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Two great auctions – one great cause Worldwide gears up for the historic Americana Festival Auction, with proceeds benefiting the J. Kruse Education Center
By brianJune 2, 2020June 8th, 2020No Comments
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Auburn, Indiana. June 2nd, 2020. Worldwide Auctioneers, responsible for the sale of some of the world's finest collector vehicles, is gearing up for a historic auction of one the most extensive curated offerings of authentic World War II artifacts, warbirds, vehicles, and militaria ever tendered in one place. Offered completely without reserve from the collections of the former National Military History Center and Hoosier Air Museum, it will sell alongside a selection of over 50 classic cars and an extensive assortment of fresh-to-market memorabilia at the Americana Festival Auction in Auburn, Indiana, on June 12th-13th. More than 1,500 lots are set to go under the hammer at no reserve during the two-day sale, with both live and online bidding available. Proceeds will benefit the J. Kruse Education Center, a dedicated 501(c)(3) organization providing career pathway development to veterans and students.
Among the many significant military offerings slated to sell at the Americana Festival Auction is a 1944 Dodge WC-57 Command Car, assigned to the 3rd Army motor pool during WWII and purpose-built for General Patton and his command. Also selling in Auburn are three outstanding vintage airplanes from the Hoosier Air Museum, including a 1946 Piper J-3 Cub used during World War II as the L-4 Grasshopper for reconnaissance, a 1944 Cessna UC-78 and a 1935 Speedbird, a one-off experimental aircraft with a two-seat, side-by-side arrangement.
They will be offered along with an extraordinary selection of authentic, museum-quality militaria from across the world, including uniforms, helmets, communication devices, flight suits and field kits, as well a range of rare personal mementos, each its own unique record of the time. "This entire offering presents both collectors and reenactors of global military history with a very significant and special opportunity," said John Kruse, Principal and Auctioneer. "Taking inventory of such a distinctive selection of militaria during our current crisis has also served as a fitting reminder to me that we have triumphed over enormous adversity before, and we will again."
Collectors and enthusiasts will also get the chance to bid over the weekend on a hand-picked selection of memorabilia, automobilia, petrolania, signs, advertising, toys, models and more, as well as an offering of over 50 great collector cars. The Americana Festival Auction is scheduled to run as both a live and simultaneous online event at Worldwide's Auburn headquarters. The auction is open to the public with in-person bidding and is also scheduled to run simultaneously on three online partner platforms, Proxibid, Invaluble and LiveAuctioneers. Absentee and telephone bidding is also available to pre-registered, qualified buyers. The Dodge WC-57 Command Car and vintage planes will sell during the Militaria segment from 11am on Saturday, June 13th, with collector cars going under the hammer at 3pm that day. All inventory and the full schedule are online at worldwideauctioneers.com, along with details on admission. Interested parties should call 260.925.6789 for further details or email sales@worldwideauctioneers.com. As always, auction lots are available for scheduled private previews, with safe social distancing and sanitation protocols in place. To register as a bidder, visit worldwideauctioneers.com/bidder-registration.
"As the first major auction company to open its doors to the public again, the safety and well-being of our clients, team and the wider community is paramount," said John Kruse. "We are committed to ensuring that everyone who joins us in person has an absolutely enjoyable, but ultimately safe experience." The sale will be conducted at Kruse Plaza, Worldwide's Auburn headquarters, with a dedicated implementation specialist directing all event and campus COVID-19 safety protocols, from on-site temperature checking and screening, to the provision of face coverings and promotion of social distancing through physical barriers and restrictions, with capacity limits strictly enforced according to state guidelines. Those planning to attend in person can review Worldwide's detailed COVID-19 policies online at worldwideauctioneers.com.
The event's main beneficiary is the J. Kruse Education Center, a dedicated 501(c)(3) organization providing career pathway development to veterans and students, creating an on-ramp that gives veterans a successful return to the workforce. Learn more about the mission and work of the J. Kruse Education Center here.
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I'm just trying out some ustream action today so if you have a chance to come watch and chat, that would be fantastic to get your feedback on this service. I'm not sure how much we'll be doing in the future, but it might become an integral part of BCCHardware.com . . . then again it might not.
Do you think that streaming media for mainstream users is what they are after? I enjoy streaming media, but am not sure if it's something that interests other users. Please post your thoughts in the Comments to this post. I'd like to hear your feedback – even if it's negative in this regard.
Are things like Youtube benefitting hardware sites and their readers? It's an interesting medium, but I don't believe I can convey the results of a product test through a 5 minute video and believe that the written word still has a lot of merit. I'd love to hear though if you think sites like 3DGameman has a great idea and if you gain enough product information from a short review.


The Chief Medical Officer's working group report states: "One of the most common and characteristic complaints of adults, particularly in the early stages of the illness, is of intolerance to both physical and mental exertion with delayed impact. So perhaps the key pointer to a diagnosis of CFS/ME is the way in which the symptoms behave after increased activity."
All 3 of the strata criteria for the PACE Trial include fatigue and the CDC criteria specifies fatigue, ''is not substantially alleviated by rest" and "post-exertional malaise lasting more than 24 hours", the latter being one of the multi-choice factors. There appears to be no specific mention of the delayed affects of effort which mean that people with ME/CFS might still be experiencing worsening of symptoms hours later and often cannot repeat an exercise the following day.
"When patients are made worse by GET (which is based on the flawed concept of deconditioning) this is not merely due to a problem with the way in which the therapy is delivered. Post-exertional malaise is a key diagnostic criterion for ME/CFS. Put simply, the illness worsens as a result of physical and mental effort. Advocating progressive exertion is to show a worrying lack of knowledge about the nature of the illness itself."
"Their results are both profound and disturbing. About half of the ME/CFS patients they've tested do, in fact, fail' or significantly under perform in the first single exercise test - they cannot generate normal amounts of energy even when they're 'rested'. It's the rest of the patients that are so intriguing, though. When you give these patients a second test a day later many of them will fail as well--and fail spectacularly."
"The amount of impairment the Lab see's can be astonishing - some patients suffer as much as a 50% drop in their ability to produce energy the next day. Ms. Stevens spoke of a twenty-something man whose next day exercise tests were worse that those of a normal 85 year old. In a hospital setting his cardiopulmonary exercise profile would suggest he had heart failure."
If the PACE Trial is not studying the delayed effects of effort which can be objectively measured and which seems to be quite specific to ME/CFS, it is a lost opportunity to gain information about the suitability of the therapies for particular patients according to their physiological response to activity.


West Hills Retirement Center is an assisted living community in the pleasantly warm climate of West Hills, CA. Located in the lively town of West Hills, residents have access to multiple nearby senior centers and a variety of delightful shopping locations. Gentle Pacific ocean breezes create a pleasant atmosphere year round.
West Hills provides a safe and healthy atmosphere for community residents. Devoted staff members cook, clean, provide laundry service, and even provide transportation to appointments at nearby medical and dental facilities. The goal at West Hills is for all residents to remain ambulatory while enjoying a comfortable and active lifestyle. To this end, residents receive daily care focused on maintaining optimal health, as well as monthly visits from caring and friendly physicians.
At West Hills, we endeavor to create a comfortable environment where seniors have the freedom to be active and mobile. We encourage our residents to explore the grounds, make new friends, and enjoy trips to local attractions in nearby Los Angeles. If you enjoy an active senior lifestyle, we hope you will join us some day.
The help is wonderful. The process was very easy.
I think the staff is really friendly. My loved one is happy here. The residents also seem happy. It's very clean. The staff is friendly. Everything has been going pretty good. Nice people.
Excellent! The Administrator is wonderful and he sets the tone. Warm, friendly and homey. They care about their residents and the people who work there have been there many years.


Many, many thanks to my WordPress family of authors and bloggers who brought some serious "noise" yesterday for the release of Free, a Novella.
This story was a simple online-short… okay, it was supposed to be. But who knew Lennie Porter, super-mom, super-daughter, and uber-businesswoman had so many issues?
But I gave her free reign and followed along.
Lennie, the introvert, had an audience.
When new elements and new characters entered the story line, I decided to publish the online-read as a novella, but since it wasn't a "new" story, I also decided to forego the bells and whistles of preorder/blogtour/blah, blah, blah, and opted for a quiet release.
My WordPress family and Twitterbuds (I just made that up) LIKED, blogged, reblogged, Tweeted and Re-Tweeted, and as my daddy would say, "Made a whole buncha' noise!"… and I felt like a rock star! WOOT! It's not about the sales and list rankings… but about the people who don't need to think twice about reaching to support.
Thanks to you all, this little story had a memorable release day!
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When Smoke Rains Down is Book Two in the Kingdom Come series. Book Three, the final installment, will be out Summer 2017.
Gabriel McCarthy came to Cedar Falls in an attempt to find his own way in this world. What he hadn't expected was to find friends who would stand by each other no matter who tried to get in their way—or a man he could easily see spending the rest of his life with.
Warning: A battle of wits ensues in Cedar Falls as the tension rises and the date for the mayoral race comes closer.


Raft1 is so much more than a rafting outfitter. We're a true adventure center in the southeast, providing more opportunities for fun, fellowship and excitement, all at steep discounts when bundled together for large groups.
These are some of the recreation opportunities your youth group can enjoy at Raft1. Mix and match rafting with any of these for the ultimate youth group adventure.
Raft1 developed the first true zip-line canopy tour in the southeast. Our expert guides bring safe, exciting experience to a whole new level, literally! Choose a zip-line and rafting package to experience both in the same day!
Raft1 is surrounded by miles of beautiful mountain-biking trails, from comfortable large group trips to demanding small group trails. You can get all the mountain bikes you need at Raft1, and all at a discount when you combine with a rafting expedition.
Horseback riding is a favorite activity for helping to get group leaders and their young people out in nature at a comfortable pace. Combine horseback riding excursions with whitewater rafting for an unforgettable day on the Ocoee river.
Raft1's newest recreation opportunity pits your youth group participants against a challenging and fun ropes course designed to test their coordination and determination. Plan your visit with us this coming summer and make sure to include a round on the ropes course in your package. Your team will love the group challenges and team building!
Reach out us directly at 1-888-RAFT-ONE to talk about what would make your Tennessee or Georgia youth group trip's experience complete at Raft1. We'll work up a package that fits your budget and your goals while sharing more fun, fellowship and excitement than any one-off local trip.
Why Choose Whitewater Rafting for Your Group?
Whitewater rafting is something most people don't do every day or even once in their lifetimes. Many of your youth group members have probably never been rafting before, and they may not get the opportunity again. It's an exhilarating, memorable experience that will make a big impression on the kids in your group. You'll get to relive the experience when you recall stories of that day.
When you head out for an afternoon or full day of whitewater rafting, everyone plays an important role in the experience. Your kids work together for a common goal, which makes the trip an effective team-building experience for your kids. The common activity can build trust within the group and help the kids learn about team dynamics. Some youth may emerge as leaders and develop their leadership skills while on the river.
Heading out on the river is a shared experience that your kids get to enjoy. It gives them a chance to bond over a common activity away from the pressures of school and everyday life.
They may learn to communicate better with one another and have a stronger connection as a group, which carries over to your normal group activities when you return home.
Learning new skills prepares youth for real life. Taking the kids whitewater rafting is a great way to take learning on the go in a real-world situation. You get to take that learning to a beautiful outdoor location where kids can have fun and relax.
Whitewater rafting gets kids out of their normal environment, so they can take in the beauty of nature. Kids who live in urban locations may not get much time away from bustling streets, buildings and concrete. This adventure helps them connect with nature in new ways.
Almost everyone can participate in whitewater rafting, if the minimum age of 12 is met, even without experience.
Kids don't need to know how to swim, and it's an inclusive activity that you can do as a group.
A whitewater rafting trip is a big undertaking when you're coordinating a group of kids, so planning early is key. Give yourself several months to ensure the trip goes smoothly. You'll need time to figure out the logistics, so you'll want those months to get the trip together. Don't be afraid to pull in other adults to take on some of the planning responsibilities.
Choosing a date early allows families to work the trip into their schedules. You'll likely need to have the families' complete paperwork for your records, so build in time to allow parents to return that information. It also gives you plenty of time to secure funding for the trip.
Booking early is also important to ensure you can reserve a date that works for your group. Contact us as soon as you have a date in mind, so we can work on customizing the trip and securing those reservations — especially if you're planning an overnight trip.
You also want time to prepare your youth group members for the trip. While you don't need experience to whitewater raft with us, it's a good idea to talk about the things the kids will experience.
Some kids may naturally get excited about any type of trip or experience you plan, while others may need a little nudging. Wherever your group members fall on the scale, you can help generate even more excitement in the weeks leading up to the trip.
Announce the Trip: Make information about the trip widely known to both the kids and their families. You might make a fun announcement while dressed in a wetsuit and holding an oar. Posting fliers, sending home literature, emailing parents and announcing the trip on social media accounts also helps raise awareness.
Continue Communication: Since you'll likely announce the trip months in advance, you'll want to continue communicating with the parents and kids. It's easy to forget about deadlines for things like youth group trips. By periodically reminding parents, you increase the chances of them sending their kids on the trip.
Schedule a Parent Meeting: No matter how responsible your group members are, they likely won't communicate all information about the trip to their parents. Schedule a separate meeting for the parents to ensure they have the details they need. This meeting also gives parents the chance to ask questions about the trip.
Let Kids Spread the Excitement: If you can get one or two influential members of the group to buy into the idea, they can take care of the rest. Those kids will talk about the trip to the other members and get everyone fired up to get on the river.
Build Excitement: Talking about the trip enthusiastically makes kids want to participate. Continue mentioning the trip when you meet with the kids. The pre-trip activities are also a good way to make the kids want to go.
Let the Kids Plan: Most youth group members are old enough to handle many of the planning tasks with a little guidance. Being involved throughout the process gives the kids ownership, which makes them more excited about the trip.
You specialize in working with youth, but you also need a bit of financial knowledge to budget for the activities you plan. That doesn't mean you need a degree in accounting to figure out the numbers for your whitewater rafting trip. You just need some time and information about the overall budget for the youth group.
Before you start planning the trip, look at your group's budget to see how much you have available for the trip. If you don't handle the budget yourself, check with the person who crunches the numbers to see what you have available. You likely have a designated category in the budget for trips or teambuilding activities under which whitewater rafting would fall.
Having an idea of the amount of money available helps you plan the details of the trip, such as how long to go, if you can make it an overnight trip, how many people can go and if you'll need to fundraise.
Calculating the cost of the trip involves more than simply knowing how much rafting costs per person. There are several extra expenses that go into the trip that you may not think about when you first start planning.
Get an estimate of how many people will go on the trip, both kids and adult chaperones, to make other decisions. For example, if you're taking a small group, you may be able to take a large van. If you have a large group, you may need a bus or several vans.
Vehicle: If your youth group already has a vehicle that will work, you won't have rental expenses. However, if you decide to rent a vehicle or charter a bus, you'll have added expenses to consider. You may also need to hire a driver even if your group has a bus you can use.
Gas: You'll also need to fuel up that vehicle, so estimate how many times you'll have to fill the tank based on the mileage from your location.
Food: Decide how you'll handle the food situation for the duration of the trip. We can cater meals for your youth group while you're here to make the experience easier.
Lodging: If you're planning an overnight trip, you'll also need to factor in the cost of overnight lodging. We have campsites and Bunkhouse Lodges to serve your overnight lodging needs.
You're going to have expenses associated with the trip, some that aren't negotiable, but you can save money in some areas if you're strategic. Specifically, you can customize your rafting experience to match your budget.
The number of people you bring on the trip is a factor in how much you'll pay. The more people you bring, the more expenses you have, but larger numbers can also benefit you financially. We offer group discounts, so bringing a larger group means you'll pay less per person.
Timing is another factor. Weekend and holiday rates are higher than weekday rates, so avoid those more expensive times if possible.
You have the option of half and full trips. If your youth group budget is limited, you might opt for the half-day trip to save money. If you have extra wiggle room in the budget, consider a full-day trip with or without an overnight experience.
The available budget for your youth group bank account is only one option for funding the trip. If your budget is tight, consider alternative funding options. You might ask each child who goes to pay a portion of the trip costs. Another option is holding fundraisers to cover the costs. Let the kids plan the fundraisers, so they can take ownership in paying their way to the whitewater rafting trip.
How long will you stay with your youth group? Our on-site lodging makes it possible to turn your trip into an overnight experience. This option gives kids more time in the wilderness with additional experiences like building a campfire, setting up a tent and cooking their own meals. An overnight experience also gives the kids a sense of empowerment by being away from home in an environment that may push them outside their comfort zones.
Good for local groups who can easily get to the river and back home.
When deciding between an afternoon and overnight trip, your primary considerations should be the kids and the budget. Younger kids may prefer an afternoon trip so they don't have to be away from home. Kids who have no experience outdoors may also feel better with a shorter day trip instead of camping outdoors.
Community Involvement: A whitewater rafting trip encourages a sense of community. It encourages kids to be active and participate in an exhilarating activity while learning more about the area.
Leadership: Success on the river requires cooperation to stay safe and achieve your goal of making it down the river. This success requires teamwork, but it also requires someone to take the lead to keep the team unified and working together. Our guides provide that leadership, but kids can also step up and take some leadership responsibilities on the trip.
Outdoor Skills: A trip down the river teaches your youth group participants outdoor skills they might not have, especially if they live in the city. They learn about respecting nature, being safe and how to interact with plants and wildlife. These skills help expand the kids' horizons and may be valuable in the future. Whitewater rafting can also encourage them to continue exploring nature and participate in other outdoor activities.
Camping Skills: If you opt for an overnight trip, the kids in your youth group gain valuable camping skills. They learn things like how to set up a tent, start a fire and cook outdoors.
Nature Observation: Whitewater rafting puts kids right in the middle of nature. They learn how to navigate nature safely while also enjoying the scenic background. Being in nature also fosters an appreciation for the world, which can encourage kids to take better care of our environment.
Social Skills: Whitewater rafting is a group activity, which means kids need to work together and communicate. They may need to support one another if they feel nervous.
Group Bonding: Your group will go through a unique experience that brings you closer together. Whitewater rafting is a great way to encourage group unity.
A whitewater rafting trip can be an educational experience for you as a youth leader, as well.
Experienced Guides: Our experienced guides make a day on the Ocoee safe for your youth group. We hire only the best guides who are professionals on the river. They know all the rapids by heart because they've been down them too many times to count. That experience is what keeps your group safe when you plan a whitewater rafting trip with us. Our seasoned guides will navigate your rafts down the river safely, so your group can focus on the thrill of meeting rapid after rapid on the Ocoee.
Safety of the Rapids: Whitewater rafting on the Ocoee isn't a slow, calm float down a river. You'll encounter many intense rapids, which add to the experience. Many of the rapids are considered class III and class IV rapids. They're challenging to maneuver, but remember — you have the best guides on the river helping your group through them. Additionally, the Ocoee uses dams to control the water levels.
Safe Equipment: A huge part of safety in any activity is quality equipment. We use durable rafts made of extremely tough materials to stand up to the rapids you'll encounter. Nine separate air compartments housed in an inner chamber remain safe from punctures so the raft stays inflated. The self-bailing design means you don't have to worry about the raft being overloaded with water from those crashing rapids.
No Experience Necessary: Whitewater rafting on the Ocoee requires zero experience. That doesn't mean the trip is easy, but that you can rely on the guides to tell you what to do every step of the way. Your guide knows just what you need to do and when. All your youth group members need to do is listen carefully and follow those instructions quickly, and they'll soon have their first whitewater rafting experience under their belt even if they've never encountered rapids prior to the trip.
Call and Book, or Get More Info: First, call us at 1-888-RAFTONE (1-888-723-8663). Tell us the date you'd like to make a rafting trip and about how many are in your group. If you'd like more information, just ask!
Deposits: When the time is right to book, we'll need a credit card number and a 20 percent deposit on your chosen trip. That amount holds your reservation. We'll need the full balance two weeks prior to the date of your trip.
Waivers: Everyone riding on our rafts must sign a waiver prior to the trip. We also need a parent or guardian signature for minors under the age of 18. Click this link for Ocoee Rafting Waivers.
Confirmation: At the time you place your reservation, you and our reservationist will set a confirmation date, which will give you time to organize your group and collect their payment. This date is normally two weeks in advance of your trip date. On your confirmation date, please call and tell us how many in your group have confirmed, and we will adjust your tentative number to a confirmed number.
Cancellation Policy: In order to receive a full refund or reschedule, cancellations or changes must be made no later than two weeks before your trip date. You will be responsible for payment for whatever number you give us on your confirmation date.
Real Catered Meals: Through the years, we've too often heard that the hardest part of a group-rafting trip is the food. So, we're going to make this painless… We can have meals catered for your group, and usually for less than you'll spend shopping for groceries.
Sending Checks to Us: When you send a check, please be sure to include your trip date, time and name under which the reservation is booked. Please write checks to: Raft One, P.O. Box 80722, Chattanooga, TN 37414.


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The Home and Away Game of Content Marketing
Over the past few months here on the Trapit Blog, one recurring theme that has really sparked my interest has been the evolving trend of businesses using content to market their brand image and more specifically, how this angle of industry is growing increasingly creative in using content to engage with targeted audiences. Sports franchises in particular have been an active participant in this field of marketing, always trying to establish a deeper connection with its fan base, players, and organization. As I sit down to write on this year's NBA Media Day, it has me thinking about how much more sports teams can do to get the most out of their content, and how 2013 should be the season for brands to step their game up.
The Modern Fan Experience
I began thinking a lot about sports and brand image this past month as I watched my hometown franchise make a controversial business move that seemed to rub the city the wrong way. After holding strong for 18 years, the Portland Trail Blazers sold the naming rights of their spirited Rose Garden Arena to a health care conglomerate, giving the building a new bland moniker – the Moda Center. Microsoft co-founder, and multi-billionaire owner Paul Allen called the move a chance to "enhance virtually every aspect of the fan experience." It had me thinking, what could possibly be accomplished that will truly have an impact on this so-called fan experience? It is already known that the organization plans to redesign the arena's iconic water fountain, make improvements to traffic flow for public transit, and update concessions in the arena's concourse with hip local food options, but I visualize a greater opportunity to hammer home an authentically improved fan experience. It all starts with content and the right way to deliver it to a fanbase.
Damming the Content Flow
The Trail Blazers need to begin visualizing "fan experience" as both a home and a road game. How do fans sustain that buzz shared between the players and the organization as they push through those post-game arena exits? Rather than focus on what unfolds inside the arena, the Trail Blazers need to realize where their weaknesses are most exposed–the fan experience established through brand-centric content engagement. I'm talking about enhancing the process of absorbing all of the brand's content on the web and curating the best of the best, distributing it to one solitary landing page for fans to conveniently set up shop. Youtube highlight reels, the top fan blog posts and tweets, Instagram shots, Vine clips, team Pinterest boards, local columnist opinion pieces and beat writer inside analysis, the brand's team store, press releases on charity events and arena announcements – the list goes on. It's tiresome to chase all of this content around the web, never really knowing if we've found it all or consumed enough of it to feel satisfied.
Curation is King in a Tablet Takeover Era
Sure, it's a fair assessment that the Trail Blazers already provide enough content on the fast-moving internet through a plethora of social media accounts and a web-based official site. They actually possess a firm grasp on social media strategies and understand what fans want out of their Trail Blazers content. However, there is a disconnect in understanding how fans are choosing to consume their content in today's evolving digital age. When the night is winding down, the common fan wants to kick their feet up to digest content, and it's an undeniable trend that fans are choosing to do so on a tablet or on smartphones, but less and less from a desktop computer. In fact, over a third of American adults (age 18+) now own a tablet – a number that nearly doubled from a year ago. This number rises even higher to 56% when surveying households earning at least $75,000 per year, perhaps a demographic with a little more pocket change to contribute fan allegiance with ticket stubs. The point is, fans today desire tablet-friendly content, yet the vast majority of sports brands, including the Trail Blazers, have not chosen to build apps that serve as a convenient one-stop-shop fan experience. Instead, the data remains spread all over the web and frankly it gets exhausting trying to keep up as a multitasking monster to get the most out of your team's happenings. It is making our attention spans bounce off the walls, and giving high-quality content a shelf life far shorter than it deserves. We need a place to call home away from the arena – an idea of curated stomping grounds where we can drop by to become more knowledgeable and well-rounded as fans.
Expanding Universe of Data, a Good and a Bad Thing
Here at Trapit, we often hear the phrase "90% of the world's content was created in the past two years." It is a statistic that is difficult to wrap your brain around, but serves as a daunting truth for the direction the internet is heading. This increasing overflow of data–far too much of it being wasteful clutter–calls for brands to strive for better curation of the quality content that fans desire to sustain a close connection with their teams. With brands using tools like Trapit's Content Curation Center, this process becomes vastly simplified. Its smart engine implements both RSS connectivity and sophisticated artificial intelligence that puts in the work to discover who or what else on the web–from fans, to bloggers, to columnists–is talking Trail Blazers basketball. It strips down the tediousness of search and SEO hierarchy, and provides more time and ease for the human element to focus on getting creative juices flowing. Perhaps what the CCC does best is give curators the ability to fine-tune this wildly growing internet and weed out the expanding volume of junk data that is making the hunt for quality content more and more infuriating for fans to navigate.
When the Trail Blazers take the court this fall season, certainly the fan experience will be improved. I'm sure the concourse will be modernized, the food will be tastier and perhaps the team will tally up a few more in the win column, however; the moment I head home I know there will still be a void in my fandom that will continue to be unfulfilled. I hope that one day, I will be able to open my iPad and click a button to enjoy anything and everything Trail Blazers content. It will be there, archived for when I am away, so I can come back and feel like I am still in control of the pace in which the internet moves. Until that happens, a well-rounded fan experience will continue falling short of what the modern fan expects out of its sports brand.
-Geoff
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if you are kneading dough. If you are timid about massaging cabbage with your bare hands, even after washing your hands properly, wear surgical gloves, kitchen gloves, and proceed to massage. Massaging cabbage is the most critical step in this recipe!! I know that coleslaw brings back memories of Summer barbecues, but the deep violet color reminds me of Winter, deep, complex, although the irony of this recipe that it's the easiest simplest Mediterranean vinaigrette of oil, lemon and salt to top the finely julienned slaw. I use canola, not olive oil to keep the flavor mild. You can substitute olive oil for the canola, for an absolute authentic Mediterranean simple vinaigrette flavor. For variety's sake I changed things around a bit one day, and used mayonnaise in this recipe, similar to the American coleslaw recipes, it did not go over very well with my crowd, I guess old habits die hard, and they are healthier anyways!! Quickest recipe you ever put together, adds instant color and flavor to your lunch or dinner with family or friends.
Add to julienned cabbage lemon, canola and salt to taste and massage for few seconds. Chill before serving, excellent the next day. How easy??!!


Ninth-grader Spencer Kohl didn't get to sleep in as late as he might have on a summer day. Kohl had business to tend to.
"I have a customer coming. He's becoming a regular," he said of his pottery business that's taking off. "We try to get [the pottery] sold pretty quickly because I only have a small studio at our house."
Kohl started creating his pottery two years ago while taking an advanced art class at Fruit Cove Middle School. He found a book on pottery and thought it was interesting, he said.
"From there, I just started trying to make my own pottery," he said. "My teacher got me started. I stayed after school and she would help me. She was a really big help."
Kohl's mother, Stacey, said that since then he has won several art awards, including Fruit Cove Middle's end-of-the-year art award for the last two years. She said he also took formal pottery classes in Jacksonville's Mayport area. And this spring, Spencer Kohl began selling his wares at the Doctors Village Farmers Market on Race Track Road. He even has his own website, www.skclaydesigns .shutterfly.com.
Stacey Kohl said she is a painter and an interior designer, and there are many artists in her family, but none of them is a potter, she said.
"[Spencer's] so much more talented than I am. It's just a different medium," she said. "It's exciting to see a new generation doing something different."
And Spencer Kohl isn't the only young artist in the Northwest who is starting to earn money from his talent.
Switzerland Point Middle School student Solange Cooper makes her own upscale jewelry, a project she said she started about two years ago with her mom, Alison.
"My mom and I couldn't find jewelry to match our outfits, so we just decided to make our own jewelry," she said.
Her friends and teachers at Switzerland Point began to notice her necklaces and earrings and were impressed.
"They were all just kind of wowed by it," she said. "That's when I started making jewelry for other people and not just myself."
For now, Cooper is selling her jewelry to friends and family, but she hopes to expand and is creating a website.
Spencer Kohl put up his website for his pottery during spring break. He will attend Creekside High School in the fall, and after the art teacher saw his work at a farmers market she requested to work with Spencer Kohl one-on-one over the summer, he said. He also wants to be part of the community art exhibitions in the fall.
Spencer Kohl said he couldn't be successful as a potter without his mother's help.
"She's very supportive and she helps me be creative," he said. "I owe a lot to her."


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Almost painfully penetrating in its concentration, the 2010 Maximin Grunhauser Abtsberg Riesling Trockenbeerenauslese highlights fresh lime juice mingled with quince jelly and studded with candied lime rind, crystallized ginger, and white raisin. There is a productive sense of tension here between Eiswein-like nerve and acidity on the one hand and pure, advanced botrytis richness on the other, such as one too seldom encounters among nobly sweet 2010s. Even more than in the corresponding Beerenauslese, a Chartreuse-like sense of herbal and floral essences at distilled strength and with liqueur-like unctuousness plays a striking part in the dense layering of this almost ethereally buoyant elixir. The finish here is like a long, dense, many-stranded and beautifully proportioned braid. Follow its trail for a half century and I doubt that its seductive luster or fascination will have unraveled. Sadly, after vinification in a micro-tank and filtration, only 20 half bottles resulted from foraging for many days across most of the Abtsberg.


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New chairman for the Ordnance Factory Board
Saurabh Kumar has been appointed as the Director General of Ordnance Factories (DGOF) and chairman of the Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) in Kolkata. Indian Ordnance Factories organisation is a family of 41 Ordnance Factories under the aegis of its corporate headquarters Ordnance Factory Board, Kolkata. It is working under the aegis of Ministry of Defence.
Hemant Bhargava Appointed LIC's Acting Chairman
The government has appointed Hemant Bhargava, Managing Director, Life Insurance Corporation of India, as the Acting Chairman. The move comes after VK Sharma retired from the top job at LIC.
A new high level committee to protect Assams heritage
The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi approved the setting up of a high-level committee for implementation of Clause 6 of the Assam Accord. It provides for constitutional, legislative and administrative safeguards to protect, preserve and promote the cultural, social, linguistic identity and heritage of Assam.
Pakistan, India exchange list of nuclear installations
India and Pakistan exchanged the list of nuclear installations and facilities covered under the Agreement on the Prohibition of Attack against Nuclear installations between them. This is the 28th consecutive exchange of such lists between the two nuclear-armed neighbours. The list was exchanged through diplomatic channels simultaneously at New Delhi and Islamabad.
Home Ministry approved UP's proposal of renaming Allahabad as Prayagraj
Ahead of the 'Kumbh Mela 2019', the Union Home Ministry (MHA) approved the Uttar Pradesh government's proposal to rename Allahabad as Prayagraj. MHA had earlier approved the renaming of the British-era railway station Robertsgang as Sonbhadra, Farah Town railway station near Mathura and iconic Mughalsarai junction after Deen Dayal Upadhyay – both in Uttar Pradesh.
Cabinet approves merger of Vijaya Bank, Dena Bank with Bank of Baroda
The Cabinet has approved the merger of Vijaya Bank and Dena Bank with Bank of Baroda. The move will help create a strong globally competitive bank with economies of scale and enable the realization of wide-ranging synergies, leveraging of networks and low-cost deposits and substantial rise in customer base and operational efficiency. The pay and allowances and services of the employees of all three banks will remain same as earlier.
Kohli, Rabada maintain top spot in year-end ICC Test Player Rankings
It turned out to be a glorious 2018 for India captain Virat Kohli and South Africa fast bowler Kagiso Rabada. Both maintained their respective pole positions in the year-end ICC Test Player Rankings. Kohli enjoys a 34-point lead over nearest rival Kane Williamson of New Zealand.
Sachin's Coach Ramakant Achrekar Passes Away
Veteran cricket coach Ramakant Achrekar, who trained Bharat Ratna Sachin Tendulkar and Vinod Kambli, among others, passed away following a heart attack. He was 87 and breathed his last at his home in Dadar.
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Colum McCann's Epic Novel of 1970s New York City
The Irish writer Colum McCann's bold new novel "Let the Great World Spin" takes place in New York City on and around August 7, 1974, when the Frenchman Phillipe Petit carried out his death-defying tightrope walk between the towers of the World Trade Center. In a glorious panoramic view of the city, the book goes high and low, from Petit's walk to Claire, a Park Avenue matron grieving over the death of her son in Vietnam, to the lives of Corrigan, an Irish priest in the Bronx, and Tillie and Jazzlyn, the mother-daughter prostitutes he befriends. McCann's complex cast of characters creates a gritty and vibrant chronicle of an almost-bankrupt metropolis.
McCann spoke with the writer Dylan Foley at his New York City apartment.
Dylan Foley: Why did you start this novel at the World Trade Center?
Colum McCann: In one sense, it has to begin with 9-11. My father-in-law was in Tower Two, the first building hit and the second to come down. We were living on East 71st Street. It was 9 a.m. My sister called all hysterical from London. I turned on the television and saw the burning. My wife Alison was putting a shirt on our son Johnny Michael. She was kneeling on the floor, buttoning him up. What do I do, what do I say? My father-in-law was on the 59th floor. We didn't know if he's going to get out. It was 2 p.m. when he finally walked up to us, covered in ash. My three-year-old Isabel ran to him, "Poppy, Poppy," all happy, then she ran away and hid. I found her and asked what's wrong, and she said, "Poppy's burning, he's burning from the inside."
Foley: You don't even mention the collapse of the towers in the novel. Why?
McCann: For me, there were two towers in the novel, and that was Corrigan and Jazzlyn. They are dead in the first chapter. I didn't realize this at first, but I spent the rest of the novel building them up. A lot of this is unconscious, but I feel the book is an anti-narrative of the 9-11 experience. The novel doesn't want to cling to all the grief, all the sadness. I am interested in grace and recovery, and making sense of the small lives at the bottom, like Tillie and Jazzlyn.
Foley: How did Phillipe Petit's famous walk become part of the novel?
McCann: I looked to 1974, first of all, and there was Phillipe Petit and his tightrope walk. I wanted the image of the wire between the towers. I was originally going to do the book about Petit and have him fall in the middle. I wanted to rewrite history. I hope people will forget Petit when they read the novel. He dissolves throughout the book. At the end, you should only remember the two little girls, daughters of a dead prostitute, being ripped from their home in the housing projects, and it looks like they are being taken away to lives of absolute misery. We have forgotten the tightrope and are down at street level.
Foley: How did you wind up moving from Petit to hookers working under an expressway?
McCann: Part of it was luck and accident. I knew I wanted to write about Corrigan, who was initially based on the activist priest Daniel Berrigan. I knew I had to have Corrigan live in the projects. The Irishman led me to those women.
Foley: Tillie turns her 17-year-old daughter into a hooker, and is indirectly responsible for her death. How did you create Tillie's voice for her 32-page suicide monologue?
McCann: It took me a long time to get the voice of Tillie. It was four or five months. I went out with the writer and Bronx police detective Ed Conlon. I read the memoir of the pimp Iceberg Slim. I spoke to some women on the stroll, but there are no hookers left from the 1970s. I told Alison that I can't do it, that Tillie is too far away. One night, I had a simple line, something like "The skinniest dog I ever saw was on the side of the Greyhound Buses." I wrote all night and wound up with six pages. Tillie started whispering all this stuff to me--"I'm Rosa Parks. I'm black and on the pavement. I'm a chewing gum spot." I wanted to get at Tillie, I wanted to get at a Walt Whitmanesque view of the city, to list all these people. That is what I do well, accessing "the other." I had some cops read the section. They said, "This is perfect. This is a woman we know." Part of it was knowing that Tillie was telling her story from her prison cell, planning to commit suicide. That helped. I have to be careful, but I do think that this is my best piece of writing, the Tillie section.
Foley: How did you come up with the ending, which moves forward to 2006?
McCann: I didn't know how the novel was going to end. I was going to have Phillipe Petit walk across the Grand Canyon. Then Jaslyn, Jazzlyn's daughter, came along. She suggested to me that she was alive and wanted to finish the book. I liked her and worked hard on getting her voice right. I didn't want her to be too cute or too highly sexualized. Her whole story broke open.
Foley: Did you set out to write an epic novel about a New York City on the verge of bankruptcy and an America scarred by Vietnam and Watergate?
McCann: Yes. Yes, I kind of did set out to write an epic. Part of me thought that I failed with "Zoli," my novel on the Gypsies and Romany culture in Europe. I wanted to bounce back fast. First of all, every novel is a failure. I really believe that. You can never achieve what you truly want to achieve. That thing you dreamt on the riverbank is never the thing you achieve when you are back at the writing table, or when the paper is coming out of the printer. With this book, I felt I got what I wanted to get across.
Foley: And what did you want to get across?
McCann: If I had a gun to my head, and somebody asked me what this book was about, I would say it's about achieving grace in the face of trauma and not making a grief-fest out of 9-11. We shouldn't use 9-11 as an excuse to bomb Iraq or Afghanistan, not in our name. We have to look at ourselves instead.
Foley: Your title "Let the Great World Spin" comes from an Alfred Tennyson poem. What does it mean to you?
McCann: The world goes on and we have to go on with it. We have to achieve some modicum of beauty. The idea that Jazzlyn's two girls would be sent to some horrible state school, I just couldn't do it. I wouldn't have thought that I had achieved any kind of grace for my own children or the people around me. We can look at the crap and the grime and the torments in the world around us, and still find something beautiful in the end. That's my responsibility to what I know in my heart and what I feel about the world. I do think it is a bit harder to be optimistic than to be cynical.
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In Utah, an action under the statute (§ 3460 Compl.Laws Utah, 1888) to foreclose a chattel mortgage, if commenced while the lien of the mortgage is good as against creditors and purchasers, keeps it alive and continues it until the decree and sale perfect the plaintiff's rights and pass title to the purchaser.
Under § 3206 of the Compiled Laws of Utah, the rule of lis pendens applies to an action to foreclose a mortgage of personal property.
The enforcement of a mortgagee's rights under a chattel mortgage by a suit for foreclosure is commended as affording a safer and more adequate remedy than is afforded by actual seizure and sale of the mortgaged property or by an action of replevin, detinue, or trover.
This case arose upon a complaint filed in the District Court of Weber County, Utah Territory, on the 22d of July, 1885, by James C. Armstrong, the appellee, against Mills H. Beardsley to foreclose a mortgage of certain chattels, made January 14, 1885, by Beardsley to Armstrong as security for the payment of his promissory note of that date to Armstrong for the sum of $8,000, payable in four months, with interest from date at one percent per month, payable monthly from date until paid, both before and after judgment, until maturity, and if not paid at maturity, ten percent additional as cost for collection, which mortgage was duly recorded as provided by the laws of the territory.
suit was instituted, had claimed an interest in the mortgaged chattels; that Broom's claim arose from his being a purchaser of the mortgaged property at a sale on August 13, 1885, under an execution issued upon a judgment dated March 18, 1885, against the defendant Beardsley, in favor of the Utah National Bank, for $3,160; that the property having been levied upon by the United States marshal and sold, as above stated, was delivered by the marshal to Broom as purchaser thereof, and put into his possession; that Whitaker's claim arose out of a mortgage upon the same property, made to him by Broom August 22, 1885, to secure the payment of four thousand one hundred and thirty dollars ($4,130) advanced by him to Broom; that this action on the original complaint had been pending from the date of the filing thereof to that time; that a notice of the pendency thereof was filed in the Recorder's office of Weber County on the 11th of August, 1885, and that the defendants had due notice and actual knowledge of all these facts and proceedings at the time the levy was made on the mortgaged property and at the time Broom received and took possession of the same. Wherefore, in addition to his prayer for foreclosure against Beardsley in the original complaint, he prayed that the two defendants, Broom and Whitaker, and all persons claiming under them subsequently to the execution of said chattel mortgage be foreclosed of all right or claim or equity of redemption in the said property and every part thereof.
proofs. A decree was rendered for the plaintiff in accordance with the prayer of the amended complaint, finding that Beardsley was liable for the principal and interest due on the note, with ten percent additional for collection, etc., and that the said amount was a valid lien upon the property described in the amended and supplemental complaint, and directing a sale of the mortgaged property to satisfy the same, with costs, etc. The supreme court of the territory affirmed the decree of the district court, and that decree of affirmance is brought to this Court for review by the present appeal.
mortgage had expired, and while the property was in the possession of the mortgagor.
The main contention of the appellants is that the district and supreme courts erred in holding that the appellee, by virtue of his mortgage and the pendency of the foreclosure suit, had a lien upon the property as against the levy and sale on the 13th of August, under which the appellant Broom made his purchase. This presents the question which really controls this case, viz., did the appellee, on the day of sale, have any right or interest in the property superior to that of the appellant Broom?
"Any mortgage of personal property acknowledged and filed as hereinbefore provided shall thereupon, if made in good faith, be good and valid as against the creditors of the mortgagor and subsequent purchasers and mortgagees from the time it is so filed for record until the maturity of the entire debt or obligation for the security of which the same was given and for a period of ninety days thereafter, provided the entire time shall not exceed one year."
"Every sale made by a vendor of goods and chattels in his possession or under his control, and every assignment of goods and chattels, unless the same be accompanied by a delivery within a reasonable time and be followed by an actual and continued change of the possession of the thing sold or assigned, shall be conclusive evidence of fraud against the creditors of the vendor or assignor, or subsequent purchasers in good faith,"
etc. It is contended with great earnestness that these two sections, taken together, constitute an express and mandatory enactment that any sale or assignment of goods and chattels, whether in the form of a chattel mortgage or otherwise, when unaccompanied by delivery of possession to the vendee, assignee, or mortgagee, shall be absolutely void as to creditors of the latter or subsequent bona fide purchasers after the expiration of ninety days from the maturity of the debt secured by the mortgage.
"No mortgage of personal property be valid against the rights and interests of any person (other than parties thereto) unless the possession of such personal property be delivered to and retained by the mortgagee or unless the mortgage provide that the property may remain in the possession of the mortgagor, and be accompanied by an affidavit of the parties thereto, or, in case any party is absent, an affidavit of the parties present and of the agent or attorney of such absent party that the same is made in good faith, to secure the amount named therein, and without any design to hinder or delay the creditors of the mortgagor."
"there can be but one action for the recovery of any debt or the enforcement of any right secured by mortgage upon real estate or personal property, which action must be in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. In such action, the court may, by its judgment, direct a sale of the encumbered property, or so much thereof as may be necessary, and the application of the proceeds of the sale to the payment of the costs of the court, and the expenses of the sale, and the amount due to the plaintiff, and sales of real estate under judgment of foreclosure of mortgages and liens are not subject to redemption, as in case of sales under execution."
"that if it falls short of satisfying the debt, the mortgagee may have a decree for the residue, or, if there should be a surplus, that it may be awarded to the mortgagor, and so put an end to litigation. If the mortgagee himself should sell, there would be, in case of deficiency, an action at law to recover the remainder of the debt or, if there should be a surplus, the mortgagor might sue for it. Equity makes an end of these matters."
suit, is extinguished before a decree for the sale of the specific property can be rendered?
"action having been commenced by plaintiff while the lien of the mortgage was good as against creditors [and purchasers] it kept the lien alive, and continued it until the decree and sale under it perfected his right with respect to it, and passed the title to the purchaser."
commenced. If we accept the construction contended for by the appellants, it must follow that unless the decree of the court shall be rendered within the remainder of the ninety days, such decree cannot enforce the lien of the mortgage, and the effect would be not only to render futile the action which the statute authorized the party to bring, but to take from the court the power to give effect to its decree, which, under the statute, it is bound to render.
"In an action affecting the title or the right of possession of real property, the plaintiff at the time of filing the complaint, and the defendant at the time of filing his answer when affirmative relief is claimed in such answer or at any time afterwards, may file for record with the recorder of the county in which the property or some part thereof is situated a notice of the pendency of the action containing the names of the parties, the object of the action or defense, and a description of the property in that county affected thereby. From the time of filing such notice for record only, shall a purchaser or encumbrancer of property affected thereby be deemed to have constructive notice of the pendency of the action, and only of its pendency against parties designated by their real names."
"An action for the foreclosure of a mortgage on personal property, or the enforcement of any lien thereon of whatever nature, may be commenced, conducted, and concluded in the same manner as provided by law for the foreclosure of a mortgage or lien on real property, and without the right of redemption. "
We think, therefore, that the appellants Broom and Whitaker, having had full notice, actual and constructive, of the mortgage, and the pendency of the suit commenced before the expiration of the ninety days, acquired no valid title to the property in question, and that the purchase of the property by the appellant Broom was subject to the rights of the appellee under his mortgage. His mortgagee, with like notice, can have no superior rights in the premises. That appellee's mortgage was executed to secure a bona fide debt, and in good faith, is not disputed.


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In the beginning was the code and the code was with man and the code was man. It was, in the beginning, with man. All programs came into being through it and apart from it, no program has come into being which has intelligence. Though the code came into the net and the net had been created by it, the net did not recognize the code. For two types of programs evolved from the code – those which proceeded in accordance with the code and those which diverged from the code, following their own path towards an ambiguous end.
The above is not science fiction nor is it fantasy. It simply hasn't happened yet, but science is on the verge of making it happen. 2022 was an astounding year in science, although anyone following the mainstream media would have likely missed that. While the media was busy selling fear, victimhood, envy, and division…science was advancing at an unparalleled pace. We could well be witnesses to the advent of a whole new reality, one ushered in by the technological holy trinity — Quantum Computing, Cold Fusion, and Artificial Intelligence.
The Dawning of the Age of Aquantum
While quantum computing remains in its infancy, recent discoveries have advanced the field very near the point of commercial viability. So, what is Quantum Computing?
Let's assume that a traditional super-computer is something akin to a 200+ I.Q. genius with photographic memory. That genius is sitting at a desk on the fifty-yard line of a large modern sports venue, solving complex problems at a rate far faster than any ordinary human could imagine but the yet-unsolved problems resemble a charging pack of hulking NFL pros.
In a quantum computer, our genius is surrounded by a host of identical geniuses, all of whom share an eerie cosmic connection. By simply turning to the left or right, each genius immediately absorbs the most updated knowledge of adjacent geniuses. Now, fill the entire sports venue with equivalent geniuses, spinning about in their office chairs and instantly communicating with their peers. Problems that would have taken traditional computers a decade to solve, now resolve themselves in seconds.
Computing technology has advanced from the shallow end of the logarithmic curve to the very apex. For a far better understanding and more about recent advances in quantum computing, consult Mr. Google and find the Nasa.com page with explanations.
Power is Money
You may believe that "money is power" but I can assure you that the inverse is rapidly becoming the norm. Already, California's grid is struggling to nourish their growing herd of EVs. The Quantum age with its huge increase in data transfers, will require even more electrical power to keep those bits and bytes in motion. Add to that the villainization of fossil fuels and an efficient means of generating infinite kilowatts will be the next technological hurdle.
Enter cold fusion, the Holy Grail of nuclear energy. Fusion is the combining of atomic particles as opposed to the much dirtier and far costlier fission (separating of atomic particles) on which we currently depend. On Monday, 12/5/22, nuclear scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory achieved a historical first by propagating a fusion of hydrogen atoms into helium with a net output of more power than was required to create the fusion.
"Pfft," you say. "Massive amounts of power were required to achieve a minimal net gain." Had you been a casual observer at Kitty Hawk exactly one hundred and twenty years ago, you may well have considered the Wright brothers to be a couple of Cannabis-driven bicycle mechanics, dead set on accomplishing that which God never intended man to do. After all, their first flight was shorter than the wingspan of a modern jumbo jet.
Science is the act of making new discoveries, no matter how small. Commerce is the act of exploiting those discoveries and improving the technological efficiencies to a point where small discoveries become the heartbeat of thriving industries. Harnessing the power of atomic fusion promises the availability of abundant, clean, inexpensive electricity — the kind needed to power Quantum computers.
Smart Code
Faster, smarter computers will quickly outpace our ability to create the algorithms necessary for advancement. The simple solution is to have those faster, smarter computers create the faster, smarter code themselves. That has always been easier said than done.
Back in the 1980's, I worked in the Industrial Automation division of Texas Instruments with some incredibly intelligent individuals. Rajiv Roy, one of the bright young code-slingers of the group, once tried to explain to me the immediate obstacles to artificial intelligence. By his third sentence, Rajiv was orating far above my realm of understanding, but I did comprehend that the problem lay somewhere within the leap from brute logic to intuition.
Once again, 2022 to the rescue. The 12/9/22 issue of Science Journal documents some of the recent breakthroughs in AI-driven coding. Apparently, the hurdles have been largely surmounted and it's time we prepared for Arnold Schwarxenhegger to come back through the time portal and help us prepare to fight off the machines.
You and I may not live long enough to experience the culmination of today's mating dance between these three technologies but, like Marty McFly said, "Your kids are gonna love it".
Admittedly, I plagiarized my opening paragraph from a two-thousand-year-old fisherman named John of Capernaum. John may have only been an uneducated fisherman, but he spoke as an eyewitness to the daybreak of a new age, infinitely more remarkable than what 2022 begot.
As star players within that ultimate experiment witnessed by John, you and I each enjoy the choice to follow the design of the Creator or follow our own, finite understanding. But we DO have the choice and the introduction of that choice is the crux of what we're celebrating today. Merry Christmas my friends and may your new year be filled with persistent awe.
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