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Electronic Noise and Tinnitus
Submitted by Mike Chin on Thu, 2010-11-11 17:04. The Silent Front
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RICHARD'S LETTER
Richard from Illinois has a much worse and constant case of tinnitus than my very occasional bouts. Here is his letter:
"Subject: Problems with electronic noise from SSDs
"Dear Mike,
"As a long time advocate for silent computing and other environments, I've been a constant visitor to your site for your excellent relevant reviews and industry status reports. My problem with noise is primarily exhibited in suffering from long term tinnitus which stems from various environmental factors including both excessively loud environments and chemical exposure since childhood.
"Perhaps the earliest and most important of these was from large crowd and starting gun noise, as well as the chemical effects of chlorine byproducts, while competing in small and poorly ventilated swimming pool environments from age 6 through college. Add to this lawn mowing over much of the same period, college ROTC Marksman competition, audio lab engineer and audiophile, and wood cutter using chain saws, and it's amazing I have any hearing left at all.
"As such, in the last 25 years, since the mid 1980's, it's made me the proverbial "canary in a mine shaft" with both hearing and chemical sensitivities. That's when I first started getting serious about protecting my hearing and researching ways to avoid and reduce noise exposure. The first and most critical of these was reducing noise exposure both at the source and when that wasn't possible with hearing protection. I also found that chemical exposure exacerbated the effects of noise, and avoidance of these sources helped immensely.
"In more recent years, the impact of computer and electronic noise on me has become more pronounced to the extent that even wireless transmissions affect my tinnitus adversely. I can't even tolerate portable phone systems above 1Ghz or wireless G networks when in quiet environments. If they are in more concentrated noise environments with a variety of frequency ranges and sources, such as electronic stores like BB, the impact is far less as the noise seems to cancel itself out at the critical frequencies that affect me.
"I'd been constantly searching for the next best hard drive that would lower the noise level to inaudible, and your site has been most helpful in working through this. Fortunately, I stumbled on one drive, a Seagate Barracuda V 7200RPM 120GB drive, that has been my primary drive since it was first introduced. By custom installing it in a very quiet Stealth enclosure manufactured by Arm Systems in California (long since out of business) I've been able to survive for the last 8-10 years with a very quiet desktop system in my office environment.
"Of course this didn't solve the problem with mobile computing, and even with the much more quiet 2.5" hard drive format, most of them were a problem for me due the immediate proximity of the unit. For many years I used ear plugs when working with laptops, until I finally found a Toshiba Satellite that was tolerable for reasonable periods of time. Constantly seeking solutions to this, I became an early adopter of SSDs, and was certain these products would be the answer to my long time issue with spinning hard drive noise. I eventually changed out that unit's conventional hard drive for a Transcend TS64GSSD25-M, which has an IDE/PATA interface. Even with the occasional fan noise, which isn't obtrusive to me, it's a wonderfully quiet laptop I still use for travel, although very under-powered in for much of today's computing needs other than the basics. I've had problems with this Transcend's drive "freezing", probably due to the JMicron controller, and have had to replace it under warranty. Fortunately, Transcend has been excellent in this regard.
"With the constant evolution of technology, and my ever increasing interest in all things digital, including digital photo and video processing, a couple of years ago I eventually was pressed into upgrading my digital processing computer. While I was tempted to build my own, I opted to work with Puget Systems when they provided a very competitive quote for an Intel i7 system compared to my own pricing. It includes the following:
Antec P182 Case
Asus P6T Deluxe V2 Motherboard
Intel Core i7 Quad 920 Processor
12GB Kingston DDR3-1333 RAM
Seasonic M12D850W PS
Gigabyte Radeon HD 4850 1GB Silent (Fanless) Graphics
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Windows Vista Ultimate 64 dual boot with Win7 Pro 64
Initial HD WD Caviar Green 1TB replaced/w Intel X25-M G1
Various 2.5" drives including USB Portables
Scythe Smart Drive 2.5" Enclosure
"During that time period, the Intel X25-M G1 was just being introduced. After trying a WD Caviar Green 1TB drive, even with the system operating remotely in an adjoining room with noise dampening, I couldn't tolerate it and bought the Intel SSD when they became available. By using the original Toshiba hard drive from the laptop as swap disk, and various Seagate and WD portable USB drives for data, this unit has been superb in both silent operation, and performance.
"This brings me to the issue that initiated this email, the SPCR article by Lawrence Lee entitled "Consumer SSD Battle: WD, Kingston, OCZ, Intel".
"As a footnote to his noise evaluation Lawrence states: "n.m. = Not measurable. It's possible that there could be a tiny bit of electronic noise (typically a high pitched squeal) being emitted by any of these SSDs, either intermittently depending on task, or continuously, but we never heard a thing, even in the anechoic chamber with ear pressed right up against the drives." [Editor's Note: This was, in fact, my own comment]
"This is particularly relevant to me, most notably as a tinnitus sufferer. As mentioned above, I am able to detect electronic noise in a variety of environments from certain electronics, and I've found certain SSDs to be major culprits. Specifically, the Intel X25-M G2s are a major problem. Having had excellent results from the original G1 version, I purchased 2 G2s when they were first available. Unfortunately, they emit a strong high pitched electronic noise that severely impacts my tinnitus, causing it to ring at different frequencies and for long periods of time following even short exposure. It's similar to the problem I have with both wireless 3G networks and cellular phone 3G transmissions, where the iPhone on 3G causes it but the 2G/EDGE transmissions don't. However, it's much more severe with the Intel G2s, as evidenced by a family member who also has tinnitus, but to a lesser degree. They are not bothered by the iPhone 3G transmissions or 3G wireless, but the Intel G2 drives them nuts as well!
"After first determining this problem, I initially thought it was with the SATA interface, as spinning SATA drives cause a similar problem. But of course it's difficult to divorce the HD noise from the electronic noise in this situation. I have had some luck with reducing the noise level with the hard drives using a Scythe Smart Drive 2.5 enclosure, but it doesn't seem to impact the Intel G2 noise at all! Nor does any kind of shielding seem to work. It's just constant and pervasive throughout the house when they are on. In contrast, the Transcend IDE SSD doesn't emit any electronic noise that I can detect, and is completely silent from my perspective. So there may be some factor involving the SATA interface that is causing the problem. Continuing to seek a solution, I decided to try out another SATA SSD, the OCZ Vertex 2 60GB. This one also caused some electronic noise, although not as severe or pronounced as the Intel G2. But it was obtrusive enough that I returned the drive.
"Finally, after sitting on these 2 Intel G2 SSDs for quite a while, I contacted Intel and they have agreed to look at them to see if they can determine the issue and a cause. With luck, I'll have some resolution to this. To sum up my feedback to the article, please let the reviewer (Larry) know that there are individuals out there that are adversely affected by electronic noise, including that from SSDs. Unfortunately, I'm one of them. It would be great to define the specifics of this problem, with regard to the frequencies and intensity of the signal that causes it. If you have any suggestions on how I might go about doing this, I'd be very much interested in your response.
"Thank you sincerely for your work in this area of technology, and for listening to my experiences.
"Sincerely, Richard in Illinois
"*PS — The head of Intel North America Customer Service is the one to whom my query about the SSDs was escalated. He contacted me directly by phone and handled it himself, including receiving my shipment personally, and paying for it as well. Following my explanation of the problem, including my request to exchange them for G1 units, which are no longer available, he offered to refund my entire purchase price paid to MWave.com. Amazingly, just a few days later, I received a check from Intel, via next day mail. Their response has been terrific, and frankly the best I've ever had from any tech company in my many years of dealing with such."
So... kudos for great service from Intel and an excellent result for Richard.
MORE ON SSDs & ELECTRONIC NOISE
Are they truly free of noise?
After these exchanges with Richard, I rounded up all the SSDs on hand, plugged them into a test system, and put each one up to my ear, one by one. I have to report that my inserted comment in Larry article was not completely correct. With one or two SSDs, there is a tiny bit of intermittent bzzzzzz — but at such a low level that when my ear is >6" away, I can't hear it. In a PC, it would be completely blocked by the case or drowned out by other components, even in the very quietest systems. I doubt this is what Richard is "hearing"; it is too low in amplitude for even dogs to hear it, in my opinion. None of the Intel SSDs exhibited any audible noise. However, I listened to the SSDs only during normal operation — idle, write or read.
William George of Puget Computers, who has also been working with Richard to sort out the SSD noise problems, heard something from an Intel G2 SSD during routine testing, and he reported to Richard,
"I also ran a disk check during boot up, and everything looked good there. However, during the minute or so that took I noticed a subtle, extremely high-pitched noise from the computer (which is otherwise nearly silent). I wonder if that is similar to what you hear all the time on the Gen2 drives? Anyways, since it was only during that one test and not in Windows (even during CDM) I don't think it should be a problem – but I did want to mention it up front, in case that affects your plans." [Editor's Note: It is not 100% clear whether this noise came from the SSD or some other component.]
Richard's response to William:
"Ran disk check (on my Intel G1 SSD) as you suggested and there was no audible noise that I could hear. However, there was an immediate intense spike in my tinnitus, which was something I hadn't detected before in normal usage. As soon as disk check was finished, it subsided and was no longer present. Weird! There are definitely strange things going on with the Intel SSDs, and perhaps other brands, in the generation of electronic noise at audible or inaudible frequencies."
It is my hunch that Richard's reaction to electronic noise has little to do with normal audible noise. From other emails I exchanged with him, I believe his hearing is not particularly sensitive in normal ways. He describes the tinnitus effect as being around 3000Hz. which is mid-band (4000Hz is near the highest note on a piano; 3000Hz is maybe a half octave down from there). My speculation is this: The electronics noise might be ultrasonic, at a frequency no human can "hear", but his body/mind reacts to it, and it manifests itself as a ringing in the mid-band, like a mechanical resonance being triggered by noise/vibration far outside the resonant frequency.
Richard's tinnitus is reminiscent in function to an environmental allergy where overexposure to a particular stimulus that is normally benign makes changes in the immune system, which then results in a hyper-sensitive reaction by the immune system on further exposure to that stimuli. One of my siblings has developed many respiratory allergies over the years, but when he was in his 20s, he had no allergies at all. His doctors postulate that increased levels of airborne particulates from pollution and climate change is a very real possible cause for his allergies. Is it possible that all the ultrasonic electronic noise from modern devices and gadgets represents a similar kind of increased environmental pollution and stimulus that causes the hyper-sensitive reaction we describe as tinnitus?
What about anyone else? Does electronic noise from an SSD in your quiet computer bother you? What about any other kind of electronic devices?
SPCR Articles of Related Interest
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A Primer on Noise in Computing
External Links of Interest
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American Tinnitus Association
Ringing in the Ear Comes From the Brain
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Discover Magazine: "Ringing in the Ears" Actually Goes Much Deeper
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The dam substantially reduces flooding along the Ware, Chicopee, and Connecticut rivers. The project was authorized by Congress in 1941 to reduce flood damage from storms like those that devastated New England in 1936 and 1938. Construction of the project began in May 1956 and was completed in July 1958 at a cost of $2 million. A portion of Route 62 was relocated to accommodate the project. The project has prevented $53.2 million in flood damages since it was built (as of September 2011).
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Bulletin of the Lebedev Physics Institute
April 2015 , Volume 42, Issue 4, pp 110–114 | Cite as
Laser technologies for processing wide band-gap semiconductors and insulators: Nonlinear absorption mechanisms
I. N. Zavestovskaya
N. A. Kozlovskaya
O. N. Krokhin
First Online: 06 May 2015
The results of the theoretical study of damage and nonlinear light absorption mechanisms in transparent materials, i.e., wide band-gap semiconductors and insulators, are presented. It is shown that ablation processes in transparent materials exposed to laser pulses with intensity of the order of tens of TW/cm2 and pulse duration of the order of hundreds femtoseconds are efficient for various surface treatment technologies. The mechanism of tunneling nonlinear light absorption is studied. Ablation thresholds of GaN and other transparent materials such as sapphire (Al2O3), vitreous SiO2, and the same SiO2 with Ge impurity are determined. It is found that the ablation threshold depends on the band gap (absorption band edge) E g as E g 3 , which is in good agreement with experiment.
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Handel on the Stage
Author: David Kimbell, University of Edinburgh
Of all the great composers of the eighteenth century, Handel was the supreme cosmopolitan, an early and extraordinarily successful example of a freelance composer. For thirty years the opera-house was the principal focus of his creative work and he composed more than forty operas over this period. In this book, David Kimbell sets Handel's operas in their biographical and cultural contexts. He explores the circumstances in which they were composed and performed, the librettos that were prepared for Handel, and what they tell us about his and his audience's values and the music he composed for them. Remarkably no Handel operas were staged for a period of 170 years between 1754 and the 1920s. The final chapter in this book reveals the differences and similarities between how Handel's operas were performed in his time and ours.
Places Handel's life in the context of the multidisciplinary art of opera
Examines the working relationship between composer, librettists and performers, and what this tells us about the values of Handel's age
Encourages a fuller understanding of Handel's operas and assesses the impact of this upon modern stagings and revivals
'Not only do the carefully selected examples superbly articulate the points Kimbell wishes to make, but readers are also provided with a range of additional elements to help them follow the argument or fill potential gaps in background knowledge. … This well-written study is an essential read for anyone with an interest in Handel's operas.' Matthew Gardner, Early Music
contains: 34 music examples
1. Handel and opera – a biographical survey of the circumstances
2. The libretto (1) – argument – dramatis personae
3. The libretto (2) – words for music
4. The music (1) – mastering the medium
5. The music (2) – its role in the drama
6. Aspects of the performance of Handelian opera in his time and in ours
Appendix: an overview of the repertory of the Royal Academy of Music.
David Kimbell, University of Edinburgh
David Kimbell is Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of Edinburgh. His publications include Verdi in the Age of Italian Romanticism (Cambridge, 1981), Italian Opera (Cambridge, 1991) and Vincenzo Bellini: Norma (Cambridge, 1998). He has also contributed to The Cambridge Handel Encyclopedia, The Cambridge History of Italian Literature and The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature, and has edited volumes for Hallische Händel-Ausgabe and Works of Giuseppe Verdi.
The Rival Sirens
Performance and Identity on Handel's Operatic Stage
Verdi in the Age of Italian Romanticism
Mozart on the Stage
Vincenzo Bellini: Norma
Italian Opera
The Rise of Romantic Opera
The Cambridge Companion to Handel


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"The new office in Craigavon will enhance Invest Northern Ireland's local service delivery and will enable us to strengthen our links with the private sector, councils, business organisations and other stakeholders in the area with the aim of developing and sustaining a robust local economy," said Professor Fabian Monds, Chairman of Invest NI.
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"This area has many successful businesses and is well known for its strong economic focus. There is a high level of business start-up in the region and our focus is on helping these businesses grow by embracing innovation and new technology, and targeting export markets," said Prof Monds.
"The new office is located on the same site as the Upper Bann Institute's Training Direct facility for business, with the local enterprise agency and the Council's economic development unit close by, so we can now work even more closely with our economic partners to ensure that businesses in the area receive the range of support they need.
"The attraction of sustainable Foreign Direct Investment to the area is also a core objective for Invest NI. We will continue to work with councils to develop a sales message that promotes the unique assets of the region, to include its loyal workforce, skills base, thriving business community and excellent quality of life," added Prof Monds.
The opening of the new office reflects the commitment of Invest NI, as set out in its Corporate Plan, to an enhanced local presence that gives access to its full range of services.
The Craigavon office will initially be staffed by two experienced client executives who will work as an integral part of the network of Invest NI specialists.
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Coronavirus to climate change: Make way for more lockdowns
Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry speaks about the United States' international climate efforts ahead of COP27, the upcoming 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022, at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick ... more >
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times - Thursday, October 27, 2022
A new report from scientists and published in The Lancet finds climate change is "increasingly affecting the foundations of human health and wellbeing" and that if governments don't stop using fossil fuels, people will die, people will die, people will die.
It's the reincarnation of COVID-19. John Kerry will play the role of Anthony Fauci.
Actually, it's the next planned progression of the coronavirus, leading into the next planned phase of tyrannical takings of individual liberties.
"The right response to COVID-19 can avert the climate crisis," the World Economic Forum wrote, way back in June 2020. What's the "right" response? According to the WEF, it's "an enlightened" one.
Oh, do tell.
"The pandemic is providing humanity with a reset moment," the WEF wrote. As in: A Great Reset moment. A "build back better" opportunity, as the WEF also wrote. And that's how President Biden puts it, as well, on his White House "Build Back Better Framework" webpage. It's the global agenda come to America. The wolves to steal U.S. sovereignty have crossed the White House threshold — and are knocking at the doors of Congress, too. H.R. 794 is the Climate Emergency Act of 2021. It calls for the president "to declare a national climate emergency under the National Emergencies Act," the text states.
That's how the coronavirus clampdowns swung into high gear — by declared national emergency.
So back to the WEF.
This is the jump from coronavirus to climate change: "If we get our policy responses to COVID-19 wrong, we risk exacerbating the climate crisis," the WEF wrote.
And since governments have already been in the business of handing out gobs of cash for coronavirus mitigation causes, the great idea of the Great Reset crowd is to continue to dangle money as a reward for building back better. The WEF calls for central banks to only deal with green bonds; for state entities to only deal with companies that meet environmental, social governance standards; for financial institutions to only loan money to businesses that agree to these ESG standards; for governments to get in the carbon emission trading game — and use China as a model; for employers to promote green standards within their various companies; and for regulators to mandate businesses show proof of meeting ESG standards.
This is the left's weaponization of the free market for political purposes.
This is the globalist's way of controlling even the pocketbooks and wallets of individuals.
Won't play? Then you won't get paid.
Resistors will be turned into the enemy — because climate change is the new coronavirus. Climate change is the new and even deadlier coronavirus that threatens all of humanity.
"Climate change is 'first and foremost' a health crisis, new report finds," USA Today wrote a few days ago.
"How climate change is hurting Americans' health — and what experts suggest we do about it," USA Today wrote this week.
It's all about saving lives.
"Extreme heat and pollution are linked to many conditions including asthma and heart disease — and heat kills more people than hurricane or floods each year," USA Today wrote.
Once again, just as with the government's mitigation efforts involving COVID, it's all about saving lives. Once again, it's all about presenting alarming, hysterical, fear-fueling warnings using soft and squishy language like "potential" or "perhaps" or "could happen" or "may occur" — and then following these warnings with the best practice government solutions so as to save us all. Once again, it's "science" from "scientists" that we are all told to believe and follow.
"Health is at the mercy of our global fossil fuel addiction," said Renee Salas, a doctor who also happens to be a fellow with the Harvard University's Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment, USA Today wrote.
"Deaths from fossil fuel emissions higher than previously thought," Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences reported.
"Researchers," this report went on to say, "estimated that exposure to particulate matter from fossil fuel emissions accounted for 18 percent of total global deaths in 2018 — a little less than 1 out of 5."
Guess how they arrived at that estimate? (And note, too, the use of the word "estimate.") By computer modeling. That's another way of saying by guessing. Computer models are only as accurate with conclusions as the numbers that are inputted. Scientists take their best guess to plug in numbers they think are accurate — or to plug in numbers that meet the political expectations of the day. Then they arrive at conclusions based on those best-guess numbers.
Political polls are about as accurate. Can you say President Hillary Clinton? Nope. How about "This Harvard finding is ridiculous" — can you say that?
The idea that 18 percent of deaths in 2018 are due to air pollution is absurd.
But watch.
It won't be long before the calls to save lives by curtailing production and going green becomes the left's lockdown arguments. After all, walking about freely while breathing polluted air brings great risk. People can die, people could die, people will die. Curbing emissions is the patriotic thing to do. It's the humane thing to do.
"For the first time, researchers have calculated exactly how many people the US could save by acting on the climate crisis," The Guardian recently wrote.
Well, if the "researchers" say it, then it must be true. Agree at liberty's peril.
If tyrannical seizures of individual freedoms from the coronavirus taught anything, it's that researchers, scientists, government experts, medical bureaucrats and the like are just as political as politicians. And if Americans haven't learned that lesson yet, then more lockdowns are most decidedly on the way.
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Hillary Clinton has not decided whether to run for president again. I have this on good authority, despite a recent barrage of reports detailing the many moves that signal a campaign in the making. People close to Clinton and familiar with her thinking insist that she hasn't made a decision.
Moreover, "it's not a decision she is going to make anytime soon", says one insider.
But what about the high ranking personnel from President Obama's political brain trust who are moving into jobs in pro-Clinton groups?The sources patiently repeat themselves. Clinton, they inform me, is very busy writing a memoir of her work as secretary of state while also replenishing the coffers of her family charitable foundation to support her work on behalf of women and children. "She's going to continue to go about her life the way she has chosen to", says the insider.
"She's not being coy. When she says she hasn't decided, she hasn't decided.
But what about the recent email blast that retired general Wesley Clark, a Clinton diehard, sent to past supporters whose names are embedded in Clinton's database, exhorting them to rally to Hillary's cause?
People wanting her to decide, or people getting anxious about it, are working on their own timeline, and frankly there is only one person whose timeline counts," says an increasingly exasperated insider.
"Anyway, she could stand on the white house lawn tomorrow and say wasn't running, and no one would believe her".
Perhaps it all comes down, in Clintonian fashion, to definitions. It depends on the meaning of the word decide. And on the meaning of the word run.. In Hillary Clinton, the United States of America is now experiencing a rare, if not unprecedented, political phenomenon; she requires a new lexicon. Clinton is so globally famous, so politically wired and so primed for the presidency after two campaigns at her husband's side and one epic race of her own that her life as a private citizen has become virtually indistinguishable from her life as a candidate.
We can believe that she hasn't "decided" to "run" because there is almost nothing that a decision would change for her.
It would be like Jennifer Aniston deciding to get her picture in a supermarket tabloid or warren buffet deciding to be quotable.
All outward behaviours remain the same. Whether she raises money from wealthy donors for the Clinton Global Initiative or coaxes cash for a presidential campaign, the canapés and grip-and-grins are identical for Clinton. Her stump speeches while accepting awards for past achievements are barely distinguishable from speeches she might give while collecting endorsements in lowa living rooms. The charming handwritten notes she has been showering lately on far-flung friends serve to nurture political support, whether or not that is the intention, because friendship and politics are inseparable after half a century on the hustings.
Lesser figures- mere governors, senators, vice presidents- face mounting pressure to decide whether to run for president: there are so many pieces to accumulate and put into place. To an astonished degree, Clinton already has all the pieces: universal name recognition, fervently devoted followers across the U.S., a robust donor network, legions of experienced counselors, personal mastery, of the issues. And she has the cream of two generations of democratic operatives scrambling to assemble these pieces on her behalf. Her unofficial apparatus already includes a grassroots operation, ready for Hillary, that has raised more than $4 million in predominantly small donations; a super PAC called priorities USA action, to groom Megadonors to fund future air wars; a rapid-response team, correct the record, primed to shoot down criticism; a think tank, the center for American progress, ready to work up white papers and field-test applause lines; and a women's network, Emily's list, eager to rally the sisterhood to smash the glass ceiling at last.
Clinton has not decided whether to run for president because to do so would only slow her down. Lots of people can be a presidential candidate-ask Patrick Buchanan or Dennis Kucinich or Herman Cain. There is only Hillary able to dominate discussion of 2016 even as she sails above it. Indecision serves her well by preserving flexibility in her schedule, by shielding her from answering every internet controversy and by allowing the republican opposition to take shape and draw fire.
How long can this go on? Longer than you might think. The typical reasons for a candidate to decide- credibility with donors and voters, access to media, ability to recruit staff, leverage to secure endorsements- wouldn't move Clinton because she already has those things. There's not a door she can't open nor a camera she can't command. Last year, Clinton told interviewer Barbara Walters that she would make a decision in 2014, but some sources in her camp, who generally speak about 2016 only if granted anonymity, suggest that it was a ballpark figure. By saying 2014 while the calendar said 2013, Clinton was merely indicating that her decision was a long way off. If you polled 25 smart political people and you asked them on a strategic tactical level if a presidential candidate should be doing anything in 2014, they would tell you no, said one insider. "No one in the history of the republic has started to run this far out".
There's that word again: run. We know from biographers that team Clinton actually started running for president sometimes in the 1960's, when young bill fretted about preserving his political viability while avoiding the Vietnam draft. If they ever stopped running, it was only in a semantic sense. Along with her husband, the former first lady is the embodiment of the so-called permanent campaign, in which years blur into an endless loop of staged events and solicitations for money and skirmishing for control of the next news cycle. If that's not running, what is?
When Clinton's press secretary Nick recently answered some questions from time about his boss's plans by declaring in an email that "there is no candidate, there is no campaign", I found myself flashing on the image of a black hole-the astrophysical phenomenon that manages to be both invisible and superpowerful at the same time. Scientists confirm the presence of a black hole by measuring its effects on nearby stars as it bends their orbits and heats the gases swirling in its galactic vicinity.
The existence of Clinton's 2016 campaign cannot be directly observed through a formal announcement ritual or by linking to documents at the federal election commission. But its massive influence on the stars and gases of Washington is unmistakable. Most of her fellow democrats are signaling scant interest in taking her on. Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren, a hero of the left, has repeatedly said she would not challenge Clinton in the primary. Likewise, Senators Kirsten Gillibrand of New York and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota- who might otherwise vie to be the first female president- have said they would support her candidacy. "I think if another woman ran against Hillary, she would bring down the wrath of women around the country", said one veteran democratic strategist, echoing a widespread view inside the party that Clinton earned another shot at history when she surrendered gracefully to Barrack Obama in 2008.
Vice President Joe Biden would love to run, through he would be 74 by inauguration day and past donors and former staff report that he sees little room for himself in a field with Clinton. Ambitious governors like Martin O'Malley of Maryland, Andrew Cuomo of New York and Deval Patrick of Massachusetts are young enough to wait another cycle or two. To find a democratic openly courting the race you have to visit the unlikely terrain of big sky country, where former Montana governor Brian Schweitzer has been enjoying a minor burst of publicity as he flirts with a dark-horse challenge.


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Congress staff and lobbyists hope that Congress will take action before the emergency is over so that medical insurance participants will not lose the telemedicine services they have been accustomed to since last year.
Although Congress is advancing other healthcare legislation and President Joe Biden's domestic agenda, expanding the use of telemedicine is not the top priority for legislators this year. Lower-priority items are usually resolved at the last minute, so Doggett's telemedicine measures may not be resolved until next year, perhaps as soon as February when Congress processes its annual spending bill.
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A long-running 'feud'
The Tory London assembly member on what he says is one of the longest-running feuds in London politi
One of the longest running London political feuds is that between Trevor Phillips, the Chair of the Commission for Racial Equality and Ken Livingstone.
The row partly goes back to 2000 when Phillips ran as Frank Dobson's deputy in his ill-fated Mayoral Campaign against Livingstone.
The following three years that Phillips spent on the London Assembly (including being its first Chairman) were probably not the most productive of Phillips' career as Livingstone seemed to frustrate Trevor at every opportunity.
"I won't have that Bastard Phillips on the Police Authority," was Ken's remark to the first meeting of Tory Assembly members, and consequently Trevor had to sit through two years of endless London Fire Brigade meetings although he learnt at first hand what equalities mean in an organisation that had then barely emerged from the 1950s.
Is this the revival of Tory moderates?
When Trevor moved on to the Commission for Racial Equality he had clearly found his niche in British Public Life and his immensely thoughtful contributions on race issues, stressing the need for integration, discussing the nature of Britishness gave the CRE credence it previously lacked.
The more sensible Phillips' speeches the more vicious Livingstone's attacks culminating in the bizarre allegation that Phillips was pandering to the BNP.
Indeed in 2006 City Hall went to a great deal of trouble and expenditure to organise a race conference on the same day the CRE had a big event.
I was reflecting on this as I enjoyed a pleasant early evening reception at the French Ambassadors residence in Kensington Palace Gardens to mark the award of the Chevalier de Legion d' honour to Trevor to go alongside his OBE.
A mixed crowd of the great and the good, including a couple of Conservative MPs, one Labour Assembly Member but strangely not the Mayor of London heard Trevor pay tribute to the French President Nicholas Sarkozy for taking the diversity agenda seriously in France especially in the make up of his new Government.
It has long been my view that whereas the left talk a good story on diversity and equality issues it is actually the right that drive through the agenda. On the London Fire Authority 10 years of Labour control between 1990 and 2000 saw virtually no progress yet all changed when a Tory became lead member on equality issues.
The left spend so much time arguing amongst themselves and playing one ethnic group off against another. I was flabbergasted when locally a Hindu Labour Councillor complained to me that we had invited a Muslim fellow Labour Councillor to take part in a veterans day service earlier this year. The conviction of Waltham Forest Labour Councillor Miranda Grell (a former aide to Deputy Mayor Nicky Gavron) under rarely used provisions of the Representation of the People Act for telling voters her Lib Dem opponent was a paedophile have shown how often the ethnic groups on the left are hostile to the gay rights agenda.
Trevor Phillips great achievement has been to mainstream the whole equalities agenda in the UK and it is not just the French Government that owes him a debt of gratitude.
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Q: Replace " with \" How do I replace " with \".
Here is what im trying :
def main(args:Array[String]) = {
  val line:String = "replace \" quote";
  println(line);
  val updatedLine = line.replaceAll("\"" , "\\\"");
  println(updatedLine);
}

output :
replace " quote
replace " quote

The output should be :
replace " quote
replace \" quote

A: Two more \\ does the job:
scala>  line.replaceAll("\"" , "\\\\\"");
res5: java.lang.String = replace \" quote

The problem here is that there are two 'layers' escaping the strings. The first layer is the compiler, which we can easily see in the REPL:
scala> "\""
res0: java.lang.String = "

scala> "\\"
res1: java.lang.String = \

scala> "\\\""
res2: java.lang.String = \"

scala> val line:String = "replace \" quote";
line: String = replace " quote

The second layer is the regular expression interpreter. This one is harder to see, but can be seen by applyin your example:
scala>  line.replaceAll("\"" , "\\\"");
res5: java.lang.String = replace " quote

What the reg. exp. interpreter really receives is \", which is interpreted as only ". So, we need the reg. exp. to receive \\". To make the compiler give us \ we need to write \\.
Let's see the unescaping:

*

*The right case: \\\" the compiler sees \", the regular expression sees \".

*The wrong case: \\" the compiler sees \", the regular expression sees ".

It can be a bit confusing despite being very straight forward.
As pointed by @sschaef, another alternative it to use """ triple-quoting, strings in this form aren't unescaped by the compiler:
scala>  line.replaceAll("\"" , """\\"""");
res6: java.lang.String = replace \" quote

A: Use "replaceAllLiterally" method of StringOps class. This replaces all literal occurrences of the argument:
scala> val line:String = "replace \" quote"
line: String = replace " quote

scala> line.replaceAllLiterally("\"", "\\\"")
res8: String = replace \" quote

A: @pedrofurla nicely explains why you saw the behavior you did. Another solution to your problem would be to use a raw string with scala's triple-quote character. Anything between a pair of triple-quotes is treated as a raw string with no interpretation by the Scala compiler. Thus:
scala> line.replaceAll("\"", """\\"""")
res1: String = replace \" quote

Used in conjunction with stripMargin, triple-quotes are a powerful way to embed raw strings into your code. For example:
val foo = """
        |hocus
        |pocus""".stripMargin

yields the string: "\nhocus\npocus"


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The tickets to enter those tourist destinations were so cheap. Kebun Buah Mangunan is actually perfect for sunrise photo. Seribu Batu Songgo Langit has so many nice photo spots. Pinus Imogiri and Pinus Asri are pine forests and perfect for having a little picnic, lol. The gear that I used to make this video: GoPro Hero 6 Black.


One of the activities I have missed the most since my move from Cookeville is attending the softball games at TTU. The days of sitting in the sun with one of my dogs at my feet, surrounded by friends, many who also brought their dogs, is a good memory. So this past weekend I was thrilled to be able to attend the 2013 USF/Under Armour Invitational and Showcase in Clearwater, FL and watch the Golden Eagles Softball Women play. I also enjoyed conversation with several of the wonderful softball team supporters from Cookeville who made their way to FL.
As my husband, Jim, and I sat watching the game, we began to muse over what a game would look like if dogs were players (dogs are never far from our minds, not even when we are enjoying other activities). We decided our view of the game with a canine twist might bring a smile to some readers. I used the AKC Breed Description Index as a reference for breed descriptions (www.akc.org/breeds). Legal Disclaimer: all representations are purely fictional and any likeness to any team member is purely coincidental.
Which breeds would be placed in various positions of the team? Let's start with the pitcher. The movements are focused, very still and watchful, followed by fast movement with grace and speed. Only a Sighthound could fill that spot, so we nominate a Scottish Deerhound as pitcher. The catcher: what better breed to fill that role than one which is rock solid and steady such as the low-to-the-ground English Bulldog who is described as "ferocious and courageous, almost insensitive to pain." Catching those 80 mph pitches and cleats-first slides into home plate must require at least a little pain tolerance.
The shortstop position will be filled by a Border Collie (aka "the Fun Police"), who "thrives when they have a job to do and space to run." First and second bases will be filled by terriers. It was more than evident the first base position should be held by a Jack Russell Terrier. Why? "Strong, hardy, earth-working, strong voice, fearless nature." Second base will be covered by the Cairn Terrier, bred to aid the owners in "ridding the area of pests" (since the second base player helps end those darn double plays). Third base will be covered by the Labrador Retriever, bred as an "efficient retriever of game," since so many hits go down that line. Labs retrieving balls is a given!
The unsung heroes of the softball game may be the outfielders. They must be fast and able to make quick throws into the infield, so my breed choice for these positions is the Australian Shepherd. Aussies are known as "animated, agile, with strong herding and guarding instincts." Watching the outfielders going after a flyball yelling "I've got it!" and "Mine! Mine! Mine!", well, Aussies will be naturals.
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The search for the new Dean of Law at UCT is open. Nominations close this Friday 12th October, and applications close Monday 15th October.
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This week round out our retrospective on the Phantasm series, with 1998's PHANTASM IV: OBLIVION directed by Don Coscarelli.
discuss how strange this series is getting, where it goes right and wrong, and get into the nature of horror series as they travel from the idea of a first movie to the "concretizing" effect of multiple entries. But along the way: desert weirdness, four-barreled shotguns and dangerous Jawas abound.
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This week continue our retrospective the Phantasm series, with 1994's PHANTASM III directed by Don Coscarelli. Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead is a 1994 horror film and the second sequel to Phantasm, also written and directed by Don Coscarelli. The film stars Angus Scrimm as the Tall Man, Reggie Bannister and A. Michael Baldwin.. According to Reggie Bannister, We discuss the arc of many horror series from cerebral weirdness to something more repeatable. But even in the third installment, the series remains iconoclastic and daring.
This week continue our retrospective the Phantasm series, with 1988's PHANTASM II directed by Don Coscarelli.
Phantasm II is a 1988 American action-horror film and sequel to Phantasm (1979). It was written and directed by Don Coscarelli, starring Angus Scrimm, James LeGros and Reggie Bannister. In it, the first film's protagonist Mike, recently released from a mental institution, recruits Reggie and some new friends in an effort to defeat the villain Tall Man. The film caused controversy among fans by recasting main character Mike with LeGros– and also for a change in tone, as the dreamy horror of the first film gives way to a fast-moving adventure of guns and stunts.


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Das Naturschutzgebiet Oppenheimer Wäldchen liegt im Landkreis Mainz-Bingen in Rheinland-Pfalz.

Das 26 ha große Gebiet, das im Jahr 1989 unter Naturschutz gestellt wurde, erstreckt sich östlich der Stadt Oppenheim entlang des östlich fließenden Rheins.

Das Gebiet umfasst Auwälder im Überschwemmungsgebiet des Rheins mit Altrhein, ehemaliger Flussrinne und temporären Gewässern. Dazu gehören Flachwasserzonen sowie Röhricht- und Schilfbestände.

Siehe auch
 Liste der Naturschutzgebiete im Landkreis Mainz-Bingen

Weblinks
 Oppenheimer Wäldchen (Karte) auf protectedplanet.net
 339-107 Rechtsverordnung über das Naturschutzgebiet "Oppenheimer Wäldchen" Landkreis Mainz-Bingen vom 21. September 1989 (PDF) auf naturschutz.rlp.de

Naturschutzgebiet im Landkreis Mainz-Bingen
Schutzgebiet (Umwelt- und Naturschutz) in Europa
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Fast Company has a slideshow of a new photo shoot by Steven Meisel that uses the BP oil spill as its theme. Fast Company writer Tyler Gray considers the shoot distasteful, but I don't see it as such at all.
I don't think the shoot is turning the BP oil spill into a positive, fashionable thing as Gray implies. And I don't think it is insensitively using the disaster as a fashion shoot theme. The photos seem to be doing what a recent National Wildlife Federation video titled Crude Awakening did — they help us to relate to the gross, disgusting agony of the BP oil spill, especially for the animals suffering and dying from it.
The photo shoot is a sort of activism in my mind.
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