"Here are some numbers to start with. It has a 6.4-liter V8 engine, producing 475 hp and 470 lb-ft of torque, reaches the quarter mile mark in 12.9 seconds, accelerates from zero to 60 mph in 4.4 seconds, and flexes its muscles by burning rubber on all four tires at once. These are pretty good performance numbers for a car. But what we have here is not a car but an SUV, and there's even more. It's the 2018 Durango SRT with third-row seats. With a wider wheel arches, plenty of power and seats, Durango SRT offers performance, space, and that American feel. For customers of this heavyweight athlete Dodge offers a full day performance-driving school session. Below is the official press release from Dodge:" Ed.
The Dodge and SRT brands are rocking the high-performance automotive world once again, bringing a huge burst of American power, acceleration and best-in-class tow capability to the three-row SUV segment with the new 2018 Dodge Durango SRT – the fastest SUV in its class.
With the proven 392-cubic-inch HEMI® V-8 under its new functional SRT hood, the new 2018 Dodge Durango SRT delivers 475 horsepower and 470 lb.-ft. of torque, and a wicked fast time on the drag strip – from 0-60 miles per hour (mph) in 4.4 seconds, covering the quarter mile in 12.9 seconds as certified by the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA).
The 2018 Dodge Durango SRT will make its debut at the 2017 Chicago Auto Show on Feb. 9. Vehicles will start arriving in Dodge dealerships in the fourth quarter of 2017.
Stiffer front springs (3 percent), stiffer rear springs (16 percent) and stiffer rear sway bar (18 percent) give Durango SRT drivers outstanding high-speed cornering capability.
For the first time ever, SRT power is now available in the Dodge Durango. The 2018 Dodge Durango SRT is powered by the potent 392-cubic-inch HEMI V-8 engine with Fuel Saver Technology that delivers 475 horsepower at 6,000 rpm and 470 lb.-ft. of torque at 4,300 rpm – providing America's best horsepower and torque ratings and making the new Dodge Durango SRT the fastest, most powerful and most capable three-row SUV.
To keep the powertrain running cool and efficient in higher demand environments, a new cold-air duct provides cooler outside air into the engine. Testing has shown up to an 18-degree Fahrenheit improvement in intake air temperature, resulting in an engine that performs flawlessly on the street, racetrack or when towing a favorite trailer or toy.
Assuring maximum performance under extreme conditions, the 2018 Dodge Durango SRT has been validated through rigorous 24-hour track durability testing – a testing standard that every SRT vehicle adheres to.
The 2018 Dodge Durango SRT provides enhanced shift quality and performance drivability, as well as optimized fuel economy through its TorqueFlite eight-speed automatic transmission. This proven transmission was specifically calibrated for the Dodge Durango SRT to optimize shift points and deliver maximum torque to all four wheels. For the ultimate driver-controlled experience, the transmission can be manually shifted using the performance-inspired steering wheel paddle controls on the exclusive SRT-lit flat-bottom steering wheel.
The TorqueFlite eight-speed automatic transmission takes into account variables, including engine torque gradients, kick-down events, longitudinal and lateral acceleration, grade changes, tire slip and downshift detection to determine the appropriate transmission shift map. The end result is a fully adaptable performance experience.
Additional parameters integrated into the control strategy include vehicle speed control, electronic stability control interaction and temperature. The result is automatic shifting that is ideally attuned to the performance requirements of any performance-oriented driving demand.
When the driver downshifts, the "rev match" function uses the engine controller to blip the throttle, which provides optimal transition between gears for improved performance and greater stability when downshifting at the traction limit.
When placed in "Sport Mode," the transmission reduces shift times by up to 50 percent versus Auto Mode and delivers 65 percent of the engine's torque to the rear wheels.
Acceleration and performance handling are enhanced by transfer case proportioning and dynamic controls for the AWD system when the vehicle is in Track Mode. When in Track Mode, maximum performance track driving is achieved with 160-millisecond shifts and up to 70 percent of the engine's torque delivered to the rear wheels for the most pronounced rear-wheel-drive experience. Durango SRT drivers will also notice a vehicle that is more responsive from mid-corner to exit.
The new driver-oriented electronic T-shifter provides the driver with intuitive gear selection and offers an Auto Stick selector gate for added control. Drive and Sport shifting can be selected with no effect on the chosen suspension, stability control and driveline torque split settings.
The 2018 Dodge Durango SRT features launch control, which mimics a professional driver's inputs to optimize performance by bringing engine, transmission, driveline, stability control and suspension together for an optimal launch and consistent straight-line acceleration.
The new exhaust system has been tuned to offer an unmistakably deep, high-performance note that is distinctive to Dodge/SRT and provides a lasting impression. To achieve this iconic exhaust tone, engineers have replaced the rear mufflers with resonators to increase overall sound level and improve tone of the true performance 2.75-inch dual exhaust system.
The Dodge Durango SRT rides on a short- and long-arm (SLA) independent front suspension with coil springs, specially tuned Bilstein adaptive damping suspension (ADS), upper- and lower-control arms ("A" arms) and a stabilizer bar. Additional changes include 3 percent stiffer front springs, 16 percent stiffer rear springs and an 18 percent stiffer rear sway bar to provide Durango SRT drivers with outstanding high-speed cornering capability.
In the rear, a specially tuned multi-link suspension design has coil spring, Bilstein ADS, aluminum lower control arm, independent upper links (tension and camber), plus a separate toe link, and a stabilizer bar.
The 120-inch wheelbase allows for outstanding stability and consistency in high-speed cornering, while a new performance-tuned AWD system helps the Durango SRT set the world-class performance marks.
The Durango SRT also features the SRT seven-mode drive system, which provides the driver the ability to precisely adjust drive settings to maximize performance or comfort. Suspension, torque distribution, shift points, stability control and engine mapping are all controlled through this system. In addition to these parameters, suspension feel is controlled by a sophisticated Active Damping System that opens and closes the suspension's damper valves according to the chosen drive mode, providing the driver with options for any driving style.
Standard five-spoke 20-inch "Goliath" wheels with a new "Black Noise" finish ride on Pirelli 295/45ZR20 Scorpion Verde all-season tires or available Pirelli P Zero three-season tires. Available, 20-inch forged aluminum wheels feature a new split five-spoke design also featuring the "Black Noise" finish.
The 2018 Dodge Durango SRT delivers excellent braking performance, requiring an estimated 115 feet to come to a full stop from 60 mph. Credit belongs to massive new Brembo high-performance six-piston (front) and four-piston (rear) calipers, and vented rotors at all four corners measuring 15 inches (front-slotted) and 13.8 inches (rear).
Along with its new ultimate performance capabilities, the 2018 Dodge Durango SRT provides the same combination of uncompromised utility, advanced technology and aggressive styling its well known for.
Inside the refreshed cabin of the Durango SRT, new appointments include a hand-wrapped dashboard with live silver accent stitch, SRT flat-bottom performance steering wheel with standard paddle shift, heated and ventilated front and heated second-row captain's chairs with embossed SRT logos. Nappa leather with suede inserts and silver-stitched SRT logos are standard. Demonic Red Laguna leather interior with embossed SRT logos is optional.
Other luxurious touches brought to Durango for the first time in the SRT model include new Light Black Chrome center stack, HVAC, full console and door handle bezels along with two choices of decorative bezels. Standard finish is Matte Reverse Chain, and for the first time on Durango a true carbon-fiber instrument panel and door bezels will be offered (late availability). Premium velour bound floor mats with embroidered SRT logo are standard. Adding to the impact of the hand-wrapped instrument panel, the headliner and A pillars are available in Dynamica suede.
A newly designed 7-inch, thin-film transistor (TFT) customizable digital instrument gauge cluster with 180-mph speedometer allows drivers to select from a multitude of layouts and information. The class-exclusive Uconnect 8.4-inch touchscreen media center houses the new SRT Performance Pages along with navigation, Apple CarPlay, Android Auto, HD radio, downloadable apps and 5-year trial of SiriusXM Travel Link and Traffic. The standard BeatsAudio premium sound system features nine speakers, subwoofer and 506-watt amplifier.
On the exterior, the 2018 Dodge Durango SRT carries a SRT hood with functional center air-inlet ducts flanked by heat extractors that help to keep the engine bay cool by removing hot air from the engine compartment. A new front fascia and lower valence house the new cold-air duct and LED fog lamps. This new unique look will also include the SRT-inspired grille mesh pattern finish.
New integrated wheel flares and body-color side rocker panels help provide an aggressive stance. The "392" badges flanking each fender with Bright Chrome and Metallic Grey accents differentiate the ultimate performance Durango.
At the rear, a new SRT rear body-color lower fascia with Gloss Black accent surrounds the 4-inch dual round exhaust tips finished in Nickel Chrome.
The Durango SRT is also distinguished by new badging on the rear liftgate that denotes the new performance AWD system.
The 2018 Dodge Durango SRT is available in 11 exterior colors, including Billet Clear Coat, Blu by Yu Pearl Coat, Bruiser Grey Clear Coat, Dark Black Clear Coat, Granite Clear Coat, Ocean Blue Pearl Coat, Octane Red Pearl Coat, Redline Pearl Coat, Sangria Metallica Clear Coat, White Knuckle Clear Coat and Vice White.
The 2018 Dodge Durango offers consumers more than 60 available safety and security features, including standard all-speed traction control and ESC, which improve overall vehicle handling and performance both on- and off-road. Standard trailer-sway control enhances towing capabilities and keeps the vehicle and trailer aligned as the Durango travels down the road.
Available safety and security features include forward collision warning with crash mitigation, adaptive cruise control with stop, Uconnect Access with 9-1-1 call and roadside assistance. Blind-spot Monitoring (BSM) and Rear Cross Path (RCP) detection, which aid drivers when changing lanes or in parking lot situations. In addition, standard front-row active head restraints, standard full-length three-row side-curtain air bags and standard front-seat-mounted side thorax air bags offer enhanced occupant protection to passengers in the event of a collision. In total, Durango offers seven standard airbags.
The 2018 Dodge Durango SRT is built at the 3-million-square-foot Jefferson North Assembly Plant (JNAP) in Detroit, which has been the site of Durango production since its introduction in the 2011 model year.


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president. pledging to improve the lives of all within the country also. was the most amazing. scene. two weeks after a tragic school shooting in connecticut. but it's not. driving them abroad but rather.
a very warm welcome to you from all of us here. the president has signed off on a bill aimed at u.s. citizens accused of abusing the human rights of russians it includes a ban on americans adopting russian children and the restrictions came about after washington introduced travel and financial sanctions against russian officials it alleges are involved in rights violations. oh earlier the president said he saw no reasons why the bill shouldn't be passed and signed it on the next day after the final draft got into his office and now starting from the first of january american citizens suspected off while ations off the rights of russian citizens will be banned from entering russia the bill also introduces
financial sanctions and restrictions on n.g.o.s and non commercial organizations with foreign sponsors and also the article which has been more stocked about the ban for all americans to adopt russian children for the past few weeks russian society and even the political elite have been split over the issue and there have been many cases of abuse of russian children and sometimes even deaths after they're brought to the united states and russian president has been saying that this bill is not aimed against people or children but it's aimed against the american system due to a lack of a proper legal reaction from american authorities to these cases including the a lack of heavy jail sentences and other problem is that russian officials are often not even able to monitor what happens to russian children after them to the u.s. one of the reasons behind so much debate around the ban is also that many people are concerned with the state of orphanages in russia and along with signing this
bill the president also release a degree aimed at improving the lives of orphans in the country lawmakers from the beginning have been saying that this is a response to the magnitsky act bans passed recently by american lawmakers city game was russia more of work for a foreign investment fund he was suspected of money laundering but died in prison before a court could make a decision on his case is seen by many in the west especially united states as a victim of various human rights violations and the act basically gives the green light for sanctioning a russian official suspected in the us of being connected with human rights violations in. moscow by many officials it's seen as another a russian law because it's really not clear on what grounds this black list of names is that is being put together and also we know that some of the names are going to be classified altogether. so you could go to reporting right there well as
the investigation continues into the death of sort of magnitsky in prison moscow court has acquitted a jail doctor of negligence leading to loss of life of russia's presidential council on human rights concluded that magnitsky had been severely beaten and denied medical treatment while he was held in prison the judge said that she found no evidence of the doctors actions caused the lawyers death and the family has promised to appeal the ruling. now a former director of american adoption congress told us that tracking how russian children are being treated in the u.s. is all but impossible bases have got there.
could inflict on another was done to these children so these were the parents that were caught and prosecuted nineteen how many more there is there is absolutely no way of knowing the united states has no system of follow up on adoptions once an adoption is finalized the child is considered as if born to that family. you're watching r.t. now gun sales have skyrocketed in the u.s. after barack obama urged a ban on some firearms in the wake of the sandy hook school massacre as artie's nature can now explains that is ultimately backfired on the american president.
about two weeks ago actually on this particular wall here. they are it's four rows down four rows across. with everything going on in politics right now with the possible ban and everything everyone is flooding in. purchasing right away gun stores all across the u.s. are reporting record sales just two weeks after the tragic shooting at the elementary school in newtown americans are scrambling to buy the same type of weapon that adam lanza used in the connecticut shooting plus high capacity magazines and a lot of them panic buying trigger it out of fear that the white house is out to ban the weapons but this time the words need to lead to action no a r fifteen for this customer all sold out at the store while prices on line have gone through the rules have been going for a thousand and fifteen hundred eight hundred dollars to twenty five hundred three thousand dollars even in some cases it's just the most amazing gun buying spree
i've ever seen so many gun retailers now quite cynically refer to feed ministrations ben talk as the obama gun stimulus that's how good it's been for their business so how do you go from a president with a tough gun control agenda to someone gun dealers call the greatest gun salesman in america manufacturers of semi-automatic rifles were poured that their market has grown thirty percent of the last four years states like north carolina i need you to have seen a one hundred percent increase in gun sales over the same period in the wake of the tragedy in newtown one of the country's biggest ammunition suppliers said they sold more than three years worth of magazines in just three days. although president obama himself has so far failed to act on his pledge to ban assault weapons his words have certainly provoked action just not the type you may have wanted or someone they say is against her. going to great job for us.
maybe there should be a third term in order to sell even more weapons many dealers hype up the gone apocalypse scenario so the banks and their government. to start. start with. but many of them don't actually see any drastic changes happening any time soon after all any significant gun control measures enough that in the past ultimately clashed with the second amendment of the constitution and were subsequently scrapped. well from virginia to utah where one group has come up with their own unique way to prevent more shootings by introducing even more guns to school but that's giving them to teachers at the gun rights advocates have decided to launch shooting lessons for teachers in case of an emergency you can let us know what you think we love it when you get involved with stories here about so you just look on to the
website give us your opinion in the comment section. anyway. so ten minutes past the hour moscow time iran is holding a fresh round of naval drills in the strait of hormuz one of the world's busiest oil and gas shipping routes the week of war games involves warships submarines jet fighters and aims to show tehran is well equipped to defend its. orders the drills come as the west systematically builds up pressure on iran over its nuclear program and we can i get more on this now and talk live to professor side mohammed already from the university of tehran a pleasure to see you today sir thanks for coming on the program let's talk about these exercises here we're talking about
a routine event or perhaps is there some significance to the timing. well they are routine in the sense that they happen very regularly but the timing is always important i think that the iranians want to remind the united states and the europeans that continued threats against the iranian people threats of military attack by saying all options are on the table. will if they are carried out would have a very significant and severe response and any aggressor against the iranian nation would face severe consequences and the same of course is true for the israeli regime i think the place where the. military operations and the maneuvers are being carried out is also significant because the iranians want to remind western regimes that the oil any
war or battle in the region would be devastating for the oil and gas market and the world economy with that i mean that's exactly my next point because again as you say iranian officials are often wall that they could ultimately block the shipping through the strait of hormuz which as we understand carries about forty percent of the world's seaborne oil if you really think that option is still on the table do you think iran could indeed try and block the strait and in the wake of israeli and american aggression. i don't think that it's obvious that the iranians don't want to block the strait of hormuz at all and the passage of oil and gas the problem is that if western. regimes carry out aggression or are aiding a great. and against the country they have bases throughout the persian gulf and they have interests in the region and if the interests of ordinary iranians are damaged or destroyed if iranian targets are damaged and destroyed then they will
have to face the consequences and those countries that support american actions or where american bases or ships are they bear responsibility for any form of aggression i don't think it's so much the strait of hormuz if you look at the persian gulf nations from the north to the south the iranian borders and if there is if there is war without a doubt or oil and gas cancellations tankers all of these will be devastating and it's far more. important the damage that could be brought about than just blocking it so that i mean they're not just that but also the massive regional and worldwide economic implications as well professor marandi and just a few words is there is that not do you think a danger of military confrontation between iran and the west in the coming year barack obama he's in the white house for another i never on yahoo when israel has elections coming up as well and of course never a few months go by when netanyahu doesn't readily say but towards terror on what
you guess. well in the sense that western countries are brutal and civilized enough to carry out an attack i think that that's clear to the iranians the fact that western countries are imposing sanctions on the bar go on and on iran trying to prevent iran from even importing and exporting medicine and food stuffs by blocking the central bank and there are shortages of some medicines right now in iran and people have died so the fact that the western countries are willing to kill ordinary people and to make people suffer i think makes it clear that the idea of carrying out an attack on iran is something that they would contemplate if they could but i think on the other hand the iranians believe that western countries are much weaker today than they ever were before the defeat in iraq and afghanistan setbacks in. israel had in lebanon and gaza make as well as the economic crisis in europe in north america make it highly unlikely
and i think the international community is gradually growing more independent of western policies and there's a new powers rise it makes it all the more difficult for western powers to launch a new war but the iranians have prepared themselves and i think that itself has been a deterrent to war so they i think in general the iranians feel that a military assault on iran aggression would be highly unlikely professor sidebottom around in the university of tehran which we have more time for this but we don't thank you very much for coming on our team to you for having me. well i still have for you this hour here on the program washington's financial stability it's close to the edge that's the united states moves closer to the fiscal cliff congress and the president still struggling to find common ground. plus russia pushes damascus to intensify talks with the opposition to stop the ongoing violence amid reports of fresh bloodshed and other news after the short break.
if you're from my generation or younger and you were born into the one percent that i have a lot of college debt i sure do you know the deal used to be that you paid a significant amount for education but in turn that gave you a much higher salary later but now the system works in reverse many young americans study very hard to not make any money at all around nine percent of americans with student loans have defaulted and at least nine but maybe up to eighteen percent are ninety days late with their payments given the situation the people at u.c. berkeley were nice enough to give away a million dollars in scholarships for everyone everyone that's an illegal immigrant yeah that's right if you're born in america then pay to jump the border and enjoy
the red carpet education treatment the people who will be getting the scholarships are mostly the children of illegal immigrants who spent many of their formative years in america and yeah i could see the logic that could be hard for them to get an education when they're when they aren't citizens but they came into the country illegally it isn't taxpayers jobs to help them but wait berkeley it's a private institution so i guess they can give out the money to whoever they want whenever they want however they want but berkeley management if you're watching this i would really appreciate if you chose some financial mercy to american citizens it isn't like they don't need the help. that's just my opinion.
thanks for joining us here on our to today i'm rory sushi in moscow a growing number of wealthy britons plan to wave goodbye to the u.k. over the next two years and move their lives and their money elsewhere and more than a fifth of the country's millionaires are considering emigrating that's according to a recent survey by lloyds t.s.b. international bank. explains what exactly is making the rich luxury luggage.
blame the dismal weather that's reportedly the overwhelming reason for why one in five british million as a considering upping sticks and leaving the country now those reasons are followed closely by the high rate of crime in the u.k. and antisocial behavior and then another reason why they might want to leave is the high cost of living here in the u.k. and only in fourth place for my why they might might want to leave is the high rate of personal taxation now where are they going well top of the list of destinations is france it's nearby and it's warmer weather and same goes for spain which is the other place where they're all thinking of flocking to followed by the usa now we didn't manage to track down any millionaires but we hit the streets of london to talk to the ordinary londoners to ask whether they were considering opting sticks and leaving as well and it looks like most of them agree with the millionaires so let's take a listen to what they told us you consider leaving the u.k. . what reason the climate for second the dark vision.
would you consider leaving the u.k. and leaving somewhere else i'm going to do really what is the reason my wife. my children but also the expense here looks like the middle class professionals are the ones who are actually packing their bags and leaving a recent report by the home office said that more and more middle class with professionals are actually packing their bags and opting to continue their careers elsewhere and for them the main reason is the high rate of personal taxation so it's the millionaires are the ones that don't like the rain then is the middle class professionals the senior managers the academics the scientists that are actually continuing their careers abroad and a lot of business leaders are saying that if the high rate of personal taxation isn't cut it's going to lead to a brain drain for the u.k.
in the future so something that's very worrying for politicians to consider here. now there was. just a couple of minutes. the syrian government. ready to talk to opponents
in a push for a diplomatic solution to the conflict by speaking to the foreign minister said it's not up to foreign nations to decide the future of syria. we actively encourage the syrian leadership to make as concrete as possible is declared readiness for dialog with the opposition also asking when will the international community make up their minds that bashar assad should go in with respect to the international community is the syrian people who should make that decision or the international community should not be instigating one of the sites to continue bloodshed will set any preconditions they should instead encourage all the fighting assad is to follow the geneva statements which set conditions for the syrians themselves getting all political ethnic and religious groups have got to agree on which kind of state they want to live in. criticized reluctance of syria's opposition group backed by the west to make any concessions
in the civil standoff the syrian conflict has dragged on now for nearly two years with reports of fresh bloodshed on an almost daily basis. as close as they could to the real stories of violence tearing the country apart and that is what we're focusing on today in our series on the events that shaped. apparent after a massive regional arab spring and in the wake of that the next contact of a pro-democracy movement and a revolution or civil war was not what was happening in. the media. people who think what about. the politics and diplomacy that.
i remember was a training session of the syrian football team and the coach was very angry with. his players were practicing. and then i moved my head like just like this and i saw two helicopters flying very low. and firing. and there was a group. living life as usual and just. me and my colleagues were live in the local t.v. station there was a few blocks away most likely. people had been killed and what struck you was the coexistence of those two. realities the. most interesting interaction for me with us happened before and after the interview obviously in that case. i asked him if he's afraid.
said no. it's a great. moment when the you believe the person or not and the only reason you know if he's right or wrong. i think series becoming. a country that is totally. wired and don't surprise anybody and like in the case of for iraq paul this harm was done to syria but the substantial help of the outsiders on the guise of democratic. and i do stay with us if you can here at r.t. for more twenty twelve recalls from. sliding ever closer to what it has become known as the fiscal cliff with barack obama hosting another last minute emergency meeting later today for weeks the republicans and democrats are trying to reach
a deal on how to reduce the national deficit if they don't billions of dollars in tax hikes and spending cuts automatically take effect on january the first activist and journalist says it's not the deadlock that bothers him but rather what has already been agreed upon. the real problem in my eyes is not the fact that they can't reach an agreement but rather that they have reached an agreement on many fundamental things the grievance they have reached is that neither of them are going to advocate put more money in the hands of working people they have no problem whatsoever removing a trillion dollars or three trillion dollars from the economy and delivering it to the bankers they did that inside of twenty days back in two thousand and eight and again in two thousand and nine was very little discussion. everyone agrees on both sides of the aisle that sums sort of reduction in benefits from social security and
medicare is inevitable quote unquote well you know the rest of us don't believe that it's inevitable or even that it's necessary and certainly not the best that it's not desirable yet the agreement between the democrats and republicans on these fundamental issues is in my mind more important than their disagreement that the posturing that they're doing for the media basically to try to blame each other for the you know going over the so-called cliff it's not that one or as promised let's get into it now they are starting with the former egyptian president hosni mubarak has been a return to the hospital after his health took a turn for the worse the eighty four year old was ordered into by the state prosecutor mubarak who led egypt for three decades life in prison for failing to protect protesters killed in the arab spring last year meanwhile current president mohamed morsi has launched an investigation into opposition leaders he accuses of supporting efforts to depose. you. are turning our attention to india now and
a twenty three year old female victim of a gang rape in new delhi remains critical after she was fun to singapore for treatment of the cases sparked mass outrage and a wave of violent protests with people demanding the death penalty for those involved meanwhile another victim of a sexual assault committee. suicide after being pressured to drop the case. are just about piddling bell and is going is up for another edition of crossfire. humanises day starts at five am even earlier in the winter tending to his flock of three hundred sheep in the mountains and plains of t.v. thirty five years old it wasn't the life he dreamt of having studied accounting but he dition and familiar duty dictated that he would take on the care of these
animals after his father has just made camp at their winter farm stage setting up his ute judicial to fenian round tent made of diskin peace peace be back amongst his family as his job is a lonely one and tough going out in all weathers braving extremes of plus to minus forty degrees celsius just get on with them there are certain difficulties there's not enough time for everything i'm almost alone my sister works with my mother my mother is seventy five she's very old and you know i miss mountains when i'm in town and i spend a lot of time here right now probably so on the survey i simply carrying out the work that his father did and his father before him nothing has changed over many many centuries and that's half the problem it's hard work and many people don't want to come into the in street now and it's really fit there could die out altogether. it's difficult to manage everything alone i used to have people who
helped me but they were no good they didn't take care of the sheep with all their heart they hurt the cattle. with more people leaving than coming to the countryside the region's government is having to act making the life of a herd and more attractive than promising largest subsidies for produce and livestock and organizing cooperatives for the sale of de products to ensure the herder gets a higher fair price i asked sympathizes with those youngsters leaving for an easier more profitable life there in the public's capital because ill but he no longer wishes to join them he enjoys his pastoral way of life and looking for a helper who shares his enthusiasm with more time on his hands he says matter of fact he can start to look for you wife.
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Neil's rough, Joni's remote
His new album breathes dignity hers just panders and sneers
by Peter Goddard
In the liner notes to his greatest-hits collection, Decade, Neil Young says that the "middle of the road soon became a bore so I head for the ditch. A rougher ride, but I saw more interesting people there."
One of his contemporaries, and some might still say compatriots, was also troubled traveling in the middle. But instead of heading for the ditch, Joni Mitchell went straight for higher ground - the nearest ivory tower, to be precise. There, above us all, she now sits, meditates, and looks pretty just in case a photographer happens by.
Neil Young and Joni Mitchell have at least one thing in common in addition to their being former Canadians now living in California: They both see themselves as artists working in a medium that doesn't encourage art. And both have recently released albums clearly intended to reaffirm their status as artists.
Young's Decade is a three-record set covering the most fruitful years of his career. Joni Mitchell's two-record set, Don Juan's Reckless Daughter, is the most ambitious album she has attempted, with one piece, Paprika Plains, stretching out to more than 16 minutes.
Beyond the common intention, however, there is no similarity between the two. Young has risked more and more for his music; Mitchell has risked less and less.
Knowing he could easily repeat the success of planned, crafted studio albums like After The Goldrush, Young aimed for a music that was more spontaneous and personal. The results were Tonight's The Night, and the more recent American Stars 'N' Bars, blunt, often bleak and not at all polished efforts. On those records Young wanted to reduce the distance between himself and his audience, to record in a way that was equivalent to cinema verite.
Joni Mitchell, on the other hand, has been increasing that distance. The music and the lyrics on Don Juan's Reckless Daughter tell you why - she distrusts, if not outright despises, her audience.
Young too has lashed out at an audience, or at least a potential audience. In Southern Man, for instance, he roundly condemned the Southern redneck stereotype. It was a mistake on Young's part, but not a mistake coming out of sensitivities. Young was wrong simply because he had the facts wrong.
Joni Mitchell's mistakes arise out of sensitivities - despite her constant and unabashed parading of her own famous sensitivity.
In one song, Otis And Marlena, she draws yet another stereotyped picture of numbskull vacationers in Miami, "the celebrated dump/Sleazing by the sea." There they are, she sings, dreaming "of golden beauty," lost in their tawdry dreamland while "Muslims stick up Washington" (a reference, no doubt, to the Hanafi Muslim hostage drama in Washington last March). The piece is followed directly by an instrumental called The 10th World, an almost seven-minute-long percussion piece with its roots in West Indian rhythm, which is there to tell you that Ms. Mitchell is far more sensitive to the Muslims in Washington than she is to the schnooks in Miami.
There's dignity in Neil Young's Decade, a pride sometimes hurt, fragile and self-centred that nevertheless gives the album a unity. There's no dignity in Mitchell's Don Juan's Reckless Daughter. At best, it panders to those who might be looking for insight. At worst, it's arrogant, preening and sneering.
The pandering and the sneering has been there for quite a while in her albums. But I've always been able to ignore it because of the inventiveness of the music - the notes, the phrases, the imaginative use of free rhythm. It wasn't difficult to dislike the singer but like the songs, especially those on Blue and The Hissing Of Summer Lawns.
There's little on Don Juan's Reckless Daughter to like for even musical reasons. She uses several members of Weather Report on some of the cuts, but only bassist Jaco Pastorius has anything solid to offer. Michael Gibbs' orchestrations, particularly on Paprika Plains, are sensitive and appropriately atmospheric to correspond with the singer's word-painting. Other than that, even the music is self-indulgent.
In Decade, we have evidence of Neil Young's form of exploration, from the more tightly structured earlier pieces to those that came later and were almost deliberately unorganized. But the base of Young's music never changes, only the way it's realized changes. The more Joni Mitchell seems self-absorbed, though, the more her music stops making musical sense.
The appeal of Young's Decade is that it allows you to be a part of the process that went into making it: You hear his strengths, weaknesses and, end up feeling this is a musical life that's still going on. Don Juan's Reckless Daughter is anything but reckless; it's a pat statement by someone who thinks she has the answers but doesn't.
Neil Young was right; there are more interesting people in his ditch.
Decade, Neil Young. Reprise 3RS2257.
Don Juan's Reckless Daughter, Joni Mitchell, Asylum BB-701.


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Rock & Republic Files for Bankruptcy
By Amy Odell
Rock & Republic announced yesterday that it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The privately held company expects to continue day-to-day operations, and plans to refocus on its shoe and core apparel businesses. The label hasn't been the picture of financial health for months. It canceled its fall 2010 Fashion Week show and slashed distribution of its makeup line.
The show was always a spendy spectacle, with a plethora of potentially costly celebrity attendees, elaborate sets (which once included an orchestra pit), and sometimes props (which once included guns for the models). And all this for a label whose main thing is jeans — but perhaps the founders believed they owed customers this tomfoolery in exchange for the $200-and-up price tags on those pants.
Rock & Republic files for bankruptcy protection [LAT]
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Drip irrigation is a water-saving and high-efficiency irrigation technology that has developed rapidly in recent years. The dripping part now uses a plastic film ribbon hose, which directly punches out the water, and the water is relatively uniform, and the installation is convenient. The cost is low. It is suitable for use when it is replaced once in 1~2 years. Because all of them use pressurized pipelines to deliver water, they can adapt to complex terrain without leveling the land. Pipes can be used to save 8% to 10% of land compared to ground irrigation. Compared with ground irrigation, water saving is 70%~80%, 50% water saving than sprinkler irrigation, and energy saving 70%~90%.
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I am in the middle of a lot of personally-invoked change, and the prospect of an unsure future worries me. And my dog doesn't care.
It's not that he doesn't care about ME, it's that he doesn't understand why I am worried about what hasn't happened yet.
He lives totally in the moment. If he's hungry, he eats (or begs so relentlessly that we give him something). If he's tired, he curls up in his bed and sleeps, only glancing up at us if the television is too loud. If he feels frisky, he carefully selects a toy out of his toy basket and brings it to us with a few loud barks to declare recess.
Last night, during our brief snow, I took him into the front yard. I was focused on knocking the snow off of our newly planted trees (the ones that replaced our fourteen oaks that went down in hurricane Irene).
As I was knocking the snow off the trees, I thought of those huge oak trees lying face-down after the storm. My heart began to hurt, and tears welled up in my eyes.
Then my dog got the wind craze. Riggins took off running around the yard like a maniac, kicking up snow and doing helicopters. While I was mourning for something that had already happened, he was living in the moment.
Eventually, he ran directly at me, hurling his 90 lbs. recklessly in my direction. He's never really understood the art of dodging at the last moment.
As I saw him coming, I began to scream with anticipation and jumped to the left to avoid the direct hit. As I jumped, I lost my footing and fell into the snow. Riggins was delighted that I had joined his game, and began licking me in the face. I laughed hysterically, fighting to get up.
Once I got on my knees, I looked my dog in the eyes. And, I realized, he gets it. This moment was happy. We have new trees, and snow, and peace, and quiet, and laughter, and love. Why was I ruining it by remembering something that was painful?
I stood up, looked around my yard, and thanked God for every beautiful thing in my life. Then Riggins and I took off around the yard together, kicking up snow and celebrating.
That story blew the main breaker switch in my emotions, Donna. Riggins does get it. My dog also got it. And, eventually, he taught me. Life is never too stressful to drag a garbage bag across the house, spilling orange peels, coffee rinds, and last Thursday's newspaper from the sofa to the nearest bathroom. Life is what we make of it, even if making it is defined in part by chewing mom's shoes or drinking from the toilet. Riggins not only celebrates life, he IS a celebration of life! Riggins gets it, like you say, and thet he teaches you is one of the greatest blessings anyone could ever know.
Thank you! This story was for you, and I knew you'd completely understand it, Robert. And, yes, Riggins also drinks out of toilets although he's a little skittish since the lid fell on his head one night.
They are pure love, and we are lucky to have them. Thanks for your poignant (as always) response.


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Avocent building a KVM channel
Brian Corrigan (ARN) 29 October, 2003 17:09
Tech Data Australia
US-based keyboard, video and mouse (KVM) technology specialist, Avocent, has sent its manager of training programs to Australia to drum up interest in its wares. Mark Young spent last week conducting training sessions with resellers in Sydney, Canberra and Brisbane in conjunction with local distributors Tecksel, Blue Ridge Systems and Comsol.
"KVM is a networking technology that used to be easy to overlook in the past but is quickly becoming one that allows customers to work more efficiently and realise areas where they can save money," Young said.
"At the very low end, industry has started to extend the distance between users and computers. This is the market we want resellers to tackle."
The range of Avocent products cover a broad spectrum addressing everything from the SOHO market to enterprise, according to Young.
Avocent has tier-one relationships with large integrators such as Dimension Data, BCA and Volante to service local enterprise customers.
"Working on two fronts has been a successful model in the US and we will rely on the value-added distributors we have appointed to get the lower end products out to customers," Young said.
Originally, KVM technology was used as a method of controlling multiple computers with one keyboard and mouse. It has since developed into a datacentre management tool used to control everything from power supply to network devices.
Before the year is out, Avocent plans to unveil an environmental reporting tool that uses KVM technology.
Young said the company was known for its branded analog switches until two years ago when it became the first in the world to release KVM switches.
"We went from being an analog switch vendor to a networking company overnight and it has been a busy couple of years getting the word out," he said.
Formed by the merger of Cybex and Apex last year, Avocent is ranked as the leading player in the global KVM market by IDC — a market the analyst firm valued at about $US600 million in 2002 with double-digit growth predicted during the next five years.
Avocent also provides extension, remote access and video display solutions.
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Q: Let a linear endomorphism of a vector space $V$ be different from $0$ and not a right zero divisor in $End(V)$. Then it is surjective. This question is related to this post: Given $\operatorname{Im}(f) \subset \operatorname{ker}(x^*)$ does that imply if $ f∈End_A(M)$ is not a right divisor of zero then f is surjective?.
Let $V$ be a vector space over a field $k$. Consider the set $End_{k}(V)$, a ring with the usual composition of maps.
Take $f \in End_{k}(V)$ and suppose that $f \neq 0$ and that $f$ is not a right zero divisor in $End_{k}(V)$. Why is it a surjective map?
I cannot understand how to apply the linked argument. I have tried to prove that, if $f$ is not surjective, then $f$ is a right zero divisor: let $\bar{v} \in V \setminus f(V)$, then $\bar{v} \neq 0$ and I can complete it to a basis for $V$, say $\{ \bar{v}  \cup \{ w_{j} \}_{j\in J} \} := B$. Then I tried to define a linear map $g$ on this $B$, such that $gf=0$, but apparently I cannot do that.

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Then I tried to define a linear map $g$ on this $B$, such that $gf=0$, but apparently I cannot do that.

The obvious choice is to define $g$ to be zero on $f(V)$ and the identity elsewhere. Then the composition is zero and g is nonzero.

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Ariel Baska is an award-winning, multiply disabled horror and documentary filmmaker. Her horror short about medical gaslighting, Our First Priority, won the Disability Advocacy Award from Superfest Disability Film Festival, and was an Official Selection of FrightFest and Final Girls Berlin, among many others. Her first animated short film, she's never been a bird before, screened at the Engauge Experimental Film Festival. Additionally, she was a speaker at SXSW in 2022 and has produced several projects, both narrative and documentary, including Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters, which premiered at Chattanooga Film Festival. She is the founder, co-host and executive producer of Ride the Omnibus, a podcast and non-profit parked at the intersection of pop culture and social justice.
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Why India needs to emulate Oscar Romero as untruth, injustice, divisiveness "gain ground"
On October 14, 2018, Pope Francis canonised Archbishop Oscar Romero. In his homily during the ceremony, the Holy Father lauded Romero for leaving "the security of the world, even his own safety, in order to live his life according to the Gospel, close to the poor and to his people, with a heart drawn to Jesus and his brothers and sisters".
He went on to add, "Let us ask for the grace always to leave things behind for love of the Lord: to leave behind wealth, the yearning for status and power, structures that are no longer adequate for proclaiming the Gospel, those weights that slow down our mission, the strings that tie us to the world".
Pope Francis has constantly upheld St. Oscar Romero as someone to be emulated. Speaking to the Bishops of Central America in Panama on January 24, 2019, he described the murdered Archbishop of San Salvador as, "no human resources manager". Rather he was, "a father, a friend, and a brother. He can serve as a yardstick".
Archbishop Oscar Romero was brutally gunned down on March 24, 1980, while celebrating the Eucharist in San Salvador. He was a fiercely outspoken critic of his Government, the military and of the right-wing elements of his country, for their continued oppression and exploitation of the poor.
There has never been any doubt about who was responsible for his death. He took sides with the poor, the marginalised and the victims of injustices. His martyrdom made him a 'Saint' for millions of these. It was estimated that more than 250,000 were present at his funeral as a sign of gratitude to the man who did so much for them and whom they deeply loved.
As a young priest and even in his early years as a bishop, Romero was regarded as 'conservative'. He was afraid to rock the boat and preferred to maintain the 'status quo'. He never wanted to be on the wrong side of the powerful of El Salvador.
Fr Rutilio Grande, a Jesuit, was a good friend of Romero. Grande left no stone unturned to highlight the plight of the poor and the oppressed and to make their struggles his own.
Unlike Romero, Grande did not hesitate to take up cudgels against the powerful and other vested interests. On March 12, 1977, Grande was killed by the regime. Just three weeks earlier, Romero was appointed Archbishop of San Salvador.
He also said openly and emphatically, "Anyone who attacks one of my priests, attacks me. If they killed Rutilio for doing what he did, then I too have to walk the same path". The death of his dear friend was a turning point in the life of Romero. From that day onwards, he wholeheartedly worked for the rights of the poor, until his own murder, three years later.
Recognise, in particular, the important work and values of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero of El Salvador, who was assassinated on 24 March 24,1980, after denouncing violations of the human rights of the most vulnerable populations and defending the principles of protecting lives, promoting human dignity and opposition to all forms of violence.
India and the rest of the world desperately need to emulate Oscar Romero. Untruth and injustice, divisiveness and discrimination gains more ground in many countries. Several political, business and even so-called 'religious' leaders use hate, jingoism and xenophobia to nurture their lust for power and greed for wealth.
Truth and justice in several countries of the world are totally disregarded. Hardly any attention is paid to the victims of crime and violence – particularly the institutionalised ones. The poor continue to be the victims of unjust structures everywhere. Human rights defenders are denigrated, hounded and even killed.
"The church in Latin America has much to say about humanity. It looks at the sad picture portrayed by the Puebla conference: faces of landless peasants mistreated and killed by the forces of power, faces of labourers arbitrarily dismissed and without a living wage for their families, faces of the elderly, faces of outcasts, faces of slum dwellers, faces of poor children who from infancy begin to feel the cruel sting of social injustice. For them, it seems, there is no future – no school, no high school, no university. By what right have we catalouged persons as first-class persons or second-class persons? In the theology of human nature there is only one class: children of God."
St Oscar Romero was truly a prophet: worthy of emulation in our broken world.


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Mr. Shirley Smith, age 84, husband of Alma Jean Falin Smith of Mt. Vernon, KY; passed away Sunday, March 3, 2019, at the Golden Living Center in Stanford, KY.
Shirley was born on February 22nd, 1935, in Rockcastle County, KY; a son of the late James George Smith , and the late Ollie Francis Alcorn Smith. He was a retired machinist at Tecumseh, was of the Baptist Faith. He enjoyed his family, hunting, gardening, and reading the Bible.
Those left to celebrate his life are his wife: Alma Jean Falin Smith of Mt. Vernon, KY; four children: Mark Smith of Mt. Vernon, KY; Melvin Smith of Mt. Vernon, KY; Rodney Smith (Judy) of Brodhead, KY; and Amy Barnes (Michael) of Mt. Vernon, KY; thirteen grandchildren; and seventeen great-grandchildren; as well as a host of nieces, nephews, friends and neighbors.
Besides his parents he was preceded in death by two sons: William Timothy Smith and Marvin Smith; one daughter: Enita Cheryl Smith Bradley; two grandsons; Eric Anthony Smith and Christopher Andrew Mink; six brothers and two sisters.
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Bloggers discuss a Chinese company's decision to rescind its offer for Unocal. They also ponder a brewing scandal at Air America and debate the merits of bottled water.
CNOOCered: Yesterday, CNOOC, a company owned largely by the Chinese government, withdrew its $18.5 billion bid to buy Unocal; homegrown Chevron Corp.'s $17.4 billion offer is expected to succeed. CNOOC's move came in response to a series of congressional bills aimed at blocking the purchase.
Some bloggers think that the move reflects poorly on Congress: "So an undervalued offer wins a bidding war, the conditions that have caused oil reserves to become a national security issue (to the point that CNOOC's bid was considered a threat) went unanswered in an energy bill deemed a priority by the President, and the swarm of pro-free-trade sentiment that surrounded CAFTA somehow didn't apply to an all cash offer for a publicly-traded company. VIVA Free Markets!" snorts1115's left-leaning Matt.
A$r Amer$ca: According to thisNew York Sun article, Air America's former director Evan Cohen allegedly mismanaged more than $800,000 from Gloria Wise Boys & Girls Club while he was its development director. He kept some of the money for himself and channeled the rest into the liberal radio station.
Read more about the Air America scandal; read conservative blogger Ed Morrissey's recap in the Weekly Standard.
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Most Reverend J. Michael Miller, C.S.B.
Sr. Mary Anne Zuberbueler, O.P.
Michael J. Van Hecke, M.Ed.
Mr. Van Hecke is the President and Founder of The Institute for Catholic Liberal Education. He has been a Catholic educator for 25 years, currently serving as Headmaster of St. Augustine Academy in Ventura. He received a B.A. in classical Liberal Arts from Thomas Aquinas College and an M.Ed. in Educational Administration from the University of North Texas. He is President and Publisher of the Catholic Textbook Project, a company producing the first history textbooks specifically for Catholic Schools in nearly 50 years. As a consultant and speaker, Mr. Van Hecke loves to share his passion for Catholic liberal education across the country. When not doing that, he enjoys life with his wife and three children on their avocado ranch in bucolic Santa Paula, California.
Chris holds a B.A. and M.A. in Theological Studies from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, where he also worked as the Special Assistant to the Vice President for Student Affairs and Assistant Director of First Year Programs from 2001-2005. From 2005-2017, Chris served as the Director of Admissions, Director of Leadership Development, and Associate Director of Formation at Servite High School. Chris also serves as the Co-Chair of the Board of Advisors for the Sanberg International Leadership Program. He and his wife, Annie, live in Long Beach, California, and have three children, Mary Elizabeth, Magdalena, and William.
A former journalist, Elisabeth developed her passion for Catholic liberal education while exploring authentic formation in faith and reason for her own children. The same desire to know the truth of things that drew her to journalism found its purpose in serving the Church through the recovery of the Catholic intellectual tradition, especially in elementary schools and high schools. Elisabeth joined the Institute in 2010 to advance this vision and train educators in its philosophy and practice. She is a CiRCE-Certified Classical Teacher who has taught writing and literature, served on Catholic school boards, and served as director of communications for a classical liberal arts school in the Catholic tradition. Elisabeth holds a B.S. in Humanities from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, and an M.S. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She and her husband, John, have three sons and live in North Carolina.
For more than two decades, Dr. Andrew Seeley has been a Tutor at Thomas Aquinas College in California. Dr. Seeley received a Licentiate from the Pontifical Institute in Medieval Studies (Toronto) and a Ph.D. in Medieval Studies from the University of Toronto (1995). He has taught joyfully and extensively in all the areas of a Great Books curriculum. Desiring to share his love of Catholic learning, Dr. Seeley joined the Institute in 2005. He and his wife, Lisa, have six children and four grandchildren.


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11 March 2018 / Challenge
Painting and carving the horse
I've been leading up to examining The Horse in Art and there can be no doubt in my mind that the horse is God's most beautiful creature. The Horse in Art is a very complicated topic therefore all I can do is whet your appetite to look further.
If you are interested there's an excellent summary of the Horse in Chinese History at: http://www.angelfire.com/folk/gordonscorner/ARTICLE070507.html
Horses have been represented in art in so many ways. As statues, as images in paintings of landscapes, religious scenery, battlefields, pictures of the gentry, as the working partners of peasants, And in a genre of their own as race horses and show horses.
But it was the Renaissance artists who really placed the horse in its rightful place in terms of art history and equestrian art. Here is Titian's Equestrian Portrait of Charles V (also Emperor Charles V on Horseback or Charles V at Mühlberg) painted in 1548.
As an aside, and nothing to do with horses, the Cowdray Engravings are based on five paintings (produced between 1545 & 1548) for Sir Anthony Browne, King Henry VIII's Master of the Horse. They were painted onto the walls of Browne's hall in Cowdray House showing key scenes in his life. In the 1760s Philip Yorke, the Earl of Hardwick (and a keen antiquarian) proposed producing engravings of the paintings. Cowdray House burnt down in 1793 and the paintings were mostly destroyed leaving the engravings as the only record.
The Field of the Cloth of Gold (French: Camp du Drap d'Or) was a site in Balinghem – between Ardres in France and Guînes in the then-English Pale of Calais – that hosted a summit from 7 to 24 June 1520, between King Henry VIII of England and King Francis I of France.(Wikipedia)
We will have to leave horses here for today but we will continue on this topic tomorrow. Of course we need to spend time looking at the work of Degas and his wonderful horse race images but also Aimé Nicolas Morot (1850–1913) who was a French painter and sculptor producing fantastic images of horses and other animals.
An excellent summary of Horse Art in History can be found at:
http://www.artbycrane.com/horse-art-history/index.html
More About The Horse in Art
Appreciating some paintings of horses by George Stubbs, Degas and Andrew Wyeth.
Leslie Ward -Caricaturist for Vanity Fair
My favourite caricaturist is Englishman Leslie Matthew Ward (1851-1922) who painted over a thousand portraits of famous people and published in the magazine Vanity Fair. Ward also published under the names Spy and Drawl. Ward was knighted in 1918 in recognition of his work.


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Tadeusz Zając (ur. 1948) – polski urzędnik państwowy, główny inspektor pracy
 Tadeusz Zając (ur. 1950) – polski górnik, polityk, poseł na Sejm II kadencji

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Protect Your Voter Registration and Vote Against Hackers
by Civics Nation Admin | Jul 26, 2018
By mid-morning of the 2016 election, lines in Arlington, Virginia, were already long. Photo by Rob Crandall / Shutterstock.com
With almost incontrovertible evidence that Russian actors influenced the 2016 U.S. election and widespread purging of voter rolls, it's more important than ever that Congress and the Trump administration take action to ensure that this election tampering doesn't happen again. But what did the White House do? Instead of beefing up cybersecurity measures, President Trump elected to eliminate the Cybersecurity Coordinator role, and then the government selected Sevatec, a private company, to provide "specialized cybersecurity services" to the U.S. government.
Although Congress allotted $380 million to help states ensure that their election processes are secure, it's really not enough, and bureaucracy and politics have slowed the funding to the states. In fact, the process has been so slow that NPR said, "getting the money out to all the states, and then into the hands of localities that run the elections [in time for midterm elections] is a difficult proposition." Attempted hacks have already happened, and they will probably escalate as the election approaches.
Considering that the government is falling woefully short on its responsibility to protect U.S. elections from tampering by foreign actors, and that many Republican-controlled states have legalized gerrymandering and voter purges, it falls to individual citizens to do everything they can to protect their voter registration—and their votes—from hacks and glitches. Fortunately, attorney and election integrity advocate Jennifer Cohn wrote a post on Medium with some things you can do to ensure you'll be able to vote this November.
Civics Lesson: The First Voting Machine
In the late 1800s, there was a widespread preoccupation with developing a practical voting machine. The mechanical lever voting machine was patented in November of 1889 by Jacob H. Myers of Rochester, New York. It was designed to prevent overvotes, speed the vote counting process, and significantly reduce the chance of dishonest vote counting because the votes are counted by machine. Myers' invention was first used in 1892 in Lockport, New York. By 1930, lever voting machines had been installed in almost every major city in the U.S.
Photo: a lever voting machine from the late 1890s. (Public domain)
Cohn separates her recommended actions into two categories: protecting your voter registration and protecting your vote.
Protecting voter registration
Cohn says to be prepared for problems with your voter registration, including long lines due to voter registration issues, widespread failure of electronic poll books, being told at the polls that you aren't registered, or being given a paper or electronic ballot putting you in the wrong political party or listing House races for the wrong voting district. To mitigate these problems, do the following:
Double-check your voter registration several times before election day. Vote.org will allow you to check your registration status and find your polling place, among other things.
Be prepared for long lines: bring water, snacks, and other necessary supplies such as folding chairs.
Bring your driver's license or ID and a recent utility bill that shows your current address. Cohn says that even if your state doesn't technically require ID, you'll still need those things if you have to vote provisionally due to registration problems at the polls.
Bring your district-specific sample ballot (your Secretary of State's website should have this information). Fill it out and bring it to the polls.
Once you're at the polls, compare the House District races listed on your sample ballot with those on the paper ballot you are given or the touchscreen ballot you see when you go to vote.
Protecting your vote
There may well be problems with voting in general. In order to make sure you'll be able to vote, and that the votes are counted correctly, Cohn recommends the following:
Bring the proper ID—your Secretary of State's office or county election board will be able to tell you what kind of ID you'll need at the polls.
Be ready for long lines. Problems with voting systems could happen, or there's a possibility that many people will turn out to vote.
Report problems. If you have or observe problems with voting, try to get pictures, Cohn recommends. "Alert poll workers, others in line, and the local media, and post on social media to alert others," Cohn says. "Call the Election Protection Hotline at 1-866-OUR-VOTE."
Volunteer as a poll observer. Call your county or state party (Democrat, Republican, etc.) as soon as you can so you can get training to be an Election Day poll observer/watcher. Poll observers can do the following:
Monitor problems during voting
Take photos of the "poll tapes"—printouts listing vote totals—when the polls close. The poll tape totals can be compared to the official vote total; if they don't match, this could mean there's been a glitch or hack and can be used in an election challenge. Poll tape photos are also important to ensure that machines haven't been hacked in order to delete some races from the totals.
Oversee the preparation of the chain of custody documents for equipment, paper ballots, and paper audit trails. Take photos while doing this, and it'll be less likely that equipment, ballots, or audit trails will conveniently disappear.
Additional tips for voters in counties where touchscreens are used
Touchscreens are notorious for malfunctioning even when they're not hacked: they've been known to flip votes and provide paper printouts that are too difficult to verify and audit—if they generate a paper trail at all. If you've contacted your county election board and found that most or all voters will need to use a touchscreen voting machine, Cohn recommends the following safety tips:
Request a hand-marked ballot at the polls. Even touchscreen-only counties sometimes allow this when requested.
Try to cast an absentee ballot or vote by mail. Use this tool provided by the National Conference of State Legislatures to see if you can vote early or by mail. Be sure to ask your county election board about the early-voting deadline.
What it all comes down to is that if the federal government has no desire to ensure the safety and security of U.S. elections, it falls to us to take on that responsibility and report any problems we see. Cohn's tips provide some excellent guidelines for doing so.
Principles of Democracy: Free and Fair Elections
Paper Ballots Are the Past… and the Future
Nearly 20% Would Deny Voting Rights to Muslim Citizens
Only 28% of Young Voters Say They Will Vote This Year


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On 2007, the Ministry of Land and Resources certified a newly added oil-bearing area of 71.15 km2 in Nm-Ed1 reservoir of the Jidong Nanpu Oilfield (Structure 1 and Structure 2) in the eastern part of Hebei Province. This area has a proven oil reserve of 445.1 million tons, a technologically recoverable reserve of 94.9068 million tons and an economically recoverable reserve of 86.5863 million tons. Proven dissolved gas reserve of 53. 608 billion m3 was also added, with a technologically recoverable part of 11.172 billion m3.
In addition to these certified reserves, PetroChina's Reserve Management Committee has confirmed possible and probable reserves of 639.21 million tons. Up until now, the proven, possible and probable reserves of the Jidong Nanpu Oilfield has amounted to 1.18 billion tons.
Geologically as the Nanpu sag in the northern part of the Huanghua depression of the Bohai Bay Basin, the Jidong Nanpu Oilfield is located in the city of Tangshan (the Caofeidian Port area), Hebei Province. During the 14 years since CNPC Jidong Oil Company began to develop the area in 1988, little progress was made. However, in September 2004, a high yield gas flow was obtained in old Nanpu Well 1 with an output of 700 m3 per day, marking the great discovery. Up till now, 76 exploration wells and appraisal wells have been completed, and 67 wells have been interpreted. Commercial oil flows are obtained from 30 of the 32 testing wells. And 5 oil-bearing structures have been discovered.
The Jidong Nanpu Oilfield has tremendous reserves with the averaged oil layer thickness encountered in individual well up to 80 to 100 meters. Daily output per individual tested vertical well reaches to 80 to 100 tons and 200 to 500 tons per individual horizontal well. Its reserve abundance is 5.07 million tons per square kilometer. Its major target layers are buried at a depth of 1800 to 2800 meters, with favorable petrophysical properties and high oil quality.
It is believed that the lately proven reserves of the Jidong Nanpu Oilfield equals to a half of the country's yearly proven reserve newly identified over the past years. As PetroChina's largest oil discovery in a decade, this progress will usher the 5th round of oil reserve peak in China, which is significant in securing China's oil and gas supply. Meanwhile, the development of Nanpu Oilfield will give a boost to the social and economic development of Beijing, Tianjin, Tangshan, and even the Bohai Bay Rim.


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Q: Aggregate push N number of array results I have the following aggregate:
db.reports.aggregate({ $group: { _id: "$user", reports: { $push: {report: {properties: "$properties"} } }}}, { $project: { _id: 0, user: "$_id", reports: "$reports"} })

I would like to somehow limit the number of reports that get pushed into the array.  I.E I want to limit reports to a users defined value. 1,5,10 etc.  Meaning I want N number of reports (I will sort by timestamp) to be included in the reports field.  Right now I am pushing all reports not sure how to limit the number of reports per user.
I tried the $limit, but that didn't work as it restricted the number of users returned not the number of reports pushed into the reports array.
Basically I want to group my reports by user, and include only a certain number of reports.  I would like to limit the number of reports as early as possible such that I do not have to deal with the entire collection throughout the pipeline

A: Have you looked into using group()? Let's say your data looks like this:
{ "_id" : ObjectId("732"), "user" : "john", "reports" : [  "report1",  "report2",  "report3" ] }
{ "_id" : ObjectId("733"), "user" : "john", "reports" : [  "report4",  "report5",  "report6" ] }
{ "_id" : ObjectId("734"), "user" : "max", "reports" : [  "report1",  "report2",  "report3" ] }
{ "_id" : ObjectId("735"), "user" : "max", "reports" : [  "report4" ] }
{ "_id" : ObjectId("736"), "user" : "eliza", "reports" : [  "report1",  "report2" ] }

Assuming reports is an array in the initial schema, your aggregation call becomes:
var reduce_f = function(curr, result) {
  result.reports = result.reports.concat(curr.reports);
};

var finalize_f = function(result) {
  var limit = 5;
  result.reports = result.reports.slice(0, limit);
};

db.reports.group({
  key: { user: 1 },
  reduce: reduce_f,
  initial: { reports : [] },
  finalize: finalize_f
})

Note that group will not work in a sharded environment.


I f you spend any amount of time at all on the internet, especially on a site like Facebook or Twitter, you are bound to be inundated by all kinds of information, from posts about string theory and technological innovations to memes of cute kittens batting at the screen. Such a technological influx can be really fun and entertaining, and it can also be a little bit scary and overwhelming. This blend of the "cute with the creepy," as she puts it, is exactly the paradox that Corrina Espinosa, local technology-inspired artist, deals with in her work.
Catch Espinosa's work at her regular gallery showings, and count on her for some telling commentary of the modern world.