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Scientists Warn US Congress Of Cancer Risk For Cell Phone Use
Scientists on Thursday warned US legislators of the risks of brain cancer from cell phone use, highlighting the potential risk for children who use mobile phones.
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Ronald Herberman, director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, said that most studies "claiming that there is no link between cell phones and brain tumors are outdated, had methodological concerns and did not include sufficient numbers of long-term cell phone users."
Many studies denying a link "defined regular cell phones as 'once a week,'" added Herberman.
"I cannot tell this committee that cell phones are definitely dangerous. But, I certainly cannot tell you that they are safe," he said.
Carpenter and Herberman both told the committee the brain cancer risk from cell phone use is far greater for children than for adults.
Herberman held up a model for lawmakers showing how radiation from a cell phone penetrates far deeper into the brain of a 5-year-old than that of an adult.
"Every child is using cell phones all of the time, and there are three billion cell phone users in the world," said Herberman.
He added that, like the messages that warn of health risks on cigarette packs, cell phones "need a precautionary message."
Noting that numerous US studies have not found a definitive cancer-phone link, Carpenter asked: "Are we at the same place we were with smoking and lung cancer 30 years ago?"
The committee were shown several European studies, particularly surveys from Scandinavia -- where the cell phone was first developed -- which show that the radiation emitted by cell phones have definite biological consequences.
For example, a 2008 study by Swedish cancer specialist Lennart Hardell found that frequent cell phone users are twice as likely to develop a benign tumor on the auditory nerves of the ear most used with the handset, compared to the other ear.
In addition, a paper published this month by the Royal Society in London found that adolescents who start using cell phones before the age of 20 were five times more likely to develop brain cancer at the age of 29 than those who didn't use a cell phone.

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Of the eight new grassroots licensing courses at the base of the U.S. Soccer Coaching Pathway, the four in-person experiences will be available for sign-up as early as February. These in-person courses will be hosted by recognized member organizations of U.S. Soccer.
The four online courses will follow the rollout of the in-person opportunities in the coming months.
While typically affiliated with younger age groups, grassroots soccer exists at every level. Whether that is a youth environment where players are experiencing organized soccer for the first time, or adults who are looking to learn more and get into the sport, grassroots soccer continues to be the bedrock of the sport.
At its core, the philosophy of U.S. Soccer's grassroots pathway initiative is Play-Practice-Play, a philosophy coaches learn about in the Introduction to Grassroots Coaching module. This approach will focus on the player experiencing and learning through play while also empowering the coach to support his or her player's learning and developmental needs.
After completing the free Introduction to Grassroots Coaching module, candidates can progress to any of the eight Grassroots License course opportunities through the U.S. Soccer Digital Coaching Center (DCC). This varied approach to the foundation of the coaching education pathway allows coaches to seek out education related to the environment in which they coach.
U.S. Soccer member organizations will organize and run in-person course opportunities for their coaches. These courses take place over four hours with two hours dedicated to classroom learning and two hours dedicated to field work. Coaches can contact their local member organization to inquire about scheduling and pricing.
Set to be released by U.S. Soccer in the coming months, the online Grassroots courses will be available for $25 in both English and Spanish on the DCC. This includes access to educational content, session plans and U.S. Soccer's Planning Tool.


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(Redirected from EXIF)
Metadata standard in digital images
This article is about a format for storing metadata in image and audio files. For information about filename and directory structures of digital cameras, see Design rule for Camera File system.
Exif of a file in Wikimedia Commons (compact form)
Filename extension
.JPG, .TIF, .WAV, .PNG[1]
JEIDA, now JEITA, CIPA
1995; 27 years ago (1995)[2]
26 April 2010; 11 years ago (2010-04-26), revised May 2019; 2 years ago (2019-05)
Extended from
TIFF, JPEG, WAV
Extended to
Exchangeable image file format (officially Exif, according to JEIDA/JEITA/CIPA specifications) is a standard that specifies the formats for images, sound, and ancillary tags used by digital cameras (including smartphones), scanners and other systems handling image and sound files recorded by digital cameras. The specification uses the following existing file formats with the addition of specific metadata tags: JPEG discrete cosine transform (DCT)[3] for compressed image files, TIFF Rev. 6.0 (RGB or YCbCr) for uncompressed image files, and RIFF WAV for audio files (Linear PCM or ITU-T G.711 μ-Law PCM for uncompressed audio data, and IMA-ADPCM for compressed audio data).[4] It is not used in JPEG 2000 or GIF.
This standard consists of the Exif image file specification and the Exif audio file specification.
2 Version history
3 Technical
4 Geolocation
5 Program support
6.1 Technical
6.2 Privacy and security
7 Related standards
9 FlashPix extensions
10 Exif audio files
11 MakerNote data
Background[edit]
The Japan Electronic Industries Development Association (JEIDA) produced the initial definition of Exif. Version 2.1 of the specification is dated 12 June 1998. JEITA established Exif version 2.2 (a.k.a. "Exif Print"), dated 20 February 2002 and released in April 2002.[5] Version 2.21 (with Adobe RGB support) is dated 11 July 2003, but was released in September 2003 following the release of DCF 2.0. The latest version 2.3 was released on 26 April 2010, and revised to 2.31 in July 2013 and revised to 2.32 on 17 May 2019, was jointly formulated by JEITA and CIPA. Exif is supported by almost all camera manufacturers.
The metadata tags defined in the Exif standard cover a broad spectrum:
Date and time information. Digital cameras will record the current date and time and save this in the metadata.
Camera settings. This includes static information such as the camera model and make, and information that varies with each image such as orientation (rotation), aperture, shutter speed, focal length, metering mode, and ISO speed information.
A thumbnail for previewing the picture on the camera's LCD screen, in file managers, or in photo manipulation software.
Copyright information.
Version history[edit]
This section needs expansion with: changes. You can help by adding to it. (August 2020)
1.0 October 1995
1.1 May 1997
2.0 November 1997
2.1 December 1998
2.2 April 2002
2.21 September 2003 Addition of "Exif Print"
2.21 (unified version) September 2009
2.3 (revised) December 2012
2.31 July 2016
2.32 May 2019
Technical[edit]
The Exif tag structure is borrowed from TIFF files. On several image specific properties, there is a large overlap between the tags defined in the TIFF, Exif, TIFF/EP, and DCF standards. For descriptive metadata, there is an overlap between Exif, IPTC Information Interchange Model and XMP info, which also can be embedded in a JPEG file. The Metadata Working Group has guidelines on mapping tags between these standards.[6]
When Exif is employed for JPEG files, the Exif data are stored in one of JPEG's defined utility Application Segments, the APP1 (segment marker 0xFFE1), which in effect holds an entire TIFF file within. When Exif is employed in TIFF files (also when used as "an embedded TIFF file" mentioned earlier), the TIFF Private Tag 0x8769 defines a sub-Image File Directory (IFD) that holds the Exif specified TIFF Tags. In addition, Exif also defines a Global Positioning System sub-IFD using the TIFF Private Tag 0x8825, holding location information, and an "Interoperability IFD" specified within the Exif sub-IFD, using the Exif tag 0xA005.
Formats specified in Exif standard are defined as folder structures that are based on Exif-JPEG and recording formats for memory. When these formats are used as Exif/DCF files together with the DCF specification (for better interoperability among devices of different types), their scope shall cover devices, recording media, and application software that handle them.
Geolocation[edit]
See also: Geotagging
The Exif format has standard tags for location information. As of 2014[update], many cameras and mobile phones have a built-in GPS receiver that stores the location information in the Exif header when a picture is taken. Some other cameras have a separate GPS receiver that fits into the flash connector or hot shoe. Recorded GPS data can also be added to any digital photograph on a computer, either by correlating the time stamps of the photographs with a GPS record from a hand-held GPS receiver or manually by using a map or mapping software. Some cameras can be paired with cellphones to provide the geolocation. The process of adding geographic information to a photograph is known as geotagging. Photo-sharing communities like Panoramio, locr or Flickr equally allow their users to upload geocoded pictures or to add geolocation information online.
Program support[edit]
Exif data are embedded within the image file itself. While many recent image manipulation programs recognize and preserve Exif data when writing to a modified image, this is not the case for most older programs. Many image gallery programs also recognise Exif data and optionally display it alongside the images.
Software libraries, such as libexif[7] for C and Adobe XMP Toolkit[8] or Exiv2[9] for C++, Metadata Extractor[10] for Java, PIL/Pillow for Python, LEADTOOLS or ExifTool[11] for Perl, parse Exif data from files and read/write Exif tag values.
Problems[edit]
The Exif format has a number of drawbacks, mostly relating to its use of legacy file structures.
The derivation of Exif from the TIFF file structure using offset pointers in the files means that data can be spread anywhere within a file, which means that software is likely to corrupt any pointers or corresponding data that it doesn't decode/encode. For this reason most image editors damage or remove the Exif metadata to some extent upon saving.[12]
The standard defines a MakerNote tag, which allows camera manufacturers to place any custom format metadata in the file. This is used increasingly by camera manufacturers to store camera settings not listed in the Exif standard, such as shooting modes, post-processing settings, serial number, focusing modes, etc. As the tag contents are proprietary and manufacturer-specific, it can be difficult to retrieve this information from an image or to properly preserve it when rewriting an image. Manufacturers can encrypt portions of the information; for example, some Nikon cameras encrypt the detailed lens data in the MakerNote data.[13]
Exif is very often used in images created by scanners, but the standard makes no provisions for any scanner-specific information.[citation needed]
Photo manipulation software sometimes fails to update the embedded thumbnail after an editing operation, possibly causing the user to inadvertently publish compromising information.[14] For example, someone might blank out a licence registration plate of a car (for privacy concerns), only to have the thumbnail not so updated, meaning the information is still visible.
Exif metadata are restricted in size to 64 kB in JPEG images because according to the specification this information must be contained within a single JPEG APP1 segment. Although the FlashPix extensions allow information to span multiple JPEG APP2 segments, these extensions are not commonly used. This has prompted some camera manufacturers to develop non-standard techniques for storing the large preview images used by some digital cameras for LCD review. These non-standard extensions are commonly lost if a user re-saves the image using image editor software, possibly rendering the image incompatible with the original camera that created it. (In 2009, CIPA released the Multi Picture Object specification which addresses this deficiency and provides a standard way to store large previews in JPEG images.[15])
There is no way to record time-zone information along with the time, thus rendering the stored time ambiguous. However, time-zone information has been introduced recently by Exif version 2.31 (July 2016). Related tags are: "OffsetTime", "OffsetTimeOriginal" and "OffsetTimeDigitized".
There is no standard field to record readouts of a camera's accelerometers or inertial navigation system. Such data could help to establish the relationship between the image sensor's XYZ coordinate system and the gravity vector (i.e., which way is down in this image). It could also establish relative camera positions or orientations in a sequence of photos. Some software records this information using the GPSImgDirection tag along with custom GPSPitch and GPSRoll tags.[16]
The XResolution and YResolution tags provide the number of pixels per length unit for the width and height of the image, respectively. (The length unit itself is specified by the tag ResolutionUnit.) By default, these tags in combination are set to 72 pixels per inch (ppi).[17] These tags were inherited from the TIFF 6.0 standard and are required[18] even though for images produced by digital cameras, image resolution values such as ppi are meaningless.[19]
Privacy and security[edit]
Since the Exif tag contains metadata about the photo, it can pose a privacy problem. For example, a photo taken with a GPS-enabled camera can reveal the exact location and time it was taken, and the unique ID number of the device - this is all done by default - often without the user's knowledge. Many users may be unaware that their photos are tagged by default in this manner, or that specialist software may be required to remove the Exif tag before publishing. For example, a whistleblower, journalist or political dissident relying on the protection of anonymity to allow them to report malfeasance by a corporate entity, criminal, or government may therefore find their safety compromised by this default data collection.
In December 2012, anti-virus businessman John McAfee was arrested in Guatemala while fleeing from alleged persecution[20] in neighboring Belize. Vice magazine had published an exclusive interview on their website with McAfee "on the run"[21] that included a photo of McAfee with a Vice reporter taken with a phone that had geotagged the image.[22] The photo's metadata included GPS coordinates locating McAfee in Guatemala, and he was captured two days later.[23] McAfee later claimed to have edited the EXIF data from his phone to provide a false location.[24]
According to documents leaked by Edward Snowden, the NSA is targeting Exif information under the XKeyscore program.[25]
The privacy problem of Exif data can be avoided by removing the Exif data using a metadata removal tool.[26]
Related standards[edit]
Metadata Working Group was formed by a consortium of companies in 2006 (according to their web page) or 2007 (as stated in their own press release). Version 2.0 of the specification was released in November 2010,[6] giving recommendations concerning the use of Exif, IPTC and XMP metadata in images.
Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) is an ISO standard, originally created by Adobe Systems Inc., for the creation, processing and interchange of standardized and custom metadata for digital documents and data sets. IPTC was developed in the early 1990s by the International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) to expedite the international exchange of news among newspapers and news agencies.
Example[edit]
DigiKam screenshot showing Exif data
The following table shows Exif data for a photo made with a typical digital camera. Notice that authorship and copyright information is generally not provided in the camera's output, so it must be filled in during later stages of processing. Some programs, such as Canon's Digital Photo Professional, allow the name of the owner to be added to the camera itself.
Manufacturer CASIO
Model QV-4000
Orientation (rotation) top-left [8 possible values[27]]
Software Ver1.01
Date and time 2003:08:11 16:45:32
YCbCr positioning centered
Compression JPEG compression
X resolution 72.00
Y resolution 72.00
Exposure time 1/659 s
F-number f/4.0
Exposure program Normal program
Exif version Exif version 2.1
Date and time (original) 2003:08:11 16:45:32
Date and time (digitized) 2003:08:11 16:45:32
Components configuration Y Cb Cr –
Compressed bits per pixel 4.01
Exposure bias 0.0
Max. aperture value 2.00
Flash Flash did not fire
Focal length 20.1 mm
MakerNote 432 bytes unknown data
FlashPix version FlashPix version 1.0
Pixel X dimension 2240
Pixel Y dimension 1680
File source DSC
Interoperability index R98
Interoperability version (null)
FlashPix extensions[edit]
The Exif specification also includes a description of FPXR (FlashPix-ready) information, which may be stored in APP2 of JPEG images using a structure similar to that of a FlashPix file.[28] These FlashPix extensions allow meta-information to be preserved when converting between FPXR JPEG images and FlashPix images. FPXR information may be found in images from some models of digital cameras by Kodak and Hewlett-Packard.[29] Below is an example of the FPXR information found in a JPEG image from a Kodak EasyShare V570 digital camera:
Code page 1200
Used extension numbers 1
Extension name Screen nail
Extension class ID 10000230-6FC0-11D0-BD01-00609719A180
Extension persistence Invalidated by modification
Extension create date 2003:03:29 17:47:50
Extension modify date 2003:03:29 17:47:50
Creating application Picoss
Extension description Presized image for LCD
Storage-stream pathname /.Screen Nail_bd0100609719a180
Screen nail (124,498 bytes of data containing 640×480 JPEG preview image)
Exif audio files[edit]
The Exif specification describes the RIFF file format used for WAV audio files and defines a number of tags for storing meta-information such as artist, copyright, creation date, and more in these files.[30] The following table gives an example of Exif information found in a WAV file written by the Pentax Optio WP digital camera:
Encoding Microsoft PCM
Number of channels 1
Sampling rate 7872
Avg. bytes per second 7872
Date created 2005:08:08
Related image file IMGP1149.JPG
Time created 16:23:35
Make PENTAX Corporation
Model PENTAX Optio WP
MakerNote (2064 bytes of data)
MakerNote data[edit]
The "MakerNote" tag contains image information normally in a proprietary binary format. Some of these manufacturer-specific formats have been decoded:
OZHiker (not updated since 2008): Agfa, Canon, Casio, Epson, Fujifilm, Konica/Minolta, Kyocera/Contax, Nikon, Olympus, Panasonic, Pentax/Asahi, Ricoh, Sony[31]
Kamisaka (not updated since 2007): Canon, Casio, FujiFilm, ISL, KDDI, Konica/Minolta, Mamiya, Nikon, Panasonic, Pentax, Ricoh, Sigma, Sony, WWL[32]
X3F Info: Sigma/Foveon[33]
ExifTool: Canon, Casio, FujiFilm, GE, HP, JVC/Victor, Kodak, Leaf, Minolta/Konica-Minolta, Nikon, Olympus/Epson, Panasonic/Leica, Pentax/Asahi, Reconyx, Ricoh, Samsung, Sanyo, Sigma/Foveon, Sony, etc.[34]
Olypedia: Olympus[35]
The proprietary formats used by many manufacturers break if the MakerNote tag data is moved (i.e. by inserting or editing a tag that precedes it). The reason to edit to the Exif data could be as simple as to add copyright information, an Exif comment, etc. There are two solutions for this problem:
When the EXIF data is saved, the MakerNote data is stored at the same place as before.
A special offset tag is added. This tag contains the information by how many bytes the MakerNote data was moved in comparison to the original index.
Microsoft has implemented the last solution in Windows 10: In the Windows explorer you can change the EXIF data of an image file by the properties window. Here the tab sheet "Details" contains some EXIF data like title, subject, comments etc. and these EXIF data can also be changed and stored. When the image file is saved the tag "OffsetSchema" (tag ID = 0xea1d) is added and this tag contains a signed 32 bit number. With this number the original index of "MakerNote" can be restored:
Original index of "MakerNote" = Current index of "MakerNote" - Value of tag "OffsetSchema"
But the tag "OffsetSchema" was defined by Microsoft and it is not part of the official EXIF standard.
In some cases, camera vendors also store important information only in proprietary makernote fields, instead of using available Exif standard tags. An example for this is Nikon's ISO speed settings tag.[36]
Additive System of Photographic Exposure (APEX)
Comparison of image viewers (Exif view/edit functions)
Comparison of metadata editors
Design rule for Camera File system (DCF)
eXtensible Metadata Platform (XMP)
Geocoded photo
Image file formats
IPTC Information Interchange Model
JPEG File Interchange Format
Metadata Working Group
Tag Image File Format / Electronic Photography (TIFF/EP)
JEIDA memory card
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Pohang Steelers is a South Korean professional football club based in Pohang, South Korea, who currently play in the K-League. Pohang Steelers' first participation in Asian competition was during the 1996 season, when they competed in the Asian Club Championship, their first match was against PSM Makassar of Indonesia.

Pohang Steelers have won the Asia Champions League three times. Their most recent participation in the competition was in 2014.

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Home Article Preventive Care vs. Health Care?
Preventive Care vs. Health Care?
Mark Kleiman, for instance, writes that "[a]ir quality improvement, noise reduction, better parenting practices (which we can purchase publicly with nurse home visitation programs) and changes in the social forces influencing diet and exercise all probably have greater bang for the buck." Don't get me wrong, I'm fully for both preventive health measures and better public health policy. But I wouldn't get too excited over the insight that stripping lead paint from walls is a more efficient way to improve health outcomes than restructuring health care delivery. It's not always true, and, given the politics and emotional realities of the issue, it's not terrifically relevant.
First, the impacts of preventive medicine are often overstated. It's not that cleaning up the air or putting everyone on a gym regimen would greatly improve health -- but people don't follow gym regimens, and business doesn't let you clean air. Furthermore, not all interventions are created equal. Better parenting might be beneficial, but it's unlikely to be more effective -- either on economic or biological grounds -- than the use of statins, or hypertensive drugs, or daily tablets of aspirin. There are a lot of highly effective medical interventions which are very, very cheap. But our system is very poor at incentivizing their use.
Meanwhile, the reason doctors are constantly prescribing statins along with admonitions to exercise and eat better is because using public policy to change diet and exercise habits is really, really, hard, unless you're prepared to be very heavy-handed (i.e, outlawing trans fats in restaurants, setting portion limits, etc). Indeed, part of the problem with preventive health measures is that, rather often, they don't work very well. Like with traditional health care, some things really succeed (stripping lead out of gasoline, giving people antibiotics), and lots of things...don't. And that's to sidestep the weird reality that what drives health care politics is concern over money which, in fact, is quite rational: Folks don't want to go bankrupt, and smart politicians don't want the government to lose all space for spending on other priorities.
In any case, there is no tension between better preventive health measures and health reform -- a more integrated system would encourage preventive health, and every bill you know of that moves us towards universal health care actually has a massive amount of money, incentives, and policies going towards preventive care -- it's something everyone agrees on. But you're never going to get a focus on preventive care in the way you do on acute care: The politics of health care are about financial and medical peace of mind at the point of absolute need. They're not necessarily rational. If they were, we'd already be running laps and eating 5-11 servings of fruits and veggies, the benefits of which are fully available to us now, and which fully rational, forward-thinking beings would be going to great lengths to take advantage of. Sadly, anyone who's ever been offered decent barbecue knows how rational we are. Damn you, Capps...


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Stock Reveal: Charles Mizrahi The Forever Battery
Chris Mizrahi is out with a stock presentation hyping up what he calls "The Forever Battery."
He claims a company is going to outperform all others in the EV space and create a battery that can last millions of miles.
There's one problem, though..
Chris won't give you the stock unless you buy his newsletter.
Well I have good news - he left enough clues in the presentation to figure out the stock.
I reveal it below along with additional information so you can determine if it's worth buying or not.
The Forever Battery Summary
Creator: Charles Mizrahi
Newsletter: Alpha Investor
Stock: QuantumScape and Bollore
Quantumscape is a next generation battery company that absolutely exploded in popularity for investors back in 2020 and 2021.
At one point the stock was over $110.
However, the stock has cratered since then and is now at around $7 (Charles recommended in the $20's.)
Quantumscape is a research and development company and doesn't profit or even have a real product yet.
They spend a lot of money per year and aren't ever guaranteed to have a viable product.
So there's a lot of risk involved.
Bollore is a MASSIVE company that brings in over $20 billion in revenue every year.
They're involved in shipping, oil, manufacturing and batteries.
The idea is they're making battery storage products.
However, this will be just a small part of what they do. Overall this is a much safer investment.
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Dissecting The Forever Battery Teaser
The idea of a "forever battery" has been around for a couple years now.
Many stock pickers have been pitching this concept under different names (and most of the investments end up poorly).
Here's everything you need to know about this teaser.
Forever Battery Is Solid State Batteries
EV cars seems to be the future.. whether it's the distant future or close future, that's the way the world is heading.
One of the big flaws in electric cars is how long they hold a charge and the amount of time it takes to charge.
If you wanted to charge a Tesla at home or at a standard electric charging station it will take around 8 to 10 hours.
Most electric car's range isn't too much... and only high end Tesla's get 300 miles or more on a single charge.
Superchargers help and can charge an electric car in 15 minutes.
There's plenty of them around on the costs but it would still be a pain if you ventured into middle America:
Here's a map of Superchargers:
To remedy this issue many people have tried developing clean energy cars and alternatives to lithium ion batteries which most electric cars use.
A solid state battery uses "solid electrodes and solid electrolytes" and this helps them charge faster.
Apparently the high density assists in this.
Some supposed benefits of a solid state battery compared to a lithium ion battery includes:
Smaller and lighter (can be used in devices other than cars).
Safer (can't catch on fire)
Faster charge
Handle the cold better.
You'd think a battery that lasts longer, charges quicker and is safer would already be used in cars.
However, there are some drawbacks to this technology.
Some downsides include:
More expensive to create because demand isn't there yet
Battery degrades after a number of charges
Limited supply of materials needed to make the batteries
So there's issues but every big technological leap has run into similar problems.
If solid state batteries truly are the better choice I'm sure the creators of these products will find a way.
QuantumScape Is The Main Stock
The company that Charles is alluding to that will create this forever battery is QuantumScape.
This company's stock went absolutely wild after going public through a SPAC deal in the summer of 2020.
Investors wanted in and were buying it up.
This caused the stock to jump over $110 and the valuation of the company to reach $50 BILLION.
All without actually selling a single product..
I guess the idea of a better electric battery really captured the minds of investors.
However, one hedge fund wasn't buying the hype.
Scorpion Capital has a perfect record shorting these overvalued SPAC deals.
I covered them before when they shorted Ginkgo Bioworks,
They claimed QuantumScape was just a grand pump and dump scheme and an EV fraud.
They shorted the stock when it was in the $30's and it's dipped as low as $5 since then.
Another victory for Scorpion Capital!
Charles recommended the stock at around $25 back in October of 2021:
So anyone that has listened to Charles has taken a hit so far.
What To Dislike About QuantumScape
QuantumScape is a very risky stock to invest in.
First off, QuantumScape is a research and development company that doesn't actually have a product yet.
They recently started shipping out protypes but the CEO admits they're years away from a commercial product.
Because they don't have a product they don't have profit.
They're going to burn through cash until they can profit (which isn't guaranteed).
Some have estimated they'll be spending $300 million per year!
And like I mentioned before Scorpio Capital thinks the entire company is one giant fraud.
They released a 188 page report of their findings that you can read here.
Their summary about the company is pretty simple:
They believe the entire company is a pump and dump scheme and that the fraud will be coming to an end soon.
Which is why they believe the CEO is on TV constantly trying to pump the stock:
As part of their research Scorpio Capital interviewed ex-employees and the picture painted doesn't seem too good:
Ok so that's the bad of QuantumScape.
Is there anything good?
We'll tackle that now.
What To Like About QuantumScape
Well the first thing to like about QuantumScape is it's a hell of a lot cheaper now than it was when it first went public.
The stock is down to $7 and has gone down to $5.
Now if this really is a pump and dump scheme the stock will eventually go down to $0 and the money you invested will likewise be $0.
But if QuantumScape truly is going to make a better car battery the investment will likely sky rocket.
So now would be a good time if you believe in this company.
Additionally, they hit one of their big goals recently and started shipping prototypes out to their customers:
Another thing QuantumScape has going for it is they have a lot of cash.
They sold a ton of stock and has hundreds of millions in investments from Volkswagen.
When they went public through a SPAC merger with Kensington Capital Acquisition they receives $1 billion in financing.
So while they're burning through cash they do have a lot of cash to burn.
Is Investing In QuantumScape A Good Idea?
This is a question you ultimately have to answer for yourself.
Two years ago I would have told you to hold off and not invest.
That's when the stock was insanely high and in the range of $50 to $100.
Now the stock is much more reasonable at $7.
If you do invest just realize it's going to be many years before this company has a real product.
And that's not even guaranteed to happen.
There's been several of these companies before that have failed.
As Scorpio Capital pointed out all solid state battery companies that flopped in the past had institutional support of well known automakers:
So just understand despite the hype QuantumScape is anything but a sure thing.
It's a risk that likely has a lot of speedbumps in its future.
The Other Stock Is Bollore
Bollore is the other company being teased.
Charles believes they will be a major player in battery storage technolgoy.
Here's the thing about Bollore.. they are absolutely massive.
Their main business is on transportation and oil logistics.
They also own large states in Vivendi and Universal Music Group.
Battery and energy storage only makes up 2% of their overall revenue.
Their solid state batteries now aren't the fast charging kind and they're years away from making a commercial solid state battery for the masses.
However, they're very profitable so they're a much safer bet compared to QuantumScape.
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Is Alpha Investor Worth Buying?
In the end this "Forever Battery" stock presentation is meant to get you to buy Alpha Investor which is an investing newsletter headed by Charles Mizrahi.
Now you don't have to buy the newsletter to learn the "Forever Battery" stock.
You can buy it on its own merits.
So is this newsletter worth buying?
I personally don't think so.
I've reviewed 100+ stock picking services and newsletters and Alpha Investor is just a typical offering.
You get a monthly newsletter and model portfolio.
However, the results are nothing spectacular.
Most of the stocks that I've looked at recommended by Charles are down.
QuantumScape is down significantly since being recommended by Charles and has lost about 70%.
Other stocks are down 50% in the same time period.
It's a very cheap newsletter but acts as a bait product to get you into a sales funnel.
Once in the sales funnel you'll be recommended services that cost thousands of dollars and are very low quality.
I'd avoid signing up for Alpha Investor.
Forever Battery Conclusion
So that's the end of my write up for Charles Mizrahi's "forever battery" presentation.
In the end Charles is hyping up a solid state battery manufacturer called QuantumScape.
He's been recommending this company for over a year now and the results have been disastrous for anyone who's followed Charles' advice.
There's A LOT of questions about QuantumScape and there's too much risk for me to personally want to invest.
Who knows if they even develop a commercial product.
A well regarded hedge fund believes the entire thing is fraudulent and just a pump and dump scheme.
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how would one identify a chip ?
Discussion in 'Embedded Systems and Microcontrollers' started by klein, Oct 20, 2012.
Probably a custom chip MSFT is Microsoft's ticker symbol.
It would be a worse shame to keep them forever.
When the zombie apocalypse hits and all that works are the old microsoft mice, who will be laughing then?
i was just wondering it they could be wiped and reprogrammed is all.
For chips like that which are made in millions they will be manufactured as they are, there won't be any programmable or reprogrammable areas. Maybe you could connect it as it is to the PC and use it as a dual frequency counter.
Could be. Keep the chip, sensors, slotted wheels and anything vital and you have a 2 channel, serial output rotary encoder.
praondevou but it still looks like isn't able to be erased and reprogrammed that is what i was trying to do recycle the chip into something else.
Can any one identify this chip ?
How would I make one of these?
Help Identify a blown chip please?


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I have just returned from vacation. Virginia Beach. Just a few days, but enough for my brain to switch to low power, so I decided to repeat a TPH on demagoguery for Korach, which I thought I'd written last year, it being ever-so-appropriate in 2017. To my surprise, I wrote it in July 2016, months before its relevancy shot up exponentially. It is even more relevant today. Democracy is a fragile form of government. It requires that everyone participate, knowledgeably and thoughtfully. Abdicating that responsibility is an invitation to disaster. When you feel hopeless and betrayed by a world in which the rules have changed, along with your place in it, the idea of a strong man (yes, man, historically) simply taking over and making everything all right again (for you) is very tempting. Keep that in mind as we examine the story of Korach.
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I was at a study session a few weeks ago where someone asked what the origin of the phrase "holy smoke" was and I have now finally looked it up.
It does not refer to the smoke arising when a new pope is being elected. It does refer to burning incense, but only in part. IGP.
In that 1627 work, the phrase is used as a picturesque way of describing the burning of incense. It is not until 1892, however, that it is recorded as finding employment as an exclamation or mild expletive; that is, as a saying wholly divorced of anything literally to do with something being burned or the smoke it would give off. In that year, Rudyard Kipling and his American agent Charles Balestier used it as an independent vehemence in "The Naulahka:" 'By the holy smoke, some one has got to urge girls to stand by the old machine.' From that point forward, 'holy smoke' began appearing in the literature of the day as a generic exclamation.
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25.11.2021 00:42 News >> Hot Topics Discussed At Turkey's Major Economic Event
Hot Topics Discussed At Turkey's Major Economic Event
Experts, officials, sector players tackle inflation, pandemic measures, supply chains at Uludag Economy Summit.
Turkey's major economic event, Uludag Economy Summit, began Wednesday, hosting dozens of experts, officials and sector players to discuss hot topics such as increasing global commodity prices, pandemic measures and changing supply chains.
The two-day summit has been organized since 2012 while it was held virtually the last two years because of coronavirus pandemic measures.
Turkey's Trade Minister Mehmet Mus said at the opening of the event, that Turkey should make great efforts to utilize its potential in the changing world economy.
After the pandemic, which has been affecting the world's economy since 2019, new opportunities await and the business world should be well analyzed, he said.
Touching on inflation, he stressed that the rapid recovery of global demand and increasing price trends in logistics have caused an imbalance in the supply-demand area.
He said Turkish exports surpassed expectations in 2021 and are projected to reach more than $211 billion as of the end of 2021.
On climate change, the minister said the world cannot postpone or neglect the crisis. Turkey is preparing its action plan for a green transition but the cost stemming from the crisis should be shared by all countries.
2022 to be better
Ahmet Dorduncu, CEO of Turkish conglomerate Akkok Holding, said the industrial sector began to run at full capacity in the second half of 2021 when pandemic measures eased and there was soaring energy demand. "Negative effects were experienced in almost all sources in energy production, and sufficient supply could not be provided in response to the demand," he said.
Saying that logistical costs increased unbelievably, he stressed that container transportation costs reached $10,000 from $800 and that created a good opportunity for Turkey, especially in the textile sector.
He said there are several uncertainties in 2022 such as logistics, raw material and energy costs and volatility, "but despite everything, 2022 will still be good."
Caglar Gogus, the head of another conglomerate Dogan Holding, said raw material prices will stabilize, volatility will decrease and the tourism sector will normalize in the second half of 2022.
"We follow the developments in the market, we strongly believe in Turkey's potential, we will maintain our long-term strategic perspective on investments," he said.
In 2022, Turkey should become stronger in the labor market, sustainable growth cannot be achieved without sustainable human resources, he said and noted: "Human resources issues such as competence development, creating more employment, and career opportunities are main priorities."
Increasing energy demand
Ebru Ozdemir, chairperson of the board of Turkey's Limak Group of Companies, said uncertainties and supply-demand problems caused demand-based inflation in 2021.
She stressed that Turkey will grow by double-digit figures in the coming years and this will cause more demand for energy.
"There is no point in investing without some energy sources -- the most important sector of 2022 will be energy," she said.
Mehmet Nane, general manager of a Turkish air carrier Pegasus, said the delta variant caused the strongest uncertainties in the aviation sector at the mid-year point of 2021.
"We were aiming to close the end of 2021 by at least catching the 2020 figures, however, the delta variant, reclosures and the excessive increase in the number of Covid-19 cases caused our country to be put on the red list," he said. "But it is certain that 2021 will be better than 2020."
He added that inflation, supply chains and qualified labor forces are the most important topics on the global agenda. -
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Kohli likely to return for third Test, says Dravid
Virat Kohli is no more India captain in any format. (Photo by Stu Forster/Getty Images)
INDIA captain Virat Kohli should be "good to go" for the decisive third Test against South Africa, which starts in Cape Town on Tuesday (11), coach Rahul Dravid said.
Kohli missed his side's seven-wicket defeat in the second Test at the Wanderers after pulling up with a back spasm but has been back in the nets and resumed training, Dravid added. "I think he should be fine. He's had the opportunity to run around a little bit, he's had the opportunity to test it a little bit," said Dravid as India, who won the first Test in Pretoria by 113 runs, prepared to fly out of Johannesburg.
"Hopefully, with a couple of net sessions in Cape Town, he should be good to go. From everything that I'm hearing, he is really improving and should be OK to play."
India were captained by KL Rahul in Kohli's absence with Hanuma Vihari coming into his place in the batting line-up.
India might have to make a change to their bowling attack with Mohammed Siraj to be assessed after struggling throughout the second Test with a hamstring niggle.


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Straight Up Ventura County was honored at the 9th annual CAPS-TV Cappie Awards ceremony, held on September 13, 2012 in Ventura, California.
Straight Up was nominated for three if its videos, and won one Cappie for the "Be the DD" recruitment video, in the "Variety and Other" category. The recruitment video aims to put the word out about the popular "Be the DD" program, a designated awareness and award campaign in Ventura and Thousand Oaks.
Straight Up is grateful to the staff, board, and members of CAPS-TV for this award.
Straight Up's Communication Manager Becky is happy to have a Cappy!
Straight Up's Roland is happy to have a Cappy!


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Do you talk to your computer?
Mark Lewis|October 27, 2016
The last few years have seen a dramatic increase in the number of applications that expect people to interact with machines through a voice interface "" that is to say, you tell it what to do by talking to it. Most likely, you don't do this with your "computer." It is far more likely that you do it with your phone, which is just a computer that you can put into your pocket. There are even products like Amazon Echo or the recently announced Google Home, where voice is intended to be the primary means of interaction. Recently I placed a call to a customer support line and spent quite a bit of time in dialog with a machine. It wasn't simply a voice menu system. The interaction followed the same type of script that humans in call centers have used for years and did a really good job of understanding me.
What is really significant about this is that only a few years ago, voice interfaces were rather broadly ridiculed. There was a reason for this "" they weren't very good. That voice system on the phone really stood out to me because it was so much better than what I had previously experienced, where the software barely understood me saying numbers for menu options. The voice recognition on my phone, which I use occasionally to send text messages when it isn't convenient to type, also generally does a very good job. The error rate is definitely much lower than it was just a few years ago.
So what's changed? It turns out that the difference isn't improvements in voice recognition specifically, so much as improvements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning in particular.
AI isn't new. We are in what one might call the third golden age of AI. The first came in the 1950s when digital computers were still young, and many people believed that human intelligence was just a collection of logical rules. They believed that if they could just figure out the right rules and put them into a computer, they could reproduce human-like intelligence. In the 1980s, AI became a hot topic again, and there was a lot of work on techniques like neural networks. Both of these previous golden ages died when reality failed to live up to their assumptions.
The most recent rise in AI has been fueled by machine learning, which is feeding off the vast quantities of data that we create on the internet and through our various connected devices. The specific form of machine learning that is behind the ability for you to talk to your computer is called "deep learning," and it uses constructs called "deep neural networks." Neural networks are based on the structure of neurons in biological brains. The recent addition to them is the "deep" part. Basically, people have made the neural networks a lot bigger. Neural networks are generally "trained" by feeding them inputs where we know what the output should be, and adjusting the connections between neurons to reflect whether the output is right or wrong. Bigger networks require more data to train on.
If you want to train a neural network to understand what people are saying, you have to feed it a lot of audio clips where you know what is being said. Getting a hold of a large amount of such information might have been challenging in the past, but it has gotten a lot easier. How many hours of captioned video are available on YouTube alone?
The turning point for deep learning wasn't actually related to giving voice commands to computers. It was in 2012, when a program using a deep neural network dramatically outperformed other approaches in the ImageNet challenge, which was a competition to recognize the objects in millions of digital images. To help advance the field of image processing, the creators of the ImageNet challenge created a database with over 10 million labeled images that could be used for training AIs. The 2012 winner had an error rate of 16 percent for identifying images it had never "seen" before; compare this to the 25 percent error rate of the previous year's winner. By comparison, people have an error rate of 5.1 percent.
With the success in the ImageNet challenge, many technology companies have begun to invest heavily in their own deep learning projects. Earlier this year, a deep learning AI from Google made headlines for beating the world champion in Go. Microsoft's 2015 entry into the ImageNet challenge used a deep learning AI to achieve an error rate under five percent.
The technology is used in more practical applications as well, including many products that you likely use today. Google Translate uses an AI that was trained on the vast amounts of text data in multiple languages available on the internet. Autonomous cars are largely driven by machine learning software that is constantly getting smarter as it drives. The work in image recognition has grown to include video recognition that not only identifies what objects are in the videos, but also what activities they are performing.
Deep learning also powers other applications, like IBM's Watson. When Watson won Jeopardy in 2011, it wasn't using deep learning. Now, nearly all the components in Watson use deep learning, and IBM has been investing heavily in the technology. Watson is training to do medical diagnosis andhas already proven to be more capable than human doctors in some areas. It is also trained for call center use. For all I know, that might have been a Watson-based system I was talking to when I called that customer service line.
As with all new technologies, it isn't clear what the full range of applications are for deep learning, but my guess is that we are only scratching the surface, and the full implications of this technology could be quite profound.


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Q: Best practice to create an ftp administrator account on vsftpd Background: My manager would like me to create an administration account for out FTP server. When logged in via ftp, it should instantly display all of the home directories of the users, and be able to modify any directory or file in any way possible.
What would be the best way to go about this? I planned on chrooting this ftp admin to /home, but I don't know how to properly go about the permissions. Maybe make a group called ftp_admins, and chgrp the /home folder? But then wouldn't it affect the users accessing their folders?
any help is appreciated.

A: this is a very very pointy haired thing to want to do, you should inform your manager that the internet thinks so.
easiest way to accomplish this is by starting from scratch.
create a directory /ftphome/ or something. assign ownership of that directory to manager, chown boss.boss /ftphome/ make user directories under that, and assign ownership of username.boss to give group ownership to the boss group.
then set the umask in vsftpd to 007 to ensure all new files are created 770 (it's a mask...), granting anyone in the group 'boss' read/write/execute

A: Your plan of putting them in a common group is probably the best one. Most of the time a user doesn't need to check their group membership for files and directories under their home directory, so that won't interfere.
One thing that could be a problem is that new directories won't have the proper permissions to make files accessible to said admin user. You'd have to either detect creation of these directories and modify their permissions, or you'd have to have a script that modifies permissions be executed by cron periodically.
Another thing that could be an issue is that since these files are owned by the user in question, it will be possible for them to modify the permissions on their own, thereby making them inaccessible to the admin user.

A: Ended up scrapping vsftpd because it doesn't support virtual quotas with virtual users anyhow. Using pure-ftpd solved all my problems and it comes with a pure-uploadscript tool which will run a script on each uploaded file. My current script changes each file to be owned by the ftpadmin user.

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Echo Chamber: Titus Andronicus' Patrick Stickles vs. the Pogues
By Tom Breihan
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"I hated the tour. It made me furious throughout. I didn't think that we were treated at all with the respect that we deserved, not even the respect as saying, 'We're an important punk band,' but respect that we're human beings."
-- Titus Andronicus frontman Patrick Stickles, who evidently did not have such a good time when his band opened for Irish punk legends the Pogues. (via Spinner)
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I have been practicing yoga for years now and it has become one of my passions. Excited to find clients who wanted articles, my yogi-self took them on with ease. My articles stem from my practice, which makes it easy to pick out topics, and quickly give you a well-written article. Readers want to relate to what they read. My extensive knowledge about the practice peeks readers interest keeping them on the edge of their seats for the next post.
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If a Machiavellian genius were to set out to destroy the United States, he would do three things. Disarm and weaken our military so it cannot defend us against foreign enemies. Disarm the National Guard so it cannot defend the States against the federal government. Nationalize and militarize law enforcement by weaponizing bureaucrats.
That version of the U.S. would be helpless, governed by a tyrant, and without a cultural or moral core. It would soon cease even to faintly resemble the country bequeathed to us by the Founders.
Whether by malevolent design or stupendous ineptitude and rash impulse, this is precisely the blueprint being followed by our current president.
Our commander-in-chief has canceled the military's Tomahawk and Hellfire missiles, with no replacements in view for at least a decade. The Tomahawk is the most advanced cruise missile in the world and is the secret to the superiority of the U.S. Navy. The Hellfire is an extremely effective air-to-surface anti-tank weapon.
According to Seth Cropsey, director of the Hudson Institute's Center for American Seapower, if someone were trying to "reduce the U.S. ability to shape events" in the world, he couldn't "find a better way than depriving the U.S. fleet of Tomahawks. It's breathtaking."
Obama is deliberately reducing the army's troop strength to pre-World War II levels. With open homosexuals serving in the military and women foolishly and dangerously being prepped for combat roles, military morale is plummeting and recruitment is suffering. The president has reduced our military's goal from being able to fight a two-front war to fighting a one-front war with some ability for holding actions on a second front. Such pronounced weakness invites aggression from our enemies.
The president is likewise disarming our National Guard units by transferring their Apache attack helicopters to the Army and trading them in for Blackhawks, which are designed not for combat but for transport.
National Guard units have been instrumental in the nation's war efforts. There were times during Operation Iraqi Freedom when Guard troops represented over 50% of the Army's combat power. Along with Reserve troops, they have accounted for nearly a third of the service members who have been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001.
Why would the president wish to neuter such an effective fighting force? It's quite simple, really. National Guard units are part of State militias and therefore under the primary command of their state governors, until they mobilized for use in national defense operations. Because their commander-in-chief under ordinary circumstances is their governor, not their president, Guard units represent the last line of defense against a president drunk on his own tyrannical power.
In a Cliven Bundy kind of situation, where an ordinary citizen in one of our sovereign States is being threatened by armed bureaucrats pointing assault rifles at their wives and children, it makes a huge difference whether available attack helicopters are under the command of the federal government or under the command of a state governor determined to protect the rights of his citizens to life, liberty, and property, if necessary against federal tyranny.
As George Washington said, "A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government." A power-mad president would not want any State actors with "sufficient arms and ammunition" to protect their own citizens from federal oppression. In other words, if he finds it necessary to fire on a state's militia, he doesn't want that militia to be able to shoot back.
At the same time our president is weakening our military and neutering the National Guard, he is weaponizing bureaucrats. He famously declared in 2008 that we can no longer "continue to rely on our military" to protect our national security. No, said the president, "We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."
That statement has been forgotten by everyone. Everyone, that is, except President Obama. He has made good on this frightening promise in ways that most Americans don't realize. He currently has 120,000 bureaucrats – i.e., civilians – representing federal agencies who are armed to the eyeballs.
Even the Library of Congress, if you can believe it, is armored up. The Department of Education has its own SWAT team, and we've all seen Harry Reid's BLM Brownshirts in action over the last several weeks. The Department of Homeland Security has 1.6 billion rounds of hollow point ammunition, which by international law cannot be used in warfare. In other words, the only possible use for this overwhelming tonnage of ammo is for it to be trained on our own citizens.
So under this president, our military has been critically weakened, our state militias have been critically weakened, and our nation's bureaucrats have been armed to the earlobes. Only a fool who does not love this country as founded could fail to be deeply alarmed.
This president has two and one-half more years to work his mischief. Who will stand in his way?


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Maintenance of multi-storey buildings
Report ID: 878 Published: 1 February 2020 Region: CROSS-AUS
A correspondent notes that the issues currently affecting several high-rise buildings in Australia are inevitably focused on design, construction, and certification; whereas there are other issues relating to ongoing inspection, maintenance, and (ultimately) demolition which seem to have been ignored.
The report recommends the production and availability of a "maintenance manual" for buildings so that building owners and potential purchasers recognise the need for ongoing maintenance, which can then be incorporated in future plans and budgets.
For structural and civil engineers:
Develop a manual which identifies structural elements needing future inspection (with timescales) and indicates how future maintenance can be performed safely
Request and require a detailed manual from the design engineers identifying the parts of the building that will require inspection and repair/replacement with indications of likely time-scales, together with method statements for safe working
Make certificate of structural safety available and easily readable in public areas in the entrances to buildings
For policymakers:
Consider mandatory requirement of provision of "maintenance manual" for all public buildings
Consider legal requirement for "certificate of structural safety" to be displayed in public areas/entrances of buildings
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A correspondent notes that the issues, including structural faults, currently affecting several high-rise buildings in Australia are inevitably focused on design, construction, and certification; whereas there are other issues relating to ongoing inspection, maintenance, and (ultimately) demolition which seem to have been ignored.
Understanding of design life and material deterioration amongst building owners
They question if owners of major buildings with no knowledge or understanding of structures, design life and material deterioration know how to look after their assets. Would they think to turn to a "professional person" to provide them with advice, and if so, who would they go to and what would it cost? Reacting to serious incidents when they occur appears to be the common approach, but this may incur very high expense to building owners.
Maintenance manual for structural elements in buildings
Most buildings will have a Maintenance Manual for the building services (e.g., air conditioning and lifts), but the correspondent doubts that many will have one for the structure, identifying key parts of the structure that should be inspected/maintained on a regular basis, rather than waiting for a problem to occur and then fixing it. As key parts of the structure may be very difficult, if not impossible, to access, then systems should be designed and put in place to allow access. The correspondent also questions what happens when the building owner changes, in terms of hand-over of a Maintenance Manual?
Structural safety certificate in public view
The correspondent further notes that most occupants of commercial and public buildings will probably walk through the building lobby where a fire-safety certificate is publicly displayed; although it may be placed where it is hard to read and probably is not noticed by many of the occupants. Despite this, the correspondent believes it is time to introduce legislation for all major buildings to display a certificate in a public place that clearly states the building has been inspected and found to be compliant with the design codes for its current occupancy and usage.
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There are many examples of structural failures arising from lack of maintenance and although the provision of a maintenance manual would be expected for many types of civil structures such as bridges and dams, they are rarely, if ever, provided for buildings; and there appears to be no requirement in any state or territory legislation, apart from the general obligations on persons who construct and design structures to provide information under the work health and safety legislation
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In the UK, the CDM (Construction Design and Management) Regulations require final drawings and other material to be handed over to the owner after completion. Unfortunately this may not always be done, or the records may not be complete, but the intention is to have relevant information available for access in the event of later problems.
Danger from hidden deterioration
We accept that our motorcars and our own houses require regular maintenance, yet it appears that many owners of major buildings, such as multi-storey apartments, assume their structure to require no maintenance and that materials not exposed to view have an infinite life. Areas of the building exposed to the weather, such as the exterior façade, are particularly vulnerable but may never be inspected until the owner is alerted to a significant issue.
At the very least, the external façade of buildings should be inspected on a regular basis (say every 5 years) by suitably qualified personnel and preventative maintenance carried out before major problems arise. A difficulty is that some critical components, such as façade fixings to the main frame, are usually hidden and not easily inspected without significant effort.
The digital age has brought the promise of BIM, however general feedback is that this rarely gets used post construction, thus creating a missed opportunity. Furthermore, as buildings become ever more complex, there is no legislative or other formal requirement, other than good housekeeping by a client, to keeping records of what was actually constructed. Is this good enough? Should there be a formal record of what has been constructed? In the UK, the Hackitt report Building a Safer Future recommends that a digital record should be maintained for all High Rise Residential Buildings and ultimately held by the owner.
Our attention has been drawn to ISO 15928.3 Houses –Description of Performance- Part 3: Structural Durability that is part of a set of ISO framework standards for single family dwellings, and is focussed on structural durability, including a section on maintenance. Although the intended use is for developing performance standards for housing much of the content of this standard is applicable to larger buildings and it could provide a starting point for the development of standardised guidelines for the structural durability performance and maintenance of all buildings.
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Jean Bales was well known for her paintings depicting the traditional life of Iowa Indian women, her affiliated tribe.
Her works have been included in such noted private collections as the late artist, Helen Hardin, as well as such prominent institutional collections as the Vatican in Rome. She has been exhibited in major museums, including the Heard Museum (Phoenix, AZ), the Wheelright Museum (Santa Fe, NM), and the Southern Plains Indian Museum (Anadarko, OK).
She was 1984 IACA Artist of the Year. She was living and working in Oklahoma at the time of her death.


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The Leftovers Season 3 Premiere "The Book of Kevin" - Review
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The Leftovers, HBO's Peabody Award winning drama returns April 16 for its third and final season with "The Book of Kevin." Sarah Mason and Jake Essoe of The Harold & Maudecast review and recap the episode.
It's been three years since the events in Miracle (Jardin) Texas. We find Kevin Garvey (Justin Theroux) back in his old uniform as the town's Chief of Police. His son Tommy (Chris Zylka), now deputized, is by his side and pretty handy with a firearm. Nora (Carrie Coon) has a new gig for the Department of the Departed. The gang is mostly all here with the notable exception of Erika (Regina King) who is expected to return for season 3. Her husband John (Kevin Carroll) is shacked up with Kevin's ex Laurie (Amy Brenneman) and running a palm reading scam out of their house together. Matt (Christopher Eccleston) is preaching to an overflowing congregation with wife Mary (Janel Moloney), now out of her coma, and son Noah by his side. It seems like all things are sunny and right in Miracle but, not so fast, this is The Leftovers.
We dive into the details of this somewhat subdued yet none the less brilliant premiere episode.
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Typically mild-mannered Minnesota fans are reportedly taking revenge on visiting Eagles fans they say tormented them in Philadelphia last week, turning the tables and rolling out the unwelcome mat for visiting Birds backers in town for the Super Bowl. Dejected Vikings fans have reportedly been turning Eagles players and their fans away from their businesses, literally leaving some out in the cold.
Eagles player Chris Maragos tweeted that he and some of his teammates were turned away from three local restaurants when they tried to make dinner plans ahead of their arrival for the big game.
"I've called 3 restaurants in Minneapolis to get a reservation for me and my teammates and 'can't' get in," Maragos tweeted. "Well played Minnesota fans, well played."
A week after rowdy Philly fans fought with police horses and threw garbage at Vikings fans and the Minnesota team bus at the NFC Championship game at Lincoln Financial Field, one Minnesota storefront was decorated with a sign welcoming Eagles fans to "Stop in and have a free beer thrown at you!" The window was actually not a bar, but rather a meeting space for a Minneapolis ad agency, Kruskopf & Co, but the point was well taken.
Vikings fans are also taking their frustrations out on Eagles fans via Airbnb, the online hospitality marketplace in which residents rent out homes and apartments like hotel rooms. According to reports, some Airbnb renters have been asked not to rent their pads to Eagles fans in town for the big game because of "concerns from the post game violence and vandalism" that took place after the NFC title game.
While there were no reports of property damage in Philadelphia after the Eagles advanced to their third Super Bowl, there were six arrests, three for selling counterfeit tickets. The city also spread Crisco on street lights to prevent wild fans from climbing them, which only furthered the stereotype of unruly Philly fans.
While some vengeful Vikings Airbnb renters may be refusing to let Eagles fans stay at their properties, consumers are being warned about the price gouging that renters typically engage in around big events like the Super Bowl. According to one consumer watchdog, AirbnbWATCH, a three-night stay in Minneapolis usually costs about $300, but the same three-night stay could cost more than $15,000 with the Super Bowl in town.