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Q: SF Short Story — Mercy-Killing Telepath I read this short story in the 1960s — can't remember just where. Pretty sure it was an American author. The main character is a middle-aged man, who, if I remember correctly, walks with either a cane or a crutch. He is a telepath who has been almost driven insane by the flood of other people's thoughts and emotions but eventually, with great difficulty, he learned to stand it. (I think he believes himself to be the only telepath in the world.) He comes across a young man whose telepathic ability has just manifested itself; convinced the young man won't be able to stand it, the main character kills him with the cane (or crutch).
Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.

A: Could this be Suite Mentale by Randall Garrett, published in Future Science Fiction issue 30 in 1956? The story is drafted as for the movements of a piece of classical music (overture, nocturne etc.)
This story opens with a neurosurgeon operating on a man who has been shot through the head, effectively lobotomizing him, his condition is discussed with a few men "in suits and hats" (i.e. FBI men) who are interested in the case because the shot man is a well known scientist (Paul Wendell) working on the problem of "psionics".
The story eventuates switching between external narrative of the effects of the shot with the (USA) president involved and an internal narrative from/about Wendell, showing that inside his brain he is still active, even if externally he is completely handicapped with no brain activity beyond that which keeps him alive. It turns out at the instant of the shot, they found Wendell (near death) and 8 insane men:

"That's right," said the big FBI man. "We went into his apartment an instant too late. We found eight madmen and a near-corpse. We're not sure what happened, and we're not sure we want to know. Anything that can drive eight reasonably stable men off the deep end in less than an hour is nothing to meddle around with."
"I wonder what went wrong?" asked the Secretary of no one in particular.

Wendell himself becomes insane thinking about what went wrong:

When he suddenly realized, with crashing finality, where he was and what had happened to him, Paul Wendell went violently insane. Or he would have, if he could have become violent.

He then recovers and knows what went wrong:

And finally, at long last, he knew with certainty where his calculations had gone astray. He knew positively why eight men had gone insane.
Then he went again in search of other minds, and this time he knew he would not bounce.

The ending is quite good so I won't reveal it here, though foreshadowed, suffice to say the other 8 recover and are improved.


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Highlights India vs Sri lanka 2017, 1st Test, Day 1: Visitors perched on a comfortable 399 at stumps
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Cheteshwar Pujara turns the fifth ball from Kumara to the vacant mod wicket region and gets to his hundred. The 12th Test century. What a player!
150 off 147 balls! Shikhar Dhawan raises his bat after getting to the milestone Looking all too easy for India
FIFTY! Cheteshwar Pujara records his 4th consecutive 50-plus score. Kumara gifts a low full toss to the Saurashtra batsman and the latter drives it to the vacant cover fence.
CENTURY! He has raced to his 5th ton in some style. Gets there with a boundary behind square. Off comes the helmet! He spreads his arms: his routine celebration. This has been a fine and positive innings.
FIFTY! Dhawan has carried his limited over form to Test cricket, he has looked comfortable and solid in the first couple of hours of play. HE gets his 4th Test century with a single down the ground. Good comeback.
Gunaratane is walking off the field, he seems to have damaged his hand or one of the fingers after dropping the catch. His hand was heavily strapped, we are told his left wrist needs some attention at this moment. Asela is Sri Lanka's fifth bowler, it is a worrying factor for them.
Sri Lanka XI: Dimuth Karunaratne, Upul Tharanga, Kusal Mendis, Danushka Gunathilaka, Angelo Mathews, Asela Gunaratne, Niroshan Dickwella, Dilruwan Perera, Rangana Herath, Lahiru Kumara, Nuwan Pradeep
Herath to lead Sri Lanka in Chandimal's absence.
India XI: Shikhar Dhawan, Abhinav Mukund, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli, Ajinkya Rahane, Hardik Pandya, Wriddhiman Saha, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Umesh Yadav, Mohammed Shami
Shami, Dhawan return to the Test team. Hardik Pandya makes hes Test debut.
TOSS: The toss falls in India's favour and Virat Kohli elects to bat first.
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After 100 overs,India 431/4 ( Ajinkya Rahane 56, Ashwin 6)
Rahane gets off strike on the first ball with a single behind square. Pradeep keeps it back of a length Ashwin blocks and then on a similar length delivery he punches through covers for a lovely boundary. Ashwin drives a full ball this time and it is half-stopped by the cover fielder, restricts it to two.
After 99 overs,India 424/4 ( Ajinkya Rahane 55, Ashwin 0)
Herath continues for the 99th over. Another tidy over. Just one run.
Pradeep continues. And a huge wicket in that over. Pujara nicks one to the wicket keeper. Ravi Ashwin is the new man in. Nervy start from him as he gets an edge. Two runs from that over.
OUT! Huge wicket. Pujara nicks one to the keeper off Pradeep. The ball held its line and Pujara just hanged his bat and poked at it.
Pujara c Dickwella b Pradeep 153(265)
After 97 overs,India 421/3 ( Cheteshwar Pujara 152 , Ajinkya Rahane 53)
Herath bowls the 97th over. Rahane gets a four away on the third ball. Comes down the track and hits one past the bowler and to the long on fence. With that Rahane brings up his fifty. Follows it up with two runs in the next ball.
Sri Lanka's dilemma is understandable. They are not sure whether to attack with the semi new ball or be defensive. They've opted for a bit of both and have paceman Pradeep from one end to a semi- attacking field and skipper Herath from the other end. So far they are not making much headway. One or 2 Herath deliveries have turned. Post lunch should offer better clues.
This is only the fourth time two Indian batsmen have scored 150-plus runs in an away Test innings.
India v Australia, Sydney, 2004
India v Pakistan, Multan, 2004
India v Bangladesh, Fatullah, 2015
India v Sri Lanka, Galle, 2017
This is the sixth 150-plus score for Cheteshwar Pujara in his Test career - the joint most by any Indian player since his debut. Virat Kohli has also scored six such scores during the same period.
Pradeep continues for the 96th over. The first ball is clipped by Pujara fine and he picks up a four and with it his 150. He just goes on and on. Plays the remainder of the over watchfully. Four runs is all that India will get in that over.
Herath continues. Only two runs from that over. Good running from the Indians on the fifth ball for a single.
Pradeep continues. No run off the first three balls. The fourth ball is a bouncer and a very well diirected one at that. That almost hit Rahane on the head as he was trying to pull. Rahane hits back in the next ball with a fantastic drive on the up through the vacant cover region. A single off the last ball. Five runs from that over.
Click here to follow Firstpost's live blog of Day 2 first Test between India and Sri Lanka
Stumps, Day 1: Right then! A very strong day for India in the end. It was their highest score on Day 1 of an away Test. It was their second highest score overall on Day 1 of a Test, and the highest by a visiting team in Sri Lanka. Just goes to show the domination India have had so far.
Shikhar Dhawan roared back into Test form and have made a tremendous effort to reclaim the Test opener's slot. Not surprising, given the rich vein of form he has been lately, with a great run in the Champions Trophy and some strong scores in the ODI series against West Indies too. And then, after he got out, the inimitable Cheteshwar Pujara took over. Virat Kohli was unlucky to have got the faintest of edges to the wicketkeeper, but Pujara and Ajinkya ensured that there was no cause for alarm.
Pujara and Rahane are batsmen of the same mould, both calm, composed, unhurried and both batting technicians and they put the Sri Lankans through the grind. The hosts, however, could have been a bit more proactive with their line and length, bowling changes and field placement though. On many occasions, it looked like the game is drifting away from them, as the Indians were accumulating runs quite freely.
What the Lankans would want desperately now would be wickets on Day 2. Early wickets and that too three-four at least. That's what they need. If they can't do that, there is still a lot left in India's tank to really punish the Lankans. It would be interesting who Hardik Pandya, who is a proven limited-overs dasher bats on his Test debut.
Preview: Going into the first Test of the series on Wednesday, the Virat Kohli-led side will have in their mind their previous tour to the island nation in 2015, when they bounced back from a 0-1 deficit to a 2-1 win and gradually ascend to the top of the ICC Test rankings.
The Galle International Stadium hasn't been a happy hunting ground for the Indians, having managed a single win, way back in 2008 and thereafter losing three on the trot.
Indian captain Virat Kohli (L) and his Sri Lankan counterpart Rangana Herath.
In 2015, India succumbed to a 63-run loss on the penultimate day, thanks to a magical seven-wicket haul by veteran left-arm spinner Rangana Herath, who will be leading the side in the first Test in the absence of newly-appointed skipper Dinesh Chandimal, down with pneumonia.
But the young Indian side bounced back well to win the next two matches in Colombo, and claim the series 2-1.
The only factor common between the series then and now is the presence of former India all-rounder Shastri. He was then Team Director then and now is the newly-appointed coach with his own set of support staff, that includes Bharat Arun's return as the bowling coach.
Combining the 2015-16 and 2016-17 seasons, India have lost only one out of 23 Tests (against Australia at Pune) since that defeat in Galle.
Heading in to the game, India's only headache is the loss of opener Lokesh Rahul, who was down with viral fever and ruled out of the first Test.
In such a case, Abhinav Mukund and Shikhar Dhawan are most likely to open the innings unless Kohli and the team management promote Cheteshwar Pujara as the opener.
The middle order looks more or less a settled unit with Kohli, Ajinkya Rahane and stumper Wriddhiman Saha, while Rohit Sharma looks set to be back to the playing XI.
The bowling department will have the world class spin twins of Ravindra Jadeja and Ravichandran Ashwin, who will be playing his 50th Test. Besides that, if Kohli decides to go with five bowlers, there is no doubt he will go in with an extra spinner in chinaman Kuldeep Yadav.
Kohli has enough options from his pace bowling department, which includes the likes of Ishant Sharma, Umesh Yadav, Mohammed Shami and Bhuvneshwar Kumar, with Hardik Pandya providing him the extra all-round option.
On the other hand, the hosts are in a transitional phase after the retirements of stalwarts Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene.
There has also been a change to their support staff after Graham Ford stepped down and was replaced by fielding coach Nic Pothas on an interim basis.
For the Tests against India, the Sri Lankans have former cricketers Chaminda Vaas and Hashan Tillakaratne as bowling and batting coaches respectively.
With Chandimal ruled out of the first game, the onus will be on the young guns to take up the challenge against a formidable Indian team.
Squads:
India: Virat Kohli (Captain), Shikhar Dhawan, Lokesh Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, Rohit Sharma, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Wriddhiman Saha (WK), Ishant Sharma, Umesh Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammed Shami, Kuldeep Yadav, Abhinav Mukund.
Sri Lanka: Rangana Herath (Captain), Upul Tharanga, Dimuth Karunaratne, Kusal Mendis, Angelo Mathews, Asela Gunaratne, Niroshan Dickwella (WK), Dhananjaya de Silva, Danushka Gunathilaka, Dilruwan Perera, Suranga Lakmal, Lahiru Kumara, Vishwa Fernando, Malinda Pushpakumara, Nuwan Pradeep.
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14. August 2015 in Practical knowledgeposted by STIHL team 14. August 2015 11:36
E10 fuel for STIHL power tools
Since the introduction of E10, anyone who mixes the fuel for their chainsaws using petrol from the petrol station and two-stroke oil has no doubt wondered whether E10 is also suitable for use in chainsaws, clearing saws and other similar tools. We have summarised the key facts about E10 for you below.
What is E10?
The designation E10 is an abbreviation. The "E" stands for the ethyl alcohol (i.e. ethanol) which is added to the petrol. The number 10 indicates that the mixture may contain up to 10% ethanol. Ordinary premium-grade petrol – containing a maximum of 5% ethanol – is also still available.
Use of E10 in STIHL power tools
As a rule, fuels containing up to 5% or 10% ethanol are compatible with all STIHL chainsaws and power tools.
A carburettor adjustment may be necessary to compensate for the change in fuel composition. For this, we recommend visiting a STIHL dealer.
A word of warning during longer idle periods
While fuel is used up within a matter of weeks during the warm seasons, it remains significantly longer in the canister, tank and carburettor during periods when the tools are not in use (e.g. brush cutters during the winter months). During this time, oxygen and moisture from the air seep into fuel containers and systems, which can change the composition of the mixture when it comes to fuel from the petrol station.
Additives or manufacturer blends serving to enhance the fuel properties, such as antioxidants and anticorrosive agents, may fall prey to these effects and be cancelled out of the mixture.
In addition, gum deposits can also form. Gums are residues that are left behind by fuels after they have evaporated. Having gum in your fuel can result in deposits building up in the engine's combustion chamber or lead to injectors and filters becoming stuck or plugged up, and should therefore be avoided at all cost.
In the case of two-stroke mixtures with fuels that contain ethanol, the oil and petrol can begin to separate already after a relatively short period of time. STIHL recommends storing a two-stroke mixture prepared using E10 fuel for no more than 30 days to minimise phase separation. In this context, phase separation means that the ethanol absorbs moisture from the air and settles to the bottom of the canister. As a result, the two-stroke oil is not evenly distributed throughout the fuel and the engine lacks the necessary lubricant, which can cause it to run roughly. As experience has shown, the lack of lubrication and cooling will result in the pistons seizing up by the second tankful at the latest. Phase-separated fuel is no longer suitable for use even after being shaken vigorously.
STIHL MotoMix
In general, unsuitable fuels or a fuel/oil mixing ratio that deviates from the specification can result in engine damage. That is why when it comes to playing it safe with your STIHL products, STIHL MotoMix fuel is always the best choice. They are specially formulated for these engines and ensure excellent performance and a long service life.
Specifically, this means the following:
up to 70% fewer emissions
best start response and top engine performance thanks to powerful, high-quality components
optimum combustion properties maximise your engine's service life
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STIHL MotoMix remains stable for a long time − storage period of five years*
On our website, you will find all of the information on STIHL fuels, oils and lubricants.
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Jeffrey Marshall, president of the Heritage Conservancy of Bucks County loves going to work every day. He has worked for the Conservancy for 34 years and has been president for the past year and a half. He started working for the Conservancy all those years ago when his mother saw that Upper Makefield Township was looking for someone to work part-time as a documenter of old homes. Knowing this was right up her son's alley, having graduated from Penn State with a major in Early American History, she passed along the information. Jeff applied for the job and the rest, as they say, is history, no pun intended.
Although Jeffrey was born in Brooklyn, NY, while still a young boy, his father's stint in the Navy brought the family to Bucks County in order for his dad to work at the old Philadelphia Naval Yard. The Marshall family put down roots in Levittown. Along the way Jeff has lived in Doylestown and currently lives in Newtown on a farm with his beloved wife Becky. Jeff first met Becky over 30 years ago while having lunch at Bucks County Community College. He was not a student at the school, but as he recounts, "There weren't too many places to eat-out back then in Newtown." So he often found himself eating at the BCCC cafeteria. It was there that he met his future wife, who was an actual student at the school. They soon married and now have two grown children, son David, a political activist and daughter Amanda who works at a boutique in Doylestown and shares her parent's passion for the family farm as well as their horses.
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Sinascape: Contemporary Chinese Cinema is a comprehensive study of Chinese-language films at the turn of the millennium. Emphasizing the transnational nature of contemporary Chinese cinema, it provides close readings of most of the important films of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and explores the interactions and transactions among these films and between Chinese cinema and Hollywood. General readers, film enthusiasts, and critics will all benefit from Gary Xu's discussion of popular films like Hero, House of Flying Daggers, Kung Fu Hustle, Devils on the Doorstep, Suzhou River, Beijing Bicycle, Millennium Mambo, Goodbye Dragon Inn, and Hollywood Hong Kong.
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May 07, 2014 News & Opinion » Seven Days
Dangerous Fuel in Our Backyard
It may only be a matter of time before the East Bay suffers a major explosion involving fracked oil shipped by train.
By Robert Gammon @RobertGammon
California is widely regarded as being a leader in the global fight against climate change. But over the past year, the state's reputation for forward-thinking environmentalism has taken a major hit. Last fall, the state legislature and Governor Jerry Brown decided to green-light expansion of the fossil-fuel extraction process known as fracking. And in recent months, we've learned that oil companies are increasingly shipping to California a new type of fracked crude that is raising serious safety concerns, especially for densely populated areas.
The dangers presented by fracked oil once again made national news last week when an oil tanker train derailed and exploded in a fireball in Lynchburg, Virginia, dumping toxic fuel into the James River. It was just the most recent scary accident involving highly flammable oil fracked from the Bakken shale fields of North Dakota. The most serious of the recent incidents occurred last July, when a train carrying Bakken oil exploded in Quebec, Canada, killing 47 people and destroying a downtown area.
"Luckily, no injuries have been reported in Virginia," said Michelle Myers, director of the Sierra Club's San Francisco Bay Chapter. "But what if this type of accident happened in the densely populated Bay Area?"
The possibility of a major fracked oil disaster occurring in the urban East Bay has increased over the past several months. Last September, fossil-fuel company Kinder-Morgan began shipping Bakken crude through its Richmond facility, and other oil companies have plans to bring in the highly explosive fuel to the area by train as well. The demand for Bakken crude is rising because it's relatively cheap to extract. And as a result, oil tanker trains carrying the fuel are now rolling throughout the state, and may soon be traveling along Oakland's waterfront, and through Emeryville, Berkeley, Albany, and El Cerrito.
Environmental groups are also increasingly concerned about the shipping of coal and petroleum coke (also known as petcoke), a coal-like byproduct of oil refining, via rail. Trains carrying coal tend to lose lots of coal dust, which, in turn, can make rail tracks hazardous and contribute to train derailments. Between July 2012 and July 2013, at least forty coal trains derailed in the country, according to research compiled by the Sierra Club. According to BNSF Railway, each coal car loses about 500 pounds of coal in transit — that's a whopping 60,000 pounds lost for every 120-car train.
Although California doesn't use coal for energy, the fuel is shipped out of West Coast ports to China and Japan. According to public records obtained by the Sierra Club, the Port of Stockton has received permission to ship up to three million tons of coal per year — that's about 24 trains of 85 cars each per week, Myers said. Coal also is being shipped through the East Bay at the privately operated Richmond-Levin Terminal. The coal comes from the Powder River Basin, a major coal-producing region that encompasses parts of Montana and Wyoming.
The presence of hazardous fossil fuels in the region has prompted several environmental groups to call on local city councils to pass resolutions opposing the transportation of fracked oil, coal, and petcoke through their jurisdictions. Both the Richmond and Berkeley city councils have already adopted such measures concerning the shipping of crude oil by rail. And environmental groups are pushing the Oakland City Council to do the same in the months ahead. "We're hoping that cities use their political power to build pressure and ask for greater oversight" of fossil-fuel rail shipments, Myers said.
It's a no-brainer. The Oakland City Council should publicly come out against the shipping of volatile and hazardous fuel through the city. Imagine if a train carrying fracked oil exploded on Oakland's waterfront, in the middle of Jack London Square? Or near residential neighborhoods in West or East Oakland? It's unconscionable.
Unfortunately, local governments have no real authority over what gets shipped by train through their backyards. That's the federal government's job. And earlier this year, the feds indicated that they might actually do something: The National Transportation Safety Board made much-needed recommendations to increase rail safety standards for crude oil shipments. However, the US Department of Transportation has yet to issue, let alone adopt, such standards.
Still, cities, counties, and the state government can help raise public awareness by taking public stances against the shipping of dangerous fossil fuels by rail in California. And Myers is right: They can help build political pressure to bring about change — and perhaps restore the state's reputation for being an environmental leader as well.
Smith River Protected, for Now
Late last week, a judge issued a preliminary injunction blocking Caltrans from moving forward on plans to widen two state highways along the pristine Smith River in Northern California. The Smith is the last major undammed river in the state, and it not only provides drinking water for local communities near the Oregon border, but it also is home to an environmentally significant run for endangered Coho salmon.
The court injunction stemmed from a lawsuit filed against Caltrans by environmental groups, including the Center for Biological Diversity. Caltrans had begun construction earlier this year to widen state Highways 197 and 199 to accommodate more big rigs. But local residents and environmentalists strongly oppose the project because wider roads will likely attract more tanker trucks to the region, thereby increasing the chances of a big rig overturning and spilling toxic fuel or chemicals into the Smith River. The highways also wend through old-growth redwood forests, including Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park.
Judge James Donato ruled that Caltrans must halt the widening project until a hearing on environmental concerns takes place in November.
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New people in new roles at Heineken, Department of Defense, Nissan, CA Technologies, AEP.
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WHITE PLAINS, NY—Heineken USA has promoted Tara Rush to senior vice president of corporate relations, reporting to president and CEO Dolf van den Brink. Rush has been serving as the interim leader of the function. She joined Heineken in 2013 as senior director of corporate communications from Emanate, where she opened and led the Los Angeles office. Prior to Emanate, Tara led public relations at Mars and held roles in the consumer marketing practices at Ketchum, Edelman and Weber Shandwick.
WASHINGTON, DC—Maura Sullivan (pictured), currently assistant secretary of public and intergovernmental affairs at the US Department of Veterans Affairs, has been named assistant to the Secretary of Defense for public affairs. Sullivan, a former Marine Corps captain and an Iraq War veteran, will be joining the defense department after having served as the principal public affairs advisor to Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert McDonald. She was previously an executive at PepsiCo, where she held a number of general management roles.
NASHVILLE—Nissan North America has promoted Brian brockman to director, internal communications, responsible for coordinating employee communications efforts across the US, Canada and Mexico and will oversee the teams that develop and manage electronic tools to communicate with employees. He will report to David Reuter, vice president, corporate communications, Nissan North America. He joined the company in 2007 from MSLGroup.
NEW YORK—CA Technologies has appointed Jeff DeMarrais as senior vice president and chief communications officer, based in New York City reporting to chief marketing officer Lauren Flaherty. DeMarrais most recently served as GE Healthcare's chief communications officer responsible for managing and strengthening the company's reputation. He also led the communications strategy to expand GE's Industrial Internet IoT initiative outside the United States.
CORPUS CHRISTI, TX—AEP Texas has named Andy Heines as director of corporate communications. Heines has held various positions within corporate communications during 27 years with AEP. Earlier in his career he worked as a journalist.
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Want the best chance of passing your MOT first time? Buy a Ferrari
Test data shows Italian supercars most likely to fly through the annual test
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Drivers looking for a car most likely to pass its first MOT have been advised to choose a Ferrari.
Analysis of test pass rates shows that the Italian sports car brand has the best overall record in Britain, with 95.4 per cent of all cars passing their first MOT at three years old.
Joining the pride of Maranello on the pass rate podium are luxury British brands Bentley and Aston Martin, with pass rates of 94.5 and 93.8 per cent respectively.
Every car needs an MOT from the age of three years until it is 40 years old
Back in the real world, Japanese brands dominate the list of mainstream brands with the best records, thanks to strong performances from the likes of Subaru, Lexus, Honda and Mazda, all of which have pass rates of more than 90 per cent.
Cars are exempt from an MOT until they reach three years old and the analysis of Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) data by BookMyGarage looked at data for all makes with more than 500 MOTs carried out in 2020.
Porsche, Infiniti and Suzuki completed the list of brands with the best pass rates - 92.1, 91.4 and 89.6 per cent respectively. At the opposite end of the table 78.1 per cent of cars from budget Korean brand SsangYong passed their first MOT first time, just ahead of Dacia (78.5 per cent) and Citroen (81.3 per cent).
The impressive pass rates for so many prestige brands could well be connected to the fact that most of these prized motors do relatively few miles every year and are maintained by fastidious owners. And while just 712 three-year-old Ferraris were present for an MOT in 2020, 347,000 Fords were tested in the same period, with a pass rate of 87 per cent.
Suzuki was among the best performing mainstream brands
BookMyGarage's head of marketing, Jessica Potts, said the MOT failure rate of each brand is often indicative of how well owners maintain their cars and the likely annual mileage they will cover. For instance, 6.8 per cent of cars fail MOT tests due to defective tyres, a component which is the driver's responsibility to monitor for wear and tear.
The research also looked at how brands fare in the longer term, examining pass rates for cars between the ages of three and 15 years. Again, Ferrari, Bentley and Aston Martin topped the list, with pass rates of 93, 92.2 and 90.3 per cent respectively. Porsche, Infiniti and Lexus also appeared in fourth, fifth and seventh places but were joined by Tesla, Maserati, Mercedes and DS in the top 10.
Jessica Potts commented: "It's perhaps no surprise to see so many luxury brands perform best in the MOT test.
"Owners of prestige car brands often cover fewer miles annually as the car is unlikely to be the owner's sole vehicle and they are usually maintained to very high standards. MOT pass rates are less indicative of brand reliability and more a representation of how well owners maintain their car and how much of a 'workhorse' a particular brands' models tend to become.
"That being said, there's a noticeable dominance of more mainstream Japanese brands in the Top 10, which perhaps goes some way to prove the notion that Japanese cars are indeed very reliable."
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If you want to be a referee but cannot afford the required certification, TYSL may provide financial assistance. Please contact tysl@timberlaneyouthsoccer.org for more information.
Submit the Medical Waiver Form.
Become familiar with TYSL-specific rules in the Referee Manual.
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Our Vision is for all LDCs to be on climate-resilient development pathways by 2030 and deliver net-zero emissions by 2050 to ensure our societies and ecosystems thrive.
Our Vision unites and draws on the knowledge, resources and work of three initiatives developed by the LDC Group to support this transition: the LDC Initiative for Effective Adaptation and Resilience (LIFE-AR); the LDC Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Initiative for Sustainable Development (LDC REEEI); and the LDCs Universities Consortium on Climate Change (LUCCC). These initiatives focus on several key areas central to LDCs including access to renewable energy, capacity building in climate research, and development of long-term strategies in effective adaptation, resilience and development.
The world has changed since the LDC Group launched its Vision. While the climate crisis continues to endanger our people, the new challenge of COVID-19 has impacted our ability to pursue these initiatives. During this event, the panellists will review progress: the lessons we have learned and the challenges we face. We will look ahead to the climate-resilient future and the support needed to achieve this goal.
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An IMSI catcher, colloquial term "Stingray," is a set of truck-mounted communication equipment that simulates a cell phone base station ("tower"), for the specific purpose of covert eavesdropping on private communications or locating cellular phones ("handsets").
So, why do I care, Backwoods?
Because Federal, state, and local 'law enforcement' agencies are using them WITHOUT WARRANTS to eavesdrop on communications that are none of their business, for purposes that have nothing to do with catching criminals.
And don't say, "Well, I have nothing to hide." The history of totalitarian societies is replete with people who went along with the regime until they found there was no one left to defend them from its depredations.
If you know what Stingrays are, and the communication specialist in your group knows how to detect and defeat them, you might be able to communicate privately via the cell-phone network, for purposes of security, health and defense during a breakdown in the civil society, such as during these "Ferguson" style riots in the big cities. Which will get worse in 2015.
Okay, who uses Stingrays? There are many federal, state, and local agencies that use Stingrays. The ACLU page at the link has an interactive map (screenshot at right) of state and local LEOs that use Stingrays; the only one close to my AO known to use them is Gwinnet County, GA. If they do, it's sure that other counties in Georgia do, as well.
Be aware: the Feds and locals are trying to hide their use of Stingrays, with paperwork chicanery and shell games. They know their use without warrants is unconstitutional, and don't care. So, we citizens fight back another way: detection and avoidance.
The GSM specification requires the handset to authenticate to the network, but does not require the network to authenticate to the handset.
This well-known security hole is exploited by an IMSI catcher [aka Stingray]. The IMSI catcher masquerades as a base station and logs the IMSI numbers of all the mobile stations in the area, as they attempt to attach to the IMSI-catcher. It allows forcing the mobile phone connected to it to use no call encryption (A5/0 mode) or to use easily breakable encryption (A5/1 or A5/2 mode), making the call data easy to intercept and convert to audio.
Since the handset trusts the network implicitly, it also allows the network to change the communication mode, turning off normally-encrypted voice communications and allowing the Feds or whomever to listen in to their evil hearts' content.
How do we citizens counter this? The open-source application SnoopSnitch can map the base stations in the area, and make one aware of possible Stingray operations.
From my observations, it requires some skill to operate and to interpret whether a Stingray is actually present. This is a still best developed NOW by the communication specialist on your team, before you need it.
SnoopSnitch requires a rooted Android phone; buy one somewhere for cash. Because part of the checks for a Stingray involve making calls out, you will have to have a network account on the phone. The SnoopSnitch authors recommend a pre-paid SIM card.
There's another open-source IMSI catcher detector for Android, but I don't know anything about it.


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McKee: Transcontinental Race's role in boosting the automobile's place in everyday life
Floyd McKee Snapshots of Seguin History
This is the final portion of a three-part column.
In 1912, Fisher came up with a most outrageous idea to promote the advancement of the automobile. He would build a paved highway spanning the country from coast to coast with the completion in time for San Francisco's 1915 World Fair. He received a check for $300,000 from Goodyear's Frank Seiberling, $150,000 from the Packard Motor Company, and checks from Thomas Edison, Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. The project would be called "The Lincoln Highway."
Stretching 3,389 miles, America's first transcontinental highway crossed the Mississippi at Clinton, Iowa, following sections of the Mormon Trail, and up over the Sierra Nevada at the Donner Pass before reaching San Francisco. This great fete brought the automobile to the farthest reaches of the middle of America.
Back in 1908, to bring attention to this new mode of transportation on a world-wide basis, there was an auto race conducted from New York to Paris with a 150 mile ship passage from Nome, Alaska, across the Bering Strait to East Cape, Siberia. The drivers were facing a considerable challenge given the state of automobile technology and lack of road development. Only three of the six contestants completed the course. The winner was the American team driving a 1907 Thomas Flyer.
The race began in Times Square on Feb. 2, 1908. Six cars representing four nations were at the starting point for what would be a 169-day ordeal. Germany, France, Italy and the United States began with the Protus auto representing Germany, the Zust representing Italy, three cars (De Dion-Bouton, Motobloc and Sizair-Naudin) representing France and the Thomas Flyer representing the United States. In many parts of the world no roads existed at all so the teams often resorted to driving on existing train rails for hundreds of miles.
The American Flyer was in the lead crossing the United States, arriving in San Francisco in 41 days. It was the first crossing of the United States by an automobile. The route then took them to Valdez, Alaska, then by ship to Vladivostok, Siberia, where they began the trip across the continents of Asia and Europe. The Germans' car, driven by Hans Koeppen, had arrived in Paris on July 30, 1908, but they were penalized a total of 30 days for not going to Alaska and for shipping the Protus part way by rail. The Thomas Flyer also arrived on July 30, 1908, and was declared the winner. The Italians arrived later in September 1908. The winning Thomas Flyer is in the National Automobile Museum.
This race established the reliability of the auto and changed it from an object of amusement for the wealthy to the primary means of transportation. The improvement of roads and the transcontinental roads made travel more enjoyable.
There are still some of these earlier cars driven, mostly on the weekends and appearing in car show events in Seguin.
Starcke Furniture has a 1907 "Little Giant" truck that Hilmar Starcke purchased in 1912 that they use in their advertising. The truck was built by the Chicago Pneumatic Company, which also produced the "Little Giant" model D Jitney delivery truck in 1912. The engines were built by Chicago Pneumatic Company between 1907 and 1917 for mid-sized trucks that could be used as platforms for commercial delivery, eight-passenger buses, fire trucks, and mining.
The Starcke's chain-driven truck was built specifically for delivery purposes and was purchased by Hilmar when he was attending a furniture manufacturing conference in Chicago in 1912 and delivered by train. Hilmer Starcke sold the truck to Afred Koebig who in turn sold it to the Starcke Furniture Store, still owned by descendants of Hilmar Starcke.
The Seguin Fire Department has a 1916 American La France fire truck in its museum that was the first motorized fire truck in the fire department. The fire department also has a 1922 La France pumper truck that was still used into the 1960s and is used in parades … when they can get it started.
Today, we have cars that park themselves and Uber is test driving vehicles in congested traffic without the touch of a human hand. Sensors warn us if a car is beside us in traffic and automatically start applying the brake if the car in front of us suddenly slows down.
Seguin and the world have come a long way since the days of the first electric car or the Toledo Steamer were being driven along Austin Street.
Floyd McKee is a native of Seguin. He is a retired Air Force Colonel and eight of his ancestors were among the 33 Rangers that organized and developed Walnut Springs and Seguin.


The LG G8 ThinQ seems to have leaked in its entirety, front, back, and side to side. This leaves a bit of mystery about what the top and bottom hold for secrets, but this is basically it. This device looks like it'll have a couple of slightly curved glass front sides, up and down volume buttons and an Assistant button on the left, and a power button on the right. This device looks like it'll have a fingerprint reader on the back, too.
This device, basically, looks a whole lot like the device leaked last week that was denied by LG pr. Some of the tiniest details might be off by a little bit, but this is … basically it. The front has at least one significant camera lens, the back has two, and the back has a big LED flash as well. The camera system on this device is likely similar to that of the LG G7 ThinQ.
When you take a super close look at the frontside notch, you'll get the impression that there's at least one significant camera lens, but a few other elements as well. Two other significantly large circles as well as two tiny circles – that's enough circles to choke a mule! That's also enough circles to house all the sensors you'd need for augmented reality applications, face unlock, and 3D scanning stuff up the wazoo.
The LG G8 ThinQ looks here like it'll have a notch in its display up front and similar-sized top and bottom bezels. The size of this device is 152 x 72 x 8.4mm according to sources familiar with the information. LG G7 ThinQ's dimensions are 153.2 x 71.9 x 7.9 mm, and the LG V40 ThinQ has dimensions of 158.8 x 75.7 x 7.6 mm. As such, the newest phone will be shorter and thicker – ever-so-slightly – than its predecessors.
Battery size will probably be larger than the immediate predecessors of this phone. This device likely has wireless charging abilities, too. That'll be Qi-standard wireless charging, as it was with previous devices at this same level – from other manufacturers, as well. Below you'll see a couple images leaked earlier – these were debunked by LG PR, but they DO seem awfully similar to the newest far more final-looking images shown today – so who knows?
According to the leakster of this new set of images, over at XDA developers, we've got a shocking lack of frontside earpiece, here. This might well mean we're working with bone conduction technology or some form of display-based speaker system. That'd be pretty neat, and it'd beat basically the whole of the rest of the industry if they make it happen.
The LG G8 ThinQ reveal event is set for Sunday, February 24, 2019, at Mobile World Congress 2019. That'll almost certainly be the place where the LG G8 ThinQ will be revealed in full, complete with release details, and pre-orders might well start within the week following that event. We'll be there with bells on in Barcelona, Spain – stick around and see!


The Department of Education have confirmed that no repair works will need to be carried out at Gaelscoil Mhic Aodha in Kildare town.
Dep Martin Heydon said last night that no intervention will be needed.
"No works will need to be carried out on internal or external walls and the school will be open as normal next Monday," he said.
Four Kildare schools were among 42 nationwide listed by the Department of Education for examination after they were linked to the same building company, Western Building Systems, amid safety concerns.


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Saneca Pharma appoints new CEO
Contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO) Saneca Pharma has announced the appointment of its new CEO, Richard Král. Richard, who has been the sales and marketing director at Saneca for almost three years, has previously worked for GlaxoSmithKline and Zentiva Group across the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the Commonweath of Independent States (CIS) regions and has over 17 years' experience in the pharmaceutical sector and FMCG.


An MPA member from Area 7 reports today that a dock floated by at 6:57 a.m. It sits low in the water.
The next post will bring you up-to-date on the "drama" with the dam – yesterday's day in court.
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Who do you trust these days? Probably not business. The 2009 Edelman Trust Barometer showed that those in the U.S. most willing to "trust business to do what is right'" dropped from 58 percent to 38 percent, a record low.
Yes, there is law enforcement and a judicial system if someone doesn't live up to the trust we placed in them—but as victims of swindlers like Bernie Madoff, or more locally, Dennis Thaut, realize, justice won't restore what you've lost due to misplaced trust. The abilities to earn trust and to trust others are both fundamental to economic recovery. So, what must businesses do to repair busted trust?
The first step is to understand that trust is a word with multiple meanings. The "Six C's of Trust" is a gauge that can be used to better understand trust, and can be applied to individuals or processes.* In Iran, for example, the Character or integrity of the election process was called into question. Trust between both parties was further eroded by their mutual response—a further failure of trust in both Clarity (communicating through riots or fiat) and Commitment (failing to recognize multiple stakeholder interests beyond the status quo).
For business owners coping with what will likely be the deepest economic downturn since the Great Depression, assessing how the Six C's of Trust affect your business may be critical to your survival and recovery. Here are some questions you should be asking.
Character (integrity, self-control) — Does the business leader walk the talk, say what is meant and mean what is said? Does the business culture do the same? Independently (via a consultant) and anonymously survey your employees, customers, vendors, and stakeholders.
Competence (possessing the skills to successfully accomplish the task at hand) — How well do we do what we say we will do? Independently survey your customers, having them rank the ability of your product or service to meet their needs.
Clarity (of thinking and communicating) — What are the top two or three things that the business is trying to accomplish now? Is what we believe true, or have we made up reality to conform to our worldview? Ask management, employees, and customers to name the top two goals of the business, not including "making money." How well do they describe your common goals?
Commitment (balancing self-interest with the needs of all stakeholders) — Have our commitments changed? Are we in survival mode, growth mode, or something in between? Do we act like we know the difference? Identify your top five to 10 commitments and leave space for Other. Ask your employees to prioritize your commitments. Conflicts occur when priorities are not aligned.
Courage (to make unpopular decisions for the long-term benefit of the stakeholders) — Is ours a business culture that encourages, ignores, or punishes those who speak the truth they see? Ask your employees to anonymously answer: If you ran the company, what would you stop doing now? Why? What would you do more of? Why? Who are the top three employees (management and non-management) whom you have the most and least confidence in?
Capacity (the ability to follow through) — Do we have the financial and organizational capacity to execute our plans if the economy remains challenging for several years? Check your cash flow projections against reality. Do we have the financial and human resources to grow or shrink based on what the market is telling us? Will our belief systems or culture allow us to do what is hard, i.e. change?
Ask your management, trusted advisers, employees, and outside consultants to honestly tell you what they see.
Trust is built by exposing what is true for your business stakeholders. Transparency and encouraging stakeholders to safely tell what is true are prerequisites for restoring trust. But a harder part remains: our willingness to hear truths and act accordingly.
In the words of the philosopher Soren Kierkegaard: "There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is." Truths discovered in the Six C's of Trust are often uncomfortable, inconvenient, and downright painful. Yet the sooner trust is rebuilt, the sooner your business recovery path will become clear.


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What has Trump done so far since being sworn in? Here's what you need to know.
By Natasha Noman
When Donald Trump was on the campaign trail, many played down his startling statements by arguing his actual policies would likely not be as repressive. But judging by his first week in the White House, those people were wrong.
In the days following his inauguration, Trump made good on promises to clamp down on immigration and ban refugees. And he's expected to nominate a new Supreme Court justice on Feb. 2.
Here are some of the policies Trump has put into place since entering office. This list begins with the most recent daily developments and works backward.
Wednesday, Jan. 26
Trump seeks to end "sanctuary cities," demanding a weekly list of crimes committed by undocumented immigrants.
Trump signed an executive order cutting funding to and criminalizing cities that allow undocumented immigrants to live without persecution. The "Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States" would penalize cities that prevent their law enforcement from assisting federal authorities in their efforts to deport such immigrants.
The order is at odds with established and well-documented social research, which shows immigrants are far less likely to commit crimes than native-born Americans.
Mayors around the country were vocal in their objections to the executive order, including Philadelphia's Jim Kenney and Jersey City's Steven Fulop.
Trump calls for a "major investigation" into baseless allegations of voter fraud.
Despite assertions by his own campaign lawyers there was no evidence of voter fraud, Trump insisted fraud is why he lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton by almost 3 million votes.
Trump also tweeted he would ask for a "major investigation" into voter fraud, and White House press secretary Sean Spicer indicated the investigation would specifically target blue states that did not vote for Trump.
Trump wasn't joking about that wall. He's getting started on it.
Trump signed an executive order facilitating the building of a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border.
According to ABC News, "the money may come from federal funds that have been diverted from other programs."
In a previous tweet, Trump had the initiative as part of "national security."
The administration drafts a bill with major funding cuts to the United Nations and similar organizations.
A draft of a bill entitled "Auditing and Reducing U.S. Funding of International Organizations" was acquired by the New York Times. The bill seeks to cut support and funding to the United Nations and other international agencies. The U.S. would also dramatically decrease its role in the U.N.
Tuesday, Jan. 24
Trump signs an executive order in favor of continuing construction on the Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines.
The DAPL and Keystone XL pipelines are back on track to be built, according to Trump's executive order. Construction of the pipelines has been fiercely opposed by environmental activists and the Native American community.
On Dec. 4, months of protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline resulted in the Army Corps of Engineers denying a permit to build the pipeline along its proposed route. They specifically objected to the pipe's crossing of Lake Oahe, a water source for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, whose reservation lies less than a mile away. A spillage or rupture of the pipe could devastate the area and local tribe.
Trump places a gag order on the Environmental Protection Agency.
Trump banned all EPA officials from talking to reporters and posting on social media. The gag order was accompanied by directives to eliminate its webpage on climate change.
Trump's pick to head the EPA, Scott Pruitt, used to be a climate change denier. During his confirmation hearing, he said climate change existed — but that he wasn't convinced it was the result of "human activity."
Trump tells U.S. car company leaders he'll rein in "out of control" environmental regulations.
Trump met with the heads of U.S. automotive giants Ford, General Motors and Chrysler to talk about creating domestic jobs.
Trump said the purpose of the proposal was to make it easier for car companies to open factories by stripping environmental regulation.
Monday, Jan. 23
The U.S. Department of Agriculture bans its scientists from releasing any information about their research.
The USDA reportedly mandated that its scientists, who work in the Agricultural Research Service, were not allowed to communicate anything about their research — which, incidentally, was conducted with taxpayer money.
"Starting immediately and until further notice, ARS will not release any public-facing documents," ARS chief of staff Sharon Drumm said in an internal memo sent Monday, according to BuzzFeed. "This includes, but is not limited to, news releases, photos, fact sheets, news feeds and social media content."
Public outrage ensued and the gag order was lifted Tuesday night.
Trump attacked the right to have an abortion around the world.
Trump signed back into action a George W. Bush-era global gag law that denies federal funds to organizations around the world if they provide abortion services or information about abortions.
On Twitter, Martin Belam, an editor at the Guardian, pointed out something troubling about a photo of the law's signing: No women were present.
"As long as you live, you'll never see a photograph of seven women signing legislation about what men can do with their reproductive organs," Belam wrote. It was retweeted by more than a quarter million people and liked by over 330,000.
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), also pointed out the photo's distinct lack of women.
"This photograph is what patriarchy looks like — a system of society or government in which men hold the power and women are largely excluded," Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett, a feminist activist and writer, wrote in the Guardian.
Friday, Jan. 20
Trumps signs a waiver overriding a law preventing defense secretaries from serving if they retired from the military less than seven years ago.
Trump broke with convention by signing a waiver allowing Gen. James Mattis to serve as secretary of defense, despite a law requiring anyone fulfilling that role to have been retired from the military for at least seven years. Mattis left the Marines in 2013.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), was the only one to vote against confirming him in the Senate's 98-1 vote.
As one of his first acts as president, Trump signed an executive order to dismantle the Affordable Care Act.
After he was sworn in on Friday, one of Trump's first actions as president was to sign two executive orders suppressing the ACA. The orders involved "freezing regulations" and "eas[ing] the burden" of former President Barack Obama's health care policy.
The administration has repeatedly said repealing Obama's signature piece of legislation is a priority, but what will replace the ACA remains unclear.


James Robert "Bobby" Garcia, 50, of Charlestown, RI, passed away suddenly on Wednesday, February 6, 2019, at the Rhode Island Hospital in Providence, RI. He was born in Holyoke and is the son of Dr. Jesus Garcia of Louisiana and Paula (Scheinost) Thouin of Easthampton. Bobby was a graduate of Dean Vocational High School Class of 1986. He worked as a roofer and carpenter. Bobby enjoyed fishing, riding his motorcycle with his friends, and spending time with family. He leaves his mother, Paula Thouin and her husband, Roger, of Easthampton, his brothers, Brian Hamel of Maine and Lawrence Hamel of Holyoke, and his sisters, Laurie Cavalieri of Holyoke and Jessica Kelly of New York. Bobby also leaves his loving companion, Kelly Derome of Charlestown, RI, as well as his step-mother, Pamela Rose of Holyoke. He was pre-deceased by his step-father Paul Hamel. A Celebration of Life Service will be held Sunday, February 17, 2019 at 2:00 P.M. at the Skinner Memorial Chapel, 306 Maple Street, Holyoke, MA. There are no calling hours. The Boucher-O'Brien Funeral Home is entrusted with his cremation. In lieu of flowers, donations in his memory may be made to the .
"Bobby, you were a great friend to me and my family. There..."
"RIP BROTHER...my you soar to the heavens."


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