lins
James North Studio – 328 James Street North, Hamilton ON
Friday, July 19th – 7:30pm
Sunday, July 21st – 3:45pm
Tickets: $8.00 (with a $4.00 Fringe Backer button required)
For Advance Online Tickets: www.hamiltonfringe.ca/tickets
Approximately 20 minutes
LATECOMERS WILL NOT BE ADMITTED
Posted on June 20, 2013 Categories shows and eventsTags andrew gaboury, dance, hamilton fringe, james north studio gallery, kallee lins, lyrical, movement, one body in a space, original, poster, press release, site specific, spoken word, theatre, totem.Leave a comment on announcing…

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One of the best ways to spruce up your living room is to invest in a modern futon. There are a number of ways to add more character to your home and a new futon could be one of the best ways to do that!
In this post I will talk about how a modern futon can spruce up your living room.
Here are some of the ways that a modern futon can make your living room more appeasing!
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They may have storage space such as drawers or little shelves underneath. This is great as it means the futon can be used for so many different purposes.
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If you're really looking to spruce up your living room then a modern futon is a great idea. When choosing your new futon, you're sure to be greeted with plenty of unique designs. The types of frame on a modern futon will all vary.
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There are a lot of factors to consider when it comes to a modern futon. Make sure you consider the price and purpose of the futon. Futons can be an excellent investment to make as they can be used for so many different purposes.


I visited Mike Kimball in his studio at the SOMA Artists Studios. In addition to participating in open studios with the Bay Printmakers and at his SOMA studio, Kimball sits on the ArtSpan board which oversees SF Open Studios. Kimball is also an organizer behind SOMA Open Studios, which promotes the arts community and consciousness of the SOMA district.
See more of Mike Kimball's work at Open Studios, from October 24-26. Along with fellow Bay Printmaker, Javier Chalini, Kimball also has works on display at the Falkirk Cultural Center through the end of the year.


There's a new, modern, boutique hotel in Austin – the Heywood Hotel. It's along the lines of Kimbermodern, but less expensive. Check out their website HERE and facebook page HERE. FYI the design is that of KRDB.
Let's hear it for local family owned businesses with modern flair!


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Q: Python group multiple lines into one vector line by a specific column value How to group multiple lines into one vector line by a specific column value.
As an example, I have this data:
| Latitude  | Longitude  | group |
|-----------|------------|-------|
| 46.852397 | -72.02586  | A     |
| 47.059016 | -70.907962 | A     |
| 46.897785 | -71.140082 | A     |
| 46.99328  | -70.986152 | A     |
| 46.64613  | -71.934034 | A     |
| 46.622638 | -71.994857 | A     |
| 46.968093 | -71.284281 | B     |
| 47.422739 | -70.32361  | B     |
| 46.878963 | -71.717918 | B     |
| 46.91002  | -71.108395 | C     |
| 47.465175 | -70.337958 | C     |
| 46.6936   | -71.862257 | C     |
| 47.40885  | -70.390739 | C     |
| 47.00737  | -71.232117 | C     |
| 47.013901 | -70.965815 | C     |
| 46.824111 | -71.554997 | C     |
| 47.003765 | -71.193865 | C     |
| 46.665319 | -72.15102  | C     |
| 47.129865 | -70.842406 | C     |
| 46.932361 | -71.994677 | C     |

that I would like to convert to this:
| group | Latitude                                                                                | Longitude                                                                                |
|-------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| A     | [46.852397,47.059016,46.897785,46.99328,46.64613,46.622638]                                                 | [-72.02586,-70.907962,-71.140082,-70.986152,-71.934034,-71.994857]                                                        |
| B     | [46.968093,47.422739,46.878963]                                                                             | [-71.284281,-70.32361,-71.717918]                                                                                |
| C     | [46.91002,47.465175,46.6936,47.40885,47.00737,47.013901,46.824111,47.003765,46.665319,,47.129865,46.932361] | [-71.108395,-70.337958,-71.862257,-70.390739,-71.232117,-70.965815,-71.554997,-71.193865,-72.15102,-70.842406,-71.994677] |

A: Lets say you have a data frame that looks like this:
>>> df
   v1  v2 v3
0   1   2  a
1   3   4  a
2   1   2  b
3   3   4  b

Then, you can have what you want with:
>>> df.groupby('v3').agg(lambda m: list(m)).reset_index()
  v3      v1      v2
0  a  [1, 3]  [2, 4]
1  b  [1, 3]  [2, 4]

However, this is a bad idea because Pandas doesn't handle lists as values very well. It wasn't designed for that. However, if it works for you, go ahead and use it.

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Q: I am Working on JavaScript Dates and i am stuck with converting month into week start date and end date
*

*I have a month start date and end date,(2020-09-01) and (2020-09-30)

*i need to convert into week1 start date and week1 end date.

*assume week = Monday to Saturday

*like wise i need all weeks for a month

*Thanks in advance

A: You can use getDay() to get the day of the week. Then use it as an offset to get the first week.
var date1 = new Date('September 1, 2020 03:24:00')
var nextMonday = new Date(date1.getTime()+1000*60*60*24*(8-date1.getDay()))


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The Unexplained Phenomenon of the Mysterious 'Spooklight Road' in Oklahoma!
Critter Published: May 17, 2022
YouTube.com- Big Papa Breeze
Oklahoma is home to some of the most terrifying tales, urban legends, and haunted places. From one end of the state to the other, there are ghost stories and unexplained phenomena just about everywhere you go. Including dark county roads! Have you ever heard about the mysterious 'Spooklight Road' in N.E. Oklahoma?
In the far, far Northeast corner of the state in Ottawa County near the town of Peoria, Oklahoma you'll find the legendary 'Spooklight Road.' It's been one of the Sooner State's strangest stories and unsolved mysteries for decades. So what is this unexplained and weird spectacle that has become a part of Oklahoma folklore?
Reports of hovering and flying light orbs have been reported on East 50th Street AKA 'Spooklight Road' in Peoria, OK. since the mid-1800s. The glowing light has been described in many different ways depending on when and who witnessed it. It's said that it appears out of nowhere, hovers about, blinks, and has been seen in various colors, shapes, and sizes. This mysterious light phenomenon is centuries old, maybe older.
Watch the video below to learn more about Oklahoma's mysterious Spooklight Road
Spooklight Road is known by many different names including the Devil's Promenade, the Joplin Spooklight, the Tri-State Spooklight, the Hornet, the Ozark Lights, and many others. It's been researched by scientists and paranormal investigators but so far no one can explain what causes the lights or where they come from.
Some think it's a supernatural or paranormal phenomenon others think it's more of an alien or UFO-type sighting. Even the Army Corps of Engineers couldn't make sense of it. Needless to say, there are more than a few stories about the mysterious lights and where they came from, most are ghost stories. A lot of people believe it's a lost spirit or spirits trapped here and unable to move on due to how they were killed.
One legend is that it's the guiding spirit of a Native American chief. One tale is of a couple who committed suicide near the site by jumping off a cliff into a creek. Another more gruesome story is of a miner who was decapitated and is searching for his lost head, still clinging to the lantern he was holding when he was killed.
Hit play on the video below for more stories and legends of Oklahoma's Spooklight Road
It's certainly one of the most bizarre and mysterious happenings in Oklahoma. It's also one of the oldest and longest-running unexplained phenomena in the Sooner State. If you're ever able to head to Peoria, OK. make sure you take a quick trip down East 50th Street and experience the Spooklight Road for yourself.
Top 10 most terrifying towns & scary cities in Oklahoma
While Oklahoma is well known for its beauty and friendly people there are a few places in the Sooner State you'll want to avoid. These are the most terrifying towns and scary cities in the state. It's not that they're bad places, or plagued with crime and other negative factors. The towns and cities below have one single thing in common. They all have active paranormal and supernatural phenomenons. From ghost stories to urban legends and tragic tales. A lot of these places are well known to those who live in Oklahoma and even all over the nation. If you're looking to get scared or do a little ghost hunting you can start with the list below.
The Dreadful Downtown Hauntings of Lawton, OK.
When it comes to ghost tales and hauntings Lawton, Fort Sill has more than a few scary stories to tell. The most active hauntings and paranormal/supernatural occurrences that have been reported seem to be centered around downtown Lawton. If you've lived here a while I'm sure you've heard a few of these terrifying tales yourself. If not check out the photo gallery below of the dreadful downtown hauntings of Lawton, OK.
See How The Ten Most Dangerous Cities In Oklahoma Rank
While some of Oklahoma's most dangerous cities may not be a total shocker, there are some real surprises on this Top Ten list.
Oklahoma's Venomous Snakes
If you spend any amount of time outdoors in Oklahoma, it's always a good idea to familiarize yourself with the natural world around you. While only seven of Oklahoma's native 46 species of snake are venomous, it's those seven species that are seen the most in the wilds of the Sooner State.
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Baer and Miskell, both retired from the Cincinnati Library, played the wives of leading abolitionists Levi Coffin and Calvin Stowe. Mr. Coffin was a pioneer conductor on the Underground Railroad. Stowe's father, the fiery Lyman Beecher, headed Cincinnati's Lane Theological Seminary. His daughter Harriet married Calvin Stowe and later wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin.
The actresses performed a well-rehearsed dialogue that explained their roles toward emancipation. Though they never went out of character, their script occasionally provided historical context. The two characters lived in Walnut Hills and held similar views. Baer and Miskell, however, acknowledged in the Q & A they found no documented proof of an actual friendship, but felt such a relationship a foregone conclusion and thus worked it into their script.
Emotional and life-changing experiences dominated their dramatization. Coffin misled a US Marshal and two southern planters in search of runaways and she hosted an escaped slave who crossed an icy Ohio River in search of freedom. Stowe explained her journey from Boston to Cincinnati then back to New England. Nearer the South she became exposed to the evils institution from signs offering rewards for runaways to an auction in Kentucky that separated a slave family. Upon her return North, the public indifference to the institution's evils encouraged her to write her influential novel.
After an intermission, a more recognizable character explained his life from a small Kentucky farm to issuing the Emancipation Proclamation. Wernz, a former music teacher at North College Hill, has played Lincoln since 1969 and has appeared in character in two films. In his full biography of Lincoln from child, to legislator, to president, he focused on key turning points in the Rail Splitter's philosophical evolution with a Cincinnati perspective. He cited occasions when he had come to the Queen City first as a litigator and later as a candidate.
The actor resembled the image of Lincoln, save his height, dressed in period clothing, white gloves, and bow tie. His monologue explained the developing Lincoln ethic, events that earned his nickname Honest Abe, and how he despised slavery. As Wernz recited lines that explained Lincoln's concern for slavery and for Union, tears nearly came to his eyes. Like the actresses before him, he occasionally provided landmark dates for chronological context. And, like the real Lincoln, he worked in the sixteenth president's humorous lines. For those who ever claimed he was two-faced, he retorted, "If I had a face other than this, would I wear this one?" These performers mimicked the speech and dialogue of the past, had clearly done their research, and went completely into character.


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Drones, Data, and Tactics
By Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick
Protest repertoires have been relatively stable for a really long time. Petitions have been with us since the first anti-slavery movement. Boycotts for almost as long. Nothing changes, and then it does. The recent explosion of new tactics rooted in technological innovation has spelled promise and peril for movements, most of whom face formidable obstacles and better-resourced incumbents.
I'm as excited by this turn of events as anyone; much of my recent work has taken place in rural India, where the most sophisticated technology in sight is usually a Nokia candybar phone. Sometimes an exploited laborer sends an urgent midnight text calling for help. Sometimes.
Maybe that's what motivated me to buy a drone last year for a human rights lab I was teaching here at the School of Public Policy, where I work. We thought we would use it to estimate protest size, something that movement scholars have been doing in roughly the same way since the 1960s – from the tops of buildings (cheap, but a tough angle) or from airplanes (expensive, and hard to fly in repressive regimes' airspace).
So we modified the estimation model (lately refined by Clark and McPhail) to account for our new platform. We modified the drone to protect privacy and increase safety. I wrote a paper. We sat around waiting for a crowd to form.
It didn't take long. You're probably not following Hungarian politics, but the country's increasingly autocratic and extractive regime had decided to pass a steep tax on all internet access. People who had been sitting on the political sidelines (downloading Game of Thrones at home, most likely) turned out in droves. They formed crowds in the tens of thousands – much larger than any other anti-regime protests in the past decade. Perfect timing.
We collaborated with event organizers to have protestors point their phones up at the drone—clearly visible in the first video. The regime suggested so many smart-phones in one place proved that protestors were only spoiled elites, and not the people. A second, and much larger event (captured in the second video) put the lie to this claim. The regime backed off when it came face to face with this many people on the move combined with signs of a broader wave of discontent. It's better to lose potential revenue than an election, they figured.
Drone-based footage captured the combination of outrage and hope that motivates people to get onto the street. Had violence broken out we would have captured that as well. The technology is perfectly positioned to monitor police/protestor interactions, to map crowd flows, the escalation of conflict, bystanders and counterprotest dynamics, and a host of other things that scholars and practitioners care about.
Of course this raises a host of questions related to safety, privacy, and payloads. Safety matters. What's to keep these things from falling out of the air and onto people? Skilled operators and sophisticated GPS are important, but more work needs to be done to explore using parachutes and redundant flight systems in order to keep existing technology aloft. Yet we might also explore balloon-attached or string-tethered cameras that can also capture large crowds from a distance.
Privacy is also a concern. Large-scale protests here in Budapest happened only at night—at a time when authorities cannot easily identify protestors. People don't want to be seen. This is important for drone use by scholars and movements, and absolutely critical should the police get in on the drone action (as they seem eager to do in the US). We captured images from a height that ensured anonymity, but that was a limitation we imposed on our flight plan, rather than one imposed on us by the technology. Protestors can all buy umbrellas, that's true, but a world in which both protestors and police share dronespace will require sophisticated planning and political savvy.
Finally, conversations about privacy assume a certain payload—a camera. In reality, drones are simple airborne platforms that can carry any number of things, from relief supplies to tear gas. Strapping a satellite-connected router to a drone over a crowd could provide much-needed internet access to protestors cut off from the outside world by an authoritarian regime. Hackers are making some advances in programming drones to attack and control other drones—something protestors could use against police drones. Or the other way around.
The list goes on, as we imagine drones carrying banners, dropping flowers on police barricades, sensing toxins or chemical gas, documenting abuse, scouting for supplies, sharing critical updates through mobile speakers, and so forth. Drones are being used to track poachers, document illegal mining and deforestation, monitor conflict zones and investigate corruption.
We are only at the beginning of an innovative spurt exploring how drones relate to social movements and protest events. The same can be said about policies regulating this activity. Here in Hungary, perhaps as a result of our activities, the government has convened an international conference to announce restrictions drone flights like ours.
This "better safe than sorry" approach restricts innovation and curbs free speech. Authoritarian regimes will sacrifice the former for the latter. The United States has recently announced a more liberal approach, suggesting that while drones cannot fly over crowds at present, in the future they may do so.
With US legislation pending, it is likely that other countries will follow suit. It is important, then, for civil society, and especially social movements, to join in the conversation. If we remain silent, then the technology will get incorporated in military and police arsenals, and into commercial supply chains, but get locked out of movement repertoires entirely. The Kenyan government grounded drones after a much-lauded program set out to document poaching in its game reserves. Too successful, it seems.
Movements of various stripes have long sought to hold the powerful to account. This means ensuring that the police do not use drones to engage in constant warrantless surveillance while also ensuring that protestors can use this same technology to monitor police-protestor interactions during contentious confrontations on the street.
How we get there isn't easy, but technological innovation never is.
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Your Greatest Comeback Can Only Happen Late In The Game
I woke up from a dream this morning. I can't remember anything about the dream except that I had just been told by someone, "You have the body of a 50 year-old." It wasn't a nice feeling. The last thing I remember was being 21 and getting married. And here I am at 50. And worse yet, the guy in my dream laughed and told me I have the body of a 50 year-old. But I'm not 50. Almost... but not quite.
I laid there and did the math. "I'm probably over half way done." I may be way more than half way done. But even if things go well, I'm probably half way done. I sat up and asked myself, "Is it too late to finish strong?" I went to the kitchen, grabbed a banana and a yogurt, sat down at the table and began praying. I told God that I didn't know how much time I had left, but I wanted to make it count. I asked Him if it is too late to make some changes that need to be made. I could almost hear Him audibly say, "It isn't too late for Me."
As I ate my 50 year-old, out of shape, old dad breakfast, I scrolled through the news. The first story to pop up was about the Duke University basketball team staging a record-setting comeback. I've been a North Carolina basketball fan for most of my life. So I know a little bit about basketball, and Duke. I clicked. It turns out #2 Duke was down to #16 Louisville by 20 with about 11 minutes to go in the game. That means they were well past the halfway point. Legendary coach Mike Krzyzewski (Coach K) called a timeout.
He looked at his team of young players and said, "We're going to win." He admitted later that he may have been telling them a lie. He was literally hoping they wouldn't lose by 35. But the players said that they believed him. One of the star players recalls, "You're looking at the greatest coach of all time, and he's telling you that you are going to win." They believed it. They ended up being down by 23 with about 10 minutes to go. Then they rallied to post an NCAA feat. No one has ever come back from being down 23 in less than a half.
Coach K said during a post-game interview, "It's a crazy game. Human beings are crazy. We are spectacular for 9-1/2 minutes, and it was just good enough."
Duke's defense forced an incredible 9 turnovers in the final 8 minutes. The other team missed 9 of their last 11 shots. And star freshman Blue Devil, Zion Williamson scored 11 points, grabbed four rebounds, had three steals, and a blocked shot in just under 10 minutes. He said he got some inspiration from his mom in the stands. "I'm not going to lie. I was very frustrated. I don't know if this is cheesy or corny, but when I was on the bench, I heard my mom in the stands. She said, 'It's okay. Be you. When you get back in, make them pay.'"
At the end of the game, when the young man who is the runaway favorite for national player of the year honors had a chance to drive to the basket himself, he passed it off to another player who drove and was fouled and hit the game winning free throws.
I don't know where you are in your life, but you are bound to have some discouraging moments. You may be past the halfway point in your game. You may know it, or you may not. You may think your chance for victory is over. But I want you to know that God is in the comeback business. He says you can win. I'm not talking about basketball games, or business deals, or financial gain. I'm talking about victory in your battle with the enemy. When He tells you that you are going to win, He isn't just trying to motivate you with a false hope. He is telling you that the victory is already won through His work on the cross. And while the enemy may have gotten the best of you for whatever reason and in whatever season, the game is not over. If you will surrender to His plan, and play some defense, the enemy will be forced into turnovers, because he is defeated. Listen to the people in the stands who believe in your calling and gifting. You will have your chance to score. You will have teammates with you who can support you and score when you can't. This isn't just a sports analogy. It is a word of truth for those who may feel like they have missed their opportunity.
Paul told the early Christians who were in need of encouragement, "Finally, be strengthened by the Lord and by His vast strength. Put on the full armor of God so that you can stand against the tactics of the Devil. For our battle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world powers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavens. This is why you must take up the full armor of God, so that you may be able to resist in the evil day, and having prepared everything, to take your stand." (Ephesians 6:10-13)
Don't worry about how late it is in your life. Focus on what God is saying about who He is, and where He is in your life. He inhabits eternity. So it is never too late for Him.
[Bible quotes are from the Holman Christian Standard Bible, unless otherwise noted.]


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Krauss is being silenced
I posted about metooing Krauss.
Jerry Coyne blogs on The Lawrence Krauss affair:
After that article appeared, I did some digging on my own, and came up with three cases that have convinced me that Krauss engaged in sexual predation of both a physical nature (groping) and of a verbal nature (offensive and harassing comments). The allegations that convinced me are not public, but the accusers are sufficiently credible that I believe their claims to be true. Further, these claims buttress the general allegation of sexual misbehavior made in BuzzFeed. In my view, then, Krauss had a propensity to engage in sexual misconduct. ...
I am taking the step of not allowing comments on this post as I don't really want any discussion here of my position, which I've arrived at after long cogitation. As I said, I don't want trial by social media, and it would be hypocritical of me to allow that here.
Popular podcaster atheist Sam Harris has canceled a live public interview of Krauss, which was supposed to be a sequel to the last one.
It is not mentioned that Krauss is now apparently happily married to one of those women he supposedly sexually harassed when he was a single man 10 years ago. [According to a comment below, Krauss was divorced 8 years ago.]
Coyne has a popular blog, and probably most of his readers think that he is gay. He denies it, but he blogs a lot about his personal life, and it is obvious that he has no wife, no girlfriend, and no kids. Furthermore, he has stereotypical gay interests in music, arts, clothing, and pets. And his political views are mostly what you would expect from a gay atheist professor.
I am not saying this to criticize, but to give background for his opinions. He does not appear to have any worries that any woman is going to metoo him.
I have no way of knowing how he has flirted with women in the past, and I don't see how it is anyone's business.
I wonder where this is going. Is the Physics community going to sit back and let their colleagues be silenced and destroyed? If he were being ostracized for being a Communist, I am sure that Krauss's colleagues would stick up for him.
Like him or not, Krauss was one of the leading figures in the public image of Physics. Where is this going? He has views which are that of a typical Trump-hating leftist professor, but that is not good enough. Maybe Physics will have to be feminized, with only feminist professors being allowed to explain Physics to the public.
Update: Coyne responds:
What? I must be gay because I'm not worried about being #MeToo'd? ...
If I could have imagined all the ways people would go after me for my stand, I would never have dreamed up this one. Thanks, Roger, for a long moment of amusement. You're an idiot.
I did not say that he is gay. If he were, then I think that he would probably say so. The point is about ostracizing Krauss.
Update: Commenter Craw writes "Well I think Coyne has simply misread Roger's post entirely." Coyne replies:
I understand Craw's post perfectly. I know his point was to defend the person at issue; the part about me being gay was simply his hamhanded attempt to understand why I was part of the "pile on". But I found that part really humorous and a complete miss on the part of the writer.
Seriously, don't insult me by saying that I didn't understand what was a straightforward (though incredibly dumb) post. I picked out one part to show the lengths to which people will go to get at me for what I believe.
As Dark Buzz himself says, the point was not just that people were ostracizing the person at issue (unfairly, he thinks, but he's wrong), but also to try to understand why I was part of the "pile on".
You're insulting the intelligence of not just me, but of everyone here. Best to leave this topic alone and stop posting excerpts from that website here. People can go over there to read any response by this befuddled individual.
Coyne says he wanted "to show the lengths to which people will go to get at me for what I believe."!
Coyne collected some anonymous and confidential gossip about Krauss, accused him of "sexual predation" and "propensity to engage in sexual misconduct", and announced that he is publicly disassociating himself from Krauss. But I am the one who is going to lengths to "get at" Coyne?!
I like Coyne's blog. Sometimes I disagree with him. Sometimes I say so.
Posted by Roger at 12:30 PM
joe March 11, 2018 at 12:53 PM
If the women take it over, will they get rid of all that confusing math stuff?
CFT March 12, 2018 at 7:23 AM
Much like the Simpsons nailed this one....years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64PKoAiWhjE
check out the 1:30 minute mark.
Saul Till March 13, 2018 at 9:05 AM
What a strange post. You seem to be flailing about so desperately to absolve Krauss of any wrongdoing that you're prepared to engage in the most tawdry, inane kind of amateur gossip-mongering about a single guy's sexuality. I've been reading Jerry's blog for five years now: it's never crossed my mind that he might be gay and it's never struck me as something of any relevance. This is embarrassing stuff on your part, and not indicative of a rational mind dealing with the evidence in a reasonable way. There is a great deal of evidence against Krauss, of varying degrees of seriousness, and Jerry has responded proportionately. It's National Enquirer-level stuff to go after him simply because you're incapable of dealing with the reality of the situation.
You might have considered taking your own advice here:
"I have no way of knowing how he has flirted with women in the past, and I don't see how it is anyone's business."
Note the last nine words. If you're trying to defend Krauss this really isn't the way to go about it.
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1993-11-23/news/9311230110_1_university-of-chicago-hospitals-patient-alleges
Roger March 13, 2018 at 9:39 AM
I don't think that Coyne is gay. He denies it, and I take his word for it. But he is the one passing judgment on Krauss's sexuality, not me. Coyne says "I don't want trial by social media", but then he uses social media (his blog) to say that he is in possession of some secret anonymous allegations against Krauss. He has sunk to the level of BuzzFeed.
I am not trying "to absolve Krauss of any wrongdoing". I said "Krauss illustrates the dangers of left-wing academic groupthink."
CFT - That Simpson's video is hilarious.
Well, you know, there is ONE other way not to be MeToo'd. I'll let you figure it out. Don't hurt yourself.
colnago80 March 13, 2018 at 12:10 PM
Excuse me, Krauss was divorced from his first wife in 2010 and married wife #2 on 2014.
Roger March 13, 2018 at 1:30 PM
Ken, how do you avoid being MeTooed? The only way I know is to carry a video recorder on your body at all times, and to save the recordings for 20 years.
Phil B March 13, 2018 at 3:29 PM
In the beginning, Roger said: "I accept what has been mathematically or scientifically proved, and tend to be skeptical about what cannot be proved."
And then he said, "Coyne has a popular blog, and probably most of his readers think that he is gay."
You could prove that statement wrong by surveying Coyne's readers. But the point remains that he is participating in the metooing of Krauss, and seems to believe that he is immune from such accusations himself.
I as Craw have pointed out over there that they all misread you here. I am not endorsing your claims but Coyne and his regulars have clearly misinterpreted this post.
CFT March 13, 2018 at 9:36 PM
I also read the responses on Jerry Coyne's site. Quite an impressive echo chamber of mutual ass kissing going on over there. It makes me laugh when a large number of people (who consider themselves well educated) cease to have any ability whatsoever to read and analyze what was actually said and decide to dogpile emotionally about something that wasn't even said. In fact they are just virtue signaling each other by proving their loyalty to the group consensus.
Coyne's followers aren't trying to think, they are trying to belong.
Coyne was characteristically averse to correction. But they missed the point that Roger was not repeat not inferring or implying Coyne is gay. (craw)
Truth is,
If you go around pointing your 'political correctness' gun at famous people throughout ALL history, pretty much everyone falls short and is guilty of something or other. That's why I don't give a rat's ass, as human history is nothing but a very long series of 'oops' and messy faux pas. When you start to try and wipe the pages of historical accomplishment clean of anything that offends your du jour standards of indignity, you have nothing left.
Just a clue to the virtue signaling prudes out there, for better or for worse, heterosexual men are going to continue to chase and try (often times clumsily and unsuccessfully) to woo and bed women. This is history. It's also written into our genes and will be a part of humanity with or without the consent of woke indignant people who wasted their parent's money on a useless liberal arts college education. When this ceases to be the case, there won't be a morally superior humanity around to celebrate the social justice warriors victory over basic human biology.
Dave R March 14, 2018 at 11:03 AM
CFT: beautifully worded comment - good job!
Roger March 14, 2018 at 11:12 AM
Yes, CFT, well put. This brings up another angle to the story. Coyne is a leftist evolutionary biology professor, but he is not one of those who deny human nature. He accepts that men are innately different from women, although he does not necessarily accept all the consequences of those differences. He may think that we can virtue signal our way into a society with no sexual predation.
Roger April 5, 2018 at 9:02 AM
Wow. I had no idea about that story. That was 25 years ago, but probably still affects his worldview. He was age 41 when the problem occurred.
Did you ask yourself why, in that story, the doctor was not stripped of her license? There is a reason. And, to your credit, you did make a good point about proving who is and "is not" immune to accusations. That survey should include people who are not blocked from said blog and Facebook. I think you would find your answer.
Roger April 5, 2018 at 4:36 PM
You are losing me here. Psychiatrists and psychologists have very strict rules today about having a sexual relationship with a patient. I don't know about 1992. There were probably professionals at that time who thought that such a relationship could have therapeutic value.
As the article is written, it is odd that Coyne could not get his concerns addressed outside of court.
I do not pass judgment on personal events of 25 years ago, especially with such incomplete info.
Still, it is fair to say that Coyne MeTooed his female psychiatrist. His allegations were not taken as seriously as he wanted them to be taken. This is interesting background info for when Coyne posts commentary on current MeToo issues in the news.
Roger, is there an email address where I can contact you? There's something I'd like to share with you.
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A winner of the Grade III Sham Stakes here on Jan. 5, he was the second choice at 8-5 and paid $2.40 and $2.10.
Ridden by Rafael Bejarano, the Keith Desormeaux-trained Easy Shot was off at 12-1 and paid $2.60 to show while finishing 2 ¼ lengths clear of Magnificent Cool.
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Duluth Ship Canal Dig Legends
The cover art of the Minneapolis Sunday Tribune for June 3, 1945, did little to dispel the myths that the Duluth Ship Canal was dug by hand or cleared with a single blast of dynamite—and neither did the story inside. (Image: Zenith City Press)
It is thought that the site of today's ship canal is the very site where Duluth's namesake, Daniel Greysolon Sieur du Lhut, first landed when he reached the end of Lake Superior in 1879. If true, du Lhut and his party likely pulled their canoes to shore at this point because it provided quick access to the St. Louis River on the western side of Minnesota Point: the landing site was a trailhead for a path the local Ojibwe called Onigamiinsing or "Little Portage." Why they didn't simply canoe through what would become known as Superior Entry, the natural opening between Minnesota Point and Wisconsin Point, is open to speculation. They likely had reached the head of the lakes via the north shore, and the entry was a seven-mile paddle south.
When the founders of Duluth established their community in 1856, they incorporated the portage into a platt of the city's future streets. Appropriately enough, they named the roadway "Portage Street." A year later the Minnesota Legislature incorporated the Duluth Ship Canal Company with Duluth pioneers George Nettleton, James Ray, and Edmund Ely as directors. The state authorized them to cut a canal three hundred feet wide through Minnesota Point, but the Panic of 1857, a nationwide depression, put an end to the idea.
In the late 1860s, as Duluth boomed with Jay Cooke's money and the promise of his coming Lake Superior & Mississippi Railroad, Duluth constructed a harbor on the lakeside of the point. Even though the city attempted to construct a breakwater to protect vessels at dock, Lake Superior storms quickly made it clear that the safest harbor was on the west side of the point. So, one of the first acts of the City of Duluth, when it was first established in March of 1870, was to dust off an old idea: dig a ship canal through Minnesota Point to allow vessels to pass through to safe harbor. They chose Portage Street as the path of that canal.
Digging that canal would become the biggest myth surrounding the city's history, a tall tale many believe to this day.
The Legend(s) of the Digging of the Duluth Ship Canal
In the September of 1870, the city accepted a $50,000 loan from Cooke's Railroad and used it to hire the Ishpeming, a steam-powered dredging tug owned by the W. W. Williams & Co. On September 5, the Ishpeming, with Major John Upham at the controls, took its first bite out of Minnesota Point. When winter froze the gravel digging stopped for the season. Over the winter, Superior, Wisconsin, worked to stop the digging. The city's leaders recognized that the canal would divert shipping traffic from the natural Superior Entry, a blow to Superior's economy, but they couldn't argue to have the digging stopped simply because it would help Duluth better compete with Superior. Instead, they had to argue that the canal would actually physically hamper shipping traffic to Superior. So in order to receive an injunction to stop the efforts in Duluth, Superior argued that the canal would divert the waters of the St. Louis River through the canal, allowing silt to clog the Superior Entry, hampering traffic to Superior.
That's when the facts of the story get mixed up into tall tales.
In many versions of the myth, the courts sided with Superior the week before the Ishpeming returned to digging in April 1871. An injunction ordered Duluth to "absolutely desist and abstain from digging, excavating and constructing…said canal." It was dispatched to Duluth via a courier: a soldier from Kansas (or St. Paul, or Chicago…), some said; others claimed the messenger was none other than Superior (and Duluth) pioneer George Stuntz, the first man of European descent to live on Minnesota Point. In 1922, memoirist Jerome Cooley claimed a telegram sent on Friday, April 28, told Duluthians the injunction would arrive by Monday. So the Ishpeming's crew went to work at dawn Saturday and "didn't stop until Monday noon." The canal was open before the injunction arrived.
Author Dora May McDonald, writing in 1949, tells that same portion of the story with more flair. In her account, after the Ishpeming struck frozen gravel that Saturday morning, word came that Stuntz had left St. Paul bound for Duluth with injunction in hand, destined to arrive Monday. Duluth city fathers called for every able-bodied man, woman, and child in Duluth "who could handle a spade or shovel, or beg, borrow, or steal a bucket or a bushel basket." Citizens rushed to the work site and "dug, scratched, and burrowed till it was finished." On Sunday rowboats filled with angry Superiorites arrived to watch and heckle the Duluthians' efforts. At the break of dawn on Monday morning, the Duluthians had cleared a canal. When Stuntz arrived, the tug Frank C. Fero was making her very first pass through the canal; the canal was a navigable waterway, rendering the injunction moot. He tore up the document and that was the end of that. Except none of it was true.
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From Crossing the Canal: An Illustrated History of Duluth's Aerial Bridge by Tony Dierckins (Zenith City Press, 2008) featuring over 250 historic photos, illustrations, and lithographs. Click on the cover to preview the book.


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Climeworks, which runs the world's largest direct air capture plant, has to wait months for parts.
Cofounder Christoph Gebald said the industry and its suppliers need to start thinking in "ecosystems."
Carbon capture promises to stem the emissions from high-polluting industries like oil and gas.
Lengthy wait times for specialized parts have slowed the adoption of carbon capture technology that can tackle the historic emissions produced by high-polluting industries like oil and gas, according to the cofounder of Swiss startup Climeworks.
Christoph Gebald, whose startup raised $650 million in a round led by Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC last month, told Insider that manufacturers supplying the industry must shift away from a by order model to one where thousands of crucial parts are made in anticipation of widespread demand.
Direct air capture refers to the process of extracting carbon directly from the atmosphere, where it can then be stored underground or used in materials like carbon fiber. Carbon capture has been tipped as a potential "necessary step" by McKinsey while Elon Musk has launched a prize fund worth $100 million to back the best ideas in the sector trying to make the world become carbon-negative rather than neutral.
Gebald said Climeworks had faced wait times of up to 10 months for certain parts.
"At the moment, every time we order, it's custom made," Gebald said. "In a perfect world, they [suppliers] would understand that this industry will be really big and it's better to produce 1,000 of those pumps and have them in stock."
The Climeworks chief executive said the industry needed to start thinking "in ecosystems," where suppliers, project developers, and investors work to establish volumes and prices of parts like pumps, steel, and pipes.
Zurich-based Climeworks operates at dedicated sites but other startups are also working on air capture systems that can be retrofitted to existing power and industrial plants.
If the emissions output by existing plants remains unchanged they could generate over 600 billion tonnes of CO2 over the next 50 years – the equivalent of around 17 years of current annual global emissions, according to a report pulled together for Insider by AI-driven intelligence platform Valuer.
London-based Mission Zero, which has built module systems, uses off-the-shelf parts to help with scalability, cofounder and chief product officer Shiladitya Ghosh said. This was a "fundamental requirement" in the design.
"Direct air capture is a band-aid climate solution that needed to be deployed at scale yesterday, while other critical net-zero technologies such as renewable power generation and electric mobility catch up to get us to a habitable future," Ghosh said.
"For us to deploy at the next best time – which is ASAP – it's not worthwhile developing complex, bespoke materials or equipment for direct air capture as the manufacturing supply chains for those will also need to be built from scratch – which involves huge time sinks, financial risks, and a bet against not being out-innovated by someone else's solution."
Mission Zero, which just raised $5 million, faced challenges during its pilot phase. Its technology is built with high-value commodities or fabricated materials; the global supply shortage for electronics and semiconductor materials and low order volumes meant Mission Zero's order was not a priority to suppliers.
For Ghosh, concern lies with places to store carbon once it is extracted.
"It is going to be critical that the carbon sequestration ecosystem also scales up in a manner conducive to direct air capture, otherwise we won't be getting anywhere," he said.
Globally, there has been some innovation in this space as newly-spawned startups attempt to add value to captured carbon. For example, New York's Air Company makes perfume, hand sanitizer, and vodka from captured carbon while Canadian company CleanO2, backed by Leonardo DiCaprio's fund Regeneration VC, uses it to make soap.
"The infrastructure around carbon capture has not yet seen the same innovation and investment in Europe," said David Frykman, an investor at Norrsken VC. London-based 44.01, Luxembourg-based LEKO Labs, and Iceland's Carbfix are some of the "very few" players in making use of the extracted gas.
"There are too few high-quality capture opportunities at reasonable prices," Frykman added.
"There is still a market timing risk in investing in carbon storage infrastructure, as it is so dependent on the technological and commercial advancements of the carbon capture technologies. Increasingly we also see more companies initially targeting the route of selling pure CO2 as an input to multiple industries. This is a good first market, as it is already mature and has built-up demand."
Y Combinator-backed Seabound, based in London, is developing technology to capture carbon emitted from ships and store it as limestone using an on-board mineralization process. It could then be sold off as a carbon-neutral construction material, cofounder Alisha Fredriksson told Insider.
"We see these carbon utilization companies as instrumental partners in catalyzing carbon capture technology for hard-to-abate industries, especially until we are also able to capture and store higher volumes of CO2 underground in the future," she said.
Reaching scale and widespread adoption has so far been a catch 22 – it requires more investment, but investment requires proof of demand.
"The larger and more certain future demand and pricing is for these technologies, the more likely they are to receive significant financing for further innovation and scaling," said Iain Porter, lead analyst at Trove Research, which looks at carbon markets.
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With a state grant assured, Burlington is moving closer to a rollout this year of a crisis response team to help with mental health emergencies.
Mayor Miro Weinberger announced to the city council on Monday night that the $667,252 grant from the Vermont Department of Mental Health would be paid to the city over a period of two years and would amount to about half the cost for a new crisis response team run by the Howard Center.
The new team is a "medically-enhanced crisis response team," according to Jackie Corbally, a consultant working with the city on the program's implementation. Corbally said she is working with the Howard Center to sign an agreement and to settle on a target date for the team's rollout, expected to be this year. Corbally told the council on Monday that the city was informed of the state grant last week.
Beth Holden, Howard Center's chief client services officer, said in an emailed statement that "Howard Center continues to work collaboratively with the City to clarify how best to work with existing and enhanced Howard Center and City resources to improve the crisis response for individuals in Burlington."
Weinberger said Monday he expects the team to have seven staff members and the hiring process "could be lengthy." He added that the city is looking for ways to get the team started as soon as possible by using existing resources and staff.
"Nobody wants this sooner than those folks that this is going to serve," Corbally said in her update to the council. "So we understand time is of the essence."
City Councilor Joe Magee, P-Ward 2, said he was "cautiously optimistic" about the crisis team and glad the city brought someone on to help with implementation. "I think it's safe to say that before Jackie Corbally came on board to help with that, like, the program wasn't going anywhere," Magee said.
Mental health calls have been on the rise in Burlington. According to data provided by the Burlington Police Department, there were 1,234 mental health calls received in 2022, a 29% increase from 2021.
The crisis team is often compared to a program that originated in Eugene, Oregon, called Crisis Assistance Helping Out on the Streets, or CAHOOTS. Dispatched through 911 emergency call centers, the team pairs social workers and medical responders to respond to reports of mental health crises. It diverts calls that otherwise would have been handled by police officers or ambulance teams.
Alison Krompf, deputy commissioner of the Vermont Department of Mental Health, said the addition of medical personnel is the important distinction in such teams.
"That's new and different and impactful because the people on the other side of that intervention often don't have just one need," Krompf said, adding that she is excited to see the Burlington program in action because it could provide more options of care other than police involvement or a hospital emergency department.
"We hear from people that they would really like the option of getting their needs met without having to go through the emergency department and inpatient hospital route," Krompf said. There still will be others who do end up needing the emergency department, she said, "but when they show up there, it's so busy. Their waits are extraordinary because we have people there who may not need to be there."
Currently, the city uses community service liaisons, who are social workers, and community service officers, who are unarmed officers who work for the police department and respond to many mental health calls. Additionally, the Howard Center has a street outreach team that works closely with first responders in the city and a First Call crisis line.
In a request for proposals for the new crisis response team sent out last March, the city said it was seeking to expand its "non-enforcement crisis response."
"Even with a community-centered model, however, Burlington residents' requirements exceed the current capacity of the social-service network," read the project background included in the city's request.
The city said it wants qualified mental health clinicians as well as medical professionals who would be either nurses or emergency medical technicians. The city said it wanted the team to have regular hours from Monday through Saturday from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m., but on-call staff would be needed after hours.
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