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In Which I Rescue A Bat
0915. "Slumberland?" Hah. Slumberland has a landscape -- well, dreamscape. There's stuff there, albeit occasionally terrifying and sometimes in black-and-white. Where I was, there was nothing, a nothing somehow pure, soft, fuzzy, egoless black. I was out. O-U-T. Something made a sound and suddenly I wasn't.
Sound, beeping...beeping, phone. The phone! I opened my eyes, rolled on my side and scrabbled for it, fumbling as much with the concept of grasping as with the actual grasping.
"Unh?"
"Bobbi? This is your neighbor." The Democrat. "There's a bat in my bathtub. And I think another one is dead under a bucket. Can you come over and get them? I have another person I can call, but he'll probably kill it. I know you won't."
"Okay, but it'll take a little while. I was asleep."
Fifteen minutes later, clothed, hair more-or-less brushed, clutching leather work gloves and a used flattish Express Mail cardboard box that I had opened and collapsed, I was at her front door. She led me into her washroom, where a dark-brown towel was crumpled in the tub. I held it up and checked both sides. No bat? No bat.
Over the course of the next ten minutes, I checked every narrow, dark location in that tiny room that might appeal to a bat, and a few that weren't all that dark, in case the bat was desperate. Nothing.
"I'm not finding the bat."
"It was in the tub. The cats had been chasing it."
She has between five and seven cats (and a half-dozen big and well-maintained litterboxes in the basement). They've never hurt a bat but they deem them to be excellent toys. A bat that has run the Democrat's cat-gauntlet is usually too exhausted to do anything but crawl to a safe spot and hang on. A safe spot like a dark-brown towel.
I picked up the towel again and gave it a good flap. A small, dark-brown bat landed on floor next to the tub and clicked at me. It looked like an angry version of the Batman logo. I got a plastic tub over it and tried to get the flattened box underneath. Nothing doing. The bat was hanging onto the floor for dear life. So I tossed the plastic tub to one side and opened the box just a little at the end nearest the bat, while keeping the far end pinched shut: a bat-friendly space, narrow and dark. The bat thought this was a Very Good Idea and crawled inside.*
"[Neighbor], I've got the bat! Open the door." She did, and with the cats following interestedly, we made a procession to the front door, where I shook the bat out into a Boston fern hanging in shade under her porch roof. It crept into the stems and laid there, sides heaving.
We went back for the possible other bat, but never found it. She had thrown a jacket over it, and a plastic pail over that. I went through the jacket three times without finding a bat, and it wasn't clinging to the inside of the pail, either. She admitted it might have been the same bat, and given that the pail had only covered a little of the jacket, a bat could have sneaked out, especially if it was trying to escape cats.
When I left (after spending some time with her and her cats), the Boston fern no longer held a bat. It had fluttered off, we hoped to to safety.
This is the second or third time I have rescued a bat at her house. Remember, they eat skeeters! Any creature that gets rid of mosquitoes is worth keeping around, in my opinion.
* I got a good look at the bat during this process and it had a normal dark nose. White-nose syndrome has become a problem in Indiana, especially further south. I think it's more common among cave-dwelling bats, some kind of fungus.
After a long day, I slept, got up to feed the cats...and went back to bed as soon as they were done. Up now, but I want to make a donut run.
Here's an abandoned Cold War bunker in Scotland to keep you entertained!
"Vote For Me Because I Have Breasts!"
That seems to be Secretary Clinton's thesis after having had her selection confirmed as the Democrat nominee for the Presidency.
As reasons go, I think it's slightly worse than "Vote for me, I have no filter and I have made a lot of money."* Maybe a lot worse, since she's asking voters to vote so she can make a record, like being the first woman to climb Everest or trek to the sources of the Nile. Valentine Tereshkova and Sally Ride were inevitable; however, the inevitability was not theirs but their role. Likewise, some day the U. S. will have a woman as President. She does not necessarily have to be Hillary Clinton.
Indeed not.
* "Vote for me, I'm good on trade and I have been a Governor," is looking better and better, if you ask me.
I Do What With What?
My basic trade is electronics, learned in an age when analog was king and transistors were suitable for low-power, portable devices and while a few -- a very few! -- clever designers might be able to coax enough fidelity out of 'em for professional applications, if you needed real power, more than a Watt or two, you used tubes. Professional equipment took at least two people to lift.
It was a time when workbenches were kept clear -- clear-ish, anyway -- and big 75 Watt soldering irons hummed in their rests while analog volt-ohmmeters kept watch. When we did mechanical work, it was drilling or punching a few holes in a metal chassis to clear sockets and transformers, potentiometers and pilot lights. "Digital" was safely off in the exotic realm of computers, where conservatively-suited IBM techs swapped out module-loads of tiny tubes or simple semiconductors, while punched paper tape or Hollerith cards told the equipment what to do.
Chassis gave way to circuit boards and an Engineering shop that built gadgets from scratch made space to set up an etchant tank (oh, okay, a glass baking dish under a heat lamp, if you insist on accuracy) and counted themselves among the elite -- and the elite's elite added another tank for tinplating the copper of the finished board. Transistors shrank, got faster, FETs showed up, and all of a sudden a few dozen transistors on a single slab of silicon formed a whole building-block -- an analog amplifier or a digital circuit smaller than a stick of gum. Parts kept getting smaller and smaller and by the time surface-mount components came along, you needed special equipment to do much work at the component level.
But through it all, it was largely a shirtsleeves pursuit, done mostly at tabletop scale. These days, a lot of it is done on a computer, configuring and provisioning very clever boxes for their particular task. Good, honest, clean work.
So why do I have a "tools for work" list on the Roseholme Cottage dry-erase board reading, "string, level, 25-foot measuring tape," why am I glad I have an extra pair of work gloves, why am I wondering if I might want decent boots today instead of my hiking sandals and why, oh why, am I contemplating spending most of the day working in a lift about 15 feet above the floor?
Just lucky, I guess.
Busy, Busy
I'd post more if I could.
For now, if you don't like what you hear on NPR news, why not try rearranging it? "Don't Play With Your News" is an art/game website that lets you assemble newscast snippets (choose your anchor) and then play them back. Fascinating.
This software uses a remarkably intuitive user interface that would make editing spoken-word programs a snap. It relies on good speech-to-text software, which is only getting better. It's a toy now, but you're looking at the future.
Claire Wolfe Could Use Your Help
Claire's moving. Backwoods Home stopped paying their bloggers -- it's a return on investment thing, they're not a charity -- and she's working on a new blog. And on propping up her house. Might as well lend a hand -- you know it's going to a good cause!
All Systems Of Government Fail; Some Fail Uglier Than Others
Venezuela is just the latest proof: socialism doesn't make the poor -- it makes them poorer.
Think it through: if nobody has hardly anything and a government comes along to redistribute it, while siphoning off even a little bit to pay the redistributors, what's left to hand back out? Less. Whereas if people were left to get on with taking in one another's laundry, babysitting, swapping excess green beans for a set of spark plugs and so on, they'd at least stay even and, given external input in such minimal form as repairs that take only skill, free-range eggs* and wild-gathered fruits and vegetables (etc., etc.), might make some upward progress.
...Mind you, throw a bank in there operating under modern U. S. regs, which all but bar them from taking a very long view, and they'd make a mess of things, too. And there's another lesson in that.
* Supposedly, at least where there is forage, this can result in a significant reduction in feeding costs. This works if you have a low-density population of hens for their ranging area -- and there's something there for them to eat.
Labels: eediots, marvels of government
Shooting Zen
You know why I work to shoot well? So I won't have to. --Not exactly true, but the better you shoot, the more likely you are to want to avoid having to shoot someone. If you want highfalutin' self-defense philosophizing, there you are.
Tam posted a video recently of some goofy "tactical training" for beginning shooters, complete with quickdraw exercises and a shooting posture that involved getting up on tiptoe. Meanwhile, many of the novice shooters were leaning back, holding the firearm loosely or without enough hand wrapped around the grip, and making similar uncorrected mistakes. But the beginners sure had the jerky faux tai chi moves down cold!
Don't be like them. At the very beginning, you will be sitting at a table, with the instructor pointing at drawings and/or handing around a plastic model, explaining the controls and operating function; later, you will practice loading and unloading with inert plastic "cartridges." Learn these basics! You may find it dull but it is background you must have.
Eventually, you'll go out on the range to actually shoot. It's not really that hard. Keep the muzzle pointed downrange and concentrate, again, on basics.
Fifty rounds of .22 at 21 feet from a Ruger Mk. III with a Millet red dot sight. Four or five in the ten ring. All the rest in the X ring. If you have fair eysight and motor control, you can do this -- probably better.
Plant your feet, fairly wide but comfortably. Bend your knees -- and lean forward. Not so far you go off balance, but you're basically hurling pebbles very, very fast, so lean into it, for pity's sake! Get a good hold with both hands wrapped around the grip, not some of the silly holds you see on TV. You can look this up online but your dominant hand grabs the grip, your other hand grabs from the other side and wraps the gun and the first hand. Both thumbs end up on the side away from your trigger finger. If there's any grip showing between your hands, that's probably a sign you haven't quite got it.
Getting your grip and stance right is the instructor's job. Keeping you mindful of safety is the instructor's job too. Close-order dance drill with blue plastic guns? Not so much. It looks kewl on YouTube but you know what looks better? This.
This target was shot 54 times from 21 feet away using an H&R "Sportsman" top-break, double-action revolver and iron sights. The trigger pull is long and not silky-smooth; the sights are just plain flat black. It's not as close a grouping as the one above -- there's even one in the 9 ring! -- but it's a lot more challenging a gun to shoot accurately. This is not supergood shooting: it's adequate shooting.
Pay attention, know the basics, practice, and you'll be able to do this years quicker than I did. I started out with very little good instruction and it took time to unlearn what I'd got wrong. Don't do that -- and look out for fast-talkers selling "gunjitsu" and their very own sooper-special holsters and Secret Techniques. There are only two secrets: fully grokking the basics and practice, practice, practice.
Oh, and as for "gun-fu?" Those targets were shot at a rate of about one round per second. Do that, consistently, and you can start thinking about draw speed and/or the "action" type shooting competitions. (I figure if I can get my centerfire skills back to this level, I might be able to shoot bowling pin competitions again.) Just get a solid grasp of the basics first. Don't be sold a fancy bill of goods.
Sunday!
The Data Viking visited! He and Tam and I had breakfast and then hit the range. He brought three of the nicest old S&Ws I have seen in a long time. It was a good day.
You Know What Ends Republics?
Caesarism, that's what ends republics. If you don't trust the Romans, ask the French; they've had republics get whacked from within and without by Great Leaders.
Just an idle thought.
Yes! Fire 7 HD Supports Text Editing!
I had hoped my first Kindle Fire might be as hand for writing as it was for reading, but somehow forgot to check again after it turned out the early subset of Android software for it didn't include a text editor.
There are several text editors for the Fire 7 HD -- and it's got Bluetooth. Which means this:
Yes, it's paired with the Qwerkywriter keyboard, which was a huge indulgence back when I bought it but is now far, far less so. Now to find something a little quieter for the road.
(As an aside, I shorted myself on sleep last week. Perhaps worse than I realized. Slept in today, Tam and I went to the five and dime -- okay, Meijer -- then Twenty Tap for dinner, and I had a nap after we returned home. Yes, that tired. Planning to go back to bed pretty soon, too.)
I Probably Don't Remember How To Work For Sane People
I'm up to my earlobes in a huge project -- a huge wrench'n'screwdriver and spending $2k on materiel three times a week project -- that I had kind of hoped to dodge. And it is merely in support of a far larger (though entirely invisible to the suits up on Management Row) project, which seems to be jumping from vaporware to jackhammering without ever passing through that fiddly measuring tape and blueprints stage.
All of that on top of ongoing capital projects left from earlier this year, on top of trying to catch up to much-deferred maintenance, on top of trying to repair a minor but critical system that the manufacturer went non-support on five years ago -- and it depends on another gadget that went the same way even earlier!
--Not that any of that dull old stuff matters because -- shiny! Can't you hear the staccato siren song of something new and badly planned? About the time I'll be able to come up for air on the huge project and the fifty ugly orphan ones it shadows, it'll be panic-fixit time on the actual mess it enables, as the sweeping lack of detail gives way to the hard, cold reality of trying to put 25 pounds of tech into a glitter-covered five-pound plastic purse.
Once upon a time -- long ago and far away -- I worked at a trade where we put things down on paper in detail and planned and checked and revised and worked it all out just as well as we could before the first bit of framing or conduit was cut and shaped. None of my co-workers will even pretend that they think such a process ever happened anywhere in our business; they scoff at trade magazine articles describing exactly that process as being a pack of self-serving lies. They sincerely believe that everyone jumps out of the airplane with a mulberry bush, a couple of caterpillars and a pair of knitting needles, hoping to have a parachute made before impact.
It may yet drive me plain batty. Possibly even fancy batty, which is the same thing but with lace antimacassars.
Vice-Presidential Hijinks: Maybe It's A Message?
If so, it's not one the bosses of the two big Boot On Your Neck parties want to hear. From Wikipedia, editing mine:
"Vice Presidential voting has been problematic since the beginning, as [...] it provides for mischief, as was the case in 1972's Democratic Convention where the vote was scattered between 50 'candidates' and 1976 Republican convention, where the vote was also scattered widely. In 1988, both parties decided to have the designated candidate nominated by 'suspending the rules' and declaring him or her nominated by 'acclamation.' The last Vice Presidential roll call vote was at the 1984 Republican convention."
Yeah, that's right, you got it: delegates to the Party conventions, about as sure a group of sure things as you could find outside of tourists lined up to buy the Brooklyn Bridge, started putting up some fuss and bother over the Veep, an office once described as being "as useful as a pitcher of warm spit on a hot August day,"* kept doing it year after year in both parties, and the response was to...find a workaround.
So, they didn't think it was a message, and maybe more than "we're bored," then? There's your two parties and their concern for responsiveness and democracy: they just want a nice, smooth coronation.
Maybe that's a message, too, but hardly anyone notices.
* Probably bowdlerized by the Press, as it was a long time ago, back when we pretended no role model ever, ever swore.
Labels: marvels of history, marvels of politics
Be Thankful You're Not
...Not in my line of work at the GOP convention in Cleveland! Engineering heard from a News Photographer (videographer) at the convention yesterday: he'd broken the write-protect tab on one of the (mildly proprietary, they use some sooper-sekrit formatting) memory cards for his camera,* and did we know of any secret way to make the card writeable again?
Sure we did. They all involved tools. There are not a lot of tools inside the secure perimeter and the ones that are on there are closely guarded by the people who cleared them through. All you need is a solid thing in the "unsafe" position, and that only if the interface is designed to sense write-protection, which is ("Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.") optional. As far as I know, no memory cards have an actual internal switch; the switch is in the reader. Yes, the fancy pro gear we use is all about write-protection; nobody wants to record over important material by mistake.
But if you don't have a penknife, if you don't have a source of hard-plastic scrap (business card material will do, but it's iffy) and cellophane tape, you're done. The card will not be being written on. When last heard from, our guy was hoping to find the on-site support from the manufacturer of the equipment (common at big events -- Sony, Panasonic, Canon, Fuji and the specialized battery and lighting makers usually have a tech-support presence), and had moved on to his next memory card, leaving one not five percent full as a problem to be solved later.
Reaching out to geek peers who I knew were likely to be engineering inside the convention didn't turn up anyone who'd been allowed even a pair of blunt-end scissors inside once the pre-convention setup was complete. For the media, not even cigarette lighters had made it in (as reported by a very annoyed smoker, who was presumably having to bum lights from delegates and political hangers-on).
The inside of a high-security event is a very strange place -- and that's well before you get to the actual event itself. I wonder if anyone at the Constitutional Convention back in the 18th Century saw this coming? It seems unlikely.
* Videotape is dead, dead, dead and we opted for no-moving-parts recording media. Naturally, the photogs have come up with new ways to break it. This is not so much a measure of carelessness on their parts as it is of sheer hours on the equipment: you take snapshots on vacation; a serious-amateur still photographer like Tam may shoot an average of five or six pictures in a day; a news photographer will generate three or more hours of video in an average day and the camera will only leave his or her hand while driving, eating or editing. In the heyday of print journalism, newspaper photographers put similar hours on their still cameras, with similar wear on the equipment. Photogs working big news events go through film/tape/discs/memory cards at a staggering rate.
Labels: Geekery, marvels of marvelousness, or not
I'm Torn...
Is it "train wreck" or "dumpster fire?"
Nick Gillespie sets 'em up and knocks 'em down.
Hey, look -- Whigs!
Also, why does the convention logo look like the elephant is threatening a small bronosaurus?
Remember, the Libertarian party is on the ballot in all fifty states, the Greens in 47, and there are lots of other choices. The two big parties have given us decades of the same old suck and fail. Let's try something else.
Asymmetrical Ruination
Police are imperfect. Humans are imperfect. And just like everyone else, individual officers vary. Some are jerks; most are not. Some aren't very good at police work; most are at least competent. And just as the jerks and bumblers rely on the respect most people have for the badge and the uniform, the good ones bear the ill-will engendered when things go terribly wrong.
And when things go wrong? There are plenty of angry, murderous, warped people out there and some of them are moved to act against police generally. Violently; Texas and Louisiana are only the most lurid recent examples.
It's like nuclear fission: Action, reaction, reaction2, reaction3... If there's a critical mass, it keeps growing.
Various groups are planning to protest at the RNC in Cleveland, and good for them! It's the American way: wave signs, yell, try some attention-grabbing stunts, get your face and your cause on the news. Maybe the suits and bosses will hear you. Some of the groups -- the Black Panthers and at least one nativist bunch -- say they will be open-carrying, which is as legal in Ohio as church on Sunday; thousands of Buckeyes open carry without problems. (And generally, the groups that do so as a protest or message have a good grasp of this kind of edgy street theater.)
Reaction? "'Gov. Kasich [...] could very easily do some kind of executive order or something -- I don't care if it's constitutional or not at this point,' Stephen Loomis, president of Cleveland Police Patrolmen's Association, told CNN." [Emphasis mine]
Ohio's Governor, aware that he was not elected God-King, has pointed out that such an action is not within his power.
Threepers have been telling the rest of us for years that a very small minority willing to employ force can effect change. It turns out that they're right -- and that a lawless few can distort public discourse, public confidence, police attitudes. (See, there's this about methods and means: they don't have sides. They're just tools.)
Violence, violence, action, reaction -- Not a bit of it does a damned thing to address a very real demographic skew in who gets arrested, who gets shot being arrested, and who goes to jail. I think it's largely economic, but there's no denying the stats. I think a little of the Black Lives Matter movement is grandstanding at the top and and an excuse for looting at the bottom -- but in between, there are a lot of essentially decent, frustrated people who want things to be better, just like all those decent, hardworking police who are neither saints nor simmers, and who also want things to be better.
If you could get right down to the core of most of the people who will be protesting in Cleveland, you'd find most of them just want things to be better, too.
If you could get right down to the core of the bastards shooting at police from hiding? I'm certain they want things to be worse.
You want to pick a side? There's your sides: do you want things to get better, or do you want them to get worse? As a society, we need to sort that out first; only then can we argue, with means short of fists and brickbats or worse, about what and how.
Labels: eediots, marvels of politics, Mommy why do the police drink?, things that should not go bang
Sausage Hash?
Sausage Hash! I had never seen it before but Hormel's Mary Kitchen brand -- which makes the only canned corned beef hash worth eating -- puts the stuff up in cans and Meijer stores stock it. I bought it on sight, of course, and this morning, I'm eating it.
It's pretty darned good. The sausage is a moderately spicy country-style, not overly greasy.* It cooks up well and the flavor nicely complements a plain egg cooked on top of it. I'll be buying more.
For egg-topped hash, get the hash good and hot, stir it around, then smooth it, push a little depression in it, and crack one or more eggs over it, then cover and cook until the egg is as done as you;d like. I break the yolk; many people prefer to leave it intact and still liquid, which can be very good. In a 10" skillet, you get a decent bottom crust with a nice layer of well-cooked hash on top. If you like it crispier, use a larger skillet and spread it thinner.
* With any canned hash, mind the amount of grease around the edges and if seems excessive, blot it up with a paper towel.
I'm Here, Mike Pence Isn't. Get Used To It
I'd like to say something witty and trenchant about Indiana's SoCon (but solid on guns and not terrible fiscally) Governor being tapped by Mr. Trump to run for Veep, but frankly--
Frankly, I don't care. Mike Pence was going to have a hard fight with his walrus-y opponent, the folksy (if perhaps a bit too much so) John Gregg. Republicans Todd Rokita (a fairly solid guy on most issues I care about) and Susan Brooks (not bad, though more of an old-money Republican than Rokita) have stepped in to run, both of them dropping out of the re-election races for their seats in the House of Representatives -- and they were pretty much shoo-ins. Only one will get the GOP nod to run against Gregg, who is already running plenty of campaign ads. It's hard to see a lot of benefit to Indiana Republicans from Governor Pence's departure.
So, yeah, I don't much care. Mike Pence was a stick-in-the-mud SoCon but I believe he was sincere about trying to do the right thing and, with his feet held to the fire, he even backed down a bit over the RIFRA mess. Representatives Brooks and Rokita were reliably consistent and the latter even showed an occasional streak of economic libertarianism. I think Mr. Gregg is shoddy at best and perhaps two-faced; I don't trust him. Overly creative district-mapping may preserve the two House seats for the GOP, but I don't know what the party is going to dig up to put in them and with today's GOP, they could be far worse than what they replace.
Looks like I'll be voting a straight Libertarian ticket, my first single-party vote in a long time. I'll be looking at the results to see if my votes show up. And so it goes.
Amazon Good!
Amazon totally came through on the Fire HD7: the replacement arrived this morning and it is the grown-up version. My books were already available on it. Hooray for Amazon! Their customer service continues to be first-rate. Amazon.com -- please use the link at Tam's.
Labels: marvels of science, the wonderfulness of you
Bacon-Doubleplusgood-Plus
Pancetta, queen of all bacon. Oh, like all royalty, a little goes a long way; the inheritors of Rome's glory do not spare the salt. It's as ticklish as a Manhattan Project physics experiment to fry, too. All of that is no matter before the melt in your mouth taste and delicate texture. It's a rare and wonderful treat and Tam and I had it this morning.
Must I? France.
You're probably expecting an essay on the outrage -- the murders -- in France.
I don't have to. You don't need to read it. The dead tell their own story. The murder weapon tells its own story, too: a rented truck.
Let that soak in: a rented truck. The killer had a gun -- not all that easy to come by in France -- but he used a truck. There are reports the killer had one or more grenades, too, but he used a truck.
Not quite twelve hours ago, I was pointing out that a couple of tons of vehicle moving at 20 mpg -- the upper limit for Pokemon Go -- is a deadly weapon, packing more kinetic energy (72,518 Joules*) than the total of every bullet in a 30-round AR-15 magazine (1,767 J x 30, 53010 J); and the truck doesn't need to be reloaded for hours.
Civilization is vulnerable to those who have no use for civilization. Radical Islam is a mind virus, closely akin to violent racism, nazism, and communism (etc. If you're willing to go kill the innocent over it, you're one, too). In the hands of individuals and groups only a generation removed from goat-herding, to whom electricity is a novel luxury, such mind viruses can deadly to an advanced culture.
On one level, you can blame T. E. Lawrence, though this is a lesson the fuzzy-wuzzies have been learning for themselves since the first Neandertals stole fire from their neighbors and used it to burn them out. Still, a peek back at the First World War in the Middle East yields this gem: "The Arab Bureau of Britain's Foreign Office conceived a campaign of internal insurgency against the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East. [...]. The Arab Bureau had recognised the strategic value of what is today called the "asymmetry" of such conflict." Once the "War To End All Wars" was won, the strategic tool eventually turned on the wielder.
Crazed, violent Islam may, eventually, run its course. I think it will; even with a talent pool marinated in the faith and the promise of everlasting rewards in the sweet by-and-by, a short, violent career ending in ugly death isn't that great a seller. (ISIS's "old-time religion and a quartet of child-brides" gets a lot more takers and presents a greater danger over the long term.) The problem of murders, mass-murderers, turning the devices of modern civilization against modern civilized people will not go away. It's been a problem since fire, since irrigation, since a baddie stole a cleverer guy's atl-atl and tried to wipe out the family down the hill from a safe distance. The more powerful our devices, the greater the danger. All I have by way of advice is to be alert -- and to understand that on a scale of more than minutes, the odds are always against the killers.
Despite them, we build. Despite them, we co-operate. Mourn the dead but do not be cowed.
* Unless I have dropped a decimal or gone askew on a conversion. 20 mph, 4000 lbs., many of my readers are better at classical physics than I am. The sheer mass of a motor vehicle makes it far more destructive than a single rifle bullet.
Labels: eediots, Helloo? World War Threeee, things that go bang, things that should not go bang
Amazon Fire HD7? No, Wrong. Amazon Screwup
So, on Prime Day, I splurged: $60 for a Fire HD7, to replace my Gen 1 Kindle Fire, now a bit long in the tooth and worn of charging socket, not to mention flaky of firmware. But it still works!
The new one arrived today and I was looking forward; I reminded Tam to watch for it, so the box wouldn't get rained on or stolen. Unpacked it, very nice, Fire HD7, slim and light, yes, yes, plugged it in, did the registration thing and...
Up pops, "Register your KID'S EDITION to your child!" No, skip that-- And when I do, it deregisters me entirely, pffft. So I start over and at the end of the process, you guessed it, "Register your KID'S EDITION to your child!" They sent me the hard-coded kiddie version. This is in fact not what I ordered.
I've sent them e-mail. I'll report on what they do to make this right.
Compared to people starving in [wherever], this is a minor thing. It's still annoying.
Labels: eediots, Geekery
Pokemon, No!
On the one hand, it's brought an amazing number of gamers up from the basement, to blink in the sunlight and sneeze the pollen-laden air, stumbling down sidewalks and through parks they might never otherwise visit--
On the other... Look, stereotypes exist for a reason, and "socially-inept nerd" is a real thing.
Put them together, and you get a spate of news stories about Pokemon Go going on in the Holocaust Museum, in Arlington National Cemetery, and much closer to home.
Tl;dr is that Pokemongers are haunting a cemetery in Plainfield, Indiana, and a young widow who goes there to spend time at the grave of her late husband finds it obnoxious. There's a sign at the gate, "Out of respect for others, NO GAME PLAYING." It's not working.
Sadly, this is a Westboro-Baptist problem: you can expect a degree of mutual courtesy from others and usually you will get it -- but not always. If the disrespectful behavior is not causing you harm -- the Jeffersonian construction is that it "neither picks your pocket nor breaks your leg,"-- recourse is limited, even when the offending behavior is quite distressing. If the cemetery can't afford to police the actions of visitors, then all it can do is ask. Not everyone responds to a polite request as we might wish.
Life's hard. It's harder if you let the ijits get to you. And some days I'm embarrassed to admit I'm a human being.
Better Today, Or--
Or To Hell With It, I'm Going In Anyway. I think I am doing better today; at least my sinuses have slowed down and earlier, I was able to drink a glass of juice without coughing. My voice is still not quite back, but most people who know me would consider that a positive.
Besides, say I'm wrong; say I'm a-gonna swoon later today. Would I rather do so at home, where Tam might be at the range, or wouldn't it be better done at my work, blocks away from several hospitals and surrounded by healthy young people who can help load me onto a gurney? I think the choice is clear!
Yeah, Sick
Doc-In-A-Box called me yesterday and upon description of my symptoms, consulted among themselves and came up with an antibiotic. They think I picked up a secondary infection. I feel lousy, with a bad cough and icky sinuses. Temperature up and down.
I'm going back to bed. Again. Next drugs at 3:00 pm.
Off To The Dross Mines
My health has taken a turn for the worse -- low fever, sore throat, sinus congestion and drainage. I didn't sleep very well. Still on the early shift today and there's no backup, so I'm up, fed, and ready to get ready.
Ah, show biz.
Hamfest Findings
Start with this pile, more or less L-R: a commercial 4:1 balun, which I may sub for my HB one to see if there's any difference. The gadget with the meters and big knob is a benchtop variable autotransformer -- with some kind of a low-voltage DC supply. Alas, the DC is not isolated from the power line, so that will all take looking at. Nice cabinet, the autotransformer looks okay, the meters are value items but pretty rugged. On top of it, a box containing a dozen leaf-type lever switches, bought for $4 because "you're the only person who has shown any interest." Interest I've got, I have been buying these on sight for an old broadcast console I hope to restore. On top of the switches, a Bakelite project box and on it and to the right, a lot of commercial plug-in transmitting coils; I passed on them last year at the marked prices; this year I got them at just over half price. A couple of bags of decent coax connectors in front, along with some books and a little, inexpensive vise. Last but not least, a "grab bag" of parts. It included a handful of RF chokes and microswitches, and the price was right.
Small stuff! Tube sockets, including breadboard types and backshells for inline plugs or sockets, a ceramic-base knife switch, calibrated dials, tiny alligator clips (great for coil taps!), two ceramic pilot-light sockets, some Teflon-insulated wire, a couple of small speakers and Indiana-made telegraph key parts (fingerpieces for a Les Logan bug, a pendulum weight for a Vibroplex Original or Blue Racer) in the tiny bags with "Made in USA" flags. Some 10-32 taps (for a buck each? Yes!), a vernier knob, another that says "INCREASE OUTPUT" and some 90-degree headphone jacks.
Plus I got to meet my friend Don, who I rarely see outside of hamfests but who is one of the nicest guys I know. Had to keep my distance lest he catch this cold but it's always good to chat awhile.
The Full Bobbi Breakfast
So, still kinda sick -- I was okay at the Indy Hamfest but the sinus/chest congestion came roaring back in tha afternoon and evening -- but I'm working the early-early shift and filling in at the controls for a co-worked with an ailing spouse, so there's no resting up.
That leaves only one alternative: the Full Bobbi. Akin to The Full English or The Full Scottish, except on the right side of the road:
A small "breakfast steak" consisting of a nice, thick filet mignon sliced into two slightly thicker than usual brekky steaks, and shared or one saved for later.
A slice of applewood-smoked bacon. Oh, okay, two.
A fried egg.
Fried mushrooms.
Tomato -- several grape tomatoes, sliced and sprinkled with Italian seasoning mix and let set for at least ten minutes. Best to do these at the very start of cooking. Basil works about as well.
Toast -- hand-made rye today.
Coffee and juice.
At the very least, there should be enough additional iron, zinc and vitamin C to help me get through the day.
Hamfest Today!
It's the Indianapolis Hamfest! My upper respiratory tract infection lingers but is down to sinus congestion, so I'm goin'.
This hamfest is put on by a consortium of local radio clubs. The biggest -- and originator of this event -- is the Indianapolis Radio Club, one of the oldest local clubs still in existance. The club started in 1914!
I'm Better. The Outside World, Not So Much
Tempted to spend today hiding under the bed. Hey, Americans, here's a thought, let's not kill anyone today unless they are running at you ready to do harm, hunh?
Just one damn day of saying "please" and "thank you" no matter who you are; just one damn day of not being crazy-mad, stupid or scared or clumsy, just one day of being fully aware how terribly, terribly fragile you and all the other walking bags of water around truly are, please? Just the one day?
The hotheads and halfwits of all stripes would love to push the rest of us right over the edge of civilization. Don't let them. Nobody wins when that happens.
Better, but weak, achy, sore of throat and unhappy of sinus. The Drive-Thru Doctor says this is a viral upper respiratory tract infection, for which treating the symptoms and applying Tincture of Time is the effective treatment (and luck of the draw, I got the friendly-compassionate young woman this time; all of the M.D. staff at Immediate Care are pretty darned good, especially at the kinds of ailments that fall squarely in their specialty, but she's one of the ones that treats patients as more than puzzles to be solved with politeness and speed). Doc-inna-box Inc. called in a 'scrip for high-test naproxen sodium* but it does not appear my pharmacy noticed; paracetamol and aspirin have answered nicely instead.
Nevertheless, a house that seems "kinda warm" to Tam is chilly to me except when my fever spikes, and I'm mostly sleeping or puzzling over the strange way in which gravity seems to have increased and gone subtly askew. Doc says 48 hours (+/-) is the typical run of these, a median figure I'll be hitting along about 8:30 or 9 tonight. I should be delighted to find myself average in this respect.
* Which spell-check insists should be "provenance sodium." Oh, well-played! But wrong. I don't care where it came from.
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Unexpectedly Ill
Don't know what happened -- got home later than usual last night thanks to some trouble at work, bicycled to the grocery for a take-home dinner (more of a snack), and before I was done eating, I was shivering, aching and dizzy. I was watching a TV show and before it was halfway through, I had paused it and gone to bed, taking an extra blanket, a warm sweatshirt and a heating pad.
I kept waking up overnight, with pain in my long bones, chest, fingers and toes, thirsty (and with the normal consequences). Every 90 minutes or so, awake! At some point I warmed up a bit and shed the sweatshirt and hotpad, leaving three blankets and a quilt.
Yesterday morning, I woke with a sore throat and that never got any better. I assumed I'd laid wrong and been snoring. Maybe not.
Off to doc in a box.
(There will be no comments, as the temptation to quack-doctoring seems well-nigh irresistible. 'Druther stick with the normal practice of medicine myself, and I'm not minded to argue about it. YMMV -- elsewhere.)
Welcome To Tuesday!
Now, get back to work.
The Glorious Fourth is followed by the workaday but no less Glorious Fifth -- no, sir, not that kind! Put that down, it's barely gone 0700 -- on which many of us get to go back to pushing the big wheel around. While I think our civilization has grown altogther too many "Big Wheels" of both the people and the big-stupid-enterprise kind, and especially of the Political sort, we're still doing better all around than most people in history ever dared dream of.
What rises can fall, just as the humble may become mighty. While it helps to have chosen the right grandparents, pedigree is no guarantor of success -- nor is it a sure prophet of failure. This notion of social mobility, along with the ideal that Americans are whoever is willing to become American,* are things that distinguish this country.
Bear 'em in mind. You're not locked in. Sure, you may have debt, you may not like your job or some elements of it; maybe age has begun to blast around you, taking friends and strength. Maybe you're fretting over a passel of children. But you are free in ways that few humans in all of history ever were, and likely to be wealthy in ways previous generations would have found incomprehensible.
To live is to struggle -- get out there and help take a bite out of entropy!
* And what were those Civics classes, if not an exercise in becoming?
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4 July 1776? In some senses, it's an odd day to pick -- hostilities (as in shooting) had begun over a year earlier and guerilla action nearly a year and a half prior to that. The war was not to end until until the Treaty of Paris in 1783. Despite the British surrender at Yorktown in October 1781 serving as an effective end to the war, 30,000 British troops occupied New York City, Charleston, and Savannah. Parliament voted to end military action in 1782.
And yet we mark 4 July 1776 as Independence Day. It wasn't the day the war begin. It wasn't the day it ended. Unlike other breakaway colonies, we certainly don't mark the day the Crown granted our independence; we threw those bums out! We don't even mark the day the Continental Congress voted for independence, or that day in August 1776 when the Declaration of Independence had gathered sufficient signatures to make it 100% official.
Nope. In the United States, we mark the day of the public announcement of an idea. The day the wild notion had been written down, ratified by Congress, and widely disseminated. The crazy notion that a people had the right of self-determination and even self-government.
And that's why you're standing in the yard with some kind of firework-y amusement right now, or grilling tasty food, or singing patriotic songs, or just sitting with a beverage. It's why Uncle Sam asked your boss to give you the day off, so that you might celebrate and in the midst of your celebration, pause for just a moment and reflect on how wildly unlikely this place and the idea that motivated it looked back in 1776, when Kings rode high, wide and mighty, occasionally -- barely! -- restrained by Parliaments and the supposed Divine right of some men to rule over others was all but unquestioned by any decent, civilized person.
We are the inheritors of a mob of thinking rabble, of wild-eyed dreamers, of secret schemers, of Colonial kids with a rifle who were generally underpaid and often longing for home. People rich and poor, clever and foolish and merely average died for a strange new idea that you grew up taking for granted, taking it as all the same as the sun and sky overhead and the ground beneath your feet -- ground claimed by their ideas and watered by their blood.
Remember it as you look up and say "ooh" and "ahh." The true wonderment is all around and despite the tarnish of years, despite blots of bad judgement and ill-will, it shines and glitters still.
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Voting: A Rant
Yeah, I took the morning off. So sue me for the free ice cream being late....
F@ceb00k -- that sink of vice, depravity and sound-bite thinking (but, like the first cigarette of the morning, it tastes so damnably good as it kills you just a little bit more) -- has been ringing to the familiar cry of "The Libbety-tarians can only lose! Vote for Trump or Clinton: vote for a candidate who can win!" There are varying degrees of emphasis from fans of Secretary Clinton or Mr. Trump, from those who are embarrassed by pot-smokers, fat bastards in Speedos and/or pink-haired women with Statue of Liberty diadems or who just want to be comfortably among the winners -- or at least end up in second place. Oh, they say, I'd vote for Libertarian Candidates, if only they'd win--
But they'll never win if you don't vote for them. And it's not just the LP; there's a fertile crapload of other parties out there and most are growing. The LP is now a 50-state party. The Greens show up on ballots in nearly every state and while I think they're Stalinists with flowers in their hair, I'm not every voter. There are Constitutionalists and Whigs and straight-up Communists out there--
And there you are, longing for 7up or Dr. Pepper, RC or OpenCola, seeing they're available at the fountain, then telling yourself you have got to choose Coke or Pepsi, because everyone else does--
Except they don't. Except if you don't go for what you want, what you like, the outcome you would prefer if it was all up to you, all you will ever get is the same red- or blue-label corporate gloop that can barely be told apart in a blindfold taste-test. And this time around, polls of voter revulsion are telling me both formulas have become pretty unpalatable to a lot of people.
The "big tent" parties have failed. One of 'em is running a deep-Establishment "same as usual only harder" candidate and the other has been overrun by the worst elements of an incoherent nativist Know-Nothing populism that party upstarts had been exploiting with some success. Both Presidential candidates have staggering negative reactions in the polls; people hate the other other candidate more than they like their own.
Those two big parties notice election results; they listen to their own more-successful upstarts -- don't think Senator Sanders hasn't sent a shiver down the spine of moneyed Democrat power-brokers -- and they pay attention to "third parties" that finish well. If you only give them what they want, if you act as if R or D is your only choice, that's all you will ever get -- and the only change you'll see from either one is liable to be for the worst.
"Vote for a winner?" If the candidate you're voting for doesn't share your values, what, exactly, will you win by voting for them? What's in it for you, the vague hope of slightly-better Federal appointments? More efficient global police-actions? If either big-party wins, you can count on more drone assassination, and unlike a sniper, the collateral damage is considerable to both bystanders (guilty and innocent alike) and in public opinion. You can count on more addled meddling from On High, by regulators and legislators long out of touch with the everyday lives of the ordinary and the unusual citizen alike. As for world affairs, we'd probably do more good if foreign policy was decided by fifty people chosen at random from the Duluth, Minnesota telephone book.
We've got idiots in D.C. and few if any realize they're idiots. With that dread caveat in mind,you should vote for the outcome you want. If you'd be happy with a President Trump or a President Clinton, vote for 'em; if you are only settling for one or the other, if you are going to have to hold your nose to vote, consider the alternatives. If you never order Triple XXX Root Beer, you'll eventually find it stops showing up. If you never vote for a better government....
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Independence Voting Day?
"Resolved, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved."
Passed by the Second Continental Congress on this day in 1776, 12 of 13 colonies in favor and, prophetically enough, New York abstaining.
You can thank Richard Henry Lee for the resolution, a Founder who barely saw the new republic formalized: he was a U. S. Senator from 1789 - 92 and died in 1794.
This is the day John Adams figured we'd be letting off fireworks and whooping it up in the streets. He'll get just that from Roseholme Cottage this year, as it's supposed to rain pretty well for the other two days of the extended weekend.
Another Week?
When did they start going past like telegraph poles from a moving train? I took Amtrak west from Chicago decades ago and once the train gets out on the wide, flat prairie, they open the throttle to whatever the track will bear; back then, there were places where it was upwards of 80 mph, deceptively smooth on modern welded rails. Looking out the window, distant towns and grain elevators (but I repeat myself) glide by in a slow panorama -- but up close, darned close if you're used to clearances for automobiles, the poles whiz by like artillery shells, or better, a WW II Russian multi-rocket launcher: Fwoom! Fwoom! Fwoom!
And so it is with weeks. Blink and it's Friday. Blink and you've spent five days swimming in mud. Just as you begin to get a glimmer of how precious time truly is, it runs through your fingers like fine sand.
I'm pretty sure the emergency brake doesn't work the way we might wish.
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The team of Yale scientist Thierry Emonet, his postdoctoral associate Carlotta Martelli, and his colleague John Carlson systematically recorded both the stimulus reaching the fly and the responses of individual neurons over time. They found that the timing of neuronal response was independent of the concentration of the odor in the air, which in theory might help flies track fluctuating odor stimuli. However, the timing of neuronal response did depend on the identity of the odor.
Different odors elicited tiny delays in neural response. Such odor-dependent delays could be useful to the brain processing complex scents, say the scientists. The research also shows that specific interactions between odors and surfaces can affect the timing of the stimulus and therefore neural response.
Emonet says the findings suggest the world of smell is like music, in which chemical compounds of the scent act as notes and enable recognition of specific odors depending upon when they are played, or processed. For more information on the research, see the April 9 issue of the journal Neuroscience.


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We have a pleasure to announce that the 19th volume of SAAC has been published. It includes articles touching a variety of subjects from the analysis of ancient, Egyptian and Greek ceramics to the studies of symbolic meaning of particular archaeological artifacts, including the important bronze calyx-krater from the "Heuzey B" tomb at Vergina (ancient Aigai). There are interesting contributions presenting new methods in archaeological documentation at the site as well as the results of geoarchaeological analysis from Paphos (Cyprus) and Tell el-Farkha (Egypt). There are also three texts on ancient Greek fortifications and urban architecture.
The 18th volume of SAAC - Proceedings of the Sixth Central European Conference of Egyptologists. Egypt 2012: Perspectives of Research held on 5th – 7th July 2012 in the Institute of Archaeology, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland.
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Herbert Evatt
'Doc' Evatt: An enduring legacy,…
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Seventy-five years ago this week, the United Nations General Assembly voted by 33 votes in favour, 13 against and with 10 abstentions, to partition the land between the Mediterranean Sea and Jordan River into two states, Jewish and Arab.
We know the history of what happened next; the State of Israel was subsequently declared in May 1948 and immediately forced to defend itself against five Arab armies, ultimately prevailing with increased territory. Today Israel is a thriving, high-tech, economic powerhouse.
But history may have been very different if not for Australia's Labor foreign minister at the time, Dr Herbert Vere 'Doc' Evatt, who was instrumental in seeing both the partition plan and recognition of the fledgling Jewish state through the UN.
In 1947, as chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee on Palestine, Evatt strongly favoured partition over the UN Special Committee on Palestine's (UNSCOP's) other stated alternative – preferred by the Arab nations – that a single state be formed in the land which had, since World War I, been administered by British mandate.
"Evatt wanted to become president of the United Nations," Australia-Israel Labor Dialogue co-convenor Adam Slonim said.
"He didn't get it till later. What he was given when he first had a go in 1947 was chairmanship of the Ad Hoc Committee on Palestine. That was considered a hot topic, and a consolation prize."
And while he initially knew little about the Middle East, "because of his legal background he was an admirer of Louis Brandeis. And that became influential in his views on Zionism," Slonim said.
Two subcommittees were formed, one to argue each case to the Ad Hoc Committee.
Evatt said at the time, "We really have to choose between recommending a scheme of partition on the one hand and a complete Arabian unitary state on the other; the latter state puts 600,000 Jews at the mercy of the Arabs."
His advocacy saw the partition proposal – with Jerusalem to be administered as an international city – adopted after a vote of the Ad Hoc Committee.
A two-thirds majority of the UN General Assembly – at a meeting chaired by Evatt – then ratified the plan.
A telegram to Evatt from the Jewish Agency for Palestine on December 2 stated, "We beg to convey to you our grateful appreciation of your wise and untiring guidance in the deliberations of the Ad Hoc Committee which prepared the ground for the United Nations' historic decision for the re-establishment of the Jewish Commonwealth in Palestine."
Evatt told a Zionist Federation of Australia and New Zealand dinner in Sydney a month later of the deliberations: "There was much lobbying and a certain amount of carping.
"Last-minute efforts were made to have the decision deferred, but this would have been as bad as a straight-out admission of defeat.
"This UN decision will certainly bring hope and relief to the Jewish people, who have suffered so greatly for so many centuries, and more particularly in latter years under the barbarity of Hitler."
Under Evatt, Australia was also one of the first nations to fully recognise Israel.
"Australia's decision to fully recognise Israel was as inevitable as it was just. The legal basis of Israel's existence was unassailable and rested on a decision of the assembly, and it is the established policy of the Australian government and the Australian labour movement to give unwavering support to the decisions and principles of the United Nations," he said.
As General Assembly president, in 1949 he advocated for Israel's admission as a UN member state, later calling it the "most significant moment" of his presidency.
He was later given a medallion by the State of Israel as a mark of gratitude.
In 1960 he gave it to Sydney's Moriah College as a gift, where it is on display alongside a plaque.
Former senior vice-president of the NSW Labor Party and Labor Israel Action Committee member Michael Easson said that without Evatt's "decisive" influence, "it may have been a very different outcome".
"I think there was a moment of time where massive sympathy for the creation of Israel was the very significant thing in Australia, [it] was bipartisan," he said.
Within the "insular-thinking" labour movement, Easson said it was a rare moment of "thinking more broadly and internationally", noting the tragedy of the Holocaust, which "was relevant to forming Evatt's views about what he should do".
Also relevant, Easson said, was Evatt's association with New South Wales Labor MP Abe Landa, a member of the Jewish community who travelled with Evatt to New York and San Francisco as he sought support for the creation of a Jewish state and who observed some of his committee meetings at the UN.
"And it's interesting that the labour movement itself, as well as Australia generally, have forgotten the role that we played in the formation of Israel," Easson said.
"All of this history is forgotten, and needs to be recalled … by the labour movement in particular, because it's among our proudest moments.
"That achievement of Evatt needs to be celebrated."
Easson argued that many of Evatt's achievements have been forgotten because of the subsequent history after Labor went into opposition in December 1949, overshadowing his achievements as foreign minister.
"Evatt is a tragic figure in Australian political life. He was destined for great things," he said.
After the Chifley government's defeat in 1949, Evatt became opposition leader, a post he held at the time of the famous 1955 split in the Labor party that divided allies, ended friendships and consigned the party to opposition until 1972.
"His whole career is overshadowed by the split and all that happened after that," Easson said.
"Most people in the Labor Party wish they'd never heard of Evatt and see him as a disaster. But when he was foreign minister has was an amazing figure."
He noted that in three of Australia's most significant foreign policy achievements – Australia's contribution to the Allies' victory in World War II, the creation of Israel and the creation of Indonesia – Evatt was in the thick of things. "What other person can we say had that impact?"
Speaking of impact, the partition plan Evatt championed remains at the heart of Labor's thinking today, according to Slonim, especially in light of the fact that the Arab half of the partition has never been realised.
"The origin of the Jewish people is in the hills of Judea and Samaria. We've got the archaeological record," he said.
"We may have had continuous presence over the course of 1900 years, but at the end of the day, it became part of the Ottoman Empire and then a land that had generations of local inhabitants.
"The indigenous people started returning and it created conflict, and therefore was given to the League of Nations, and then, of course, the mandate was given to the United Nations to resolve, and the resolution occurred after the Shoah.
"And one of the enduring issues that actually represents today is in Labor, Israel was created as a function of white man's burden from the guilt of the Shoah … but the price was the local Arab population."
Slonim said Evatt "knew that the Jews were indigenous".
But due to the "irreconcilability between the Jews and Arabs" at the time, he also knew partition was the only solution.
"Evatt was bright and smart in seeing that there needed to be this division. And it needed to be done properly, and it needed to be done within the legal mandate," Slonim said, adding, "Everybody's policy today is exactly the policy of 1947. Partition, separation."
He said Evatt also recognised "the irreconcilability of the contest over Jerusalem".
"So Jerusalem is decided to become an international city," Slonim said, noting that the reverberations of that decision echoed right up to the federal government's decision last month to reverse its predecessor's recognition of west Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
"It's a reversion to the status quo … which is Jerusalem, east and west, and the Old City in particular, are to be negotiated," he said.
"So Labor is actually holding the line. Unfortunately in Labor, there are elements which, of course, because of intersectionality, [believe] the oppression of Palestinians is the oppression of all people, and we know where that's led.
"But Evatt's vision is more relevant today than it's ever been."
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Tom Vickers is employed as a Senior Lecturer in Sociology within the School of Social Sciences at Nottingham Trent University. Prior to this he worked at Northumbria and Durham Universities.
Tom graduated from Durham with a BA (1st class hons.) in Youth and Community Work in 2005. During the final summer of his undergraduate programme Tom was awarded a Junior Research Associate bursary by the Faculty of Social Sciences and Health, undertaking research with Professor Sarah Banks which contributed to an ongoing evaluation of the Empowering Communities training programme. After a period as a professional youth worker Tom returned to academia in 2006 to undertake research into the changing relationship of social professionals to social and political action, funded by an ESRC 1+3 postgraduate study grant. He achieved a distinction in the Social Research Methods (Social Work) MA in 2007, and submitted his PhD thesis in 2010, passing his Viva examination on 4 January 2011 with no corrections, examined by Professor John Solomos (City University London) and Professor Gary Craig (Durham University). Tom was awarded best undergraduate student in the School of Applied Social Sciences in 2004, and best postgraduate student in the school in 2010.
Membership of other bodies:
Tom is a Fellow of the National Insitute for Health Research School for Social Care Research, an Associate of the Higher Education Academy, a member of the Runnymede Trust Emerging Scholars Forum, and a Research Associate Consultant with the National Institute for Adult and Continuing Education. He is a co-convenor of the BSA Activism in Sociology Forum.
Specialties: Social research, qualitative methods, policy/practice evaluation, social work, community organising, campaigning.
A related set of themes run through Tom's research: the impact of international, national and local economic and political contexts on policies affecting migrants and ethnic minorities; the interaction between policy, professional practice, and community action; and the use of qualitative methods to bring into focus voices which are often marginalised or ignored in policy debates.
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Mercedes invest almost 1 billion euros in ACC Stellantis-TotalEnergies joint venture
Plans for increase bateery capacity production over 200 GWh
Razvan Magureanu, September 26, 2021
Home Auto news Mercedes invest almost 1 billion euros in ACC Stellantis-TotalEnergies joint venture
Mercedes will invest in the ACC joint venture between Stellantis and TotalEnergies for battery production. In the future, the Mercedes EQ models and the Stellantis group models will receive batteries from the same manufacturer.
Mercedes has revised its electrification plans and wants to become an electric brand by 2030 where market conditions allow. For this purpose, Mercedes needs a production capacity of more than 200 GWh.
200 GWh will be provided by the 8 battery plants – four in Europe, one in the USA and three in China. For additional capacity, Mercedes will invest almost 1 billion euros in the joint venture created between the Stellantis group and TotalEnergies. Already in 2022, Mercedes will invest the first tranche of several hundred million euros in this joint venture.
ACC plans to invest more than 7 billion euros by the end of this decade to reach an installed capacity of 120 GWh.
Mercedes will not only contribute funds to this joint venture but will also bring technology and know-how.
"Participation is a strategic step on our path to CO2 neutrality. Together with ACC, we will efficiently develop and produce battery cells and modules in Europe – tailored to specific Mercedes-Benz requirements. We use economies of scale and we can offer our customers a higher level of battery technology. We are also helping to ensure that Europe remains a hub for the car industry – even in the age of electromobility. As part of the new cooperation, the ACC intends to double the capacity of its European plants. industrial competitiveness in the development and manufacture of battery cells, "says Ola Källenius, head of Daimler, quoted by auto motor und sport magazine.
ACC will deliver batteries to Mercedes from the middle of the decade that will be designed especially for models built on the new MMA platform starting in 2024. MMA (Mercedes Modular Architecture) is intended for compact and middle class electric models but on the same platform will be built for a period also PHEV models.
But the batteries delivered to Mercedes will be different from those from Stellantis. Each manufacturer will have its own specifications for the batteries because each manufacturer will decide on the chemistry of the battery and the properties of the battery such as range, charging speed and battery quality.
Also, the batteries will be modular based on a standardized kit with uniformly designed components and interfaces. It will be possible to vary the chemistry of the battery and its height. ACC wants 95% of a battery's cells to be recyclable.
The new partnership with ACC for Europe does not affect Mercedes' other partnerships with CATL and Farasis for Asia.
The young ACC company founded in 2020 wants to become the leader of the European battery market. The research and development center in Bordeaux (France) is already operational and the pilot plant in Nersac (France) will start production at the end of 2021.
For Mercedes, cooperation with ACC ensures an increase in initial production capacity of 200 GWh, which is no longer enough after the Stuttgart-based manufacturer revised its electrification plans and wants to become an electric brand in 2030, 9 years earlier than expected.
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