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Just when you think you can perhaps take a breath, and truly live in the moment - even if it only lasts 30 seconds - you come across this type of information which forces you to put your guard up again.
Tuesday, 15 January 2013, we received a government request for a proposal (RfP) to de-scope and close the TARS program by the end of the fiscal year. The government indicated that it does not intend to exercise the final two option years for the TARS contract. In the RfP, the government also indicated its intent that aerostat flight operations will cease on March 15, 2013, and that the remainder of the fiscal year will be used to deflate aerostats, disposition equipment, and prepare sites for permanent closure. We are currently reviewing all the details of the RfP and evaluating the possible impacts on the program and our workforce. We continue to communicate with the government on this matter, and we will have more information in the coming days and weeks.
The TARS program provides a critical capability to the U.S. government and we should remain focused on providing that service in an uninterrupted and robust manner.
The best thing we can do right now is to continue to provide the outstanding TARS support that has become the Exelis hallmark, while allowing the company and the government time to continue discussions on how to best support the customer, the program, and our workforce. We will provide regular updates as we know more. Should you have a specific question, please address them to Tim Green, Program Manager.


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Centigrade developed the perfect platform to launch the Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo Series in North America. We were able to provide Lamborghini teams, customers, sponsors, dealers and fans with an extraordinary experience.
Expanding the footprint of the Lamborghini Lounge, we facilitated the entire hospitality infrastructure to house the teams, VIP guests, media, and sponsors for each race weekend. The series comprised of six race weekends (12 races) across North America.
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Value Chain Analysis of the Aquaculture Feed Sector in Egypt
This study was carried out to evaluate the value chain performance of the aquaculture feed sector in Egypt, in terms of value addition, employment and profitability.
The strengths and weaknesses of each link of the value chain were assessed and appropriate upgrading, management and development strategies were suggested. Quantitative data were collected for each link in the value-chain through structured questionnaires that were drafted and distributed to the key players in the sector; 25 fish feed mills and 34 fish farms covering different geographical and production regions.
The results indicated that the Egyptian aquafeed value-chain is relatively simple, with four main stakeholder groups - feed input suppliers, aquafeed producers, aquafeed marketers and traders and fish farmers.
Between 50 and 99% of feed ingredients used in aquafeed production in Egypt are imported. About 90% of Egyptian aquafeeds are produced by the private sector in the form of conventionally pressed, pelleted feeds (80–85%) and extruded feeds (15–20%).
About 85% of those producers sell their feeds directly to farmers with payment either in cash or on credit, while the remaining 15% sell through intermediaries.
State-owned mills accounted for 10% of total commercial fish feed production in 2012, exclusively in the form of pressed, pelleted feeds.
Employment generation in private sector feed mills was 29.2 full-time equivalent (FTE) jobs per mill, with an average of 3.9 jobs per 1000 tonnes of feed produced. Employment generation in state-owned mills was much higher, with an average of 90.3 FTE per mill.
Males represented 90% of the full-time employment in the state-owned mills and 96.6% in the private sector. Feed costs account for 75–90% of the total operating costs of the fish farms.
The major factors impacting on the performance of the value-chain relate to inputs, to feed production, to fish farmers and to marketing and financial services.
The study recommends actions to mitigate these issues including the local production of more feed raw materials, strengthening quality control and inspection, providing training for feed mills, better organization of fish farmers and improving the legal and policy environment.
Authors: Abdel-Fattah M El-Sayeda, Malcolm W Dickson and Gamal O El-Naggarb, Alexandria University, Egypt.
The full article can be accessed here.
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When he was growing up, Venkatesh Mannar and his siblings treated the family saltworks as their playground: they would slide down mountains of salt drying in the sun the way other children might sled down snow-covered hillsides.
The salt operation, in the southern Indian port city of Thoothukudi, had been founded by his grandfather's grandfather. As they had for generations, men stood in the brine, using wooden trowels to rake thick crusts of salt that formed on shallow pools of seawater, and then piled it high to dry into crystals.
After several years in the United States, first studying and then working at salt producers that used giant mechanized harvesters, Mannar returned to India in 1972, intent on building a large, modern saltworks facility near Chennai with the mechanical know-how he'd gained. Then, in the early 1980s, the world began to take an interest in eliminating iodine deficiency, which causes problems ranging from hypothyroidism to learning difficulties. Mannar, while continuing to run his business, became a consultant for UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO). He visited countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America to persuade them to iodize their salt, a practice that has been common in much of the developed world for decades.
He recalls arriving once in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and discovering that the WHO representatives there couldn't even tell him where salt was being produced: "They had no information!" Mannar took a car to a local market and strolled around, polling the shopkeepers selling salt on where they got it. After reconstructing the supply chain that way, he tracked down the country's salt producers to talk to them about iodine. Mannar figures he went to over 50 countries on similar missions. Today, an estimated 6 billionpeople globally have access to iodized salt, in no small part thanks to Mannar.
But from the early days, Mannar was also concerned with another element that many people don't get enough of: iron. A lack of it is one cause of anemia, which affects over 1.6 billion people. The condition is especially prevalent in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. In India alone, more than half of reproductive-age women are anemic, along with nearly 60% of children under five. Its symptoms include dizziness, poor maternal and infant health, decreased cognitive function, and the telltale listlessness that Indians call "lack of blood."
Mannar thought salt, which is consumed nearly universally and with almost every meal, might be the best vehicle to deliver small amounts of iron that would have a huge public health impact. "Even from the 1970s I was very conscious about iron deficiency," he says. "It became a secondary priority because of the push with iodine."
Mannar eventually made defeating anemia with iron-enriched salt part of his life's mission. Adding iron to salt that is already iodized—resulting in so-called double-fortified
By: Katie McLean
Title: One man's crusade to end a global scourge with better salt
Sourced From: www.technologyreview.com/2020/12/18/1013234/salt-dfs-iron-iodine-anemia-mannar-nutrition-international-india/
Published Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2020 11:03:00 +0000
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Bitso, a leading cryptocurrency platform operating in Latin America, and the Mexican Football Federation (FMF), today announced the joint launch of the first collectible NFT of the Mexico National Team's jerseys that was acquired in cryptocurrencies.
This morning through their social media platforms, the FMF and Bitso announced the opportunity to acquire the new official National Team fan jerseys ahead of the team's participation in the 2022 World Cup. In just 20 minutes, the entire collection sold out.
The NFTs of the jerseys have an exclusive design for the metaverse – each is unique on the blockchain and can be resold by its owner in subsequent transactions.
The collection consisted of 100 official physical jerseys, each with a corresponding NFT version of the jersey that fans' avatars can wear within the Decentraland metaverse. Each physical and NFT jersey set sold for the equivalent of $1,800 MXN in ethers.
"Our mission is to make cryptocurrency useful in the everyday life of Mexicans; we are committed to spreading the technology through innovative opportunities that help people throughout the country familiarize themselves with this new world. We are very excited to offer the incredible, historic opportunity for the fans of our National Team so that through their Bitso account, they can wear the colors of the National Team on and 'off' the field in the metaverse."
– Bárbara González Briseño, General Director of Bitso México
Jersey NFTs
Created by Bitso, the virtual jersey sports the official colors of Mexico and the new National Team shield, characteristics that will make it stand out when users wear it in the virtual world of Decentraland.
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Title: LATAM crypto exchange Bitso and FMF launch NFT of Mexico's National Team jerseys
Sourced From: www.cryptoninjas.net/2022/07/29/latam-crypto-exchange-bitso-and-fmf-launch-nft-of-mexicos-national-team-jerseys/
Published Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2022 15:19:02 +0000
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EXMO, a crypto exchange platform operating since 2014, announced this week a rebranded visual identity with includes a new logo, brand colors, and design features. This new branding comes as EXMO continues to grow its crypto platform while also seeking to expand its presence in other jurisdictions.
Some new developments underway at EXMO:
Soon, users will be able to earn passive income from EXMO's new staking platform.Plans to launch an EXMO crypto debit card.Expansion of its services in international markets with the opening of offices in Poland and Lithuania.
EXMO's new logo
The rationale for the re-brand:
"At EXMO, we have a vision of a world where crypto is in every wallet. Hassle-free. We want to achieve this by making crypto as simple and accessible to everyone as possible. And we know that you already appreciate EXMO for offering user-friendly services and helpful support. Also for the opportunity to trade anywhere and anytime, closing deals in just a few taps. Such important changes required a rethinking of our corporate style, which has long needed a massive upgrade. So today we are introducing a new brand identity for EXMO with a completely new visual concept. We are launching a new logo, brand colors, and design elements. Our key design principles are simplicity, boldness, and a pinch of fun. But most importantly, we have changed our logo. Simple and easily recognizable, it represents the humanity of our brand. The logo stands out due to the wavy letter 'm' which symbolizes exchange rate charts and also resembles a spring that will launch you into the crypto world."
– The EXMO Team regarding the re-branding
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Title: Long-running crypto exchange EXMO unveils "lively" rebrand amidst growth
Sourced From: www.cryptoninjas.net/2022/07/26/long-running-crypto-exchange-exmo-unveils-lively-rebrand-amidst-growth/
Published Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2022 08:10:38 +0000
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The blistering heat waves that set temperature records across much of the US in recent days have strained electricity systems, threatening to knock out power in vulnerable regions of the country.
The electricity has largely stayed online so far this summer, but there have been scattered problems and close calls already.
Heavy use of energy-sucking air-conditioners is the biggest problem. But intense heat can also reduce the output of power plants, blow transformers, and force power lines to sag. Severe droughts across large parts of the country have also significantly reduced the availability of hydroelectric power, according to the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC).
It's unlikely to get better soon. A number of grid operators may struggle to meet peak summer demand, creating the risk of rolling blackouts, the NERC report notes.
The nation's isolated and antiquated grids are in desperate need of upgrades to keep the lights, heat, and air-conditioning on in the midst of extreme weather events that climate change is making more common, severe, and dangerous. One clear way to ease many of these issues is to more tightly integrate the country's regional grids, stitching them together with more long-range transmission lines.
If electricity generated in one area can be more easily shared across much wider regions, power can simply flow to where it's needed at those moments when customers crank up air-conditioners en masse, or when power plants or fuel supply lines fail amid soaring temperatures, wildfires, hurricanes, or other events, says Liza Reed, a research manager focused on transmission at the Niskanen Center, a Washington, DC, think tank.
The problem is it's proved difficult to build more long-range transmission and grid interconnections for a variety of reasons, including the permitting challenges of erecting wires through private and public lands across cities, counties, and states and the reluctance of local authorities to forfeit control or submit to greater federal oversight.
The case of Texas
The unreliability of the US grid is not a new problem. Severe heat and winter storms have repeatedly exposed the frailty of electricity systems in recent years, leaving thousands to millions of people without power as temperatures spiked or plunged.
One of the fundamental challenges is that the grids today are highly fragmented. There are three main electricity networks within the US: the Eastern Grid, the Western Grid, and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT). But there are numerous regional transmission organizations within those first two systems, including the California Independent System Operator, Southwest Power Pool, PJM Interconnection, New York ISO, and more.
These grids form a complex web of networks operating under different regulators, rules and market structures, and often with limited connections between them.
A variety of regional transmission organizations oversee different parts of the nation's aging and fragmented grids, which operate under different rules and with often limited connections between them.
ERCOT is especially isolated, in part because of the desire among local politicians, citizens, and power companies to avoid added competition, the hassle of following other states' rules, and oversight from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). But the state offers a case study in why that can be a serious problem amid increasingly harsh climate conditions, Reed says.
The Texas grid operator pleaded with customers several times earlier this month to cut electricity use as blistering summer temperatures created demand surges that threatened to outstrip supply and require rolling blackouts. Low wind conditions, cloud cover, and outages at fossil-fuel power plants added to the strains.
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Title: Stitching together the grid will save lives as extreme weather worsens
Sourced From: www.technologyreview.com/2022/07/28/1056483/stitching-together-the-grid-will-save-lives-as-extreme-weather-worsens/
Published Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2022 08:00:00 +0000
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Time now for Your Weekend Pulse! your guide to what is happening in our area this weekend with Alexia Severnson, Pulse Editor for the Las Cruces Sun-News and Edmundo Resendez. This weekend, the 17th Annual Jazz Happening in Mesilla, the 7th Annual Cultural Bazaar, two new plays: Breakneck Julius Caesar and Breakneck Hamlet at the Black Box Theatre, and St. Luke's Country Fair.


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Dubai is a place of excess and exuberance, where audacious architecture, eye-popping displays of opulence and unexpected attractions are the norm. With a crane-filled skyline constantly in flux and a hodgepodge population of expats hailing from almost every corner of the globe, this exciting city has vim to spare.
Dubai has a public transport network with metro and bus lines. Cash and credit aren't accepted on these so buy a contactless Nol Card at the stations before your board. Taxis are ubiquitous and relatively affordable, while abras (water taxis) will carry you over the Dubai Creek. Renting your own car is simple enough once you have an international or temporary U.A.E. driver's license.
Dubai was designed with tourists in mind, which means there are extravagant, purpose-built attractions at every turn. The list of things to do and see is slightly surreal. There is an indoor ski resort in the midst of the desert, underwater hotel suites where you can sleep among the creatures of the deep and a man-made island shaped like a palm tree. And that's just for starters. You can also ride up 555 metres above street level to the observation deck of the world's tallest building, stay in a seven-star hotel and spend a pretty penny at the whopping Dubai Mall or – if you're feeling flashy – the Gold Souk.
Not everything in Dubai was designed to make headlines and some parts of the city, most notably Old Dubai, hark back to an era before oil. The bleached white Jumeirah mosque, one of only a few in the country to allow non-Muslim visitors (guided tours only), offers insight into Islamic culture. Another part of Dubai that has escaped rapid modernisation is the desert surrounding the city. Many visitors now take trips out here to visit Bedouin camps, camel safaris or to go sandboarding.
Cast aside any misconceptions, Dubai is by no means a cultural desert. In the industrial Al Quoz district of the city, warehouses are now occupied by cutting-edge galleries displaying contemporary works from up-and-coming artists from the region.
Most tourists hang by the pool and beach, but for a taste of everyday life in Dubai, swap the resorts for Safa Park. This green expanse is the city's premier hangout spot with walkers, joggers and picnickers all converging here. Another little-advertised highlight is the sightseeing cable car at Creek Park, which offers great aerial views of Old Dubai.
Eating in Dubai is a masterclass on global food. There is a real jumble of nationalities, cultures and cuisines here meaning you'll have no shortage of options when it comes to eating, whether you fancy Vietnamese pho, Lebanese mezzes or old-fashioned Cajun fare.
Michelin-star chefs, such as Gary Rhodes and Vikas Khanna, have opened outposts here hoping to capitalise on the influx of luxury tourists as well as the residents' tax-free salaries. If you want to eat cheap, however, you won't be stuck for options. Head to Al Dhiyafah Road for fantastic kebabs, tasty Pakistani curries and Middle Eastern delights all available at prices that won't make your eyes water.
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Health Fascism Results From Societal Sickness In Need Of Healing
Published by scott lazarowitz on July 17, 2009
There has been an acceleration toward a complete government takeover of Americans' health and medical affairs, with a rush in the United States Congress to shove it into law before the August recess. These sweeping proposals of health fascism are pushed by special interest groups, lawyers and lobbyists, and otherwise nudniks, nincompoops and misfits.
Here is an article about philosopher Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged and the enslavement of doctors. In my opinion, the fascist politicians seem to want so much control over every aspect of our daily lives. They have this insatiable craving to search into our most personal, private matters–they are very invasive people, these fascists. No, we don't have a right to health care, to force doctors to treat us or give us medication. We do, however, have a right to take care of ourselves, and we also have a right to our liberty and property, which includes our right to be free from those politicians and bureaucrats sticking their dirty hands into our private matters. We also have a right to free, voluntary associations. That includes the individual's right to deal with whatever doctor one chooses, and the right to confidentiality of private health matters between the individual and the doctor. We also have a right to not be treated by doctors if we don't want to be, and the right to not have health insurance if we don't want it, and certainly have the right to not be forced to have health insurance.
What should be encouraged–and hardly ever is, at least not by bureaucrats–is individual responsibility and prevention. People who smoke or eat like pigs should not be allowed to any "free" health care! There can't be a more self-destructive behavior than deliberately inhaling burning garbage into your lungs.
And smoking is probably one of the most anti-social behaviors I can think of– Don't get me started on that. And people who over-eat and consume heavy cholesterol foods and who are obese do not deserve to force any doctor to treat them, or force their neighbors to pay for it.
With this ever increasing fascism and more access of government officials into our private lives, we will have less freedom and less security. I know the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution addresses searches and seizures, but it does mention the "right to be secure in our persons, papers, houses and effects." We have a right to be secure. Government officials should not be trusted with so much personal information about us. That makes us much less secure in many ways. It's an old saying, but people who don't know or understand history are more likely to repeat it, as the history of even the last century will suggest. The crimes of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany aren't even a century ago. It is not an exaggeration to suggest that once this huge new fascist program goes through, the good doctors will leave the practice in droves, and the Doctors Mengele will be welcomed with open government tentacles. And it is not hysteria to predict that euthanasia will be institutionalized and abortions made mandatory, at least for white males, as ethnic cleansing is something for which fascists are notorious.
If it's really true that these Congressman and Senators are doing all their wheeling and dealing behind closed doors and not having any or enough debate or hearings on this pending serious loss of liberty, then they really ought to be criminally charged with conspiracy or theft or otherwise high crimes.
I'm really serious. Someone ought to get the Washington D.C. District Attorney or FBI or some Federal officials to arrest these hooligans for conspiracy or theft or fraud. Wikipedia states that a Kleptocracy is a "government that extends the personal wealth and political power of government officials and the ruling class at the expense of the population," and that's exactly what we have now. This really is a sick society, which needs to be healed with a restoration of freedom and individual responsibility.
Sotomayor's Record
Judge Sonia Sotomayor has made over 200 decisions as a judge, and 6 of the cases in which she wrote the majority opinion were heard by the U.S. Supreme Court, four of them reversed. Now, is that just a case of bad luck, or might it be saying something about Sotomayor's judgment about the law and the Constitution? Maybe on one or two of those cases the higher court was wrong, I don't know. If I got only 33% grades on tests in school, I'd probably fail the course. Is that an unfair comparison? I really want to be fair. After all, "fairness" is important, these days. (Most of the articles on the Internet don't include the most recent New Haven firefighters case that was overturned.)
I tried to find what percentage of decisions by Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, et al., on lower courts were later reversed by higher courts, and I couldn't find any information on that. Does anyone know? Does it matter? Does it matter if 4 out of 6 of Sotomayor's rulings were reversed by the Supreme Court? Am I being unreasonable?
RomneyCare Causes Dysfunction
Here's another reason why former Massachusetts Gov. Willard Mitt Romney's anti-free market, anti-choice, anti-privacy Mandatory Health Insurance Law was not a good idea. You would think that someone who spent many years as a businessman and a "capitalist" would know that government shouldn't entangle itself in any kind of industry, not even the health care industry regardless of good intentions, because it's immediately politicized and these mandates and interferences cause such industries to become dysfunctional.
The Anti-Religious Left's Religion
Published by scott lazarowitz on July 8, 2009
Isn't it fascinating that the anti-religious Left are nevertheless trembling with religious zeal when it comes to such things as "global warming" or "climate change" or otherwise this environmentalism stuff of theirs? As Gary North writes in this piece here, the true ultimate goal of the environmentalists is to have a big, authoritarian government controlling just about every aspect of our daily lives. Just look at what this religion of environmentalism has done to the government-run schools. They have been literally terrorizing kids with doom-and-gloom, as well as stuffing their brains with nonsense. And, just as the health care industry is in crisis and is so expensive because of all the regulations, bureaucracy and taxes, we have an automobile industry in crisis for the same reasons, because of all the government-imposed demands and "cafe standards" that have done nothing but drive up the costs and reduce the quality of automobiles. And people, particularly those religiously zealous environmentalists, want the government to do even MORE of what it's been doing, with the intention of making things better, which will mean they will make things even worse, such as with this Cap and Trade bill, if the Senate passes it. And then it's on to further ruin health care, and on and on and on…But it's really all in the name of the Left's religion of State Worship. Now that's the real sickness in our society that needs some healing.
Palin a Victim of Media Vultures
It appears that the vultures of the mainstream media have harassed and besieged Sarah Palin into resignation. Palin is a government reformer who has conservative values and believes in American Constitutional principles. God forbid she should get to Washington. The news media are mostly of the Left, and the Left worships government. Richard Nixon, the "Cover-Up President," hated the press, but now we have a "Cover-Up Press" who did everything in their power and influence to get Barack Obama elected president. The media bow to Marxists and slander capitalists and conservatives and constitutionalists, and as they live their daily lives in the fantasy world of "government should do this and government should do that," they don't realize that the capitalists are the ones who will protect their First Amendment Rights of Free Press and freedom of speech, while the Leftists, Marxists and socialists (i.e. Democrats) oppose things like that inconvenient First Amendment that protects everyone's right to criticize and satirize the very government the mainstream media worship.
Unfortunately, today's journalism schools are no longer teaching the students and future news writers and editors and anchors, reporters and producers to seek answers to who, what, why, when, where and how. Now, a career in journalism means being an activist, and a do-gooder. Use your role as a reporter to show what a good thing it is to have everything done by the government, and smear and crush anyone who criticizes that agenda. Even the older and more experienced people in the media have been doing nothing but drooling and foaming at the mouth for Left-wing and Democrat party politicians. However, there may be some hope yet, especially this past week when we see someone like White House kvetch Helen Thomas giving the White House spokesman a good whacking.
While I'm not one of Palin's biggest fans, I really hope she makes a comeback at some point, and kicks those jackasses rights in the you-know-what!
Audit the Fed
I don't know nearly as much about the Gold Standard as do Ron Paul and Lew Rockwell, but I do think that, given not just that the Feds have ruined the dollar but that the dollar has been its own piece of counterfeit in the first place, currency in general should be privatized. It should not be made, controlled, administered nor distributed by the government. With a market of different makers of competing currencies, the ones with the most quality and value would be the most popular and successful, and the ones with the least quality would fail, as with any other business. As soon as a commodity this important is controlled by the armed force of government, with its power and officialdom, the currency is then corrupted. And a government monopoly over money, forbidding any possible competitors, is more in line with fascism.
Unfortunately, the selfish, corrupt politicians don't want to change the status quo because they love power. Power is not only corrupting, but it is as addictive as any drug. Just look at all those politicians and bureaucrats who go to Washington and stay there. They can't overcome their addiction to government power. Just look at Alan Greenspan. It's hard to believe that he wrote this article called Gold and Economic Freedom. That old schlep went from being an Ayn Rand capitalist to being a Big Government Control freak!
Perhaps "Washington" should be renamed "Corruptington" because of all the corrupting and dirtying they're doing to our government. We need to put some "washing" back in "Washington" to get the dirt and filth out of it. Well, if we can't get rid of the unconstitutional Federal Reserve (as well as the unconstitutional income tax and the capital gains tax), then at the very least Congress should act on Ron Paul's bill to audit the Fed. He now has 245 co-sponsors, so I think that should be enough for House Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank to get going on it (whether he likes it or not!). And, I'm sure President Obama doesn't want all the illegalities lying underneath the Fed's hood to be uncovered, but he still shouldn't veto it once it's been passed.


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Swim Classes officially complete! Two kiddos floaty free!
Week 2•Day 5: Another sunny day success for the kiddos!
Started Week 2 of Swim School for the kiddos today- back at it with scoops, kicks, jumps, and tricks! It was sunny for class today but hot as heck!


The US Department of Energy (DoE) has unveiled the fasted supercomputer in the world called the SUMMIT, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The Department partnered with IBM and Nvidia to build the supercomputer.
The computer has 4,608 servers that takes up the size of about two tennis courts and circulates 4,000 gallons of water per minute for cooling. It has 37,000 processors and 28,000 Graphics processors. It performs 200 quadrillions (200 followed by 15 zeros) calculations per second or 200 petaflops. We should have known this…that IBM loves BIG stuffs!
Put in another way, that's about 1 million times faster than a typical laptop computer. Don't even think about it…your laptop can't match it!
Another way to put it is that 6.3 Billion people would have to make a calculation at the same time, every second, for one year to match this supercomputer.
The last time America had the most powerful computer was in June 2013 when China took over. But why such a powerful computer one might ask? Technological supremacy among nations plays out here. Far importantly is its use: for genome sequencing, artificial intelligence (AI) research, machine learning applications, climate modelling, analyzing exploding stars (supernovas) to find out how elements like Gold are formed.
Before the announcement of the Summit last Friday, China held the record of the most powerful supercomputer in the world with its Sunway Taihulight. But the summit is near twice the peak performance of the Taihulight.
Happy computing, earth men… when do we get to the stars then?


The language of love can very, very easily get lost in translation. What may be perfectly acceptable when dating in Ireland can warrant a well-aimed slap in the face in the U.S. Remember: it was America that invented "dating." It's not an Irish concept – but one that has been imported from across the Atlantic. And even though it's an American import, the rules for dating in the U.S. differ vastly in many ways than the rules for dating in Ireland.
This especially applies when you are on a first date. Although Irish girls are often fairly unimpressed at the sight of their date slurring his words and talking to inanimate objects, in many cases, it is the Irish girl who is even more drunk than her partner for the evening, so this problem can be avoided, and the Irish male doesn't have to be as careful in not getting too hammered. In general, however, American girls drink far, far less than Irish girls. And they can get pretty disgusted at the sight of their date making a total fool of himself. This rule is probably the most critical in this guide – but is one that the Irish male typically grapples with the most. Remember: Americans often go on dates that are non-alcohol related – which can involve things such as "cups of coffee" and not going to the pub. The standard response from the Irish male to this activity in this situation might be: But where will my confidence come from? It must come from within. When the date does take place in a pub or bar, the Irish male should take care to remember that the graph showing the relationship between pints and charm looks like this: it goes upwards initially, levels off after about three or four, and then at about six pints it takes a dramatic nosedive. In other words, it usually takes about six drinks before charm turns into sleaze.
The U.S. may be the birthplace of the modern feminist movement, but when it comes to picking up the tab for drinks and dinner, American females are thoroughly old-fashioned. American girls will inevitably expect you to at least offer to pay for dinner, and if you do offer, most will gladly accept. The same goes for drinks. If you are on a first date, and you don't offer to foot the bill, don't expect a second. It doesn't matter that she is better educated than you, earns more than you and is likely to outlive you. She'll still expect you to pay. That's just how it is.
If you have a fairly neutral Irish accent, then scrap it quickly – you won't sound very "Irish" to the American girl you are trying to impress. Go and watch "Darby O'Gill and the Little People," and try to talk like some of the characters in that movie. Sure, you won't sound genuinely Irish – simply because no one in Ireland talks like that – but the girl you are on a date with won't know that, and probably thinks that everyone in Ireland talks like Sean Connery in the 1959 classic. Throw in a few Irish expressions here and there – even ones we don't really use, like, "To be sure, To be sure." Add a few more that you know the girl won't understand, thus making her curious, playing up your Irishness and impressing her.
You don't have to put your coat over a puddle of water on the sidewalk so she doesn't wet her shoes, but you do have to hold doors open, pay for drinks (see point two), pull out her chair and so on. As a rule, you can't go wrong with chivalry with American women.
Yes, it is hard being away from home and yes, no one makes bacon and cabbage like your mother can, but try to keep these details to yourself. If you go on too much about your mother, you will reconfirm a stereotype that your date probably already has about Irish guys and their mammies. So keep the mum discussion to a minimum. On the other hand, your date may be relieved to hear that your mother has no interest in being her new best friend.
Some Americans have a romantic idea of Irish people as inherently troubled. This may make you seem more attractive in the eyes of the American you are pursuing, so play this up. If you had quite an idyllic childhood, then fabricate. Come out with lines like: "I remember the day the soldiers came to the village...They took every last man, woman and child...The screams, I still hear the screams..." before gazing away sadly into the distance. Refuse to elaborate, adding to your mystique.
Your true Irish character might frighten them, but that's okay. You do not need to pretend you are the personality that they would imagine an Irish person to be. Let your bitterness, begrudgery and downto- earthiness shine. You might lose her, but you will still be YOU.


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It seems like NATO's reckless and foolish refusal to coordinate its air sorties over Syria with the Russians could be mitigated by the behind-the-scenes mechanism of the joint Israeli-Russian hotline, with Israel playing the role of a go between Russia and NATO. This will allow NATO to "save face" by not coordinating publicly with the Russians on the one hand, while avoiding the perils of the latest Russian jamming system which has just been deployed in Latakia, on the other hand. Both sides will doubtlessly try to monitor each other during the upcoming "Blue flag" Exercise which supposedly is going to test the readiness of the USAF and the IAF to a possible regional war involving Iran.
For the first time in Mid East history, the IDF will be connected to an ops command in an enemy state [Syria] through the Russian-Israeli hotline for air coordination over Syria.
On Sunday, Oct. 18, Russian and Israeli air force headquarters near Latakia in Syria and Tel Aviv began practicing procedures for using the hot line they established the last week to coordinate their operations in Syrian skies. They were putting into effect the agreement reached between Vladimir Putin and Binyamin Netanyahu in Moscow on Sept. 22, which was worked out in detail on Oct. 6 by Russian Dept. Chief of Staff Gen. Nikolay Bogdanovsky and his Israeli counterpart Gen. Yair Golan..
On Oct 15, the defense ministry in Moscow confirmed that "mutual information-sharing on the actions of aircraft has been established" to avoid clashes in the skies of Syria "between the Russian aviation command center at the Hmeimim air base and a command post of the Israeli air force." He added that the two sides were holding practice sessions on the new line.
The next day, Turkish fighters downed a Russian Orlan 10 UAV that intruded 3 km into their space. The Turks complained they had shot down the drone after repeated warnings to the Russian pilots. Since the drone has no pilots, the complaint must have been relayed to the Russian airbase in Syria. But in the absence of coordination, there was no answer.
Neither did Ankara have the option of resorting to a Washington line to the Kremlin, since the Obama administration had spurned Moscow's proposal to send a military delegation to Washington for setting up a military coordination mechanism for their aerial operations over Syria.
It just so happens that, this Sunday, the US and Israel launched their bi-annual Blue Flag air exercise from Israel's southern air base at Ovda, their combat squadrons joined by Greek and Italian air units. They will spend two weeks "simulating a high-intensity confrontation against a political entity with a strong army," according to the official statement.
The question hanging over this exercise is this: How will this drill pan out in the absence of US-Russian coordination on their air movements over the Middle East and Syria?
Unlike the airspace of the world's countries, Syria's skies are in fact ungoverned by any fully functioning sovereign government, and so the normal rules of air conduct and international safety procedures have gone by the board.
Syrian air space is frequented by the fighters, heavy bombers, transports and UAVs of a dozen air forces: Syria, Russia the US, Israel, Turkey and Iran as well as the US-led coalition planes of Canada, France, Australia, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. The miracle is that no major air disasters have so far occurred in skies crowded by this swarm of uncontrolled, unmonitored air traffic – all bent on their separate missions.
Most may be identified by radio signals or external markings and emblems. Some carry transponders which broadcast their location, identity, speed and direction.
But what about the few who don't? One such case was the Russian drone that violated Turkish air space Friday with no identifying markings.
debkafile's military and intelligence sources say it is safe to assume that the Russian end of the hot line with Israel at the Al-Hmeineem air base near Latakia, will be manned by Arab-speaking flight controllers.
And at the Tel Aviv end, along with Israeli officers, there will also be a presence of air controllers from western allies, including the US Air Force, who will use the facility to coordinate their flights with the Russian command.
The US-Israeli Blue Flag exercise provides an excellent opportunity for testing the Israeli-Russian hot line in combat conditions. Far from being a fantastic scenario, it offers a dose of reality on the current military conditions prevailing in the region.


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origin of 'back to the drawing board'
Pascal Tréguerarts, etymology, media, USA & Canadanewspapers & magazines, phrases, USA
The phrase back to the drawing board is used to indicate that an idea, scheme or proposal has been unsuccessful and that a new one must be devised.
This phrase originated in a cartoon by the U.S. cartoonist Peter Arno (Curtis Arnoux Peters, Jr – 1904-68), published in The New Yorker (New York City, N.Y.) of 1st March 1941. This cartoon shows a smouldering airplane which has just crashed head first into the ground. In the background, the pilot is coming down by parachute. Service personnel are looking on in horror or rushing forward while a civilian designer, a rolled-up engineering plan under his arm, is walking away, saying:
Well, back to the old drawing board.
The earliest uses of the phrase that I have found are from the column I'd Rather Be Right, by Samuel Grafton (1907-97), published in The Chicago Sun (Chicago, Illinois):
1: On 24th March 1942:
The American commentator or Congressman is, often, a man standing on his constitutional right to say he doesn't like it. The whole country, like a bride, serves up its war effort, like a cake, and waits nervously for him to nibble and to make a wry face. Too bad, everybody. Back to the old drawing board. We'd better try again.
2: On 16th April 1942 (with explicit reference to Arno's cartoon):
U.S. Policy Toward Vichy Blows Up
I wonder whether our State Department will again escape responsibility. It had a policy toward Vichy. That policy has collapsed into profound and utter ruin. It has collapsed as our Japanese policy collapsed, as our Italian policy collapsed, as our Spanish policy collapsed. It is permitted for the State Department, after each of these failures, to rub its hands and say, in the immortal words of the designer whose new airplane crashed: "Well, back to the old drawing board!"
The following cartoons by Peter Arno were also published in The New Yorker during the same period:
Now that's enough! Run along!
You're making a grave mistake, Miss Loesch. We Scoutmasters are not entrusted with military secrets.
Maybe after this you'll realize that when I say I'm going to dive, I mean it. Now go below and dry yourself.
Well, what's the excuse this time?
Never mind the damned cake! Where are the reporters?
You never can tell what they're thinking, can you?
Well, if you ever need us again just give us a ring.
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The South Sydney Rabbitohs are pleased to announce their teams to take on the Gold Coast Titans on Monday 7 July at ANZ Stadium, with the NRL kick off scheduled for 7pm.
The Rabbitohs have made a number of changes to their line up this week with players out of action due to State of Origin selection and injury.
The Holden Cup under 20s match between the Rabbitohs and Titans will kick off at the earlier time of 4:25pm to accommodate the Final of the Bob McCarthy Cup, a seven-a-side schools competition in the South Sydney district, with the Final to be contested by St Agnes Primary School Matraville and Malabar Public School. The Bob McCarthy Cup Final will kick off at 6:10pm.
Gates will open at ANZ Stadium at 4:15pm.


An archer takes aim on the competition-style shooting course. Photo by Jerry Neal/CPW.
With the popularity of "The Hunger Games" movies and books, as well as television shows like "Game of Thrones" and films like "The Avengers" and "Brave," participation in the sport of archery has skyrocketed in recent years. To meet growing demand, Colorado Parks and Wildlife has expanded its shooting-range operations, opening a state-of-the-art archery range at Cheyenne Mountain State Park.
When Mitch Martin, manager at Cheyenne Mountain State Park, invited me to attend and photograph the grand opening of his park's new archery range, I have to admit, I really didn't know what to expect. The term "outdoor range" immediately evoked memories of summer camp back in middle school, which consisted of lobbing arrows at hay bales and flimsy, easel-mounted targets that toppled over in the slightest gust of wind.


Berlin label Project: Mooncircle, drops KRTS's second full-length LP, Close Eyes to Exit ! Inspired by recent world events, each of the album's 12 tracks dwell upon the world we live in now, a world struggling to rid itself of corruption, hate, bigotry, and ignorance. The resulting record is equal parts raw, emotional, dense, and danceable. This is KRTS at his creative peak.
"White Privilege" is a perfect example. Elegant melodies and a speedy jungle beat will have you bopping your head without a care in the world.
"My Head is Jumpin'" features Charles Larson and Tito Ramsey of the Brooklyn-based indie-pop act, Legs. The track is a biting meditation on our internal struggles and the many different bodies that encase them. How do we process the hurt, the pain, and the unreal? How do we manage these feelings living inside of us?
"Serve and Protect" features Sacramento MC Mad Flows. It speaks to the media's portrayal of death in the black community as an unjustly "normal" occurrence. Mad Flows spits out fear, rage, and loss—a direct response to the policing of America.


Food Network Star Damaris Phillips married her fiance Darrick Wood on June 13th, 2015 at Willow Park in Louisville, Kentucky. Here is the website Damaris and Darrick set up for the wedding with their wedding details and links to their registry if you are interested in seeing what someone from the Food Network registers for. Willow Park and the wedding was described on the website as a "cute little park down the road from our house. There will be some very picnic-like elements— blankets on the grass, sunshine, a playground and dinner at picnic tables."
Damaris isn't too active on social media, so she hasn't mentioned the wedding or posted any pictures online. Nikki Dinki who was on the same season of Food Network Star was at the wedding and posted a few pictures of Damaris which are in this post.
Congratulations to Damaris and Darrick!
Don't really care for her show, but she seems like a nice person and I'm happy for her.
Oh man, Nikki Dinki is so hot!
Looks like a fun wedding. I hope they're happy together.
She is ready for kids with those birthing hips.
What a great wedding concept.
wow. looked at the various registries. Got to be the most down to earth, sensible and reasonable registries I've ever seen. Especially practical for someone with a national tv show. New found respect. I wish them well.


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Dear Greece, I Wish You Good Luck
August 11, 2015 August 12, 2015 Genevieve WeynerowskiNoteworthy News
On the morning of July 8, when the fate of Greece, the project of European unity, and perhaps the entire world's political and economic structure were hanging in the balance, my family and I stepped off the ferry onto the island of Corfu. It was hot. We were carrying a lot of Euros on us. I searched the faces of the Greek citizens passing by on the road outside the port. I spoke carefully, ordered hesitantly, from the woman running the coffee stand where the kids and I were waiting while my fiancé went off to find our rental car. The food was awful, but none of us complained.
I wondered if we were safe. Our comparative good fortune made me light-headed. This was Europe in the 21st century, not post-war Germany, and yet Greece was living amid the rubble of its bombed-out economy. Just a few days before, Alexis Tsipras, their youthful, impulsive Prime Minister from the Left, called a snap referendum, inviting the citizens to vote on whether to accept Europe's terms in a financial bailout package – the third bailout in five years. The Greek people, given only a few short days to make a decision they were told would be momentous, on an arcane set of rules and conditions that would affect their destiny, heeded their leader's call to reject the terms, and voted against it.
The trouble was, the vote meant nothing. Changed nothing. It was irrelevant. The rest of the world had been confounded by the decision to call the referendum in the first place, and was now equally confused as to what the Greek people meant with their No vote. Angela Merkel was nearly as furious as her finance minister, Wolfgang Shäuble, and the Internet was awash in contradictory perspectives on the plight of the Greeks, anchored on one end of the spectrum by a roar of fury at the "Troika" and their capitalist disciples and henchmen who had pillaged Greece to fatten their bottom lines, while the other end of the spectrum was populated by sneers of derision directed toward the lazy, entitled, early-retirement-obsessed southern European layabouts lazing around the ruins of their once-great civilization with their hands out for more money – beggars at the temple.
The Greeks, at this point, were putting together a new package of reform proposals, but international opinion was gloomy. The referendum had been costly, capital controls had been imposed on the banks to forestall a run that would have depleted them of their remaining reserves of cash. Greeks could only withdraw a maximum of 60 Euros a day from ATMs. No money was allowed to flow out of Greece, meaning that businesses that imported goods from outside the country could not pay their suppliers. Greeks could no longer use PayPal or iTunes. The latter news came through while we were on the ferry, and it struck me as particularly surreal.
We were in Greece to get married. While we were planning our family vacation with our four kids, my boyfriend and I thought it would be fun and romantic to get married overseas. We would spend a week in Rome and Tuscany, then take the ferry from Ancona to Corfu, where dear old friends of my family would lend us a house for a week. Ah, sweet. The good life. We would revel in the pleasures of the Mediterranean for a while, rue the cold and vast country we live in when not on holiday, expose our children to the grandeur of classical civilization by way of thin-crust pizzas and sun-drench piazzas. We would return to Montreal a little changed, closer as a family, with a smattering of Italian and Greek. The kids would benefit from the extra layer of sophistication that comes with exposure to great beauty and real food. It would be perfect.
Without going into details about the harrowing bureaucratic requirements of the Greek institutions who had an interest in our getting married in their country, suffice it to say that there came a moment, just two shorts weeks before we were scheduled to depart, when I thought maybe we should abandon the whole enterprise. At no time in my life have I been on friendly terms with paperwork, and around mid-May, we were frankly belligerent. But I did not surrender, and there came a day when, much to my surprise, I discovered that I had won the war.
And so there we were, four kids and two adults, in a country whose people had no idea whether they would be able to feed their families in the future. There was talk of returning to the drachma, a project that could take months to achieve and which could well plunge Greece straight back into deep and enduring poverty. Or the other option: capitulation, in which Greece agrees to what the creditors are demanding, and borrows more money against their shredded economy. Of course, there was a more optimistic view, in which Greece would implement necessary reforms, begin taxing the shipping magnates, clean up corruption and find ways to encourage manufacturing and a more liberal economy. But that, everyone knew, was a lot to ask.
My fiancé returned with the rental car and as we drove away from the port and towards the house we were borrowing for the week, the six of us were largely silent, hyper-aware of the surreal limbo in which the country was hanging. We worried for the people we passed, yet life seemed to be proceeding normally. Cars and motorbikes filled the roads, markets overflowed with gorgeous fruit and vegetables, traffic lights worked, and the sea was as blue as it ever was.
We followed the story on Twitter for days. Would Tsipras do what Europe wanted him to? How did the Bulgarians, the Croats, the Finns and the other poor European countries feel about the fact that Greece, a comparatively less impoverished nation, seemed unwilling to buck up and do what was necessary to maintain European unity and the common currency? The German people were bewildered at Greek intransigence. Did they have a point? Many of the individual voices that bubbled up through the noise actually made sense, both on the left and the right. Everything made sense, and nothing did.
The day of our wedding in Kerkira, Corfu's charming capital city, the vice mayor strolled into the Ionian Parliament as traditional Greek music played from an ancient ghetto blaster. He was around fifty years old, dressed like someone headed to a backyard barbeque, his hair longish in the European way. After the ceremony, he realized he had forgotten to allow us to exchange rings. Throwing his arms out and laughing, he said, "No problem, we start again. Welcome to Greece. No protocol!"
Today, Greece got its bailout package. Alexis Tsipras is exultant, despite having capitulated on every single one of Europe's demands, and then some, and alienated many members of his own party. The months of negotiations, the referendum giving Greeks a chance to voice their opposition to the creditors' terms – all of it turned out to have been a waste. In fact, it added billions to Greece's debt. Victory, or loss – and for whom? It is hard to tell who was right, and who was wrong, and ultimately probably moot. It seems impossible to know if the balance of power in the contest for the future of civilization rests with money, or human emotion. If reason weren't perpetually a third-party also-ran, I would vote for it.
Corfu, by the way, is beautiful. The people are warm, informal, alert, down to earth. The vistas are spectacular, the climate perfect. I am told many other places in Greece are also wonderful. I only hope that in the future, the Greek people will still be able to enjoy it all. I hope that Europe is worth it, that the culture of corruption that continues to enfeeble Greece becomes delegitimized. I hope that the Greek people pull themselves toward the political middle and fend off the showy blandishments of the political poles. I wish you luck, Greece, and thank you for hosting my wedding. Until we meet again…
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The ATM Warren was a demonstration that ATM networks could be built as cheaply as Ethernet networks. The essence of the Warren was to use only third-party set up of calls between simple devices and switches, while maintaining fully-standard ATM networking operation at all interfaces.
The Warren was an ATM sub-network composed of an arbitrary mesh of very simple ATM switches and end stations and which is connected to the outside ATM network at one or more points. The novel aspect was that switches and end stations within the Warren were implementable entirely in hardware - i.e. they required no microprocessors for signalling and management. All of the signalling software for all the devices within the Warren were provided by one or more proxy servers. The proxy servers are software entities situated on one or more general-purpose computers connected to the external ATM network outside the Warren.
A number of prototype devices were built under the sponsorship of Virata. These were intended for the home. The home needs a low-cost network that is multi-media capable. Both software and hardware devices were created.
One of the first devices built was the 6 port Warren switch. This provided six ports of ATM-25. It was designed by Daniel Gordon. Like all Warren devices, it did not contain any microprocessors, but instead was controlled by a master controller situated anywhere on the network. The Warren protocol allowed devices to keep in touch with their controller, and this was implemented in hardware at the device end.
Two versions of the switch were designed. Although similar externally, the second version had two levels of priority for FIFO queuing and a 32 kbyte buffer store for bursty traffic. SPEC.
The very first devices buit were these microphones. They took power over the ATM-25 RJ45 connection and generated a continuous stream of cells.
The physical design, when cased, was meant to resemble a hand-held mic, like an SM58. SPEC.
The Warren CD players were created by placing an ATM-25 line card in the back of a commercial CD player.
The services available over the network were sourcing music and control of the device using an ATM encoding of the infra-red remote control. Also, the infra-red received at the device's local receiver could be decoupled from local control and relayed over the network.
This was probably the first telephone handset/instrument to directly connect to a packet-switched data network. It was a direct decendent of the Ring Phones connected to the original Cambridge Ring as part of the ISLAND project and a similar project at Xerox PARC. The Ring Phones used a 19 inch rack, whereas the Warren phone, like the later ORL Broadband Phone and CISCO 7941 IP phone, connected to the network using a packet-switched data link. Between the Ring Phone and the Warren Phone there was a whole generation of N-ISDN phones that, while digital, still used circuit switching.
The Warren telephones were created by replacing the PCB inside a standard telephone set with a new digital card. The card supports ATM-25 on unshielded twisted-pair (UTP) or on plastic optical fiber (POF).
The telephones provided all the usual functions of a telephone handset. There was no state or microprocessor in the phone. Every operation was relayed directly over the network interface. Each button push and release caused an ATM cell to be sent. Similarly, off hook status, ringing and tone generation were marked and enabled by a continuous stream of cells, instead of having specific cells to mark the start and stop these states. Such an approach avoided any state needing to be stored inside the phone.
The competition to the Warren was Switched Ethernet. Ethernet could not support QoS but did not suffer from `badput' during congestion where the remains of a datagram were shipped over the network, only to fail in reassembly. Also, the complexity of ATM protocols defined for telecoms use meant that full-featured switches, like the Virata 12+12 shown below, were more complex than Ethernet alternatives for the workgroup. The Warren was primarily a demonstration that this did not have to be the case: the software complexity could be selectively deployed at any point, providing a seamless, interoperable spectrum between none and the full CCITT stacks.
These workgroup ATM-25 switches contained their own microprocessor and a good deal more silicon. The Warren switch pictured above is resting on the Virata 12x12 switch. The Virata switch could control a number of Warren switches. Indeed, many thousands of Warren devices could be interconnected and run off one controller if desired.
In the end, the real competition was switched Ethernet. Today we are learning how to achieve QoS over Ethernet and in the Internet in general. ATM's reduced complexity owing to using fixed-length cells was a chimera that soon became irrelevant with advances in VLSI, and its provision for in-band QoS support mechanisms, such as priority, based on connection-oriented virtual-circuits, is now less favoured than on-the-fly fairness algorithms, implemented in routers that identify the flows for themselves.


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Why does the person with a big lead win when they have tiles left butpass until I play my last tile
asked 10 years ago in Disputes by anonymous
It's cause they have no moves left so they take advantage of the other player by passing. This lets them off the hook and, since they have such a significant lead, allows them to win. What you ought to do is refuse to keep the game going for them. How it is supposed to work is that, once a player cannot make a legal move, he or she must resign. By passing they are admitting that they can't move, but they still want to win. That isn't fair. Next time a person passes at the end of the game, pass back. Make the other person resign and admit defeat. :) After all, winning the game isn't just about points but also how you play. If you end up backed into a corner, game over...
commented 9 years ago by anonymous
duh. maybe because THEY HAVE A BIG LEAD?
Am not sure how the passing thing works - so, if my opponent passes, and then I do too, and it happens three times (I believe) the game ends - but is it the FIRST person who passed who therefore loses, or is the result of the game still down to points??
As long as they have a lead and you continue playing after they pass, they win.
answered 10 years ago by Word Freak (189,620 points)
Why do the games end when I still have tiles to play and can score enough to win?
I played my last tile and my opponent was left with one tile. The count back resulted in a draw. Who is the winner?
ending-game
Why didn't the game end when I played all my tiles and there were none left to draw
Why when I go into 'Your move' games, it does not show the players last word and won't allow me to play?
Why does my opponent's ID tile show a green balloon with the number 1 in it?