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Dreams really do come true.
Nobody likes to hear about your dreams.
That is, unless either a) they're about the person you're talking to (and that person had a sexy role in the dream) or b) they predict something that actually happened, and it doesn't sound like you're making it up.
I've had prophetic dreams twice.
You'll like these, I'm really not making them up.
One was about a break-in in my apartment, where they stole my laptop, and the next day my friend called to say we couldn't write together as planned because someone had broken in and stolen her laptop. Maybe that's not so nuts, since she never locked her front door. It was bound to happen.
The other was about a lamp in my bedroom bursting into flames. And do you know what happened that week? The lamp in my bedroom burst into flames. The bulb burst, and then, flames. That dream made me think I might be a teeny bit psychic, and also made me think I should have a fire extinguisher.
I also like hearing about dreams that are so mundane that it's like, "why bother?" Like when you have a dream that you loaded the dishwasher and then left it overnight without running it and the dishes smelled the next day. What a crazy dream, in that it's crazy to waste dream time on it.
So the dream I had last night was all those things.
It came true when I woke up, it was mundane, and it was about you…if you're the person I was talking to in it or if you relate to it. Sorry, that's a mean tease.
Here it is: I dreamed that I was talking to someone who said, "You better pack only your good underwear."
And I said, archly, "My 'good underwear' is one pair. And I wear them on my birthday. If that."
I woke up and looked in my underwear drawer, and what do you know…it was true!
Now you.
Do you ever have crazy future-telling dreams?
Any dreams about me?
Or other dreams you want to discuss?
I can't believe I'm asking to hear about your dreams, but I am. TELL ME IN THE COMMENTS.
Trisha Condo says
I actually dreamed of an old 19th century home the night before and say interesting past life traumas.
I might have to look up the dream symbols.
As a psychic, I normally dream in vivid colors and have a linear timeline. I found that through research and reading dream books, vivid dreams really tell the future.
I haven't dreamt of anyone's undies lately. Sorry to burst your bubble. Maybe my next dream will be naughty!(laughing outloud).
Indre says
I instantly forget the mundane dreams.
Last week's dream was peculiar so I do remember the weird part.
I was looking at a nest of enormous turtles (think big dog sized) without their carapaces and plastrons (uh, the hard outer shell parts, that is).
While dreaming, it seemed perfect normal to see these creatures.
What could this mean?
(Or was the dream just a ruse to get me to procrastinate even MORE than usual? Hunting through wikipedia, to find the incredibly useful words for "turtle shell", isn't exactly on my To-Do-Today list.)
I just love that you looked up the scientific term for "turtle shell." That's exactly something I would do: spend my time googling bigger words for words that are already perfectly good, for someone else's blog. Anything to avoid my own work.
Marci Diehl says
This weekend I dreamed that I was going to meet a tenor who was performing in my town — as in pick him up from the concert, since we were involved. (Thinking back, it was the night of the Josh Grobin concert here, and I saw the humongous line of traffic for it backed up for miles. OK.) So I arrived at an empty lot and my sister was with me,and we both had pieces of birthday cake on paper plates as we got out of the car. The tenor and a couple of people were waiting. I left my piece of cake in the car ["piece of cake"?? Could be symbolic.]
I clapped for "my tenor" as I walked up to him. He looked like Vittorio Grigolo [My new fave, after Pavarotti] and when we greeted each other it was obvious we were much more than friends. We all started walking forward.
Then I had to wake up to pee, Darn, I thought. I want to go with you.
And for the first time, I was able to go back into the dream. But "Vittorio" arrived early at a house I once rented and surprised me. He was supposed to be singing in this big opera, and I would pick him up after. But when I asked him why he was so early and did he sing that night, he looked sad/angry and said, no. We went into a gathering. In the end, "Vittorio" ended up in the backyard making out with one of the women who was there with her husband. CRAP!!!!
OK, this is much longer than you ever wanted to know. But here's the thing — I have a novel out where the main guy romantic character is an Italian tenor. So there's that. It's on my mind.
Maybe the moral of the story is, don't try to go back into dreams. Or — my character has given me a new story about when he's older, for a sequel.
I'm fascinated that you could get back into a dream after getting up to pee.
I'm always locked out after that. "Sorry, you'll have to go find another dream for the night, this one's closed."
That was the first time ever that I was able to go back into a dream! I'm usually locked out, too – and always at the best part!
I do have some pretty involved dreams and many times wake up thinking — 'What the heck was THAT all about?!' I never know.
Bruce says
Since you asked for questions to inspire your next blog post, here's one:
As it is the first anniversary of me hearing the word "twerking" for the first time in my life, what are your feelings about twerking?
Oh, that's a good one! Putting it in my "blog ideas" evernote.
Ash says
Does this mean that the dream I just had about a T-rex trying to bust down my door (with me squatting and pushing against the door with all my might) is GOING TO HAPPEN?
I feel like nothing else matters right now. Anything else that anyone says will now be rendered trivial.
"My dog just died. I'm so sad."
"Oh yeah? Well I'm going to be eaten by a T-rex in this lifetime, so really? I don't want to hear it, asshole."
Yes. That's what you get for living in Costa Rica. Either that, or you'll get lucky and it'll just be a giant sloth, who considers busting down your door but then decides not to bother.
That still dwarfs "dog died" on the problem scale.
Licia Morelli says
I have to tell you dreaming about underwear and packing it indicates that you are about to experience big changes and reveal or expose something that's been previously hidden.
And now I want to know what that is!
I always dream about people yelling at me and when I do I know someone is going to have some drama in their life.
Much like your friend's computer yelling doesn't always mean drama for me – but I can guarantee that if it's not my life it's my friends.
I do try to make my life a drama-free zone so….watch out friends! xoxo
Yay, really? What if you dream of really crappy underwear? Shouldn't I dream of nice underwear?
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Q: TypeORM Foreign key I want to reference a module to a queue. So one queue can have multiple modules. Therefore I just want to store the id of a module in the queue.
According to the documentation of Typeorm I should implement this relation this way:
@ManyToOne(type => Module)
@JoinColumn({ name: "currentModuleId" })
module: Module;

I only want to provide the id of an module, not an modules object. So I came up with this solution:
Modules entity
@Entity()
export class Module extends BaseEntity {
  @PrimaryColumn({ unique: true })
  public id: string;
}

Queue entity
@Entity()
export class Queue extends BaseEntity {
  @PrimaryGeneratedColumn('uuid')
  public id: string;

  @OneToOne(() => Module)
  @JoinColumn({ name: 'currentModuleId' })
  currentModuleId: string;
}

This works, but I'm not that confident that this is an error proof solution. How should I implement a foreign key for queue?
Additionaly: How does Typeorm know on what column the currentModuleId should be refered?

A: Many-to-one / one-to-many relations should solve your problem,
It's a relation where A contains multiple instances of B, but B contains only one instance of A.
In your case A refer to Queue entity and B refer to the Module entity
Modules entity
@Entity()
export class Module extends BaseEntity {
  @PrimaryColumn({ unique: true })
  public id: string;

  @ManyToOne(() => Queue, (Queue) => Queue.id, {
    onUpdate: 'CASCADE',
    onDelete: 'CASCADE' })
  @JoinColumn({ name: 'queues' })
  queues: Queue;

}

Queue entity
@Entity()
export class Queue extends BaseEntity {
  @PrimaryGeneratedColumn('uuid')
  public id: string;

  @OneToMany(() => Module, Module => Module.queues, {
    onUpdate: 'CASCADE',
    onDelete: 'CASCADE' })
  modules: Module[];
}

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Love Peas - The Ballad Hits (2)
Roxette - Anyone (Promo)
Note: Promotion CDS in a plastic sleeve with inlay
1. Anyone (Radio Edit) 3:59
Anyone was the second single taken from Roxette's album Have A Nice Day and it was only released in Europe and Japan.
Japan actually released the single as a double A-sided CDS with Pay The Price as the first song which makes this release quite unique.
Both the European and Japanese CDS includes a demo of Anyone and a remix of Cooper and these versions are unavailable anywhere else.
The single did not sell very well in Europe and because of this EMI United Kingdom decided to cancel the release of this single even though they had already sent out promotional copies of the CDS to radio stations, discjockeys and media.
Roxette also recorded a Spanish version of this song called Alguien and this version was later included as a bonus track on the re-release of the album Have A Nice Day.

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Nina Simone was a fascinating woman whose life and music continues to intrigue and captivate. I have always loved her voice, marvelled at her piano skills, and admired how she used lyrics to seduce in one song and damn in the next. Yet, appallingly, my knowledge of Simone's life and character remained appallingly limited.
I unsurprisingly lapped up Liz Garbus' Oscar-nominated, Netflix produced What Happened, Miss Simone? (2015) on its release. The warts-and-all film shows Simone's undeniable talent – a musical genius whose audiences would be spellbound in her presence – yet whose personal life was extremely troubled and unsettled (loneliness, physical and chemical abuse, illness). She made mistakes. She was a difficult character. Yet she was a transcendental performer whose talent shines brightly on the screen. Would a written biography be able to capture her musical talent in quite the same way?
Nina Simone, born Eunice Waymon and raised in Tryon, North Carolina, was a musical prodigy who dreamed of becoming the world's first black classical pianist. Playing the piano at her preacher mother's sermons brought her to the attention of congregation member Muriel Mazzanovich – aka "Miss Mazzy" – her first piano teacher who co-founded a fund for Eunice's musical education. This fund supported her move to New York to attend New York's Juilliard School. As the fund dwindled she tried, and was rejected, for a scholarship at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. Although she never fully recovered from this unfortunate incident, we can pinpoint this event as changing the course of the young woman's life, initiating her evolution from Eunice Waymon to Nina Simone.
Alan Light's biography of the singer, also titled 'What Happened, Miss Simone?," is an engrossing companion piece. Due to Simone's electrifying performances, some individuals may find themselves preferring the faster paced, snappier, musically charged film to the written version. However, the book is richer in detail and includes periods of Simone's life which Garbus, due to time restraints, naturally omitted. Light utilises additional first hand accounts by those closest to Simone – her musicians, ex-husband Andy Stroud, and her daughter Lisa Simone Kelly – providing a full yet stark account of this flawed but extraordinary artist whose life included numerous love affairs, struggle with sexuality, activism in the fight for civil rights, and career highs and lows. Fundamentally, Light paints Simone as a woman who never recovered from the lack of attention and affection her mother showed her in childhood, setting a precedent that would greatly influence Simone's relationships with lovers, with her musicians, with her audience, and most significantly, with her daughter.
'What Happened, Miss Simone?' is a richly personal biography and a fitting companion to an enthralling film. Simone was a tormented genius – a mass of contradictions – who, underneath all of the drama and problems remained Eunice Waymon: the little girl from South Carolina whose biggest regret was that she never became the world's first black classical pianist.
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TEHRAN (FNA)- Battlefield sources Sunday refuted the terrorists' claims about advancing in Northern Lattakia, and underlined the government forces' full control over the newly-liberated town of Kinsibba.
"The Syrian government forces repelled the offensive of the terrorist groups to recapture Kinsibba, which ended in the killing of at least 120 militants and wounding of many more," the sources said, adding, "Terrorist left behind their military equipment and retreated from the battlefield."
"Kinsibba in under the full control of Syrian government forces," the sources underlined.
On Saturday, the Syrian Army troops, in a large-scale offensive, forced the terrorist groups back from their positions near Kinsibba in Northern Lattakia and took full control over the small but key town.


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Антон Кафарена (іноді Квафарена; ;  11 червня 1997, Шкодер) — албанський волейболіст, діагональний нападник, гравець збірної Албанії та італійського ВК «Верона Воллей».

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Народжений 11 червня 1997 року в м. Шкодер. Має старшого брата Ніколіна, який також є волейболістом.

Грає на позиції діагонального, зокрема у складі збірної Албанії.

Виступав за албанський клуб «Влазнія». Після цього три сезони був гравцем клубу першої Бундесліги Німеччини «Volleyball Bisons Bühl».

У вересні 2020 року уклав угоду з львівським ВК «Барком-Кажани». У складі цієї команди грав під № 14. Улітку 2021 року поповнив лави італійського клубу «Верона Воллей».

Досягнення
 Чемпіон України: 2021
 Володар Кубка України: 2021
 Володар Суперкубка України: 2020
 Фіналіст Кубка Німеччини: 2018

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 MVP поєдинку за Суперкубок України 2020

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 Антон Кафарена .
 Сторінка на ФБ.
 Special EditiON Anton Qafarena 🇦🇱 (Opposite/Oposto) - PLAYERS ON VOLLEYBALL

Албанські волейболісти
Волейболісти «Баркому-Кажанів»
Волейболісти «Верони»
Волейболісти «Бюля»
Гравці національних збірних із волейболу

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Last week, I found what appears to be an nice large, old wagon or carriage frame at a homesite in the Sugarlands area below Bullhead. If you look closely in the top right corner of the 1st photo, you can see an old fencepost. The area to the right of the fencepost appeared to be the location of a barn or other large outbuilding. There were probably at least 10 or more fenceposts in the area near the barn.
The nice flat area just above the metal frame is an old road.
Thanks for the nice comments. I certainly was excited at finding it at such a beautiful homesite. I would luv to have been able to stay longer, but I had 2 other homesites to get to before dark. I look forward to visiting this spot again when I get back to the park.
What an interesting setting. We love coming upon a place that was obviously once settled and trying to piece together fragments of what used to be. Especially love it when folks like you and Barb do the legwork.


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Gazprom Neft and Repsol expand their exploration cluster in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug
Efficiency Partnership
Gazprom Neft and Repsol are developing a joint venture to conduct geological exploration at six license blocks in the Karabashsky zone of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug.
The joint venture will be established through Karabashsky-6 LLC, owned by Gazprom Neft, which holds geological prospecting licenses to six blocks in the south—west of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug. Repsol will acquire a 50.1-percent share in the company's equity once both parties have fulfilled all conditions precedent under the contract, including securing corporate approvals. Under the terms of the Shareholders Agreement the joint venture will be managed by both parties, on an equal footing.
The joint venture will hold the rights to the Karabashsky-17, −18, −19, −25, −26 and −27 blocks, together covering a total area of approximately 1,600 square kilometres. All of these are located in the Kondinsky District of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, and all are marked by very limited levels of geological investigation. Promising assets adjoin these sites, licenses for which are held by other Gazprom Neft and Repsol joint ventures: Evrotek-Yugra* and ASB Geo**. Synergies with new territories will allow the partners to establish a major exploration — and subsequently oil-production — cluster in the Karabashsky zone of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug.
Preparations for geological prospecting at six Karabashsky blocks were started in 2019, with 2D seismic works planned for 2020. The operator on this project is Evrotek-Yugra, which has a professional team with extensive skills and experience in geological prospecting works within the Karabashsky zone.
Vadim Yakovlev, Deputy CEO for Upstream, Gazprom Neft, commented: «Establishing this joint venture marks a step forward not just in developing a major exploration cluster in the south—west of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, but also in supporting the vector of our expanding cooperation with Repsol. We already have mutually successful projects in geological prospecting in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug. I am confident that in joining forces and consolidating our skills and competencies on yet another asset we can unlock the resource potential of the under-researched Karabashsky zone more effectively. Our experience of working with our Spanish partners will prove a further advantage in implementing other promising projects».
Vadim Yakovlev Deputy CEO for Upstream, Gazprom Neft
Tomas Garcia Blanco, Repsol's Upstream Executive Managing Director, said, «We have established a solid relationship with Gazprom Neft in the projects we have undertaken together, and this new joint venture is the result of seeking new opportunities in the Karabashsky area. We believe that our joint effort and technical expertise will result in efficient solutions to develop these assets and create value for our stakeholders».
Tomas Garcia Blanco ЗRepsol's Upstream Executive Managing Director
* Gazprom Neft acquired a 15.02-percent interest in Evrotek-Yugra, owned by Spain's Repsol, in July 2017, with the right to increase its interest to 50-percent. The joint venture is undertaking geological prospecting works in the south-west of the Khanti-Mansi Autonomous Okrug.
Evrotek-Yugra holds hydrocarbon exploration and production licenses for the Karabashsky 1 and Karabashsky 2 blocks, as well as exploration licenses for a further five blocks including the Karabashsky 3, the Karabashsky 9, the Kileisky and the Sverdlovsky-4 blocks.
** ASB Geo LLC is a Gazprom Neft—Repsol joint venture holding the exploration license for the Karabashsky 10 block in the Kondinsky District in the south-western part of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug.
Repsol is one of the world's leading oil and gas companies, operating in more than 35 countries, with a headcount of more than 25,000. The company's products are sold worldwide. Repsol produces over 700,000 barrels of oil equivalent, and processes more than one million barrels of oil, every day.
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Vadim Yakovlev
Gazprom Neft and Shell to expand their joint project to develop the Salym Group of fields in KhMAO
Gazprom Neft produces its 12-millionth tonne of oil at its Prirazlomnoye field
New Gazprom Neft science and technology centre for hard-to-recover reserves opens at Skolkovo


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The science of dispersants
Massive use of surfactant chemicals turns Gulf of Mexico into a giant experiment.
By Daniel Cressey
Since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and sank in April, vast quantities of dispersant chemicals have been sprayed onto the resulting slick. The chemicals--alongside corralling floating oil with booms and setting it aflame in "controlled burns"--are an attempt to reduce the environmental damage of oil still spewing out of a ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico at the rate of 5,000 barrels (about 800,000 liters) per day.
What do dispersants do?
Dispersants do not remove oil from the area. Rather, they help large globs of oil "disperse" into smaller pieces--hence their name--which are easier for sea-living microbes to break down.
They work on the same principle as kitchen washing-up liquids. Both are made up mainly of surfactant molecules, which have heads that are attracted to water and tails that are repelled by water.
The molecules embed themselves at interfaces between oil and water. This lowers surface tension at the interface--that is, the difficulty of disrupting molecules of oil and molecules of water from clinging to their own kind rather than mixing.
"Lowering the interfacial tension reduces the energy required to mix the oil as discrete droplets into the water phase," says David Horsup, division vice-president for research and development at Nalco Energy Services, which manufactures the dispersant products currently in use in the Gulf of Mexico. "Dispersing the oil into small droplets allows naturally present microbes to then consume those oil droplets, and the dispersant rapidly to biodegrade."
Which dispersants are being used in the Gulf of Mexico?
So far, at least 325,000 gallons (over 1 million liters) of two types of dispersants have been used: Corexit 9500 and Corexit EC9527A.
"One is designed for light, fresh oil or oil which has been released very early on and hasn't been weathered," explains Horsup. "The other is designed for heavier oils and those that have been weathered for a few days."
What are the environmental impacts of dispersants?
Dispersants are themselves unpleasant chemical concoctions, although today's products are less damaging than the toxic solvents used in earlier spills such as the Torrey Canyon disaster. The main problem with dispersants relates to the fact that they help to spread oil more widely into the environment.
This helps to prevent large amounts of oil fouling beaches and coating animals, but although surface-dwelling animals may benefit from a reduction in oil exposure, animals in other parts of the oceans and those at the sea floor will experience more pollution.
"It's a trade-off, and no one will tell you using dispersants won't have an effect. You're trading one species for another," says Carys Mitchelmore, an environmental chemist at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science in Solomons and a co-author on a 2005 U.S. National Academies report on dispersants.
In one study, not yet published, Mitchelmore and her colleagues exposed soft corals to crude oil and the Corexit 9500 dispersant currently in use. Growth rates fell significantly.
Overall, however, there is still a dearth of knowledge about the impact of dispersants, especially if used in the volumes now being applied in the Gulf.
"The long-term effects are really unknown," says Mitchelmore. "The dispersant has inherent toxicity. And these oil droplets tend to be the same sort of size as food particles for filter-feeding organisms."
So far, dispersants have mainly been applied to surface slicks by spraying from planes. Could they be targeted to the source of the oil leak?
Underwater robots are now being used in the Gulf to apply dispersants directly to oil as it leaks from the sea floor. Such underwater use has never been attempted before at the depth of the current spill.
Eric Adams, an environmental engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and another author on the 2005 report, notes that, at the surface, wind and waves help dispersants to mix with and break up oil. Underwater, it is harder to ensure mixing.
"In some sense it's easier to apply it [dispersant] at the surface," says Adams, who has done theoretical work on deep-sea application systems for dispersants. But the advantage of underwater application, which can reach oil at its source, makes the experiment worth trying, he thinks.
Some have criticized test runs of deep-sea dispersant use at the Deepwater Horizon site by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), on the grounds that research so far has focused on the impact of dispersants in the upper parts of the ocean.
But the attempt does appear to be working. "Aerial observations indicated that the slick on the surface was significantly reduced once you inject the chemical right at the well head," Horsup says. "You get very rapid dispersion of the oil into the water column."
The EPA admits that the impact of underwater use on the environment is "still widely unknown." However, after the initial test runs, the go-ahead was given this week for further underwater applications.
In the short term, chemical companies worldwide are scrambling to keep up with the massive demand for dispersants resulting from the accident. Horsup says that suppliers are currently keeping up with demand, but that if demand increases markedly stockpiles may become depleted.
In the longer term, the Deepwater Horizon accident response has begun what is, to all intents and purposes, a giant experiment on dispersant use.
The 2005 National Academies report raised numerous questions about dispersant toxicity and the final fate of dispersed oil that need answers. Both Adams and Mitchelmore say not much progress has yet been made on those questions. The events in the Gulf of Mexico may push this research forwards


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Q: Linking multiple sounds cards in order to play sound over all of them simultaneously. I have been searching for a way to utilize multiple sound cards to play the same audio at the same time.  My laptop has Ubuntu 11.10 x64 (3.0.0-12) w. ALSA 1.0.24.  I have a pair of USB speakers that I have purchased and would like to be able to use them as well as my internal speakers.
The internal speakers and USB speakers are two separate soundcards:
aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC275 Analog [ALC275 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: ALC275 Digital [ALC275 Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 9: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 2: AUDIO [USB  AUDIO], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

I would like to use cards 0 and 2 (Intel and USB)
I was hoping that there would be a way to create a link between the two, so that it's a system-level fix, versus having to set up each application to handle it correctly.
I am not sure if ALSA can handle this, and if not, if there would be a solution within my Linux environment to solve my problem.

A: You can setup simultaneous output using the tool paprefs. Install it using:

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*sudo apt-get install paprefs
and then run it using:

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*paprefs &


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We all love arcade games. Double Bloob is one of those you immediately fall in love with. The simple story of two siblings – Aen and Niua – who, with some help of Doctor Maybe's inventions, try to set the little dolphin free is a just an excuse to have a great fun while shooting hordes of Bloobs that fly out in the sky. The colorful 2D graphics enhances the gameplay and draws the player more into the story and the game world. In order to keep the player entertained, the game contains tons of weapons and power-ups. Complete 8 different worlds and 48 levels to save Will from the evil Bloobs.
Are ready for the confrontation? Who is going to be the winner? You or the Bloobs? Prepare yourself for loads of fun and invite your friends to beat your high scores!


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In a small bowl, mix the soy sauce, sugar, corn starch, and red pepper flakes. Set aside.
Lightly salt and pepper the steak. Set aside.
Generously spray a large, deep skillet with nonstick canola oil spray.
Saute onion, peppers, and broccoli for several minutes on medium heat until veggies begin to soften. I sometimes throw in an ice cube with the veggies so that the melting ice provides a little steam to assist in their cooking.
Remove the veggies from the pan and set aside while you cook the meat.
Add the steak, garlic, ginger, and soy sauce mixture to the skillet.
Saute over medium heat for approximately 5 minutes. Sauce will bubble and begin to thicken.
When the meat is almost done, add the vegetables back to the pan so that the meat and vegetables can finish cooking together. Cover the skillet with a glass lid.
The final cooking stage will take approximately 5 more minutes, but check the meat and vegetables frequently.
Vegetables should be fork tender and meat should be cooked through when done.
Serve the stir fry over your favorite brown or white rice, if desired.
WW Freestyle Info.: This recipe makes 5 generous 1-cup servings. Each serving is 6 points. Be sure to add points if you serve the stir fry over rice.
**This recipe makes 5 generous 1 cup servings. Each serving is 6 WW Freestyle points. Be sure to add points if you serve the stir fry over rice.
Begin cooking rice; follow instructions on your box.
In a small bowl, combine broth and cornstarch until smooth. Stir in the soy sauce, hoisin sauce, liquid smoke, pepper, garlic, garlic salt, and sesame oil; set aside.
In a large nonstick skillet, stir fry beef in 1 ½ teaspoons olive oil until no longer pink. Remove from pan and keep warm.
In the same skillet, stir fry the onions to crisp tender in remaining olive oil. Stir the cornstarch mixture gently then add to the pan. Bring mixture to a boil over medium high heat, stirring for 2 minutes, or until thickened.
Reduce the heat, add beef and heat through. Serve over rice with additional soy sauce, if desired.
Garnish with fresh, thinly sliced green onions.
First, mix the lime juice, honey, powdered peanut butter, soy sauce, ginger & sriracha in a small bowl.
Arrange each wrap with ½ of a sliced grilled chicken breast and about ½ a cup of slaw blend. This is the slaw mix I use but any broccoli slaw will work.
Drizzle each with 1 T. peanut sauce and top with 5 grams (about a teaspoon) of chopped peanuts.
Wrap it up and enjoy!
Mix lime juice, honey, powdered peanut butter, soy sauce, ginger & sriracha in a small bowl.
Arrange each wrap with ½ of a sliced grilled chicken breast and about ½ a cup of slaw blend.
Weight Watchers Info: This makes 4 servings.
Peanut sauce = 2 Freestyle SmartPoints per Tablespoon. 5 grams chopped peanuts = 1 SmartPoint.
The chicken and slaw mix are both zero SmartPoints.
If you use the same wrap I did, they are 1 SmartPoint each.
Total per wrap: 4 Freestyle SmartPoints each!
My daughter turns 11 this week. She's just like I was as a kid in that she starts planning her next birthday celebration the minute her previous birthday ends. I have to put the kibosh on some of her wild hair ideas but I try to always allow one or two. This year we are taking her and a few of her friends to the zoo and she wants to go dressed as unicorns. Yes, unicorns. I ordered unicorn horns as party favors and she's created unicorn shirts, complete with rainbow colored tails attached. Good thing she's crafty.
She also requested this Sweet & Spicy Chicken Stir-Fry for her birthday. Just kidding, that's a lie. Hahaha, she's 11, she wants pizza. Surprisingly though, as my more picky child, she actually will eat this stir fry. I know that doesn't sound like a glowing recommendation but I promise it is. She usually turns up her nose at vegetables mixed in with meat. Not this one. She mostly eats the broccoli and chicken out, but I ain't complaining if she eats it at all! My son likes it but he eats like a grown up. Anybody else out there have a picky eater? (All the moms raise their hands.) There's one in every family.
In a small bowl, whisk together red pepper jelly, soy sauce, and ginger; set aside.
In a large skillet or wok, heat 1 T. oil over medium high heat. Cook the seasoned chicken a few minutes on each side, until lightly browned and cooked through; remove from pan and set aside.
In the same skillet, heat 1 T. oil over medium-low heat. Add onion and cook until onions are tender and becoming translucent (about 5-6 minutes, stirring often).
Increase heat to medium and add ½ T. more oil. Add all the bell peppers and cook until they start to get tender.
Add the broccoli and cook for 3-4 minutes, until tender but not overly soft.
Add the cooked chicken & sauce to the pan with the veggies; cook & stir until evenly coated & heated throughout.
Serve over rice with more soy sauce if desired.
WW Freestyle Info.: This recipe makes 8 servings. Each 1 ½ cups serving is 4 points, not including rice.
In the same skillet, heat 1 T. oil over medium-low heat. Add onion and cook until onions are tender and becoming translucent (about 5-6 mintues, stirring often).
Weight Watchers Info.: This recipe makes 8 servings. Each 1 ½ cups serving is 4 SmartPoints on Freestyle, not including rice.
So, Friday is my birthday. It's also my mom's birthday. Yep, I was born on her birthday (just barely – at 11:55 p.m.). Hours and hours of labor with no drugs. Happy birthday, Momma…you're welcome!
Mom always said I was the best birthday present she ever received. She's a sweet momma. And I always loved sharing my birthday with her (still do). It helped that she always let me have all the glory. She'd cook my favorite meal and bake whatever flavor cake I wanted. I'd always have all this planned out well in advance because I ALWAYS planned my birthday well in advance… like 6 months in advance. That's how much I love my birthday. As an adult, I started celebrating my birthday ALL WEEK…because why not? I did this until I had kids and then I had to give up my birthday week because… kids. I still like to treat myself as much as possible all week though. If nothing else, I make my favorite meals. It's my birthday week. "I don't care if you want hamburgers; I get to pick, kid!" 🙂 So this week I'll be making one of my favorite healthy dinners: Chicken Chow Mein Spaghetti Squash.
Line a baking pan with foil and spray the foil with non-stick cooking spray; set aside.
Cut the spaghetti squash, length-wise, and scoop out the seeds.
Remove the squash from the oven; using large tongs or oven mitts, carefully flip the squash over, cut side down, and bake for 5 to 10 more minutes.
Remove the squash from the oven and allow to cool completely. Scoop the strands & set aside. The spaghetti squashed can be cooked in advance and stored in the refrigerator until ready to use.
In a small bowl, whisk together soy sauce, ginger, and minced/pressed garlic cloves; set aside.
Heat 1 tsp. of oil in a large, high-sided skillet, pot, or Dutch oven on the stove over medium-high heat.
Sprinkle the chicken pieces with salt, pepper, & garlic powder. Add the chicken to the pan and allow to brown. Flip and brown the other side. Remove chicken from the skillet & set aside.
Reduce heat to medium-low and add 1 tsp. of oil, then celery and onion. Continue to cook, stirring often, until onions are translucent, about 5 minutes.
Add the last 1 tsp. of oil and the entire bag of cole slaw mix to the pan. Stir until the cabbage begins to wilt, about 3 or 4 minutes.
Add chicken, spaghetti squash, and sauce to the cabbage mixture. Stir until heated through.
Garnish with chopped green onions and, if desired, sriracha or red pepper flakes. Serve hot.
WW Freestyle Info.: This recipe makes about 7 servings at a mere 3 points each. Each serving is 10 ounces (weight) or about 2 cups.
The only "vegetables" (even if you can call them that) I at as a child were potatoes and hominy. Hominy… not sure that even qualifies as a vegetable, it's so over-processed. My mom tried everything to get me to eat my vegetables. She tried making me sit at the table until I ate them… I was apparently a very strong willed child. She tried seasoning them differently or "hiding" them in casseroles… I didn't fall for that. She even tried paying me. That one actually worked… until she quit paying me, then I quit eating them. My poor mom. Fortunately, my taste buds have changed and now I'm a lover of all foods, meat and vegetables alike. Luckily for me, my kids are a lot better eaters than I was as a child. One of their favorite veggies is broccoli so we have it a lot. We like it roasted, steamed & seasoned, covered in cheese, or incorporated into a dish such as this one. This Asian Beef & Broccoli is a one-pan meal, which you know I love! (Okay, two pans if you count the one you cook the rice in.) It's fast & easy to prepare and tastes like Chinese take-out!
In a small bowl, combine beef broth, sweet chili sauce, 1 tablespoon cornstarch, minced garlic, ginger, soy sauce, and red pepper flakes (if desired); set aside.
In a large skillet or wok, heat ½ tablespoon sesame oil over medium-high heat. Sautee the broccoli, stirring frequently, until it gets some brown coloration on it. Turn off heat, remove broccoli from the pan, and set aside.
In a bowl or plastic baggie, sprinkle steak strips with corn starch, garlic powder, onion powder, and a dash of salt & pepper; toss to coat.
Heat remaining ½ tablespoon sesame oil in the skillet again over medium high heat.
Add beef; cook and stir until brown and juice runs clear.
Add broth mixture & broccoli to pan with beef.
Simmer & stir about 5 minutes, until broccoli is tender and sauce is thickened.
Serve over rice; add more soy sauce, if desired.
WW Freestyle Info: Each 8 ounce (weight) serving is 6 points; makes 4 servings.
Rinse lettuce leaves, keeping them whole. Set aside on paper towels to dry.
Cook turkey and onion together in large skillet. Once turkey is approximately half cooked, add the garlic, soy sauce, hoisin sauce, ginger, vinegar, and crushed red pepper. Continue cooking.
When meat mixture is fully cooked, add water chestnuts, pine nuts, and green onions. Cook until green onions just begin to wilt. Stir in sesame oil.
Spoon mixture into the middle of a large lettuce leaf. Fold or wrap lettuce leaf around meat mixture to eat.
WW Info.: Makes 4 servings.
Freestyle SmartPoints: 5 SmartPoints per serving.
Old SmartPoints: 6 SmartPoints per serving.
WW Info.: Makes 4 servings. Freestyle SmartPoints: 5 SmartPoints per serving. Old SmartPoints: 6 SmartPoints per serving.


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Q: how to properly close a tkinter window with background threads updaing the gui I have a Tkinter app which built of single window and several frames, each frame is a class. Some frames has threads that changes the GUI components (e.g entry) on the context of receiving a message from socket.
root = tk.Tk()
gui = MainFrame(root)   # this class holds the frames
root.protocol("WM_DELETE_WINDOW", functools.partial(gui.close, root))
...
root.mainloop()

The problem: when the user press the "X" button the following close func is called:
def close(self):
    self.frame1.close() # turns the while condition of the thread to be false and call join()
    self.frame2.close() # "
    ...
    root.destroy()

The internal threads are running in while loop (with condition) trying to update an GUI components and after call to close() they get stuck on a single line of code without rising an exception.
e.g self.entry.configure(state='disabled'). Then the join() call never ends.
This way the code is stuck and the GUI is not closing. I can call root.destroy() at the beginning of the function then the GUI will be closed but the code is still running (stuck)
How should i prevent this stuck or force killing my threads?
Thank you


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In case you haven't noticed there's a new Doctor in the TARDIS—but is Jodie Whitaker really rewriting the show's approah to gender and sexuality? Paul F Cockburn investigates.
Just in case you've not noticed, Doctor Who is now a woman.
The original announcement – made after the 2017 Wimbledon Men's Final – horrified some people, surprised more and was generally treated with the attention it deserved by everyone else. The world kept spinning and, for every "Doctor Who RIP" fanboy lost in the second stage of grief and loss, there were young girls on YouTube near-bursting with excitement.
Forty years ago, in the autumn of 1978, things were a tad different—Doctor Who's new lead, Jodie Whittaker hadn't even been born, for starters! Tom Baker was confidently embarking on his fifth season, accompanied by a new character which – according to Radio Times journalist Liz Hodgkinson – saw the companion evolve from screaming teenage girl into "the supreme position of Time Lady—the Doctor's equal".
It's debatable whether Romana (played originally by Mary Tamm, and later Lalla Ward) ever truly was the Doctor's equal, but she did confirm one thing: the Doctor's race definitely had two genders.
The Time Lords had been introduced into Doctor Who back in 1969, originally as an excuse to "regenerate" Patrick Troughton into Jon Pertwee, and later send the Doctor on extraterrestrial adventures. Each and every time, they were played by men. Indeed, after nine years, some fans started wondering if Time Lords were only male—despite the fact that, when he had originally coughed his way onto our TV screens in 1963, the Doctor has been travelling with his granddaughter, Susan.
Such a "boys-only" idea wasn't inconceivable; a common trait of 20th century Doctor Who aliens was that we only ever saw one gender—and the default was invariably "male". The only exceptions were those aliens so similar to humans as to be indistinguishable; they could be – and sometimes were – played by both men and women.
There were a few anomalies, of course; not least the Time Lords—at least until 1978. Arguably the most incredible, though, remains the "hermaphrodite hexapod" Alpha Centauri, a creature with the voice of a nervous girl-guide and a body resembling a giant green penis wrapped in a condom-like cape. The critic Elizabeth Sandifer, in her Eruditorum Press blog, describes "it" as not just the show's "first firmly genderqueer character" but also "one of the most bewildering sights in Doctor Who history". Family-friendly entertainment was clearly quite different in 1972.
Even more so back in 1963, when the core DNA of Doctor Who was established; BBC executives still had firm ideas about what was – and wasn't – appropriate for their new family-orientated, educationally-minded adventure series. Gender, sexuality and sexual relationships were not on the list.
One unintended consequence of this – and an alleged reason why so many gay men would become fans of the show – was the Doctor's asexual nature—despite, by the 1980s, him being as physically young and pretty as Peter Davison. That said, LGBT viewers looking for characters in Doctor Who who somehow resonated with their own experiences still had to read "between the lines".
When the BBC announced Russell T Davies as Doctor Who's new "showrunner" in 2003, much of the initial media coverage focused on him being the brazenly gay writer responsible for 1999's groundbreaking Channel 4 drama Queer As Folk. While Davies clearly proved he could write popular family drama, there was nevertheless criticism – including from some darker corners of Doctor Who fandom – about him bringing a "gay agenda" to Doctor Who.
Davies may have denied the charge, but he never hid the fact that he frequently included non-heterosexual characters in the stories under his watch; indeed, as early as the revived show's second episode – "The End of the World" – chief villain Cassandra was said to be transsexual. Then, mid-way through that first series, John Barrowman burst onto our screens as the omnisexual Captain Jack Harkness—a man whose desires crossed not just genders but species! He wasn't presented as a monster to destroy, or a problem to be solved; he proved to be one of the good guys, and later even picked up his own spin-off, Torchwood.
Time and again under Davies' tenure, characters were revealed to be non-heterosexual. Arguably, this was radical precisely because it was presented as being totally unimportant: alternative sexualities were no longer absent from Doctor Who, but they weren't presented as being significant either. Alternative sexuality was just "dancing"—fun, natural, and normal.
Although Captain Jack was clearly Davies' invention, he was first introduced in a story written by Davies' eventual successor. Curiously, Steven Moffat would also be criticised for having a "gay agenda", albeit one in which he was sometimes accused of writing "lesbians for straight men".
Only now, though, do we know what Moffat's most significant longterm contribution to Doctor Who's "canon" actually is, and it was there in the very first scene he ever wrote as showrunner—when Matt Smith's newly regenerated Doctor briefly wondered if he was a girl. At the time it was seen as a throw-away joke; in hindsight, it was our first indication that Time Lords might actually be a "bit flexible on the whole man-woman thing", as companion Bill would later point out. Though, of course, they still for the most part call themselves Time Lords.
New showrunner Chris Chibnall cast Jodie Whittaker as the Doctor, but it was Moffat who helped make it possible by seeding the concept into the programme. Again, in hindsight, it now seems almost inevitable, given the success of Missy – a female incarnation of the Doctor's arch-enemy, and fellow renegade, The Master.
The final proof of the reimagined Time Lords came in Peter Capaldi's swansong, "The Doctor Falls", when Missy (Michelle Gomez) was teamed up with the most recent incarnation of The Master (John Simm). Few viewers had any problem accepting them as two aspects of the same character.
"Is the future going to be all girl?" the Master asked. "We can only hope," replied the Doctor. Prophetically, as it turned out.
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At the start of the documentary Feels Good Man, cartoonist Matt Furie bends down in a marsh and scoops up a small green frog no bigger than his thumb. He looks like a dad who probably owns a skateboard—shorts, patterned shirt, yellow ball cap, California chill. Furie smiles as the frog settles on his outstretched hand. For a moment, it poses like a miniature garden statue. Then it skitters up Furie's arm and out of his gentle control. Furie doesn't react. It's hardly the first frog to slip away from him.
When Furie first drew Pepe the Frog, a cartoon that's become one of the most recognizable and controversial memes in the world, it was just another doodle, the latest in a long line of anthropomorphic amphibians. "It's just been kind of a slow drip of frogs all my life," Furie says. In 2005, Pepe became a part of Furie's comic Boy's Club, a series about a silly, slovenly group of friends in an early-twenties funk. By 2016, Pepe the Frog was an online hate symbol, a racist, beswastikaed nightmare creature beloved by digital white supremacists. Pepe's catchphrase, "Feels good, man," was also subjected to sinister remix. The line Furie wrote as a weirdo's response to being caught peeing with his pants around his ankles passed through the darkest of internet prisms and became "Kill Jews, man." "I'm just a spectator," Furie says.
Feels Good Man does linger on the anguished online reactionaries who took Pepe from fratty to fascist, but mostly, it doodles an intimate, uncomfortable portrait of a naive cartoonist trying to drag a JPEG back from the maw of 4chan's ugliest corners—simply because it's right and because it's his. He's a children's book author, an unlikely gladiator, except for how he isn't. In 2020, creators' struggle to wrest ownership of their art from the internet is the biggest dustup in town. By telling Furie's story, Feels Good Man lays the choreography and competing emotions of that struggle bare. Pepe the Frog isn't really a frog anymore, just an enigmatic prize in a fight that nobody's really figured out how to win.
If there's a criticism to be made of Feels Good Man, which premieres today at the Sundance Film Festival, it's that you leave the documentary feeling somewhat overstuffed. Matt Furie may have an intelligible arc from apathy to upset to pseudo triumph, but Pepe? Pepe's all over the place. "One of the reasons [Pepe] was able to be co-opted so easily is because people didn't understand where it had come from," says director Arthur Jones. "From the beginning, I knew I wanted Matt's comics to come to life." In between its talking heads, Feels Good Man is an acid trip of Furie-style animations, songs performed by fans of Boy's Club, original Pepe drawings that have nothing to do with Boy's Club, 4chan imageboard conversations, videos of teenage girls painting their faces to look like Pepe's. Jones spent months on 4chan just collecting it all, and it shows. Then again, Pepe is a meme. His story's nonsensical crowdedness is so inevitable it's almost more satisfying that way: Like Furie's Pepe, you drown in the digital chatter.
At its best, Feels Good Man is a keen observer of Furie's emotional journey, rendering it in a way that's subtle and spare and seems true. Furie hardly emotes and the documentary doesn't try to make him, but you can hear everything in a few quotes. He's almost a three-panel comic. At first, he's the world's calmest punk: "I'm an artist," he says. "I don't like suing other artists." Slowly, he becomes disillusioned. He's a guy whose work has gone viral, but when he meets fans, they say it must suck to have his work "hijacked." "It definitely sucks, but nothing's forever," he says. Then, even more quietly, he wavers: "Right? Hehe." The last step doesn't even come from Furie himself, but is reported by his partner, artist Aiyana Udesen. "He's thinking, 'I've worked my whole life as an artist, and now I'm going to be lumped in with this weird new swastika?'" It takes him a long time to realize that his creation has become honey for a swarm of bigoted bees, and longer still to decide if he wants to do anything about it.


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Clermont-Ferrand, France, October 8, 2020 (06:00 PM CEST) – Carbios, (Euronext Growth Paris: ALCRB) a company pioneering new bio-industrial solutions to reinvent the lifecycle of plastic and textile polymers, announced today the acquisition from Limagrain Ingredients of its entire stake in the capital of Carbiolice, a joint company created in 2016 around an enzymatic biodegradation technology licenced by Carbios.
The acquisition of Limagrain Ingredients' equity stake in the capital of Carbiolice by Carbios, which took place on October 8, 2020, is paid for a minority portion in cash and for a majority portion through the issuance of new ordinary shares by Carbios, in accordance with the terms and conditions described below.
As a result of this acquisition, Carbios shows a solid financial structure, with a cash position of €34 million versus €13.9 million as of June 30th, 2020.
Given its financial situation, its projected operating expenses and the successful capital increase that took place in July 2020, Carbios should be able to cover its financial needs until the 4th quarter 2022.
This strategic transaction highlights the confidence in Carbiolice's growth potential and Carbios' intention to remain its long-term reference shareholder. It also reinforces Carbios' ambitions to position itself as the world leader in biological technologies for the end-of-life of plastics and synthetic fibers. In addition to the enzymatic recycling process developed in-house by Carbios, the PLA[1] biodegradation technology implemented by Carbiolice will enable the commercialization of a new generation of plastics which is 100% compostable in domestic conditions, making it possible to achieve zero waste for certain flexible and rigid packaging, which by their nature cannot be recycled.
"The fruitful collaboration between Limagrain Ingredients and Carbios has enabled the development of an industrial biotech that is among the most innovative in Europe in the field of compostable packaging[2]. The acquisition of Limagrain Ingredients' shareholding in Carbiolice is consistent with our desire to strengthen value creation for our shareholders. We are confident that this transaction will enable us to better prepare for the commercial launch of Evanesto® and the execution of our growth strategy," said Jean-Claude Lumaret, Chief Executive Officer of Carbios.
Main features of the Offering:[3]
Issue price: premium over the closing price of Carbios share on October 7, 2020;
Number of shares: 100,000 representing 1.24% of Carbios' current share capital;
Subscription date: October 8, 2020;
Subscription payment: By way of set-off of Debt;
Standstill and lock-up commitments: Until January 1, 2021; and
Conditions for the sale of Carbios shares at the end of the lock-up period: conditional until January 1, 2022, as defined in the cession agreement.
For example, a shareholder holding 1% on the Carbios share capital prior to the Offering will now have a 0.99% stake.
The Company's share capital will consist of 8,082,172 shares once settlement-delivery is complete.
The new shares will bear dividend rights and will be admitted to trading on Euronext Growth Paris under the same ISIN code FR0011648716 – ALCRB. The settlement-delivery of the new shares and their admission to trading on Euronext Growth Paris will take place on October 13, 2020.
Prior to the Offering, Carbios and Limagrain Ingredients held respectively 52.70% and 18.02% of Carbiolice's share capital. At the end of the Offering, Carbios' stake in Carbiolice's capital will be increased to 70.72%, the balance being held by the SPI fund operated by Bpifrance. Following the exercise of the fourth and final phase of Carbiolice share subscription warrants for an amount of €7.3 million (of which €2.8 million carried by Carbios and the balance by the SPI fund), which is expected to take place by the end of October 2020, Carbios will hold 62.71% of the shares making up Carbiolice's share capital.
[1] Polylactic Acid: biosourced polymer
[2] Cf. November 20, 2019 press release
[3] The shares are issued without preferential subscription rights for the benefit of a category of beneficiaries by decision of the Board of Directors, in accordance with the delegation of authority conferred by the 10th resolution approved by the Company's Combined Shareholders' Meeting held on June 18, 2020.
About Carbios
Carbios, a green chemistry company, develops biological and innovative processes to revolutionize the end of life of plastics and textiles. Through its unique approach of combining enzymes and plastics, Carbios aims to address new consumer expectations and the challenges of a broader energy transition by taking up a major challenge of our time: plastic and textile pollution.
Established in 2011 by Truffle Capital, the mission of Carbios is to provide an industrial solution to the recycling of PET plastics and textiles (the dominant polymer in bottles, trays, textiles made of polyester). The enzymatic recycling technology developed by Carbios deconstructs any type of PET plastic waste into its basic components which can then be reused to produce new PET plastics of a quality equivalent to virgin ones. This PET innovation, the first of its kind in the world, was recently recognized in a scientific paper published in the prestigious journal Nature. Additionally, Carbios is working hand in hand with multinational brands — like L'Oréal, Nestlé Waters, PepsiCo and Suntory Beverage & Food Europe — to implement its technology, and to lead the transition toward a truly circular economy.
The Company has also developed an enzymatic biodegradation technology for PLA (a bio sourced polymer) based single use plastics. This technology can create a new generation of plastics that are 100% compostable in domestic conditions, integrating enzymes at the heart of the plastic product. This disruptive innovation has been licensed to Carbiolice, a joint venture created in 2016, in which Carbios now holds a majority stake alongside the SPI fund operated by Bpifrance.
For more information, please visit https://carbios.fr/en/
Twitter: Carbios Linkedin: Carbios Instagram : carbioshq
Carbios benefits from the qualification "Innovative Company" of Bpifrance allowing the eligibility of the Company's securities for the investment of Mutual Funds Placement in Innovation (FCPI). For more information, please visit: www.carbios.fr
Carbios (ISIN FR0011648716/ALCRB) is eligible for the PEA-PME, a government program allowing French residents investing in SMEs to benefit from income tax rebates.
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While I was on the Freeway I saw the New Challenger. I remember posting about seeing an old Challenger before (past blog post), so I tried to take photos the same way.
The image on the right is the old Challenger from the past blog post.
Looking at it from directly behind, it really does have bottom half.
I like the angle of this shot.
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What I See When I See A Wind Turbine
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What I See When I See a Wind Turbine, by Vaclav Smil
From the March 2016 issue of Spectrum, the magazine of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Wind turbines are the most visible symbols of the quest for renewable electricity generation. And yet, although they exploit the wind, which is as free and as green as energy can be, the machines themselves are pure embodiments of fossil fuels.
Large trucks bring steel and other raw materials to the site, earth-moving equipment beats a path to otherwise inaccessible high ground, large cranes erect the structures, and all these machines burn diesel fuel. So do the freight trains and cargo ships that convey the materials needed for the production of cement, steel, and plastics. For a 5-megawatt turbine, the steel alone averages 150 metric tons for the reinforced concrete foundations, 250 metric tons for the rotor hubs and nacelles (which house the gearbox and generator), and 500 metric tons for the towers.
If wind-generated electricity were to supply 25 percent of global demand by 2030 (forecast to reach about 30 petawatt-hours), then even with a high average capacity factor of 35 percent, the aggregate installed wind power of about 2.5 terawatts would require roughly 450 million metric tons of steel. And that's without counting the metal for towers, wires, and transformers for the new high-voltage transmission links that would be needed to connect it all to the grid.
A lot of energy goes into making steel. Sintered or pelletized iron ore is smelted in blast furnaces, charged with coke made from coal, and receives infusions of powdered coal and natural gas. Pig iron is decarbonized in basic oxygen furnaces. Then steel goes through continuous casting processes (which turn molten steel directly into the rough shape of the final product). Steel used in turbine construction embodies typically about 35 gigajoules per metric ton. To make the steel required for wind turbines that might operate by 2030, you'd need fossil fuels equivalent to more than 600 million metric tons of coal.
A 5-MW turbine has three roughly 60-meter-long airfoils, each weighing about 15 metric tons. They have light balsa or foam cores and outer laminations made mostly from glass-fiber-reinforced epoxy or polyester resins. The glass is made by melting silicon dioxide and other mineral oxides in furnaces fired by natural gas. The resins begin with ethylene derived from light hydrocarbons, most commonly the products of naphtha cracking, liquefied petroleum gas, or the ethane in natural gas. The final fiber-reinforced composite embodies on the order of 170 GJ/t. Therefore, to get 2.5 TW of installed wind power by 2030, we would need an aggregate rotor mass of about 23 million metric tons, incorporating the equivalent of about 90 million metric tons of crude oil. And when all is in place, the entire structure must be waterproofed with resins whose synthesis starts with ethylene.
Another required oil product is lubricant, for the turbine gearboxes, which has to be changed periodically during the machine's two-decade lifetime. Undoubtedly, a well-sited and well-built wind turbine would generate as much energy as it embodies in less than a year. However, all of it will be in the form of intermittent electricity—while its production, installation, and maintenance remain critically dependent on specific fossil energies.
Moreover, for most of these energies—coke for iron-ore smelting, coal and petroleum coke to fuel cement kilns, naphtha and natural gas as feedstock and fuel for the synthesis of plastics and the making of fiberglass, diesel fuel for ships, trucks, and construction machinery, lubricants for gearboxes—we have no nonfossil substitutes that would be readily available on the requisite large commercial scales. For a long time to come—until all energies used to produce wind turbines and photovoltaic cells come from renewable energy sources—modern civilization will remain fundamentally dependent on fossil fuels.
About the author: Vaclav Smil does interdisciplinary research in the fields of energy, environmental and population change, food production and nutrition, technical innovation, risk assessment, and public policy. He has published 40 books and nearly 500 papers on these topics. He is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (Science Academy). In 2010 he was named by Foreign Policy as one of the top 100 global thinkers and in 2013 he was appointed as a Member of the Order of Canada. He has worked as a consultant for many US, EU and international institutions, has been an invited speaker in more than 400 conferences and workshops in the USA, Canada, Europe, Asia and Africa, and has lectured at many universities in North America, Europe and East Asia. His wife Eva is a physician and his son David is an organic chemist.
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Jairo, a manufacturing worker for close to 30 years from the Miami area, sounds like your everyday machinist. Except he is also known as MFCEO_Machinist, with over 14k followers and being an Instamachinist influencer since 2013.
An up-and-coming influencer in the community is HEXGadgets, an 18-year-old machinist named Payton with his own Haas CNC. He spoke to SFA, an official MFG Day endorser, in-depth about his passion.
"I first learned about CNC machines completely by accident," Payton said. He was making custom LEGO figures as a side business. He wanted to recreate specific pop culture weapons for these figures – this was how he discovered injection molding.
While doing his LEGO customs side business, Payton excelled at math in school but wasn't a fan of science, except for physics for its real-life applications. Still, he felt his future wasn't moving fast enough.
From ages 13 to 16, Payton taught himself machining until he could pursue a higher education experience. He credits "tens of thousands of hours" of machining related YouTube videos.
By Junior year, he opted to go to his local technical college to pursue an Associates in Machine Technology. Payton was able to use Washington State laws to his advantage – he completed a two-year Associates Degree program while earning his high school diploma at the same time.
"I got to actually enjoy going to class and learning manual machining, CNC and CAD/CAM work, instead of going to high school, which I didn't enjoy," the young machinist said.
Payton's goal for the next year is to grow his business, perhaps buy another machine, and eventually, make this home shop his full-time job. If social media is a tool for machinists of any age to build their future, maybe it can fill that goal for the manufacturing industry, as well.
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