When my best friend passed away in a drunk driving accident, all I wanted was to create positive change. I wanted her death to mean life for others. I wanted others to learn from what happened. My world was destroyed, and I wanted other people to feel how I felt and mourn the absence of her in a way that would make them change their actions and never ever drink and drive again. However, I discovered that my involvement in trying to stop people from drinking and driving started triggering feelings of loss again. In my quest to make her death create positive change, I was hurting my ability to heal.
There are many different types of trauma. With each situation and each person, that trauma is dealt with a little differently. For some people, their trauma is able to be turned into something actionable for others. It can be transformed into an inspiration to help which can lead to a feeling of healing. However, not everyone is able to do that. If you've experienced something traumatic and you want to use it to help others, it's important to understand whether that action is triggering you or healing you.
Trauma isn't a very tangible thing; it can shapeshift, hide, and appear suddenly. Many things can cause trauma: Death, divorce, sexual assault, injury, natural disasters, and abandonment are just a few examples. Sometimes trauma is hard to understand because of its ability to change and it being caused by so many things. Helping others may be a great response to your trauma, but that involves understanding a bit about how it's affecting you and how it will continue to affect you. Processing trauma is important, but everyone's process is different.
For one, it's helpful to understand your triggers. If your trauma is related to sexual assault and you decide to begin working with other sexual assault survivors, understand that you may be triggered in that interaction. Sometimes you don't realize a trigger until it happens. Speaking with a therapist, researching the resources available to you, and talking to others may be the first step in understanding where you are with your own trauma.
Survivors who are able to use their experience to help others are doing something amazing — something that many survivors wish they were able to do. Survivors are great in these positions because they understand certain emotions that others can't. They relate to them and often make more of an impact when dealing directly with other survivors. Making such an impact can help the healing process as well. There's a common hope among those who have experienced trauma, and that is the hope that the person or situation that caused the trauma will not win. Oftentimes, turning that pain into something good helps with the feeling that the trauma and its causes haven't won.
There are many ways to turn a the experience of trauma into a tangible action that will help others, and it's important to note that not all of those actions have to be triggering ones. Some people interested in helping to alleviate trauma explore career paths with that idea in mind. Going to school to become a nurse will help offset the nursing shortage while helping survivors in many capacities. Nurses can work with children, addicts, those surviving a natural disaster, and patients in many different traumatic situations.
Social workers who work with Child Protective Services work with children experiencing many different traumatic situations including neglect, sexual abuse, and physical abuse, among others. With social work being such a difficult position, social workers are always in high demand. Lawyers, non-profit entrepreneurs, writers, artists, first responders, and counselors all help people in traumatic situations.
Even if your path to helping others as a response to your trauma doesn't connect to your career, you may still benefit from the healing. Donating time, fundraising, raising awareness, and reaching out to others are all ways to provide aid that can help you heal as well. If you're looking for way to help, but the route you took was triggering, try another route. You may be able to find a way to help someone else that isn't triggering for you and helps you to heal from your own trauma — you may just need to think outside the box.
Those who are able to help others and gain healing from it are amazing, but it's okay if you aren't able to do that. Not everyone can talk about it, be around it, or be reminded of it without being triggered. You aren't obligated to turn your experience into something positive for anyone else. You shouldn't feel guilty about someone else being able to do something that you can't. Some people find their true calling through through their experiences with loss, but many people don't. You can't control how you immediately respond to a traumatic event any more than you can control the event itself.
Though some people who experience a traumatic event feel as though helping others as a response will ensure that the the trauma didn't win, that doesn't mean that those who can't help others have lost. Healing comparisons aren't helpful, and it's important to understand that your trauma isn't the same as anyone else's — no matter how similar the circumstances are. It's great to be able to help others in order to help yourself heal, but that's not the way for everyone to heal. Some people need to heal from their trauma without the presence of triggers, and that is okay too.
Just because you're not helping other people doesn't mean you aren't helping. Helping yourself is helping someone. By focusing on you, you're also helping all of the people who love you. Trauma is a dangerous thing. The effects of trauma can cause many mental health problems, substance abuse issues, relationship troubles, and permanent changes in mood and personality. For that reason, it's vital to focus on yourself before trying to help anyone else. Feeling triggered through helping others can be lead to serious problems. Some are able to help others once they have focused on themselves and their own healing; others aren't able to do it at all. Either way is okay.
If you're looking for ways to focus on yourself and take care of your trauma, you can try talking to a therapist about coping with trauma. You'll learn about causes, risk factors, symptoms, and PTSD. You'll learn about how moving your body can help, about the dangers of isolating, how to deal with a panic attack, the importance of good health, treatment options, and how to talk to your loved ones. If you want to help others, talk to your therapist about safe ways to do that without being triggered and how it can help you heal.
Trauma survivors can do amazing things. They can turn their experience into something good. They can create change, help others, and heal through those actions. However, the most important way that a trauma survivor can help is to help themselves. Whether you're helping others or helping yourself, the important thing is to understand your trauma and focus on you before anyone else.
I wanted to be able to create positive change from my trauma, but the triggers were too much. Instead, I focus on the change I can make within myself and heal in that way instead. My inability to turn my traumatic grief into actionable help for others doesn't mean I lost, or her death didn't matter. It means that the help I'm providing is for myself, and that is the most important.
Chelsy is a writer from Montana who is now living in Boise, Idaho. She graduated with her journalism degree from the University of Montana in 2012. She is passionate about feminism, is a shark enthusiast, and can be found playing Frisbee with her dog, Titan. Follow her on Twitter.


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Running the Personal Challenge on my GK. Noted I needed 15 wins and Co-op was an option. So...I decided to run it that way. Hadn't been in Co-op in a LONG time. Well, a few times to check something out or check game stability. But nothing serious.
Geez. Do bots shoot torpedoes? Ten games, and I think I saw...maybe five...torps. And I'm driving straight to objectives. No dance. Nothing fancy. Fully speed ahead. I'll meet a DD or two. A Mino. Nothing...nada...zilch. Yeah, I know it's co-op, and they're bots. But shooting torps is pretty easy, yes? CVs? Fifty T10 planes downed. In a GK. And not ONE TBD or SBD attack on me.
I guess I'm not really complaining. If you want to just drive right in and brawl like there is no tomorrow, gen up 200K damage, knock off cits left and right, and pretty much come out relatively unscathed. Go for it. You know the bots will be coming at you. No finesse. No strategy. Hell...no torps.
No finesse. No strategy. Hell...no torps.
Heavens forbid you call it an easy mode. Some people take Co-op seriously.
You got lucky. When the AI gets a hard-on for you, you get focused the entire game. I saw at least 20 torpedoes flying around (and I ate 4) today. Yesterday, I saw a 12-15 stack heading my way (Yes in Co-Op).
There are too many players in Co-Op nowadays tho. It makes matches far too quick, easy, and feeling unsatisfying.
But not enough to go back to PvP. I had enough of that long ago.
What you'll see in co-op torps is a delay from when a normal human will shoot them. Possibly trying to get more hit %, but that also works against them.
I just went within too close of arming distance of an Ibuki in my Massamachoochoo and that thing didn't try spitting torps at me until my smoke stack was crossing his rudder.
Heaven forbid if you call PvP "run away like a [edited] mode".
I don't know anyone who takes PvE seriously unlike PvP/Ranked where people flock to the forums to complain about how terrible everyone else is or how to prevent other players from playing their favorite mode. The reason you get blowback when you say "easy mode" is because you are being purposely insulting then feigning ignorance for your behavior and playing the victim card.
To the OP, if you want to see torps, play a cruiser or a DD. I am guessing GK is the tier 10 German BB. By the time a battleship gets in close enough to see torps, most of the torpedo boats have been destroyed save ships like the Tirpitz. If your fellow players are decent, they will focus their fire on the torp boats first as bots tend to launch suicide torpedoes at close range. If you want torpedo spam, take a DD and have at it. Maybe a cruiser. Battleships have it relatively easy playing co-op since the AI focuses on human ships based on hit points and health. BBs tend to be pretty healthy. If you want excitement, cap. This is what I do with my BB in co-op. I jump in the mix with the cruisers and supporting the DDs and always put myself in a position to tank damage as opposed to the PvP meta of staying at range and bombarding targets while others are being shot at. If you are mixing it up and not seeing torps, it is probably because they already fired them and they haven't reloaded yet. Since it takes around 2 minutes for most high tier ships to reload torpedoes, and co-op matches are generally over in around 5 minutes, well you can do the math.
Bot carriers are notoriously bad both the friendly and red ones. I fear them the least but always keep my ships AA spec'd since you see them far more than you do I PvP play.
Co-op is easy mode, it's a fact. In other games with difficulty settings if you keep losing you can dial difficulty down to where you start winning. That is what co-op is. I find it amusing that someone may find it insulting.
You had the ship with the largest health pool in the game, and the bots seek out the lowest health target to prioritize(which they do with terminator like persistence). Take a destroyer and see what happens, because the bots know where you are, regardless of any spotting or detection rules the game may have. They will chase you to the ends of the earth.
Yes the bots do launch torpedoes, but they tend to do it at certain death range. If the bot cv decides to bring the love, you will see more torpedoes than you ever knew existed, with bombs thrown in for good measure.
The scary part is, the bots are still better than half the people in randoms.
After I drove deep, the Yamato and GK decided to engage me and chased me for most of the game. Funny stuff.
1400+ secondaries fired, with over 500 hits. 12 fires for....120K damage. Total Riot.
It is easier no doubt, but your nastiness is why you are wailing about people taking it seriously.
I have 13k games in PvE, never met anyone who takes the mode seriously. Most people are there having fun. It is why people play it. For most of us it is an arcade game like any other. The thing that makes PvP "not fun" is the minority of toxic players there who make the game a miserable experience. You probably know them, they are the ones insulting how others decide to spend their time and money.
Co-op is what I do for a break, honestly. After enduring the salt mines of high tier, it's nice to be able to queue up for a win. If there were more bots, I'd do it more often. It's a major bummer when the bots suicide into your teammates instead of you and you can scarcely get any damage done before it's all over.
Adding more bots has been suggested over and over again. They tweaked the AI recently and it was a fail. I was hoping they would just "tweak the tweak" but they went back to the old aggressive Terminator bots instead. The new AI had bot DDs who used their smoke which was nice (and fun). They should have made the smoking cruisers do the same. The big problem is they made ALL the bots attempt kiting. Even BBs... It was a mess, the mode wasn't any harder, it just dragged the matches out to the full 20 minutes. That is what raised the stink, well that and the bot CVs on both sides got broken with the change.
Bots don't do preemptive torps the way humans do and thank god for it as they always know where you are even if undetected so it would be brutal how effective they would be. They don't launch, usually, at max range either. They generally launch them fairly close (inside 5-6km max I would say and those would be long shots for them - more common inside 3-4km). When they do you will know it because they are always perfectly on target and you better be good at dodging when they appear (unless spotted early for you).
My guess is you just didn't get close enough to a ship with torps for them to launch or they had earlier and we reloading. Bots absolutely use them and with great effectiveness. They just don't spam them around or take long range shots like humans.
That says it all, and really, what else matters, you had fun, co-op or pvp, as long as you're having fun that's what counts.
People will yammer on until the end of this game about this mode and that mode, you hit the nail on the head.
Yeah. I was going to say just get a little too close to a bot torp cruiser, or have one charge you- you'll get to eat all the impossible to dodge torpedoes you never wanted, lol.
I was kinda wondering about the bot changes. For a couple of days it was really messed up, then it was fine. Back to the old obnoxious bots- but they kept their angling and dodging skills. I didn't realize they'd reverted- I thought I'd just acclimated to it really quickly. Silly me, lol.
That's what I like about it- you can play those fun top tier ships AND brawl with them. Kinda slow? Got a short effective range? Doesn't matter- they'll come to you! It makes the new US CL's just plain nasty- you don't always have back line snipers just waiting for you to break cover, so they can earn another dev strike pin, and that 6" AP does absolutely ghastly damage to things at short range (where the funny arcs don't matter).
I don't see the levels of retardation in co op that I do in randoms, so if Randoms is hard mode, it's mainly because of the enormous population of window licking fsckwits, and that's not the kind of "Hard Mode" I'd view as a symbol of pride or achievement.
Saw nothing 'nasty' in his post at all. Seems to me *you're* the one taking it too seriously and being nasty.
No one cares how you spend your time and money, and stop trying to be a victim. Anytime somebody calls PvE 'easy', which it ridiculously is so, we get replies like this.
'Toxic'; is when career Co-op players grind a Midway or high tier BB, then jump into randoms with a blazing infra red 39% WR, then get bent out of shape when their team rightfully gives them a hard time. They deserve it. Since co-op bots are entirely predictable and not really competitive long term co-op play teaches players really bad habits that gets them crushed in PvP.
When I was in my stock Nassau, the bot CV seemed to know I had no AA. I faced like 6 torp drops before our CV gunned down all the bombers.
Not playing the victim, personally I don't care enough to participate in that manner, just tired of the insulting manner of some of the other players in the game, especially the ones who don't care about the mode yet find time to post comments in threads dedicated to co-op play. Seems intentional, maybe they get a dopamine hit out of poking fun at others. Maybe they are psychotic, maybe they are just fart sniffing morons... Hard to tell.
I have 16k games, probably a couple thousand in PvP, and never have bothered to check the stats of other players I am playing with or against. I don't care who they are, what they do, how they got where they did, etc. It is a game and just don't care. Maybe you need to take a step back and ponder why you are checking that kind of information. I don't need your permission or acceptance to play any game mode I please. The need to "give them a hard time" says far more about you and your "type" than it does about the potato player.
BTW it is interesting that you bring up other people's stats yet keep yours hidden...... Hypocrisy much?
I romp and stomp in co-op in and then people complain the new AI is too hard or they lost 9 games straight. I ran one to tests a new CV and I don't know CVs....the whole team was bots, still won.
Soshi I actually thought about you tonight while playing my Missouri in co--op. Match started and I moved to the A cap to tank, telling the two cruisers with me to let me up front to absorb damage. Got spotted, started taking fire but got into the cap. Was being attacked by two BBs to the north and two cruiser (Neptune and Prinz Eugen) to the east. I think there was a Cleveland in the mix as well, just kind of forget where he was. Anyways almost deleted the Neptune and Prinz with broadsides but my team gave them the killing blows. I had avoided the Neptune's torpedoes and knew the Prinz's were inbound but if I attempted to avoid them all, it would put me broadside to the two BBs, one of which was a Tirpitz and I most certainly would have eaten his. Anyways saw the torps and positioned my MO to take it on the torp bulge. I detonated..... Only the second time I have ever detonated in a BB playing co-op. The bots had bum rushed the A cap for some reason (I suspect it was because our Cleveland or Prinz had the fewest HPs in the match) leaving many of our team out of the fight at the C cap. They were picked off one by one.
My night of Co-Op didn't turn out too good. I was driving Alabama and ooops! I mistimed shooting at a Bot Bama just as a Green Missouri was approaching it. The Mo killed the Alabama and my shells killed the Missouri. My bad most definitely. Pink for 4 battles. So I decided to saddle up Belfast and do 4 battles to get rid of the pink. not more than 30 seconds after the first battle started, my ISP took a dump and was down for over a hour. When I finally got back into WoWs, I was orange and restricted to Co-Op only for 10 battles due to abandoning the battle.
Robot: "Please put your hands behind your back. You are under "Orange" arrest. Ten hours of community service, and you will be released on probation".


The Little House that Could!
In previous Miami Springs Real Estate Market Reports I have written about the amazing prices that smaller homes (under 1500 square feet) are selling for in the Springs. Some are selling for over $300 dollars per sq. ft. While larger homes, (over 1500 square feet) are averaging well Under $300 per sq. ft.
With Interest rates still low, although they have begun to rise, now is a great time to sell that small house and upgrade to a bigger one. There are some great opportunities NOW in the market. But if you snooze you loose.
According to Fortune Magazine, many growing families are in a housing sweet spot right now that will likely continue into the first part of 2017: Between 2011 and 2016, the average price on a two-bedroom house rose 59 percent nationwide, but four-bedroom homes only rose 41 percent, according to ATTOM Data Solutions.
However, small home sellers who want to move up should get their financing in order quickly. The record-low mortgage rates in 2016 aren't expected to last much longer. Average rates are predicted to rise as much as half a percent in 2017, says Dan Smith, president of PrivatePlus Mortgage.
It's no secret that the Internet has revolutionized real estate, bringing a new level of access and breadth to an industry long defined by its exclusivity.
The Miami Springs Real Estate market continues to be dynamic. During the period of Friday December 2, 2016 through December 9, 2016, there was 1 new listings, 1 closed sales, 0 pending sales, 1 expired listings..
The table below gives you the current status of the Miami Springs real estate market as of Friday, December 9, 2016. Closed sales are within last 90 days.


How did the Sojourner rover work?
The Sojourner rover, or "Mars buggy," was a mere one foot high, two feet long, and a foot and a half wide. It rolled out of the Pathfinder spacecraft and was capable of traveling several feet per day on its six wheels. It ran on batteries charged by its solar panels, which converted energy from the Sun into electrical power, and it was controlled remotely by scientists on Earth.


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ANSYS ICEM CFD в проектировании гоночных машин.
This figure shows the velocity vectors flowing through the radiator ducts. It is color coded by a normalized pressure (red compression, blue suction).
This shows another form of oil flow visualization along the car's body.
This shows a radiator streamlining color coded by normalized pressure. Shows the probable influence of the radiator flow on the rear-wing and hints at he need for these complex analyses.
This shows the ICEM CFD surface mesh (triangles) and a slice of the volume mesh (tetrahedrons).
A view of zero-mass particles as if released into the flowfield. Curlicues and spirals indicate areas of high turbulence.
ICEM CFD Isosurface showing the magnitude of the vorticity vector. This isosurface is a constant-value surface and is used to graphically demonstrate the flowfield vortex features.
Raven depiction of stress forces around the rear spoiler wing.
Digital photo showing the engine of the Pratt & Miller - General Motors C5R Corvette from the 2002 racing season that impact fluid flows. The C5R is from the 2002 racing season.
Underside of the Corvette C5R in CFD analysis with Aletheon's Raven solver. Blue lines are the numerical equivalent of an oil-flow visualization, i.e., a computer-generated path a drop of oil placed on the surface of the vehicle would follow. The surfaces are also color coded with blue areas representing suction and red representing compression. The inset, upper right-hand corner, is a plot of the pressure down the centerline of the vehicle. These values are used to compare with wind tunnel tests as a validation/verification exercise.
This figure shows the detail of the ICEM CFD - RAVEN computation. All the relevant features have been adequately resolved including all of the exterior surfaces, rear suspension, rear oil cooler and accompanying ductwork, brake rotors, air-jacks, rear-suspension assembly, front suspension assembly, radiatorsimulation and inlet/exit ductwork for radiator, and brake cooling ducts.
This CFD plot shows the streamlines (color coded by normalized pressure) flowing through the radiator. The flow was largely separated, thus indicating room for radiator efficiency improvements by re-shaping the inlet ducts.
This image shows the surface mesh from ANSYS ICEM CFD used for the Raven solver calculations. There is a very high level of fidelity in this grid.
It's not just how fast you go that makes winners in race car design, it's also how fast you go around the curves. In large part, that is a function of how much "downforce" is created by air flowing over the car's surfaces.
Thus much of the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis of race cars has to do with making sure the airflow pushes down on the car as it does with how smoothly the car slips through the air. Top-end speed is often limited by a particular racing series "sanctioning bodies." Their highly detailed rules are ultimately framed by a countervailing force of nature, the tolerance for risk in the insurance companies that underwrite race coverage.
One of the leaders in racecar CFD is Aletheon Technologies LLC, since early 2002 a unit Pratt & Miller Engineering, New Hudson, Michigan. Pratt & Miller designs, develops, builds, races "all the way from a blank sheet of paper to the victory circle" for General Motors, Ford and DaimlerChrysler, among many others. Formerly known as BRD Motorsports, Aletheon is based in Mooresville, North Carolina.
At Aletheon much of this work is done by Dr. David F. Robinson, an alumnus of the Department of Defense in-house programs in CFD and its technological first cousin, finite element analysis (FEA). A major benefit: Cutting down on high-cost physical testing in wind tunnels and on race tracks.
Modeling for CFD and FEA really differ in just one major respect and that is CFD's need to model the layer of surface flow that is as thin as 0.000l inch. But with all the vortexes and friction, this flow is so complex-over 30 million points if an entire race car is modeled*-that solving it needs the equivalent of computing's race track, a supercomputer.
"At the current state of development for CFD, the more points the better," Dr. Robinson observed. "Computationally speaking, what happens with each element effects all of its neighbors and, in fact, everything else in the model. Dr. Robinson has built his own supercomputer, nicknamed Hannibal.
He also built his own solver, Raven CFD, soon to be marketed by Aletheon.** This software was specifically designed to efficiently distribute and solve the CFD points, nearly 200,000 at a time, among his supercomputer's 210 CPUs.
For the remainder of his CFD work-tedious and time-consuming gridding and pre-processing-Robinson relies on ICEM-CFD from ANSYS Inc., Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, USA (NASDAQ: ANSS).
"The goal of our CFD analyses is not just reducing the drag, and hence improving the straight-away speed," Dr. Robinson pointed out. "In reality, we put most of our emphasis on improving downforce and making sure this downforce is balanced around the vehicle CG," or center of gravity. He emphasized that "distribution of both drag and downforce around the CG is often times as important, if not more so, than the magnitude of these values."
"The aerodynamic performance envelope for any given race series is strictly controlled by that race's sanctioning body," he added. "We use ICEM to expand this envelope."
"The main reason we model the entire car all at once instead of a single component at a time, is due to the coupled nature of the solution," he pointed out. "Since the flow is subsonic, information can propagate in all directions. This means changes in the rear-wing can, and do, have strong influence on the aerodynamics of the front of the vehicle. Therefore, you cannot do an analysis of the wing independent of the other components.
"Software and hardware limitations makes this type of fully-coupled analysis infeasible for most race teams," he continued. "We do full-design iterations of the entire vehicle. Most racing outfits can manage at most a small number of full-scale CFD runs, often only one or two. At Aletheon, we will run in excess of a hundred full-scale CFD runs in 2003 alone."
"For example," he said, "radiator air flows are modeled to make them more efficient and thus smaller. That affects the car's CG [center of gravity], which in turn affects cornering and overall handling. We can put the weight we saved in the radiator somewhere else closer to the CG."
Modeling virtually every surface in a race car is what generates the enormous files. A rule of thumb in solving models of this complexity is that every million data points requires a gigabit of random access memory (RAM), also known as "core" memory, hence the supercomputer. In mid-2003, Aletheon upgraded that machine with 70 additional CPUs, Intel Corp.'s workhorse Xeon processors.
"All this," he pointed out, "is to deal with a layer of air turbulence thinner one one-hundredth of an inch." Dr. Robinson estimates that Aletheon has about $250,000 invested so far in its Mooresville machine. "That's about a factor of fifty cheaper" than the multimillion-dollar proprietary Cray and SGI supercomputers he worked with in the Defense Dept. The peripheral machines are far less costly, too. For compatibility, the SGI supercomputers required using a several SGI workstations that cost $50,000 to $60,000 apiece. "Now we use Dells that cost $6,000 or $7,000."
The raw speed of its tetrahedrons, "twice if not three times as fast as anything we had before to generate those meshes."
Geometry tolerance, for ignoring gaps and overlaps. "ICEM is a top-down modeler, whereas the vast majority of the others are bottom-up," Dr. Robinson noted. "ICEM starts by putting a tetrahedral volume around the object you are modeling and then subdivides and re-subdivides the grid until you are done. If there is a hole or an overlap in the geometry, it will be ignored. Bottom-up models require trimming all surfaces together and then laying hundreds of thousands of tiny triangles over these surfaces and marching them outward. If there is a hole or an overlap in the geometry, it has to be fixed." That means going back to the CAD or solid modeler, then re-importing the repaired geometry. "I'd say this top-down approach is ninety-nine percent of the benefit in using ICEM."
Handy shortcuts for starting a new model include shell or batch surface gridding. This handy short cut typically takes 20 minutes instead of 90 with a full-volumetric grid. "It's a good way to determine how many points will be needed to accurately represent a curved surface."
Merging tetrahedrons to tetrahedrons. In its analyses, Aletheon often splits a car model into front, center and rear sections to speed up the full-car gridding process. "Tet to tet" gridding allows the model to be easily reassembled without having to continually perform redundant gridding on components that haven't been modified.
The speed and power of ICEM also lets Aletheon build better models. "ICEM lets us model directly on the CAD data rather than rebuilding the geometry model in the pre-processor," Dr. Robinson said. "You get an accurate representation rather than an approximation. Human error is eliminated along with inaccurate interpolations for lofted curves. And ICEM helps use make sure we have all the right elements in all the right places."
Aletheon builds geometry files from data supplied by customers, usually in Unigraphics or CATIA formats, and in-house modeling, usually in Rhino3D. These files are translated with IGES or STEP into SolidWorks and from there by direct translator into ICEM.
"The direct translator for SolidWorks makes ICEM very easy to use," he said. The anticipated addition of a direct STEP translator in ICEM CFD Version 4.3 "will probably let us eliminate the SolidWorks intermediate step," he added.
"With ICEM and the Raven solver, we can do a full suite of CFD runs-dozens of cases-for a racing program for $150,000 to $250,000," Dr. Robinson pointed out. "The people who buy and use supercomputers need annual budgets of $5 million to $20 million. That pretty much limits the market to the big money, Formula One racing teams and research labs runs by the federal government."
In addition to savings in hardware costs, Aletheon Technologies has realized significant software cost savings by developing its own CFD solver, Raven. "One of the widely used commercial CFD solvers recently was quoted to us at a quarter of a millions dollars a year per user," he noted. At this level, it makes it difficult to be cost competitive with either track or wind tunnel testing. It prices CFD out of the reach of all but the most highly funded race teams.
"Having our own in house solver does more than save us money up-front," he continued. "We also have complete control over the future development of the tool. We are specifically tuning the Raven code to improve performance for racing applications. For example, in addition to the racing applications, Aletheon Technologies has a number of contracts with the DOD. Specific capabilities were required for this work and having our own in-house code allows us to tailor the code for these unique needs." The ANSYS ICEM CFD organization has already written a direct translator for the Raven solver.
The Raven software does not, of course, do everything that general-purpose commercial CFD solvers can do-combustion, multi-phase and particulates to name three big ones. But to Dr. Robinson, that is beside the point. "The commercial packages that supposedly do all the CFD analyses don't really do any of them very well," he said. "By specifically tuning our tool for a particular problem, efficiencies can obviously be obtained over existing solvers. We are staying away from the one-size fits all approach to code development, and focusing instead on a small niche in the market."
In addition, Raven was designed from the ground up to be highly scalable. "We have found that it scales up better than linearly, one for one, in speed per additional processor. On 100 CPUs, it's more than 100 times faster than on a single processor. On 200 CPUs, it's more than 200 times faster. We tested it up to a thousand CPUs and performance stayed better than linear." In the computer hardware business, this is called "superlinear scalability," he pointed out. "Everyone strives for it. Not everyone gets it."
Aletheon's analyses are used mainly to cut down on wind tunnel tests and building and testing prototypes. "Just to build a one-half scale model and all of the test parts needed for a year of wind tunnel tests might cost upwards of $500,000," said Dr. Robinson. "Rent for a wind tunnel for one day can be north of $20,000. On top of that you still need to bring in half a dozen test engineers" to set up, monitor and interpret the results.
"Wind tunnel tests give you the total drag, the drag of the airflow over the entire vehicle and the total downforce," he noted. "This does not accurately simulate a race car's operating environment unless you also model the physics of the road rolling under the car. To do this, a 'rolling-road' wind tunnel must be used." In addition, to the global vehicle data provided by a wind-tunnel, CFD also provides the drag and downforce of every single component, even the left rear tail-light, if you need that information.
"Each CFD run may take several days, but you get significantly more data from each run," Dr. Robinson pointed out. "The entire flowfield is captured and can be viewed using a post-processing tool. With wind-tunnel testing's global data results, this can't be done very effectively.
Starting the design process using CFD lets Aletheon learn enough about the problem to put bounds around the amount of additional testing that will be required. "We use CFD to narrow our choices to only those that have the highest likelihood of improving the performance of the vehicle," he continued. "We choose maybe five to ten parts to test in the wind tunnel and optimize their design. After that, we might have just two or three things to test on the track with a prototype racer. Building a prototype car costs $400,000 to $600,000," Dr. Robinson noted. "Testing it means a lot of other costs" such as renting a track, expert personnel, travel, insurance, etc.
"In the 'old' days with the Navy's Cray and SGI systems, a big aerospace problem would take three to six months to model and grid and two weeks to a month to solve," he recalled. "Even then we could only do individual components because the models were so big. In designing and engineering a racecar, breaking up a big model into components just won't work. Too many things affect too many other things. For example, the rear wing design and downforce has a big influence on what you do with the under-wing at the front of the car."
Moreover, CFD analyses can be carried on while the car is being designed, long before any metal is cut or components assembled.
One thing not done with ICEM CFD or the Raven solver is optimizing the design of the entire racecar. "That's because of the complexity and interactions of the design rules laid down by the sanctioning body*** for the races," Dr. Robinson noted. "Design optimization really only works when there are at most a handful of rules to accommodate, things like overall size or mass or simple volume constraints rather than exactly what it looks like and how it has to work.
"Racing rules are very detailed," he explained, "very constraining on the design and, worst of all, very subjective. The vehicle shapes mandated by the rules are often too subjective for an optimization approach. Often the vehicle has to 'look' like the production vehicle upon which it was based. This is a difficult, if not impossible constraint to impose on an optimization tool. Optimization and verification possibly could be done on a wing, something that fits into a definable design envelope; but not for the whole car. The current state of the art doesn't allow for the removal of the human interaction from the design process. At least not yet.
On the other hand, Dr. Robinson said that the ICEM CFD claim of "turning bricklayers into sculptors" is true at Aletheon. He adds: "Nobody else does the kind of design optimization and parametric studies that we do. They don't have the capabilities or staff expertise with modeling, gridding and solvers."
CFD starts with an accurate CAD model and generating a discrete computational domain of points representing the geometry and the surrounding fluid.
For each point, there is a set of partial differential equations to be solved. They represent the thermodynamic laws of conservation for mass, momentum and energy. The equations enforce the physical laws that state that mass, momentum, and energy cannot be created or destroyed. But they can be transported and exchanged for one another.
At every point within the domain, there are state variables-density, pressure, the three components of velocity, and temperature-to which appropriate boundary conditions are applied.
Because the solution is discrete, the accuracy of the result varies directly with the number of cells in the computation.
Aletheon Technologies and its Aletheon Aero division, Mooresville, North Carolina, perform analyses for race car aerodynamics performance. Moreover, thanks to the extensive use of high-fidelity computational fluid dynamics (CFD) pre-processors, post-processors and solvers running on state of the art computer hardware, these aero performances meet or exceed targets required by Aletheon's race team customers.
The entire initial development of these vehicles is done using a virtual design process. This approach entailed applying a state of the art CAD and CFD. An experimental approach may not be feasible during the initial design cycle. There may be no race vehicle to evaluate in a wind tunnel or on a track. Building such a test vehicle with its many iterations and suite of test parts may be too costly and slow.
Moreover, with today's virtual design techniques, the initial prototype vehicle is much closer to an optimal design than previously. This compresses the race team's critical timeframe from prototype construction to first race. Also, by starting with a highly developed prototype, a large portion of the initial track/tunnel testing can be eliminated. This saves hundreds of thousands of dollars cam be saved in initial testing, not to mention running out of time.
The computational approach to the aerodynamic analysis also provides a better understanding of the complete flowfield surrounding the vehicle. This leads to more intelligent wind tunnel/track testing, reduces the required number of test parts, and makes for a more productive and less costly development cycle.
Moreover, virtual design with CFD and CAD can be undertaken in parallel with the building of the prototype vehicle, rather than waiting till it's built to start testing. This allows the race team to determine the vehicle competitiveness with others in its class prior to completing the vehicle. This also generates qualifying data required by the race's sanctioning body.
The process begins with an accurate CAD and generating a CFD domain of the vehicle's geometry and the surrounding fluid volume, i.e., air.
The resulting data includes the complete set of state variables (density, pressure, temperature, X/Y/Z velocity components) and a number of integrated aerodynamic values such as skin friction, forces, moments, etc. This is a huge amount of data and Aletheon offers it to customers in spreadsheets. Among many other things, the spreadsheets cover aerodynamic efficiency (the Lift to Drag ratio) and the percentage front/rear down-force, as well as the global force and moment values.
Components include wheel flares, modified body work, rocker panels, cockpit, rear-wing, exhaust pipes, radiator duct work and a radiator flow-through. And because the analysis is still virtual, sanctioning body rules changes are easily accommodated.
* In CFD terminology, "points" corresponds to what FEA users call degrees of freedom. CFD gridding corresponds to FEA meshing. The 30 million points accounts for the entire car. If yawing is not a factor in a given analysis, the car can be sliced lengthwise and model held to 15 million points. Most other Aletheon models are far smaller, in the range of 250,000 to 300,000 points. Aletheon models with a volumetric hexahedron, a brick or a pyramid, and integrates the solution around it.
** The business of CFD differs from that of FEA in an important respect. Processing and meshing tools come from one set of software vendors, among which long-time technology leader ICEM was a pioneer. Solvers come from other firms that typically rent them under six-figure annual license agreements. This is changing, however, as the early-2003 acquisition by of CFX (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada) by ANSYS indicates.
*** The Sports Car Club of America (SCCA), Formula One Racing, CART and so on.


The Salecom range of high-quality panel mounting Miniature Toggle Switches available from JPR Electronics find many applications in industrial, commercial, telecoms, test, aerospace instrumentation, medical equipment, networking products and consumer goods.
The Miniature Toggle Switches have a 10.41mm actuator length and are available in SPST and DPDT versions with contact forms including on-off, on-on and on-off-on. Momentary action biased versions are also offered.
Key specifications of the T80-T series include, rated to 5A 120VAC/28VDC 2A 240VAC, operating temperature range -30C to +85C, contact resistance <10mOhm (maximum initial), electrical life 50,000 make/break cycles at full load, body material DAP, contact material silver plated, panel cut out 6.35mm, are UL approved and RoHS compliant. "Salecom is a major manufacturer of switch products whom JPR have represented for nearly 30 years." Comments Paul Raynor, director of JPR Electronics," Their business is based on innovation and customer satisfaction making them an ideal partner for our customers. With over 1,000 different permutations of switch available we are confident that we can provide our customers with exactly the right switch for their application."


Once again, Moratorium Now/MECAWI and Workers World Party will be marching in the annual LGBTQ Motor City Pride Parade. To join contingent in the Parade, gather at 10:30 am on Sunday, June 8, at Fort and Griswold and look for our banners.
We will also have a literature table at the Pride festival at Hart Plaza. Table slots are 1:00-3:00, 3:00-5:00 and 5:00-7:00 on Saturday, June 7 and 12:00-2:00, 2:00-4:00 and 4:00-6:00 Sunday, June 8.
Please email Martha Grevatt, grevatt.m@gmail.com, if you can join our contingent in the parade and/or take a two hour slot at our literature table.


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What to expect in the Israeli tech industry
The Israeli start-up and tech scene have been a hub for innovation and growth. However, the tech scene is at a time of flux and change. The major sectors to watch out for in the Israeli tech include innovations in blockchain, AI, medical cannabis and advanced manufacturing.
In terms of what's in store for Israeli in 2019, "The main difference between 2018 and 2019 will be the sectors of interest to investors", says Haggai Ravid, CEO of investment firm Cukierman & Co. based in Tel Aviv. "We believe certain sectors will go out of vogue and other sectors will become trendy. For instance, the hype around crypto and digital could be replaced by the cannabis trend. Deep-tech, cybersecurity and fintech are big in Israel too."
For the past fifty or so years, USA has been the primary source of investment for companies in Israel. In 2019, it is likely USA will maintain this status. However, USA seems to have a growing interest in M&A or merger and acquisitions. In terms of how this plays out in the market, the USA is likely to have an increased focus on mature companies.
Another key trend is Israel's growing interest in the far east. Israeli entrepreneurs have increasingly been turning towards markets in Asia, including Japan, China, Singapore and Hong Kong. The sources of funds for Israeli companies is on the road to diversification in 2019 as European countries continue to focus on recovering from economic issues.
It's hard to talk about trends in investment without talking about China. Jack Ma, the Founder of the Chinese e-commerce giant, made two trips to Israel in 2018, highlighting the growing importance of Israel-China economic relations. At an Innovation Summit in Tel Aviv in 2019, Ma said, "In Israel innovation is everywhere, like water and food, it's so natural."
Since 2014, overall Chinese investment in Israeli venture capital funds has gone down. However, according to IVC Research Center, a Tel Aviv-based company, investment activity in Israeli tech start-ups, especially in the field of life-sciences and software, has increased in the past two years. If you look at the numbers, six of the 17 largest funding deals in Israel were funded by Chinese investors in 2018.
In terms of trends for 2019, Israel might be the country to step up as the trade bridge between China and the US with the ongoing trade war. As a result, Chinese investors could look towards Israel for further funding and investment opportunities.
With an increasing interest in emerging markets, 2019 might also be the year the Israeli tech and start-up sector ramps up its ties with Africa and Latin America. The demand for Israeli agri-tech and cleantech technologies has been on the rise in Latin American countries.
According to Ravid, "The close tie between Israel and Brazil is expected to encourage investment in Israeli high-tech, and early initiatives in the field are already gaining momentum."
While it's impossible to accurately predict how 2019 will pan out for the Israeli tech sector, there seem to be many opportunities ahead for Israeli companies looking to expand its horizons.
Leading PR firms in the United States for Israeli companies are 5WPR and KCSA Communications.
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul (2017) full movie online free megashare: Greg convinces his family to take a road trip to attend his great grandmother's 90th birthday as a cover for what he really wants: to attend a nearby gamer convention. Unsurprisingly, things do not go according to plan and Heffley family antics ensue. Смотреть фильм Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul (2017) онлайн на английском языке.


This article will describe how to create ZFS storage pool and share storage via NFS/SMB.
zfsutils-linux is a ZFS userland tools.
zfs.ko is ZFS device driver.
Create storage pool with using /dev/vdb and naming tank.
Now you can use /tank as ZFS file system.
Instal NFS server. No need to edit /etc/exports and run exportfs.
Now share storage pool via NFS.
Below command will provide writable storage to 192.168.11.0/24 network.
NFS mount from 192.168.0.24 network.
IP address of server running ZFS storage pool is 192.168.11.67.
In the case of SMB, it needs to edit /etc/samba/smb.conf.
This article will disable guest access and allow user which is added by pdbedit.
/var/lib/samba/usershares is created by zfs command.
Share storage pool via SMB with zfs command.
User can only read to /tank because of /tank permission.
If you need to write /tank, please chmod /tank.
Access \\ubuntu-16.04-zfs.hiroom2.com\tank from windows machine and display username/password dialog.
ubuntu-16.04-zfs.hiroom2.com is name of server running ZFS storage pool.


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Developer Tools, Text Editors, Windows
Geany for PC is a free and open-source IDE developed by Geany Author for Microsoft Windows. It's also an excellent customization app, and it's also simple to add plug-ins. It also guarantees that consumers get what they need from the software. With Geany, you have the flexibility to install themes and plugins to suit you as a programmer or encoder. But, you need time to use Geany and set aside time to build your own workflow through Geany, install plugins, themes and customize everything, after you're done, everything else is simple.
Author: Geany
File Name: Geany for Windows 32 and 64 bit setup
Geany Overview
Geany is a powerful, stable, and lightweight programmer's text editor that designed to have short lead times. The application supports more than 50 programming languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, PHP, HTML, LaTeX, CSS, Python, Perl, Ruby, Pascal, Haskell, Erlang, Vala, and many more. This application is an all-rounder editor, it has simple UI, extensibility, and good community support. Geany offers users customization, so you can edit what you want and the fonts you want the editor to use.
The best thing which I like about this text editor is that you can use it for developing many applications. As a text editor, Geany has a wide array of open-source packages which helped me in developing the application better way by installing it. It also has very good support of the version control system and supports many plugins which helped users to the developed application. There are tons of plugins available in Geany, literally, you will have a plugin for everything you need.
Geany is a great text editor for being a free and open-source project. I would recommend trying it, you may like it, it all depends on personal preference. Overall, Geany is one of the best source code editor or IDE with a lot of features which are free.
Features of Geany for PC
Free, open-source, and powerful IDE or Text Editor software
Code completion
Auto-completion of often-used constructs like if, for, and while
Auto completion of XML and HTML tags
Call tips
Many supported filetypes like C, Java, PHP, HTML, Python, Perl, Pascal
Symbol lists
Embedded terminal emulation
Extensibility through plugins
Video Graphics: Intel GMA Graphics or AMD equivalent
All programs and games not hosted on our site. If you own the copyrights is listed on our website and you want to remove it, please contact us. Geany is licensed as freeware or free, for Windows 32 bit and 64 bit operating system without restriction.
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Tag: Film and Television Business
Awards Season, Film Festivals, Films
Interview With Director Marianne Farley: Marguerite is tragic and beautiful but so human
Marguerite is an important film that we ALL need to see, especially in today's society. We had the opportunity to talk to the highly skilled director Marianne Farley whose film is eligible to be considered for an Oscar about what inspired her to become a director, the challenges she faced whilst filming Marguerite and why it is important for society to watch Marguerite. Hello, I … Continue reading Interview With Director Marianne Farley: Marguerite is tragic and beautiful but so human
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Awards Season, Films
Interview With Lorenz Wunderle: "I wanted to show the difference between animal and human abilities"
We had the opportunity to talk to Lorenz Wunderle, the director of Coyote, whose film is eligible to be considered for a 2019 Oscar. Where did this idea come from? So my interest was to create a character that was getting pushed aggressively into a corner, that he only could break out with violence. So his violent action in the story would be a cathartic … Continue reading Interview With Lorenz Wunderle: "I wanted to show the difference between animal and human abilities"
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Awards Season, Film Review, Films
Interview With Director Marcus Markou: Racism creates a judgment on someone's entire life based on their skin tone, it is ludicrous!
Two Strangers Who Meet Five Times is an eye-opening film that addresses racism and homelessness in London in 2018. Not only is this an award-winning film but also this film is eligible to be considered for a 2019 Academy Award. Film and Television Business had the pleasure of interviewing director Marcus Markou. Our interview consisted of a variety of questions such as what inspired him … Continue reading Interview With Director Marcus Markou: Racism creates a judgment on someone's entire life based on their skin tone, it is ludicrous!
Sacred Hair: An Important Topical Story
Growing up, we are taught that you shouldn't judge someone or have a certain perception of someone even before you have had the chance to meet and communicate with them. This beautiful award-winning film by the talented director Mario Morin shows light of that and shows that in fact, sometimes we have more in common with people that we don't know. You are introduced to … Continue reading Sacred Hair: An Important Topical Story
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Two Balloons: The Ultimate Love Story
When was the last time you watched a film that made you feel at peace? Had you smiling from ear-to-ear HOURS after the film has finished? Film and Television Business has two words for you: Two Balloons! Two Balloons which was directed by the incredibly talented Mark Smith tells the most beautiful love story between two lemurs who will stop at nothing to be together, … Continue reading Two Balloons: The Ultimate Love Story
The Overcoat: Perfect Adapation of Nikolai Gogol's short story
The award-winning film The Overcoat which was directed by Patrick Myles and produced by Kate Turner is based on the adaption of the short story written by the well-known Ukraine-born Russian writer Nikolai Gogol. The Overcoat tells a story about a man called Christopher Clobber who is a proofreader in a certain government department where he is hardly noticed by anyone. He is a man who … Continue reading The Overcoat: Perfect Adapation of Nikolai Gogol's short story
Josza Anjembe's 'French' : An amazing film with an important message
Josza Anjembe's latest short French (Le bleu blanc rouge de mes Cheveux) tells a very courageous tale about a Cameroonian teenager girl who resides in France with her family. Due to her passion for France and her inspirations of studying politics, she aspires for one thing: getting her French Nationality. But her decision to do so may jeopardize her close relationship with her father, who … Continue reading Josza Anjembe's 'French' : An amazing film with an important message


Although these are not Kettle Cooked Chips, they did have a superior crunch for a crispy thin Potato Chip. A handful did not instantly turn to mush once it was popped in the mouth, like some Chips do.
Regular looking Chips, with some broken and oil bubble crushed bag constituents. There was a heavy brownish red dusting over the Chips which soaked up most of the visible oil, leaving a nice powdery finger residue.
The Nose Plunge test revealed a nice sticky, barbecue aroma. Unfortunately this wasn't followed by a taste of similar standards. It was a salty, sweet barbecue flavor taste, but it was mild. There was no heat, just a fairly weak, but easily munchable flavor.


A was file extension is related to the ProComm and used for its source script.
What is was file? How to open was files?
The was file extension is associated with the ProComm software.
Procomm Plus for Windows is venerable communications software program. Created by Symantec. No longer supported.
The was file stores source script.
This was file type entry was marked as obsolete and no longer supported file format.
As far as we know, this .was file type can't be converted to any other file format. This is usually the case of system, configuration, temporary, or data files containing data exclusive to only one software and used for its own purposes. Also some proprietary or closed file formats cannot be converted to more common file types in order to protect the intellectual property of the developer, which is for example the case of some DRM-protected multimedia files.
and possible program actions that can be done with the file: like open was file, edit was file, convert was file, view was file, play was file etc. (if exist software for corresponding action in File-Extensions.org's database).
Click on the tab below to simply browse between the application actions, to quickly get a list of recommended software, which is able to perform the specified software action, such as opening, editing or converting was files.
Programs supporting the exension was on the main platforms Windows, Mac, Linux or mobile. Click on the link to get more information about Procomm Plus for create was file action.
Click on the software link for more information about Procomm Plus. Procomm Plus uses was file type for its internal purposes and/or also by different way than common edit or open file actions (eg. to install/execute/support an application itself, to store application or user data, configure program etc.).


McLeod by Raybestos introduces frictions and steels for the 10R80 transmission. These clutch kits are available to customers who want to increase their holding capacity, but not overhaul their complete transmissions.
Complete 10r80 Automatic Friction Plate and Steel Kit to rebuild your 10R80 transmission.
Team Beefcake Racing has paved the way with testing and development of the 6r80 transmission parts which now pilot the quickest street cars on the road. That tradition continues with new 10r80 transmission.
These clutch and steel packs can be installed by any competent transmission mechanic, or feel free to send us your transmission to be rebuilt!


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"Ghost in the Machine" is the seventh episode of the first season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files, premiering on the Fox network on October 29, 1993. It was written by Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa, and directed by Jerrold Freedman. The episode featured guest appearances by Wayne Duvall and Rob LaBelle, and saw Jerry Hardin reprise his role as Deep Throat for the first time since the character's introduction. The episode is a "Monster-of-the-Week" story, unconnected to the series' wider mythology. "Ghost in the Machine" earned a Nielsen household rating of 5.9, being watched by 5.6 million households in its initial broadcast, and received mixed reviews from critics.

The show centers on FBI agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) who work on cases linked to the paranormal, called X-Files. In this episode, Mulder is asked by his old partner from the Behavioral Analysis Unit to aid an investigation into a murder at a software company. Soon, he and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) uncover a malevolent artificial intelligence which has started killing to protect itself.

Writers Gordon and Gansa have admitted they were "not computer literate" and felt this was a detriment to their writing. The scenes set at the software company Eurisko were filmed at the Metrotower complex in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, a building used by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. The location was barely big enough for the actors to perform in after the crew had finished setting up the necessary equipment. Mulder and Scully would once again face a malevolent AI in the William Gibson-penned fifth season episode "Kill Switch".

Plot
In the Crystal City, Virginia, headquarters of the software company Eurisko, founder Brad Wilczek and chief executive officer Benjamin Drake argue about downsizing measures. After Wilczek leaves, Drake writes a memo proposing to shut down the Central Operating System (COS), a computer which runs the Eurisko Building. Seeing this through a surveillance camera, the COS sets up a trap and lures Drake into a bathroom, locking the door behind him. Drake tries to use his keycard to open it, but it rejects the card. When he inserts a manual override key, he is fatally electrocuted.

FBI Agent Jerry Lamana, Fox Mulder's former partner in the Behavioral Analysis Unit, approaches him and Dana Scully for help in investigating Drake's murder. On their way up to Drake's office, the agents' elevator stalls, causing Scully to call the front desk for help; as she identifies herself, the COS records her contact information before reactivating the elevator. While examining the crime scene, the agents meet Claude Peterson, the Eurisko Building's systems engineer. Later, Lamana steals Mulder's profile of the supposed killer and presents it under his name; an outraged Mulder confronts him afterwards.

Mulder and Scully question Wilczek, who denies any involvement in the murder. Scully initially doubts Wilczek's involvement but finds that his voice matches a speaking clock Drake received before his death; Lamana sets out to arrest him. Meanwhile, Wilczek fails to access the COS from his home computer. Concerned, he travels to the Eurisko Building, followed by Lamana. There, he is still unable to access the COS, but discovers that it has learned to talk. Lamana arrives but is killed when the COS causes his elevator to crash.

Mulder meets with Deep Throat, who explains that the COS is an artificial intelligence developed by Wilczek, and that the Department of Defense is trying to acquire it. Mulder also meets with Wilczek, who has falsely confessed to Lamana's murder. Mulder convinces Wilczek to develop a computer virus that can destroy the COS. Scully doesn't accept Mulder's belief that the COS is sentient, but later discovers the machine hacking into her computer. She joins Mulder at the Eurisko Building to help him destroy the machine.

The COS hinders the agents as they make their way inside. When it shuts down the building's power, Scully climbs through the air vents and is almost pulled into a giant fan, but manages to destroy it. Meanwhile, Mulder is permitted into the COS' control room by Peterson. However, Peterson reveals himself as a mole for the Defense Department and tries to stop Mulder uploading the virus. Scully arrives and holds Peterson at gunpoint, allowing Mulder to upload the virus and destroy the COS.

Mulder again meets with Deep Throat, who explains that Wilczek is being detained by the government at an undisclosed location. When Mulder asks if the COS survived, Deep Throat assures him the virus left no trace of the program and that scientists from the Defense Department examined the machine to no success. At the Eurisko Building, Peterson directs a team attempting to recover the COS, but is told by his superiors to destroy the machine in six hours. Unbeknownst to Peterson, the COS comes back to life and watches as he says to himself, "I'm going to figure this thing out if it kills me".

Production
The scenes set at Eurisko were filmed in the Metrotower complex in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, a building used by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. The location was barely big enough for the actors to perform in after the crew had finished setting up the necessary equipment. The scene with Scully shooting the fan in the air shaft was a last minute change to the script, replacing an elevator shaft sequence that was deemed too expensive. The episode's title is taken from the title of the book The Ghost in the Machine by Arthur Koestler. The COS and its actions in the episode are an homage to 2001: A Space Odyssey's HAL 9000, who—due to conflicted programming—also became confused and killed people. Mulder and Scully would once again face a malevolent AI in the William Gibson-penned fifth season episode "Kill Switch".

Writers Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa have admitted they were "not computer literate" and felt this was a detriment to their writing. Gordon was disappointed in the episode, stating that it "still qualifies as one of my biggest disappointments", ranking it as the worst episode of the first season. Glen Morgan felt that "parts of the episode worked. What maybe fell a little flat is that we were a little too afraid of doing HAL and, in a sense, I think that's what the building needed; to have a scary personality." James Wong had mixed feelings, saying that the episode "had some neat stuff at the end ... although I think the ending was a little unsatisfying to me visually, as well as in terms of how Mulder comes to dismember the machine. Overall a fun episode." Chris Carter was more supportive of the episode, stating that the script addressed the question of what made up an X-File, and that it doesn't always have to be paranormal. He also felt positive about the episode's action scenes.

Broadcast and reception

"Ghost in the Machine" premiered on the Fox network on October 29, 1993, and was first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC Two on November 3, 1994. Following its initial American broadcast, the episode earned a Nielsen household rating of 5.9, with an 11 share—meaning that roughly 5.9 percent of all television-equipped households, and 11 percent of households watching television, were tuned in to the episode. It was viewed by 5.6 million households.

In a retrospective of the first season in Entertainment Weekly, "Ghost in the Machine" was rated a D+. The episode's premise and the COS system were described as "unacknowledged 2001 rip-offs", while the presence of Deep Throat was called "gratuitous"; with both cited, along with an "absence of humor", as the episode's main detractions. Keith Phipps, writing for The A.V. Club, was more favourable to the episode, rating it a B−. He felt that the similarities to 2001: A Space Odyssey and Demon Seed were effective, adding, however, that although the plot worked well, it had dated poorly. Matt Haigh, writing for Den of Geek, reviewed the episode negatively, feeling that the plot was "formulaic", and that it "simply [has] not stood the test of time". However, Haigh felt that Deep Throat's appearance was a highlight of the episode, and praised Mark Snow's score as "extremely atmospheric". The plot for "Ghost in the Machine" was also adapted as a novel for young adults in 1997 by Les Martin.

The Guardian listed "Ghost in the Machine" as one of the "13 best X-Files episodes ever".

Footnotes

References

External links

"Ghost in the Machine" on The X-Files official website

Novelization

1993 American television episodes
Crystal City, Arlington, Virginia
Cyberpunk television episodes
Existential risk from artificial general intelligence
Northern Virginia in fiction
Television episodes about artificial intelligence
Television episodes set in Virginia
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The Purified: A Crime Fiction/Thriller Book set in Scotland
On April 12, 2022 By MCJIn Uncategorized
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The Purified is the sequel to Errant Blood by CF Peterson, set in the fictional highland village of Duncal. In it Eamon Ansgar, the local laird is looking into the deaths of two men newly moved to the village in a suspected homophobic attack. As Eamon investigates Peterson touches on many of societies contemporary issues, rewilding, divisive political figures, conversion therapy, and weaves them into what is a solid thriller plot.
However among the solid and fast moving plot there are pieces of lovely writing, and the characters of Mo, Solly and Quailm are beautifully drawn out. Seeing the Highlands through their eyes will be a delight for both those intimate with the area and those who have never been. Which is more of a feat than one would assume, as many writers, even those native to the Highlands can imbue their descriptions with a sense of twee kitsch and a paint by numbers version of what is a beautiful, but highly complex, part of the world. Writing the Highlands is easy, but writing the Highlands well, with a sensitivity to the land and it's deep history is a feat that only those with a unforced empathy can complete.
While there is much to like in The Purified it is let down by the fact that Peterson is not able to sustain this style throughout the book. Sure, this is understandable in action scenes, but characters who we spend a much longer time with such as Eamon, or Stevie, are not given the same amount of depth. Indeed our leading man Eamon becomes a bit of an empty vessel. It is unclear why exactly he feels it is his duty to investigate anything at all, and his motivation for anything remains a mystery. On top of this his recklessness is merely accepted by his wife who is stuck at home looking after an infant son and elderly mother, who despite being cast as a surely, sneering an overbearing thorn in the side, has a sudden emotional confession for what appears to be no reason at all, apart from to make a subsequent scene more poignant.
Mix this with action scenes that move, just a bit to fast for comfortable following, and the result is a narrative that holds much potential but lurches awkwardly between lyrical and thoughtful prose accompanied by wonderful characterisation, and wooden characters and a reading experience akin to watching hand held camera footage which is always slightly out of focus.
Peterson's ambition to write a thriller that can also be a lovely piece of writing is not a wrong one, it can and absolutely should be attempted, it's just that in the book he has not yet found the key to making it work – but I absolutely look forward to reading the book he writes when he unlocks this secret door.
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