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Q: How i make this code shorter? I have a startup value with letters in the beginning and number at the end I need to add the numbers 82 times. if you could tell me a possible way to shorten this I would be grateful.
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End With'

if you could tell me a possible way to shorten this I would be grateful.

A: Use a Forloop:
.Range("A3") = mp_start
For i = 4 To 84
    .Range("A" & i) = Left(mp_start, 2) & Right(mp_start, 12) + i - 3
Next i

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Based on the answer and comments to this question about available outputs by denomination, I understand that things will change once RingCT arrives.
Exactly how will the number of outputs change with RingCT? With RingCT can outputs of any denomination be used in a ring signature?
Instead of building a histogram for the number of outputs for a specific denomination how can I calculate the number of possible outputs available for use in a RingCT transaction?
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Another England player has picked up an injury from combat sports training
Saracens forward Nick Isiekwe is the latest England international to be injured whilst partaking in combat sports with the national team.
This follows the retirement of Wasps flanker Sam Jones, who had to hang up his boots earlier this year after he injured himself in a judo session with the team in 2016.
RugbyPass reported yesterday that the Saracens forward fractured his hand on Monday when the team was using wrestling as a means of preparing for the third and final Test with the Springboks this weekend.
As a result, the 20-year-old is unavailable for the Test at Newlands and a forgettable tour that saw the lock substituted in the first half of the Johannesburg Test and then sit out the fixture a week later.
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This was our second time to the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel. We visited two years ago and were happy to find the same level of excellence. We had a king bed suite which connected to a room with double beds providing a lot of room for our family of 5. The breakfast buffet at the Manta never disappoints and be sure to buy the kids an ovaltine foam at the Hau Tree for a real treat.
Aloha and mahalo for choosing to stay with us and for reviewing your stay! We're glad you enjoyed your time with us, there is nothing better than quiet walks along the coastline. We hope to welcome you back to the resort the next time you visit Hawai'i Island. Mahalo.
After a week on the island we spent the last three days hanging out at Mauna Kea resort. The beach is one of the mist incredible on the island with limited access by the public. It's wonderful to walk out your room to such a breath taking place.
The staff is very friendly and helpful with everything from towels to food to housekeeping.
The common places, including the landscaping throughout the resort is absolutely stunning.
The rooms are tight but they serve the purpose. Patrons are not staying st the resort for the room.
The buffet breakfast each day was wonderful. The selection of fresh and delicious items was outstanding.
Definitely a unique place to stay at least once in a lifetime.
Mahalo for sharing your experience with us! We are thrilled to see you enjoyed everything from majestic Kauna'oa Bay to the service provided and the legendary breakfast buffet. We hope to welcome you back to the resort in the future. Aloha!
this hotel seems to be at the most beautiful beach in the big island. it is just perfect. not too big and not too small. very clean. white sand and safe to swim hotel is very relaxing and staff is fabulous.
the view is amazing and rooms are spacious and very comfortable.
it never seems overcrowded and caters more for adults.
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Last winter, four of us, all Brookline educators, visited NYC to meet teachers, students who are working with the community to seize on a principle borrowed from the disability rights movement: "nothing about us without us." They are using Critical Participatory Action Research. The approach is premised on a belief in all people's right to research. Together, they are questioning how schools empower students and how they diminish or marginalize them. In the process, they are generating their own goals for their schools and calling out expectations that ignore their voices and dreams. Working cross generationally, they are helping to design schooling that connects classrooms to the school, and school to the neighborhood and larger society. The unionized teachers have collectively bargained school day schedules and their role in designing transformative culture rooted in restorative justice practices. Students have time and space to help teach adults and one another how to respect and partner with one another in creating a just learning community that honors not only different cultures but also different kinds of educational knowledge and practice.
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Ethiopia seeks economic union with neighbours
Daniel Mumbere
The regional tour by the Ethiopian prime minister that took Dr. Abiy Ahmed to Djibouti, Sudan and Kenya demonstrated the extent of the country's thirst for access to sea water.
The chief of staff in the Ethiopian prime minister's office, Fitsun Arega explained that Abiy's visits to Ethiopia's neighbours were geared towards creating a meaningful economic union.
''Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya and Sudan will now work towards a true economic union with joint investments and ownership of projects because our people's shared prosperity and security depends on it,'' said Fitsun told The EastAfrican newspaper.
Ethiopia signs more port deals
Abiy made his first foreign trip as prime minister to Djibouti where he met president Omar Guelleh and the two leaders reached a deal for Ethiopia to take a stake in the Port of Djibouti.
The port currently handles up to 95% of inbound trade for landlocked Ethiopia. The desire to cut reliance on this port, reduce congestion and cut costs is thought to be the reason behind this move to invest in the region's ports, roads, railways and aviation projects.
Djibouti had been seeking investors for its port since it terminated Dubai's state-owned DP World's concession to run the port two months ago, citing a failure to resolve a six-year contractual dispute.
Ethiopia would give Djibouti the option of taking stakes in state owned Ethiopian firms including the lucrative Ethiopian Airlines.
The deal with Djibouti followed Ethiopia's agreement to acquire a 19 percent stake in the Port of Berbera in the breakaway Somali region of Somaliland.
Port Sudan and the Ethiopian Dam
Abiy then headed to Sudan where he and president Omar Hassan al Bashir agreed a deal that will allow Ethiopia to have a stake in Port Sudan.
Ethiopia, Kenya to accelerate implementation of bilateral agreements on trade and security
Ethiopia agrees stake in Port Sudan, prisoner release on PM Abiy's Sudan trip
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"The leaders of both countries agreed to develop Port Sudan together," said Meles Alem, spokesman of Ethiopia's Foreign Ministry.
The two leaders also agreed to develop the border town of Assosa including building a new railway line to facilitate movement of goods and people between the two countries.
Sudan also announced that it would back Ethiopia's construction of a $4billion dam on the Nile, which when completed will be Africa's largest hydropower station.
Reviving the Lamu Port deal in Kenya
From Sudan, Abiy went to Kenya at the invitation of president Uhuru Kenyatta. Abiy revived a deal with the East African nation over Lamu port, where it will set up a logistics facility.
"The Kenyan side will facilitate the formal acquisition of land at the Lamu port to be given to the Ethiopian government," read a joint statement after the state visit.
Ethiopia and Kenya who enjoy an elevated bilateral relations status will work on joint projects including railways and roads including developing the border town of Moyale into a joint city and economic zone.
The two countries also agreed to finalise the Ethiopia-Kenya interconnection transmission line, and to jointly supervise and inspect the Lamu-Garissa-Isiolo-Moyale and Moyale-Hawassa-Addis Ababa road networks.
The longest port Ethiopia could easily benefit from is that of neighbouring Eritrea but a diplomatic row has meant that relations between the two remain strained since Eritrea gained independence in the early 90s after a long armed struggle.
Abiy in his inauguration speech pledged to improve relations between the two countries, in another indication that economic benefits would take priority over geopolitics
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Michael Bay Planning From Here To Eternity Remake
With a remake of the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" as well as a still unnamed new entry to his reboot of "Transformers", Michael Bay announced his intentions to add a third remake to his docket - specifically in the form of Fred Zinnemann's 1953 Oscar winning classic "From Here To Eternity." Bay explained he had in recent years harbored a few regrets about his handling of the infamous Pearl Harbor story in his also infamous 2001 movie and hoped to set things right.
He did, however, announce his intentions to update and modernize the story, specifically by changing the critical third act crux from the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7 1941 to an attack by a mysterious alien race on Pearl Harbor sometime in the very near future. "People just aren't interested in World War Two that much these days," Bay was quoted as saying at a Santa Barbara Press Junket. "They want aliens."
Bay also announced what he termed "further minor and hardly noticeable" variations to the original. "We plan on having the character of Prewitt agree to be part of the boxing team on Company G. That way we can work a climactic boxing match in just ahead of the bombing." He also indicated that Prewitt would not desert the outfit specifically because the character of Maggio would not die. "The initial plan is to have Maggio function as comic relief to Prewitt and to use Fatso Jutson for a wide variety of fat jokes. I mean, really! His name's Fatso! How did Zinnemann miss that?!"
Additionally, he plans to shorten the title to "Eternity." "'From Here To Eternity?'" the director asked rhetorically. "What does that even mean? From WHERE To Eternity? It's nonsensical. It means nothing. Plus, a one word title will be more convenient for Twitter."
He also expressed interest in substituting the iconic beach scene between Deborah Kerr and Burt Lancaster for a scene in which Waikiki Beach would be blown up.
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Oh, is it going to star Shia LaBeouf and a Victoria's Secret model?
LOL, nice joke.
I can only imagine Rosie Huntington Whiteley will take the Deborah Kerr part and some unknown but hot non-actress will sub in for Donna Reed.
Enjoyed the dry humor and sarcasm, Nick.
This is only further proof of why I can't stand him. Lovely.
Although Michael Bay is my Public Enemy #1, even I don't think he'd actually be this negligent of classic film.
Or maybe I'm just trying to reassure myself?


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England v India: How to watch crunch ICC Men's T20 World Cup semi-final match on TV
The winner of the today's crunch match will be rewarded with a place in the final
By Patrick Hollis
10th Nov 2022, 6:13am - 2 min read
England face India in the second semi-final at the ICC Men's T20 World Cup in Australia today. The winners know that they will face Pakistan in the final in Melbourne on Sunday for a chance to get their hands on the coveted trophy.
Jos Buttlers' side finished second in their group following important victories against New Zealand and then Sri Lanka. India topped their group having lost just one of their group matches and winning the rest.
England could be forced into two changes, with it being expected that batter Dawid Malan and bowler Mark Wood could miss out. Phil Salt and Chris Jordan have been tipped to replace the pair.
The two sides have a history of classic matches, and with one eye on the biggest prize in World T20 cricket, this is sure to be no exception. Both sides will fancy their chances of beating the other and defeating Pakistan in Melbourne.
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This article was published on July 14, 2020
MGM Hotel's 2019 data leak might have affected 142M people, not 10.6M
Ivan Mehta
Ivan covers Big Tech, India, policy, AI, security, platforms, and apps for TNW. That's one heck of a mixed bag. He likes to say "Bleh." Ivan covers Big Tech, India, policy, AI, security, platforms, and apps for TNW. That's one heck of a mixed bag. He likes to say "Bleh."
In February, a data breach affecting more than 10.6 million MGM Resorts' hotel customers came to the fore. The company said that hackers gained unauthorized access to its database last year, and it had already notified affected people.
However, a new report from ZDNet suggests that instead of 10.6 million, more than 142 million customers might have been affected. The earlier data leak included personal details of guests such as names, addresses, phone numbers, and email IDs.
The report notes that a hacker has posted a listing on the dark web claiming to sell a database with MGM customer records for $2,939. The listing highlights that while February's reports pointed out MGM Resorts' data breach, it missed out on MGM Grand Hotel data leak.
In a statement, MGM Resorts told TNW it was aware of the scope of the incident:
MGM Resorts was aware of the scope of this previously reported incident from last summer and has already addressed the situation. The vast majority of data consisted of contact information like names, postal addresses and email addresses.
However, the hotel chain didn't confirm the number of customers affected.
ZDNet's report also said that threat research firm KELA notified the publication about posts on Russian security forums that advertised MGM data breach affecting more than 200 million customers.
In the past few years, hackers have attacked several hotels to steal customer data. In March, Marriott Hotels was breached impacting more than 5.2 million people. security
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Pedro Antonio Villahermosa Borao (1869-1945), más conocido por su pseudónimo «Sileno», fue un dibujante y caricaturista español.

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trabajó para publicaciones como Blanco y Negro, Apuntes, Heraldo de Madrid, ABC, Informaciones, Gedeón —donde creó al personaje homónimo, y con el que estaría en adelante «íntimamente ligado»—, ¡Alegría!, Dígame, La Vanguardia, El Faro o Heraldo de Aragón. A finales de 1921 fundaría el semanario satírico Buen Humor. Falleció en Madrid el 20 de mayo de 1945.

Javier Rubio señala como la etapa más brillante de Sileno en cuanto al dibujo la contemporánea a la Primera Guerra Mundial  y en la que más destacó como cronista político la década de los años treinta. José Francés le describió en 1918 en La Esfera como «germanófilo», denominándole además «el caricaturista político por excelencia».

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Black History Heros | Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Annie Johnson in St. Louis, Missouri. Her parents divorced when she was only three and she was sent with her brother Bailey to live with their grandmother in the small town of Stamps, Arkansas. In Stamps, the young girl experienced the racial discrimination that was the legally enforced way of life in the American South, but she also absorbed the deep religious faith and old-fashioned courtesy of traditional African American life. She credits her grandmother and her extended family with instilling in her the values that informed her later life and career. She enjoyed a close relationship with her brother. Unable to pronounce her name because of a stutter, Bailey called her "My" for "My sister." A few years later, when he read a book about the Maya Indians, he began to call her "Maya," and the name stuck.
At age seven, while visiting her mother in Chicago, she was sexually molested by her mother's boyfriend. Too ashamed to tell any of the adults in her life, she confided in her brother. When she later heard the news that an uncle had killed her attacker, she felt that her words had killed the man. She fell silent and did not speak for five years.
Maya began to speak again at 13, when she and her brother rejoined their mother in San Francisco. Maya attended Mission High School and won a scholarship to study dance and drama at San Francisco's Labor School, where she was exposed to the progressive ideals that animated her later political activism. She dropped out of school in her teens to become San Francisco's first African American female cable car conductor. She later returned to high school, but became pregnant in her senior year and graduated a few weeks before giving birth to her son, Guy. She left home at 16 and took on the difficult life of a single mother, supporting herself and her son by working as a waitress and cook, but she had not given up on her talents for music, dance, performance and poetry.
In 1952, she married a Greek sailor named Anastasios Angelopulos. When she began her career as a nightclub singer, she took the professional name Maya Angelou, combining her childhood nickname with a form of her husband's name. Although the marriage did not last, her performing career flourished. She toured Europe with a production of the opera Porgy and Bess in 1954 and 1955. She studied modern dance with Martha Graham, danced with Alvin Ailey on television variety shows, and recorded her first record album, Calypso Lady, in 1957.
She had composed song lyrics and poems for many years, and by the end of the 1950s was increasingly interested in developing her skills as a writer. She moved to New York, where she joined the Harlem Writers Guild and took her place among the growing number of young black writers and artists associated with the Civil Rights Movement. She acted in the historic Off-Broadway production of Jean Genet's The Blacks and wrote and performed a Cabaret for Freedom with the actor and comedian Godfrey Cambridge.
In New York, she fell in love with the South African civil rights activist Vusumzi Make, and in 1960, the couple moved, with Angelou's son, to Cairo, Egypt. In Cairo, Angelou served as editor of the English language weekly The Arab Observer. Angelou and Guy later moved to Ghana, where she joined a thriving group of African American expatriates. She served as an instructor and assistant administrator at the University of Ghana's School of Music and Drama, worked as feature editor for The African Review and wrote for The Ghanaian Times and the Ghanaian Broadcasting Company.
During her years abroad, she read and studied voraciously, mastering French, Spanish, Italian, Arabic and the West African language Fanti. She met with the American dissident leader Malcolm X in his visits to Ghana, and corresponded with him as his views evolved from the racially polarized thinking of his youth to the more inclusive vision of his maturity.
Maya Angelou returned to America in 1964, with the intention of helping Malcolm X build his new Organization of African American Unity. Shortly after her arrival in the United States, Malcolm X was assassinated, and his plans for a new organization died with him. Angelou involved herself in television production and remained active in the Civil Rights Movement, working more closely with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who requested that Angelou serve as Northern Coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. His assassination, falling on her birthday in 1968, left her devastated. With the guidance of her friend, the novelist James Baldwin, she found solace in writing, and began work on the book that would become I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. The book tells the story of her life from her childhood in Arkansas to the birth of her child. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings was published in 1970 to widespread critical acclaim and enormous popular success.
Seemingly overnight, Angelou became a national figure. In the following years, books of her verse and the subsequent volumes of her autobiographical narrative won her a huge international audience. She was increasingly in demand as a teacher and lecturer and continued to explore dramatic forms as well. She wrote the screenplay and composed the score for the film Georgia, Georgia (1972). Her screenplay, the first by an African American woman ever to be filmed, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
Angelou was invited by successive Presidents of the United States to serve in various capacities. President Ford appointed her to the American Revolution Bicentennial Commission, and President Carter invited her to serve on the Presidential Commission for the International Year of the Woman. President Clinton requested that she compose a poem to read at his inauguration in 1993. Angelou's reading of her poem "On the Pulse of the Morning" was broadcast live around the world.
Beginning in 1981, Angelou served as Reynolds Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She continued to appear on television and in films including Poetic Justice (1993) and the landmark television adaptation of Roots (1977). She directed numerous dramatic and documentary programs on television and directed a feature film, Down in the Delta, in 1996.
The list of her published works includes more than 30 titles. These include numerous volumes of verse, beginning with Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Die (1971). Books of her stories and essays include Wouldn't Take Nothing For My Journey Now (1993) and Even the Stars Look Lonesome (1997). She continued the compelling narrative of her life in the books Gather Together in My Name (1974), Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas (1976), The Heart of a Woman (1981), All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes (1987) and A Song Flung Up to Heaven (2002).
In 2000, Angelou was honored with the Presidential Medal of the Arts; she received the Ford's Theatre Lincoln Medal in 2008. The same year, she narrated the award-winning documentary film The Black Candle and published a book of guidance for young women, Letter to My Daughter. In 2011, President Barack Obama awarded her the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Maya Angelou participated in a series of live broadcasts for Achievement Television in 1991, 1994 and 1997, taking questions submitted by students from across the United States. The interview with Maya Angelou on this website has been condensed from these broadcasts.
Illustration of Maya Angelou by Jeffery Smith
Maya Angelou Biography - Academy of Achievement. (October 22, 2018). Retrieved February 25, 2019. http://www.achievement.org/achiever/maya-angelou/
Teaching Tolerance (Spring 2018, Issue 58) Retrieved February 1, 2020 https://www.tolerance.org/magazine/spring-2018/celebrate-maya-angelou
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Daitoku-ji is a complex of 24 sub-temples in Kyoto. I visited in the morning of December 31 and it was wonderfully empty. The three sub-temples that were open that day were Ryogen-in, Zuiho-in, Daisin-in.
Daisen-in explicitly illustrates the story of life. There are gardens all around the central building and the story starts (although the entrance is not at the beginning of the story) with water. There are many rocks in this section, with a turtle signifying "disappointment" and a crane signifying "joy". The journey continues on the river of life and one rock signals the existential questions that everyone asks themselves: "Who am I? What is life? How did the world come into being?". Then, the river comes against a wall of doubt and one must accept the passage of time to pass under it. Hopefully you are climbing on to the treasure boat. One turtle is facing towards the current, and a sleeping cow is looking back at the past. You then carry on towards the "great sea", the main garden. This great sea is a large area of sand with no large rocks, signifying heaven and the lack of physical obstacles. Two mounts of sand represent greed and desire, but they are pointless in this great sea. At the back of the garden in the right corner, there is a "sal tree" on an island of moss, a North Indian species that symbolizes how short lie is because of it carries flowers for a brief period in June, each of which lasts only one day. It is a bright, white flower that springs out in morning and falls off at night. Buddha also passed away under such a tree at the age of 80 as he was meditating. The name Daisen-in means "great hermit's place". Inside the building, there are calligraphy scrolls made by the current abbot of Daisen-in. One of them says "ichi go ichi e" (this meeting, once in a lifetime). My favorite says: "Your way must be long, your heart round (or kind), don't get angry (the kanji for stomach is placed on its side, as if you are angry your stomach is standing up), let other people be great, keep yourself small." Another one says: "Even the sharpest swords needs to be polished". I had water in my eyes looking at the wide expanse of sand, the two mountains for greed and desire, and the trees whose flowers blossom for only one day, once a year.
Ryogen-in has four gardens. The smallest one in Japan, "Totekiko", is meant to show the importance of one single drop. One drop becomes bigger as the circles grow, become a river, and eventually the ocean. There are also big rocks that have no wave around them. It made me think that the ocean is made of drops. The biggest things in the world are made of the smallest ones.
Another garden, "Ryogintei", has moss and several rocks. I found it more difficult to interpret this one. It said that the largest rock stands for something that we cannot measure, and that each of us have. It made me think of our dignity: it is something that has physical implications in our life, but it cannot be measured. It remains puzzling to me.
Another garden at Ryogen, "Kodatei", is meant to show the inhalation and expiration, in particular its duality, like man and woman, ying and yang. My own interpretation is about perspective: the waves end without explanation on the side facing us, yet we do not first question our own perspective, which is also abruptly limited. We always try to question if the world makes sense, but we do not question our own perspective (I note that this is merely my interpretation). I thought about perspective because when you move on from this garden, you see that just behind you, you could not see the source of water that was right next to you.
The main garden at Ryogen is "Isshidan". It has an oval moss island of immortality and wisdom, which shows an ideal world.
I highly recommend going to the shojin (Buddhist cuisine) restaurant within the grounds of Daitoku-ji temple called Izusen. It is quite hidden (do not follow Google maps), but if you enter from the main entrance, go left at the second opportunity and keep walking, you will eventually find it. Was it a metaphor?
I spent four hours at the three sub-temples and I had the same overwhelming feeling at Daitoku-ji as I first had at Ryoanji. Daitoku-ji is wonderfully empty in the morning. I had water in my eyes at Daisen-in, pondering the story of life and looking at this tree whose flowers bloom for one day, or looking at the ridiculous mountains of greed and desire. Daisen-in is different from Ryoanji, but it is equally perfect. A more instructive and less abstract garden, a non-verbal lesson in Zen philosophy that you can never forget.


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Lawyer: Immediate future of daily fantasy sports in question
Robert Kraft is one of the investors in FanDuel.
Jeff Simmons November 11, 2015, 1:26 PM
Daily fantasy sports has become a hot topic in the news this week.
On Tuesday, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman declared that daily fantasy sports constitute illegal gambling in his state, and he sent operators DraftKings and FanDuel cease-and-desist notices.
"Daily fantasy sports is neither victimless nor harmless, and it is clear that DraftKings and FanDuel are the leaders of a massive, multibillion-dollar scheme intended to evade the law and fleece sports fans across the country," Schneiderman said in a statement.
Daniel Wallach, a sports litigator and attorney at Becker & Poliakoff, appeared on Dean Blundell & Co. Wednesday morning to provide further context into the latest on the situation and what has become a billion-dollar industry.
Here are four things we learned from Wallach's interview on Sportsnet 590 The Fan:
Why were the sites ordered to shut down in New York? The district attorney determined that operations of websites such as FanDuel and DraftKings constituted illegal gambling.
"Most people believed this was gambling but the question is whether or not it's legal," Wallach said. "[Tuesday] was the first time [they] have been accused of a formal criminal violation and this could set the stage for an indictment under federal law and jeopardize the viability of both companies."
Which leagues are involved? Almost all of the major sports leagues in North America are involved in daily fantasy in some capacity. The NBA has a small equity stake in FanDuel while MLB and NHL have equity positions in DraftKings.
The NFL, however, is in a bit of a different position.
"Two of the NFL's team owners — [Dallas Cowboys owner] Jerry Jones and [New England Patriots owner] Robert Kraft — own small stakes in FanDuel," Wallach explained. "And all of them have invested in what may be considered an illegal gambling business and that opens up all these entities up for the possibility for criminal prosecution under federal law. As unlikely as that is, they're not the targets. The targets are the operators.
"The leagues saw the money and it's all about revenue streams and I don't believe they did their due diligence on state law and if they did their due diligence New York was always low-hanging fruit in terms of violation of the state's gaming laws."
What could happen next? Wallach believes if that an indictment comes against Fan Duel or Draft Kings, their viability going forward is a significant concern.
"They could be shut down if they are convicted of violating the federal law," said Wallach. "Mind you, no charges have been brought yet. It could be curtains for these companies. It doesn't mean the industry will go away or these companies are dead for sure but it does place their immediate viability in question."
Who else has taken action against FanDuel and DraftKings? Wallach said there's been over 28 class action lawsuits filed by people who have played daily fantasy because they felt duped by insiders who had an edge on the competition.
"This is illegal gambling and we're [daily fantasy players] entitled to our money back," he explained. "It's a hard argument to make but the attorney general gave a strong boost to these class action claims. There may not be any assets [on the websites] left by the time the federal government gets through."
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Some of the topics discussed in my new book General Relativity Conflict and Rivalries
Posted on November 25, 2015 by Gali Weinstein
The back cover of my book:
General Relativity Conflict and Rivalries: Einstein's Polemics with Physicists:
This book focuses on Albert Einstein and his interactions with, and responses to, various scientists, both famous and lesser-known. It takes as its starting point that the discussions between Einstein and other scientists all represented a contribution to the edifice of general relativity and relativistic cosmology. These scientists with whom Einstein implicitly or explicitly interacted form a complicated web of collaboration, which this study explores, focusing on their implicit and explicit responses to Einstein's work.
This analysis uncovers latent undercurrents, indiscernible to other approaches to tracking the intellectual pathway of Einstein to his general theory of relativity. The interconnections and interactions presented here reveal the central figures who influenced Einstein during this intellectual period. Despite current approaches to history presupposing that the efforts of scientists such as Max Abraham and Gunnar Nordström, which differed from Einstein's own views, be relegated to the background, this book shows that they all had an impact on the development of Einstein's theories, stressing the limits of approaches focusing solely on Einstein. As such, General Relativity Conflict and Rivalries proves that the general theory of relativity was not developed as a single, coherent construction by an isolated, brooding individual, but, rather, that it came to fruition through Einstein's conflicts and interactions with other scientists, and was consolidated by his creative processes during these exchanges.
Grossmann and Einstein
From Zurich to Berlin
Einstein and Heinrich Zangger (Einstein and Michele Besso)
From Zurich to Prague.
Back to Zurich (Einstein and Marcel Grossmann).
From Zurich to Berlin (Einstein and Max Planck, Erwin Freundlich and others in Berlin) .
General Relativity between 1912 and 1916
The Equivalence Principle.
Einstein's 1912 Polemic with Max Abraham: Static Gravitational Field
Einstein's 1912 Polemic with Gunnar Nordström: Static Gravitational Field
Einstein's 1912-1913 Collaboration with Marcel Grossmann: Zurich Notebook to Entwurf Theory.
Einstein's 1913-1914 Polemic with Nordström: Scalar Theory versus Tensor Theory (Einstein and Adriaan Fokker).
Einstein's Polemic with Gustav Mie: Matter and Gravitation.
1914 Collaboration with Grossmann and Final Entwurf Theory.
Einstein's Polemic with Tullio Levi-Civita on the Entwurf Theory.
Einstein's 1915 Competition with David Hilbert and General Relativity
Einstein Answers Paul Ehrenfest's Queries: 1916 General Relativity.
The Third Prediction of General Relativity: Gravitational RedShift
Erich Kretschmann's Critiques of Einstein's Point Coincidence Argument (Einstein and Élie Cartan).
Einstein and Mach's Ideas.
Einstein's Reaction to Karl Schwarzschild's Solution (Einstein and Nathan Rosen and Leopold Infeld and others in Princeton).
The Fourth Classic Test of General Relativity: Light Delay.
General Relativity after 1916
Einstein's 1916 Polemic with Willem de Sitter, Levi-Civita and Nordström on Gravitational Waves (Einstein and Nathan Rosen and Leopold Infeld and Howard Percy Robertson).
Einstein's Polemic with de Sitter: Matter World and Empty World.
Bending of Light and Gravitational Lens: Einstein and Arthur Stanley Eddington
Einstein's Interaction with Hermann Weyl and the Cosmological Constant
Einstein's 1920 Matter World, Mach's Ether and the Dark Matter
Einstein's 1920 Polemic with Eddington on de Sitter's World.
Einstein's Reaction to the Aleksandr Friedmann Solution.
Einstein's Reaction to the Georges Lemaître Solution.
Edwin Hubble's Experimental Results.
The Lemaître-Eddington Model
Einstein and the Matter World: the Steady State Solution.
Einstein's Collaboration with de Sitter.
Einstein's Reaction to Lemaître's Big Bang Model
Einstein's Interaction with George Gamow: Cosmological Constant is the Biggest Blunder
Einstein, Gödel and Backward Time Travel
Einstein 1916
People ask many questions about Einstein's general theory of relativity. For instance: How did Einstein come up with the theory of general relativity? What did he invent? What is the theory of general relativity? How did Einstein discover general relativity? How did he derive his theory? Why was Einstein the first to arrive at generally covariant field equations even though many lesser-known scientists worked on the gravitational problem?
Did David Hilbert publish the field equations of general relativity before Einstein? Was Einstein's theory of relativity revolutionary for scientists of his day? How did the scientific community receive Einstein's theory of general relativity when he published it? What were the initial reaction in the scientific community after Einstein had published his paper on relativity?
Why did Einstein object so fiercely to Schwarzschild's' singularity (black holes)? Why did Einstein introduce the cosmological constant? Was it his biggest blunder? Why did Einstein suggest Mach's principle? Is Mach's principle wrong? And so forth.
In my book General Relativity Conflict and Rivalries: Einstein's Polemics with Physicists I try to answer these and many other questions.
Between 1905 and 1907, Einstein first tried to extend the special theory of relativity and explain gravitational phenomena. This was the most natural and simplest path to be taken. These investigations did not fit in with Galileo's law of free fall. This law, which may also be formulated as the law of the equality of inertial and gravitational mass, was illuminating Einstein, and he suspected that in it must lie the key to a deeper understanding of inertia and gravitation. He found "the happiest thought of my life". He imagined an observer freely falling from the roof of a house; for the observer there is during the fall – at least in his immediate vicinity – no gravitational field. If the observer lets go of any bodies, they remain relative to him, in a state of rest or uniform motion, regardless of their particular chemical and physical nature. The observer is therefore justified in interpreting his state as being "at rest". Newton realized that Galileo's law of free fall is connected with the equality of the inertial and gravitational mass; however, this connection was accidental. Einstein said that Galileo's law of free fall can be viewed as Newton's equality between inertial and gravitational mass, but for him the connection was not accidental. Einstein's 1907 breakthrough was to consider Galileo's law of free fall as a powerful argument in favor of expanding the principle of relativity to systems moving nonuniformly relative to each other. Einstein realized that he might be able to generalize the principle of relativity when guided by Galileo's law of free fall; for if one body fell differently from all others in the gravitational field, then with the help of this body an observer in free fall (with all other bodies) could find out that he was falling in a gravitational field.
In June 1911, Einstein published his paper, "On the Influence of Gravitation on the Propagation of Light". An important conclusion of this paper is that the velocity of light in a gravitational field is a function of the place. In December 1911, Max Abraham published a paper on gravitation at the basis of which was Einstein's 1911 conclusion about a relationship between the variable velocity of light and the gravitational potential. In February 1912, Einstein published his work on static gravitational fields theory, which was based on his 1911 June theory. In March 1912, Einstein corrected his static gravitational fields paper, but Abraham claimed that Einstein borrowed his equations; however, it was actually Abraham who needed Einstein's ideas and not the other way round. Einstein thought that Abraham converted to his theory of static fields while Abraham presumed exactly the opposite. Einstein then moved to Zurich and switched to new mathematical tools, the metric tensor as representing the gravitational potential. He examined various candidates for generally covariant field equations, and already considered the field equations of his general theory of relativity about three years before he published them in November 1915. However, he discarded these equations only to return to them more than three years later. Einstein's 1912 theory of static fields finally led him to reject the generally covariant field equations and to develop limited generally covariant field equations.
Max Abraham
The Finnish physicist Gunnar Nordström developed a competing theory of gravitation to Einstein's 1912-1913 gravitation theory. The equivalence principle was valid in his theory and it also satisfied red shift of the spectral lines from the sun. However, it was unable to supply the advance of the Perihelion of Mercury, such as Einstein's theory; it led to a Perihelion like the one predicted by Newton's law of gravity, and, it could not explain the deflection of light near the sun, because in Nordström's theory the velocity of light was constant. Einstein's 1913-1914 Entwurf theory of gravitation, the field equations of which were not generally covariant, remained without empirical support. Thus a decision in favor of one or the other theory – Einstein's or Nordström's – was impossible on empirical grounds. Einstein began to study Nordström's theory from the theoretical point of view and he developed his own Einstein-Nordström theory on the basis of his conception of the natural interval. Eventually, in a joint 1914 paper with Lorentz's student Adrian Fokker, Einstein showed that a generally covariant formalism is presented from which Nordström's theory follows if a single assumption is made that it is possible to choose preferred systems of reference in such a way that the velocity of light is constant; and this was done after Einstein had failed to develop a generally covariant formulation for his own Entwurf theory.
Gunnar Nordström
After arriving back to Zurich in summer 1912, Einstein was looking for his old student friend Marcel Grossmann, who had meanwhile become a professor of mathematics in the Swiss Federal Polytechnic institute. He was immediately caught in the fire. So he arrived and he was indeed happy to collaborate on the problem of gravitation. Einstein's collaboration with Marcel Grossmann led to two joint papers, the first entitled, "Entwurf einer verallgemeinerten Relativitätstheorie und einer Theorie der Gravitation" ("Outline of a Generalized Theory of Relativity and of a Theory of Gravitation") is called by scholars the Entwurf paper.
Marcel Grossmann
The Entwurf theory was already very close to Einstein's general theory of relativity that he published in November 1915. The gravitational field is represented by a metric tensor, the mathematical apparatus of the theory is based on the work of Riemann, Christoffel, Ricci and Levi-Civita on differential covariants, and the action of gravity on other physical processes is represented by generally covariant equations (that is, in a form which remained unchanged under all coordinate transformations). However, there was a difference between the two theories, the Entwurf and general relativity. The Entwurf theory contained different field equations that represented the gravitational field, and these were not generally covariant.
Elwin Bruno Christoffel
Gregorio Curbastro Ricci
Indeed at first though – when Einstein first collaborated with Grossmann – he considered (in what scholars call the "Zurich Notebook) field equations that were very close to the ones he would eventually choose in November 1915:
(See visual explanation of the Zurich Notebook on John Norton's website).
In 1913, Einstein thought for a while – or persuaded himself – that generally covariant field equations were not permissible; one must restrict the covariance of the equations. He introduced an ingenious argument – the Hole Argument – to demonstrate that generally covariant field equations were not permissible. The Hole Argument seemed to cause Einstein great satisfaction, or else he persuaded himself that he was satisfied. Having found the Hole argument, Einstein spent two years after 1913 looking for a non-generally covariant formulation of gravitational field equations.
Einstein's collaboration with his close friends included Michele Besso as well. During a visit by Besso to Einstein in Zurich in June 1913 they both tried to solve the Entwurf field equations to find the perihelion advance of Mercury in the field of a static sun in what is known by the name, the Einstein-Besso manuscript. Besso was inducted by Einstein into the necessary calculations. The Entwurf theory predicted a perihelion advance of about 18" per century instead of 43" per century.
Michele Besso
Towards the end of 1915 Einstein abandoned the Entwurf theory, and with his new theory got the correct precession so quickly because he was able to apply the methods he had already worked out two years earlier with Besso. Einstein though did not acknowledge his earlier work with Besso.
Tulio Levi-Civita
Tullio Levi-Civita from Padua, one of the founders of tensor calculus, objected to a major problematic element in the Entwurf theory, which reflected its global problem: its field equations were restricted to an adapted coordinate system. Einstein proved that his gravitational tensor was a covariant tensor for adapted coordinate systems. In an exchange of letters and postcards that began in March 1915 and ended in May 1915, Levi-Civita presented his objections to Einstein's above proof. Einstein tried to find ways to save his proof, and found it hard to give it up. Finally, Levi-Civita convinced Einstein about a fault in his arguments. Einstein realized that his Entwurf field equations of gravitation were entirely untenable. He discovered that Mercury's perihelion's motion was too small. In addition, he found that the equations were not covariant for transformations which corresponded to a uniform rotation of the reference system. Thus he came to the conviction that introducing the adapted coordinate system was a wrong path and that a more far-reaching covariance, preferably a general covariance, must be demanded.
Sometime in October 1915, Einstein dropped the Einstein-Grossman Entwurf theory. He adopted the postulate that his field equations were covariant with respect to arbitrary transformations of a determinant equal to 1 (unimodular transformations), and on November 4, 1915, he presented to the Prussian Academy of Sciences these new field equations. Einstein gradually expanded the range of the covariance of the field equations until November 25, 1915. On that day, Einstein presented to the Prussian Academy his final version to the gravitational field equations.
Einstein's biographer Albrecht Fölsing explained: Einstein presented his field equations on November 25, 1915, but six days earlier, on November 20, Hilbert had derived the identical field equations for which Einstein had been searching such a long time. On November 18 Hilbert had sent Einstein a letter with a certain draft, and Fölsing asked about this possible draft: "Could Einstein, casting his eye over this paper, have discovered the term which was still lacking in his own equations, and thus 'nostrified' Hilbert?" Historical evidence support a scenario according to which Einstein discovered his final field equations by "casting his eye over" his own previous works. In November 4, 1915 Einstein wrote the components of the gravitational field and showed that a material point in a gravitational field moves on a geodesic line in space-time, the equation of which is written in terms of the Christoffel symbols. Einstein found it advantageous to use for the components of the gravitational field the Christoffel symbols. Einstein had already basically possessed the field equations in 1912, but had not recognized the formal importance of the Christoffel symbols as the components of the gravitational field. Einstein probably found the final form of the generally covariant field equations by manipulating his own (November 4, 1915) equations. Other historians' findings seem to support the scenario according to which Einstein did not "nostrify" Hilbert.
Einstein and Hilbert
David Hilbert
In March 1916 Einstein submitted to the Annalen der Physik a review article on the general theory of relativity, "The Foundation of the General Theory of Relativity". The paper was published two months later, in May 1916. In this paper Einstein presented a comprehensive general theory of relativity. In addition, in this paper Einstein presented the disk thought experiment. Einstein's first mention of the rotating disk in print was in his paper dealing with the static gravitational fields of 1912; and after the 1912 paper, the rotating-disk thought experiment occurred in Einstein's writings only in a 1916 review article on general relativity: He now understood that in the general theory of relativity the method of laying coordinates in the space-time continuum (in a definite manner) breaks down, and one cannot adapt coordinate systems to the four-dimensional space.
Further, Einstein avoided the Hole Argument quite naturally by the Point Coincidence Argument. The point being made in the 1916 Point-Coincidence Argument is, briefly, that unlike general relativity, in special relativity coordinates of space and time have direct physical meaning. Since all our physical experience can be ultimately reduced to such point coincidences, there is no immediate reason for preferring certain systems of coordinates to others, i.e., we arrive at the requirement of general covariance. In 1918 Einstein saw the need to define the principles on which general relativity was based. In his paper, "Principles of the General Theory of Relativity", he wrote that his theory rests on three principles, which are not independent of each other. He formulated the principle of relativity in terms of the Point Coincidence Argument and added Mach's principle.
On November 18, 1915 Einstein reported to the Prussian Academy that the perihelion motion of Mercury is explained by his new General Theory of Relativity: Einstein found approximate solutions to his November 11, 1915 field equations. Einstein's field equations cannot be solved in the general case, but can be solved in particular situations. The first to offer such an exact solution was Karl Schwarzschild. Schwarzschild found one line element, which satisfied the conditions imposed by Einstein on the gravitational field of the sun, as well as Einstein's field equations from the November 18, 1915 paper. On December 22, 1915 Schwarzschild told Einstein that he reworked the calculation in his November 18 1915 paper of the Mercury perihelion. Subsequently Schwarzschild sent Einstein a manuscript, in which he derived his exact solution of Einstein's field equations. On January 13, 1916, Einstein delivered Schwarzschild's paper before the Prussian Academy, and a month later the paper was published. Einstein though objected to the Schwarzschild singularity in Schwarzschild's solution.
Karl Schwarzschild
In 1917 Einstein introduced into his 1915 field equations a cosmological term having the cosmological constant as a coefficient, in order that the theory should yield a static universe. Einstein desired to eliminate absolute space from physics according to "Mach's ideas".
Willem De Sitter objected to the "world-matter" in Einstein's world, and proposed a vacuum solution of Einstein's field equations with the cosmological constant and with no "world-matter". In 1920 the world-matter of Einstein's world was equivalent to "Mach's Ether", a carrier of the effects of inertia.
Einstein, Paul Ehrenfest and De Sitter; Eddington and Hendrik Lorentz. Location: office of W. de Sitter in Leiden (The Netherlands). Date: 26 Sept. 1923
De Sitter's 1917 solution predicted a spectral shift effect. In 1923 Arthur Stanley Eddington and Hermann Weyl adopted De Sitter's model and studied this effect. Einstein objected to this "cosmological problem". In 1922-1927, Alexander Friedmann and Georges Lemaitre published dynamical universe models.
Friedmann's model with cosmological constant equal to zero was the simplest general relativity universe. Einstein was willing to accept the mathematics, but not the physics of a dynamical universe.
In 1929 Edwin Hubble announced the discovery that the actual universe is apparently expanding. In 1931 Einstein accepted Friedmann's model with a cosmological constant equal to zero, which he previously abhorred; he claimed that one did not need the cosmological term anymore. It was very typical to Einstein that he used to do a theoretical work and he cared about experiments and observations.
Einstein in America.
In Princeton in 1949, Kurt Gödel found an exact solution to Einstein's field equations. Gödel's solution was a static and not an expanding universe. Gödel's universe allows the existence of closed timelike curves (CTCs), paths through spacetime that, if followed, allow a time traveler to interact with his/her former self.
The book also discusses other topics: for instance, gravitational lensing, gravitational waves, Einstein-Rosen bridge, unified field theory and so forth.
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My new book on Einstein and the history of the general theory of relativity
Here is the dust jacket of my new scholarly book on the history of general relativity, to be released on… my Birthday:
General Relativity Conflict and Rivalries: Einstein's polemics with Physicists.
The book is illustrated by me and discusses the history of general relativity, gravitational waves, relativistic cosmology and unified field theory between 1905 and 1955:
The development of general relativity (1905-1916), "low water mark" period and several results during the "renaissance of general relativity" (1960-1980).
Conversations I have had more than a decade ago with my PhD supervisor, the late Prof. Mara Beller (from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem), comprise major parts of the preface and the general setting of the book. However, the book presents the current state of research and many new findings in history of general relativity.
My first book:
Einstein's Pathway to the Special Theory of Relativity (April, 2015)
includes a wide variety of topics including also the early history of general relativity.
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Kentrail Latron Davis (born June 29, 1988) is an American professional baseball outfielder. Prior to playing professionally, Davis played college baseball at the University of Tennessee.

Early life
Davis grew up in Theodore, Alabama, where he attended Theodore High School. He worked for his father's construction company, which he credited with improving his upper body strength, allowing him to become more of a power hitter.

Collegiate career
Though he was considered a possible first-round draft pick in the 2007 Major League Baseball (MLB) Draft, his association with sports agent Scott Boras, whose players typically demand large signing bonuses, and an injury led him to fall into the 14th round, where he was selected by the Colorado Rockies. Rather than sign, Davis opted to attend the University of Tennessee, where he played college baseball for the Tennessee Volunteers baseball team. As a freshman, Davis had a .330 batting average with 13 home runs and 44 runs batted in (RBI). Before his sophomore season, he was named a preseason All-American by both Baseball America and Rivals.com. As a sophomore, he batted .308 with nine home runs and 30 RBI.

Professional career
Eligible for the 2009 MLB Draft, the Milwaukee Brewers selected Davis in the first round, with the 39th overall selection. He signed with the Brewers, receiving a $1.2 million signing bonus. In 2010, his first professional season, he played for the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers of the Class A Midwest League and the Brevard County Manatees of the Class A-Advanced Florida State League, was limited by a hamstring injury. He returned to Brevard County for the 2011 season. In 2012, he played for the Huntsville Stars of the Class AA Southern League. The Brewers invited Davis to spring training as a non-roster invitee in 2013.

On May 22, 2014, Davis hit for the cycle in a game for Huntsville. During the 2014 Winter Meetings, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim selected Davis in the Class AAA phase of the Rule 5 draft. They assigned him to the Arkansas Travelers of the Class AA Texas League to start the 2015 season. In June 2015 he was then released from the Arkansas Travelers.

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Writing love letters is a great way to express how you feel to your partner. It is something of a lost art, because so few people bother anymore. Not only is it a great idea to pen a note to your lover, but hiding it is half the fun and has a huge impact on the surprise. Here are 9 unique places you can hide a love letter, to create the biggest effect!
Now, it's commonplace to leave a love letter on the bed beside your sleeping partner. Slipping it under a pillow, however, means it may take longer to find. Unless the paper rattles, who's going to look under a pillow by rote? It will come as a huge surprise – and may even gift the recipient with sweet dreams!
Naturally, this works in high school, but that's not the only place. If your lover works at a place where he or she has a locker, then slipping the note there is a great idea. Your partner won't expect it at all. If he or she has a friend at work, you can even ask for help, providing you can't visit and get to the lockers yourself.
This option, while highly romantic, only works on certain kinds of days. Naturally, you shouldn't try this when it's raining or snowing. Otherwise, finding your lover's car when he or she is working, shopping, in class, or even when the car is sitting in the driveway, are all ideal times to deliver a love letter, because it's the first thing your partner will see upon getting in the car.
A coat pocket, a pants' pocket, a shirt pocket: if you know what your lover is going to be wearing the next day, slip your note in a pocket. He or she is sure to find it at some point throughout the day, and it will come as a huge surprise. Imagine slipping your hand into your pocket for your wallet or some spare change, and instead finding a love note from your partner!
Any letter placed here is sure to be found at some point during the day. After all, every dentist recommends brushing your teeth at least twice a day! Another plus is that this is one of the last places anyone expects to find a love letter!
Now, naturally, you want to do this pre-coffee. However, again, who is going to expect finding a love letter in their coffee cup? Mind, if your lover eschews coffee and drinks juice instead, or makes a smoothie every morning, you can substitute the receptacle for whatever your partner uses!
Slipped under an office door, the front door, a bedroom door, or even the bathroom door, a love letter always comes a surprise. You can do it while you know your lover is around to find it, or slip it under a door while he or she is gone, so your partner can find it upon returning.
Sure, this is kind of a glaringly obvious place, but hey, at least you can be sure your partner will see it, right? If you're otherwise unsure about whether or not your partner will find your love letter, sometimes you just can't be subtle!
Now, me, I am on my computer all the time. If the Better Half wants me to know something, emailing me is the best way … or slipping a note under my mouse! It can be easily hidden there, but a letter will also be easily found as soon as I check to figure out why exactly my mouse isn't working the way it should!
So there you have it, some unique ideas about where to hide a love letter! Do you have any other ideas you're willing to share? Do you still write love letters to your partner?
Make Your Ex Fall Back In Love With You!


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Geoengineering: What does it mean?
By Patrick Farrell
Of all the words used to describe Californian Russ George over the past decade, most scientists would probably agree on one in job description in particular: "rogue geoengineer."
Bashed worldwide as a "climate hacker," self-proclaimed entrepreneur and businessman Russ George is a man with a vision.
It all started in 2007 when George founded Planktos, a company aimed to "restore damaged habitats" through altering plankton ecosystems and reforestation.
One of the company's first projects included growing a forest in Hungary to offset the Vatican's entire carbon footprint – an act that led critics to complain that George's efforts were a business scam, with little regard for the environment.
Another geoengineering project of headed by George, which created much controversy, was his plan to dump iron sulphate off the coast of the Galapagos and Canary Islands.
George planned to dump the iron to create a massive outbreak of phytoplankton, which would in turn collect carbon from the atmosphere and sink to the oceans floor. Once completed, George, and his company Planktos, could then sell the so-called "carbon credits" for profit.
A plan which, according to the Guardian, has left George blacklisted at various international ports after a worldwide outcry stopped George's plans.
But only a few years later, George is making headlines again.
In October, George went through with his plans and dumped around 100 tons of iron sulphate into the ocean; this time into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of British Columbia. And once again, the reaction has been far from positive.
George convinced local fishing villages along the Canadian coast to invest in his project under the falsity that his goal was to benefit the salmon fishing industry, despite his history with Planktos in the field of geoengineering.
Scientists everywhere warn that because the concept of geoengineering is still relatively new, it is simply impossible to understand the future implications of any experiment along these lines.
Altering the ecology of the ocean, no matter how small or large of an area, could create entirely unforeseen problems in the future.
But the question remains, is it truly possible for one single "rogue geoengineer" to alter Earth's environmental discourse?
As defined by the Royal Society, geoengineering is the deliberate large-scale manipulation of the planetary environment to counteract anthropogenic climate change.
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, climate change has been on the minds of both politicians and the general public alike.
As of now, resorting to extreme methods of climate control, like those of George, have generally been condemned.
Despite this, research in the field of geoengineering – such as the findings of Harvard's David Keith –suggests great possibilities when looking to the future.
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Do the contents needs to be exactly matched between NX.env and NX.env_nt.tpl files?
CA Support often mentions to modify the NX.env_nt.tpl when the NX.env is modified. Is it necessary to exactly matched between the NX.env and NX.env_nt.tpl files? If yes, what problem will occur when they are NOT exactly matched?
The NX.env is generated from the NX.env_nt.tpl in the $NX_ROOT\pdmconf folder by the pdm_configure. The NX.env and the NX.env_nt.tpl should not be EXACTLY matched. They should have the same parameters but some of the parameter values' are not the exactly same value as the NX.env. When the customer runs the pdm_configure, it will replace a specific value to the parameters.
For example, the NX.env_nt.tpl file has the following parameter.
And the NX.env has the same parameter with the following value.
The value 'NX_HOSTNAME_REPLACE' in the NX.env_nt.tpl will be replaced to a specific value when the NX.env is generated by the pdm_configure.
If new parameter is added to the NX.env by manual, the added parameter will be worked after recycling the SDM service.
However, when the pdm_configure will be run in future, since the NX.env will be re-generated from the NX.env_nt.tpl as the template, if the NX.env_nt.tpl does not have the added parameter, it will be lost from the NX.env. If the NX.env_nt.tpl also has the added parameter with a specific value, the parameter with a specific value will be set when the NX.env is re-generated by the pdm_configure.
Hence, the NX.env and the NX.env_nt.tpl should not have exactly the same contents each other. However, they should have the same parameters that SDM administrator added by manual so as not to lose the value by the pdm_configure next time.
Also, when the parameter in NX.env and NX.env_nt.tpl is changed, CA Support recommend to use the pdm_options_mgr command.


Would it be possible to integrate an anti fingerprinting device in Eddie?
I found out that cyberghost is doing that. I couldn't find a good other standalone software which avoids fingerprinting.
This is a pure marketing junk.
In fact, in order to cover fingerprinting, you have to go much deeper than just browser language and user agent.
potential incompatibility with future browser versions, so it has to be installed and configured by each user individually.
zhang888, I've been looking for something like that, but for Chrome. I'm aware of the UA switching that umatrix provides, but I'd like a more complete solution. Do you know of an extension like that one but for chrome?
No, it's unlikely to happen in Chrome, extensions are more limited in it's API compared to Firefox.
Ublock and some user agent addons are still enough for most users.
Zhang888, would Random Agent spoofer and UBlock Origin work well together for this purpose? Should it be one or the other? Sorry, I don't understand how they work, so would like to have an idea how to avoid browser fingerprinting without completely cluttering up Firefox with a ton of unnecessary add ons. I should say, I also use NoScript, though not sure if that's relevant in this context.
Yes, they are totally inter-compatible and work on slightly different levels.
ad blockers are parsing the content itself and apply filters on network and HTML/JS parts of the browser.
They are working safely and even recommended to be used together for better privacy.
Using https://panopticlick.eff.org for feedback is interesting.
"Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 180,968 tested so far."
"only one in 2479.9 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours."
"appears to be unique among the 181,048 tested so far."
I expect to add Random Agent Spoofer to my workaday FF after seeing a bit more feedback (possible strange incompatibilities etc).
The fine grain configuration and amount of effort of the author, and record with other addons is positive, as well as recommendation here.
I read a story recently that said many agent spoofers make it *easier* to identify particular users, because a lot of the random fingerprints they generate are either very unlikely or completely impossible in the real world.
but the point is that it changes often. it may be unique but if it changes upon the next visit to that site doesn't that do the job?
The most recent update of Pale Moon, a Firefox spin-off, introduces a native option in the browser that should make it a lot harder for others to use Canvas to fingerprint the browser.
As it was said before in this forum: use Tor Browser without Tor and you will get the perfect browser to avoid fingerprinting. If you want to use Tor enable it.
May I suggest a tradeoff? NoScript.
Using Tor browser without Tor is excellent too !
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/canvasblocker/ this seems to get much better reviews than the one you posted.


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Redemption swansong chance for France
Rugby XV aim to make it proud week for Stade de France in year's last Test but Springboks have good memories there too.
by Paul Rhys
Fri Nov 22 2013 15:14:51 GMT+0000
Algeria-born Sofiane Guitoune, left, was a tryscorer on debut last week against Tonga [Reuters]
Believers in the supernatural say that the residue of great events can be left behind in the places they occurred.
We might usually think of this as ghosts haunting the site where they were murdered. But could the rule also apply to modern all-seater stadia?
Anyone of a superstitious bent in the French rugby XV might hope so.
The pitch of the Stade de France is hallowed ground right now – at least for supporters of the French football team.
Rarely loved, rarely loud, the national stadium was a cauldron of noise on Tuesday as French boots tore across the turf to put three goals past Ukraine and qualify for next year's World Cup in Brazil.
Now the field stands empty, save for the attentions of the groundsman.
But 15 much more solid pairs of gallic boots will be planted there on Saturday, when the tricolore flags will be back in the hope that national pride in the rugby team can also be redeemed in the last Test of the year.
It's been a bad year, especially for a French team who were World Cup finalists two years ago.
Four straight defeats to New Zealand is nothing to be too ashamed about, given the total superiority displayed by the world champions in that same timeframe.
But only two wins in their last 10 matches speaks of a malaise that may need something special to cure. If that can come against South Africa on Saturday, it could help exorcise the ghosts of 2013.
Eye of the cheetah: Habana will be back at the Stade de France six years after winning the World Cup there [AFP]
"It's going to be a huge fight against the second-best team in the world," France coach Philippe Saint-André said on Thursday as he named largely the same line-up that came close to a result against the All Blacks two weeks ago.
"We tried to pick the most coherent team possible with a few distinctive features to suit the South Africans.
"They (the Springboks) are hearty lads, they're up for a fight and very strong in one-on-one situations. So we tried to mix pace and power."
Pace comes in the form of Sofiane Guitone, who scored in the win over Tonga last week on his debut.
He'll have his work cut out this weekend though, with the spectre of Bryan Habana looming large over his preparations.
The Springboks have some even friendlier ghosts of the past to greet them when they arrive in Saint-Denis, despite not having recorded victory against France on French soil in 16 years.
Habana was the star of the tournament when South Africa beat England to lift the World Cup the last time they were at the Stade de France, in 2007, and is likely to be opposite Algeria-born Guitone on the Springbok wing.
"It's up to him to show he's up to the task," said Saint-André.
Four other players from the 2007 triumph will also feature for the visitors, who have had an opposite year to that experienced by France, losing just two of 11 Tests in 2013 – both to the All Blacks.
"If we win in Paris it will give us an 80 percent-plusrecord for the year and there have not been many occasions whenthe Boks have managed that in the post-isolation era, so I will be very happy with that," coach Heyneke Meyer said.
SOURCE: Al Jazeera