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More recently, I've switched to posting the same data starting on December 15th, which is (roughly) the start of the Omicron variant wave (although this is fuzzier than the start of the Delta wave).
Weekly Update: County-level #COVID19 vaccination levels by 2020 Partisan Lean
NOTE: Given how much the national pace of vaccination shots has slowed down recently (the 7-day average is down to around ~330,000/day), going forward this will be a MONTHLY update, unless the pace picks up again significantly.
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Updated: A Full Year of U.S. COVID Vaccinations by Partisan Lean...Animated
Last summer, I pulled together the occasional vaccination rate scatter plot graphs I'd been compiling for months into a single animated GIF image to show how both the correlation (R^2) and steepness (slope) of the partisan COVID vaccination divide grew from almost nothing at all to a gaping chasm over a six month period, from February 2021 through August 2021.
Today, I'm presenting an updated version of this animation which not only includes the following six months as well (September 2021 - February 2022), but also cleans up & standardizes the layout of each graph as much as possible. This includes making sure the thru date is in the upper right-hand corner on all of them, moving the population key to the lower-right corner, removing the (naive in retrospect) "herd immunity target" line, and moving the R^2 stamp immediately below the thru date to make the graph itself as clean as possible.
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Now that we're a full two months into the Omicron Variant wave, I've updated my case/death rate tracking to reflect that as well...because the data so far is showing a completely new chapter as we enter the 3rd year of the Coronavirus Pandemic.
Note: I've temporarily stopped tracking boosters again, as it appears that the data on this front is still too confused to get an accurate county-level national read.
For Virginia, I'm using the official state health department dashboard, but am only updating it once a month since it doesn't allow you to export, view or download all 95 counties/city-counties at once, making this a tedious effort.
Weekly Update: The Great Omicron Reversion to Form Has Begun
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"Won't Someone Think of the Children??" Apparently not.
Back in November, after the FDA & CDC gave the green light for children age 5 - 11 to get vaccinated against COVID-19, I said:
It's also important to note that after both the R2 (correlation) and slope formulas have pretty much plateaued over the past few weeks.
It'll be interesting to see what happens starting around Thanksgiving now that the FDA has given final approval to the Pfizer vaccine for 5-11 year olds (remember, I only track fully-vaccinated people, and the second Pfizer shot isn't given until 3 weeks after the first; assuming the first batch of younger kids starts getting their initial dose tomorrow (November 3rd), that means they should start getting their second dose around November 24th).
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Weekly Update: Right on schedule, the partisan case rate divide has started reverting to form, with death rates likely to follow soon.
Now that we're a full seven weeks into the Omicron Variant wave, I've updated my case/death rate tracking to reflect that as well...because the data so far is showing a completely new chapter as we enter the 3rd year of the Coronavirus Pandemic.
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Brushing up oral hygiene could help recovery after a heart attack, according to a recent cardiology congress. The bacteria that cause gum disease produce an enzyme that can slow down blood vessel repair (at least in mice). So brush and floss your teeth twice a day – and visit the hygienist.
Imagine having one pair of glasses that deliver perfect vision whatever close work you're doing. Enter Eyejusters. With the turn of two dials hidden behind the frame, you can switch focus according to your task. They won't correct distance vision, though. Available in 14 styles (+0.50 to +4.00 strength). From £69, eyejusters.com. Do check with your optometrist, however, if you have a complex prescription.
Struggle with those tip-of-the-tongue moments –when you can't quite remember the name of a book you've just read or TV programme you watched? Amping up your fitness routine could be the answer. So says research published in the journal Nature, which found that being fitter helps protect against language decline as we age. Another good reason to lace up those trainers.
It's long been thought that moderate to vigorous activity is the best way to improve health and boost longevity. But now research suggests that doubling the amount of even light activity can cut the risk of premature death by almost 30%. What's more getting up and moving a bit, for example taking a slow walk, can significantly reduce the risk of diabetes, heart disease and stroke, aka cardio-metabolic disease. The message? Move more at any intensity – the more the better. Good news, if you find it hard to get seriously hot and sweaty.
It makes a change to read something about Brussels that doesn't relate to Brexit. We're talking Brussels sprouts and other cruciferous veg – think broccoli, cauli and cabbage – which according to new research are especially good for women's heart health. The research, published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, found that women aged 70+ who ate the most cruciferous veg had thinner artery walls than those who ate fewer. Thickened artery walls (atherosclerosis) are an underlying cause of heart disease and stroke.
'We're family when the family can't be there.' That's the slogan of Driving Miss Daisy (drivingmissdaisy.co.uk), a community companion driving service inspired by the film of the same name, starring Morgan Freeman as chauffeur to a stubborn Southern matron. Known affectionately as 'Daisies', all drivers are qualified first aiders and are currently doing dementia and Alzheimer's awareness courses. Journeys are individually priced and vary from area to area.


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Hilmar Kaiser: Regional resistance to central government policies: Ahmed Djemal Pasha, the governors of Aleppo, and Armenian deportees in the spring and summer of 1915, pp. 173-218.
Stener Ekern: The modernizing bias of human rights: stories of mass killings and genocide in Central America, pp. 219-241.
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Journal of Genocide Research 20 (2018), 4: Genozid
Journal of Genocide Research 19 (2017), 2: Special Issue: Populating the Greater Germanic Empire: Volksgemeinschaft and Lebensraum
Journal of Genocide Research 18 (2016), 2–3: Genocide and Guatemala
Journal of Genocide Research 18 (2016), 1: Völkermord
Journal of Genocide Research 17 (2015), 4: Canada and Colonial Genocide
Journal of Genocide Research 17 (2015), 3: Sondernummer: Armenia
Journal of Genocide Research 17 (2015), 1: Genozidforschung
Journal of Genocide Research 16 (2014), 4: The Memorialisation of Genocide
Journal of Genocide Research 16 (2014), 2–3: Special double issue: The Nigeria-Biafra war, 1967–1970: postcolonial conflict and the question of genocide
Journal of Genocide Research 15 (2013), 3: Special Issue: New approaches to Raphael Lemkin
Journal of Genocide Research 15 (2013), 2: Massacre in the Old and New Worlds, c.1780–1820
Journal of Genocide Research 14 (2012), 3–4: Mass violence and the end of the Dutch colonial empire in Indonesia
Journal of Genocide Research 13 (2011), 4: East Pakistan War, 1971
Journal of Genocide Research 13 (2011), 1/2: Genocide and Philosophy
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Journal of Genocide Research 11 (2009), 2/3: New Perspectives on Soviet Mass Violence
Journal of Genocide Research 10 (2008), 2: Settlers, Imperialism, Genocide (Part I: North America)
Journal of Genocide Research 10 (2008), 1: Late Ottoman Genocides
Journal of Genocide Research 9 (2007), 4:
Journal of Genocide Research 9 (2007), 3: Special Issue: Nuclear Weapons, Liberal Democracy and Genocide. A New Field of Dialogue
Journal of Genocide Research 9 (2007), 2: Special Issue: Genocide and International Law
Journal of Genocide Research 8 (2006), 3: Special Issue: Genocide in the Central Balkans: Bosnia and Herzegovina in the twentieth century
Journal of Genocide Research 7 (2005), 4: Raphael Lemkin: the "founder of the United Nation's Genocide Convention" as a historian of mass violence
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Ericsson Consumer Lab's new survey is a very generous revelation of what the future is going to look like. The new survey titled 'A Networked Life' found that consumers expect more devices connected to the internet to serve their countless requirements of accessing the web.
The report also finds that consumers acknowledge the advantage of various devices in their life getting connected to the internet. The respondents for this survey were numbered at 45,290 face-to-face and online interviews with people form the age group of 15-69 years old, representing about 1.2 billion people across 24 countries including Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Norway, Sweden, the UK and the US.
1. Chile with 32 per cent, South Korea with 29 per cent and Brazil with 28 percent have the highest penetration of internet users.
2. The forerunners of the networked lifestyle are the netizens who spend more time online on a wider range of services than others, comprising of 17 per cent globally.
3. 65 per cent of netizens participate in a sharing economy, compared to 9 per cent of un-networked.
4. 98 per cent of netizens own more than one device (smartphone and other devices like a laptop or tablet).
5. In 12 countries, it was found that the average number of devices connected to the internet has increased to 4.1 devices in 2015 as compared to 3.1 devices per household in 2014.
6. In 24 countries, 32 percent own a smart TV. It is possible video on demand streaming services and apps will become mainstream on a global scale in the near future causing ripple sin the entertainment industry.


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Same question as previous--when will you be issuing this in paperback? I am not an eReader. Thank you.
When will you be releasing Heirs of fortune in paperback? I absolutely adore Soldier of Raetia and am waiting with baited breath for this sequel. Thank you.
Heather Domin Thank you for that! I'll definitely be putting out a paperback, hopefully by Christmas or New Year's.
For anyone who saw my review of Heather Domin's The Soldier of Raetia, you may recall one of the many things I loved about it was the writing itself. Domin's voice is mesmerizing, the sort of wordsmithing that allows her readers to disappear into her characters' lives, their trials and tribulations and to feel their grief when they lose a brother in arms in battle or in betrayal. This is not a soft-sell, romanticized portrait of what it meant to be a Roman soldier in 10BC. Rather, it offers a be For anyone who saw my review of Heather Domin's The Soldier of Raetia, you may recall one of the many things I loved about it was the writing itself. Domin's voice is mesmerizing, the sort of wordsmithing that allows her readers to disappear into her characters' lives, their trials and tribulations and to feel their grief when they lose a brother in arms in battle or in betrayal. This is not a soft-sell, romanticized portrait of what it meant to be a Roman soldier in 10BC. Rather, it offers a believable impression of what it was like to be a soldier encamped for weeks in less than ideal conditions—the cold, the mud, the waiting, and the fierce brutality of armed combat, not with guns and missiles across a vast expanse of landscape but hand-to-hand with swords, daggers, spears and axes, and the personal nature of seeing a man's face as he dies a bloody death.
The Valerian's Legion series is what is coined realistic fiction, that contradictory term used to encompass a novel that offers the author's imagination the realism that allows readers to believe the story could have happened in the precise way it plays out in the recounting of what it meant to defend Rome and to conquer her enemies. Among it, it is the story of General Cassius Valerian and his tribune and heir, Manilus Dardanus, and how the topography of their relationship is influenced by everything around them—the rules of a society which demands they maintain the appropriate facade in public so no one suspects what they do in private, for Dardanus to marry and further his lineage, and the very real possibility of death in battle. Readers also play witness to Valerian's own internal battle, which dictates his every action towards Dardanus in this novel. Doing what he believes is right, to the point it nearly destroys everything they are to each other.
Consul Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus features prominently in The Heirs of Fortune, and in the Afterward Domin expresses how little, comparatively, is known of Augustus' stepson, which is advantageous for the author as it allowed her to flex her creative muscles a bit, which she does so impressively (if you're at all interested, though, Google him: his descendants are well known). Domin captures the personality of the twenty-nine-year-old warrior—charming, bold to the point of brash at times, fearless to the point of being reckless as well as the absolute loyalty given him by his soldiers. In fact, it's Dardanus' admiration of Drusus that heralds in what became an escalating friction between Dar and Valerian. Seeing them at odds for the greater part of this book wasn't easy, but it deepened my investment in their relationship all the more for it.
The might of the world's greatest military didn't often invite challenge, but there were tribes who took umbrage to Rome's penchant for razing villages and making slaves of the people, and those men would attack, a key element in Drusus' role in the book, leading to an ultimate and untimely demise. One thing Domin makes clear is that Roman politics hasn't lost its influence over the millennia. Diplomacy as an art form that, when paired with savvy, prevented war.
I am so in love with this series. Love the characters, love the history, love the affirmation of the love Valerian and Dardanus feel for each other, and love Heather Domin's writing. The only thing I don't love is that it's been three years since this book was published, with no idea when to expect book three, Valerian's Legion: The War of Illyria. This sequel is a direct continuation of book one and as such cannot be read as a standalone. To understand the bond between Dardanus and Valerian, readers must know how and where they began, which made seeing where it went here so heart wrenching. The twenty year age difference between them is, in some ways, significant as it's difficult to tell how much of Valerian's actions and responses are attributed to his accumulated life experience, how much is his personality, and how much is the fear of how deeply he loves and needs Dardanus.
Highly recommended for fans of historical fiction.
Not only was this exciting and moving, it's so beautifully written. I expected no less, but this was just wonderful.
I was excited to read this continuation of Dardanus's and Valerian's adventures. Well written novel of the further maturing of a young man fighting with the legions in Germania under Drusus Germanicus. I liked the personal story between Valerian and Dardanus--their differences over the ambitious Drusus. These and other attitude differences bring them to an impasse. How will they repair their tattered relationship? The author brought in Dardanus's friends and others from the first novel and has i I was excited to read this continuation of Dardanus's and Valerian's adventures. Well written novel of the further maturing of a young man fighting with the legions in Germania under Drusus Germanicus. I liked the personal story between Valerian and Dardanus--their differences over the ambitious Drusus. These and other attitude differences bring them to an impasse. How will they repair their tattered relationship? The author brought in Dardanus's friends and others from the first novel and has introduced us to more sympathetic characters, especially the young slave boy, Karwe. I loved Heather's descriptive nature passages--reminiscent to me of Bryher in her Roman Wall: A Novel.
overall, just as in the first book, the whole depiction of the setting is great.
What I expected was maybe to see the characters more as humans, not so much as heroes.
I wished they would surprise me, I hoped to think and feel with them. In stead, I felt more like a bystander, and they were more untouchable than ever.
Which I didn't really expect, since the first book laid the foundation for different understanding on the image of the Classical Hero.
As far as I checked, the author is planning on writing a third book- Valerian's Legion: The War of Illyria - maybe that's where the surprises I hope for will be.
I enjoyed it even more than the first book!
A nicely crafted period tale (Germanic forests setting mainly) ... good arc and resolution. Some good battle/action sequences and naturally lots of tension/pull between our May-December M-M pairing. The book ending sets up nicely for the next book in the series set elsewhere in the Roman empire (middle east).
It took me a while to finish this because, it kinda lost it's touch.


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Thane is a city in the northwestern side of Maharashtra, around 25 kilometers away from Mumbai. Just like Mumbai, Thane experiences a humid tropical climate with heavy rainfall during monsoon. An immediate neighbor of Mumbai, Thane, is an extremely populous urban agglomeration with nearly two million residents. It is a part of the huge Mumbai Metropolitan Region. Being more of a residential city, the people of Thane mostly work in the service sector of the Mumbai Metropolitan area. Thane generates the fifth largest GDP in the state. Thane holds great records of history. Indias first railroad was laid in Thane and it was the terminus for Asias first ever passenger train which was inaugurated on 6th April 1853. The train connected a stretch of 34 kilometers from Thane to Colaba. The city has rapidly developed and is now well-connected with several neighboring suburbs and other cities through railways as well as roadways. With a handsome share of skyscrapers and plenty of amenities, Thane has become one of the most well-developed and well-planned cities in Maharashtra. Thane provides a great number of opportunities as well as a lifestyle similar to Mumbais. Thane is away from the cacophony of Mumbais city life, yet it is near enough to feel Mumbais lively vibes.
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Q: Entity Framework Code First Relationship Without Foreign Key I'm new to ORM tools and I want to do relationships between tables only with naming convention. For example if I have classes like below;
public class City
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I want to map these classes in my database like this.
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I don't want to use foreign keys and when I put any class as a property in another class I want to migrate these property as "ClassNameId". Any solution for this ?

A: Your design for relationship is not correct to use EF.
the correct relationship is
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and in entity configuration you need to make in city definition on your EntityTypeConfiguration :
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Epping Forest District Museum
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Local Legends: Thomas and Constance Taylor
Posted on 29 April 2020 by EFDMuseum
We've come across some fascinating stories while researching our new school workshop, Local Legends, telling the stories of some important local people…
Part of the building that Epping Forest District Museum now occupies on Sun Street, Waltham Abbey was a house in Tudor times, built during the reign of King Henry VIII. Over the years many things have been found in the old house which give us clues about the people who have lived and worked here.
The fabric of the building itself holds traces of the previous occupants. On the ground floor is a fireplace with a wooden lintel above. The letters 'TCxT' have been hammered into the lintel in iron nails.
TCT probably refers to Thomas and Constance Taylor, who records suggest were tenants in the house from 1675. At this time the house had just come into the ownership of James Dobson of Covent Garden, who was a leading member of the Company of Drapers in London.
The Taylor family appear to have lived at the house on Sun Street for over twenty years, until 1697. Baptism records from the Abbey Church, Waltham Abbey tell us that Thomas and Constance Taylor had six children christened there between 1671 and 1680; some of the children would have been born while the family lived at the house.
The family lived through uncertain times; there was a power struggle between Parliament and the monarchy, and there were many claims for the throne. Charles II, James II and William and Mary of Orange all ruled as monarchs over the two decades that the Taylor family lived in the house.
There is a small "x" driven into the lintel alongside the initials "TCT". This may be a small cross. In the past, people believed in witches, and thought they could get into a house through the chimney, as well as through doors and windows. It was common to try and scare away witches using iron crosses., so these iron nails may have been driven into the lintel by the Taylor family in an attempt to keep witches – and bad luck – away.
Constance Taylor died in 1686, but the iron nails are still there above the fireplace today for visitors to the museum to see. Superstitions change over the years, but it seems that none of the subsequent tenants or owners of the building have wanted to take the nails out. Perhaps no one has liked to remove them, just in case they are helping to keep bad luck at bay?
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My partner Louis knows you via Mount Markham, and speaks highly of you, and gave the information to view your website, which I found most inspiring, especially your story. Your artwork is unique!
What a beautiful spirit you maintain as you wage a battle with Parkinson's. A positive attitude enables the journey of life in special ways. Your discovery of being able to paint without tremors is a blessing. As you share your life with others, it provides hope.
Taking the liberty of adding your name to the prayer list at the Columbus Community Church where I serve as pastor.
As you walk on in the journey of life our higher power reminds us that we're never alone.
I've always been fond of "innocent" art. I like your work. It's very textured, vibrant, you have a wonderful command of colors and shadows and I really like your natural subjects. Very nice all, though I must say that the one you originally posted is my favorite. Something about the salmon color next to the green, leading to the blue. I'm very sensitive to the way colors vibrate when they're next to one another. I find blue and green to be very soothing together (my house is painted periwinkle blue, and moss green) and the soft salmon just seems to accentuate that vibration. I also really like these clouds. They're so random and playful. I'm a sculptor, myself, and am just taking up painting. I've only ever been good at 3-D work so this is a challenge. I find your work inspiring.
I am so moved by your website. Your story touched my heart and your paintings with their beautiful bright colors gives me a look at your soul. I am doing a 5 k tomorrow for Parkinson's. I hate that disease and so wish we could eradicate it soon. My daughter in law was diagnosed at the age of 28. It was such a shock and has been such a struggle for her and those who love her. Mekea just had her second child when her tremors started. 2 years ago she had DBS surgery done. I am so proud of her and she has even run the New York marathon and raised quite a bit of money.
I am so happy that you are painting and drawing. Your paintings are beautiful and an inspiration. I am a self taught watercolorist and I retired from being a hospital nurse of 44 years two years ago. I love watercolor and I love painting wet in wet because when the paper is really wet you just drop some color onto it and watch it travel and develop by moving your board. I never have a plan when I start a painting but after I put my first wash down I just look at it and see where it takes me. So have fun and don't ever stop. I will do my 5 k tomorrow and will think of you.
Your work is beautiful and inspiring to so many! It will and has made a difference in the lives of so many already! Your kind soul and caring ways, not expecting anything in return, have made a difference in the lives of so many students that you have worked with. You have an amazing way with students that face everyday challenges. Your kindness has touched the lives of so many ! I have enjoyed so much seeing your work as you have created your pieces. Your story and motivation to help others to heal and find their inner peace are inspiring to me. I wish you the best of luck on your journey of finding your own peace, publishing your beautiful book, and helping others find their own inspiration in the world. You deserve it !


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Being a full time blogger, I get this a lot, 'It's all easy money for you'. Everyone thinks that the people who work on computers aren't actually working, they are comfortably sitting and making money, but that's not the case.
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NBA FINALS: Jrue Steal, Giannis Dunk as Milwaukee Bucks Seals Game 5 win at Phoenix
Sialah Nathan
Milwaukee Bucks are only one game away from their first NBA title since 1971, just over 50 years ago. This is after sweeping aside Phoenix Suns 123-119 in a thrilling Game 5 of the NBA finals played early this morning at Phoenix.
The suns have enjoyed a good home run this offseason and in the playoffs but they were stunned by Giannis Antetokounmpo led Milwaukee Bucks.
The best moment of the match is when Jrue Holiday made a steal from Suns star Devin Booker and then made an alley-oop pass to Giannis Antetokounmpo who dunked it home to seal a game 5 win for the Bucks. The talisman, Giannis recorded 32 points nine rebounds, and six assists.
Milwaukee Bucks Giannis Antetokounmpo Dunks in the closing stages of the match in their Game 5 win over Phoenix Suns in the 2021 NBA Finals.
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Khris Middleton who carried Bucks in Game 4 win at Fiserv Forum recorded 29 points while Jrue Holiday added 27 points and 13 assists.
Despite the awful steal Jrue made from Booker, Devin Booker still led the Suns in total points scored, recording 40 points, In his second game in a row he is scoring 40 points.
Chris Paul had a better match in Game 5 unlike in games 3 and 4. He, however, still struggled the better part of the match scoring 21 points scoring 10 in the last quarter.
Over the finals 10 minutes of the match, the Bucks were enjoying a comfortable 14 points lead but back-to-back 3-pointers from Mikal Bridges and Paul cut the deficit to single digits midway through the fourth quarter.
A staggering three-pointer by Booker further reduced the Bucks lead to 120-117, with only 1 minute 24 seconds left on the clock, but the steal and alley pass by Jrue to set up Giannis for a dunk a minute later sealed the win for the Bucks who were the better side in Game 5.
The first quarter was a shock to Bucks as mistakes and fouls they made ensured they were trailing 32-21 at the end of that quarter, but stunning plays from Giannis and Middleton ensured they came back in the second quarter and went to the end of the first half leading the Suns 64-61.
Milwaukee Bucks players celebrate after winning Game 5 in the 2021 NBA Finals at Phoenix against the Phoenix Suns. The Bucks are just one win away from the NBA Title.
The Bucks are now enjoying a 3-2 lead over the Suns in the 2021 NBA Finals series after sweeping games 3, 4, and 5 consecutively. The Suns comfortably won the first two matches played at Phoenix before falling to the Bucks at Milwaukee.
Speaking after the match, Phoenix Suns head coach Monty Williams attributed Jrue Holiday for the steal he made from Booker and setting up Giannis in the dying moments of the game, saying, "A great play by Jrue, I don't have any other words for that one."
Asked about his comments after the match, Giannis, commonly known as the Greek Freak had only four words, "One more to go".
On his part, Jrue Holiday said, "They don't call him the Freak for nothing I threw it as high as I could," speaking of Giannis.
Bucks guard Pat Connaughton said, "There's a lot of guys that would dribble it out and try to waste more time, but he (Giannis) knew the time, he knew the score, and he knew a bucket would kind of be a backbreaker. He threw it to where there may only be one or two individuals in the world that could get it."
The focus now shifts to game 6 that will be played on Wednesday early morning, EAT, at Milwaukee Bucks home court, the Fiserv Forum. Should the Bucks win that match, they will be crowned the 2021 NBA Champions.
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"Another Shape to Time": Tentacle's Spiral Now
Njelle W. Hamilton
• June 2020
Upon first reading Rita Indiana's Tentacle, I was struck by the intersection of two of my prevailing scholarly interests: music and time. The closing chapters of the novel describe a live DJ set—part entertainment and part sound-art installation—mounted by Elizabeth Méndez during a showcase of experimental twentieth-century Dominican art. She creates "a three-hour mix" that "would trace the flow line" of an incredible range of song samples from disparate genres, tempos, historical moments, and even global origins, a mix that allows her fictional audience to travel in mere seconds to distant times and places:
During the third hour's climax and before leaping from a hammering beat to the cyber-hippie ocean of a repetitive trance, she'd throw in a little of Donna Summer's "I Feel Love" and Jacques Cousteau's voice from the Haiti: Waters of Sorrow documentary. The effect would be tragic, inspiring, and contradictory: the French explorer's predictions about the future of the island's marine life would hang in silence for a few seconds until the bass came down again, like a tsunami, over the dance floor.1
The future ravaged Hispaniola presaged by Cousteau in his 1986 documentary has both already but not yet arrived for the time-traveling protagonist witnessing the scene. As the music plays, Indiana draws our attention to the future fictional president of the Dominican Republic, a twenty-two-year-old Said Bona, who is moved by the music to breakdance in the middle of the dance floor: "He was going in circles at a breathtaking speed, posed on the axis of his back while holding a fetal position, . . . [and] his figure seemed to become a lotus flower in a cloudscape" (129). As Bona describes a spiral with his body, Indiana gestures to a way to unthink Caribbean time. In the same way that Bona's back remains anchored to the ground while enabling him to spiral in the air, so too do Elizabeth's turntable and needle anchor her time-traveling music to the present and to place. Appearing in the very moment when the time-travel plot is about to be resolved—or more accurately, undone—this description of both the music and its effects is crucial for what it reveals about the novel's larger temporal aesthetic: the novel describes a spiralic Caribbean time that is anchored to one physical location but with tentacles of the now reaching into various other moments in the past and future.
This scene takes place in 2001, the past for one of the novel's two protagonists, Acilde Figueroa, who in 2027 is given a mission to travel back in time and prevent the ecological disaster that follows a tsunami in 2024. Acilde cannot stop the tsunami, but he has been tasked with stopping future-president Bona from allowing foreign governments to store the biological weapons that will be swept up in the future flood and poison marine life in the Caribbean Sea. Acilde gains time-traveling abilities when, after transitioning to a man, the tentacles of a sea anemone are attached to his head to initiate him into the cult of Olokun, the orisha of the deep sea, realm of deep time where the now covers vast tranches of otherwise disparate eras as measured by conventional clocks and calendars. As a result, another iteration of Acilde washes ashore in 1991, takes the name Giorgio, marries a marine biologist, and establishes in 2001 the Sosúa Project, an artist residency whose proceeds will fund a marine sanctuary and replant the coral reefs in northeastern DR. Among the members of the Sosúa Project collective are not only DJ Elizabeth but also Argenis, a troubled but talented artist who is stung by sea anemones while snorkeling in the Playa Bo reefs and is thereby likewise gifted with retro-time-traveling abilities. Imbued with Olokun's situatedness at the vector of everywhen, each of Tentacle's travelers becomes quantum-entangled with the activity of various avatars in different centuries in that same location: a local area around Playa Bo in Sosúa Bay. With its base narrative comprising (at least) two time travelers who are able to occupy and take simultaneous action in three distinct moments in time, the plot of Tentacle, I argue, requires new time constructs and time-shapes to trace its nonlinear temporality and how characters move through it. The novel expands the now, multiplying the moments for corrective climate action, while opening up questions about the impact of capitalist exploitation on the shape of the region's spacetime.2
Bodies in Time
Since travel to the past or future is ordinarily foreclosed by the laws of classical physics, science fiction writers often invent mechanisms, machines, and worlds that enable so-called travelers to breach the linear arrow of time. Time is relativistic even in real-world physics; as Einstein explains it, the rate that time passes as measured by the local clock of a moving traveler will not match that of a stationary observer. Consequently, their understanding of what time it is now will differ when they compare clocks. This discrepancy is the operating metaphor of H. G. Wells's 1859 novel The Time Machine, considered the time-travel narrative's prototype: a nineteenth-century scientist invents a machine that can fast-forward through time, allowing him to visit distant futures and then return to his initial present to find only three hours have passed for his companions. Key in this definition of time travel is the technicality that both the traveler's body and psyche move out of the original timeline, along the way creating various paradoxes of causality, free will, and ontology. One such paradox is what I call the double body paradox—for instance, traveling to the past and making any alterations there purportedly would create alternate timelines "splintering" from that moment and effectively multiplying one's body in spacetime.3 If such travel overlaps with one's own past, the big "travel alert" is to not interact with one's past self so as to preserve causality and free will.
Although both travelers in Tentacle, Acilde and Argenis, make sense of their experience by stacking various familiar time-travel tropes and paradoxes, Indiana creolizes these tropes to reveal the incompatibility of mainstream sci-fi and temporal models for the Caribbean region. Instead of inventing a mechanical time machine, Indiana, like other Caribbean sci-fi writers from Nalo Hopkinson to Marcia Douglas, draws on Caribbean flora and fauna and Afro-Caribbean cosmology to reconceptualize time and causality.4 In this way, the novel bears out Nicola Hunte's conceptualization of a Caribbean speculative tradition that merges hard science with magico-spiritual elements, and that pays particular attention to the captive body as it is impacted by science, technology, and capitalism.5Tentacle explicitly names its sources by alluding to a "fake unpublished manuscript" by Cuban anthropologist Lydia Cabrera about Olokun, "a certain marine creature" revered by Afro-Cubans. "It could travel back in time, dude, very Lovecraftian," claims one character (105). But even as Tentacle's time travel bears some resemblance to American writer H. P. Lovecraft's alien futuristic time-traveling beings, the novel's version of the double body paradox both derives from and furthers the queer ontology of the deep sea orisha. Instead of Santería copresence—in which the orisha's and initiate's psyches merge to create a shared consciousness in one body—when Acilde is mounted by Olokun, his already queer body sprouts additional avatars connected to a single consciousness.6 Indeed, at the moment of encounter with the anemone, both Acilde and Argenis develop new bodies, birthed from the ocean, in multiple past times. The queer psyche becomes the axis that connects multiple bodies in time into one self.7
For Indiana, then, being trans is a form of time travel even before ocean deities are involved. Echoing Kara Keeling's definition of queer time as alternative worlds and futures that are "here now," coexisting with and accessible from the undesirable present, pretransition Acilde lives simultaneously in the present female and future male body.8 Passing as a boy for sex work partly funds a new, male body to match his gender identity. Post-transition, his initiator tells him, "We gave you the body you wanted and now you've given us the body we needed" (51). Rendered in the past tense, the phrase "the body we needed" affirms that this new body is required in the past to correct the present and future. In what I call a kind of temporal dysphoria that maps to his earlier body dysphoria, Acilde realizes he has a "window to the past that ha[s] opened in his mind" and an "other self," a "clone there whom he maneuver[s] by remote control" (85, 83). The sea anemone therefore activates new ways of being in spacetime for the travelers, imbuing them with the ability to perceive and take advantage of the entanglement of times and to intervene in pasts and futures normally foreclosed to human activity.
The Caribbean Spiral
Anchored in space, both Acilde and Argenis can "tune in," as it were, to circa 1607, 2001, and 2027, as if these time periods were different channels broadcasting simultaneously at the temporal vector of now. If for the travelers "now" always includes all three time periods, what time-shape might be at work here instead of the linear arrow of time? One shape that recurs in descriptions of Caribbean geography and time is the spiral, a type of fractal or irregular shape that describes "an open curve, made up of a succession of connected arcs."9 While the spiral and spiral conceptions of time are not unique to the Caribbean, Antonio Benítez-Rojo famously proposed that the spiral perfectly "sketches in an 'other' shape" the Caribbean's geopolitical mutability.10 In a study of three Haitian writers ("spiralists") whose spiral narratives evoke the disruptive temporality created by traumatic Caribbean histories, Kaiama Glover argues that this shape visualizes the "collapsing [of] past, present, and future realities into a single frame—urgent and immediate"; instead of normative notions "of time's progression, . . . subtly altered reiterations of moments in time broaden and deepen the present, inextricably embedding the past and the future within it."11 Similarly, in Wilson Harris's Jonestown the time-traveling narrator remarks, "When one voyages back from the future into the past it is not just time that changes, it is the spatialities inserted into time that are different." Both the spiralists and Harris therefore suggest that the Caribbean experiences "another shape to time," an elastic time that expands as one interacts with it and where the fabric of space between different time periods stretches and contracts, creating dynamic relationalities and proximities.12
Tentacle's spiral temporality upends the sci-fi trope of causal paradoxes—what happens to causality when the body moves out of its original time period. Unlike the real-world arrow of time that only grows the now forward,13 the spiral expands causality into realms ordinarily considered past or future—properly understood as tentacles of the now—and opens or reopens otherwise closed eras to the exercise of free will. Even as the travelers experience all three time periods simultaneously, something like retrocausality occurs—effects precede cause—when one traveler's killing of a dog in 2001 results in his murder in 1607. In other words, because he killed a dog in the "future" (simultaneously, in 2001, a short while ago), he is himself about to be killed in 1607, centuries before he kills the dog. The retrocausality here involves the free will conundrum: Do you have free will if knowing what will happen makes you take the actions that cause the prophesied actions to happen?14 Backward time travel also raises questions of morality: If you know the outcome of past actions and events before they happen, what are the implications of not intervening to prevent them?
This causality conundrum bears on the environmental disaster at the heart of the novel. If all the time periods occupied by the two men are entangled in a simultaneous, spiral now, is the disaster inevitable? Can any action in any time period change future-now, if from the proper frame of the travelers the future disaster has both not yet happened and already happened? Indiana suggests that the free will conundrum is really a human nature conundrum; since our present circumstances confirm that nothing has yet impelled us to change our disastrous climate futures, even if we could time travel, we likely would not change the outcome. How, then, can we, even with science-fictional tools and technologies, predict how any change to the timeline in the past might affect the present and future?
Futures Speculation, Speculative Futures
Tentacle's spiral time allows us to interrogate whether changing even one small aspect of the past or present could result in a major "butterfly effect" on the future of the Caribbean oceans. But framed by the chaotic histories of the Caribbean, the evolutionary history of our biosphere, and the wildcard of the human heart, the novel remains skeptical of the romantic possibilities of such a project.15 The term chaos recurs in Caribbean conceptions of the spiral and connects to Olokun, who evokes the "imperfect" and "chaotic" qualities that human consciousness shares with the ocean.16 Chaos theory—one application of fractal mathematics—emerged from attempts to predict the long-term behavior of dynamic systems such as hurricanes or stock prices. In very broad terms, it deals with the probabilities of various outcomes based on the impact of small localized changes. Chaos theory connects a number of phenomena that contribute to the Caribbean's unstable spacetime: the spiral-shaped hurricanes that periodically interrupt and set at zero economic and social development in the region; the natural disasters that are only echoes of the outsize human disaster of a slavery-and-plantation machinery built on speculation on the value of Black bodies and a futures industry based on the value of King Sugar. Indeed, the term speculation bridges fictive and financial futures and the economy and ecologies of predictive modeling at the heart of the novel, of climate science, and of Caribbean history.
One way the three time periods in Tentacle are entangled is that a key event in Acilde's plot to change the future is to "discover" in 2001 a trove of avant-garde engravings from 1607. In the seventeenth-century timeline, we find Acilde-as-Roque among buccaneers transacting with pirates to purchase and cure the buffalo hides on which Argenis-as-Côte-de-Fer will create valuable artwork recording the devastation of indigenous people, lands, and culture by the Spanish in that era. Using his knowledge of the future to enact futures speculation and a type of insider trading, Acilde's long game across the vast expanses of spiral time is to make decisions based on the value of Argenis's artwork in all three time periods, even changing the value of commodities and human resources in the past(s) to his (future) personal benefit. One of my pet peeves with mainstream time-travel stories is that their salvific enterprises often fail because of travelers choosing individual gains over mass humanitarian ones. Even cognizant of the various temporal paradoxes that risk their own erasure from time, travelers cannot resist going back to change the one thing that would be personally beneficial rather than to preserve causality for untold millions.
In Tentacle, it is similarly the chaotic human heart that disables corrective environmental action: instead of taking action to change the future, Acilde-as-Giorgio collapses the spiral and confines himself to the time period in which he has the most power and success. Having Acilde-as-Giorgio justify this choice with the language of temporal tourism, of "accumulating" wealth and "experience," Indiana amplifies how capitalist speculation and greed fuel ecological violence and rapacious actions. Becoming "king of this world" and accumulating the "trophies" of time travel rely on Acilde creating scarcity by exploiting indigenous communities and the labor of others throughout time, even as it is precisely the few surviving Taínos who caretake the coral reef pool where Olokun dwells and who transmit the subaltern knowledge that enables Acilde's time travel to begin with (128). The tragedy of Tentacle, then, is not the initial disaster of the tidal wave—which cannot be averted—but that even those with foresight, opportunity, and technologies to prevent the unnatural disasters that follow it are largely uninterested in doing so.
The novel's spiral time thus illustrates how the region's temporal instability is caused by the centuries-long, repeated exploitation of the Caribbean's natural and human resources.17 Whether in 1607, 2001, or 2027, this single location archives cycles of selfish exploitation that repeat in the past, present, and future, broadening and accumulating sociopolitical and ecological effects with each recursion. The spiral now is simultaneously the time of colonial exploitation (circa 1607) that sets in motion the marine devastation of tomorrow, and the time of that devastation (2024–27)—of entire marine species already disappeared and human bodies already suffering from ingesting polluted fish and air. Now is also the time of preservation: creating marine sanctuaries and investing in the ocean (2001).
Sci-fi writers often deploy backward time travel to speculate on what-if scenarios, to test out alternative solutions to events we cannot really change, to offer narrative catharsis in place of agency. Cli-fi writers deploy imaginary time for a different purpose: to speculate on how to address future ecological disasters in the real world. Rather than offering hope or escape, Indiana's spiral novel subverts both cli-fi and sci-fi time travel to craft a mind-bending interrogation of the possibilities for preventative climate action in the Caribbean. My own optimistic reading of Tentacle's decidedly pessimistic ending is that perhaps Acilde's initiation invocation—"You are Omo Olokun," son of Olokun, "so . . . save the sea"—was meant for us (83). Indiana's time-traveling characters might not have changed the future, but her exquisitely crafted novel has certainly changed us in its reading. The future, fictional disaster of 2024 is still ahead of us as I write in 2020. We readers can change the future—no time machines necessary. In Tentacle, as in the real world, investing in Caribbean reef resilience is key to reversing or averting what Linda, the Cassandra of impending environmental disaster, warns us of in the novel: "The increase in the water temperature and the coming crisis that would result from the fatal bleaching of coral" (55). But it is art, not mechanical time machines, that inspires real-world environmental intervention in the novel. In the same way that Elizabeth's DJ mix becomes "an environmental call to action" that inspires future-president Bona to move his body, Indiana's amplification of the queer, spiral nature of Caribbean time calls readers into allyship, both with time and with the author, to act already—now—before it is too late (128). The novel itself becomes a time machine, designed to convey the reader both through time and into action in the real world, a spacetime beyond the novel's ambit, a now not far from but causally connected to the time of writing. Inspiring readers to follow up the time of reading with a time of action could ensure that the disastrous events in Tentacle's pages remain fictional rather than become prophetic.
Njelle W. Hamilton is an associate professor of English and African American and African studies at the University of Virginia. She specializes in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Caribbean literary and cultural studies, especially narrative innovations on the postcolonial Caribbean novel. She is the author of Phonographic Memories: Popular Music and the Contemporary Caribbean Novel (Rutgers, 2019), and her essays on sound studies, trauma theory, and the physics of time have appeared in Anthurium and Journal of West Indian Literature, among others. Her current project, tentatively titled "Caribbean Chronotropes: The Physics, Poetics, and Politics of Time in Contemporary Fiction," reads recent time-bending novels through the lens of physics, phenomenology, and Caribbean theory.
1. Rita Indiana, Tentacle, trans. Achy Obejas (Sheffield, UK: And Other Stories, 2018), 113; hereafter cited in the text. Originally published as La mucama de Omicunlé [Omicunlé's Maid] (Cáceres, Spain: Periférica, 2015).
2. As I have argued elsewhere, time-bending Caribbean fictions by René Depestre, Erna Brodber, Wilson Harris, Marcia Douglas, and others reveal the Caribbean region as an unstable space with irregular time(s). See "Jamaican String Theory: Quantum Sounds and Postcolonial Spacetime in Marcia Douglas's The Marvellous Equations of the Dread," Journal of West Indian Literature 27, no. 1 (2019): 89.
3. The term splintering, for timeline branching, comes into prominence most notably in 12 Monkeys, the SyFy television series (2015–18), created by Travis Fickett and Terry Matalas—a remake of the 1995 Terry Gilliam film of the same name.
4. See, for instance, the recurrence of trees doubling as time portals and time machines in Nalo Hopkinson's Midnight Robber (New York: Warner, 2000) and Marcia Douglas's The Marvellous Equations of the Dread: A Novel in Bass Riddim (New York: New Directions, 2018).
5. See Nicola Hunte, "Encountering Others across Science Fiction, Afrofuturism, and Anglophone Caribbean Speculative Fiction," Journal of West Indian Literature 27, no. 2 (2019): 17.
6. On Santería copresence, see Aisha Belisio-de Jesús, Electric Santería: Racial and Sexual Assemblages of Transnational Religion (New York: Columbia University Press, 2015), 9.
7. See Paul Humphrey, "'El manto que cubre el mar': Religion, Identity, and the Sea in Rita Indiana's La mucama de Omicunlé," Sargasso, nos. 1–2 (2016–17): 109–25. Humphrey, like Alison Glassie and Charlotte Rogers in this issue, draws attention to Tentacle's foregrounding of "the multivalent nature of the many bodies—of water and people alike—that both join and divide the islands of the Caribbean" (121). See Alison Glassie, "Into the Anemone: Ocean, Form, and the Anthropocene in Tentacle," and Charlotte Rogers, "Rita Indiana's Queer Interspecies Caribbean and the Hispanic Literary Tradition," this issue of sx salon.
8. Kara Keeling, Queer Times, Black Futures (New York: New York University Press, 2019), ix.
9. Frankétienne, quoted in Kaiama L. Glover, Haiti Unbound: A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2010), xxii, note 6.
10. Antonio Benítez-Rojo, The Repeating Island: The Caribbean and the Postmodern Perspective (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1992), 11.
11. Glover, Haiti Unbound, 103–04.
12. Wilson Harris, Jonestown (London: Faber and Faber, 1996), 105, 5.
13. See Richard A. Muller, Now: The Physics of Time (New York: W. W. Norton, 2016), 10.
14. On the free will conundrum of backward time travel, see ibid., 55–56.
15. See Guillermina De Ferrari, "Science Fiction and the Rules of Uncertainty," Small Axe, no. 61 (March 2020): 1–10.
16. Awo Fá'lokun Fatunmbi, Yemoja/Olokun: Ifá and the Spirit of the Ocean (Bronx, NY: Original Publications, 1993), 11.
17. In the only extant study of hemispheric time-travel narratives to date, Rudyard Alcocer has suggested that time-travel fictions from former colonies of Spain are often attempts to grapple with the Conquest and its traumatic legacies. See Rudyard Alcocer, Time Travel in the Latin American and Caribbean Imagination: Re-reading History (London: Palgrave, 2011), 7–9.
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First Friday: From Bitcoin to Blockchain
September 12, 2018 by Susan Blood Leave a Comment
John Hargrave
If you ever wanted someone to explain Blockchain, September's First Friday breakfast meeting was for you. If you missed it, you might have to wait for our speaker's forthcoming book, Blockchain for Everyone, now in production with Simon & Schuster. In the meantime, here's what you missed:
Sir John Hargrave is the publisher of Bitcoin Market Journal, and the author of bestselling Mind Hacking (Simon & Schuster, 2016). This is the second tech boom he's experienced, and he couldn't be more thrilled. John's career started during the dotcom era and Blockchain, he says, is even more exciting.
So what is Blockchain? He described it as the underlying technology that powers things like Bitcoin, likening it to the internet. Most of us don't grasp how the internet actually works, but we know how to use websites and apps. Similarly, Blockchain is a technology on which applications–like Bitcoin–are built. Blockchain is the internet of value.
Like the internet, Blockchain is decentralized. Nobody owns it, and we all own it. Cell towers are a centralized institution. If you live in a developing economy without access to a cell tower, you may build a mesh network. That network is decentralized, and owned and powered by the people using it. As another example, Microsoft is centralized, while open source applications are decentralized.
Bitcoin is the brainchild of Satoshi Nakamoto, who wrote a white paper on how to share cash. And then he built it. Other than that (and that he's one of the richest people on the planet), we know little about him. There are conspiracy theories, but no one really seems to know who he is, or where he has disappeared to. All they know is his Bitcoin wallet is still full. Very full.
The price of Bitcoin was theoretical at first, and then it started growing. Laszlo Hanyecz famously ordered pizzas with Bitcoin to prove that it could be used. His pizza purchase proved that Bitcoin has real world value, kickstarting its use as a currency. Those pizzas, by the way, would now be worth $63 million.
Essentially, Bitcoin is digital money. John equated it to the digital evolution of mail. Just as email is now instant and free, so is Bitcoin. It's the trajectory into digital, he says. And the genie is not going back into the bottle.
People started holding their Bitcoin because it was rising in value dramatically. John says in January it was $20,000 for a single coin. People have made their fortunes investing early and reinvesting the profit, creating a snowball of wealth. There are just as many people who lost their Bitcoin – by selling early, or literally losing it. No bank stores it, so if you lose your private key, it's gone. Fortunes have been made and lost, and according to John many more are on the way. John added later that if a server goes down, your currency is not lost – the same way websites are not lost when the internet goes down.
Bitcoin is not the only digital currency. As people saw the value exploding, they realized anyone could create their own version because it's open source. There are hundreds of "alt-coins" being traded around the world. John says we're at the dawn of a new stock market, with people buying and trading digital currency like they trade stock.
Why does any of this have value? Because we believe it has value. Everything we create – cash, credit, real estate, whatever – has value because we believe, agree, and trust that it has value. As we build trust and believe in digital currency, it increases in value.
So should you buy? He thinks it's a good idea to invest a little bit so you have skin in the game and start to understand how it actually works. And while he's not recommending anything, he did say Coinbase has the best user interface.
"I am not telling you to put your life savings in Bitcoin," he warned, "but by investing a little bit and diversifying you can see returns." There's room in an investment portfolio for a sliver of mad money, which is where digital currency would figure in. (But you should be willing to lose 100% of any investment.)
Back to Blockchain….
A ledger is a centralized place where we keep track of credits and debits. Now imagine decentralizing it – taking Quickbooks and putting it on the cloud for everyone to share. John says that's kind of what the Blockchain is like. Everyone can see all the transactions, all the way back to the genesis block – which is how we know Satoshi Nakamoto has not spent his Bitcoin.
As a shared tracking system, Blockchain has many uses beyond the transfer of value or building of wealth. Walmart is putting all their supply chain for produce shipments on Blockchain – so you can track your banana back to the grower by seeing the whole chain of transactions. It's all on a kind of shared Google sheet, John says.
He says there's also a push for medical record sharing on Blockchain. "It's my data," he says. "I should own it and share it with who I wish." It's decentralized, but still anonymous (or partially anonymous). No one owns the information, so it can be sent and received instantly.
He noted the potential for the human race, changing the way the world works. Sending money between countries is slow and expensive, and assumes both sender and recipient have access to a bank. People are now leapfrogging banks and going directly to Blockchain, taking US dollars (for instance), converting it into cryptocurrency, and sending it anywhere in the world instantly. Blockchain, John says, will drastically improve the flow of money – especially to developing nations.
Or imagine, hypothetically, there was a world leader that a foreign government installed. Imagine the lack of confidence that would put on the electoral process. There's now a startup in Boston called Voatz that makes voting secure and accessible using Blockchain technology.
John also said home solar arrays could generate cryptocurrency that could be traded in the real world. It's the same way carbon credits work, but decentralized, and on a scale individuals could use.
Still baffled by Bitcoin? John recommended a few resources:
Cryptocurrencies on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
The Hash Power podcast with Patrick O'Shaunnesy
Beyond the Bitcoin Bubble in NYT magazine
John's Slide Deck
Filed Under: CC Tech Council News, First Friday


The conventional wisdom around the league right now is that teams looking for quarterback help in the offseason aren't going to have much to choose from.
There's no standouts coming out of college, no one's sure what the 49ers and Seahawks will do with Alex Smith and Matt Flynn and there aren't any clearcut starters headed for free agency other than Joe Flacco. Flacco's not getting there, of course, which means that lesser names like Matt Moore could be in high demand due to the dearth of supply on the market.
Despite that, Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald reports that Ryan Tannehill and others from the Dolphins have been reaching out to Moore to try to sell him on the idea of staying in Miami. Getting Moore to pass up at least a shot at a starting job will be no easy task, especially if Jackson is right about one of the teams that might have Moore on the radar.
Jackson writes that Browns offensive coordinator Norv Turner is a "big fan" of Moore, a theory that has some support in the Chargers' 2011 pursuit of Moore before he wound up signing with the Dolphins. That scenario is very similar to this one as Moore passed on a chance to back up Philip Rivers so he could play behind a far less secure starter in Chad Henne.
With Brandon Weeden's starting status anything but secure in Cleveland, Moore could wind up trying the same route he took last time he was on the open market.
That's fine, but get WRs when you can.
Why would he stay when he could be a starter elsewhere for bigger money? This guy was nothing but classy this year after he was never given a fair shot at starting in a new system. There was no way he was worse than Garrard! Why take less money to stay with a sinking ship? It will be at least a year or two till Ireland and Philbin mess things up so bad Ross HAS to fire them, too long to wait to get another chance. Go for it Matt. You've earned it. Go where they will treat you fairly.
Of course Tannehill wants him to stay, there would be no threat to his starting job.
Obviously the Dolphins want him to stay. If he stays, then the Jets are stuck with Sanchez or a rookie, and that is a guaranteed 2 wins for Miami.
He's a class act, and a good team player. He deserves whatever makes him happy.
Classy guy! I wanted him to win that starting job this year but Tannehill just played outta his mind. As far as his career goes – I hope he lands a starting job. Like I said ; class act!
I don't understand the motivation of his teammates to encourage him to remain on a team where he is a backup, especially the Maimi Dolphins.
the real question is would he prefer to be 6-10 as a backup or 6-10 as a starter?
(fart noise) to both miami golfins and cleveland steamers.
Dumb comment… just dumb. Many franchises will look to keep their backups. Check your spelling next time too.
Dolphins should franchise tag him so he doesn't go anywhere.
Matt Moore won't be a starter in Miami or Cleveland. It would be insanity to keep him. Make Pat Devlin the backup to Ryan Tannehill already.
Moore is one of the NFL's good guys. I hope he does get a chance to start somewhere.
So that he warm the bench behind u?


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Une plate-forme à ancrage tendu, plate-forme à tendons ou encore plate forme à jambes de tension (diverses traduction de l'anglais Tension-leg platform) est un type de structure marine fixe, utilisé pour de nombreuses plates-formes pétrolières mais aussi étudiée dans le cadre de l'éolien offshore flottant.

Une telle plate-forme est reliée au plancher océanique par des câbles d'acier tendus. Ces câbles maintiennent la structure plus enfoncée dans l'eau que sa ligne de flottaison naturelle — en d'autres termes, la plate-forme dispose d'un excès de flottabilité.

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Voir aussi

Autres types de plates-formes :
 compliant tower
 Jacket-deck
 SPAR (plate-forme)
 Plate-forme gravitaire

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Can we make contact with aliens?
PEOPLE believe that aliens walk among us.
Despite there being no official sightings of the extra-terrestrial creatures, avid believers still hope there is life beyond Earth.
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Can we talk to aliens?
Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) created a branch called Communication With Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CETI) in hopes to get in contact with aliens.
In 1974, astronomer Frank Drake compiled the Arecibo Message.
The interstellar message was to show how human technology has developed, not necessarily to communicate with other lifeforms.
Professor Paul Horowitz, from Harvard University, has suggested that messages to alien life-forms should be in the form of mathematics.
He said: "Maybe the most fundamental way to initiate a message would be with mathematics."
"A lot of stuff will surely be understood by anybody, no matter what slime they're made out of, because it's so basic."
However, Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer at the SETI Institute, declared that we should send Google's servers instead.
Many people claim they have spoken to aliens due to being abducted by them.
American couple Barney and Betty Hill garnered widespread media attention when they claimed to have been abducted by aliens between September 19 to 20, 1961.
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It is also believed that aliens can morph themselves to look like there surroundings.
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Have aliens ever visited Earth?
There is believed to have been multiple incidents of aliens on Earth.
The most infamous event is that of Roswell, New Mexico in 1947.
Locals believe they saw a "flying saucer" hovering around in late June.
On July 8, 1947, Roswell Army Air Field released a statement saying they had found a "flying disc" but later retracted the statement saying they'd actually uncovered a weather balloon.
The incident started off a phenomenon and people all over the globe started believing they had seen extra-terrestrials.
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Home > Dodd-Frank Act > Gupta Complaint Against the SEC Survives Motion to Dismiss On Equal Protection Grounds
Gupta Complaint Against the SEC Survives Motion to Dismiss On Equal Protection Grounds
On Monday, July 11, 2011, New York federal Judge Jed Rakoff denied the SEC's Motion to Dismiss in Gupta v. SEC, No. 11-cv-1900 (S.D.N.Y.). The Plaintiff, Rajat Gupta, a former director at Goldman Sachs, has been accused by the SEC of having provided material nonpublic information to Raj Rajaratnam of Galleon Management, who was recently convicted of insider trading (discussed here). Unlike the 28 other defendants named in lawsuits relating to Galleon, the SEC commenced an Administrative Proceeding against Mr. Gupta. Mr. Gupta's complaint in federal court (discussed here) alleged that the SEC unconstitutionally deprived him to a jury trial in federal court and that it was necessary to have the question of whether the Dodd-Frank Act provisions could be applied retroactively (which the SEC seeks to do in the Administrative Proceeding) decided in federal court. By denying the SEC's motion to dismiss, Judge Rakoff allowed Mr. Gupta's case to proceed, but ruled that "the theory of the Complaint is narrowed to one of equal protection."
On March 1, 2011, the SEC commenced an Administrative Proceeding against Mr. Gupta, alleging that he engaged in an insider trading scheme by providing information to Mr. Rajaratnam between June 2008 and January 2009. In the Matter of Gupta, Administrative Proceeding File No. 3-14279. The Court described the SEC's Administrative Proceeding as a "seeming exercise in foreign shopping," noting that the Order instituting the proceeding was not materially different from the complaints filed in federal court against the 28 others Galleon-related defendants. However, in the Administrative Proceeding, the SEC seeks to recover civil penalties from Mr. Gupta under Section 929P of the Dodd-Frank Act, which was not passed until 18 months after the conduct in question.
On March 18, 2011, Mr. Gupta filed a complaint in federal court against the Commission seeking a declaratory judgment and injunctive relief, alleging that by seeking civil penalties through the retroactive application of the Dodd-Frank Act in the Administrative Proceeding, the SEC unconstitutionally deprived him to a jury trial in federal court (pointing out that the SEC has filed all of its cases related to Mr. Rajaratnam and Galleon in federal court). He also alleged that it was necessary to have the question of whether the Dodd-Frank Act provisions could be applied retroactively decided in federal court.
On April 1, 2011, the SEC moved to dismiss the complaint (also discussed here) under several theories, including: (1) that no statutory basis exists for the Court's assertion of jurisdiction; (2) that Mr. Gupta's claims against the SEC are barred by the doctrine of sovereign immunity; (3) that the doctrines of exhaustion and ripeness bar Mr. Gupta's claims; and (4) that Section 25(a)(1) of the Exchange Act, when read together with Section 703 of the Administrative Procedure Act ("APA"), grants to the courts of appeal exclusive jurisdiction to review orders entered in SEC administrative proceedings.
Judge Rakoff rejected the SEC's arguments regarding jurisdiction (Mr. Gupta has argued constitutional violations, over which the Court has jurisdiction) and sovereign immunity (Section 702 of the APA "waives sovereign immunity for [any action against the Government] … seeking relief other than money damages."). He also rejected the arguments based on the doctrines of exhaustion and ripeness, noting that Mr. Gupta should not be required to exhaust his administrative remedies or await a ruling in the Administrative Proceeding when that proceeding is the very procedure he is attacking in his complaint.
Judge Rakoff next turned to the Government's argument that that Section 25(a)(1) of the Exchange Act, when read together with section 703 of the APA, grants the courts of appeal exclusive jurisdiction to review orders in administrative proceedings. Focusing on the Supreme Court's ruling in Free Enterprise Fund v. Pub. Co. Accounting Oversight Bd., 130 S. Ct. 3138 (2010), Judge Rakoff examined three key factors to determine Section 25(a) precluded judicial review of the Commission's order instituting the administrative proceeding: (1) whether the claims in the complaint were outside the SEC's expertise; (2) if the complaint was wholly collateral to the statute's review provisions; and (3) whether a finding of preclusion could foreclose all meaningful review.
The Court concluded that Mr. Gupta's complaint satisfied the first Free Enterprise element (regarding the SEC's expertise). The allegation that he will suffer from constitutional violations if the provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act is an issue more commonly reviewed by district courts than the SEC. Judge Rakoff concluded his equal protection claim satisfied the second prong because even if the Commission's allegations against Mr. Gupta were true, his claim that he was arbitrarily and irrationally treated differently from the remaining Galleon defendants was wholly collateral to the securities claims. Judge Rakoff also concluded that Mr. Gupta's claim satisfied the last Free Enterprise element (whether a finding of jurisdictional preclusion would foreclose meaningful judicial review). The SEC's administrative machinery does not provide a reasonable mechanism for raising a claim, he ruled. In addition, Mr. Gupta's claim (whether the Commission's decision to treat him differently from the other Galleon-related defendants was irrational, arbitrary and discriminatory) will not be resolved in the administrative proceeding and no record could be developed for review.
The Court concluded that "there is no reason not to address the equal protection claim here before Gupta suffers the very prosecution he alleges constitutes the act of unequal protection." The Court denied the motion to dismiss, but narrowed the theory of the complaint to one of equal protection.
Judge Rakoff ordered the parties to meet and confer regarding a case management plan to allow for discovery, subsequent motion practice and an evidentiary hearing within the next 4 months.
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Better Call Saul S1.06 "Five-O" review
By Ian Berriman published 17 March 15
Considering that it's writer Gordon Smith's debut script for television, "Five-O" is a remarkable achievement. It's also Better Call Saul's first masterpiece.
Finally revealing the circumstances that led to Breaking Bad regular Mike Ehrmantraut leaving both the police force and the path of the straight and narrow, it's a gripping, self-contained thriller, with some very emotionally affecting scenes.
Actor Jonathan Banks had his own ideas about Mike's backstory – apparently, at one point he pitched the idea that his son was a boxer who'd been killed in the ring. But the personal history that plays out in flashback here – Mike's son Matty, also a cop, was killed for his partners for refusing to take kickbacks, and his father took a bloody revenge – was a much better choice. It's a tragedy that adds depth not only to Better Call Saul, but also, retrospectively, to its parent series. Watching those BB episodes where Mike takes his granddaughter to the park will never be quite the same again.
Heard playing in the cop bar Mike visits: "It Came Out Of The Sky" by Creedence Clearwater Revival and "Hold On Loosely" by 38 Special. Playing over the end credits: "Tune Down" by Chris Joss.
Given a chance to show that there are more strings to his bow than taciturn menace and world-weary laconicism, Banks bats it out of the park. The two-hander scenes between him and Kerry Condon (Mike's widow, Stacey) are compelling, and as this seemingly unstoppable force chokes back the tears and declares, "I broke my boy", you may come very close to breaking yourself.
A great episode, then, even though it puts the star of the show in the shadow. If we have one reservation, it's that Better Call Saul's first classic focuses on a character from Breaking Bad. Hopefully, one day we'll be just as emotionally invested in a new character like Kim or Chuck McGill, but right now it doesn't seem all that likely.
Title Tattle
"Five-O" is, as you may know, is a slang term for the police; it gained popularity thanks to long-running cop show Hawaii Five-0, which was so-called because it was set in the 50th state of the union.
A Change Of Face
When we first saw Stacey, glimpsed briefly in Breaking Bad season three finale "Full Measure", she was played by a different (uncredited) actor. (Well, presuming that's meant to be Stacey…)
Breaking Bud
The taxi driver who picks up Mike is called Francisco Fernandez… which was also the name of an assistant to the producers on Breaking Bad. Given that writer Gordon Smith was formerly Vince Gilligan's assistant on that series, that's surely not a coincidence…
Spiders, Man
In what feels like a callback to Breaking Bad, a barman mentions to Mike that they've got tarantulas in New Mexico. BB fans know that only too well, of course, thanks to the young boy who collected one in a jar in season five classic "Dead Freight"…
Best Line
Jimmy: "Don't let Mr Ehrmantraut's dancing eyes and bubbly bon-vivant personality fool you – he's actually, believe it or not, somewhat taciturn. Shall I fan you gently, so you don't go into shock?"
The one where
We learn all about the personal tragedy driving Mike Ehrmentrauts character.
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After some back and forth with the folks at Magnolia and calling in a little help from the film's producer Gabriel Sedgewick, I was able to score a review copy of Penny Lane's (Our Nixon, Nuts!) new documentary 'Hail Satan?' which documents The Satanic Temple's (TST) early years right up through somewhere around August of 2018.
The film has its Massachusetts premiere tonight in Cambridge (sold out show) and will be opening in theaters around the country over the upcoming weeks.
The odd thing about me trying to review this film is twofold. In the interest of full disclosure I do have a couple brief appearances, but they're not really substantial so I don't think that particularly affects my take on it. On the other hand since I'm so steeped in TST's community it is a bit hard to be unbiased so I'm not really going to try.
I do, though, find myself thinking about all the events and behind-the-scenes happenings that lead to the parts of TST's journey which made their way to Penny's camera. For me at least, the very notion that the film exists and that so many of my very good friends are featured in it gives me a pretty unique lens through which to watch it.
For people who are unfamiliar with TST, or even for members who weren't following the early exploits of the Lucien Greaves & company, Hail Satan? does a great job of capturing the mood and spirit of those early events. Those of us who have been following TST since they first made news with the Rick Scott Rally in 2013 will appreciate that the film's narrative is spot-on and highlights of the group's biggest news making campaigns.
That's a lot to try and fit into 90 minutes while telling a compelling story so not everything made it in, but not in a way that it feels like anything is missing. Part of that is due to just how much stuff TST has managed to get done in just six years.
Following a brief jaunt through the history of modern Satanism with some archival footage featuring Anton LaVey and the Church of Satan along with a tidy review of the Satanic Panic in the 1980s, Hail Satan? guides viewers through the Pink Mass, the Reproductive Rights lawsuit in Missouri, TST-Arizona chapter's invocation fight with the City of Phoenix, and the history of TST's Baphomet statue from Oklahoma to the Arkansas Rally. There's even footage interspersed from 2017's Los Angeles ritual, Menstruatin' with Satan, After School Satan Club, the Arizona Adopt-a-Highway and TST-Santa Cruz's Adopt-a-Beach, and last year's Grey Faction protest with TST-Chicago and TST-Indiana.
Some of those actions are a little tricky to spot for someone who wasn't there to know which is which, but like I said when the Trailer came out I've been crossing paths with Penny and Gabriel at these things for years.
That's a fair point. Covering TST in depth for the last two years here on the blog does make it hard to know what someone who is learning about TST for the first time will be surprised by. The people the film spotlights don't strike me as a novel group of counter-cultural misfits because I have brunch with them.
I can say that it portrays them honestly. No one is mischaracterized and the film went to great lengths to illustrate how sincere these people are about what they're doing.
Grey Faction and the Protect Children Project seem to get left a bit to the wayside, but given how complicated the issues surrounding those TST projects can be it would've really bogged down the narrative to delve into them.
Having been around TST for most of the time the film spans it makes for an almost nostalgic look back on not just how quickly TST has grown also but how it changed over time as new members joined and other members moved on. All of that is, honestly, a bit inside baseball for the average viewer though so I wouldn't expect it to have that effect on everyone.
Screening information for Hail Satan? is available on the film's website.
I know exactly what TST is and does and I applaud them! I'm looking forward to the movie coming to my area or hit cable.