The only part of my job as a prison corrections officer I do not like is the violence between inmates and officers. I try to befriend as many inmates as I can because I know we are all working and living in very close quarters, and professional courtesy can go a very long way. That being said, no matter how hard we try to maintain the peace, there are certain violent inmates who want to hold my team accountable for their being arrested, and they will attack when the chance arises.
To try and limit these incidents and injuries, we have to take certain precautions every day, never letting our guard down at any point in our busy day. The first order of business every day is doing cell inspections while inmates are eating at the mess hall. We bring in drug-sniffing canines if needed, and eliminate any drugs or weapons that we discover. The inmates do not appreciate the invasion, but in the end it is necessary for keeping peace.
We used to manually listen to inmate calls, but when Securus Technologies introduced their new call monitoring software, we took the chance to upgrade our system and start taking proactive measures to curb violence. Securus Technologies is currently based in Texas, and with 1,000 employees, the company says they intend to have 3,000 of these call monitoring systems in jails around the country in the near future.
The new monitoring system works while officers are spread out in the jail taking care of other issues, rather than sitting listening to calls. If the LBS software picks up chatter concerning drugs, violence, gangs, weapons, or anything related to contraband, we get an immediate notification and take action. In one month, we saw an incredible reduction in violent outbreaks in our prison.
JHSF is the leading developer and promotion of modern real estates in Brazil. Having been founded in 1972, JHSF has made it to the top of other small competing firms. It mainly deals with premier lands and real estate property like Shopping Malls, Luxury Hotels, Upmarket, and the International Business Airport which is found in Sao Paulo.
JHSF operates several development properties in Sao Paulo Brazil. It takes part in ensuring that there is an availability of modern facilities for the various individuals who might be in need of them. With a wide range of property divisions, JHSF has control over facilities such as Iguatemi Shopping Complex in Sao Paulo, and the General Motors Racetrack. JHSF also has subsidiaries which are focused on providing support services to other development portfolios. JHSF associated with Subsidiary Energy alongside Sustainable Telecom which are bodies responsible for the availability of affordable energy and telecommunication services to the Sao Paulo residents.
For an extended period, Jose Auriemo Neto has served as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of JHSF. He joined the company in 1993, and by creating the parking lot department for JHSF, he managed to come up with the Companies Service Department. Jose was then elected as the CEO of JHSF in 2003, the position which he held up to 2014. Besides being the CEO of JHSF, Jose was part of the Board of Executive officers of the same company since March 26, 2009.
Jose began the Shopping center department after obtaining the jurisdiction to start and grow the current shopping center, Santa Cruz. He was the man behind its management and implementation of all the managerial skills that ensured the shopping center gained lots of profits.
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Los hornos de alfarería y cerámica en España son estructuras o fábricas de diversa complejidad, tamaño y apariencia, destinadas a la cocción de piezas de arcilla. El modelo tradicional es un recinto con techo de bóveda provisto de chimenea y una o más bocas para cargar el combustible, habitualmente leña, y los objetos que se quieran cocer.

La función del horno, la cocción o cochura de material cerámico, es uno de los pasos fundamentales del proceso alfarero, el de mayor sentido mágico y el más determinante en la obtención del producto final.

En la geografía alfarera española existen muy diversos tipos de horno y horneado, desde la simple hoguera u "hornera con hoyo" para la cocción al aire libre (uno de los métodos primitivos ya casi desaparecidos), hasta los hornos alfareros por definición, con dos espacios separados: el hogar o caldera para la combustión y la cámara de cocción donde se hornea la cerámica. Entre ambos existen estructuras de transición de más sencilla fábrica, como el tradicional horno de pan. Asimismo, entre los hornos de doble cámara pueden diferenciarse varios tipos (por ejemplo, "de tiro superior", y "de bóveda y tiro superior"), e independientemente de tal tipología, están los hornos reductores y los hornos oxidantes.

Una lista elemental de hornos de alfarería y cerámica, sus precedentes y otros de tipo evolucionado, incluiría los de botella, de corriente invertida, de pan (o panadero), de túnel, intermitente, o el más sofisticado de tipo kiln. Otras nomenclaturas más populares que técnicas citarían los hornos árabes, moros o morunos, los hornos de "flamberas o flameras" (con la cúpula horadada por muchas chimeneas), los eléctricos en general, etc.

Fases, factores y sistemas esenciales

La doctora Natacha Seseña sintetizó tres factores esenciales para una buena cocción:

-El control de la temperatura.
-El tiempo que la temperatura actúa sobre los objetos a cocer.
-La atmósfera interior determinante en los grados de dureza, peso, porosidad, plasticidad, resistencia al agua y otros líquidos, y del conjunto de transformaciones físico-químicas en general.

Asimismo, siguiendo a Köpke, se diferencian tres sistemas elementales de cocción:
-Al aire libre.
-En un hoyo de tierra o hecho en el suelo.
-En una estructura construida para cocer cerámica. (que básicamente será de una cámara o de varias).

Funcionamiento

Aunque cada tipo de horno tiene su propia mecánica funcional, a grandes rasgos y escogiendo como ejemplo el horno alfarero propiamente dicho, los pasos básicos de una cochura perfecta serían:
Colocación de los cacharros o carga del horno.
Tapar el horno: cuando se trata de horno abierto, se cubre la cúpula con cascotes (cacharros rotos, planchas de hojalata, tierra).
Cierre de la puerta de la cámara de cocción (la de arriba), con ladrillos, tapando con barro todas los huecos pero dejando una mirilla o agujero para vigilar la cochura: color de la llama y tono de cocido de los propios cacharros.
Así preparado, se enciende. En esta fase de pre-calentamiento, se busca eliminar la humedad de la arcilla fresca, para ello el combustible más indicado ha sido, cuando lo había, leña de monte bajo.
Se inicia el proceso químico de la cocción, que seguirá dos fases:
Echar el temple: se van echando cargas de leña a ritmo lento pero constante.
Echar caldas: una vez que salen llamas por los respiraderos superiores (sea chimenea o tiro), se echa otra carga. Se trata de uno de los momentos cruciales de la cocción.
Proceso de enfriado del horno: no debe ser brusco. Se suele cerrar la puerta de la cámara de combustión (la de abajo) y los respiraderos de la cúpula.

Hasta aquí el proceso primitivo o antiguo.

Los relativamente modernos hornos de gas, electricidad, gasóleo o aceite quemado disponen de "muflas", (que vinieron a sustituir la necesidad del empleo de gaceta refractaria), así como de pirómetros para el control de la temperatura. No hay tiro ni contacto directo de la llama con el cacharro. En el caso de los botijos blancos, las muflas pueden dar problemas de cocción; de ahí que en centros importantes como Agost hayan recuperado los hornos de leña (al ser la llama quien actuando sobre la sal añadida a la pasta, consiga porosidad y blancura).

En la península ibérica se han usado tradicionalmente dos tipos básicos de horno alfarero, el de tiro vertical y el de tiro horizontal. El primero (horno cilíndrico hecho de ladrillo o adobe) es el común en la cacharrería de basto.

Tipología histórica
A partir de las investigaciones y publicaciones del etnógrafo alemán Wulf Köpke y de su compatriota, la ceramóloga Ilse Schütz, los hornos españoles responden a dos tipos básicos:
 en función del lugar que ocupe la cámara de combustión con respecto a la de cocción:
-hornos con la cámara de combustión debajo de la de cocción. Usados en la península ibérica por iberos y romanos.
-hornos con la cámara de combustión delante de la de cocción, más frecuentes en el litoral mediterráneo español.
 en función del tipo de cubierta de la cámara de cocción:
-cámara superior abierta.
-cámara superior de cocción con bóveda de cañón (o de arco de medio punto).
-bóveda superior en forma de cúpula.

Otros tipos de horno

Horno de panadero.- El modelo alfarero puede alcanzar más de 75 cm de envergadura por casi un metro de diámetro en su base; suele tratarse de una estructura de una sola pieza hecha a mano, perfil parabólico, sin chimenea ni otra abertura que la boca situada al pie del horno. Algunos investigadores, como los arqueólogos Renfrew y Bahn, lo consideraron el precedente del horno alfarero propiamente dicho.
Horno de botella.- Sofisticado ingenio típico de la producción de cerámica industrial inglesa y usado luego en todo el mundo hasta mediado el siglo XX. Se alimentaba con carbón, modelo de corriente ascendente e intermitente, con problemas a la hora de regular los humos. Fue sustituido por el horno eléctrico.
Horno de corriente invertida, cuando el calor entra por la parte superior fluyendo hacia abajo sobre las piezas.
Horno intermitente.- Según la definición del ceramólo John Gale, todo aquel horno en el que sea necesario repetir la estiba (colocación de la piezas), el encendido y el vaciado.
Horno de túnel.- Horno alargado de tipo industrial que dispone de carretillas para depositar y transportar las piezas en un recorrido que pasa por los tres estados necesarios para la cochura: calentamiento, maduración y enfriado. Su precedente fue el horno de albañilería de una o dos cámaras en una bóveda de medio cañón.

Horneras abiertas

En algunos focos peninsulares, tanto de España como del norte de Portugal, y muy especialmente en las Islas Canarias, se mantuvo hasta la mitad del siglo XX el guisado en horneras a cielo abierto o de superficie. Esta técnica de cocción primitiva sigue un proceso elemental: se ponen las piezas sobre ascuas o ceniza aún caliente directamente en el suelo o en un hoyo superficial; se cubren luego con una capa de material combustible que antes de encenderse se suele tapar parcialmente con restos rotos de alfarería. En Canarias se guisa en tres horas.

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 Hornear: en el argot alfarero es sinónimo de hornar, enhornar o encañar, es decir, colocar las piezas aún crudas dentro del horno. Se trata de una operación delicada y con una larga tradición y en muchos lugares acompañada de ceremonial. El método más habitual y lógico conlleva poner las piezas grandes debajo, y cuando se trata de vasijas, boca con boca, y de canto cuando son platos o lebrillos. Pero, como en otras muchas tareas artesanas, cada alfarero tiene sus tretas, manías y método.
 Hornera u horneta: Es otro modo de denominar el horno a fuego o cielo abierto, en hoguera o en montón. Este sistema de cocción al aire libre era habitual en muchos centros loceros canarios hasta mediado el siglo XX.
 Hornero: Popularmente, el encargado del horno. Un alfarero especializado en esta fase de la fabricación (el «furnaruius-ii» mencionado por Nebrija).
 Hornada o cozedura: El total de las piezas crudas puestas a cocer de una vez.
 Hornija y hornijero: Citada ya por Nebrija, que la asoció con la «furnaria ligna» (hornija para horno). Diccionarios y tradiciones alfareras populares coinciden en llamar así al picadillo o leña muy menuda usado para encender y mantener el horno. Finalmente, se llama hornijero a la persona que acarrea la hornija.
 Hornilla: Una de las formas de llamar a la parrilla del horno, aunque también puede denominarse así al anafre o a las palomeras, sean vasijas o huecos hechos en el palomar para que aniden las aves.
 Hornillo: Uno de los nombres que recibe el horno manual, sea metálico o de barro refractario. El DRAE reconoce su uso para calentar, cocer, fundir o tostar, tanto en el ámbito doméstico (cocinas), como  en el industrial (laboratorios, talleres, etc).

Ritos alfareros
Al margen del simbolismo materno elemental del horno, la importancia económica de las tareas del horno, vital para la subsistencia del alfar, ha llevado a rodear de un rico ritualismo (signos, plegarias, ensalmos, jaculatorias) los diversos pasos del proceso de cocción. En España, país de tradición cristiana, la cruz pintada con arcilla blanca sobre la puerta de carga del horno ha sido tan común como la costumbre del alfarero de santiguarse al comienzo de la cochura. También fue frecuente la oración o plegaria invocando al Santísimo Sacramento al comienzo y al final de la hornada para conjurar el aspecto maléfico del fuego.

Tanto el ceramólogo Emilio Sempere como la doctora Seseña, alumna aventajada de Julio Caro Baroja, han recogido interesante documentación antropológica sobre toda suerte de ritos relacionados con la cochura alfarera. Así, en Salamanca la mediadora invocada es Santa Ana y la oración —conteniendo los términos habituales de quita y pon: "Santa Ana bendita, si está de menos, se lo pones; si está de más, se lo quitas". En zonas de Gerona, el ruego se queda en un sencillo: "Déu faci més que nosaltres (que Dios haga más que nosotros, o que Dios ponga lo que falta)". En Pereruela, cerca de Galicia y el norte de Portugal, solía exclamarse un "Bruja fuera y adentro la primera".

Las propias llamas, como indicadoras del final de la cocción y denominadas los frailes, son anunciadas con frases del tipo ‹ya salen los frailes› (Cespedosa de Tormes) o ‹ha surtit el fraret (salió el frailecillo)› de algunos alfares mallorquines.

Galería arqueológica

Véase también
Horno
Horno de tierra
Horno de leña
Horno de porcelana
Horno de cal
Horno Romano de El Gallinero
Hornos romanos de El Rinconcillo
Hornos púnicos y fenicios de San Fernando
Horno del caserío Ollerías
Horno de alfarería Zubiate
La Tinaja

Referencias

Notas

Bibliografía

Enlaces externos

Hornos de alfarería y cerámica
Alfarería y cerámica de España

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Driving to Masterton today, about an hour away..
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The International Brangus® Show held in Houston, Texas was historic this year, as champions were named for both the black and red divisions in one show on March 3rd. The quality was impressive and the eight plus hour competition showed the strength of the breed. Overall between the two divisions there were 166 entries from Texas, Louisiana, Florida, Mississippi,Tennessee, Kansas and Oklahoma paraded before Brant Poe, judge.
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Q: Whats the best way to add a dataset of 50 Folders to an iOS App? In my case I have 50 Folders where each of it has subfolders and images. I could drag them into the apps main bundle but there are many duplicate filenames and it would be more practical to access them in the structured way.

A: Your wording "it would be more practical to access them in the structured way" seems to suggest that you think the Resources folder cannot contain a folder tree of files, it can. However if you let Xcode itself copy your resource files into the bundle it will flatten the tree without any option to preserve it (for reasons unknown). To address this you can copy the files into the bundle using a build script.
In outline, you need to fill in the gaps with some reading:

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*First add your files and folders into your project. Use one group per folder, in Xcode 9 creating a group creates a corresponding folder in the project directory but in prior versions you must create the group and then associate it with a folder – check the documentation of whatever Xcode version you are using.

*Mark all the folders and files added in this way as not part of your build target. This prevents Xcode copying the files automatically into the bundle, and flattening your folder tree in the process.

*Now in the target settings go to the "Build Phases" tab and add a new build script phase. Add a shell script which uses something like ditto to copy the folder tree into the bundle. Various environment variables are set which reference the project and the bundle, check your Xcode documentation or just run a dummy script and dump them out (it is an option, or use printenv). You can use these environment variables to determine the source and destination for your copy.

*In your app itself you can locate the root folder of your tree using standard bundle methods. From there you can use whatever method you choose to traverse it/reference items with in it, in exactly the same way you would if the folder tree was not inside the bundle.

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Everyone has seen the surprising turns in movies about weddings and how people met their true loves. However, everyone is aware that it is only a movie and that nothing similar would ever occur in real life. Then, since Jennifer and Brian's narrative will cause you to think, it's possible that you're mistaken. They were both in their respective schools when they first met. Jennifer Maria Duncan Flores.
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Due to the fact that each of them chose Acapulco for their spring vacation, their meeting was predetermined. He saw his future wife, like in a romance movie, standing on the balcony. When he first met her, he told a friend that she was the woman he would be with for the rest of his life. Fortunately, his prophecies came true, and the couple wed in 2009.
Jennifer Flores, Brian Flores' spouse, was concerned in a labor subject on the stadium.
Beautiful girl Jennifer is. Her approach to the issue is admirable. It happened during the Patriots' playoff game against the Houston Texans at Gillette Stadium, to cut a long tale short. She was currently carrying her third child at the time. Her water suddenly started to leak. Even though she assured her husband that she was well and wasn't experiencing any labor pains, and convinced him to continue playing the game until it was over, it's still difficult for a woman. Everything worked out in the end since her husband won the game and they welcomed their third child the following morning. Jennifer Maria Duncan Flores
Jennifer Maria Duncan Flores (Supply: Google)
Jennifer Duncan Mom of three Children
Yes, you do learn it correctly. They are the parents of three children. Miles and Maxwell, two boys, and Liliana, a girl, are their children. They all like living together, and in 2018, the five of them went on a restorative trip to Cancun. We could speculate that they had an incredible time there.
Jennifer was a Spanish instructor.
At the time, Jennifer was a Spanish teacher at Foxborough Regional Constitutional College. The distance from Attleboro, Massachusetts, to the institution was around ten miles. Apart from that, the girl has achieved her title on the six pages of the division, which also include a middle and high school.
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She was also listed in a Foxborough college course catalog for the academic year 2009–2010. She later discontinued her college studies in 2010–2011. Surprisingly, she announced that she had accepted a new position in September 2011 and that her start day would be tomorrow. But her new job remained a suspenseful one.
Jennifer as a Useful Spouse
Jennifer is a strong advocate for her boyfriend both personally and professionally. She doesn't sag and only celebrate with him; she also stands steadfastly by his side during his difficult times. In 2018, the Hockomock YMCA recognized him, and his brother went with him to the Legends Ball. These wonderful times were captured by Jennifer, who then shared them on Twitter. Being by his side at Patriots games and sharing the photo after winning the Stadium championship show how much she cares for her better half. Jennifer Maria Duncan Flores.
Jennifer Maria Duncan Flores Peak & Weight
She is a pretty woman with average body measurements and a distinctive, calm demeanor. She is around 58 kg tall and 5 feet 6 inches wide. She is in good physical and mental health, and she has a nice figure. He or she has black eyes and black hair. Jennifer Maria Duncan Flores.
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Jennifer Maria Duncan Flores Net Worth
Given that Jennifer's income isn't publicly available, we can proceed with her husband's earnings, bringing the total value of Jennifer Maria Duncan Flores' assets to $2.5 million as of 2022.
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i don't keep up with politics much, but to me, jesse helms stood for every backwoods uneducated whitey. he hated gays and was clearly a racist. but after reading a CL rants and rave it was pointed out that he eventually apologized for his remarks and beleifs on homo's and blacks. i'm sorry for the loss of life, but for some reason i doubt he'll be missed.
however, April thinks he's cute cause he looked like an owl.


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A recent tweet from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: "In a modern, moral, & wealthy society, no American should be too poor to live." There is nothing remarkable about this empty trope. Scratch any leftist. Out it comes. Even those on the right of the political spectrum might nod along in unthinking moments. The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Pope would nod along in their thinking moments.
Christian religious leaders are prone to flights of fancy. Justin Welby and Francis are keen on so-called inclusive capitalism to solve the ills of the world. Utopia in the here and now. Heaven can wait. Call it also stakeholder capitalism, if you prefer the nomenclature of Klaus Schwab's great reset of capitalism.
A first thing to say is that this surreal transfiguration of capitalism has no correspondence with reality. It's made up. A chimera. It cannot be brought to sustained life. At least not the life envisaged. It could morph into something which can be brought to life; albeit a dissolute life. It's called socialism.
Would you buy a used electric car from this man?
A friend of mine, and fellow Christian, is fond of echoing Gottfried Leibniz (1646-1716) in asserting that the universe and all of its contents, animate and inanimate, could not have been better made. It's an article of faith but impregnable. Try something. For example, if only those pesky tectonic plates didn't move and cause devastating earthquakes. Okay, if you want to sit on a powder keg in flatland. Everything is on such a knife edge that serious tampering always leads into an abyss. Capitalism is like that.
Capitalism is "free-market capitalism," or else it isn't capitalism at all. Yes, I know, capitalism is always accompanied by cronyism and never more so since global-warming boondoggles took off, but that in itself speaks to its power to survive sleazy deals.
Schwab sets "stakeholder capitalism" against what he calls shareholder capitalism, which he associates with (scary) Milton Freidman. But shareholder capitalism is, in fact, another name for free-market capitalism. Owners looking primarily to increase their profits is the way shareholder capitalism, aka free-market capitalism, works to make everybody better off. It's the reason why poverty in the industrialised world has continually trended down since the mid-eighteenth century.
Best to remember too that the term shareholder capitalism gives a distorted picture of capitalism. Capitalism isn't just a collection of giant corporations. For example, businesses with from one to 999 employees, account for almost 60 percent all U.S. private sector jobs. Those wielding influence at Davos should put themselves into perspective. Private jets tend to beget arrogance.
How the one percent lives.
We need a better understanding of capitalism. It dispels flights of fancy. As I've previously argued, capitalism is akin to a "living system." Living systems (see James Grier Miller's defining work) are systems which self-organise and interact with their environment. They are open systems which resist entropy. The second law of thermodynamics has its way with all closed systems. Entropy eventually undoes them.
An open system must have inputs which are higher in complexity than its outputs. Among other things, this gives it the capacity to forestall decay and undertake repairs and renewal. Additionally, an open system must have what Miller calls "a 'decider" which causes its components to interact optimally.
Only free-market capitalism meets the requirement of an open economic system. A complex brew of resources—raw materials, skilled labor, physical and financial capital, ingenuity, invention, innovation and entrepreneurship—freely interact to produce outputs in the form of goods and services. The "decider" is market prices, which govern where resources are allocated. As for relative complexity, consider the engineering ingenuity which forms just one part of the inputs in producing, say, motor vehicles.
Now consider so-called stakeholder capitalism. "Shared value creation" must predominate according to Schwab. "Environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals… should complement financial metrics." Executive salaries "should align with the new measure of long-term shared value creation." Large companies should "work with other stakeholders to improve the state of the world in which they are operating. In fact, this proviso should be their ultimate purpose."
A fascist spanner in the works.
At every step the open system is stymied. Profitable opportunities can't be seized. Instead, they are subject to almost never-ending processes to discover their compatibility with normative external aspirations. Executives are prevented from seeking maximum reward and thus businesses which can best employ their skills are denied their services. Large companies face the unenviable and impossible task of improving the world. How's that for inducing entrepreneurial paralysis.
One way or another, stakeholder capitalism walls off the economic system. Nebulous social and environmental obstacles are put in the way of the system responding to market forces. Prices aren't the decider. Result: entropy and misery. Increasing prosperity is not an immutable facet of human existence. Plenty of examples of economic regression, e.g., real wages in Argentina more than halved in the thirty years between 1975 and 2005. I'll leave it to Miller:
Walling off living systems to prevent [free] exchanges across their boundaries results in death by confinement... entropy will always increase in walled-off living systems.
Of course, there are no absolutes in real economic life. It is not a question of there being walls or no walls. How formidable are the walls, is the question? As to that, I don't sense stunted ambition among the elite at Davos. And recall that a festering ambition to reset capitalism preceded climate-change alarmism and Covid hysteria. These are large dollops of additional grist for their build-back-better mill.
I'm sometimes prone to put the Great Reset in the category of bad things which might come about. A mistake. It's already afoot; enervation underway: ESG and its ugly sister EDI (equity, diversity & inclusion) permeate boardrooms. Green lawfare, subsidised renewal energy, and woke financial corporations and fund managers are putting fossil fuels out of business. Except, that is, when it comes to Russian tanks and planes. Now there's a thought.
When the lights go out, expect not to see remorseful recanting elites but despotic measures to keep us energy-starved, newly-manufactured, serfs in check. Covid has given them practise runs. State premiers in Australia have shown themselves adept at tyranny, as have many U.S. state governors. As it turns out, mere novices compared with Canadian Duce Justin Trudeau. No shortage of willing Stasi, informants and Jobsworths to enforce rules. It's time we stopped tiresomely pointing the finger at tyranny abroad and turned it inwards. Ask not for whom the bell tolls.
Do You Believe in Santa Claus?
Few 21st century adults believe in Santa Claus, at least not in the small-scale Santas in department stores, who are obviously employees, nor in the old man reputedly at the north pole who yearly presides over a supply chain of elves to deliver billions of presents each year on Christmas eve.
Yet many of these same sophisticated skeptics nevertheless believe in the existence of Santa Claus on a far larger scale, who give away trillions, convinced government can pay for things so taxpayers don't have to. According to the New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize laureate Paul Krugman, Washington could scare the public into accepting printed money by faking a space alien invasion:
"If we discovered that space aliens were planning to attack, and we needed a massive build-up to counter the space alien threat, and inflation and budget deficits took secondary place to that, this slump would be over in 18 months," Krugman says, referencing an episode of The Twilight Show [sic; should be The Twilight Zone] in which an alien threat was manufactured to bring about world peace.
To them Santa looks like Joe Biden who has promised to make sure everyone, including foreign dictators who don't believe in Christmas, gets presents under the Christmas tree paid for with debt. "Just after midnight, the House passed a bill to raise the debt limit by $2.5 trillion, sending the bill to President Biden's desk just in time for the deadline... that should allow the U.S. to pay its bills through 2022 and into 2023."
What's the matter, afraid of something for nothing? Don't worry the elves in Washington, D.C., have an ideology, called Modern Monetary Theory, to explain why all our debts will be paid by the Future. If government spend its it will come.
For these advocates of modern monetary theory, the insistence by both political parties that all the $550 billion of new spending be matched by offsetting revenue, known as "payfors," goes against their belief that money is merely a tool for government.
MMTers detest payfors as wrongheaded thinking about money. Money only exists because of government spending, and under MMT, the government should just create as much as it needs to finance its projects. In a tight economy—like we have now—MMT might want offsets to new spending. But higher taxes or lower spending elsewhere would be aimed at avoiding inflation, not at balancing the budget... The most important claim of MMT is that a government need never default on debt issued in its own currency."
It's like having an irrevocable credit card. And it won't cause inflation, MMTers argue, as long as government taxes the rich enough to take the printed money out of circulation. "Taxes are, they concede, sometimes necessary to stave off inflation, and as a consequence, preventing inflation can require cutting back on deficit spending by hiking taxes. But the lower inflation caused by higher taxes is not an effect of 'lowering the deficit'; the lower deficit is just an artifact of the choice to raise taxes to fight inflation." So long as inflation is kept low enough to match the real rate of growth that somehow arrives from the future this process can continue indefinitely.
But this is intellectually unsatisfactory. Who is this future Santa? Why is the future necessarily fecund, such that humanity can rely on it to pay its debts? The probable answer is that life, if not stifled, gets "smarter" as time goes. It struggles to its feet despite government burdens. The definition of life is that it grows. It finds ways to turn natural "free energy" into information and intelligence that 'transformative' governments can use to pay their bills.
Entropy reduction is another way of saying bringing order from disorder. As Jeremy England of MIT recently argued, life may well have originated as process of dissipating the energy that was so abundant in the universe by inventing patterns. As England put it, "a great way of dissipating more is to make more copies of yourself." Life turns energy into information and that energy was present at the outset, all the way back to the Big Bang or its equivalent. We discover it's Santas all the way down!
As far as the eye can see...
This Santa business turns out to be more puzzling than it initially seems. Gottfried Leibniz posed it as what may be the greatest philosophical puzzle of all, namely: why is there something rather than nothing? "The question is a challenging one because it seems perfectly possible that there might have been nothing whatsoever – no Earth, no stars, no galaxies, no universe." This puzzled even the great fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, who remarked to Watson in The Naval Treaty:
"Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers."
In this Christmas season, when even the Davos Economic Forum itself has been postponed by the pandemic, it is well to recall that it is life that resets institutions, not the other way round. That the Great Reset has been reset should be humbling. As governments fruitlessly plot to control the climate as if it were some oversized air conditioner, in various countries humble life will work a miracle. Parents will give their children gifts they can hardly afford, especially in this time of inflation; a cheap sweet, a hand enhanced article of clothing, some plastic thing from China, paid for perhaps by dint of missed meals and foregone bus rides. And the earth will continue to move. For while nobody believes in department store Santas, Leibniz's question remains: "who lit this flame in us? No war can put it out, conquer it." What made life grow? Perhaps only faith can explain it.


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The SDS 930 was a commercial 24-bit computer using bipolar junction transistors sold by Scientific Data Systems.
It was announced in December 1963, with first installations in June 1964.

Description
An SDS 930 system consists of at least three standard () cabinets, weighing about . It is composed of an arithmetic and logic unit, at least 8,192 words (24-bit + simple parity bit) magnetic-core memory, and the IO unit. Two's complement integer arithmetic is used. The machine has integer multiply and divide, but no floating-point hardware.  An optional correlation and filtering unit (CFE) can be added, which is capable of very fast floating-point multiply-add operations (primarily intended for digital signal processing applications).

A free-standing console is also provided, which includes binary displays of the machine's registers and switches to boot and debug programs.  User input is by a Teletype Model 35 ASR unit and a high-speed paper-tape reader (300 cps).  Most systems include at least two magnetic-tape drives, operating at up to 75 in/s at 800 bpi.  The normal variety of peripherals is also available, including magnetic-drum units, card readers and punches, and an extensive set of analog-digital/digital-analog conversion devices.  A (vector mode) graphic display unit is also available, but it does not include a means of keyboard input.

The SDS 930 is a typical small- to medium-scale scientific computer of the 1960s.  Speed is good for its cost, but with an integer add time of 3.5 microseconds, it is not in the same league as the scientific workhorses of the day (the CDC 6600, for example).  A well equipped 930 can easily exceed 10 cabinets and require a  climate-controlled room.  The price of such a system in 1966 would be in the neighborhood of $500K.

Programming languages available include FORTRAN II, ALGOL 60, and the assembly language known as Meta-Symbol.  The FORTRAN system is very compact, having been designed and implemented by Digitek for SDS to compile and run in 4,096 word SDS 900 series machines.  To do anything useful in such small memory space, the compiler relies on an SDS architectural feature known as Programmed OPeratorS, or POPS.  This feature consists of a single bit in the instruction word that causes the machine to "mark place and branch" to the memory address of the instruction code value plus 100 (octal).  As a result, pseudo instructions can be defined and implemented yielding very compact special-purpose code.  Both the FORTRAN compiler and runtime take advantage of this capability.

Towards the end of the SDS 930's market lifetime a real-time monitor system was introduced, which included a FORTRAN IV compiler.  Neither the operating system nor the compiler were used heavily by customers.  Many organizations modified and enhanced the 930's hardware. Project Genie at the University of California, Berkeley, added hardware to permit time-sharing with the Berkeley Timesharing System.  These changes later formed the basis for the SDS 940.
Other operating systems were also written for the machine by customers, including Arachnid (Spider) at the University of Texas at Austin.

SDS 930s could be found at most of the major US government labs at the time, including Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory.  Early flight simulators used the SDS 930, because of its hardware integer multiply and divide capability and its real-time data acquisition and control peripheral modules. The machines are particularly well suited to this and other kinds of data acquisition and real-time analysis, as well as to serving as a digital control system for analog-hybrid systems.

The Surface Ship ASW Attack Trainer (Device 14A2A) used a SDS 930 computer and was designed to train the ASW attack team of a US Navy destroyer in submarine warfare by providing realistic simulations ashore with cost savings in operating time and expense at sea.

By 1974 estimates, there were about 200 SDS-930/940/945 computers still installed.

See also
SDS 9xx computers

References

External links
SDS 900-series documents at bitsavers.org
SDS and the 24 bit computers
Real Machines with 24-bit and 48-bit words
Last known working SDS 930 (archived 2008)

Scientific Data Systems
Transistorized computers
24-bit computers


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Newlyweds Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are expecting a baby in the spring, the royal household announced on Monday.
The news came as the couple arrived in Sydney at the start of a 16-day tour of the South Pacific and Australia, a constitutional monarchy whose head of state is Harry's grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II.
The new baby will be seventh in line to the throne, after Harry and first cousins, Princes George and Louis and Princess Charlotte.
"Their Royal Highnesses have appreciated all of the support they have received from people around the world since their wedding in May and are delighted to be able to share this happy news with the public," according to a statement from Kensington Palace.
The two have made no secret of wanting to start a family. In an interview with the BBC in November 2017, after announcing their engagement, Harry was asked if he and Meghan had talked about having children.
"Of course, one step at a time and hopefully we'll start a family in the near future," he responded.
On Monday, the two walked out of the airport hand in hand as crowds lined the streets to catch a glimpse of their car. They will visit cities around Australia, and Harry is scheduled to speak at the opening of the Invictus Games, which he created for wounded service personnel. They will then travel to Fiji, Tonga and New Zealand.
The duke and duchess married on May 19 at Windsor Castle. Their star-studded celebrations drew the attention from around the world as around 100,000 people crowded the streets of Windsor,including many Americans who flew in specially for the big day.
This past weekend, they attended the wedding of Harry's first cousin, Princess Eugenie, which like theirs, took place in St. George's Chapel in Windsor.
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In August, Harry made an appearance on stage at a performance of Hamilton.
The duchess, who is mixed race and was previously married, has been hailed as a modern addition to an old institution. She's been warmly welcomed by the British public and the royal family. One of her first engagements after the wedding was a trip to the northwest of England with the queen.


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Q: Angular | Router won't redirect I have implemented the following code to redirect to my Greenhouse Plants

                {{plant.englishName}}

(click) openPlant:
  public openPlant(plant: PlantModel) {
    var foundPoor = this.checkIfPlantIsPoor(plant),
    this._generalService.openPlant(foundPoor, plant)
  }

_generalService openPlant:
  public openPlant(foundPoor, plant: PlantModel) {
    if (foundPoor) {
        ...
    } else {
        this.router.navigate(['desktop/plant/' + plant.id]);
    }
  }

So, when I click to a plant, it will redirect just fine. But after it redirects to the first plant, when i click to others, the url in the browser is changing but it wont redirect to the actual route! It is just sstaying to the first plant I clicked.
So the first time it goes to http://localhost:4200/desktop/plant/2, then I click to redirect to http://localhost:4200/desktop/crop/11, the url in the browser changes to http://localhost:4200/desktop/crop/11 but the UI stays on http://localhost:4200/desktop/plant/2
Here is my app.routing
const routes: Routes = [
  ...
  { path: 'desktop', loadChildren: () => import('./pages/desktop/desktop.module').then(m => m.DesktopModule) },
  ...
];

Here is desktop.routing:
const routes: Routes = [
  ...
  { path: 'plant/:id', component: PlantComponent},
  ...
];

Here is PlantComponent:
HTML

    <plant-item [plantID]=plantID></crop>

TS
  ngOnInit() {
    console.log(this.plantID)
    var _this = this
    var route = this.router.url
    this.plantID = this.activated_route.snapshot.paramMap.get("id")
  }

Here is PlantItemComponent TS:
    ...
    this._plantService.currentPlants.subscribe(res => {
      this.activeSeed = this._plantsService.getMyActiveSeed(res, this.plantID)
      ...
    })

on ngOnInit it will console.log only the first time i navigate to the first Plant. When I click to navigate to ther others it wont console.log.
Here is a stackblitz focusing on the routing and how i call needed components: https://stackblitz.com/edit/angular-c9g1hl

A: Problem here is that when you navigate to the same route, even with a different param, Angular reutilizes the component instance. That means that your ngOnInit function is getting called only once. I think the simplest way of solving this is handling ActivatedRoute as an observable:
ngOnInit() {
  console.log(this.plantID)
  var _this = this
  var route = this.router.url

  this.activated_route.params.subscribe(params => {
    this.plantID = params.id;
  });
}


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Oshkosh Designs floors the competition
By Karen M. Koenig August 15, 2011 | 11:06 am EDT
Oshkosh Designs uses heart wood for its fine inlays.
Before starting any intricate design work, Winneconne, WI-based Oshkosh Designs reaches into its heart — of wood, that is.
"We always ask for the heart," said Brenda Kubasta, president. "It's more cost-effective to get select and better grades, because the next grade down has a lot of sap and knots," she said. This is critical because of the fine inlay and etching that is used to create the company's medallions, borders and parquet designs for use in flooring, stair risers, treads, chair rails, ceilings and backsplashes.
Along with the company's move to its current 65,000-square-foot facility, Oshkosh Designs has been able to implement laser technology and intricate cutting techniques for its inlays. In addition to wood, the company uses natural stone, metal and glass in its flooring designs.
The company performs both the design creation and all machining in-house. Boards are inspected, and then sent to the rough mill area where they are cut and shaped to specification using a variety of equipment, including Cameron Automation, James L. Taylor and Mereen-Johnson machinery. Two LMI lasers are used in etching and cutting the intricate wood parts, while a waterjet laser, located in another area of the facility, cuts the stone, glass and non-ferrous metals. After the parts are hand assembled into intricate patterns, they are glued and mounted. If required, the assembled components are run through a Cemco sander before being finished on the automated Deimco line.
According to Kubasta, the company is an advocate of green manufacturing. The hardwood inlay and parquet wear layers are 5/16 inch to conserve hardwood, the company says, and, when possible, Oshkosh Designs purchases its lumber from certified suppliers. Other ways in which the company is reducing its footprint is by recycling its sawdust to local farmers and using water-based finishes.
Watch the wood laser in action.
For more information, visit www.oshkoshdesigns.com
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The prosecution has announced it discovered as many as 1.21 million messages on Twitter posted by the National Intelligence Service staff to meddle in last year's presidential and general elections. The huge number of tweets and retweets by the agents in the controversial case contradicts the top spy agency's previous explanations that the posting of online messages was done individually by agents.
According to a special investigation team at the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office, it all began with 26,550 original messages, which were disseminated through various ways, including tweets and retweets, to reach the total number. Based on the new findings, the prosecution requested the court to allow a change in its earlier indictment of Won Sei-hoon, former head of the National Intelligence Service. The prosecution believes those online campaigns violated the laws on elections and the NIS. Prosecutors are currently checking how many of the original 26,550 messages were directly created by the agents.
Both the ruling Saenuri Party and the opposition Democratic Party held separate press conferences to demand that the man under suspicion for obstructing the prosecution's initial investigation be excluded from the investigation line, citing the omission of the new evidence from the beginning.
One of the most shocking allegations is that the NIS used professional programs for a massive circulation of tweets. The prosecution said they used a special program that enables them to disseminate hundreds of newspaper articles by automatically creating scores of new IDs. They also used a semi-automatic "tweet-back program" to circulate as many messages as possible.
The prosecution believes that the NIS agents exploited the sophisticated programs to report greater achievements to their boss. It's common sense that there's no big difference between tweets and retweets. Given the large number of the online messages and the professional programs involved, we can hardly buy NIS chief Nam Jae-joon's Nov. 4 explanation that the online postings were committed by a small group of staff on their own. Now suspicion is growing over the possibility that the spy agency was systematically involved in giving a helping hand to President Park Geun-hye in the election.
The prosecution must get to the bottom of the case by finding out who did what, how and why. The prosecution must not scale back - or inflate - the scandal. The spy agency also must tell the truth through its own investigation rather than resorting to poor explanations. They should know that it is the only way to resolve the crisis and earn back the people's trust.
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EDWARD CHARLES "CHUB" VOGT
B. September 16, 1903 in Round Lake, Lake County, IL
D. June 30, 1978 in Lake County, IL
NO GRAVESTONE LOCATED
Father: Joseph August Vogt born June 2, 1877 in Germany son of Joseph Vogt (1845-1910) and Johanna (Scholz) Vogt (1849-1919); married Abigail Jane "Abbie" Converse on April 5, 1901 in Lake County, IL; Joseph died October 27, 1958 in Lake Villa, Lake County, IL (See section pertaining to Joseph August Vogt buried in the Fort Hill Cemetery)
Mother: Abigail Jane "Abbie" (Converse) Vogt born July 21, 1879 in Volo, Lake County, IL daughter of Cyrus Converse (1851-1922) and Belle C. (Parks) Converse (1861-1938); Abigail died October 6 1956 in Pistakee, McHenry County, IL (See section pertaining to Abigail Jane "Abbie" (Converse) Vogt buried in the Fort Hill Cemetery)
Ethel C. (Vogt) Benwell born September 15, 1901 in Illinois; married Clifford George Benwell (1892-1953) about 1920 as his second wife, son of George C. Benwell (1857-1939) and Adell M. (Claxton) Benwell (1864-1920); Clifford married (1) Jennie V. Potter (1894-1918) daughter of Charles Potter and Mary (Barrus) Potter; Ethel's last residence in Round Lake, Lake County, IL; Ethel died December 1986
Bernard W. Vogt born July 10, 1906 in Fremont Center, Lake County, IL; married Mary E. Beckey (1907-1983), daughter of William James Beckey (1877-1943) and Eda Bella (Snyder) Beckey (1885-1942); Bernard died June 9, 1977 in Kenosha, Kenosha County, WI; Bernard and Mary are buried in Warren Cemetery, Gurnee, Lake County, IL; according to the Daily Sentinel (Woodstock IL) Monday, June 13, 1977, page 8:
"BERNARD W. VOGT – ANTIOCH – Bernard W. Vogt, 70, Camp Lake, Wis., died Thursday, June 9, in Kenosha Memorial Hospital, Kenosha, Wis. He was born July 10, 1906, in Fremont Center, and moved to Camp Lake four years ago. He farmed in the Round Lake area for many years. Survivors are his widow, Mary; a daughter, Mrs. Lawrence (Joe) Weidman, Salem, Wis.; a granddaughter, Keri; a brother, Edward Vogt, Island Lake; and a sister, Mrs. Ethel Benwell, Round Lake. Services were held at 10 a.m. Saturday in the Strang funeral home, Antioch, with burial in Warren cemetery."
Mary Vogt born January 11, 1909 in Avon Township, Lake County, IL; Mary died March 15, 1939 in Grant Township, Lake County, IL (See section pertaining to Mary Vogt buried in the Fort Hill Cemetery)
Frank Vogt born August 4, 1911 in Round Lake, Lake County, IL; married Mary Reba McKenzie born about 1915 in Ohio daughter of Hugh Hamilton McKenzie (1878-1945) and Mary Rebecca (Matthews) McKenzie (1881-1970); Frank died May 18, 1960 in Waukegan, Lake County, IL (See section pertaining to Frank Vogt buried in the Fort Hill Cemetery)
George Vogt born about 1914 in Illinois
Frederick Nelson Vogt born January 23, 1917 in Illinois; Frederick died February 9, 1917 in Fremont Township, Lake County, IL (See section pertaining to Frederick Nelson Vogt buried in the Fort Hill Cemetery)
According to the 1910 U.S. Census for Fremont Township, Lake County, IL the household members were: Joseph Vogt, head, age 32, married once for 9 years, born in Germany, parents born in Germany, immigrated 1884, occupation: farmer – general farm; Abigaio (sic Abigail), wife, age 30, married once for 9 years, 4 children born, 4 children living, born in Illinois; parents born in Illinois; Ethel Vogt, daughter, age 8, single, born in Illinois; Edward Vogt, son, age 6, single, born in Illinois, Bernard Vogt, son, age 4, single, born in Illinois; Mary Vogt, daughter, age 1, single, born in Illinois
According to the 1920 U.S. Census for Fremont Township, Lake County, IL the household members were: Joseph Vogt, head, age 42, married, immigrate 1888, born in Germany, parents born in Germany, occupation: farmer – general farm; Abbie Vogt, wife, age 40, married, born in Illinois, parents born in Illinois; Ethel Vogt, daughter, age 18, single, born in Illinois; Edward Vogt, son, age 16, single, born in Illinois; Bernard Vogt, son, age 13, single, born in Illinois; Mary Vogt, daughter, age 11, single, born in Illinois; Frank Vogt, son, age 8, single, born in Illinois
According to the 1930 U.S. Census for Grant Township, Lake County, IL the household members were: Joseph Vogt, head, age 52, married first at age 24, born in Germany, parents born in Germany, immigrated in 1885; occupation: farmer – general farming; Abigail Vogt, wife, age 50, married first at age 22, born in Illinois, parent born in Illinois; Edward Vogt, son, age 26, single, born in Illinois, occupation: laborer – farm; Bernard Vogt, son, age 24, single, born in Illinois, occupation: laborer – farm; Mary Vogt, daughter, age 21, single, born in Illinois; Frank Vogt, son, age 18, single, born in Illinois; George Vogt, son, age 16, single, born in Illinois.
According to the 1940 U.S. Census for Grant Township, Lake County, IL on Russell Road the household members were: Joseph Vogt, heat, age 62, married, highest grade complete – 0, born in Germany, lived in same house in 1935, occupation: farmer – farm; Annie (sic Abbie) wife, age 60, married, highest grade completed – 5, 5 children born, 5 children living, born in Illinois, lived in same house 1935, Edward Vogt, son, age 37, single, highest grade completed – 7, born in Illinois, lived in same in house in 1935, occupation: laborer – farm; Bernard Vogt, son, age 34, single, highest grade completed – 8, born in Illinois, lived in same house in 1935, occupation: laborer – farm; Frank Vogt, son, age 29, married, highest grade completed – C1, born in Illinois, lived in same house in 1935, occupation: Proprietor – tavern; Mary Vogt, daughter in law, age 25, married, highest grade completed – H4, born in Ohio, lived in same place in 1935
According to U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947:
"Name: Edward Charles Vogt; Place of Residence: Round Lake, Lake County, Illinois: Telephone: Yes – Round Lake 3021; Age in Years: 38; Date of Birth: Sept. 16, 1903; Place of Birth: Round Lake, Illinois; Name and Address of Person Who Will Always Know Your Address: Joe Vogt – Round Lake, Illinois; Employer's Name and Address: Joe Vogt – Round Lake, Illinois; Height: 5-10; Weight: 172; Eyes: Brown; Hair: Brown; Complexion: Ruddy; Other obvious physical characterstics that will aid in identification: Hair Lip; Signed: 2/16/42"
According to The Daily Sentinel (Woodstock IL) Wednesday, July 5, 1978, page 9:
"EDWARD VOGT
ROUND LAKE – Edward (Chub) Vogt, 74, resident of an Island Lake nursing home, was killed Friday, June 30, when he was struck by an automobile while walking on Route 120 near Round Lake.
A lifetime area resident and retired farmer, he was born September 16, 1903, in Avon Township, the son of Joseph and Abigail Vogt.
Survivors are a sister, Ethel Benwell, Round Lake; a niece, Josephine Weidman, Salem, Wis.' and a nephew, Frank Vogt, Round Lake.
He was preceded in death by three brothers, Frederick Bernard and Frank, and two sisters, Frances and Mary.
Services were held at 11 a.m. today in Round Lake, with burial in Fort Hill cemetery."


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TattleTales ist das zweite Studioalbum des US-amerikanischen Rappers 6ix9ine. Es erschien am 4. September 2020.

Hintergründe
TattleTales war 6ix9ines erstes Album nach seiner in den Medien vielfach aufgegriffenen Aussage vor Gericht gegen die Bande der Nine Trey Bloods, der der Rapper zuvor selbst angehörte, sowie seiner vorzeitigen Entlassung aus dem Gefängnis. Als Resultat seiner Kooperation mit dem Gesetz wandten sich viele Musiker, insbesondere welche der Hip-Hop-Szene, von dem Künstler ab und bezeichneten ihn als "Snitch", was auf Deutsch so viel wie "Petze" oder "Verräter" bedeutet. Die ohnehin bereits kontroverse Rolle 6ix9ines wurde daher noch umstrittener; es bildeten sich Lager innerhalb der Szene und der Fanbases. Dies sorgte dafür, dass der Interpret nahezu ununterbrochen in der Presse vorhanden war und somit ebenso seine Musik noch weiter in den Fokus rückte. Die ersten beiden Singles aus TattleTales, Gooba und Trollz, waren weltweit große Top-Ten-Erfolge, wobei zweitere sogar die Spitze der US-amerikanischen Billboard Hot 100 erklomm. Die nachfolgenden zwei Auskopplungen Yaya und Punani konnten an die Erfolge nicht mehr anknüpfen. Am Erscheinungstag des Albums wurde zudem noch ein Musikvideo zu Tutu auf YouTube veröffentlicht.

Produziert wurden die Titel des Albums von Akon, Dinay, Sindicate 12, Jahnei Clarke, Payday, Tripilz, Splititupbenji, Yaya, Jasper Harris, Sad Pony, Kybba, Limitless, Ramoon, Ransom Beatz, Anthony Flammia, Roy Lenzo, The Beat Menace, Ronny J, Tupunmusic und RicoOnTheKeys. Als Gastmusiker treten Akon, Smilez, Nicki Minaj, Leftside und Lil AK in Erscheinung.

Musik und Texte
Die Lieder auf TattleTales lassen sich verschiedenen Spielarten des Hip-Hop und des Contemporary R&B zuordnen; letzteres vor allem in den zwei Titeln mit Beteiligung von Akon (Locked Up Pt. 2 und Leah). Es finden sich Songs in den Musikstilen Trap, Raggaton und Gangsta-Rap auf dem Werk wieder. Ein großer Teil der Texte des Albums setzt sich mit der Rezeption und dem Ruf des Rappers auseinander, wobei dies manchmal aggressiv oder provokant, aber auch humorvoll geschieht; mehrfach zieht 6ix9ine seine Hater mit seinem Erfolg und der Tatsache seiner Freilassung auf. Auch der Albumtitel spielt darauf an: es handelt sich um ein Wortspiel mit den Wörtern "tattletale" (etwa "Petze") und "tales" ("Geschichten"). Andere Lieder thematisieren 6ix9ines Straßenleben rund um Geld, Sex und Waffengewalt, sowie seine Zeit im Gefängnis. Es finden zudem auch mehrere Anspielungen an die COVID-19-Pandemie statt.

Covergestaltung
Das Albumcover von TattleTales zeigt eine animierte Version von 6ix9ine vom Bauch aufwärts. Sie ist mit Ausnahme einer silberfarbenen Halskette in der Form eines Haifischs oberkörperfrei und stark nach dem Kindchenschema stilisiert. Sowohl 6ix9ine als auch der Hai auf dem Schmuckstück besitzen bunte Zähne. Umrandet wird der Rapper von Kreisen in den Farben Lila, Gelb, Rot, Blau, Grün und nochmals Gelb.

Titelliste

Kritik
TattleTales erhielt negative Kritiken. Bemängelt wurde insbesondere, dass 6ix9ine seinen Personenkult hinter seinem eigentlichen musikalischen Output anstelle und versuche, aus Anbiederung an den Mainstream und Zurschaustellung seiner "Snitch-Persona" Kapital zu schlagen. Wäre der Rapper zwar ein Genie in Sachen Marketing und visueller Aufmachung, so würde sich bei dem Betrachten seiner blanken Musik zeigen, dass seine Lieder uninteressant und unoriginell sind. Man würde den Songs anmerken, dass sie auf eingängigen Refrains oder reißerischen Ideen aufbauen, jedoch eilig zu 2-Minuten-Tracks aufgeblasen wurden. Zudem wurde kritisiert, dass 6ix9ine zwischen verschiedenen Stilen hin- und herpendle, um möglichst alle Trends zu bedienen.

Das deutschsprachige Online-Magazin laut.de betitelte TattleTales als eines der "schlimmsten Alben des Jahres 2020". Tattle Tales markiere den Anfang vom Ende für 6ix9ines Karriere. In seiner kurzen Diskografie nehme sein zweites Album eine ähnliche Rolle ein wie Harverd Dropout 2019 für Lil Pump. Es markiere den Punkt, an dem der Rapper seinen ehemaligen, hemmungslosen "Schrei-so-laut-du-kannst-und-box-die-Katze-deiner-Nachbarin-Sound", zugunsten von "Mainstream-Erfolg" hinter sich lasse, stattdessen aber unwissend den Grundstein für seinen Abschied in die Belanglosigkeit lege. Eigentlich könne man es ihm, nicht nur seiner Gesundheit zuliebe, nur wünschen, dass dies besser heute als morgen geschiehe.

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