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HomeInsightLightweighting In The Car Industry
Car manufacturers are working to shave off unnecessary weight in cars of the future so as to improve performance and reduce their carbon footprint. What does this mean for consumers?
Car manufacturers are always on the quest for new technologies to boost the performance and efficiency of their cars. As the global switch to a more carbon-neutral future gets into high gear, with electric and hybrid cars leading the charge, the automotive industry is also looking at new ways to reduce the weight of their cars.
This weight-loss programme, termed 'lightweighting', may not be a new concept to the auto industry, but it has matured enough to make a significant impact on our environment. Lightweighting places value not just on the use of materials, safety, manufacturing and operating costs, but also on adopting more sustainable production methods.
The advantages of a lighter vehicle are myriad. Weight elimination in structural parts such as the chassis permits the use of a smaller and lighter engine and lightweight brakes and suspension system. With less weight strain leading to less wear and tear on the car, the car's lifespan is extended. A lighter core means that a smaller, lighter engine will be able to achieve performances similar to a heavier car with a bigger engine. Likewise, bigger brakes that are usually needed to stop a heavier vehicle can be pared down to decelerate a lighter vehicle. A lighter vehicle overall will be more agile — especially going into corners — and will be able to achieve higher speeds and have shorter stopping distances. The impact of a lighter vehicle is especially important in the evolution of EVs, whose battery makes up a considerable portion of the vehicle's weight. Any reduction in body weight can only be beneficial to its efficiency and performance.
In the past, when heavy steel was used in car bodies, consumers had the misplaced notion that they were well protected in a 'tank'. However, in the event of a crash, the weight of the vehicle transfers kinetic energy to the passengers instead of absorbing the impact. Lighter materials are designed to crumple on impact. They allow modern cars to have crumple zones. In the event of a collision, these zones absorb most of the blow and thus limit the impact on the driver and passengers.
Where heavier metals such as steel were commonly used in car manufacturing, lighter and structurally strong aluminum alloys are progressively taking over. Aluminium, once solely used in the aerospace industry, has become the go-to material for making most modern car parts. Similarly, carbon-fibre composites were once only deployed in aerospace and Formula One. The material has since made its way into the supercar market, and is inching into the mainstream car market; in fact, some car companies already manufacture body panels for family sedans and hatchbacks from composites.
Some car manufacturers are also looking to make their production methods more sustainable. Utilising advanced 3D technology as well as new-age metal additives, manufacturers are able to eliminate a significant amount of physical tooling and machining, which not only make up a substantial investment for car manufacturers, but are less sustainable manufacturing processes. This trend is catching on with larger car manufacturers, and the costs involved will definitely reduce as the technology matures, as they did with the initial introduction of light alloys and carbon fibre.
Lighter cars mean consumers will be getting vehicles that are safer, faster, more efficient, and more environmentally friendly. The options open to consumers will only broaden as better and newer technologies emerge, guaranteeing an exciting automotive future for everyone.
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S/Africa: Fugitive preacher, wife hand themselves to Malawi police
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Malawi-born evangelists Shepherd and Mary Bushiri of the Enlightened Christian Congregation (ECG) church have handed themselves to Malawi police following Interpol's all-points bulletin issued to apprehend them on behalf of the South African law authorities.
Malawi Police spokesman James Kadadzera confirmed this on Wednesday.
The Pretoria Magistrate Court issued warrants of arrest for the multimillionaire church leaders on Monday after the couple skipped bail last week, and using Interpol, the warrants were sent to Malawi and received on Tuesday, Kadadzera said.
He said the couple were in the Malawi police custody awaiting a court appearance on a date yet to be decided.
According to ECG spokesman Ephraim Nyondo, the Bushiris' submission to the Malawi law enforcers was part of their mission to seek justice in Malawi following their skipping a $26,000 bail from South Africa.
The ECG leaders were arrested two weeks ago in Pretoria, where the church is based, and charged with theft, fraud and money laundering involving $7.0 million.
The couple, however, secured bail after a two-week court battle.
Days later they slipped out of the country, claiming their lives were in danger due to death threats.
Nyondo said the evangelists' move to hand themselves over to the Malawi authorities was "a normal process" in which the ECG leaders want to "legally explain and defend" their decision to flee to Malawi.
The Bushiris were "still innocent until proven guilty. As of now, there is no court in the world that has proven the Bushiris as being guilty," Nyondo said.
He added: "They may be subjected to public and media trial but they maintain their innocence until proven otherwise by a competent court in a fair trial."
In a statement issued at the weekend after their arrival in Malawi, the Bushiris said they did not run away from a hearing in South Africa.
They had left South Africa for Malawi to use their homeland base as a platform to demand guarantees for a free and fair trial ahead of their return to the docks in the Rainbow Nation, they said.
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LibraryThing and Litsy Q&A
As we wrote in the last blog post, LibraryThing has acquired the mobile platform Litsy. Here is a sort of Q&A about Litsy, and how Litsy and LibraryThing can help each other. Other resources:
Litsy Newsletter: Big news (Email to all Litsy members, reposted on the LibraryThing blog.)
LibraryThing Talk discussion
Onward Litsy! Facebook group
Q: What is Litsy?
Litsy is both like and unlike LibraryThing. First, everything happens within a smartphone app—there's no website. Second, although Litsy members can "catalog" their books in a simple (works-only) way, the main activity is sharing posts with words and photos of books you're reading, of passages you find interesting, or even where you're reading a book. (Posts are marked "review", "blurb", or "quote.") Litsy has friends, comments, hashtags and so forth, but lacks a central "Groups" or "Talk" like on LibraryThing.
Here's some past press coverage of Litsy.
Book Riot — Litsy: If Instagram and Goodreads had a perfect baby
TechCrunch — Litsy is a book-focused social network that goes beyond reviews
Econsultancy — A review of Litsy: The social media app for book lovers (detailed)
Author News — Litsy: A New Social Network for Book Lovers
Q: How can I try it out?
The Litsy app is available for iOS (iPhone, iPad) and Android systems. Check it out at http://litsy.com.
Q: Why did LibraryThing acquire Litsy?
Litsy is an amazing community, similar to LibraryThing in its passion for books, but different in its feel, focus, technology, and demographic. We admired what Jeff and Todd had built so when Jeff approached us recently, we jumped at the opportunity. Litsy is a cool thing, and we think it has a great future ahead of it.
Q: How big a deal is this for LibraryThing?
The terms of the deal are not disclosed, but we can tell you it did not involve company-limiting amounts of money.
To be frank, we see no major changes for the LibraryThing site or community, at least in the near- or medium-term. We may offer syncing or single sign-ons between services. And we will definitely be leveraging LibraryThing's superior book data within Litsy. We also see a lot of potential in getting Litsy members into LibraryThing's Early Reviewers program and attracting more publisher interest with the larger community this offers. But we aren't going to try to combine the services or communities. If you choose not to join Litsy, you won't likely see or read much about it on LT.
Q: How much membership overlap is there?
Very little. They are different communities that have spread in different ways. We hope to drive some cross-service exploration, but LibraryThing and Litsy are different places.
This difference is a strength. LibraryThing is now working across the book-loving spectrum. It gives us greater profile in the book world, and helps us to serve all kinds of passionate readers.
Q: What can LibraryThing offer Litsy, and visa versa?
In the press release, we speculated about some ways that LibraryThing can help Litsy. They include:
Better book data.
Syncing between the services.
Moving LibraryThing's excellent barcode scanning into the Litsy app.
Get more libraries involved in Litsy.
Bringing Litsy members into LibraryThing's Early Reviewers program.
Litsy can help LibraryThing in similar ways. The Litsy apps have some nice features we're liable to steal for LibraryThing. And we hope that if we provide syncing between services, some Litsy members will also become LibraryThing members.
Come to Talk to discuss other ways of making Litsy useful to LibraryThing.
Q: What's this about Early Reviewers?
The idea of bringing Litsy members into Early Reviewers may stir some concerns. If more people can get books, won't there be fewer books?
We don't think so. Publishers love Early Reviewers for its unique picking system, which connects their books to readers likely to actually enjoy their book. And they love that we're free for publishers, whereas our larger competitor now charges publishers.
But we remain small, and our membership demographics don't fit every publisher's offerings. Adding Litsy will increase Early Reviewer's reach, with notices going out to another, substantial set of passionate readers who buy a lot of books. And Litsy members have a somewhat different demographic profile than LibraryThing members, which should draw some new publishers.
Q: How does Litsy fit into LibraryThing's business model? (short)
Litsy is cheap to run. We're happy to be its new owners. And we're in for the long haul.
Q: How does Litsy fit into LibraryThing's business model? (long)
The usual pattern for social companies is to "get big fast or die." You get funded. You spend all your money quickly to get as many users as you can. Then you sell yourself to a larger company who want your community size. In reality, however, the most common path is that the company flames out and dies, everyone loses their data, the community is blown apart, and the founders move onto the next idea.
LibraryThing never followed that approach. From the start, we conserved our resources, and made money by charging members small fees. We didn't look for a buyout from Amazon or Google. Eventually we found another path to making money—turning some of LibraryThing's technology and data toward making libraries better. We earn every dollar we make, and we don't annoy or exploit members to do it.
As things stand, Litsy is large enough to matter to a lot of people, but it's too small to be significantly "monetized." Fortunately, it's also cheap to run—even cheaper now that Litsy can live within the existing LibraryThing infrastructure.
After twelve years of making LibraryThing work, we believe the race is long, and good things with great communities will find their business. We plan to take the same approach with Litsy.
Q: What else?
Come talk about Litsy on Talk. We also started a group, Onward Litsy! for Litsy members to talk to each other and LibraryThing staff, on Facebook. (We started it on Facebook, as a neutral place.) You are more than welcome to join, but we hope to get the Litsy people talking. LibraryThing's been doing big, burly staff-community conversations for years; it's a new thing for Litsy.
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Litsy Newsletter: Big news
Note: This went out today in the Litsy newsletter. Litsy doesn't have a blog, so we thought we'd also post it here, for Littens to share.
We have big news! LibraryThing, the team behind the long-running social cataloging and book discussion site LibraryThing.com, has acquired Litsy.
The Short Version
Don't panic. Litsy is not going away or getting folded into another site. On the contrary, we at LibraryThing will be working hard to support and grow Litsy in new ways!
We have some immediate plans in mind, starting with better book data from LibraryThing and LibraryThing's partner, Bowker. But most of all we want to know what YOU want.
We've set up a Facebook Group "Onward Litsy!" to begin a two-way conversation with Litsy members. Please join the discussion here.
Thank you for reading this; we can't wait to get to know you better. Thank you to Jeff and Todd for creating such a great service, and trusting us to keep it safe and build it up! Please be sure to check out their note below.
The Long Version
LibraryThing is the new owner and manager of the Litsy app and service. We took over from Jeff and Todd, the founders of Out of Print Clothing, a few weeks ago. (Read their note, below.) We've been working on moving the technical side to LibraryThing services, and are now turning our attention to the Litsy community, and how we can bring Litsy to the next level.
If you've never heard of LibraryThing, we're both like and unlike Litsy. Like Litsy, LibraryThing is a unique, passionate, and often tight-knit community of book lovers. LibraryThing and Litsy are each others' kind of people.
LibraryThing was started in 2005 by Tim Spalding (Litsy: TimSpalding) as a pet project to catalog his own library and for bibliophile friends. Since then we've racked up 2.2 million users, who've cataloged over 123 million books. Although members have created 11,000 groups, and started over 200,000 discussions, LibraryThing is relatively focused on cataloging—on recording everything you own or read. While we have an app for searching for and scanning books into your library, all our social engagement happens on the website.
Tim is new to Litsy, but others of us aren't. One of our library team, Kirsten (kgriffith, formerly glitterfemme), has been on Litsy since just after its launch, contributing early user experience feedback and feature testing in addition to being active on the platform ever since. Our social media expert Loranne (lorannen) followed soon after. Both have been critical in bringing Litsy into the LibraryThing world.
We want you to know that we love Litsy and have no plans to make drastic changes. Litsy is here to stay, and we're here to make it even better for you.
We still have a lot of technical work to get up to speed and bring Litsy onto LibraryThing servers. But here are some of the ideas we've had to bring Litsy to the next level:
Give Litsy better book data, from LibraryThing itself and from its data partner, Bowker.
Provide an easy way to link accounts and sync between the two services.
LibraryThing works with thousands of libraries. Get more of them involved in Litsy.
Add barcode scanning to the Litsy app, so you don't need to do as much searching.
Bring Litsy members into LibraryThing's Early Reviewers program, which offers free pre-release books to interested readers. We think a larger and more diverse community will draw more publishers, and more books.
What do you think? Do you have any questions? We want to get to know you better, and for you to get to know us. We want to hear what you love about Litsy, and talk through ideas about how to make it better. To that end, we've started a Facebook group to open dialogue between the LibraryThing team and Littens everywhere.
» Onward Litsy!
If you don't do Facebook, you can find us on Twitter at @getlitsy and @LibraryThing. Or just email us at litsy@librarything.com.
Thank you for your time! Thank you too to Jeff and Todd for building such a great service, and trusting us with it now. They deserve a standing ovation for everything they've done. Please be sure to check out their note, below.
Tim and the LibraryThing Team
A Note from Jeff and Todd
Fellow Littens,
From day one, we wanted Litsy to be a place where readers could share their love of books and expand their TBR lists. Over 14 million app visits later, we're simply blown away by the awesomeness of the Litsy community!
Working with LibraryThing is the next natural step in fulfilling our original mission. With their vast experience in books and tech, we can't wait to see where they take Litsy next. As for us, we will continue leading the charge at Out of Print, which is now a subsidiary of Penguin Random House.
Thanks for helping to make Litsy so special. We will miss working with you all, but we're just a Litsy @mention away! 🙂
Todd and Jeff
LibraryThing Acquires Litsy
LibraryThing has acquired the mobile platform Litsy! What's Litsy? Here's some past press coverage:
Here's a press release we wrote up about it. When you've read it, check out:
Blog post: LibraryThing and Litsy Q&A
Litsy Newsletter: Big news! (Email to all Litsy members, reposted on the LibraryThing blog.)
Press Release: LibraryThing Acquires Litsy
LibraryThing, creator of the social site LibraryThing.com and a leading provider of software for libraries, has acquired the mobile app Litsy.
Litsy, "where books make friends," is a mobile platform known for being "Instagram for booklovers." Litsy was launched in early 2016 by Jeff LeBlanc and Todd Lawton. The two had previously founded the book-themed clothing company Out of Print Clothing, acquired by Penguin Random House in June 2017.
"LibraryThing and Litsy are very different platforms," said Tim Spalding, Founder of LibraryThing. "But they share a love of reading, and a respect for the passionate, unusual communities that animate them."
"LibraryThing is the perfect home for Litsy," said LeBlanc and Lawton. "Their technology and expertise delighting readers will help take Litsy to the next level."
Litsy's unique approach to social media has inspired its users to create discussion threads, community read-alongs, and book-sharing groups. Users accumulate "Litfluence," an indication of others' engagement with their posts, and celebrate milestones with hashtags and giveaways. Having a book profile linked to each post makes it simple for users to discover and to "stack" books they would like to read or have read in the past, which is all added to their profile.
LibraryThing's initial plans are modest. "Our first duty is to keep what's great about both Litsy and LibraryThing, and build from there. We aren't going to do anything drastic, like combine them into one service," Spalding said. "Most of all, we want to listen to Litsy members, and take it from there."
As part of the acquisition, LibraryThing is inaugurating a two-way conversation with the Litsy community ("Littens"). A Facebook group has been set up for this, "Onward Litsy!" All Litsy members, and curious LibraryThing members, are invited to participate.
Spalding indicates that LibraryThing staff is currently focused on moving the service to take advantage of LibraryThing's more extensive technical infrastructure. They plan to upgrade Litsy's book data using information from LibraryThing itself, and from its library- and data-partner, Bowker/ProQuest. LibraryThing will be encouraging libraries to get involved with Litsy too.
Publishers will see one planned change, as LibraryThing intends to offer Litsy members access to LibraryThing's Early Reviewer program. Early Reviewers helps publishers connect with readers and create buzz for new titles by providing pre-release books in exchange for an honest review.
More details on the LibraryThing blog: https://blog.librarything.com/2018/03/librarything-acquires-litsy/
Q&A on the LibraryThing blog: https://blog.librarything.com/2018/03/litsyquesti/
"Onward Litsy" Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/OnwardLitsy/
Loranne Nasir
loranne@librarything.com
About LibraryThing
LibraryThing is a leader in social networking for readers and in software for libraries. LibraryThing.com counts over 2.2 million members who have cataloged 123 million books. LibraryThing's library software, including Syndetics Unbound, co-developed with ProQuest, is used by thousands of libraries around the world. Learn more at LibraryThing.com and proquest.syndetics.com.
Introducing the LibraryThing Alexa Skill
Introducing the LibraryThing Skill for the Amazon Echo, Dot and other Alexa devices. Take a look:
The LibraryThing Alexa Skill is a weird but easy way to add books to your LibraryThing account. Just stand in the foyer, with a bag of new books, or on top of a rickety bookshelf ladder in the attic, and say:
Alexa, tell LibraryThing to add [Book Title] by [author]
And Alexa will add the book. Or it will try to. It's not perfect.
To get a higher success rate, skip the title and author and just read the barcode, or ISBN number, off the back of your book:
Alexa, tell LibraryThing to add [Barcode or ISBN number]
There are a few other commands. Try:
Alexa, ask LibraryThing how many books I have.
To dazzle your friends with your intelligent personal assistant and your impressive library.
See the LibraryThing Wiki for detailed directions on how to install it, and what to say.
Come talk about this on Talk.
The Alexa app was coded up by Chris Holland (@conceptdawg), who did a bang-up job, with an immature programming environment.
Thanks to Abby and Puck (pictured) for the video.
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March 2018 Early Reviewers—Win free books!
Win free books from the March 2018 batch of Early Reviewer titles! This month we've got 109 titles, and a grand total of 3,233 copies to give out. Which books are you hoping to snag this month? Come tell us on Talk.
If you haven't already, sign up for Early Reviewers. If you've already signed up, please check your mailing/email address and make sure they're correct.
» Request books here!
The deadline to request a copy is Monday, March 26th at 6pm Eastern.
Eligiblity: Publishers do things country-by-country. This month we have publishers who can send books to the US, Canada, the UK, Israel, Australia, France, and many more. Make sure to check the flags by each book to see if it can be sent to your country.
Raincloud Press First Steps Publishing Candlewick Press
Akashic Books Kaylie Jones Books Open Lens
Tundra Books Puffin Books Canada Penguin Teen Canada
Revell William Morrow Literary Wanderlust LLC
Oceanview Publishing Petra Books Ballantine Books
Random House Eerdmans Books for Young Readers Heritage Books
EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing HighBridge Audio Tantor Media
EsKape Press Raven Books Blue Crow Books
Gefen Publishing House Harper Perennial Odyssey Books
Apex Publications CarTech Books Bellevue Literary Press
Kazabo Publishing Open Books NewCon Press
City Owl Press Oneworld Publications Prufrock Press
BookViewCafe BHC Press Henry Holt and Company
Small Beer Press Poise and Pen Publishing Emerald Lake Books
ForeEdge Small Beer Press/Big Mouth House Three Rooms Press
Chronicle Books The Lemic Group, Inc. 1845 Publishing
Soul Food Publishing Emerson & Tilman Loose Leaves Publishing
Stone Pier Press
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You gotta find a place in your heart for a movie with a title like this. Its melancholic story is not so much about the moment of execution, or even what led up to it directly, as it is about what made it possible for a such an obvious, young celebrity-seeking hound like Bob Ford, with little else going for him, apparently, to get close to the usually guarded Jesse James. (And in this respect, Brad Pitt gets it about right.) Affleck's Ford is so unctuous in his attentions to Jesse, I wanted to skin him alive half the time. Frank James (Sam Shepard) didn't fall for his line for a second, for all the good it did him, or Jesse. There's a narration that tries to place things in historical context, voiced by Hugh Ross, about whose delivery I can say only that it beats all to hell Costner's mangling of spoken language in Dances With Wolves. All the same, I thought the movie would have played better without it. Perhaps the director felt that passive actors wouldn't be able to tell us much.
The movie begins with the James Brothers' final train robbery, which netted them less than the expense of the operation. We follow the breakup of the gang and 19 year-old Bob Ford (Casey Affleck) in his brief and climactic courtship of the then 34 year old Jesse. As they say, there's nothing like a sycophant spurned to end things with a bullet in the back.
The score of 6 indicates a relative level of excellence compared to other Blu-ray on a 10-point scale. The score in parentheses represents: first, a value for the image in absolute terms; and, second, how that image compares to what I believe is the current best we can expect in the theatre.
Halos aren't prominent when zoomed-in but this does have some edge-enhancement manipulation. Characters can often appear like cardboard cut-outs (see Sam Shepard - 2nd capture below). Aside from the film's visual style and Roger Deakins excellent cinematography - this is surely a transfer issue and once noticed looks quite bad.
Pushing that aside the image is also a tough one to realize on video – in fact, there was a time, not so long ago, when it would have been something of a wash. Muted, almost monochromatic sepia, night shots with little help from auxiliary lighting, and deliberately blurred partial frames (of which chicanery I am not a fan.) When sharpness in the source is not a priority, and grain is apparent throughout, resolution has to be high in the video to retain a sense of visual coherence. The thing about this aspect of the image here is that it matches the intent, which is antique, rather than modern. What it offers over the SD is some more life in the color which is necessarily thin to begin with as well as improved dimensionality due to its not requiring upscaling. My screen captures look a little less green as compared to Gary's for the SD-DVD.
I had fears that the music track was going to be warmed over Ken Burns but, thanks be, the moody score by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis plays like a funeral dirge for the Old West. I liked it. The dialogue is clear enough, not that I didn't feel the need to switch on the subtitles for "translation."
Typical of Warner, we get right to the movie before we realize it's started. The menu, though in no way taking advantage of the medium, is easy to make sense out of. As is typical with Warner Blu-rays, the slightly expanding thumbnails are not titled. Lots of chapters.
The 31 minute making-of docufeature, The Assassination of Jesse James: Death of an Outlaw, is new for the BRD – the recent SD having no extra features at all. With the help of historians and the present filmmakers the documentary looks at the legend, and historical record, using archival reports. Dramatic recreations and brief clips from the movie. Not bad.
While the movie and transfer are problematic, it is definitely worth seeing for the cinematography, the music, Affleck (if you can endure his character), and the revisionist stroll down memory lane.


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In this time of sleep-depriving uncertainty, I find myself constantly searching for a Magic Bullet Theory: One Explanation To Rule Them All. I keep combing the wide, hysterical internet for some equation that boils down this seemingly game-changing moment to the fewest, truest variables.
What is the deepest, simplest explanation of what the hell is really going on here?
The more rational part of me, of course, knows that the historical factors that led to this moment are many and varied. But I keep searching nonetheless. It's probably a stupid "boy" thing - like the emails my high school friends and I have been cranking out for decades about The Reason LeBron Can Never Surpass Jordan, etc.
It was the search for that one unifying idea that led me to write a post a few weeks ago about capitalism > morality: the "core value" that I suggested to be America's founding charter, and guiding principle. I argued that c > m was the simplest explanation of both America's greatest accomplishments and ghastliest human rights failings.
My good friend Rick Zednik suggested a tweak of c > m. He sees America's guiding principle as self-interest > collective interest, an idea that I find deeply intriguing, and perhaps even truer than c >m.
And now, just this past week, I came upon a new, fascinating unifying theory: a broader, global take. This is an idea that unites the rise of Trumpism with the spectre of ISIS, the reign of the Iranian mullahs, and, most notably, the Bond villain who seems poised to be the primary author of our planet's dominant storyline for a generation or more, Vladimir Putin.
You probably know the name Garry Kasparov because of his legendary chess career. One of the game's greatest all-time champions, he is nonetheless most famous for his 1997 loss to IBM's Deep Blue. This moment marked the first loss by a chess grandmaster to a tool of artificial intelligence, a turning point that may one day be known as the "moon landing" moment in the rise of synthetic sentience. But I digress.
Since retiring from chess, Kasparov has become a full-time human rights activist, and a fearless, ferocious critic of Putin. Kasparov has written extensively about the existential threat Putin poses to the free world. The events of 2016 have thrust Kasparov and his mission to the world's center stage.
Last week, Kasparov spoke at length with the brilliant writer and intellectual Sam Harris, who has written several modern classics of nonfiction ("The End Of Faith" may be his most famous book). Harris hosts a must-subscribe podcast called "Waking Up."
Harris's entire conversation with Kasparov is revelatory, terrifying, and well worth your 90 minutes. But pursuant to my "grand unifying theory" introduction to this post, I've transcribed the most relevant passage here:
KASPAROV: One of the fundamental differences between 'us' and 'them' is that we believe in the uniqueness of human life. One person dead is a tragedy. But for people like Putin, hundreds of thousands dead is just a demonstration of strength. It's just statistics, that prove they are on a winning streak by spreading their influence.
We have to realize that despite all the differences between different political groups and activists in the free world, we are still united by values that makes us very different from the other side of the world, [to which] I could apply the word "evil." Who really threaten our way of life, and the very foundation of a free society.
Value of human life is one of the things that bring together Putin, ISIS, Al Qaeda, and the Iranian mullahs. They may look different. But at the end of the day, they believe in something that is not modern. Something that pushes us back to the past. And for the people who are saying "Oh, unlike the Soviet Union, Putin's Russia is no longer an existential threat to the free world because it doesn't have the same ideology," my response is probably you're right.
But the Soviet project, though it was condemned by history, and marred by repressions, bloodshed, and devaluation of human life…it was still a project about the future. Now, it was a futuristic project based on wrong assumptions about human nature - that's why it failed. But it was still about the future.
While today we're dealing with threats that all are looking for ideal society in a distant past. So, Putin looks for 19th-century imperial politics, Iranian mullahs for medieval religious inquisition, and ISIS of course goes back to the early caliphate.
It's all about something that has no connection to modernity. That's why today we can see things as the fight between modernity and archaic forces. And somehow, even the last US elections were about a desperate attempt to look for an ideal model of the past.
The core of Kasparov's unifying theory is fear.
Fear is the value that connects Kasparov's theory to Zednik's concept of self-interest vs collective interest. A man is driven to value his own self-interest over the interests of others because his fear for his own well-being exceeds his confidence.
The most important value that binds together Putin, Trump and Adolf Hitler is their fear. They are men who are, in their innermost heart of hearts, afraid of who they really are.
This month, we bid a wrenching good-bye to President Barack Hussein Obama, a man who, at his core, is unafraid. He was raised by a loving mother, he loves himself and the people around him, and he projects his love upon strangers: to all people around the world. He genuinely believes in the inherent goodness of others. His love, acceptance, and tolerance, for himself and others, will define his greatness for generations. And perhaps explain his shortcomings as well.
But regardless of his failings, there can be no doubt that Obama was a man whose confidence allowed him to embrace the uncertainties inherent to an evolving, modern world. He knew, as no other President in my lifetime knew, that the bleeding edge of the modern world was deeply uncertain: indeed, unknowable. But Obama embraced that uncertainty. And he projected into that mysterious void his own self-love and confidence: the content of his character. In spite of the imminent-seeming rollbacks of his policies, the imprint of his character has and will continue to influence millions of people around the world. He has himself bent the moral arc of the universe towards justice, irreversibly.
That he is being replaced in the White House by a man who is in his heart of hearts terrified of who he is, who on an hourly basis lashes out with that fear, spitting it at whatever random forces happen to trespass the strange, bedraggled landscape of his consciousness...this is the reason we all feel like we are clutching to the railing of a ship at roiling sea, heaving up and down, back and forth, not knowing if the worst is ahead of us or behind, clueless about just how serious this storm can be. Because we know that fear is bottomless. For every war and calamity in history, for every holocaust and genocide, fear has been the gasoline.
In the age of Vladimir Putin, we have never been more in need of courage. And we have never had a President more fundamentally afraid.
They didn't vote for Donald Trump because they were uneducated and he fooled them. They voted for Donald Trump because they identified with him so deeply. Because he is just as scared as they are.
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In 2012, Genesis II for Families and Children's Safety Centers merged under the name FamilyWise Services. While our name is new, we have a long history through our two successful predecessors.
We began as the Criminal Justice Project in 1976, becoming the first community-based corrections program for women in Minnesota. In 1979, Genesis II for Women incorporated as a private, comprehensive, non-profit human service agency. In 2003, the organization changed its name to "Genesis II for Families" to better reflect the services being offered to whole families. After the merger of the two organizations in January 2012, rebranding was launched in May 2012, and is now called FamilyWise. FamilyWise has expanded over the years, now offering a comprehensive array of family strengthening programs to help families overcome the many challenges faced in being a whole, healthy family.
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Young ST letter writers share views on news
Forum editor Liaw Wy-Cin speaking at the ST Young Forum Writers dialogue yesterday at SPH News Centre in Toa Payoh. She encouraged the more than 20 young letter writers gathered to ask their peers to read the Home section first, where they might find news stories most directly relevant to them.PHOTO: DIOS VINCOY JR FOR THE STRAITS TIMES
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They discuss news business and how to get youth interested in current affairs at dialogue
Linette Lai
Political Correspondent
linettel@sph.com.sg
Young people do not pay attention to news because they do not see how it relates to them. Plus, it does not help with schoolwork.
"They tend to feel that it's boring or very heavy, and they don't find that it's important to them," said 16-year-old Lee Song Yang, who has just completed his studies at Geylang Methodist School (Secondary). "But I think it's important for the next generation to know what is happening."
Song Yang walks the walk, as a regular writer to The Straits Times' Voices of Youth about issues of the day. He and more than 20 young letter writers gathered yesterday for an evening of animated discussion about the news business as well as how to get young people interested in current affairs at the SPH News Centre in Toa Payoh.
Forum editor Liaw Wy-Cin suggested they ask their peers to read the Home section first, where they might find news stories most directly relevant to them.
Others wanted to know how the day's top stories are chosen, why certain Forum letters are picked over others, and if newspapers would endure in the face of online competition and social media.
NEWS IS IMPORTANT
They tend to feel that it's boring or very heavy, and they don't find that it's important to them. But I think it's important for the next generation to know what is happening.
LEE SONG YANG, 16, a regular writer The Straits Times' Youth Forum
In the first nine months of this year, The Straits Times received 24,000 letters, some 3,670 of which were eventually published.
In addition to the regular Forum pages, a dedicated space for younger readers to express their thoughts was started in April 2013.
Running every Wednesday, Voices of Youth is open to those aged 21 and below.
While the earliest letters resembled "school compositions" and dealt with topics students were most familiar with, such as school life and exams, said Ms Liaw, the quality has improved noticeably.
Students are also beginning to write in about issues such as freedom of speech or world affairs.
"Increasingly, we are seeing letters that respond to other issues, or to other writers," Ms Liaw added.
Some of the letter writers were accompanied by their parents. A similar dialogue for adult writers was held last Friday. It was attended by around 200 people.
Speaking on the future of the newspaper with the advent of online news portals and social media, Straits Times editor Warren Fernandez said he believed newspapers would be around for some time.
"Many people have predicted the demise of the newspaper, but it's been a long time in coming," he said. "But if you purely depend on one platform - on print - then you are in trouble."
He also spoke on how the paper's editors decide on the most important news for the next day, saying it is a matter of what will be of most interest to the paper's target audience. "There are days, like today, when there is so much happening," he said, referring to the global reaction to the attacks in Paris. "We go on the basis of what will have the most impact for our Singaporean readers."
Among last night's guests were sisters Elizabeth, Kate and Lauren Yeo. They started writing about student issues close to their hearts, but slowly broadened their scope.
"As you look around, you find that there are more and more things that interest you," said Elizabeth, who is 16 and the oldest of the three.
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[MD] Julian Baggini: This is what the clash of civilisations is really about
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dmb, all,
On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 11:27 AM, david <dmbuchanan at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Baggini wrote:
> "The clash of civilisations is happening not between Islam and the West,
> as we are often led to believe, but between pragmatic relativism and
> dogmatic certainty."
> dmb says:
> We don't need Truth to be Objective, Fixed, Absolute, or Eternal and we
> can't have that kind of truth anyway. But we do need truth to be vigorous
> enough and strong enough to kill lies, bullshit, fanaticism, propaganda,
> honest mistakes and good old fashioned stupidity. We need excellence in
> thought and speech and ideas that actually work when they're put into
> practice.
"The contrast is not one between intellectualism and pragmatism. It is the
contrast between two well-known attitudes of will, — the will that is loyal
to truth as an universal ideal, and the will that is concerned with its own
passing caprices.
And yet, despite all this, the modern assault upon mere intellectualism is
well founded. The truth of our assertions is indeed definable only by
taking account of the meaning of our own individual attitudes of will, and
the truth, whatever else it is, is at least instrumental in helping us
towards the goal of all human volition. The only question is whether the
will I really means to aim at doing something that has a final and eternal
meaning.
All logic is the logic of the will. There is no pure intellect. Thought is
a mode of action, a mode of action distinguished from other modes mainly by
its internal clearness of self-consciousness, by its relatively free
control of its own procedure, and by the universality, the impersonal
fairness and obviousness of its aims and of its motives. An idea in the
consciousness of a thinker is simply a present consciousness of some
expression of purpose, — a plan of action. A judgment is an act of a
reflective and self-conscious character, an act whereby one accepts or
rejects an idea as a sufficient expression of the very purpose that is each
time in question. Our whole objective world is meanwhile defined for each
of us in terms of our ideas. General assertions about the meaning of our
ideas are reflective acts whereby we acknowledge and accept certain ruling
principles of action.
And in respect of all these aspects of doctrine I find myself at one with
recent voluntarism, whether the latter takes the form of instrumentalism,
or insists upon some more individualistic theory of truth. But for my part,
in spite, or in fact because of this my voluntarism, I cannot rest in any
mere relativism. Individualism is right in saying, "I will to credit this
or that opinion." But individualism is wrong in supposing that I can ever
be content with my own will in as far as it is merely an individual will.
The will to my mind is to all of us nothing but a thirst for complete and
conscious self-possession, for fullness of life. And in terms of this its
central motive, the will defines the truth that it endlessly seeks as a
truth that possesses completeness, totality, self-possession, and there
fore absoluteness."
J Royce -  William James and other Essays on the Philosophy of Life


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I. Mass Communication in the Modern Age
1. Mass Communication and Its Functions
Tucker McIlwrath, Jonathan Young, Michael Noone, and Jake Mikucki
2. Theories of Communication
Jessica Shaw, Hannah Sheehan, and Nick Pulliam
3. Implications of Convergence
Seth Prue, Etienne Vongerichten, and Lauren Pearce
II. Media Literacy in the Digital Age
4. The Importance of Media Literacy
Erica Morrissette, Simon Pierpont, Riley Murray, Julie Nagel, and David Muite
5. The Implications of Commercial Media
Taylor Wright, David Varney, Quinn Weldon, and Austin Anderson
6. Media Bias
Elizabeth Morrissette, Grace McKeon, Alison Louie, Amy Luther, and Alexis Fagen
7. Media Grammar
Blair M. Taylor, David Thrumston, Bridget G. Sullivan, and Andrew Max Derby
III. Print Media
8. Historical Development
Quinn Weldon, David Varney, Austin Anderson, Taylor Wright
9. Historical Development--Second Perspective
Samantha Knapton, Allie Butterfield, Lindsay Brenner, Keegan Burch, and Samuel Kfoury
10. Current Business Issues
John Roberts, Seth Prue, & Nicholas Pulliam
11. Current Business Issues--Second Perspective
Erica Morrissette, Riley Murray, Simon Pierpont, Julie Nagel, David Muite
12. Financial Models
Alexis Turner, Jessica Shaw, Jonathan Young, Etienne Vongerichten
13. Financial Models--Second Perspective
Elizabeth Morrissette, Grace McKeon, Amy Luther, Alison Louie, Alexis Fagan
14. Financial Models--Third Perspective
M. Blair Taylor and David Thrumston
15. The Future
Tucker McIlwrath, Jake Mikucki, Lauren Pearce, Hannah Sheehan, and Michael Noone
16. The Future--Second Perspective
Kayla Gagne
IV. Visual Media
17. Historical Development and Specific Functions
Jessica Shaw, Nick Pulliam, and Hannah Sheehan
Lauren Pearce, Etienne Vongerichten, and Seth Prue
Michael Noone, Jonathan Young, Jake Mikucki, and Tucker McIlwrath
Alexis Turner, Lindsay Brenner, and John Roberts
V. Interactive Media
21. Functions
Blair M. Taylor, David Thrumston, and Andrew Max Derby
22. Historical Development
Erica Morrissette, Riley Murray, Simon Pierpont, Julie Nagel, and David Muite
Taylor Wright, Quinn Weldon, David Varney, and Austin Anderson
Introduction to Media Studies
How media is presented to the audience effects the meaning in every way. Within American culture, there is tendency to overlook all the processes that producers, of any kind, go through to deliver meaning and make an impact. Media sources often want to get the consumers to see things in a certain light. The term Media Grammar refers to a set of rules or tendencies that each different medium uses to convey meaning. "All media has its language. It is necessary for each media to have the grammar literacy. Thus, all media have unique characteristics, which will act as the distinguishing factor in the media" (Yuan). In this chapter we will look at media grammar with in print, audio broadcast, digital media, television and film. Additionally, we will look at different media effects and how these forms of grammar can make an impact. This section includes ideas regarding audience and crowd manipulation, and the effects this has.
Audio Broadcast Grammar
Audio Broadcasts encompasses any form of media that is primarily consumed through listening. The most common example of this is Radio programming. Despite what you might think radio is actually heavily regulated and controlled, at least in the U.S.A, in 1934 Congress passed a communications act that created the FCC, or Federal Communications Commission, an organization that was tasked with policing and enforcing the rules of mass communication including radio and eventually the internet. The FCC quickly went about creating a strict set of guidelines for radio communication that has been enforced since.
According the FCC's website one of the biggest prohibited forms of content in radio is obscene content and excessive profanity. Their guidelines say that "For content to be ruled obscene, it must meet a three-pronged test established by the Supreme Court: It must appeal to an average person's prurient interest; depict or describe sexual conduct in a "patently offensive" way; and, taken as a whole, lack serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value." (FCC) This, combined with a general negative view against excessive foul language has tempered radio into a much more "family friendly" media form. Violating these guidelines can lead to punishments ranging from having your broadcasting license taken away to being arrested depending on the severity of the violation. (FCC)
Interestingly enough there are no regulations against broadcasts designed to deceive or manipulate the general public, which is surprising considering that radio has proven to be one of the most effective tools available when it comes to mass manipulation. A great example of this is when in 1938 the Columbia Broadcast System aired a version of the novel "War of the Worlds" and nearly caused a mass panics. (History.com) It seems that our country has some very interesting double standards when it comes to radio broadcast grammar.
Digital Media Grammar
Digital media is any media that encodes a 'machine readable' formats. Digital media can be created, viewed, distributed, modified and reserved on electronic devices. For example, any form of digital message, picture, video, (video games) or any form of social media platform. Digital media is still developing every day for most places. Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, China, Vietnam, and North Korea are 6 countries that don't allow social media. There's about 4 billion people (mostly in developing countries) that don't have access to the internet. In the research by World Economic Forum, it was found that the four main reasons people have stayed offline are infrastructure, affordability, skills & awareness & cultural acceptance, and local adoption & use. The World Economic Forum is trying to get the government to show new policies that will help with finances to set up public WIFI for those who can't afford it. (Luxton)
There are three mediums to Digital Media Grammar including, media grammar literacy, media content literacy, and media medium literacy. They all form a specific view for the audience to engage with. "You need to have some understanding of specific workings of individual media."(Meyrowitz) Media grammar literacy has the power to make individuals view a person, place, or thing, either in a certain way or in a way that the sender wants you to think. For example, in 2017 Kendall Jenner does a Pepsi commercial which is a controversy due to the fact they used imagery of marches from a protest for the Black Lives Matter Movement and how then Kendall Jenner a white woman hands a police officer a Pepsi can and he grins in approval, the crowd then cheers. People saying that "this is nothing from their experiences with protests." The people saw it to be trivializing, Pepsi then apologized saying, that was not their intention to "make light of any serious issue." That's one example of how media grammar can make you perceive things in different ways than intended. (Wang) (Victor)
Tendencies of digital media that seem to not change are; the fundamental rules which then lead to mass marketing, having fame work, and pulling at emotion. The people taking in the information that commercials, etc. are throwing at us are the ones who decide if we like it. Ads that stick out to the consumers, such as catchy jingles or ones that trigger your emotion will be stuck in a consumer's mind so when they see the product they will be more likely to purchase it. Many commercials nowadays include famous people and since consumers typically look up to said people they will want to be like them, and have the item that's being endorsed. Even though media is changing on a day to day basis, these "fundamental rules" seem to work in marketing so they stick. (Jaques)
Television and Film Grammar
Film and television have certain tools and devices at their usage that other forms of media do not (Pavlik, 53). Due to the smaller nature of budgets in TV vs film, the devices are limited. Some examples of television and film grammar are how something is filmed. Most television sitcoms or situation comedies are filmed in front of an audience, and most use limited sets, set designs and camera positions. When these shows are not filmed live they use a laugh track where it creates an artificial audience to put emphasis more on the humorous aspects of a television show (Pavlik 53). Mostly sitcoms and game shows are the only ones filmed in front of an audience. The CBS show Two and a Half Men is an example of a show with a laugh track while Family Guy and Modern Family do not.
In films since they do not have audience or crowd they are filmed with more camera work and set design then most television series'. These camera angles make for unique film watching experiences. These include different types of cuts or scene changes. (Chandler). Another type of shot or filmed segment in television or film is a stock shot. These include views of a city skyline for a theme song or opening. Another technique used in films and television is voice over (Chandler), when previously recorded audio of a character is used in a scene where they are not visibly present, in most versions it is when they have written a note or letter. Another filming technique mostly used in crime drama shows or horror films is a jump cut or dramatic shift of scenes for effect (Chandler). All of these are editing techniques to enhance the film or TV show. Voice over work is also usually the main source of audio in animated films.
These tools and vocabulary used in film and television are very essential to understanding how each are made. While the jargon might be common to someone in everyday life, the individuals in these fields must master it. Film and televisions grammar and jargon are crucial to understanding them from an outside perspective. Hopefully with a few of these tricks, someone will be able to notice more film techniques and surprise their friends or family.
Media Effects
"People have gotten used to the use of media to the extent that they forget the social and cultural effects that the media has. People have overlooked the consequences of using the media" (Yuan). These consequences seem obvious when you talk about violence in films and TV shows desensitizing youth, but are dramatically less discernible when you are discussing other forms of media such as newspapers. Let us stick to the newspapers for a moment, there is a common rule of lay out, that comes back to a psychological tendency with in humans to follow eyes. What is meant here is that naturally we look in the direction that others are looking, in the terms of layout this means that if there is a photo of a person the picture will be places so the face is looking at other material on the next page and not off the page. When an average front paper of a new paper is placed in front of us we do not think about how the creators of this are trying to get us to spend more time with the content.
Concepts such as crowd and audience manipulations are all too important but seem to get no attention (Crowd Manipulation). Could this be because these real practices paint media outlets with too dark of a shade? Wait, wait the word manipulation seems to have a dark allure to it but this word only really means to handle/ control skillfully. This form of manipulation, according to "Crowd Manipulation," means to "engage, control, or influence the desires of a crowd". When you translate this idea in the terms of media most of the desires these companies want you have and then want to control is a higher need for consumption of their material. Media grammar techniques are ways in which they do this regularly.
All forms of media have different grammar tools, but the aim is to always get the viewer, to see and understand what the creator wants. This is not always a good thing; news station and other form of media can have political or other ambitions. Most media are bias to something, they are companies after all. It is the job of the reader the viewer or the watcher to detect and reflect these things. No matter if you are talking about advertisement companies using digital media to tug at heart strings, or if you are talking about crowd manipulation it's important to understand who benefits from your understanding of media. Advertising companies are very successful at using media grammar tools to encourage sending. These concepts are only going to be more prevalent in the future occurring to statista by 2021 the average spending for advertising in the US will be up to $259.19 billion, from where it stands currently at $206.77 billion for 2017. So working out what the creator of media want you to see is only going to get more important.
Chandler, Daniel. "The 'Grammar' of Television and Film." http://visual-memory.co.uk/daniel/Documents/short/gramtv.html.
"Crowd Manipulation." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 29 Nov. 2017, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowd_manipulation.
FCC. "Obscene, Indecent and Profane Broadcasts." Federal Communications Commission, 13 Sept. 2017, http://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/obscene-indecent-and-profane-broadcasts.
Jaques , Liz. "Digital Media May Have Changed the Game but It Hasn't Changed the Rules." 19 Nov. 2015, http://www.newsworks.org.uk/Opinion/the-internet-may-have-changed-how-the-game-is-played-but-it-hasnt-changed-the-fundamental-rules.
Luton, Emma. "4 Billion People Still Don't Have Internet Access. Here's How to Connect Them." World Economic Forum, 11 May 2016, http://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/05/4-billion-people-still-don-t-have-internet-access-here-s-how-to-connect-them/.
Pavlik, John V., and Mcintosh, Shawn. Converging Media: Introduction to Mass Communcation. Oxford University Press, 2017.
Rehmeyer, Julie. "The Power of Being Influenced." Science News, 23 Sept. 2013, http://www.sciencenews.org/article/power-being-influenced.
"U.S. Advertising Spending 2015-2021." Statista, http://www.statista.com/statistics/272314/advertising-spending-in-the-us/.
Victor, Daniel. "Pepsi Pulls Ad Accused of Trivializing Black Lives Matter." The New York Times, 5 Apr. 2017, http://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/05/business/kendall-jenner-pepsi-ad.html.
Wang, Yih-heng. "Media Grammar Literacy." 28 Jan. 2015, http://sites.psu.edu/comm411spring2015/2015/01/28/media-grammar-literacy-8/.
"Welles Scares Nation." History.com, A&E Television Networks, http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/welles-scares-nation.
Yuan, Yuan. "Media Grammar Literacy." 27 Jan. 2015, http://sites.psu.edu/comm411spring2015/2015/01/27/media-grammar-literacy/.
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Q: React.js - error when try to authorize with firebase gmail token In react I use firebase Gmail login. Then I save the Gmail token, userId. And try to use the token when I post some values. but always I got an error. I don't understand how to verify this token.

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Impact reaches $55m first close with second solar investment fund
Impact Investment Group announces "first close" on Solar Asset Fund after notching up $55 million in commitments.
Sophie Vorrath Posted on 5 July 2018 6 Comments
Australia's Impact Investment Group has reached "first close" on its Solar Asset Fund – its second such PV-focused investment vehicle – after notching up $55 million in commitments.
Impact announced the milestone on Thursday as "a big vote of confidence in Australia's solar future," and said it was building towards the total Fund equity of $110 million.
Lane Crockett, IIG's head of renewable energy infrastructure and the former head of Pacific Hydro, said the response from investors was an endorsement of the fund's merchant strategy, of selling solar energy directly into the spot market.
"The Fund is forecast to yield an average of 8 per cent a year in the first five years which is a very attractive return in the current low interest rate environment and shows how robust the cash flows in solar projects can be," Crockett said on Thursday.
"We look forward to welcoming further investors as we finalise the fundraising.''
Chloe Munro, who is the independent chair of the fund, and who was a key advisor of the Finkel Review, said Australia's energy market transition was based firmly on economic fundamentals.
"We know that the market needs more generation capacity and new renewables are best placed to meet that demand," Munro said. "There is plenty of scope for future projects and this fund helps to keep growing the solar share of our energy mix."
Last year, in October, Impact celebrated the formal opening of the 11MW Williamsdale solar farm in the ACT, one of three contracted by the ACT government.
Williamsdale, which came on line in early 2017, was the first asset in IIG's original solar fund, which attracted $100 million in less than two days from high net worth individuals, self-managed super funds and one institution, Future Super.
Such was the success of that exercise, that Impact set to work on a second fund, based on solar assets being built on a "merchant basis" and a pipeline of other assets is also being put together.
Among the names signing up for this round are tech investor and co-Founder of Atlassian, Mike Cannon-Brookes – he of the Tesla Big Battery tweet that started it all – who is investing through his company Grok Ventures.
Ethinvest, Australia's oldest and largest ethical investment advisory firm, also has a number of clients investing in the fund following due diligence by its subsidiary and specialist impact asset consultant, Australian Impact Investments.
As we flagged here, the first project for the IIG Solar Asset Fund is the Swan Hill Solar Farm which will provide clean energy for the equivalent of 6,300 average Australian homes.
Other solar farms in Chinchilla and Brigalow in Queensland are seed investments in the fund and over time other solar farms in NSW and Victoria may be added to the fund.
Sophie Vorrath
Sophie is editor of One Step Off The Grid and deputy editor of its sister site, Renew Economy. Sophie has been writing about clean energy for more than a decade.
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Chris Drongers 1 year ago
8% investor return on after construction, operation, management and investment firm profit is a lot (about two and a half times the bank rate).
This raises interesting questions;
-What will we (residential, commercial , industrial ) be paying for power in 5 or ten years (how low can it go)
– What will distribution and transmission costs be as more of the above consumers separate from the grid
It seems to me that we are rapidly approaching a level of distributed generation where the/our discussions need to be at the next level of what the system will look like in a decade, as the present questions regarding the actual pv, wind, battery, hydro technologies seems to have been largely answered.
Hettie 1 year ago
If grid operators are realistic, won't it look like most except remote area dwellers will remain connected, with smallish batteries to capture midday generation for dark hour use, AND rooftop capacity well in excess of daily requirements, with battery software to allow timed export at periods of peak demand.
The best of all possible worlds.
This would apply for business as well as domestic clients.
The major customers of industrial scale renewables would then be those whose premises are unsuitable for solar.
Legislation is needed requiring all new builds to include, and all owners and purchasers of existing rental properties to retrofit for energy efficiency and solar system (if practical) including RCAC to replace all other forms of space heating, and heat pump water heating set for middle of the day operation, when solar output is highest and so too is ambient heat.
Retrofitting should attract accelerated tax depreciation rates, but new builds that are energy efficient will pay for any increased building costs in short order through the reduced running costs. Buyers of existing substandard dwellings could be afforded low interest mortgage extensions, recognising both the value added to the property by these measures, and the reduction in household overheads.
Better thermal performance of the majority of buildings will provide a huge social dividend. Pensioners struggling now with energy poverty would maintain better health, cost less in health care. Kids in low income homes could be better fed, learn more at school, have better employment prospects, because far less is spent on electricity.
It all looks good to me, except for fossil fools who refuse to join the stampede to clean energy.
I'll go along with Hettie's ideas, but would bet on the icecube in hell havibg a better chance of getting government support first. Thinking all the wailing from the backbench of the LNP when even world standards for vehicle and industrial energy efficiency are mentioned.
Under the present misrule, of course you are right. Under a Labor/Greens government, miracles just might be possible.
Paul Andrew 12 months ago
I agree with your ideas but as Chris Drongers said it's unlikely to happen unfortunately. We don't need the government to mandate it though. We can choose to do it just like people are installing solar and batteries etc. There's no reason why people can't choose those options and some are starting to. If you own an investment property, there's merit in making it more comfortable by making it perform better, produce energy and making your tenants/customers happier
Hettie 12 months ago
Absolutely, Paul.
Stop the heat leaks first. Then solar.


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Harry Redknapp is determined to end Tottenham's run of losing their last four Barclays Premier League away games to late goals in his side's "massive" clash against Hull on Monday.
Newcastle, West Brom, Wigan and Bolton have snatched victories against Spurs in the last two months, leaving Redknapp's men hovering dangerously above the relegation zone.
Redknapp, who is also preparing his side for the Carling Cup final against Manchester United on Sunday, said: "With our position in the league we have to make sure that we get our priorities right."
Spurs also conceded late against Shakhtar Donetsk last week to leave them a mountain to climb to stay in the UEFA Cup.
"Obviously conceding late is a problem," Redknapp said. "I don't know, they shouldn't be nervous. I just think it's a case of dealing with set-plays better. There's no reason we shouldn't do."
Redknapp admits his side are struggling to cope with set-pieces.
"You start to think 'can we deal with it?'," he said. "It's the worst it can be. But the more you talk about it.
"It is something we have to deal with. We are not a big team. If you look against Shakhtar, only Michael Dawson is a real header of a ball.
"After that, Pascal Chimbonda can spring, Tom Huddlestone is okay but we are not a big side.
"If you had Jonathan Woodgate or Ledley King in the side (it is different). We haven't got that many that strong in the air when they are not playing."


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Let's Get Smart About Obama
by Staff on November 28, 2008 · 1 comment
in Civil Rights, Election, Organizing, War and Peace
In structuring his presidential campaign, Obama adapted methods he learned as a community organizer in the streets of Chicago.
'He has a narrow mandate for change, without any direction specified. What he's doing now is moving on the most popular issues — the environment, health care, and the economy.'
By Mark Rudd / The Rag Blog / November 28, 2008
If you're anything like me, your inbox fills up daily with the cries and complaints of lefties. Just the mere mention of the names Hillary Clinton and Lawrence Summers alone conjure up a litany of horrendous right-wingers appointed to top level positions.
Betrayal is the name of the game.
But wait a second. Let's talk about a few things:
* Obama is a very strategic thinker. He knew precisely what it would take to get elected and didn't blow it. He used community organizing methods to mobilize a base consisting of many people who had never voted before or who regularly don't vote. Few other candidates in my lifetime have taken this road, which is contrary to conventional political wisdom. (Paul Wellstone was a wonderful exception to the rule.) But he also knew that what he said had to basically play to the center to not be run over by the press, the Republicans, scare centrist and cross-over voters away. He made it.
So he has a narrow mandate for change, without any direction specified. What he's doing now is moving on the most popular issues — the environment, health care, and the economy. He'll be progressive on the environment because that has broad popular support; health care will be extended to children, then made universal, but the medical, pharmaceutical, and insurance corporations will stay in place, perhaps yielding some power; the economic agenda will stress stimulation from the bottom sometimes and handouts to the top at other times. It will be pragmatic — Summers is talking about the growth in income disparity as a significant problem. On foreign policy and the wars and the use of the military there will be no change at all. That's what keeping Gates at the Pentagon and Clinton at State and not prosecuting the torturers is saying.
And never, never threaten the military budget. That will unite a huge majority of congress against him.
And I agree with this strategy. Anything else will court sure defeat. Move on the stuff you can to a small but significant extent, gain support and confidence. Leave the military alone because they're way too powerful. For now, until enough momentum is raised. By the second or third year of this recession, when stimulus is needed at the bottom, people may begin to discuss cutting the military budget if security is being increased through diplomacy and application of nascent international law.
* Obama plays basketball. I'm not much of an athlete, barely know the game, but one thing I do know is that you have to be able to look like you're doing one thing but do another. That's why all these conservative appointments are important: the strategy is feint to the right, move left. Any other strategy invites sure defeat. It would be stupid to do otherwise in this environment.
* Look to the second level appointments. There's a whole govt. in waiting that Podesta has at the Center for American Progress. They're mostly progressives, I'm told (except in military and foreign policy). Cheney was extremely effective at controlling policy by putting his people in at second-level positions.
* Read Obama's first book, "Dreams from My Father." The second section is the story of his three years doing community organizing in Chicago. It's some of the best writing on organizing I've ever seen. That's all it's about, the core of the book. Obama learned many lessons of strategy and patience. Then read the first section, on his family and growing up in Hawaii and Indonesia. No other president has ever had such intimate experience with class and race. The final section is about his trip to Kenya. No other president has ever had an understanding of not only race, but colonialism and neo-colonialism, even using the terms. It's the whole story he tells of his African family and especially his father, a victim of neo-colonialism. As was his step-father in Indonesia.
This is no stupid guy. I haven't read The Audacity of Hope yet, but I plan to soon. I am ashamed that it took me so long to read Obama's books. Had any of the stupid Republicans read his books, they never could have said, "We don't know who this guy is." You know every thought he's ever had.
Our job now is to organize both inside and outside the Demo party. There's already a big battle in the Demo party at every level. Here in the New Mexico State Legislature, the progressives are challenging the conservative Dems for leadership; the same is true in Congress. If you can't stand to work in the party, work on putting mass pressure on issues such as healthcare and jobs and the war from outside.
Here's my mantra: "Let's put this country on our shoulders and get to work."
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dougbob November 28, 2008 at 11:45 am
love the mantra. has any president-elect ever moved so quickly and decisively as Obama? i'm really very encouraged by much of what i see. this doesn't mean that we all don't have a job to do. now that the wind has been taken out of the bushites' sails, let a thousand community organizations bloom!
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TapestryCare(TM) completes Series A financing led by Sopris
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STRATFORD, Conn., Feb. 12, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- TapestryCare, a Connecticut based technology-enabled multispecialty healthcare services company, has announced the completion of a Series A investment round led by Sopris Capital.
Tapestry employs a unique combination of telemedicine technology and high-touch clinical services to elevate the standard of on-site medical care for skilled nursing facilities. Telemedicine in the skilled nursing industry has long been constrained to television-based diagnosis, utilized solely to reduce overnight and weekend hospitalizations of residents. "Technology is too often used to replace human interactions," said Dr. David Chess, CEO, CMO and Founder of TapestryCare. "We see things very differently. We use technology to bring our clinicians to the patient's bedside to deepen the personal relationships between the physician, the patient and the facility staff. This clinically-respectful approach changes the quality and dignity of peoples' lives. TapestryCare revolutionizes the care paradigm."
TapestryCare has a staff of skilled of medical practitioners who represent the broadest range of disciplines in the industry. Because of their depth of expertise, Tapestry's clinicians are able to bring the integrity of an entire medical center right to the patient's bedside. Mordy Eisenberg, co-founder of Tapestry and the architect of its expansion in both markets and services, explained; "Access to highly skilled specialists across a multitude of disciplines is a challenge for nearly every skilled nursing operator and their patients. Tapestry provides this critical access, and more. Our medical professionals and specialists utilize our advanced technology to make daily rounds at the facilities we support. They get to know the patients, their families and the local nursing staff, which leads to a comfort level and reliability that no traditional tele-medicine company can offer."
Tapestry, which launched by bringing medical-center caliber care to rural skilled nursing facilities, now contracts with more than 85 skilled nursing facilities in both rural locations and major urban centers in seventeen states. The Company will work with Sopris to further expand its geographic service areas and to expand its offering of clinical services. "TapestryCare has everything we look for in a company – extremely capable leadership, proven and unique product offerings, the ability to meet the needs of a large and growing market, and most important, a compelling value proposition both to facilities and their patients," said Abinav Sankar, Partner at Sopris Capital who joins the TapestryCare Board of Directors. "I witnessed first-hand the difference the TapestryCare team made for its patients. Every nursing home facility needs a solution like this."
Sankar continued; "This infusion of capital and Tapestry's plans for expansion into new verticals and geographic markets, supported by Sopris' experience in the healthcare field, auger well for a long and successful partnership."
About TapestryCare
TapestryCare is a multi-specialty healthcare practice that utilizes advanced technology to bring the integrity of a medical center – including direct access to a team of physicians, specialists and behavioral health services – to the patient's bedside in skilled nursing facilities and other non-hospital environments. Tapestry's skilled specialists, physicians, nurse practitioners and registered nurses see patients on a daily schedule, building relationships with patients and families based on familiarity and trust to ensure appropriate, effective and efficient delivery of care regardless of the patient's location, or day and time of need. Learn more at: http://www.tapestrytelehealth.com
About Sopris Capital
Based in New York, Sopris Capital is a venture capital firm that invests growth equity in technology-enabled business services and SaaS companies that are solving critical painpoints. Sopris seeks to be a value-added partner to fast growing companies that have a validated business model, proven product/market fit, and a management team that can capitalize on the opportunity ahead. Learn more at: http://www.sopriscapital.com
Contact: Mordy Eisenberg
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Do you see what I see?
Posted on January 2, 2008 January 2, 2008 by Connie Bostic
With 2007 behind us, it's worth taking a look back at the trends that have shaped Asheville's art scene over the past 12 months. There have certainly been changes—promising art spaces have closed and talented artists have left town—but this is to be expected. (In fact, new galleries and fresh talent have already begun to fill that void.) Many of the works on exhibit in 2007 were just variations on the same old themes: landscapes of widely different quality; still lifes; and formulated abstractions "to match the colors in the sofa." On the surface, one might get the impression that the art scene in Asheville has had a standard, almost boring year.
Skip Rohde's "Warrior"
However, there's a growing group of artists in Asheville who seem willing to infuse their art with meaning that goes beyond commercial appeal.
With the huge success of the second annual RiverSculpture Festival, for instance, sculpture is finally coming into its own in the area. (Credit the hard work of organizers Arlene and Robert Winkler.) Hanging three-dimensional works attracted plenty of attention at the mobile auction at Mobilia, while Paul Sires' exhibit of smaller sculptures at the Drew Dean Gallery in Brevard made a clear statement about the impact of gentrification in the region. Sculptor Harry McDaniel was awarded the first-ever Public Artist of the Year award from the Asheville Public Art Board, and DeWayne Barton's backyard sculpture garden and performance space is a landmark in his West Asheville neighborhood.
The three dimensional images that will stick in many minds, though, are the heart-wrenching little figurines shown at Blue Spiral 1. Pavel Amromin's innocent-looking puppies wearing combat boots and committing atrocities were impeccably crafted and carried a philosophical weight far above their size.
Some of the best painting seen in 2007 was intensely personal. Mary Charles Griffin's abstractions seen at Blue Spiral 1 were all about her responses to the natural world. For his show at Flood Gallery, Taiyo la Paix painted his fantasy girlfriend with an accuracy that would have been impressive had she been sitting for him. The work of Robert Godfrey's spontaneous and playful work at the Black Mountain Center for the Arts was the best conceived, the best presented and the best executed exhibition of paintings in the area of the year.
The year also saw an unusual number of fine ceramics exhibitions, even for a town filled with potters. The hands-down standout was the exhibition at the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center of works by the 20th-century English, Japanese and American masters who taught and studied there.
Quilts are also a major part of the artistic heritage of our area, and there were several exhibitions solely of quilts and others featuring other fiber media. There are a number of artists making clothing, and there are even a handful experimenting with the sculptural possibilities of fiber. A favorite for the year was Lisa Klakulak's Transplant at Ariel Gallery, an exciting and innovative exploration of the use of felt.
There were several noteworthy photography exhibitions in 2007. Those have included the straightforward work of the late Hazel Larsen Archer at Black Mountain College and John Dixon's impressive landscapes. But the most resonant exhibit may have been Alice Sebrell's emotionally devastating series on the ways we protect ourselves, using mannequins from taxidermists to depict human fears, insecurities and insensitivities.
Also of note are the efforts made by local arts-oriented nonprofit groups. The Open Hearts Art Center presented impressive multilayered works at the Arts Council Gallery by a developmentally disabled high-school student named Merlin. And thanks to the efforts of the Asheville TEACCH Center and the Autism Society of North Carolina, "savant artist" George Widener is exhibiting internationally.
Arts2People and the Asheville Mural Project continue their crusade to make the arts a part of the lives of all of our citizens. The Asheville Area Arts Council galleries continue to offer exhibition space for artists to show work that may not be commercially viable, presenting outstanding works by Brian Mashburn, Sean Pace and Skip Rhode.
Other notable arts-related events from 2007 included a visit from New Art Examiner founder Derek Guthrie, who ruffled a few feathers when he said that he found American art "profoundly pessimistic." And last, artist, renovator and Lark Books founder Rob Pulleyn turned a dilapidated school building on Marshall's Blanahassett Island into beautiful, affordable, high-ceilinged Marshall High Studios.
Looking back, it was a pretty good year for the arts in Asheville. Let's hope there are more surprises in 2008.
[Connie Bostic is an Asheville-based painter and writer.]
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Turkey Coup Attempt Leaves President Erdogan With Uncertain Grip On Country NPR's Linda Wertheimer speaks with Soner Cagaptay of the Washington Institute about what the overnight coup attempt may mean for Turkish politics.
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This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Linda Wertheimer, in for Scott Simon. Turkey's government defeated a coup attempt by a faction within its military last night. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appeared to have regained control of the country earlier this morning. He vowed those responsible would pay a, quote, "heavy price." Soner Cagaptay is the director of the Turkish Research Program at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and he joins us now via Skype. Soner, welcome to the program.
SONER CAGAPTAY: It's always a pleasure.
WERTHEIMER: Let me ask you who might have been behind the coup and what they wanted.
CAGAPTAY: It appears that this is a divided military in action, which is - which goes against everything we know about the Turkish military, which, in the past, when it carried out coups - and that was only decades and decades ago - it acted as a hierarchical institution, top down. This time, you're seeing splits in the military, some generals and groups and parts of some forces were involved and some forces were not involved. And I think this is an incredibly worrisome sign for a country which has a universal conscript-based military, which is now - appears to be splitting, perhaps, along ideological or political lines in which some people are taking action against the government in an illegal fashion and others are not.
And I think that has ramifications, not only for Turkey's democracy but for what has been hitherto the most respected public institution in the country, the military, which is going to see its respectability skyfall following this incident, as well as a country that faces so many challenges next door is going to see how its military's standing in the country also come under criticism.
WERTHEIMER: Why do you think that this thing failed?
CAGAPTAY: First of all, it was a poorly executed coup, as we saw it. This - the military generals who were involved in it, I think, thought they lived in 1980s. They captured state-run TV, read a declaration. The president of the country went on FaceTime on his iPhone, did an interview, sent it out to the people, called them to come onto the streets, and it was the victory of the digital age and social media over what could have been an analog coup had it succeeded.
Someone just thought that getting rid - getting access to public TV and reading a declaration there that they had taken over power would have sufficed. So definitely an ill-conceived, ill-executed plot that was destined to fail from the beginning.
WERTHEIMER: Do you agree with what the government is saying, that this was a victory for democracy? Is that how you see it?
CAGAPTAY: Well, I have a little bit more nuanced view of that. I think it's definitely a victory for democracy because nobody wants a military takeover. But a victory for democracy going forward, I am less certain about that. For one thing, ironically, I believe, if the military had won, of course Turkey would have become an oppressive place, and we don't want that.
But because - just because the government won doesn't mean it will become a more free, more liberal place. I think the contrary, that even though the government has won, Turkey will unfortunately become less free, less democratic. This is a government whose leader, President Erdogan, has won successive elections on a platform of yes, economic good governance...
WERTHEIMER: Right.
CAGAPTAY: ...But also social conservatism and demonizing groups that don't vote for him and to the point of encouraging violence against them. So Erdogan has built successive electoral majorities...
WERTHEIMER: Yes.
CAGAPTAY: ...By going against groups that do not vote for him. And I think that has created a very polarized political environment.
WERTHEIMER: Soner - Soner Cagaptay...
CAGAPTAY: So following the coup, I think he'll crack down further on those groups.
WERTHEIMER: Soner Cagaptay, thank you very much.
CAGAPTAY: It's my pleasure.
WERTHEIMER: Mr. Cagaptay is the director of the Turkish Research Program at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy.


Fountain, H. March 2, 2015. Researchers Link Syrian Conflict to a Drought Made Worse by Climate Change. New York Times.
Researchers said the drought "had a catalytic effect." They cited studies that showed that the extreme dryness, combined with other factors, including misguided agricultural and water-use policies of the Syrian government, caused crop failures that led to the migration of as many as 1.5 million people from rural to urban areas. This in turn added to social stresses that eventually resulted in the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad in March 2011.
A working group of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change wrote in 2014 that there was "justifiable common concern" that climate change increased the risk of armed conflict in certain circumstances.
My comment: Scientists believe that the southwest and central regions of the United States have an 85 percent chance of a mega-drought lasting 35 years or more between 2050 and 2100.
Lake Mead could dry up by 2021 (50% chance), and Lake Powell is in trouble too, along with the 8 million plus people who depend on them. While we were in Nevada in February 2015, we heard that the courts had prevented Las Vegas from claiming water elsewhere in the state.
Mass migrations are coming to your neighborhood soon….though communities in California out of potable drinking water haven't moved because they can't afford to.
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I have a windows 2000 machine on the network that we can no longer connect to via the network. I went to troubleshoot this computer and we found that we no longer know the admin password of this computer. We can log in locally under an account with user privileges only. All the rest of the logins are thru the domain (which it no longer can connect to). Otherwise we could just reset the pass via SMS or thru the domain.
I am trying to save the information that was stored in a domain users local settings and desktop. I know I can use one of the offline ntpasswd cracks to get into the machine as admin, but is there an easier way? I tried connecting the hard drive as a slave on a WinXP system, but upon trying to access the drive it simply sees it as an unformatted drive and suggests formatting it.
Your thoughts? I would like to save the admin crack as a final option. Would having the admin pass even get me access privileges to all of the folders for the domain user anyway?
might require a bit of skimmin, but the old threads might help.
Yeah, I know and have the software to crack the admin password, and have used it many times in the past. I just hate taking this route if there is an easier and less obtrusive method. I guess I will just go for the pass.
use a boot disk like knoppix to trouble shoot it. that will let you work in a controlled enviroment and then if you want you can change the password. also it will be able to run testson the hard drive.
I have already finished it with 100% success. Thanks all for the input.
Sorry for bumping and oldish thread up.
xmaddness - is there any chance you could post how you done this, or PM me?
I am giveing a lesson on thursday about this and am just writting my lesson plan.
you have tried and tested the method it would be benificial to me.
Did you try using SUPER ERD *Emergency Reboot Disk*? I went to a Microsoft convention a while back and they gave out free samples. It works like Kinnopix in the sense that it boots from the CD and gets you access to the hard drive. However, it also gets you access to your actually account. I haven't tried googling the SERD, but I'm pretty sure you can find a copy.
BTW, I didn't bring up this old thread. I've learned my lesson from my other mistakes.
Yeah, thats gonna be number 2 in my lesson! Its not a bad bit of software is it! Experemented with it before I incorperated it and was quite impressed.
"BTW, I didn't bring up this old thread. I've learned my lesson from my other mistakes"
You can bring old threads up as long as there is a valid reason to do so. Like this one!


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Valuing and Treasuring Guests Who Visit Your Church – Be. Make. Multiply. Send.
I know, some will find this sad that we have to help churches filled with people who have been rescued by Jesus be more welcoming to guests. But like anything, we can fall into habits without realizing it. Many want to be welcoming, but don't understand how. May God help us in our churches to value and treasure with hope and joy guests that come to our worship gatherings.
Thank you, Hershael York, for helping us out.