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The football during Tottenham's Europa League campaign might have been dull but there has been plenty of other things to keep us amused during their Thursday night forays.
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Krakow Sonic Society
Anti-vibration platform
QUALITY RECOVERY SYSTEM Level 1
Manufacturer: ASURA
Price (when reviewed): from 825 EUR
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Provided for test by: ASURA
pecialization is the key to success on a market dominated by large players, especially if one starts business without any serious capital. One has to distinguish somehow from all others - and it is not just about an idea for a given product, but also a fulfilling a particular demand. Perhaps the latter is even more important. It seems to me that the proposal of Rafael Szymanik is a good idea, from both audio and marketing point of view.
Mr Szymanik has treated audio as a hobby for the last 17 years. The anti-vibration platform under review is his first commercial product. It was built based on his experience and his research for the theoretical basis for the influence such accessories have on audio systems.
The anti-vibration platform used under the power distributors has a dual role: it is primarily an anti-vibration element that converts vibration into a heat, but it is also a component that minimizes electromagnetic radiation from the distributor. The latter is not a new idea, of course, let me recall the active Tranquility Base platform from Synergistic Research, ground filters, etc. This particular product is an original blend of minerals and other elements combined with wood and leather. Importantly, the platforms are custom-made for specific power distributors/strips so that it fits into a wooden frame and its bottom is exactly adhered to the leather that closes the blend.
The platform is delivered in a large, nice plywood box. Inside one finds a board and three feet, as well as flat plywood element, which help to level the filling. The platform has a special design that Rafael called Quality Recovery System Level 1 (QRS L1). The feet are also wooden and have a distinctive shape resembling a rectangular triangle. On the bottom of the platform there are small milled pits that accommodate these feet.
There are two options: for the "lazy" users, i.e. with three, equally aligned on shorter sides, and the "right" way with these pits spaced with respect to the center of gravity of the platform. Setting up the platform is not easy and I would prefer that these pits were larger. In everyday use, each time I had to move the platform I also had to set up the feet properly which takes time. Time that I'd rather spent listening to the music.
The stand resembles a wooden frame with the bottom made of the same wood. Inside, an original mix of minerals and other elements was added, and to make sure it is not spilled, the mixture was sealed with a leather belt embossed with the company's name: ASURA (originally the brand was supposed to be called Rafaell's cable High End Audio and the platform was to be called HUMANIZER). The whole looks really good, reminding me products prepared by small Japanese companies. In my opinion this is not quite yet the same level of make and finish quality, but it is already very, very good.
The key elements, is the QRS L1 technology. As Rafael says, it is the result of "converting 17 years of hobby and passion into something real, tangible and effective." Over this period, he created many audio-related products including interconnects (passive and active), power cables and some other that improved performance, or rather "removed obstacles and traps in the audio system that affect the music that we hear from loudspeakers."
To quote his product brochure:
With QRS L1 I focused on improving working conditions for power strips/distributors and achieved enhancements in three aspects:
power conditioning by the power strip,
separation of vibrations coming from the surface strip is placed on,
minimizing the influence of static charges on the operation of the power strip.
Listening to the Asura platform should be performed in a slightly different way than usual. As it reads in the company's materials, "this platform does not" like "to be removed from under power strip (it requires much longer settling time in the system than when installed for the first time), so one should start using it when all other elements of the system has been already selected." This "settling" in the system should be audible for the first 3-4 hours (the whole system has to plugged in and playing) and after that time one can start initial listening test. The ultimate test should be performed no sooner than after three full days of playing, although there still might be some minor changes to the sound even after that. So the comparison must be done as follows – one has to use Asura for a few days listening to one's system performance with it and only than remove it and listen without a platform, placed on the floor or with a different platform.
RAFAEL SZYMANIK
I am 57 years old and already have a lot of life experience. I started my career in the heavy machine industry, first as a CNC machine operator, and then I was promoted to the supervisor position. I worked on lathes, milling machines and CNC machining center. Later, the direction of my career changed due to additional education which enabled me to change the profile of my job and join a thriving Polish business. I was responsible for organizing new production and technological lines and securing continuity of production. The company was active in three industries: furniture, frames and electronic (watches, cash registers).
My next employer was the Institute of Nuclear Physics where I worked in a department that was responsible for instrumentation for all the institute's science departments. At the time we built our own cyclotron and we did also some work for the largest CERN cyclotron in Switzerland. That experience allowed me to get to know some very "exotic" technologies, materials and people. This is where I participated in the study researching an impact of the reactor explosion in Ukraine.
As my family grew working for state-owned companies was no longer an option so I quit the technical profession for a couple of years and became a manager responsible for the maintenance and operation of the biggest sports club in Krakow. There was also an interesting "historical episode" in my carrier when for one year I worked in the best, four-generation arts and crafts factory in Krakow. I worked in a forged metalwork section and re-mastered the old techniques of making beautiful metal things (I used tools and equipment from the early nineteenth century - so cool!). Among other things this small factory made the door to the famous St. Mary's Church in Krakow, and I myself left my mark in the form of a wrought storefront of the Voight workshop on Florianska St. (my father was a sculptor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow so I guess I inherited for of his artistic talent).
After some time I returned to the furniture-frame-electronic company, and after it was overtaken by new investors I got transferred to the head office of a new company where I was involved in advertising (e.g. 80% of Mercedes salons in Poland use my and my colleague's work). To utilize my knowledge and experience company transferred me to the department building prototype street cleaning machines for a well-known German company. Later, since I did my best and had a lot interesting ideas, I decided to leave this company and start my own business.
For almost 20 years I was involved in servicing and selling of hard and super hard tools (carbides, diamonds). After this period, as a result of working over 740 hours a month my health gave up and I lot three years of m life. However, I finally got better and took some additional training I got a job at a 50-person engineering company working mainly for the automotive industry. 40% of its projects were done for Audi. I was responsible for setting up a whole new department of prototypes and then converting ideas of our engineers into tangible objects.
I prepared e.g. a prototype machine for ABB company allowing them to produce the largest transformers in the world. There were four of us working in a 1,000-meter hall with a sheet metal laser and Rapid Prototyping machines. My last job was to secure the operation of a 100-person electronic company producing drivers. For 2.5 years I was involved in the design and implementation of induction (element of home oven) for the largest domestic appliance manufacturer in Poland.
Now the most important thing: my whole life I liked to learn and assimilate knowledge from various fields so that I could later use it in the specific activity that I was dealing with at the moment. The same applies to audio, which I have been interested in for over 35 years, and I have been practicing for over 17 years. The solutions that I use in my audio products are often from "far-away" fields of science-technology, apparently having no connection to audio. Some people seem very upset that I have a vast knowledge and experience in various fields but after all reading does not hurt ... Well, I tried to follow Parkinson's rule and not to stay in one company for more than three years (the longest period ever was 7). Except for my own company, which was a beautiful period in my life and now, starting with Asura QRS L1, I plan to repeat such a wonderful period.
Let me add that music is my passion - during a record year I was able to listen to 1500 CDs, and some of them, more than once. I like live music very much so I try to go to concerts as often as I can. I listen to a wide spectrum of music genres ranging from classics, jazz, rock, pop to etno and even contemporary music of the 21st century composers. I keep in touch with the lecturers of Music Academy in Krakow and I often attend their lectures.
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While the Clinton/Trump election cycle has pretty much taken the cake for worst election of the year, the United Nations General Assembly isn't far behind with its confirmation of a new secretary-general nominee who carries a background in socialist politics and refugee matters.
Obama said in his statement that the new secretary-general would play an imperative role in dealing with "unprecedented challenges" in the world, including the increase of millions of refugees and the political tool of the day – climate change.
Guterres had actually served as prime minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was also the head of the country's Socialist Party. He also headed up the controversial U.N. High Commission for Refugees from 2005 through 2015.
To showcase his penchant for social issues, Guterres addressed the U.N. assembly with his first speech as their new head and spoke specifically about bringing relief to refugees and 'promoting' gender equality as the most important priorities, but also said he would take a more hands-off approach to his new position.


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[Review] Wolf by Wolf – Ryan Graudin
Kategorie: Rezension
Tags: Adolf Hitler, alternate history, motorcycles, Nazism, race, World War II, Young Adult
Genre: Fantasy, Historischer Roman
In 1944, when she was only 6 years old, Yael was deported to one of the Nazis' death camps where she not only had to watch her family and friends die but also was abused as a research object by a mad Nazi scientist whose experiments made her suffer even more. But Yael survived torture and tragedy and managed to escape from the camp to join the secret resistance against the National Socialists.
12 years later, Adolf Hitler is still alive and his Third Reich and the Imperial Japan under Emperor Hirohito rule the world. To celebrate their victory over the Allies they host an annual motorcycle race through all the conquered countries and for Yael and the resistance this is the only chance for the ultimate strike against the Nazis since the winner of the race gets to attend a ball in Tokyo which provides the only chance to get close to Hitler. Yael's mission is clear: win the race and kill the man who is responsible for millions of deaths in World War II, including the ones of the people she loved…
What if the Hitler and the Axis Powers had won World War II?
What if Adolf Hitler had won World War II and still ruled the world in 1956? This is the scenario of Ryan Graudin's historical fiction novel "Wolf by Wolf" in which she creates an alternate world where the world is under the rule of the Axis Powers, Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany and Emperor Hirohito's Imperial Japan – so far, so terrifying. But here comes the fun part: The Third Reich and Japan invented an annual motorcycle race to celebrate their victory and show the world the vast extent of their common territory. The so-called Axis Tour starts in the Nazis' "World Capital Germania" (former Berlin) and leads through Europe, Western Africa and Asia until it ends in Tokyo where the winner gets awarded not only with an Iron Cross but also with an invitation to the Victor's Ball including an audience with the Führer itself. One of the participants is Graudin's protagonist, the Jewish girl Yael who is a former death camp prisoner and is now fighting for the resistance with the aim to bring an end to Hitler's reign of terror. Of course as a Jew she's at the risk of ending up in death camp again if the Nazis find out about her but Yael is also a shape-shifter so that she steals the identity of former Victor Adele Wolfe and races in her place.
Win the race. Kill Hitler.
Epic motorcycle race, killing Hitler, skinshift powers – when I first heard about "Wolf by Wolf" I was almost immediately intrigued by Ryan Graudin's idea, especially because the book often got described as "Inglourious Basterds" meets "The Hunger Games", so I had very high expectations for a crazy and awesome novel. Unfortunately the scenario turned out to be pretty much the only thing about this book that I really loved while the story itself soon became quite a huge disappointment.
An epic motorcycle race that is only exciting in theory
Let's start with the race which is supposed to be the main part of the book. The concept of the Axis Tour sounds pretty exciting and even though there are the usual "don't kill someone" rules it quickly becomes quite clear that the contestants would give everything for the victory. BUT: the race is completely boring and only a minor part of the story takes places on the actual track while most of the "action" happens at the checkpoints in between. So if you're hoping for thrilling action scenes on the road and fierce motorcycle fights then let me tell you that the actual racing parts usually don't take longer than a handful of pages. Second: the race seems more or less random because the riders apparently can race whenever they want and at the end of the stage some checkpoint operator throw's some random times on the scoreboard which doesn't make the race very interesting and comprehensible. Third: In theory there are so many exciting places on the route like Prague, Rome, Cairo, Baghdad, New Delhi or Shanghai but you never actually get to experience them because Ryan Graudin completely fails at making you feel those places. There are almost no descriptions of the cities and often the only indication for the current location is that the author TELLS you where they are right now or because it's mentioned in the chapter headings. That's pretty disappointing because for me it took away a lot of the fascination about the Axis Tour.
Weak worldbuilding
The same can be said about the rest of the worldbuilding which was just SO superficial. I actually never had the feeling that I was diving into a world that is ruled by terror, hate and racism because there's so little historical background in the story. I know this might sound a bit provocative but I sometimes asked myself why the resistance wanted to end Hitler's rulership in the first place. I mean of course everybody knows that Hitler was a monster and that his regime killed millions of people but hadn't I known this before then I would barely have noticed what's so wrong about a world where Nazi Germany and the Imperial Japan rule because again, Ryan Graudin never makes you feel the terror the Third Reich spread over the world. Yes, there are some short passages that tell how Yael grew up in the Nazi death camp but in my opinion the author didn't succeed in providing these scenes with a lot of emotions. For me almost the whole worldbuilding was based on TELLING instead of SHOWING and that's not the way it should be in a novel that has such a delicate historical background.
Much too simple story with superficial characters
Let's also talk about the characters which I found just as superficial as the worldbuilding. It already starts with Yael who is one of the most boring protagonists I've read about in a while because the only things that make her interesting are her background as a death camp survivor and the fact that she's a skinshifter. I've already mentioned above that I didn't find the flashbacks into Yael's past very intense and unfortunately I was also disappointed by her "superpower" which sounded interesting in the description of the book but for me it seemed to be just a convenient tool to let the protagonist solve her problems rather effortless and this leads me to another aspect about the novel that I found quite annoying: The story is already super simpel and without any actual depth but when there finally appear some obstacles in Yael's way to fulfill her mission then it usually only takes her one or two pages to get out of those dangerous situations again. In this story there are usually to ways to solve a problem: a) skinshifting b) something completely unrealistic happens like people suddenly behaving irrationally or someone (usually NOT Yael herself) comes up with a magical solution like "well, you didn't know that I secretly tuned your bike so it's no problem to catch up again". Since everything is so simpel and often also quite ridiculous this story soon becomes pretty boring because I never had the feeling that Yael's mission could not be successful in the end so there was almost no suspense at all for me.
So those were the parts that I found annoying, here are the things I found REALLY annoying:
If you thought that David from Brandon Sanderson's "Steelheart" already sucked at metaphors then you can look forward to Ryan Graudin's because some of them were even worse. Want a sample? "The Roman checkpoint operator's accent was mozzarella soft, balancing out the red frustration on his face" – seriously, a "mozzarella soft" accent? Maybe this was supposed to be funny because the character is Italian (haha…) but stupid phrases like this really pissed me off because there are just so many of them.
If you write a book that is set in a country that is foreign to you and where the characters speak a language that is foreign to you as well then please don't use words of this language just for fun because IT. MAKES. NO. SENSE. The characters are GERMAN who speak GERMAN so if you write their dialogues there's no need to emphasize it with GERMAN words to show that they speak GERMAN because IT'S THEIR NATIVE LANGUAGE and you can't talk "double German". I found this already annoying in "The Book Thief" because it's completely redundant, especially if it's done WRONG since phrases like "No Scheisse" really hurt when you're a native German speaker. And there's "Scheisse" everywhere so maybe Graudin just really likes German swearwords?
The Character names. The German name of Yael's fake identity is "Adele Wolfe". If you already give a German character the completely untypical name "Adele" then at least make sure that her last name is proper German which "Wolfe" actually isn't since it's supposed to be written without "e". And no German in the history of Germans was or would ever be named "Luka Löwe". Reading this novel often felt like reading a children's book where all characters have funny animal names but apparently that's just how we Germans roll in Graudin's eyes. I probably should be glad that Adele Wolfe's and Luka Löwe's friends Bruno Bär, Thorsten Tiger, Jakob Jaguar and Emil Elefant weren't part of the story – but who knows, maybe they'll show up in the sequel…
A good idea alone doesn't make a good story
As you can see I was (and still am) very disappointed by "Wolf by Wolf": the story was much too simple and quite predictable, the characters had no depth at all and the worldbuilding was extremely weak so that all that remains is just a very good, but poorly executed idea. This really bothers me because there's SO MUCH wasted potential, especially when you read the author's note which was actually my favorite part of this book. In this afterword Graudin talks about the historical background of her setting which was really interesting to read about and I was wondering why she didn't actually put this into her story to improve the worldbuilding. To be honest reading these lines made me angrier about the Nazi regime then the whole actual novel did and that's not how things should usually work. Also I was a bit surprised when she explained that "this book, at it's heart, is about identity" when her characters are so superficially drawn and completely lack any depth or when she claimed that she did a lot of research about World War II when there are actually so little historical facts in the novel? "Wolf by Wolf" could have been such a great book but after this disappointing start I'm not even sure if I still want to continue this series at all…
Wolf by Wolf (Wolf by Wolf #1)
Author: Ryan Graudin
Series: Wolf by Wolf #1
Amount: 388 pages
Publication date: October 20th 2015
Price: HC 17,72 €/PB 14,95 €/eBook 9,49 €
Ryan Graudin's alternate history novel "Wolf by Wolf" comes with a fascinating premise and all the ingredients for a great YA novel but the flat characters, the predictable story that almost completely lacks any suspense and the disappointing world building made it quite a disappointing read for me.
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More than 20 scientists published a paper in the "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America," arguing there were "significant shortcomings" and "errors, inappropriate methods, and implausible assumptions" in Jacobson's work.
Additionally, Carnegie Mellon University researchers stated that Jacobson and his co-authors "do not present sufficient analysis to demonstrate the technical, economic, and social feasibility of their proposed strategy."
And researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory also said that Jacobson's plan would be "dangerously risky to 'bet the planet' on a narrow portfolio of favored low-carbon energy technologies."
Likewise, former National Aeronautics and Space Administration scientist and climate advocate James Hansen said of Jacobson's plan: "suggesting that renewables will let us phase rapidly off fossil fuels in the United States, China, India, or the world as a whole is almost the equivalent of believing in the Easter Bunny and Tooth Fairy."
According to the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy's (ACEEE) latest State Scorecard, "states are investing more in energy efficiency and delivering increased power savings."
Linda Gorman, a director at the Denver-based Independence Institute, argues the opposite. Colorado's electricity costs have only gone up since it enacted its renewable energy policies, she says.
Between 2000 and 2014, industrial electricity rates increased by 67 percent, she says. And according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, Colorado industrial users paid 6.71 cents per kWh in 2014 compared to the national average of 6.47 cents.
And renewable energy policies like Jacobson's would cost millions of jobs, according to an analysis of Jacobson's data by Energy in Depth, a research program of the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA).
"His plans would actually destroy millions of jobs across the country," the analysis claims. Approximately 3.8 million jobs would be lost compared to the nearly 2.6 million long-term jobs Jacobson estimated would be created, IPAA argues.
Energy in Depth linked to Jacobson's data, which quantifies job losses by sector nationwide, including more than 2.4 million transportation; more than 800,000 in oil and natural gas; nearly 90,000 in coal mining.
"In a highlighted column entitled 'Net Long Term Jobs,' Jacobson's table shows a negative 1,284,030," IPAA states.
Dan Haley, president and CEO of the Colorado Oil and Gas Association (COGA), told Watchdog.org that the oil and gas industry provides "good-paying jobs – more than 100,000 direct and indirect jobs" that support families and economies statewide.
"Our rural economy in Colorado has struggled in recent years," he said, "but oil and gas jobs have kept the lights on, quite literally, in small town store-fronts and homes across our state."
He added: "Colorado's oil and natural gas workers aren't interested in new jobs. They want to keep the jobs they have safely and responsibly producing the reliable energy we all need every single day."
Haley points out that while Polis and others might promote wind and solar energy sources, their devices are constructed by using oil and gas.
"In fact, oil and natural gas are the underpinnings of modern society," he said. "It's not just fuel for our cars or gas for our furnaces, but rather it is a foundational building block of countless products we all use every day."
"Rather than picking winners and losers, and trying to push people toward lower-paying jobs they may not want, it would be best to simply give energy resources the chance to compete, because we're confident our Colorado-based oil and natural gas production is cleaner and better than anywhere," Haley said.
Advancing such plans, University of Colorado professor Roger Pielke Jr. argues, is based on data "magic thinking."
Gorman agrees, saying, "Only someone who believes in magic can possibly believe that this will improve Colorado's economy."
And yet the same people who believe this, she argues, "want to give state government control of energy pricing and production."
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Marijuana boosts users' appetities by changing the signals brain cells produce from sated to still hungry. Karen Hopkin reports.
It's one of marijuana's most well-known side effects: the ravenous desire for food commonly called the munchies. But why does weed make chocolate, chips and, as the Harold and Kumar documentaries have shown, White Castle sliders so irresistible? Finally, science may have an answer.
The urge to eat is controlled by complex circuits of neurons in the brain. Some of these nerve cells make us feel hungry, driving us to eat. Others cause us to feel sated, so we put down the Doritos bag and stop filling our faces.
To figure out how marijuana might hijack this system, researchers exposed mice to a chemical that mimics the effect of the active ingredient in cannabis, THC, by binding to the brain's THC receptors. These doped-up rodents tend to keep noshing, even if they've already eaten their fill. But what's going on in their little mouse brains? Paradoxically, the researchers found that the cannabinoid receptor turns on the neurons that normally make animals feel full.
Knowing these details of neuronal activity could lead to better treatments for those patients who could really benefit from a case of the munchies.


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