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Harvey, Mets set to take aim at Utley and Dodgers in Game 3
MIKE FITZPATRICK, AP Baseball Writer
NEW YORK All of a sudden, Matt Harvey's postseason debut contains an extra layer of drama.
Wouldn't seem normal any other way.
With the New York Mets still steamed about a late slide by Chase Utley that broke Ruben Tejada's right leg, Harvey is set to start a pivotal Game 3 on Monday night against the Los Angeles Dodgers in the first playoff contest at Citi Field.
So the natural question is, will Harvey retaliate against Utley or perhaps some other Dodgers hitter?
"I think the most important thing is going out and doing my job and doing what's best for the team. For me, in my mind, that's going out and pitching a long game and being out there as long as I can, and keeping zeros on the board," Harvey said Sunday.
"But you know, as far as sticking up for your teammates, I think being out there and doing what's right is exactly what I'm going to do," he said.
The first thing he needs to do is show up on time.
Harvey missed a mandatory workout last week and apologized after arriving late. The misstep drew a curt comment from Mets captain David Wright and the latest round of criticism for a star pitcher who is constantly in the headlines for one reason or another.
The next could be his latest showdown with Utley, a thorn in the Mets' side for more than a decade while he played for NL East rival Philadelphia.
The 36-year-old Utley has a part-time role with the Dodgers after they acquired him Aug. 19. But manager Don Mattingly said the second baseman might start Monday because of the lefty-righty matchup and his solid numbers against Harvey.
"He will definitely be a possibility," Mattingly said.
The best-of-five NL Division Series is tied 1-all after Utley's takeout slide swung Game 2 in Los Angeles, keying a four-run rally in the seventh inning Saturday night that sent the Dodgers to a 5-2 victory.
"Obviously the replay, everybody saw that it was more of a tackle than anything," Harvey said. "We're all feeling for Ruben. We're going to pick him up, and we're excited to be back at home."
Mattingly said Utley tried to reach out and apologize to Tejada, who will be replaced at shortstop by Wilmer Flores. Matt Reynolds, a Triple-A infielder who has never played in the majors, was on his way to New York as a potential addition to the roster.
Harvey already has a history with Utley, who angered the Mets with a rough slide into Tejada back in September 2010. During his first home start this season, the right-hander nailed Utley in the back with a 95 mph fastball after Phillies pitcher David Buchanan plunked Flores and Michael Cuddyer, both on the left hand.
"I think history has kind of shown that he's kind of been in situations like that before," Harvey said Sunday. "I know personally, after watching in 2010 and hearing about it with Ruben as well, you know, there's some situations that need to be taken care of. I think the league is going to do their best to do that and take charge."
With retaliation on everyone's mind, there is some thought Major League Baseball might instruct umpires to warn the Mets and Dodgers before Monday's game about throwing inside.
"I would personally hope that there wouldn't be such an issue, only because the impact it would have on the entire game itself, would change the way the game's supposed to be played," New York manager Terry Collins said. "And I'm not saying we're trying to protect anybody, but in the game of baseball, we do ask our pitchers to pitch inside once in a while, and the last thing we need is an umpire to take the games into his hands where he thinks it was on purpose. It is the purpose; that's why you pitch inside. And all of a sudden to create a mess that certainly wasn't intended."
Mattingly sees it the same way.
"You do want it to be about back to the field," he said. "I know it's fun to talk about all this stuff, and you hear about it all, and it gets a lot of attention, but I'm sure it won't go away.
"I don't think there needs to be any kind of warnings. Just let the game play," he added.


Junior rugby league is about participation and having fun.
Last Sunday, the Dalyellup Rhinos ticked all those boxes when they hosted the Willagee Bears, Ellenbrook Rabbitohs, Australind Cowboys and Kwinana Wolves for a Gala Day at Ferndale Park.
Dalyellup President and Coach Scott Smith said the Gala was a great opportunity to showcase the game in the South West.
"It's to expose rugby league and the talent within Bunbury," he said.
Smith thanked the Bears, Rabbitohs and Wolves for volunteering to bring players aged 6-16 years down from Perth for the Gala.
"They are more than willing to come down," he said.
Above all, the Gala allowed the Rhinos players to test themselves against Perth-based players.
"The day gives the kids some exposure to competition and different competitors," Smith said.
A big thank you to the Rhinos for hosting the Gala, and we hope to see you hosting more competitions in 2019 and beyond.


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Archive for the 'Moods' Category
What Is "Moral" To A Lion?
What Is Moral To A Chimpanzee?
What is the Origin of Human Morality?
Individual Morality May Vary, But Social Morality, Which Also Varies, Is Absolutely Dependent Upon Circumstances:
Natural scientists will say that one has to start with human ethology, the behavior of man au naturel. However, that's a bit delicate, as there is nothing natural about man, since the genus Homo wages war and uses weapons and tools, to the point man cannot do without.
Nevertheless, morality has stabilized in the last 25 centuries in most ways (especially now that women are treated with natural equality).
The mos maiorum ("way of the elders"; plural of mos, behavior, is "mores"). The unwritten code of the Republican Romans, comprising: Fides, Disciplina, Pietas, Gravitas, Religio, Cultus, Dignitas, Auctoritas, Virtus…
This is where the concept of "Moral" comes from.
These behaviors, as a set, enabled the Roman Republic to survive for 5 centuries (or more, if one considers the empire and the subsequent "Christian Republic" as an extension of the Republic, as the Roman did; de facto, we are still under basic Roman secular law, 25 centuries later).
This gives a philosophical hint. Philosophy is the art of guessing what could be, may be, could well be, ought to be, etc. For morality, it is beyond a guess:
"Mores", "Morality" has to do with survival. Morality is the set of behaviors which insures survival.
Temple of Baalshiman, Palmyra. Insulted by the Bible in Connection with Human Sacrifices. Its Destruction by Islamists in 2015 (right).
There is a continuum between natural and (epi-)genetic ethology, and cultural ethology: the study of chimpanzees shows this. The very Christian Jane Goodall found, to her dismay, that the chimpanzees she studied made, over many years, a systematic war of extermination against another group of chimps.
The origin of morality is survival. The set of all moral behaviors ("mores") is the set which enables survival. Survival of the individual, the group, a society, even a civilization.
Carthage was, in its times, 25 centuries ago, one of the most advanced societies. Its sailors captured gorillas, and circumnavigated Africa. Trading with Black Africa for fish was intense. Carthaginian agriculture in semidesertic conditions was so advanced, Roman preserved the book (while destroying all others). However, Carthage practiced childhood sacrifices extensively and routinely (archeologists seem to have demonstrated, confirming the stories already found in the Bible, Leviticus).
Another example: Polynesian societies needed to corral strongly behaviors and human population on their delicate islands. Hence taboos (don't fish there, don't go into that valley, etc.) and cannibalism (often entangled with religion, as Captain Cook experienced).
The Aztecs, deprived of massive proteins aside from a giant salamander (differently from other civilizations around Mexico, which had access to large quantities of fish). The Aztecs made a religion centered on human butchery, up to thousands eaten in a few days… (This made the Aztecs unpopular in Mesoamerica, and enabled Cortez to rise an army of 80,000 natives to fight the Aztecs, enormously amplifying his very small army of few thousands Spaniards).
Astrophysics professor, and proud principal investigator Coel Hellier states: "If "it is morally good" doesn't mean "I approve of it" then what does it mean? When Stephen Law says that science cannot tell us "what one ought or ought not to do", what does the phrase "ought to do", as used there, actually mean? These are fun questions to ask a moral realist. We ought to do it because it is morally good … and it is morally good because we ought to do it, and … but so far I've never come across an actual answer."
A society determines what it ought to do to survive, and derives a morality from it, that all individuals "ought" to obey ("mores", social morality). However, to survive, or lessen pain, a given crazed, or, simply, distressed, individual may well decide that she/he needs to violate the social morality, and follow her/his own ways of doing things.
Hence morality is relative between societies, and between individuals and society. However, given a long-established society, morality is absolute.
Roman Republican morality cracked around 150 BCE, due to Roman globalocracy (which enabled Roman plutocrats to come into existence, and ever grow in power). The collapse of that morality proximally brought the non-enforcement of anti-plutocratic laws (although the assassinated Gracchi tried to reinforce them). Soon plutocrats were at each others' throats, as they dominated the Roman world (contemplate the situation today!). Massive and continuous civil wars ensued, followed by Augustus' Principate in 27 BCE, as that wily youngster was able to muster the declining strength of the moribund Republica to his command.
However, the basic Roman Republican morality was embodied by Republican Roman law, whose basic framework survived even the Christo-fascism of the Fourth Century. Roman secular law was refurbished under Roman emperor Justinian (529 CE to 565 CE), and separated from Christian Sharia. Roman secular law was transmitted by the Imperium Francorum: it fit well with the Salic Law of the Franks. Roman secular law survives to this day as the basic legal framework of the present civilization. (This partly explains why the present civilization is not Christian: it does not fllow Christian law, but Ethological Law, also known as Roman Law.)
That morality is time-tested. It's also the morality closest to natural ethology. So it's not relative. It's pretty much absolute. Hence a very good foundation on which to wage war in its defense.
Tags:Morality, Mores, Relativity
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The rights and wrongs of hunting!
The Great Spirit Was A Hunter, And Will Always Be A Hunter. Hunting For Ideas, Is Not Just A Metaphor, Not Just Our Fate, But The Only Way To Have A Superior Mind.
Once, well above timber-line, with the sun low on the horizon, an antelope came my way, running passed me. I was running the other way, and the quadruped rushed, close enough to touch. As I turned the corner, a couple of seconds later, full of wonder, I found myself face to face with an enormous wolf charging my way. We looked at each other, not even three meters away… I will always remember that moment. The intelligence obvious in the yellow eyes of the wolf brought to my mind the look of a primate, not just a canid. It was a late evening in late spring, when days are very long. I could read the majestic creature's quasi-human surprise:'What is a human doing here at this time of the day?'
Hunting had made his kind smart over the eons. He could have dispatched me to another world in seconds, but he knew what humans were. We recognized each others' supreme intelligence, an identity of spirits. Two hunters on top of the world. He went his way, I went mine, both owners of the universe, and having recognized the other as such.
The essay reproduced below was penned by a baby philosopher, and tends to philosophy by enumeration, an honorable method, reminiscent of FOX News' approach to debate. With a silly (anti-hunting) bias not so well hidden. However I agree with it in some ways, with what the author wrote, about the so-called "confirmation bias". Let me explain by considering the conclusion of the author:
"If your interlocutor objects to hunting, try to discover the basis for their objection. And I believe you should keep nature out of it.
Finally, try to argue with someone who takes a fundamentally different view. Confirmation bias – the unintentional act of confirming the beliefs we already have – is hard to overcome. The only antidote I know of is rational discourse with people whose confirmation bias runs contrary to my own."
I agree with the method proposed to deal with "confirmation bias" (= "intellectual fascism", "group think"). However, the sentence "I believe you should keep nature out of it", is downright silly. The author is part of nature, should he keep himself "out of it"? Whatever "out" is?
I am both for and against hunting. It all depends upon who is hunting what, when, how, why? Hunting with stones, or arrows is one thing, wolves hunting their prey, another. To want wolves living somewhere free, but wolves who are not hunting, but devouring protein pills, would be akin to wanting the biosphere, albeit, without biology.
Let's not forget civilization was founded by the genus Homo, fundamentally a hunting species, the greatest hunting genus of all times. Hunting is especially the genius of Homo Erectus and Homo Habilis. When Homo Erectus got to Georgia, two million years ago, it survived the cold winters, because it was dressed in animal furs.
Fundamentally, hunting is about domination, and especially total domination of the better ideas. Predators tend to be smarter than prey (they tend to have bigger brains, overall: there has been a brain arm race between predator and prey, at least on land… with few exceptions, like crocodiles). Hence the mood fundamental to hunting (I am smarter than you, so I completely dominate and own you) is also the mood most conducive to civilization.
Hunting has been so central to the evolution of our genus that to be rabidly against it, is to be rabidly against humanity, and even worse against the idea that there are better ideas which can own and dominate.
The central idea is that nature needs hunting and nature is about hunting. Even human nature is about hunting and contemplating hunting means contemplating nature.
Overall, one has to dominate the debate. The crux we presently face, is the preservation of the biosphere. Genuine hunters want this, so that they can hunt. Actually many species were saved by hunters who had established preserves for them. So genuine preservationists want to preserve the biosphere. So they should cooperate.
Hunting teaches a meta-morality about the animal conditions which pre-Neolithic people understood very well: hunting was part of the digestion of the Great Spirit, so to speak. Hunting was a process consubstantial with the universe itself. This viewpoint, no doubt held for millions of years, is entirely correct.
By contrast, denying that hunting is central to the universe is in not just unreal, it violates the very idea of having a spirit. Wanting to protect the universe from hunting is to try to build a god that would be like a dog, something mastered, with no supremacy of its own, but for blind love.
Maybe we should grow up instead, and join the Great Spirit, in its full spirit? If we want the better spirit, we cannot just be prisoners of love. What we need, instead, to save the biosphere, is the greatest spirit. We won't save the spirit if our only guide is to spare the pain. Quite the opposite.
Learning from Dogs
The philosophy of hunting in terms of it being 'right' or 'wrong'.
Anyone who comes here for more than a couple of visits will know that both Jean and I are opposed to hunting completely. Period!
That's not surprising as there have been a number of posts over the years describing how we feed the wild deer. Here's three more photographs that haven't previously been shared with you.
But, of course, the opinions of Jean and me are not, and should not be, the rule for the wider population of this part of Oregon.
All I would ask is that there is a proper, mature discussion as to the pros and cons of hunting wild animals in this, the twenty-first century.
All of which leads me to a recent essay posted on The Conversation site and republished here within the terms of that site.
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Is hunting moral?…
Tags:Hunting, Paul Handover, Rights and Wrongs
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Mentality Trumps Logic
Mental States Trump, Prime and Build (Local Linear) Logic
How do people think? When thinking about thinking, intellectuals tend to go back to Plato describing the mythical Socrates ponderously going from a) to c) because a) implied b) and b) implied c). Well, this is NOT how the brain works. The brain has basically two systems: Local Linear Logic, and Topological Logic (TL = emotion, so we will call it ES, the Emotional System). LLL and ES are entangled. For example, ES, the Emotion System, shuts off, and opens, various sub-systems in the brain. Moreover the ES directs consciousness into these subsystems. Each of these systems comes with its own logic. So there is no such a thing as "logic" per se.
Actually modern axiomatics in logic considers that any Logic L comes with its own Universe U (in which it sits, so to speak). Varying U varies L. Thus a Logic L in the brain, sitting in subsystem S1 will be different from one sitting in subsystem S2, because they constitute different universes U. (An aspect of that was long known, as thinkers argued that various drugs, from alcohol to THC enabled them to reach various stages of consciousness…)
Thus what Plato talked about is basically irrelevant to foster wisdom. What is relevant is mental subsystems selection, how, and why. And even subsystem management. Instead, Plato explores logic, LLL. And recent events have been enlightening: LLL is mostly secondary for directing people's behavior.
I Think, Therefore I Sting. At Least, Sometimes, I Feel That Way.
By "Trump Madness" I do not mean Trump is mad, far from it: after all, he is the next president, and already causing more change than Obama did in 8 years (see Europe dumping "austerity" within 30 hours of Trump's election). Clearly, there was a very smart method to Trump's madness, and it was highly successful for him, as he obtained the loftiest job in the world (at least as far as conventional wisdom has it; in truth the loftiest job is mine, but never mind…). Thus "Trump madness" was anything except madness, on the part of Trump… Or his supporters (who also got what they wanted).
The real madness has been the flow of insults and indiscriminate violence on the part of "Clinton" supporters. Innocent thinkers were called "unscholarly, uncouth, anti-semitic, racist, xenophobic, judged to have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and compulsive liars". This was just a sampler of the most polite insults directed at me… by "friends"… and I am NOT a Trump supporter. Just thought to be so, because I rolled out all sorts of graphs depicting demoncracy (from inequality, to incarceration, rate, to life expectancy, to government investment, etc.).
Never mind that this was all for positions I held sometimes for decades, they are all extremely progressive, and I am just culprit of having Trump embracing them.
Insults directed at Trump were often obviously more insane than grievous. Trump was called "xenophobic" (the evidence is, the exact opposite, that is, Trump is an extreme xenoPHILE). Trump was called "anti-semitic" (his beloved and trusted son-in-law is an observant Jew). Trump was called a business failure (he grew his "organization", now in 60 countries, from 17 million dollar to somewhere around ten billion…)
How come Clinton supporters became so abusive? OK, they were surprised. Not just because people were scared to reveal in the polls that they would vote for Trump, skewing polls (pollster Nate Silver discovered this a week or two before the vote, so he "unskewed" the polls, and revealed the chances of Trump were significant; I knew for months, just talking to people, that people were hiding their Trump preferences).
Clinton supporters did not turn abusive and insulting just because what they worry about turns out not to be what most of the country worries about. But, mostly, they hated, because it turned out that they had become strangers to themselves, and the world. Part of them rose in fury, and took over their persona, because they wanted to lash out, so great was the pain that uncomprehension caused..
The Clinton supporters had no idea how neurohormonally entangled with (their idea of) their candidate. Precisely because they were deliberately ignored the (left, leftist, liberal, progressive) case I have made for more than eight years (with all those graphs), they had turned into fanatics, Jihadists, because they had rejected (the unsavory) reality.
The mental order in the brains of these self-described progressives, supposed to address politics, had become hopelessly disconnected from reality. For example, in judging Obama, they judged his brown skin, but not the fact Obama was led by the nose by Lawrence Summers, the Harvard-Goldman Sachs surrogate who had dismantled, under Bill Clinton, the Banking Act of 1933 ("G-S"). And this, seven months before Obama reigned. And they ignored hundreds of other indicators which were flashing way more right, and corporate fascism, than any other president before.
Thus the mental subsystems Clinton supporters activated over the years made them not just unreal, but incapable of activating anything else. One of my prefered game these days is to question Clinton-Obama fanatics about Quantitative Easing. I generally draw a blank. The self-perceived) most clever ones tell me it was a good thing. So here you have so-called progressives saying that giving more than ten trillion dollars to the world richest, most corrupt people and institutions was… a good thing.
Guess what, you dummies? It was a good thing only for plutocracy, also known as demoncracy. The only person who could understand what I was talking about, and agreed with me, before meeting me, is Senior VP in a major bank.
People think first with their neurohormones. Tell me their neurohormones most active, and I can tell you where their Local Linear Logic delves. Obsessions leads and localizes reflection.
Is there experimental evidence for the preceding? Yes, there is, from… insects. The theory of consciousness is starting to rise. It involves making flies play videogames, or seeing if, like American students, they can get scared. Flies can be put in a state of "scariness" and wanting to get to a "safe space".
Insects have a rudimentary ego, though very different from Narcissus or classical literature would have it. Insect ego appears as the ability to act and mentally concentrate on certain environmental cues thus ignoring others. "They don't pay attention to all sensory input equally," cognitive scientist Andrew Barron of Australia's Macquarie University declared.
When you and I are hungry, we don't just move towards food, as bacteria do. Our hunger creates a particular feeling (an emotion) which, in turn rearrange which subsystems are activated in our brain. Such a state is called a "subjective experience" in traditional philosophy. Do insects have the same? Obviously they do (I can say from anecdotes, and thus as a philosopher; scientists will verify and make sure).
Insects can be led into mental states which do not fit reality. So can humans (humans even do this deliberately, when they play or make jokes). Once in such a state, a particular logic, the universe of which is that precise mental state, flows. That Local Linear Logic is particular, yet it leaves (neural) connections behind. If suddenly precipitated, for real, in a situation calling for that mental state, the LLL is ready to kick in. That's why humans play, and make jokes.
This election was a joke. So were the mental states most citizens put themselves, or let themselves been put, in the last few decades. Time to wake up.
And time to wake up to the reality that it is moods which create logic, even more than it is logic which creates moods.
Some will rise their hands in surrender, reading this. They will see logic as defeated. But, well, not at all. Quite the opposite. That mentality trumps logic means logic has to go meta, meta on mentality. One can't just be logical, to defeat enemy logic. Enemy logic, like ours, is grounded in mentality, and emotion. The fight has to be carried there, it's not just logical, it's metalogical.
And example of emotion underlying logic has been TDS. TRUMP Derangement Syndrome (TDS) Is MENTALLY ENLIGHTENING, so thank you, all of you, clueless pseudo-progressives, for providing us with not just entertainment, but insights on how insects and other animals think. They think, because they sting. Most people with TDS are at a loss to inform us what progress should be made of, because they lose emotional power, contemplating progress. All the emotions they have tend to underlay their dislike of Trump. I personally disliked Trump 30 years ago, and find him rather improved, nowadays… And, on the progress side, I get more emotional than in my dislike of just one individual…
Tags:Insects, Local Linear Logic, Logic, Mental States, Mentality, Mind, Neurohormones, Trump
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Why Giving So Much Space To Nazis?
For Evil To Rule, Give The People Evil Heroes To Look Up To: Their Tolerance For Pluto Will Be Heightened
The following is on the borderline of subconscious theory applied to the collective (more on the subconscious, pretty soon). Psychological analysis, without sex, but full of rockets. I explore why the US gave such a prominent place to Nazi scientists after World War Two. The probable explanation is not obvious. And it is not pretty, and has a bearing on the subsequent US subconscious, that we are enjoying, to this day. Yes, because there is something as the national subconscious, and yes, the masters of a nation know how to make it their nest. It is in part because top Nazis were promoted as great minds in the 1950s, that we now enjoy ever worse political choices, as our masters succeeded to change our very values deep down inside.
Space And The Nazis:
The Saturn V program made the Apollo landings possible. The head of the program was Von Braun. The program could have been led by a born US citizen, educated in the USA. Instead, top Nazis were chosen in a leading role, and it was known with 100% certainty, as early as Spring 1945, that those individuals were major criminals.
SS-Sturmbannführer (Major) Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun was a Prussian aristocrat (as the "Freiherr Von" label indicates). Most Prussian aristocrats did not like the Nazis, and very few enrolled in the SS. Yes, less than one million individuals served in the SS. The SS was recognized, after the war, by the Allies, as a criminal organization. In the state of Alabama alone, at least 118 top US space program engineers were Nazis. Many of them, as Von Braun, in the SS. They directed personally the extermination of dozens of thousands of slave laborers (in their drive to build "revenge weapons").
Right, the Nazi, Russian, US, French Chinese rocket programs were developed for military reason (after 1942, rockets had been brutally efficient in WWII, against ships, planes and troops; it became clear that top military needed the best rockets). However, the usage of rocketry in the military happened thanks to the Mongols, even before the inventions of field guns by southern French.
The State Of The Art French Vulcain Hydrogen-Oxygen Engine Lifting This Ariane V, And Actually The Entire Rocket, Was Developed Without Any Nazi Help
Von Braun developed the V2.
The first V2s were fired on Paris (some hours later by some hit London). The V2 was the first ballistic missile. It could get out of the atmosphere, and reach Mach 5. Von Braun had pushed for a rocket to bomb New York with, and sang of the charms of orbital warfare (the US Space Shuttle had huge wings to go sideways and help wage nuclear war).
Several French slave-prisoners testified that they witnessed Von Braun's personally oversight the abuse, torture, terrorization, and the extermination of dozens of thousands of slave workers. The Dark Side was strong in the "charismatic" Von Braun. (An Internet lie is that von Braun donned his black death head SS uniform just once. Not so, said former colleagues and witnesses.).
In a just world, and for future reference, Von Braun should have been executed 100 times. Instead his agents went to the moon. And his face to Time magazine's cover. He rose to the top of NASA, and got the National Medal of Science (although rocket "science" is not really "science", but technology).
A Hero For Our Times. SS Major Von Braun On Cover, 12 Years After He Commanded the Extermination of Dozens of Thousands Of Slaves
Thus a main motivation of the space program was by and from the Dark Side. It is neither bad, nor good. Just a fact to keep front and central: it plays in all ways.
Admittedly, not having enough of the Dark Side can lead to slumber. The Ariane V rocket was developed by Europe (mostly France and Germany). It is human rated (that is safe enough for launching people). However the European (mostly French Dassault) shuttle, the Hermes, was never launched. Why? Europe does not have enough of the Dark Side (differently from Brexiting Britain, the US, Russia, or the PRC).
The USA tends to be motivated by war best (because, historically, war has been a mostly win-win proposition for the English colony in North America) . After getting to the Moon, beating the USSR (whose Big Rocket exploded spectacularly), the US public did not find space exploration appealing. It did not help that the McCarthyist Nixon, then president, selected the incomparably dumb Space Shuttle as the new US space effort.
Was It Technologically Necessary To Involve The Nazis In The US Space Program? No!
The involvement of Nazis in the US space program was opportunistic, but it could have been avoided. Indeed the top expert of liquid fuel rocketry was not German, but a US citizen, American physicist Robert H. Goddard.
Before 1939, German engineers and rocket scientists contacted Goddard directly with technical questions. As Von Braun said in 1963: "His rockets … may have been rather crude by present-day standards, but they blazed the trail and incorporated many features used in our most modern rockets and space vehicles.". Von Braun used Goddard's plans from various journals and incorporated them into the building of the Aggregat (A) series of rockets.
Thus the US could have developed rockets without any Nazi help. Several important components of the US space program (such as the rockets of the Mercury and Gemini programs, which launched the first Americans in orbit) were 100% American.
Another proof that Nazis were unnecessary? The most sophisticated rocket in the West is the Ariane V (it launches most of the mass of the geostationary satellites, and is scheduled to launch NASA's James Webb telescope, the successor of Hubble). Ariane V has mastered the very difficult hydrogen-oxygen propulsion system (in its latest version a stop and go hydrogen engine is developed, with laser ignition).
All this state of the art French rocketry was mastered without any Nazi help.
Glorifying Nazis Like Von Braun Was Part Of The (Deliberately Subconscious) Nazification of the US:
Let's go back to that Time cover. Why the glorification of a major Nazi criminal? I confess that I used to admire Von Braun too. I was a victim of pernicious propaganda, like hundreds of millions of others. Although coming from a family of "Justs" (de facto: saving 100 Jews qualifies in my opinion, although some official woman I wrote too told me to get lost, something I found rather strange…) on one side and an authentic anti-Nazi warrior on the other, I cannot let it pass…
So what was behind the glorification of Nazis? Well, the implicit glorification of many of Nazism ways and means. This had started by adopting the SS motto: "God With Us" (Gott Mit Uns), and morphing it into "In God we trust" (not to be confused with my personal motto: 'In God we thrust').
Mostly, by glorifying Von Braun, one of the most mass criminal of the major Nazis, the American Deep State, or its collective subconscious habituated the American public to overlook massive war criminality. Good things happen to plutocrats who rig the conceptual debate.
Nazification of the American psyche by mitigation of major crimes against humanity, by presenting one of the worst perpetrators as a saint for the space age would all blossom later. Not just with the Vietnam War. Not just with the will of destroying Iraq (the Bush-Clinton-Bush signature achievement).
No. In the end, what the American Deep State and its propaganda machine imprinted in the minds of the gullible was that it was OK to use some of the worst criminals ever, as long as it was opportunistic. So using hordes of Nazis provided some advantage, so let's use them. In other words, opportunism rules, even if it means rewarding crimes against humanity.
And what was the advantage? As I said, overlooking the commission of major crimes. And even, to brandish top Nazis as great heroes, fit for unabashed worship. And this is exactly why the US presidential elections now pits a most corrupt plutocrat against a pretty stupid plutocrat.
More generally, the unabashed rule of the financial plutocracy, a form of mass criminality of the type which gives rise to massively unequal society and a new tyranny could be inaugurated under Bill Clinton (by repelling FDR's "Banking Act of 1933", so-called "Glass Steagall").
To this day nobody has noticed, not any more than the colossal jump in incarceration of minorities, under Bill Clinton was noticed by the same minorities, which adore him, because he plays the saxophone with them.
Why all the blindness? People had been trained to not notice major ethical breaches. Let alone trained to expect not to see them punished. Thus, the same financial plutocracy, or at least the same mood of said financial plutocracy, which made the Nazis possible (contemplate Dr. Schacht, a creature of top world banker, JP Morgan), are now in the driver's seat. Who said space and it rocket scientists did not impact the bottom line?
For tyrants to rule, terror and torture are not enough. One needs to control the mood of the slaves. And the way to do this can be subtle.
Michelle Obama recently said that:"If they go low, go high" (and everybody has lauded this recycling of the building principle of the European Union, which consists into "sortir par le haut", finding a way out by going high… and which worked fine until the UK government sabotaged it). To exit by the top works, except if all values have been inverted. In particular if the notion of high is admiring some of the most cruel masters the world has ever known. Go back to that Time Magazine cover, typical of the times: the most glorious "rocket scientist" was one of the most towering criminal against humanity ever known. And that was on purpose, to make the Dark Side in its most evil aspect, most glorious.
A job obviously well done: please enjoy the present US election, where evil and infamy mock fight each other to death by hurling sex accusations, and the like. While plutocrats, the world over, enjoy caviar topped by gold leaf, silently chuckling, sailing the oceans of dark, undetectable money that their political servants made possible. It all started with flaunting major war criminals as those who incarnated the future. Here it is.
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Куйбышевнефтеоргсинтез (КНОС) — историческое советское производственное объединение, затем российская нефтеперерабатывающая компания в Куйбышевской (Самарской) области.

АО «Куйбышевнефтеоргсинтез» вместе с компанией «Юганскнефтегаз» стало базой для создания компании «ЮКОС», что и отразилось в названии новой компании.

Состояло из нескольких заводов, производивших основные нефтепродукты: бензин, дизтопливо, топочный мазут, и других предприятий. Глубина переработки составляла 62,9 % в 2006 году. В 2008 году Всемирный фонд дикой природы включил КНОС в число крупнейших российских НПЗ — более 10 млн т в год — на 1 июня 2007 года индекс Нельсона составлял 6,5.

История
Производственное объединение «Куйбышевнефтеоргсинтез» создано Приказом Миннефтехимпрома СССР № 478 от 08.06.1976 года на основании Постановления Совета Министров СССР № 398 «О генеральной схеме управления нефтеперерабатывающей и нефтехимической промышленностью» от 13.05.1975 года, так что 1995 год КНОС отмечал как юбилейный. Базой стал Куйбышевский нефтеперерабатывающий завод.

Один из основателей Нефтехимбанка. С 1992 года — акционерное общество, с 1993 года в составе нефтяной компании «ЮКОС».

В 2007 году КНОС выкуплен Роснефтью вместе с остальными активами ЮКОС. С 2012 года — закрытое акционерное общество.

Структура
В состав КНОС входили:
 Новокуйбышевский НПЗ
 Куйбышевский НПЗ
 Сызранский НПЗ
 Куйбышевский завод синтетического спирта
 Завод железобетонных изделий
 Ремонтно-строительный трест «Куйбышевнефтехимремстрой»
 Нормативно-исследовательская станция
 Новокуйбышевская кустовая машиносчётная станция
 Объединённый отряд ведомственной военизированной охраны
 Жилищно-коммунальное управление
 Завод по производству катализаторов
 Институт «Самаранефтехимпроект»

Руководство и собственники
С 1993 года контрольный пакет акций КНОС находился у нефтяной компании «ЮКОС». В 2004 году офшорные компании Ensign Corporation, Impex Assets и Tucana Merchants, в сумме владевшие 38,02 % акций КНОС, продали акции ООО «АНТ», ООО «МДМ Консалтинг» и ООО «Правовой центр».

Руководство
 1976 — июнь 1981 — директор Павел Никитович Узункоян
 1984−1990 — директор Виктор Александрович Тархов
 1990−1993 — генеральный директор Владимир Фёдорович Зенкин
 1993 — генеральный директор Д. Зеншин
 1993 — ? — генеральный директор Виктор Александрович Тархов
 февраль — апрель 1996 — исполняющий обязанности генерального директора Владимир Николаевич Чувилин
 апрель 1996—1998 — генеральный директор Геннадий Андреевич Батраев
 2002−2019 — генеральный директор Виктор Петрович Забурдаев

Примечания

Литература
 Слово и дело: информационный бюллетень администрации и производственного объединения «Куйбышевнефтеоргсинтез». — Куйбышев, 1989.
 Александров, В. В. Совершенствование ремонта и наладки автоматических электронных приборов для измерения температуры в цехе КИП и А (по опыту ПО «Куйбышевнефтеоргсинтез») / В. В. Александров. — Москва: ЦНИИТЭнергохим, 1985. — 83 с.

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Sickness, seven hundred years ago, it's so soft
"You have to explain to me first!" Reidy didn't realize that Lin Xiang had already seen her underwear, and she just kept grabbing his collar.
"That…" Lin Xiang hesitated. He was wondering whether he should tell Reidy about her underwear being revealed.
If he said so, then Reidy would surely let him go. But he was also worried that Reidy would give him another electric shock afterwards.
"Ah, don't just stutter. Also, don't turn your gaze to anywhere else. Look at me." Reidy shook Lin Xiang and she was commanding him.
"Uh…in fact, Valarie is…"
Just when he was about to speak, Reidy noticed that he dared not look her in the eyes. She shook him again, "I told you to look me in the eyes."
Lin Xiang sighed and thought, "there's no other way. I have to look at Reidy or she'd think that I was panicking…"
As he thought so, he slowly turned his gaze to Reidy. He dared not look at her body, so he was just staring at her face. When their eyes met each other, Reidy started blushing.
Reidy had recently watched a romantic drama, and she had a deeper understanding of relationships of opposite sexes. At this moment, she seemed to have forgotten about Valarie. She was just looking at Lin Xiang in the eyes, as if she was hoping something to happen. She was wondering whether Lin Xiang would do anything to her. All in all, he had told her that he liked her.
While Lin Xiang was looking at Reidy, he was silent. It wasn't because he was attracted by her beauty, but he had spotted a sense of sickness in her eyes.
Had her magic power nearly consumed totally?
He was looking at her face, while thinking about this.
Although Reidy blushed, the redness couldn't cover the feeling of sickness on her face.
Lin Xiang was somewhat confused – if he suddenly hugged her now, he'd surely get another electric shock. But if he didn't do so, he couldn't send her much magic power just by touching her head or pinching her face. He could at most make her hang in there a little longer…well, let's just do so, it's not like he hadn't got an electric shock before.
Lin Xiang, who had made up his mind, stretched out his hand and hugged Reidy's waist. At the moment he did so, Reidy felt like she couldn't think. There was a humming sound left in her brain and she just let Lin Xiang hug her in his arms.
At the moment when she was in Lin Xiang's arms, Reidy felt an unprecedentedly powerful magical power pouring into her body. She was feeling Lin Xiang's body temperature, his familiar scent, his powerful magical power. The strength on her hands started to change. She slowly held Lin Xiang's neck.
———————— 10 seconds later
Oh? That's strange, he wasn't electrified at all. Reidy must have realized that Lin Xiang was transferring her magical power.
About 10 seconds later, Reidy's arms wrapped around his neck. Her face was close to his chest and her breathing was a little quick. It could be that too much magical power was transferred into her body and she found it a bit hard to breathe…
"Master~~" Suddenly, Lin Xiang heard Dusty's voice. The next second, he felt two soft things pressed against his back and someone was hugging him from behind.
"Dusty?" When Dusty hugged me, Reidy quickly withdrew her hands. She pushed me and wanted to break free.
Of course, she couldn't as she was weak. In order to avoid unnecessary damage, I quickly let go and let Reidy free.
After I let Reidy free, I saw her face totally red. She was looking at Dusty behind me and stuttered, "Dusty…you…you have seen…what have you seen?"
"Oh?" Dusty touched my back with her face and put her chin on my shoulders, "what have I seen? I saw that sister Reidy was being intimate with my master~~~how cunning you are, you took the opportunity when I was having a shower."
"Don't talk any nonsense! Who…who was being intimate with this human? Let me tell you…the fact is that he suddenly hugged me. You think I like it? I was forced actually…you know?"
"Oh…okay." Dusty nodded, then turned to me, "master, if you want a hug, you can look for me. I wouldn't mind."
"Ugh…" I was just trying to send Reidy a bit of magical power. Also, Dusty didn't need any more supplemental power, she could use mine directly.
"Dusty, don't say such things, or this human will surely do whatever he wants, even something bad. By the way, human, you still haven't answered me! What's up with the dragon?" Reidy suddenly thought of Valarie and she kept staring at me. However, she had to turn her reddened face away after a few seconds.
Although her magic power was only replenished by about one-fifth, but the feeling of sickness on Reidy's face had already disappeared, which was good. I would look for another opportunity to fully replenish her magic power, and I hope Reidy wouldn't give me another electric shock by then.


Authors: Sadaka F, Veremakis C.
Background: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major source of death and severe disability worldwide. Raised Intracranial pressure (ICP) is an important predictor of mortality in patients with severe TBI and aggressive treatment of elevated ICP has been shown to reduce mortality and improve outcome. The acute post-injury period in TBI is characterized by several pathophysiologic processes that start in the minutes to hours following injury. All of these processes are temperature-dependent; they are all aggravated by fever and inhibited by hypothermia. Methods: This study reviewed the current clinical evidence in support of the use of therapeutic hypothermia (TH) for the treatment of intracranial hypertension (ICH) in patients with severe TBI. Results: This study identified a total of 18 studies involving hypothermia for control of ICP; 13 were randomized controlled trials (RCT) and five were observational studies. TH (32-34°C) was effective in controlling ICH in all studies. In the 13 RCT, ICP in the TH group was always significantly lower than ICP in the normothermia group. In the five observational studies, ICP during TH was always significantly lower than prior to inducing TH. Conclusions: Pending results from large multi-centre studies evaluating the effect of TH on ICH and outcome, TH should be included as a therapeutic option to control ICP in patients with severe TBI.


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Source: 7 News. Beautiful young Australian doctor Angela Jay did what thousands of other single women do every week, and it very nearly killed her. The 28-year-old went on dating app Tinder, found a photograph of a man who looked nice, and swiped right. Paul Dennis Lambert, 36, seemed perfect. Handsome, a good job and a warm smile. And by the time she found out he was an obsessive stalker, it was too late.
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The 28-year-old went on dating app Tinder, found a photograph of a man who looked nice, and swiped right.
Paul Dennis Lambert, 36, seemed perfect. Handsome, a good job and a warm smile. And by the time she found out he was an obsessive stalker, it was too late.
The pair met on Tinder eight weeks ago, but the affair quickly soured when Jay told Lambert she didn't want to see him any more.
He didn't take the news well. After weeks of harassment and violent threats, he went to her home and exploded in a frenzy of rage that ended with Jay fighting for her life in hospital after he stabbed her 11 times and doused her with petrol, and Lambert shot dead by police.
Lambert had repeatedly warned Jay he had keys to her house in Magnolia Close, a quiet cul-de-sac in a well-kept part of Port Macquarie.
"Your (sic) not safe in that house. I have some of the house keys," he texted her, according to court documents submitted when she applied for an AVO against Lambert.
"I need you to understand this is my good side right now. The good side won't last long. Especially being rejected."
He also threatened to "throw himself in front of a train" if she didn't take him back, and even used a second phone to call her, pretending to be a friend and saying "Lambert would kill himself and it would be her fault".
Paul Lambert's flatmate said Paul was excited that he had met someone. Photo / Facebook
Jay weakened under the pressure and gave him another chance but the obsession worsened and, after attending a function together in Gosford on Saturday night, the young doctor could not take any more.
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She left the function and fled to her sister's house, but Lambert "turned up" unannounced "a couple of times through the night" and, the following day, the obsessed finance worker texted and called Jay 50 times, demanding she take him back.
This made Jay "feel scared and uncomfortable," court papers state, and she reported his behaviour to police, saying she was "terrified of what Lambert may be capable of" as he continued to message and call her.
She told police she wanted an AVO and was "scared that he won't stop".
She was frighteningly, horrifyingly right.
On Thursday night, Jay arrived home from work about 6pm to find Lambert had broken into her house.
In a rage he stabbed her repeatedly with a large knife and poured petrol over her.
Somehow the brave doctor managed to escape and ran to a neighbour's house, where incredibly she was able to tell the male neighbour what to do to stem the bleeding.
Serious condition
By the time paramedics and police arrived, she was stabilised but in a serious condition and was rushed to Port Macquarie Base Hospital.
Lambert had fled the scene and police launched a massive manhunt. They finally spotted him driving along the Pacific Hwy about 9.45pm.
Officers gave chase and he was eventually cornered at Bonville, near Coffs Harbour.
Lambert was shot dead when he launched himself at police with a knife.
The incident came just two weeks after Gable Tostee was acquitted of murdering Warriena Wright in the Brisbane Supreme Court.
Tostee and Wright had met only hours earlier on Tinder, before she fell 14-floors to her death in August 2014.
Back in Kogarah in Sydney's south, Lambert's shocked housemate Elisa Patten told The Daily Telegraph he was a "normal" guy who was "lively" but "kept to himself".
She said he kept long hours as a finance worker and she rarely saw him.
A shocked Patten said: "I knew something was wrong as the cops came to the house looking for him two days ago.
"I knew he had a girlfriend Angela who was pretty, but I only met her briefly.
"He was excited he had met someone and said that he really liked her."
Lambert had been due to appear in court on November 16 for the AVO hearing. He was also facing charges of driving while disqualified.
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#403 - Terminator 2: Judgment Day
James Cameron, 1991
A cyborg is sent back in time from a future where humans and artificially intelligent machines are locked in constant war in order to murder the leader of the human resistance while he is still a young boy.
The Terminator run-the-series continues with Terminator 2, which is often considered the best film in the series and one of the best blockbusters ever made. It's not without reason as its ability to balance ground-breaking special effects and exciting action with a competently written science-fiction storyline that more than justifies a sequel's existence (though, like any Terminator continuation, its existence threatens to compromise the logic of the universe established by the original film, but whatever). The radically increased scale takes the franchise from its humble yet ambitious B-movie origins into the stratosphere and becomes one of the definitive blockbusters to the point where many lesser imitators (and even its successors within the franchise) do their best to duplicate its rather deft combination of plot and spectacle. Of course, even now after having been wowed by it at first (hey, I was thirteen, what did you expect?), I never quite considered it to be superior to its predecessor, flawed that it may be.
If Terminator 2 can be said to have inspired a whole generation of blockbusters, then it's not hard to see the flaws that would definitely get magnified by many other films that failed to capture the same magic. For starters, it's a bit on the long side no matter what edition you watch (I think the bulk of my viewings have involved the special edition, which adds roughly fifteen minutes of scenes). At least even in the extended version the extra scenes add to the film more so than they detract, but even so the execution of the exposition tends to be bloated and less engaging than its predecessor (especially when a lot of it involves Edward Furlong as the young version of John Connor, who was decent enough on initial viewings but now a lot of the scenes that involve him in a greater capacity do tend to drag, with the occasional exception involving his humourous attempts to bond with Arnold Schwarzenegger's emotionless killing machine). The characterisation is solid enough now that there are two cyborgs on the scene - Schwarzenegger's reputation for becoming a charismatic fountain of one-liners isn't remotely tempered by his character's mechanical stoicism, while Robert Patrick as the antagonistic T-1000 also comes as a surprise not just because of his shape-shifting qualities but also because of his far more human mannerisms that serve to distinguish him further. Linda Hamilton returns as Sarah Connor, whose determination to prepare both herself and John for Judgment Day has made her into a fearsome warrior at the cost of at least some of her sanity (she does spend the first act of the film in a mental institution, after all), while character actor Joe Morton plays Miles Dyson, the tech genius whose groundbreaking work is what leads to the creation of the system of robot overlords known as Skynet. He gets in a solid sub-plot as a well-intentioned scientist who is forced to confront the reality of what he's created.
Action-wise, the film is rightly considered a classic, though it's not hard to pinpoint several instances of short-sightedness or incompetence on the part of hero and villain alike that extend and complicate the plot (for a ruthless killing machine who provides the bulk of the film's body count, the T-1000 sure as hell can't hit his primary target). Gunfights, fistfights, chases involving running and several different types of motorised vehicle, explosions, a relative lack of human casualties, and one awfully contrived yet visually stunning finale abound. The effort put into the CGI still shows up many films that followed in its wake, while Stan Winston once again provides magnificient-looking practical effects to temper the computerised work. While it generally has a reputation for being a superior film to The Terminator, I find that its slightly excessive running time and less-than-stellar use of its quieter scenes are points that work against it just a little too much for its own good. It'd be interesting to see if it could get whittled down to about 100 minutes or so, though I definitely think there's enough here that cutting it down that much would definitely be a mistake.
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"Despite What the Press Says, 'Maverick' McCain Has a Long and Distinguished Record of Horribleness"
AMY GOODMAN: We begin today's show looking back at the life and legacy of John McCain, the six-term senator and two-time presidential candidate, who died Saturday at the age of 81 of breast [sic] cancer at his home in Arizona—of brain cancer. John McCain began his decades-long political career after he was a naval pilot in the Vietnam War, where he spent more than five years as a prisoner of war after his plane was shot down in Hanoi in 1967. He spent two years in solitary confinement and twice attempted suicide. He eventually would sign a statement he would regret, that was a so-called confession admitting to, quote, "crimes against the Vietnamese country and people." This experience made him a lifelong opponent of torture. As recently as May, McCain opposed the Trump administration's nomination of Gina Haspel as director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Haspel is a 33-year CIA veteran who was responsible for running a secret CIA black site in Thailand in 2002, where at least one prisoner was waterboarded and tortured in other ways during her tenure.
Yet, in 1973, upon McCain's release from being a prisoner of war and his return to the United States, he wrote an article expressing support for President Nixon and the U.S. bombing of Cambodia. After McCain's election to the U.S. Senate in 1987, he consistently promoted war and U.S. military intervention abroad, including in the first Gulf War, Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as Iran. Here is Senator McCain joking about bombing Iran at a 2007 campaign event during his presidential bid against Barack Obama.
MEDEA BENJAMIN: Yes. We had constantly been lobbying John McCain to not support all these wars. Amy, I think it's so horrible to be calling somebody a war hero because he participated in the bombing of Vietnam. I just spent the last weekend with Veterans for Peace, people who are atoning for their sins in Vietnam by trying to stop new wars. John McCain hasn't done that. With his life, what he did was support wars from not only Iraq, but also Libya. He called John Kerry delusional for trying to make a nuclear deal with Iran, and threw his lot in with the MEK, the extremist group in Iran. He also was a good friend of Mohammed bin Salman and the Saudis. There was a gala for the Saudis in May when the crown prince was visiting, and they had a special award for John McCain. He supported the Saudi bombing in Yemen that has been so catastrophic. And I think we have to think that those who have participated in war are really heroes if they spend the rest of their lives trying to stop war, not like John McCain, who spent the rest of his life supporting war.
AMY GOODMAN: I want to thank you all for being with us, Medea Benjamin, co-founder of CodePink; Mehdi Hasan is with The Intercept, where he hosts the Deconstructed podcast; and Norman Solomon with RootsAction and Institute for Public Accuracy. Norman, I'd like to ask you to stay with us, to learn about this, well, epic vote in the Democratic Party this weekend to strip superdelegates of some of their power. Stay with us.


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The Himalayan Times > Kathmandu > Informal, salaried workers hit hard by COVID-19 in Kathmandu valley: Study
Informal, salaried workers hit hard by COVID-19 in Kathmandu valley: Study
Published: August 12, 2020 8:30 am On: Kathmandu
Nearly 29 per cent of the respondents interviewed by Kathmandu Metropolitan City in a survey on 'Impact of COVID-19 on Livelihood' said their families were stressed due to the uncertain future facing them in the metropolis.
Families living in rented rooms or houses said they were on the verge of being evicted by their landlords as they could not afford to pay the monthly rents.
At least 81 per cent of the respondents said they were unable to pay the rents and meet daily expenses after economic activities came to a standstill and salary employees either got their pay slashed or were deprived of pay for months.
According to the survey finding, 75 per cent of the families had one or more members requiring regular medicine intake due to various ailments, especially diabetes or high blood pressure or both. Respondents of the survey said the lockdown and the measures taken by the government to subdue COV- ID-19 outbreak had badly hit their livelihood.
Around 77 per cent of the respondents, who had been working in the informal sector for more than five years now in Kathmandu, lived in rented rooms or houses.
"Nearly 56 per cent of them said they had to take loans to meet their daily expenses," read the report.
More than 11 per cent of the respondents said they were planning to return to their home districts in case of the failure to find job after the situation limps back to normalcy, while 45 per cent were confident of finding job as per their skill and qualification.
According to KMC, the survey conducted by the Urban Planning Commission of the metropolis intended to analyse the impact of COVID-19 on the general public and informal sector workers to come up with results to cope with the problems. As many as 626 (35.7 per cent females and 64.3 per cent males) respondents aged above 18 years from all 32 wards of KMC were interviewed during the survey carried out in May and June.
Income source of 52.2 per cent of the respondents was salary, of 16.8 per cent was business, of 1.4 per cent was daily wage and that of 4.5 per cent was pension. As per the finding, 54.7 per cent of the respondents reported that the COVID-19 had fully impacted their income, while 25.3 per cent said their income had decreased by more than half. A total of 20 per cent of the respondents said there was a minor impact on their income. Most of the respondents spent their time by watching television, on social media and household works as they were rendered jobless.
Only 12.9 per cent, 12.8 per cent and 2.4 per cent devoted their time to study, online job and regular business or office work, respectively.
The respondents also reported problems in waste collection, study of their children and access to regular medical services from health facilities due to the lockdown.
Bearing in mind the COVID-19 crisis, KMC has decided to exempt all businesses from penalty on tax dues for fiscal 2019-2020.
KMC has also proposed to grant 75 per cent exemption to hotels and resorts on property tax for new fiscal 2020- 2021, on the condition that they settle the applicable tax of fiscal 2019-2020. The house owners, who offer at least one-month rent waiver to tenants, will enjoy 10 per cent exemption on annual rental tax for fiscal 2020-2021.
A version of this article appears in e-paper on August 12, 2020, of The Himalayan Times.
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Boat Building Is the Intersection of Science & Art
By Paulina Switniewska Published On 09/12/2016
Christopher Leaman
If you've ever dreamt of leaving all "this" behind to sail off into the sunset as either Styx or your personal favorite yacht rock bands plays in the background, well… you'd better hope whoever constructs your vessel is a little more grounded in reality, because building a boat from scratch is a methodical, painstaking process. But it's also a rewarding one. To find out so much more, we spoke to two experts at Maine's Portland Yacht Services: carpenter Curt Carlisle and head of woodworking Rick Barkhuff.
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Beyond the lure of the sea, there are borderline philosophical factors that draw craftsmen to boatbuilding over, say, homebuilding. "Boats are just aesthetically pleasing," says Carlisle. "It's almost like sculpting, and not as cut-and-dry as housebuilding can be."
Carlisle came across boatbuilding after college. Trained in the fine arts, he was used to working with his hands. He began with carpentry, framing and building houses and repairing barns to support himself and fund his artwork. But, once those projects were completed, it was all about finding the next thing that would pay the bills. In boatbuilding, he says, "I saw an opportunity to create beautiful objects… to bridge the gap between my desire to create art, and to build."
He enrolled in The Apprenticeshop (which should possibly reconsider renaming itself The ApprenticeShip), located in Rockland, ME. The nonprofit boatbuilding school has been around for 44 years, and teaches not only the fundamentals of constructing seafaring vessels, but also sailing and seamanship. There he began with smaller wooden rowboats ("you've got to row before you can sail" is the aquatic crawl-before-walk) before moving on to larger projects. He found it to be his crafting niche: "Being on the water just brings a type of creativity and freedom."
Carlisle's been a carpenter at Portland Yacht Services in Portland, ME for five years now, where he focuses on repairs and restorations. During this time, he's built four skiffs and several large schooners, and for three years has been in the process of restoring a 42-foot sailboat originally built in 1937. Boatbuilding isn't a rush job, but do it right, and your work will survive many, many presidencies.
Every detail is planned...but half get changed
So what actually goes into creating one of these things? Oh, so much planning. First, the designs come to life when the team sketches the boat out, not on paper but in wood: a rough outline of the boat, drawn, bent, and cut in a process called lofting.
"One of the most challenging aspects of building is lofting, or scaling the real thing from the blueprints," says Carlisle. "Some things can get lost in translation from one step to the next, so it's important to constantly be in communication with everyone on the crew to get things done correctly."
Lofting requires painstaking attention to detail, especially if a marina doesn't employ the use of CAD drawings (today that's rare, but there are still holdouts). First the build drafts are split into sections (or stations), and outlined into patterns and frames drawn up by the loftsman. Next, they're laid out with flexible timbers on a perfectly level lofting floor, but it's easy to lose proper placement here, so the craftsmen use splines: little weights that keep the wood curved in place, and tempers from getting splenetic. From there, measurements must be constantly checked and rechecked as they are labeled on the floor, and as curves are drawn out. This will be the outline of the boat.
Everything needs to be meticulously accurate on the initial shift from blueprints to building floor, since one slip-up can affect the entire process, and builders might have to take apart already completed work to accommodate corrections. Every step of the project can affect not only what comes later, but also what has come before, not to mention the moods of people who manipulate wood for a living.
People may die if you don't track your work perfectly
From the framework, an actual build can last anywhere from a few months to a few years, depending on the size of the vessel, the organization of the project, and when the deadline is scheduled. And alongside the need for attention to detail comes often-intense physical demands -- there aren't a lot of boatbuilders for whom "we're gonna need a bigger boat" jokes would apply.
Still, Carlisle's colleague, Rick Barkhuff, stresses that meeting the mental challenge is as crucial as ably suffering the physical one. Among the head of the woodworking department's more difficult tasks is staying on top of the shop's supplies while organizing numerous projects simultaneously (talk to any chef, and they'll tell you something similar). For Barkhuff, ensuring strict quality control has been the foundation block for his passion as a builder and craftsman.
"One of the most important standards I hold myself and my crew to is, 'Build it so it lasts,'" says Barkhuff. "It's immensely important that we create results that are of the utmost safety for the sailor and anyone who gets onboard. When things go wrong on the water, they go wrong in a big way, so we want to avoid that at all costs when it comes to builds or repairs that come from our marina."
Consider the different styles of wooden hull, among them carvel (individual tapered planks placed edge-to-edge and then fastened to a frame -- but a boat made of ice cream would be awesome), lapstrake/clinker (tapered planks with overlapping edges secured onto transverse timbers), and cold-molded (several layers of thin veneers of wood glued to each other, then onto a frame). There are many paths to the same goal, each representing its own distinct challenge (and many calling for expensive, hard-to-replace/repair materials).
That freedom of approach can be liberating, but the process behind each method is anything but whimsical. Each hull type requires an entirely different mastery of construction. Get it wrong even once and you could be culpable for one of the 57 hull failures catalogued by the Coast Guard in the U.S. last year -- not exactly a list boatbuilders are clamoring to be on.
Minor distractions are guaranteed to push back the schedule
Barkhuff and his crew come in for an 8am to 4:30pm shift devoted to ongoing builds/repairs. However, priorities can shift when someone else comes in for repairs while the crew is already in the middle of something. "Major repairs have to be put on hold for when minor repairs come in," explains Barkhuff.
And here lies the profession's most frustrating rub: there are times when daily maintenance or repairs on other boats can put off finally completing that months-long restoration job on that vintage sailboat. Presently, Barkhuff is in the process of rebuilding a such a vessel from scratch. But replacing the ropes, fastenings, and floor timbers (which, despite their name, are not the deck but a juncture along the middle of the boat), etc. can't move forward until the shorter jobs are finished; otherwise even small repairs would take years.
"I'm not really a water person."
Barkhuff holds an associate degree in engineering, and has always loved putting things together. "It's hard to explain what draws me to boats in particular," he says, "I'm not really a water person. I do enjoy sailing, but I've always been more of a project person. And for people who don't hold that passion for constructing or for boats, it can be hard to understand what motivates me to keep doing this."
It began in the late '70s, when he came across a boat moored at a pier in Nantucket. "It had the most beautiful coaming [a raised border around a boat's cockpit that keeps water out], and I decided that I just had to learn how to create that," he recalls.
His expertise began with an 11-month introductory course at the Landing School on the Kennebunk River in Arundel, ME. Now he teaches there, and has done so for 25 years.
His long career has recently come full circle. In 1989, Barkhuff and his team at Portland Yacht repaired a sailboat for several months. He then left to teach, and when he returned to the company this year, that same boat came back for basic maintenance, virtually unscathed after years on the water. "It's been a pleasure to see how well the boat has been taken care of, and how well it's held up after nearly 30 years," he says. "It meant a lot that the restoration was successful, and that it's still a safe boat."
In the end, building a boat starts with passion, develops into a dedication to the craft, and culminates in the skill to build and maintain sailing vessels that are at once beautiful and tough enough to endure decades on the water. What a fool believes is that all of it comes as easy as just… sailing.


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A barragem de Santa Justa localiza-se no concelho de Alfândega da Fé, distrito de Bragança, Portugal. Situa-se na ribeira de Santa Justa. A barragem foi projectada em 1999 e entrou em funcionamento em 2005.

Barragem
É uma barragem de aterro (terra zonada). Possui uma altura de 39,3 m acima da fundação (.. m acima do terreno natural) e um comprimento de coroamento de 284 m (largura 8 m). O volume da barragem é de 417.000 m³. Possui uma capacidade de descarga máxima de .. (descarga de fundo) + 160 (descarregador de cheias) m³/s.

Albufeira
A albufeira da barragem apresenta uma superfície inundável ao NPA (Nível Pleno de Armazenamento) de 0,280 km² e tem uma capacidade total de 3,476 Mio. m³ (capacidade útil de .. Mio. m³). As cotas de água na albufeira são: NPA de 259 metros, NMC (Nível Máximo de Cheia) de 260,6 metros e NME (Nível Mínimo de Exploração) de 245 metros.

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Santa Justa
Património edificado em Alfândega da Fé
Fundações em Portugal em 2005


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"Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus." (Philippians 4:6&7)
Our July Newsletter is available to read here.
As well as a number of items for prayer, this month we share some of the encouraging responses to written messages and literature which is being sent into prisons.
As the government begin to relax some of the lockdown measures, please pray for staff at Chaplaincy Headquarters who will have the responsibility of making important decisions about when to recommence worship services and chaplaincy groups in prisons.
Pray too that lessons may be learned for the future from the effect of this pandemic on those in prison and also from the opportunities that it has presented to chaplains, with more prisoners being reached with the Gospel due to the distribution of Sunday service material, Christian literature and Daylight's weekly written messages. Chaplains have been able to spend more time on the wings in one-to-one conversations and a number of prisons have also been able to introduce video visits which has made family contact easier to maintain for some.
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In the land of content, relevance is king
by Team Bibblio . 7 November 2017
How do you balance ad revenue generation with a high quality user experience?
The 2017 AOP Digital Publishing Convention took place at the stately No.11 Cavendish Square, just minutes away from Oxford Circus in London. This year's convention, themed 'Inside Out', aimed to bring publishers and industry partners together to examine the challenges and opportunities driving the profitability and future of the digital publishing sector.
This blog post will zoom in on the third panel of the convention, titled 'Positive ad UX is THE way forward for the industry'. On this panel, our own Global Commercial Director Alasdair Cross was joined by speakers from Celtra, Carat and The Telegraph to discuss the raising UX expectation. The panel was moderated by Dilip Shukla, Head of Content Strategy at AOP. Check out the transcript here:
Interacting with an audience
Dilip: "I'd like to invite the entire panel to join me on the stage. What we'll try to do today is not focus on the concerns that may be a current industry preoccupation, but to think about where real value is created and share those ideas. Alasdair, to start with you, I'd like to hear your thoughts on what it is to interact with an audience or a person online? What you can learn from the way we can refer them to new ideas?"
Alasdair: "So, I guess first a brief elevator pitch here. Bibblio helps publishers to make the most of every page. What does that mean? We see a couple of big problems publishers experience. The first one has to do with the attention and the consumption of pages and its content. You see high bounce rates, low page views and attention and a large number of click-outs. So if we could help to get publishers longer dwell times and increased engagement on their own sites, then that's a good thing. That's going to increase loyalty and strengthen their brand.
Alasdair Cross, Global Commercial Director for Bibblio, speaks at 2017 AOP Digital Publishing Convention. Credit: AOP
"The second problem has to do with fairly large amounts of money being spent on traffic acquisition. Publishers will buy in traffic through social media and Google, and a large number leaks away to a variety of places. So if we can help publishers to retain the person for longer and also syndicate their content out to drive more relevant people back into their content, then that's also going to help in their journey.
"So in terms of ad UX. When you think about the huge rise in adblockers - even my kids installed it without a second thought - and trying to change that; it's going to be hard problem to solve. I think we need to start with publishers first, by encouraging them to retain people for longer. This means thinking about the right format of their own content and ads on their pages. That's going to bring positive results."
Throwing data science into the mix
Dilip: "What type of patterns are you seeing? What's the success formula of referring people to the next piece of content?"
Alasdair: "There are ways we can optimise. These ways have to do with the positioning of the recommendation modules on different parts of the page. Essentially, it's about relevance. Relevance is king. If we can surface the most relevant content to the right person, we're going to see the best results. At the moment it's very early days. There's data science being applied to work out what fits best for which person. All the results point at relevance being vital for success."
Dilip: "It is black box science that defines the relevance? What kind of human input goes into it?"
Alasdair: "I think it's both. Ultimately, if we can't get people to engage longer on publisher's content, then there's a problem. The science comes into it when we need to measure the audience response. We're looking at the engagement rates, the dwell time, the click-through rates. And that will feed into the science at the backend."
There's only UX
Dilip: "Thank you, Alasdair. Next I'm going to invite Ian to share his thoughts on the subject. Where is the world of ad UX going?"
Ian Curtis, Product Manager at The Telegraph: "Thanks. The way I see it at The Telegraph is that none of our readers show up to any page to see ads. They show up for that specific article, that piece of content, either curated or written from scratch by a journalist. There's a couple of things we need to do, to continue to produce that content. That's either to generate some revenue from that page, which could be through subscription, registration, advertising or more commercial journeys such as financial services or travel.
Ian Curtis, Product Manager for The Telegraph, speaks at 2017 AOP Digital Publishing Convention. Credit: AOP
"Also, we need to make sure that the reader enjoys the piece of content, the experience a whole so much, that they want to come back or explore more in their limited time. That's the balance we need to bear in mind.
"I don't think there's any such thing as ad UX at all. I think there's UX. A reader shows up at a site and we need to make sure that reader has the best experience possible. Or else there's a huge possibility that reader will not come back. Or when they come back, they come back armed with an ad blocker or a level of paralysis that won't allow them to engage with your brand. With that in mind, it becomes an extremely nuanced situation for publishers and brands. Everyone wants what's right for that reader at any point. It's important that ads are operational, they are fast and that they complement the content that we have in place at any time."
Multivariate testing
Dilip: "Ok. Listening to this, I think we could have the chance to consider next level of advertising, where all the ads have a creative connection to the content. Is there a way we can start researching the effectiveness of that?"
Ian: "The gaps we create on the page to support advertising are built with the reader in the mind. We test everything through. We've been doing that for the last two years. We look for statistical significance through multivariate testing. So we know what it does for all revenue streams. So far as what goes into those gaps we've created, they need to be brand safe and score well on viewability. Both of them are not good measure of success, but if you're not hitting those you're doing something wrong.
Dilip Shukla, Head of Content Strategy for AOP, moderates at 2017 AOP Digital Publishing Convention. Credit: AOP
"After that it's about specific engagement measurements. At that moment we've gone through much testing, so whatever ends up being shown to the reader should be in the right context and be able to do the job it's meant to do."
Dilip: "I love the point of multivariate testing. Does it allow you to say 'if that ad format is there doing this, it seems to compromise the experience, but if I do that then…'?"
Ian: "We use Polar for our native advertising. To create an ad area on the page, we run a series of tests to find out what's the most effective area to put that slot. And Polar is really a delivery mechanism as well. You put in five different thumbnails and headlines, and try maybe five different areas, it will run to find the most effective one. This way we try to combine the best creative process with the best space on the page."
Getting creative with it
Dilip: "Ok. I often realize that when we have these holistic discussions it's not immediately apparent what needs to be done. We see research saying we should be more creative in advertising - do you think this will gain traction?"
Alison Ashworth, Strategy Partner for Carat, speaks at 2017 AOP Digital Publishing Convention. Credit: AOP
Alison Ashworth, Strategy Partner at Carat: "A few years ago we were all talking about how to stand out and be more creative. How do you build emotion around brands? I don't know if this has really changed. I think in the last five years you've seen the world of digital and programmatic emerge. It's all become automated. And it scared a lot of creative people. They are used to big expensive formats, they are used to storytelling. We live in an exciting and scary time. We're not embracing the opportunity for sequential storytelling through programmatic. I think the narrative at the moment is quite fearful. That's why we are all having this debate again."
Dilip: "Is it the fear of the CMO who knows he's about to get fired because he can't prove ROI?"
Alison: "Is that a new fear? I think it's just easier to gather short-term metrics and therefore short-term metrics rise to the top. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. But there's plenty of conversation around that and organisations are evolving."
Site's speed delivers knock on effect
Dilip: "The industry is indeed evolving. And will continue to. Data is going to be more under control and publishers and advertising can think about how they can work more closely together."
Ian: "I think one of the things that's interesting here is the speed of your publisher's site. Each additional entry into the chain slows that done by x. And that has such a knock-on effect on the user. Latency affects everything. It affects your storytelling right down to that engagement and trust. I think there's an element of fear for a reader when they land on a page and something is going on - they see words and pictures but the site hasn't loaded yet in its entirety. New adtech needs to fall in line with the rules you have set to create a consistent experience across your site for all readers. We usually adopt a vendor-in-vendor-out policy, so we keep the baseline speed of the site consistent."
What does the reader want?
Lolly Mason, VP Media Partnerships EMEA at Celtra, speaks at 2017 AOP Digital Publishing Convention. Credit: AOP
Dilip: "Any last thoughts from the panel?"
Lolly Mason, VP Media Partnerships EMEA at Celtra: "I think we should start to look at what might be better ways to review campaigns. To figure out what is successful and what isn't. Not immediately looking at short term success or last click attribution, but more meaningful things."
Ian: "I don't think innovation has to be restricted by things such as speed or the process that's in place. Innovation comes from understanding what the reader actually wants when they show up on the page. And then try to take them on another journey than the one that has been set out."
Alasdair: "I think advertising and content can work in harmony. It's going to take a lot of experimentation and science behind it to understand what is best for the reader."
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