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Forget Mars—let's go colonize Titan!
VulcanTourist
Tribus: My own private place in the Warp
John Timmer wrote:
While I'm all for eventually establishing a presence elsewhere, it would be nice to do so by choice, rather than end up being forced to do so due to our carelessness on Earth.
This. Amen!
Ars Tribunus Angusticlavius
Tribus: New York City
Registered: Sep 13, 2001
Papewaio wrote:
Zak wrote:
jonas_jonas wrote:
I think, if we don't fail here on earth first, we will go to all these places.
I'm pretty sure we're going to fail on Earth and all this discussion is pretty pointless. We're not going anywhere unless we clean up our problems on Earth. And we won't.
We will not have enough resources for meaningful space exploration unless nations of the Earth unite. And that isn't going to happen.
It's pretty obvious to me that humanity is failing.
Failing based on what metrics?
Number of people has more then doubled since WWII
Flight is a little over one hundred years old.
Life span effectively doubled since the Victorian ages.
Crop yields have increased on less land.
Forests are actually increasing in Europe.
During the industrial revolution in Oliver Twists England 40% of children did not survive until five.
As for cleaning up our problems here. The picture of the little blue sphere we call earth has by itself spurred on some pretty significant environmental movements.
Our increased understanding of weather is because of orbital instruments.
On top of that the price point of entry to orbit is diminishing pretty rapidly right now.
Doom and gloom is fine, but show me the data.
Give it time. You will have the data. We're living in financial bubble which is not sustainable and we're heading for another financial meltdown. Jobs are becoming scarce as the wealth gap increases. EU is failing and US is quite a mess as well.
HexRei
Tribus: Portland OR
Registered: Mar 19, 2001
Reminds me of "Titan" by Stephen Baxter, featuring a crew of scientists on a multnational mission to study Titan who, due to politics back home, end up becoming critical to the survival of the human species. Pretty hard sci fi until the very end when it gets highly speculative.
barthchris
Registered: Apr 3, 2017
GeminiJ13 wrote:
Isn't the atmosphere and liquid oceans/lakes of Titan made up of hydrocarbons and would be flammable? How would you overcome this? Additionally, this type of atmosphere is also pretty corrosive, right? How do you solve for this? I also think you would need significant machinery to get started. How does this get there? The cost of doing all these things would be enormous.
You need oxygen for combustion. Basically, it's the opposite of Earth. Future inhabitants can look forward to oxygen "fueled" internal combustion engines, oxygen grills instead of propane. Lol!
I don't think we need to worry about corrosion, cryogenic hydrocarbons are regularly stored in metal containers. Most power/heat would probably be nuclear or fusion if that ever ends up being feasible.
I think long term sustainability will be extremely hard/impossible without regular help from Earth. Natural resources are extremely limited, even asteroid mining will not make up for some elements needed for survival. Given the distance and temperatures I really fail to see how Titan can be more advantageous than other choices but hey, I'm not a planetary scientist.
Jim Z
Tribus: (x) added to foe list
Registered: Nov 5, 1999
Megabeard wrote:
I think we should explore as much as we can. It'll be one of the few redeeming aspects of modernity's ultimate legacy, in which people try to see what was worth it for their ancestors to trash the planet.
this is what people aren't stopping to realize.
No matter how badly we "trash" this planet, it will still be many orders of magnitude easier to live here than on any other celestial body.
loquacio
C.M. Allen wrote:
Christopher James Huff wrote:
Venus has enough water to make the surface rock a bit damp (a layer a couple millimeters deep over the entire surface, as I recall), and the reactions required to sink O2 are not likely to happen without more, if they can even sink that much O2 in the first place (and hydration reactions will soak up that film of water a lot more quickly). Terraforming Venus would require importing huge quantities of hydrogen. This would solve both the water and O2 problems, but the quantity of hydrogen required is not a small problem (I forget which SI prefix I worked it out to be in tonnes, but it was one of the bigger ones).
While you're at it, exporting enough CO2 and N2 to give Mars a breathable atmosphere would be a nice side project.
Indeed. Venus and Mars require almost (but not quite) the polar opposite approaches to terraforming. What you take from Venus, you give to Mars -- almost 2 birds with 1 stone. But, that's a project scale beyond anything even the most fanciful of projections could realize (to say nothing of the time scale for it either).
So basically, we need the Mega Maid.
epiccollision
Ars Centurion
Registered: Feb 1, 2007
Last edited by epiccollision on Sat May 13, 2017 7:13 pm
Marc GP wrote:
photochemsyn wrote:
As long as we're thinking big, why not a plan to terraform Venus? Here are the basic issues:
(1)The atmosphere is 90 times as dense as Earth's and is almost pure carbon dioxide. We could install billions of "clean coal carbon capture units" on balloons in the upper Venusian atmosphere to gradually suck the CO2 down to 200 ppm. Splitting the C off from the O2 to make solid carbon, leaving the O2 behind, would eventually oxygenate the atmosphere. A pure O2 atmosphere would be problematic, however. . . Where do we get the 80% inert nitrogen as on Earth (where it apparently is due to plate tectonics) from?
(2) Once the planet had cooled off a bit after the atmosphere had been stripped of most of the CO2, we could think about the water problem - basically, a whole lot of hydrogen would be needed to mix with the O2 to form water, hence oceans. Here is where the gas giant planets could serve as a hydrogen source. Or, one couse use all the methane on Titan as the hydrogen source.
Okay perhaps that's for another millenia. . . But why aren't we at least building orbital habitats around Venus, the Moon, and Mars? Identical in scale to the ISS, at least, if not much bigger? That is at least a plausible project.
Google for the project Colonization of Venus, from Geoffrey Landis.
His idea is to not colonize the surface of the planet, but its atmosphere. Fifty kilometres above the ground has Earth-like temperature, pressure, gravity, light, a 4 days day-night cycle, radiation and micro-meteors protection, .... To take a walk outside you would only need a chemical resistant coat for the occasional droplet of acid.
He imagines colonies on balloons. Considering that our breathable air is a lifting gas on Venus' atmosphere, we would be able to live inside the balloon. Most of the resources for the colonies can be extracted from the atmosphere, and the rest he proposes to lift mineral ore from the surface. And they would be almost unsinkable, because the pressure would be the same inside and outside the balloon, even big tears would be like opening a window on Earth, the air doesn't rush to escape, it mixes very slowly, giving plenty of time to repair the tear.
I've always liked that idea, but I imagine getting there and especially getting back out would be problematic.
Christopher James Huff
Registered: Jun 9, 2008
loquacio wrote:
Just about as difficult to get into orbit from as Earth in terms of orbital dynamics, but your first stage engines are going to suffer even worse from the density of the atmosphere, and you'll have to do your launch from a buoyant airborne structure.
Getting mass to Venus is almost trivial due to the dense atmosphere. Atmospheric probes have done soft landings there despite a total lack of any equipment actually designed for landing. Getting anything back, however...
Peevester
Tribus: Chicago, IL
Statistical wrote:
Well there is no oxygen so combustion isn't possible however if you start bringing oxygen then and have a leak and an ignition source .... BOOM. BADA BOOM.
You would want to make sure your tunnels were very well sealed.
In fact, you're likely going to be tunneling through dirty ice contaminated with all sorts of flammable hydrocarbons. You'll want to be careful about where you let your oxygenated atmosphere get to, and what you bring into your living environments. You'll also want to keep a lot of low oxygen alarms around. Rapid decompression is a bit more noticeable than the breathable atmosphere getting displaced by nitrogen and light hydrocarbons.
Not just atmosphere, even just heat! Comfortable conditions inside are 200 degrees C warmer than outside - if you're not VERY well insulated you're going to be living on a lake. Of volatile chemicals. That's not good.
This idea gets dumber the more you think about it.
Peevester wrote:
This is like those weirdos who, whenever we have a spaceX topic, ask why we're not building warp drives instead. Titan is a stupidly long way away (25 times further than Mars if I did my math right) - if we had an Epstein drive, sure, I'd be right there with you. But we don't - Mars itself is barely reachable with current technology in a decent amount of time. [/url]. Sold?
No need of Epstein drives, just old-fashioned NERVA fision rockets, from the sixties, would go a long way to reduce those trips travel time.
You first. See ya in 50 years when someone figures out how to launch a multi-ton reactor and not have people with torches and pitchforks beating down your door (rightly or wrongly).
CRandyHill wrote:
This is like those weirdos who, whenever we have a spaceX topic, ask why we're not building warp drives instead. Titan is a stupidly long way away (25 times further than Mars if I did my math right) - if we had an Epstein drive, sure, I'd be right there with you. But we don't - Mars itself is barely reachable with current technology in a decent amount of time.
The ability to do really nice aerobraking on both ends of the trip certainly simplifies some aspects of the flight (as does the ease of making fuel and water onsite), but I think that's more than offset by the travel time and less sunlight for solar cells. Surface gravity is even less than the moon, so coming back home is going to seriously SUCK for the astronauts. They'd have to be doing microgravity exercise levels nonstop while on the ground, and even that doesn't help as much as you wish it did.
On the other hand, Space Centaurs. Sold?
The actual delta-v budget isn't that much greater than Mars, despite the far longer trip times. esp. when you factor in aerobraking.
http://i.imgur.com/SqdzxzF.png
Who said anything about Delta V? Totally pointless to even bring it up. I don't think your chart backs up your assertion, either. Edit: Yep. I figured out how to read the chart, and WOW are you wrong. It's a nice chart - if you ever need to explain to someone why we don't try to throw garbage into the sun, this would be a great visual aid.
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Pdavis
Wise, Aged Ars Veteran
This constantly appearing argument that we need to solve problems here before starting somewhere else all come from a place of profound ignorance about what space exploration contributes. NASA and it's space efforts - while much too slow and risk averse in my view - have contributed substantially to life on earth.
We have major advances in food production, energy production and medical advances that go directly back to the space program yet are casually dismissed by "earth first" proponents. Going into space in an aggressive way and establishing outposts and colonies will unlock many advances that will provide the solutions we need here on earth. And we can be confident about that because it's been happening for the past almost fifty years.
It's short sighted and self defeating to end space exploration because some people think it drains resources on earth. The fact is we have decades of advances we wouldn't have if we'd been listening to them. The evidence of space explorations contributions to life on earth outweigh these emotional arguments for retreat and isolation.
fuzzyfuzzyfungus
Registered: Jul 2, 2012
kuruk wrote:
Gravity would be a big hurdle I can see. The moon has more gravity than Titan. Humans and any animals would be effected quite a bit.
Given the rather limited options for earth-like gravity; it's entirely possible that a serious space colonization effort isn't going to involve unmodified humans.
Since the mere proposal will squick people out and lead to endless hand-wringing about 'ethics', we probably won't go for anything gratuitously dramatic; but something like some tweaks to myostatin production or receptors, in order to produce astronauts who don't turn into goo under microgravity would be very handy indeed. Futzing with bone resorption mechanisms would have similar obvious benefits, if it can be made to work properly.
Even if one decides to skip the biotech; it's not as though space colonization is going to happen without things getting seriously awkward: given the cost and difficulty of sending and supporting people, any colonist population is going to be scraping the bare minimum of 'genetically viable human population'; which is something that tends to end in extinction or inbreeding(or extinction by way of inbreeding) without the sort of planning that will look a whole lot like Mission Control running a eugenics program, because it will be a whole lot like Mission Control running a eugenics program.
Given the enormous costs of transport and life support for an adult human, you might also see some rather creative uses of the assisted reproduction technology we've developed: just think of how much genetic diversity, in the form of cryopreserved sperm or embryos, you could pack into the space and resource requirements of a single adult male.
Historical 'colonization' events have tended to involve a lot of gene flow with the natives; as well as travel between the colony and the primary population being comparatively cheap and routine. Without space natives; and with the costs of shipping so high(and the risks of over or under population so severe: it's not like population pressure and/or infighting can be solved by part of the colony just sailing down the coast for a few days and building their own damn colony, another thing that happened a lot historically), your hypothetical space colony is likely to be a...deeply weird(and by no means entirely in a good way)...society.
HexRei wrote:
Pretty hard sci fi until the very end when it gets highly speculative.
That's to be expected when a story has "fi" in its genre name.
Pdavis wrote:
It's certainly true that waiting until all the problems on earth are fixed means never starting; but it's important to remember that on reason why space-tech has contributed to life on earth is that the requirements of maintaining a survivable environment in a can, starting from scratch, are significantly more challenging that most environmental, food production, ecological, etc. problems on earth(with the arguable exception of the "we would have solved that problem; but then the population expanded until it was de-solved" issues: we can barely even dream of having space habitation tech advanced enough to sustain squalid masses breeding out of control, so while extinction would remain a constant threat, overpopulation will likely be less urgent); so one cannot hope to do much more than short, resource intensive, all-equipment-launched-from-earth space camping trips without R&D that overlaps substantially with the demands of improving the lot of the terrestrial population, since that's the markedly easier life support case.
fenris_uy
Registered: Apr 28, 2010
With an oxygen mask and enough warm clothing, humans could roam Titan's surface in the dim sunlight.
"enough warm clothing" is a sealed environmental suit with heavy duty heating and lots of insulation. We're talking about an environment where liquid ethane and methane are common, you're not roaming the surface in an oxygen mask and a parka.
Similarly, you're most likely going to be living in tunnels indistinguishable from those used on Mars. You're not going to have big glass domes or Earth-style surface cities, again because of the cryogenic environment. Mars may actually be much better for surface structures, with the right arrangements of shielding.
And, if we could rocket along fast enough so that a round-trip to Mars with time spent exploring was safe, then we could do a one-way trip to Titan.
...are they even aware that Titan is in orbit around Saturn? Do they know where Saturn is? Travel time to Titan is not going to be twice as long as travel time to Mars. If travel time for a round trip to Mars and back is still a concern, a trip to Titan is out of the question.
Titan is an appealing target for the distant future, extremely rich in useful resources, but many of the supposed advantages they give are simply not real.
It's not a round trip vs a one way trip. It's a round trip + time on the surface of Mars vs a one way trip
VulcanTourist wrote:
I suspect that you don't have to worry: if we somehow manage to change Earth's "Most habitable body in the known universe; overwhelmingly the most habitable one you can reach without magic hyperdrive" status; the situation will be so dire that a space program will probably not be on the table(both because you don't run a space program without at least patches of high functioning industrial base; and because even the various 'geoengineering' proposals considered to be absurdly expensive and speculative will probably show better ROI than attempts to escape into space for any human remnants who do have the resources and technology to try something other than throwing rocks and mud farming).
Not sure if you're just messing with me or not, but I'll bite. There are gradations of scifi. Hard would be generally adherent to real world science with minimal (or even sometimes just one) element of divergence, and that can have a varying degree of speculation as well. On the other end of the scale the softest scifi is basically fantasy with science mumbojumbo trappings. I phrased it the way I did because the author (who is a mathematician and engineer) did a very good job of making it plausible given what we knew at the time. Without giving too much away though, the last chapter leaps forward in time and becomes completely speculative which is inconsistent with the rest of the book... thus my caveat.
They are flammable only if you mix them with oxygen. As long as you keep your oxygen sealed in your base, you are save.
John Savard
Tribus: Edmonton, Alberta
After Mars, the next major Solar System bodies on which a manned landing might be made would be Mercury and Pluto. Or asteroids, or planetary satellites such as Titan. Venus and the gas giants are obviously out.
While it would take a truly catastrophic event to make Earth less habitable than anywhere else in the Solar System, a base elsewhere might be secure from a thermonuclear war, or a global dictatorship, thus serving to preserve our culture, our technology, and so on.
fuzzyfuzzyfungus wrote:
I agree, its part of the human condition to ignore problems that will not affect them due to the timescales involved. Multigenerational megaprojects on the scale of geoengineering have really never been tried. It also seems some of the potentially existential issues we face are being "gifted" to future generations with the hope that technology will be sufficiently advanced at that time to easily take care of the problems.
I'm still waiting for molecular nano-assemblers to fix all our problems! Lol!
If I'm understanding you correctly you're kind of drilling down deeper into my post in terms of not just how does it scale up but will it scale up and are the problems being solved comparable or analogous.
If I'm reading that wrong I apologize.
I do agree with your points though. At first it'll amount to camping trips (I like that example).
I should slso clarify that I didnt intend to make a case that space exploration would directly solve our worlds needs, only that the solutions we find to establishing off-world colonies or just outposts are likely to lead to solutions since so many of our space programs advances have done that for other problems.
on a side note I recently read a fairly detailed case made that surviving on Mars - in many ways - will actually pose more easily solved problems than surviving on Skylab and later the ISS did initially.
I've looked for the link to that piece but havent found it. Perhaps someone here saw the same article.
fenris_uy wrote:
The surface of Mars gets less radiation than the ISS. The Titan colonists will accumulate radiation during transit at a rate nearly an order of magnitude higher than the Mars colonists on the ground, even if Mars is colonized by nudists. And since actual Mars colonists aren't going to spend their lives sunbathing and will instead take measures to limit their exposure to radiation, something that could be as simple as a dirt roof, their actual radiation exposure received on the surface can be made negligible compared to that received during transit.
But in reality it isn't a round trip vs. a one-way trip, it is a one-way trip vs. a one-way trip. We're talking colonization, not a short stay. So the comparison is a ~3 month transit vs. one taking a couple of years. Ability to do one does not imply the ability to do the other.
Rotoars
One of the most ridiculous articles I've ever read on this website. I guess they don't have much to talk about anymore.
lordcheeto
Moon -> Venus -> Mars -> Titan
lordcheeto wrote:
Venus has a surface temperature of ~450 C. Better atmospheric and magnetospheric shielding from radiation than Mars or the moon, but I think the temperature (and atmospheric chemical) conditions would make it a longer gamble than Mars for colonization. You couldn't walk around on Venus for long with any environment suit we have designed. We haven't even gotten close to the lander probe successes we've had with Mars on Venus because its temperatures cook everything.
RandalierBear
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIoxY9kECRE
http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~showman/pub ... -lakes.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qz2SeEzxMuE (-60°C)
−179.5 °C is not "enough warm clothing" weather. It is, you die in under a minute when your heating system fails weather.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn ... oon-titan/
Titan gets out of Saturn's magnetosphere an a regular basis, which is a problem on many levels.
Most of the proposed ideas are not worth a good stammtisch talk.
The only reason why they chose Titan for their book is Amanda Hendrix's past work on the Cassini-Huygens mission. The book shows pure blinkered specialist point of view.
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space ... _and_toxic
Registered: May 20, 2003
Hat Monster wrote:
While Titan solves a lot of problems Mars presents, it adds its own.
Mars is thermally moderate. Cold, but manageable. A modest influx of readily available solar power keeps your things (and your body) warm.
Titan is cryogenic.
Mars gives you a very clear atmosphere (most of the time), with not abundant, but useful solar power.
Titan also is energetically very challenging. Solar panels don't work. Winds are mild at best. You've got simple hydrocarbon alkanes everywhere, but they don't react with much and to get energy out of them you have to use oxygen, which you need more energy than that to get from water. Powering a Titan operation is as yet unsolvable. Many things we'll need on Titan need energy, such as hydrolysis and heating and not dying.
However, Titan does have something big going for it. Aerodynamic flight on Mars is nearly impossible. There's so little atmosphere that most aeroplane designs need to exceed orbital velocity at ground level just to get airborne.
At Titan, a crudely sewn wingsuit and the exertion of a jog in the park will get you airborne and keep you there. Until you freeze because you have no way of heating and no energy.
Nuclear? /layman
It still seems too little vs. such a stack of negatives at this point in time. Somewhere between now and something like The Expanse's world (to pick something recent; not Epstein drive handwaving but size of industrial base off Earth) it looks much more affordable and worthwhile.
Painfully bleak up to that last part, IIRC.
mikeb_60
Tribus: Alta CA
Kim Stanley Robinson has a lot of details worked out - fictionally: 2312
melgross
Tribus: NYC
I really believe that all of these current off-world colonization scenarios are pushing the point of reality a bit too far.
It's hard to see how one could really colonize a body if the basic living conditions aren't met. We can't do that in Antartica now. Most everything needs to be flown in during the seasons when flight there is possible. And getting there for an emergency just takes a number of hours, not months.
I can see Mars colonized, possibly tens of thousands of years from now (if we're still here!), after we've thrown just about every astroid from the belt to the surface of the planet (while slowing them down), and a number of ice comets from the Keiper belt there too. Then, after gravity is high enough, and with enough water, we can begin to form a livable atmosphere that won't blow away because of lack of gravity. But that still won't protect much against massive solar flares, and radiation. But it would help.
Colonies here, in N. America failed for unknown reasons after cold winters, and that's on Earth. What makes anyone think that we're going off-world to these incredibly inhospitable places to colonize them? I don't see a proper analysis. It's not likely that Titan is as hospitable as the authors are saying. We don't yet know enough about the atmosphere, and its relationship to the organic "seas" on the surface. The atmosphere could be highly poisonous. Enough so that facemarks with oxygen won't be enough. It could be corrosive too.
Drilling for water there could be a problem too. It's very unlikely that any water they bring up would be free from organic contamination.
I can see an outpost, but a colony, well, certainly not any time within any reasonable future.
Source: NASA/JPL Visions of the Future
mikeb_60 wrote:
I haven't gotten to this one yet. But the Red, Blue, Green Mars series was a great series. I read them as they were coming out. Took months between each novel. Still have the books.
Great fiction, but terrible science.
szlevi
Tribus: Magyar on The Slope
Registered: May 7, 2009
With an oxygen mask and enough warm clothing, humans could roam Titan's surface in the dim sunlight. Or, given the low gravity and dense atmosphere, they could float above it in a balloon or on personal wings.
While I was always a fan of Titan, ever since I first read about it around 5th grade, this is a pretty ludicrous representation of the challenges - it better be a whole lot of "warm clothing" as the surface is MINUS 180 CELSIUS, not to mention that "dim sunlight" is actually ONE PERCENT of the sunlight hitting Earth so you can just call it forever night.
Mujokan
John Savard wrote:
I doubt even a full-scale nuclear war or runaway global warming would reduce the carrying capacity of the Earth to that of Mars or anywhere else in this system.
I'm worried someone will strip mine the Moon so as to be visible from Earth. That would be so depressing I'd seriously consider paying them a visit wearing a special type of vest.
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Tribus: Massachusetts
Rotoars wrote:
Irony is always a challenge on the interweb. For those of you so challenged, this article's title is literally dripping with it.
pixelpusher220
Registered: Jul 16, 2007
True but since you've had to solve the closed system O2 -> CO2 -> O2 loop for sustainability, Titan provides a quite limitless amount of fuel for combustion....
itfa
I always figured the first object in our solar system to be colonized would be a mining/manufacturing facility on an astroid.
Jurrasic
You need oxygen for those hydrocarbons to burn, and there's not a lot of free oxygen on Titan. It's all bound into the water. The atmosphere is also mostly nitrogen with a little bit of methane. Not especially corrosive, though it's denser then our own I believe.
UleePoo
Humans don't deserve to colonize another planet unless they can survive on Earth for another 100,000 years. Otherwise you're just proposing to migrate our current limitations to an even more restrictive environment. Extra-Earth "colonization" in this century is absurd.
Kasoroth
Not only is it a very cold atmosphere, but it's also a dense atmosphere, so it should be really good at pulling heat away from poorly protected meatbags. On the plus side, if you need to keep your data center cool on Titan, you could just duct some outside air past your heat sinks.
Temperatures on Mars can also get very cold, but I'm guessing that the thin atmosphere of Mars would be less effective at sucking away body heat. There's a reason we use a layer of near vacuum as insulation when we want to keep our drinks hot or cold in a thermos.


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Q: Why can't I sort a user defined LinkedList with this java code? I created a program in JAVA to add elements to a LinkedList and sort the elements while adding them. The swap technique I'm using in case of sorting is similar to that used while adding a node to the beginning of the LinkedList. The technique works in the latter case but fails to run in the former. I don't understand why this is not working. Below is my code for your reference.
//Node class
class Node{
    int d; Node link;
    Node(int d){
        this.d = d;
        link = null;
    }
}//Node

//LinkedList class
class LL{
    Node start;
    LL(){
        start = null;
    }

    //method to add and sort the nodes
    //in ascending order of the values of 'd' of the nodes
    void insert(Node nd){
        if(start==null){
            start = nd;
        }
        else{
            Node temp = start;
            while(temp!=null){
                if(nd.d<=temp.d){
                    Node t2 = temp;
                    temp = nd;
                    nd.link = t2;
                    break;
                }
                temp = temp.link;
            }
        }
    }//insert

    //method to display nodes of the LinkedList
    void display(){
        Node temp = start;
        do{
            System.out.print(temp.d + " ");
            temp = temp.link;
        }while(temp!=null);
    }//display
}//LL

//Main class
class LL_Test{
    public static void main(String[] args){
        LL myLL = new LL();
        myLL.insert(new Node(5));
        myLL.insert(new Node(2));
        myLL.insert(new Node(7));
        myLL.insert(new Node(6));
        myLL.insert(new Node(1));
        myLL.display();
    }//main
}//LL_Test

Expected output: 1 2 5 6 7
Obtained output: 5

A: You never actually add a element except the first to the list. (temp = nd; does not set the link of the previous node to nd). You need to keep track of the previous node and add the new one after the element before the first one larger than the one you want to
void insert(Node nd) {
    Node temp = start;
    Node previous = null;

    while (temp != null && temp.d < nd.d) {
        previous = temp;
        temp = temp.link;
    }

    // insert node
    if (previous == null) {
        // insert at start
        nd.link = start;
        start = nd;
    } else {
        // insert somewhere in the middle
        nd.link = temp;
        previous.link = nd;
    }
}//insert

A: Two comments, both applicable to insert(), start != null, inside the while(temp!=null) loop:

*

*The condition is not quite right (I think) - for ascending order, you want to skip forward until you find a node with temp.d <= nd.d and either temp.link==null or temp.link.d >= nd.d.

*In the body of the while loop in insert, you set nd.link so that the new node points to another node.  However, you do not set temp.link=nd or anything similar to hook the new node into the chain that starts from start.

A: My take on this :
void insert ( Node nd )
{
    Node temp = start;
    Node previous = null;
    while ( temp != null )
    {
        if ( nd.d <= temp.d )
        {
            nd.link = temp;
            if ( nd.d < start.d )
            {
                start = nd;
            }
            break;

        }
        previous = temp;
        temp = temp.link;
    }
    if( previous != null )
    {
        previous.link = nd;
    }
    if( start == null )
    {
        start = nd;
    }

}

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Today we had to head into the city to have lunch with family so we tried our best to dress up smart. I tend to let them pick items from their wardrobe themselves because I want them to figure out their style and to be comfortable in what they are wearing. Sometimes I will have to put my foot down as they always want to wear their 'Park Pants' aka jogging bottoms. I would want to walk around in comfy trousers too all day but I think they are not suitable for a restaurant. I managed to persuade them to choose a pair of jeans and their smart shoes (they wanted to wear their muddy wellies).
Tom is sporting a bit of country chic, wearing a brown long sleeved tee from H&M, Jeans H&M, Shoes by Next and beanie from Primark. Alfie is looking very sporty in an outfit entirely from Next except for his beanie which is from Primark.


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Ipswich Star > Sport > Ipswich Town FC
Miller - Opening day win is not crucial
Elvin King
Published: 11:45 AM August 9, 2008
TOMMY Miller says that winning will not be everything when Ipswich Town begin their Coca-Cola Championship season against Preston North End at Portman Road today (kick-off 3pm).
Last year Town got off their blocks in double-quick time with a 4-1 opening day thumping of Sheffield Wednesday.
While the Blues went on to chalk up a long run off winning home matches, the Owls struggled to find their feet for several months.
"Yes, we all want to beat Preston," said Miller. "This will give us the start we want and set the ball rolling.
"But one game does not win promotions, and it is being able to put a long consistent run together at some stage that will prove crucial.
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"An eight or nine-game winning sequence will go a long way to securing a top six - even a top two -place."
From his Hartlepool days Miller has a keen habit of netting against Preston, a club he spent time with on loan while a Sunderland player in 2006/07.
"It would be great to score against them again, as I would like to find the net more often than I did last term," added Miller.
"There looks to be at least 12 teams who will be seriously in the hunt for promotion, and the play-offs must be our target. But if we find that consistency we are searching for it could be automatic.
"We were too open away from home last season, and this is something we are working hard on addressing.
"At times we attacked as we did at home, and this left too many gaps.
"We were making it easy for our opponents. One thing we must do this year is become harder to beat on our travels."
Miller has welcomed the arrival of 34-year-old Ivan Campo, who is expected to sign a two-year deal after undergoing a medical on Monday.
"Ivan has been there and done it," said the ace penalty-taking Miller.
"He is a fantastic addition to the squad whether he plays at the back or in midfield. He will keep us all on our toes.
"All the new lads are good characters and they have all fitted in. To concede five goals against West Ham was a disappointment. It was a lot and came as a bit of a jolt. But we must move on."
Miller's twins will be two in October and he admits to already having a goal in his garden ready for his son when he starts kicking a ball around.

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Ben Cabango buoyed by defensive shut-outs
Ben Cabango believes Swansea City's strong recent defensive record is a sign that he is growing in experience and confidence.
The 19-year-old has made an impressive start to life in the first team, first appearing in the Carabao Cup at the beginning of the season before getting regular Championship action under his belt in recent weeks.
The teenager has helped the Swans keep three clean sheets in a row against Barnsley, Charlton and Cardiff, while the team as a whole have enjoyed four shut-outs in their last five Championship outings.
The Swans have one of the best defensive records in the division, and Cabango feels the current run is a huge positive for Steve Cooper's side.
"We've got four clean sheets in five games, so we must be doing something right at the back," said the Wales Under-21 international. "Earning a clean sheet always gives you the best chance of winning a game, but it just wasn't our day in front of goal on Sunday.
"Everything is starting to come together in that sense. During the middle of the season, we weren't doing so well in that aspect and were letting in goals.
"But now, it seems like everyone knows their jobs, especially at set-pieces – we're conceding many of them.
"We're putting everything on the line to ensure the ball doesn't go in."
With injuries to Mike van der Hoorn and Joe Rodon, Cabango and Ben Wilmot have stepped up and belied their combined age of 39 with their mature showings.
Head coach Cooper went as far as to describe them as "dominant" in how they handled Cardiff's aerial threat at the weekend.
And Cabango feels their partnership is improving with every passing game.
"I think Ben and I are playing well together," he said.
"We talk to each other a lot and help each other's game; he's always covering me and I'm always covering him.
"I think we're a good partnership and we've shown it.
"Getting a clean sheet in the derby is a big ask but we've done that as two young centre-backs.
"We both learned a lot about each other's games by playing together in the cup earlier this season.
"Although, the cup games definitely aren't the same as the league; the league games are so much more intense.
"We learned a lot in our first league game together away at Brentford. We lost 3-1 but the experience certainly made us a lot better.
"Being young, you're going to make mistakes but we're learning and improving every day.
"It's going to make us a better team if we've got two solid centre-backs keeping clean sheets on a weekly basis."


They are again coming together to aid the coat drive that is being done by Long Island Cares and the Harry Chapin Food Bank, in partnership with the Burlington Coat Factory.
Last year Long Island Firearms was able to donate over 620 coats, that were cleaned and distributed to families in need throughout Long Island at no charge.
With the help from the community,Long Island Firearm members are hoping to have an even more successful drive than they had last year, and be able to provide many grateful Long Island men, women and children with some warm clothing they may not otherwise be able to obtain.
Their goal is to help provide any person in need with a warm coat free of charge.
December, then they will close for the season.
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his notice before entering college, he may be drafted immediately.
December and again in April.
be deferred the second year.
decision  of  the board  is  final.
to  the   ones   being   discharged.
published by the 1951-52 staff.
the first year are reviewed.
be announced tomorrow evening at the Junior Prom.
given   in   honor   of  the   Queen.
Howe students are cordially invited and urged to attend.
The day began at 8 a. m.
paper on Friday, May 2.
the best 20 of the member papers.
"excellent," as well as the feature writing.
rated as conforming to newspaper  style.
and sleep by your own powers.
Party will be held at 7:30 p.m.
of the first Howe Tower published on May 22, 1939.
staff a better chance to become acquainted.
sop sheet; Janet Parker, chairman, and Phyllis Myers.
or just wanted some attention.
depend and love that wonderful someone—your mother.
and dreams for your future.
probably cried a little remembering your first six years.
around the corner, May 11.
a little extra special this year ?
committees are Mr. Ruschhaupt, Mrs. Winslow, Mrs.
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Q: I don't know when I should use log.d() and log.w() methods in Android Map<String, Object> city = new HashMap<>();
city.put("name", "Los Angeles");
city.put("state", "CA");
city.put("country", "USA");

db.collection("cities").document("LA")
        .set(city)
        .addOnSuccessListener(new OnSuccessListener<Void>() {
            @Override
            public void onSuccess(Void aVoid) {
                Log.d(TAG, "DocumentSnapshot successfully written!");
            }
        })
        .addOnFailureListener(new OnFailureListener() {
            @Override
            public void onFailure(@NonNull Exception e) {
                Log.w(TAG, "Error writing document", e);
            }
        });

This is  FirebaseFirestore's simple data input code.
but When I look into onSuccess() and onFailure() methods, each of them has a different method of Log class. and  I don't know why this code  use them differently in those Overriding methods(onSuccess() and onFailure()).

A: Why did this particular code use one over the other? Because the person who wrote chose to. They could have used i (info) and e (error) instead.
The short answer is use whatever you want because it ultimately doesn't matter: at the end of the day your message goes into the LogCat output stream that you can look at.
The longer answer is that you want to log to a particular "stream" based on the type of information you're logging. You have your choice of 5 main "streams" of logging, listed here in order of how frequently you might expect to use them, from least to most: Error, Warn, Info, Debug, and Verbose.
Again, you can log to whichever your heart desires but generally speaking:

*

*Log to ERROR (Log.e()) when you detect a valid error state or exception that actually prevents your app from functioning correctly. For example, if you think you're handling every case of a switch statement, you might add an error log in the default case which shouldn't happen. These are cases that you as the developer want to know about and fix, even if they are not crashing your app. You might report these as "non-fatal" exceptions in Crashlytics.

*Log to WARN (Log.w()) for unexpected but non-critical errors that occur. These are to draw attention that something went wrong, but that the app continued as best as it could. In your posted example, the "failure listener" might be using WARN because that failure is a valid case to handle and you want to be aware of failures, but it's known that failure is possible so the app should handle it gracefully and be able to continue.

*Log to INFO (Log.i()) for information you would find generally always find useful but that doesn't get too noisy. These would be things that would help you track down bugs in a crash report. Logging Activity lifecycle events would be an example.

*Log to DEBUG (Log.d()) for information you would find temporarily helpful while in development to help you solve a particular problem or while trying to track down a specific bug. For example, if your app is crashing at a specific location, you might add a Log.d call just before that spot and log the state of the local variables or something to help you find out what's causing the crash. You would probably remove these once that issue or bug is resolved.

*Log to VERBOSE (Log.v()) when you need even more information even more frequently then you can get with DEBUG. As its name implies, this is intended to be verbose. It will spew a lot of text into LogCat making it so noisy as to be unusable. For example, you might log every iteration of a long loop to VERBOSE.
Once you're logging to any particular stream, you can filter the LogCat logs to aid in finding particular messages. For example, if something is going wrong with a library you're using in your app, you might filter to WARN to narrow the size of the LogCat logs and look for any warnings the library may have reported.
You filter in Android Studio by selecting the drop down in the LogCat tab. Android Studio also colors each stream (which you can configure in settings) to aid in differentiating the log messages).

Hope that helps!

A: They are calling different method: d stands for debug and w for warning.
Warning is used when the action fails, debug when all is OK just to tell you...


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Convicted pimp testifies against former cohort at trial in Portland
Fritz Blanchard, 29, of Boston is accused of taking three women from Portland to Boston to prostitute them there.
By Scott DolanPortland Press Herald
A Portland man convicted of prostituting women testified in federal court in Portland on Monday in the trial of a Boston man accused of being his criminal mentor, saying the defendant told him the illegal sex trade was "the new way" to make money in addition to selling drugs.
The Boston man, 29-year-old Fritz Blanchard, is on trial in U.S. District Court on a charge that he and the convicted Portland man, Samuel Gravely, took three young women from Portland to Boston on March 28, 2013, to prostitute them.
Gravely, 28, is being held at the Cumberland County Jail in Portland after pleading guilty on Nov. 20 to charges against him. Blanchard, however, has denied any wrongdoing and pleaded not guilty to a charge of transportation in interstate commerce for prostitution.
Blanchard had been scheduled to reverse his plea in a hearing May 5 before U.S. District Judge Nancy Torresen, but changed his mind and opted for a trial this week instead. The trial is scheduled to take about four days.
Gravely was the first witness to testify Monday, telling a jury of 11 women and two men how Blanchard encouraged him to advertise his girlfriend from Presque Isle on a website for prostitution, and accompanied Gravely and the girlfriend when they pimped her twice in Bangor in March 2013.
"He knew a new way to make money besides just selling drugs," Gravely said of his conversations with Blanchard in 2012 and 2013. "He told me that prostitution was the new way, that there was money to be made in it."
Gravely testified that he and Blanchard grew up together in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston but had lost touch with each other after Gravely was convicted in Massachusetts of illegal gun possession in 2003 and in two drug dealing cases in 2004 and 2005. After serving time in a Massachusetts prison, Gravely moved to Maine and the two reconnected in 2012.
Blanchard is accused of driving with Gravely, Gravely's girlfriend, and two other women they met in Portland – an adult and a juvenile – to the Midtown Hotel in Boston.
The prosecutor in the case, Assistant U.S. Attorney Gail Fisk Malone, said in her opening statement Monday that the trip from Maine to Massachusetts was "very well documented," with cellphone photographs, rental vehicle records, bank records, hotel check-in records and video footage.
"The real question for this trial is: What was the defendant's intention when he transported the three women from Portland to Boston?" Malone said.
Blanchard's attorney, Joel Vincent, agreed with Malone that the central issue in dispute is Blanchard's intent during the trip and whether he intended to prostitute the women in Boston.
"Mere presence when someone else is committing a crime is not a crime," Vincent said in his opening statement to the jury.
Gravely testified that he drove his girlfriend, Blanchard and the juvenile girl from the hotel to "the track," a strip on Harrison Avenue in downtown known for prostitution.
Gravely's girlfriend, who testified as the second witness in the trial, said that Blanchard told her when they got to the Boston hotel not to tell the juvenile girl that they were prostitutes. But she said that Gravely, whom she knew by the nickname "Bigs," told her to explain to the juvenile girl what was happening.
The Press Herald is not identifying the women or the juvenile because they are considered victims in the case and have not been charged with any crimes.
Gravely's girlfriend testified that the juvenile girl was suffering from symptoms of opiate withdrawal on the drive to Boston and began crying when the men would not get her drugs.
Malone said she planned to call the other women to testify at the trial, as well as the hotel manager, a Boston police officer and a Portland police officer.
Malone said she expects witnesses to testify that the juvenile girl did not know she was expected to be a prostitute when she first got in the car with the men, feigned illness and slipped away to call police from the Boston hotel.
If convicted, Blanchard faces up to 10 years in prison and a fine of $250,000. Gravely, who faces the same penalty, is scheduled to be sentenced on Sept. 23.
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People working in the manufacturing industry tend to see the Fourth Industrial Revolution as yet another nail in the coffin of an already weakened industry. But without downplaying the challenges, there is another view.
This is all very relevant to a country like South Africa with a large and growing population and high unemployment. But even though the proportion of the work force employed in manufacturing is reducing, these jobs are still worth having. No other jobs have a higher multiplier effect: because manufacturing has so many linkages into the economy, every rand invested in manufacturing promotes growth in businesses servicing manufacturers.
An additional fly in the ointment is that the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), which is expected to see robotics, artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things become mainstream, will inevitably further reduce manufacturing's potential to provide large numbers of jobs.
It's at this point that we need to re-examine the issue. Like much received wisdom, it is true but only partly so. Granted, if 4IR unfolds as we expect, we will see increasing numbers of existing jobs in part or in whole taken over by machines. But it would probably be accurate rather to say that we will see increasing numbers of tasks taken over by machines because we are a long way off any machine being able to counterfeit the human ability to reason and, crucially, to interact on a personal level.
However, these new jobs will only be available to those with the right set of skills. To put it bluntly, unskilled jobs are most at risk and that is the rub, particularly for us here in South Africa. Generally speaking, our work force is relatively unskilled and is thus vulnerable.
For companies with existing work forces, the first challenge is thus to prepare existing employees to make the transition to a radically different way of working in a radically different work environment. The second will be to play a role alongside government in somehow ensuring that our deeply flawed educational system is retooled to start producing a new generation of workers with skills suitable for the new workplace.
When it comes to existing workers, speaking from my own experience at Bridgestone, it is clear that traditional skills' training is not going to be effective. We are currently piloting new ways of transmitting knowledge which, when perfected, will play a vital role in preparing our people to transition to a new type of job, likely one that will involve the higher value, relationship-building service end of the business. A key competency to master will be that of being able to unlearn old and learn new, enabling one to be far more agile in adapting to constantly changing roles and skills required. It is no longer only about what you know at any given point in time, but rather how quickly you can adapt and learn.
It will take planning and innovative thinking to overcome the challenges of helping the existing workforce to transition, and to ensure the educational system produces the right skills.
In conclusion, a word of caution. Anything to do with technology, and 4IR is supremely technology-driven, is susceptible to hype. This means that the expected changes can seem as though they are just around the corner. In fact, it will be a long time before all the existing manufacturing facilities and processes are fundamentally changed. This kind of change requires massive investment, and if our experience of previous technology changes is anything to go by, it will not be smooth either. We still have time, but the time to start planning how you will prepare your manufacturing facility—and especially its people—for the world of 4IR is now.


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General description of the Inferno slot interface
Like other typical representatives of the classic gambling machines, the Inferno casino slot offers a player a typical fruit theme. The developers have equipped it with 3 game reels and 1 active payline, which is pretty typical. You can put up to 2 coins, with a face value from 1 cent to 5 dollars, on one line. At the same time, the jackpot in the game is impressive and equal to 4000 gaming credits, which is totally a high-roller's paradise. The slot also has a pleasant recoil rate reaching 93%. It's good enough to take a risk.
The control buttons are located at the bottom of the screen and don't need a detailed description:
Credit Value – sets the bet size for each line;
Bet One – instant bet with 1 coin;
Spin – starts the game;
Bet Max – instant bet with 2 coins of maximum value.
Gaming Symbols
Since the Inferno gaming machine uses a classic theme, the game characters are also appropriate: bright cherry icons, sevens, and lemons, and BAR sections, which are red or golden. There is no Scatter in the game, so you cannot count on a free spin, but there is the Wild symbol – a smirking little devil. It appears on the third and fifth reel, replacing any symbols in the active lines. It can double or even quadruple your winnings. In addition, the Inferno slot machine offers players to try their luck in a standard bonus game for doubling, which starts randomly after receiving any winning combination.
Despite the use of classical themes and the absence of any insane rewards for a player, this slot is definitely worth a look. Its developers have managed to create a reliable and pleasant in all senses application, which is nice to use. In addition, you don't need to download the Inferno classic game from the Internet, as it runs in any browser.
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An extraterrestrial anthropologist (David Hyde Pierce) examines the dating and mating rituals of a "typical" human in this romantic comedy. From the pick-up to the first date to meeting each other's parents, the scientist tries to make sense of all the hoops that a young couple (Mackenzie Astin and Carmen Electra) must jump through in order to be together. Lucy Liu co-stars.


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Loungey pop singer Jim Ruiz releases his first album in 14 years.
Last time Jim Ruiz released a album, he had a sweet deal with an indie-rock label that paid for the recording of it, the touring behind it and many other things. Which is one way you can tell how long ago that really was.
"The music business was a completely different world then," said Ruiz, one of the quirkier singer/songwriters ever to break out of the Twin Cities scene -- and one of its oddest hold-out stories.
He released two internationally touted albums of stylish lounge-pop music in the mid-'90s as the Legendary Jim Ruiz. The CDs made him a darling of the local scene if not truly a legend (as in: cover of City Pages, airplay on now-defunct FM station REV-105).
Ruiz's name did take on something of a mythical status, though, after the 46-year-old Richfield native quietly slipped off the radar without any explanation around 1999. For years, random queries would surface from Twin Cities music fans wondering what ever happened to him.
Just as nonchalantly as he dropped out, Ruiz finally has stepped back in. He returns to 7th Street Entry on Saturday to promote his first record in 14 years with his new trio, the Jim Ruiz Set.
"It feels like my first record again, which is pretty exciting," he said, smiling toward his new wife and bandmate Emily Ruiz over drinks at the Lowry Café in Minneapolis -- near the Lowry Hill mansion where they recorded the album.
He insists he didn't give up on his music career. For proof, he points out all the gigs he played between 1998 and 2011. All two of them.
"Actually, there were three if you count that retirement party," he clarified, adding with a shrug, "The person retiring just happened to ask me on the right day. That's how it was all those years."
Still a charmingly odd fellow in person, Ruiz actually has something all-too-normal to blame for his hiatus: the end of his previous marriage. Then-wife Stephanie Winter was also his main musical collaborator, so not only did he have to deal with the emotional toll of a divorce, he also had to start a new group.
"Putting a band together is sort of like pulling a heavy sled through the snow," he said. "It seems to get easier once you've been moving awhile, but when you stop for a while it feels even harder. So I just stopped altogether because it was the easiest thing to do."
In that time, he resumed working for the Minneapolis public libraries (a job he regretted giving up to tour) and traveled abroad to favorite places such as Holland (where he studied during college).
One primary factor setting him back on the path toward another album, coincidentally or not, was meeting Emily. Formerly of the band Walker Kong, she's the kind of musician Ruiz said he most covets -- a drummer. "I went through like 10 drummers the last time, so it's good to have one I know will always be there," he quipped.
Not only did Emily have drumming skills, she had cousins who own the historic and ornate home -- built by the namesake family of Lowry Hill -- where Ruiz made his album last summer. "Mount Curve Avenue" is named after the street the mansion is on. "It's such a gorgeous house, it helped make the whole thing feel really special," Emily said.
Alan Clapp of the California haze-pop band the Orange Peels -- labelmates of Ruiz on Minty Fresh Records in the '90s -- came to town to produce the record, and local friends such as drummer Peter Anderson and musical couple Allison LaBonne and Brian Tighe (from the Owls and Starfolk) helped out.
LaBonne and Tighe are also partners with Ruiz in the new co-op label Korda Records, which is putting out "Mount Curve Avenue" and hosting Saturday's show. The label and party also will feature the Ocean Blue, a Hershey, Pa., band signed to Sire Records in the late '80s. Ocean Blue frontman David Schelzel now lives in the Twin Cities after marrying the sister of Ruiz's late girlfriend Rena Erickson.
A sad undercurrent of Ruiz's story and music to this day, Erickson died at 22 when she and Ruiz were riding a scooter that got struck by a van.
"Mount Curve Avenue" includes a few subtle nods to Ruiz's losses over the years, including one (and only one) somber ode to his divorce. Mostly, though, the record feels like a celebration of friends and relationships and the regular-joe life that Ruiz has led since he set down the microphone.
Musically, it picks right up where the Legendary Jim Ruiz records left off, with excited, jangly guitar parts and buoyant horns and piano bits, all set to the light and lackadaisical-sounding chords and head-bobbing beats he modeled after bossa-nova records by João Gilberto, with a little Smiths and retro Britpop influence to boot.
Two songs, "Schwinn Continental" and the tropical-flavored "Volkswagon Vanagon," honor Ruiz's favorite modes of transportation. Opening track "Little Luvver" and bright gem "Young Mr. Ruiz" sound like lost love letters from more naive days. Another highlight pays homage to a favorite watering hole, the Viking Bar, which closed in 2006.
"Down at the Viking" at least confirms that Ruiz never stopped writing songs. More proof comes from the timelessness and sheer strength of the music. It's a comeback record on all fronts.
"I'm not really a prolific guy," Ruiz said dryly, "but give me 14 years, and I'll get down some quality stuff."


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What will the new DSM-5 mean for us Brits?
There was a slightly provocative headline to this Guardian article a couple of days ago. "Asperger's syndrome dropped from psychiatrists' handbook the DSM". This refers to the DSM-5, the forthcoming fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, which will be published by the American Psychiatric Association. Though actually Asperger's isn't so much being "dropped" as merged into one catch-all diagnosis of Autistic Spectrum Disorder.
This left me wondering about how the new DSM will affect mental health services over here.
I suspect it initially won't affect us a great deal in Blighty. Psychiatrists in the UK usually base their diagnostic categories on the World Health Organisation's ICD-10 rather than the American DSM. Also it's important to note that diagnostic categories are not the only thing that affects what mental health services will or won't do. There may be a diagnosis listed for, say, "oppositional defiant disorder" in the DSM and ICD-10, but my Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service doesn't accept referrals for it. Such problems are considered the realm of school strategies, parent training and youth offending services, not child psychiatry. Those who say that psychiatry is out to medicalise all forms of human behaviour can take comfort that in our corner we wouldn't be able to do that even if we wanted to. We don't have the time or resources.
But it is true that what happens in America has a tendency to filter down to the rest of us, though not always. Pediatric bipolar disorder, for example, never really took off outside the United States.
I'm in two minds about the idea of merging Asperger's into ASD. On one level I can see a rationale for it. It's really not clear that Aspergers is a distinct condition from ASD. I also can't think of anything that we do differently as a result of saying that a child has Asperger's rather than ASD.
On another level, I wonder what effect this might have on the neurodiversity community and the sense of identity that some people have fostered. Also, I'm slightly concerned about the effect this might have, given that we're referring to a condition that causes people to have difficulty coping with change.
This article on NHS Choices gives a few of the other changes. A new category coming in is "disruptive mood dysregulation disorder"; basically an angry child. The rationale given is an eyebrow-raising one, "to address concerns about potential over diagnoses and overtreatment of bipolar disorder in children". In other words, the whole fad for pediatric bipolar disorder got so out of control Stateside that they had to create a diagnostic category to accept that some children get angry a lot. By comparison, I've been in CAMHS for five years and I've never met a pre-pubescent child with a diagnosis of bipolar disorder. Neuroskeptic has an excellent critique here, in which he points out that it basically describes the same thing as oppositional defiant disorder.
My guess is we won't be accepting referrals for disruptive mood dysregulation disorder either.
There's also some diagnoses going into the DSM-5 under the category of "conditions that require further research before their consideration as formal disorders." Such as "internet use gaming disorder." Here's a musical number from some precontemplative addicts.
I doubt we'd be accepting referrals for that either, other than to write back suggesting the parents unplug the X-Box for a while.
There's also some proposed categories that aren't going to make it into the DSM-5, such as:
parental alienation syndrome – a term proposed to describe a child who 'on an ongoing basis, belittles and insults one parent without justification'
Fair enough, because including that would be really silly.
There's probably a lot more to be said about the DSM-5, particularly about the new dimensional approach to assessing personality disorders, but I've limited myself here to discussing it from a CAMHS perspective.
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How about 'Cabbage Growing Webmaster Defiance Disorder' or 'The Same Number of Compost Heaps as Missing Chav Teenagers Disorder'?
"Polo Induced Catatonia – Mint"; "Polo Induced Catatonia – Fruit Flavours"; "Intermittent Explosive Homicidal Rage – Having Benefits Suspended"; "Dead but Fit For Work – Scrounger"; "Dying but Suitable For Workfare – Pancreatic Cancer". I could go on.
I never knew that a certain former poster on the late, lamented 'Mental Nurse' had all those problems! No wonder he shouted a lot.
Is the a code for YouTube induced stabbyrage?


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93-year-old DeSoto County woman loses home in storm
93-year-old woman loses home in storm
By Allie Herrera | January 14, 2020 at 4:21 PM CST - Updated January 14 at 8:40 PM
DESOTO COUNTY, Miss. (WMC) - It's a heartbreaking sight. Trees on top of houses and homes destroyed all across DeSoto County.
Jerry Peak grew up on Charles Road in Olive Branch, Mississippi. He says Saturday morning's tornadoes destroyed his childhood home.
"I wasn't expecting this when I came down. When I made it here it was something like I've never seen," said Peak.
Peak says his 93-year-old grandmother, Gladys, and other family members were inside the home when the storms hit.
Drone footage of Mississippi tornado damage courtesy of Samaritan's Purse
"The sound he heard was unreal and he said the next thing the tree was in the house," said Peak.
The tree fell just feet away from where they were sitting in the living room. Peak is grateful his family made it out safely. But now, they're turning to the community for help through a GoFundMe page.
"The place is very old and no company would insure it so right now it's at a 100 percent loss," said Peak.
Tuesday morning, crews with disaster relief efforts were at the home surveying the damage and doing what they can to help.
"Our real purpose in being here is to walk alongside people when they're hurting and just let them know that they're loved and not alone," said Shannon Daley with Samaritan's Purse.
If you'd like to donate to the Peak family's page, click [HERE].
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Allie Herrera
Allie Herrera was born in Lima, Peru and moved to the U.S. at 6 years old. When she's not reporting the news, you can find her working out along Riverside or coaching CrossFit.
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Q: Ubuntu 19.10 change keyboard language freeze I have fresh installed Ubuntu 19.10. When I'm changing keyboard layout all system freezes a bit. I recorded video, that shows what is happening in journalctl while I'm changing language. Also I've shown htop with process consuming a lot of CPU when I'm changing layout fast (at the end of the video I'm rapidly tapping hotkeys to change layout, and music video is freezing constantly).
Here is that process /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg vt2 -displayfd 3 -auth /run/user/1000/gdm/Xauthority -background none -noreset -keeptty -verbose 3
Here is what journalctl says each time I change layout:
лют 20 13:37:25 gurland-pc gnome-shell[17519]: Window manager warning: Overwriting existing binding of keysym 31 with keysym 31 (keycode a).
лют 20 13:37:25 gurland-pc gnome-shell[17519]: Window manager warning: Overwriting existing binding of keysym 32 with keysym 32 (keycode b).
лют 20 13:37:25 gurland-pc gnome-shell[17519]: Window manager warning: Overwriting existing binding of keysym 33 with keysym 33 (keycode c).
лют 20 13:37:25 gurland-pc gnome-shell[17519]: Window manager warning: Overwriting existing binding of keysym 34 with keysym 34 (keycode d).
лют 20 13:37:25 gurland-pc gnome-shell[17519]: Window manager warning: Overwriting existing binding of keysym 35 with keysym 35 (keycode e).
лют 20 13:37:25 gurland-pc gnome-shell[17519]: Window manager warning: Overwriting existing binding of keysym 38 with keysym 38 (keycode 11).
лют 20 13:37:25 gurland-pc gnome-shell[17519]: Window manager warning: Overwriting existing binding of keysym 39 with keysym 39 (keycode 12).
лют 20 13:37:25 gurland-pc gnome-shell[17519]: Window manager warning: Overwriting existing binding of keysym 36 with keysym 36 (keycode f).
лют 20 13:37:25 gurland-pc gnome-shell[17519]: Window manager warning: Overwriting existing binding of keysym 37 with keysym 37 (keycode 10).

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Snowfall Protocol (SNW) Remains the Top Pick for Investors as Charles Hoskinson Announces Cardano (ADA) Experiment and Algorand (ALGO) Chosen as Public Blockchain in Italy
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Cardano (ADA) Experiment Announced by Charles Hoskinson, But Will It Overcome Past Struggles?
Charles Hoskinson, the co-founder of Ethereum and CEO of Input Output Hong Kong (IOHK), recently announced the Cardano (ADA) Experiment. The project is aimed at improving the scalability and interoperability of the Cardano (ADA) blockchain. While this may seem like a promising development, it's worth noting that Cardano (ADA) has struggled with price volatility and adoption in the past. In fact, the price of Cardano's (ADA) native token has fluctuated significantly over the past year, with many investors feeling uncertain about the long-term prospects of the project. Furthermore, Cardano (ADA) has faced criticism for its slow transaction speeds and high fees, which could limit its appeal to mainstream users. While the Cardano (ADA) Experiment may address some of these issues, it remains to be seen whether it will be enough to drive significant adoption and generate returns for investors. The current Cardano (ADA) price is $0.245537. In the past 24 hours, Cardano (ADA) has decreased by 3.58%.
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Dealing with the problems in our country: One person, one step at a time
By Susan Bailey - May 17, 2015
This is my most recent column in The Catholic Free Press : Our son called the other day to share a lovely story about a former student. Until recently Stephen had been a pre-school teacher in Brooklyn, NY. Although he had neither experience nor background in education, he took the job because he was desperate, having been unemployed for months. Even as he fumbled in the dark with no idea as to what he was doing, Stephen managed to touch the life of a then 3-year-old boy. Surprising encounter Stephen knew well the thankless nature of teaching. So imagine his surprise when the now five-year-old boy recognized him on the street and ran up to him, throwing his arms around him. The family followed up with a phone call and Stephen is planning an outing with them as a result. Give what little we have We never know how we will affect other people's lives. We think we have to be experts; my son's experience says otherwise. We don't need to know anything—we just need to be open and v
An interview with The Priests at St. John's Food Pantry: International singing stars with the hearts of servants
By Susan Bailey - April 15, 2015
Originally published in The Catholic Free Press on April 3, 2015 ********************************************************************************** WORCESTER–March 27, 2015. It was not your typical Friday at St. John's Food Pantry in Worcester. As some five hundred of the city's poor streamed in for a hot meal, three new faces greeted them. These men radiated warmth and kindness as they dished up generous portions of scrambled eggs with ham, Belgian waffles, and various meats and vegetables to grateful patrons. Surprise guests Most could not have guessed that they were being served by world famous singing stars The Priests. That very night the critically acclaimed group would give a concert at the Hanover Theater to a near capacity crowd. Click here to continue reading. There are two videos of The Priests plus an audio version of the full interview.


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The ironclad logic of conspiracy theories and how to break it
The Coalition government's current inability to consider a standard of climate change policy that reflects the serious warnings from the U.N seems perpetuated by denial around the issue from within the party. This article explains the foundations of how a conspiracy theory around the issue of climate change has proliferated, and how the logic behind it can be undermined.
The article was originally published in The Conversation. The article can be found here.
Conspiracy theories are so hard to debunk because they use science. Flickr/dexterd, CC BY
As the United Nations warns of the dire consequences of global warming, the commitment of the current Australian government to the reality of climate change remains unclear, with a history of disturbingly uninformed commentary on the issue and a climate policy with a decidedly ad hoc flavour.
Even the prime minister's business adviser, Maurice Newman, suspects the World Meteorological Organisation of conspiracy and propaganda.
Let's be very clear – to deny the science of climate change is to believe in a conspiracy. It may be thought of as a conspiracy between scientists and "the left", the UN, or all of them, but it is a necessary part of any such position.
Those in public life who deny climate science have long had a free reign in the media, appealing to the right for alternative views to be heard, claiming that this or that study is flawed, or explicitly claiming that a conspiracy exists.
The genius of conspiracy theories is that you can't prove them wrong, and this is true for two reasons.
The foundations of conspiracy theories
The first is that most conspiracy theorists base their beliefs on values other than science, and sometimes on fear. They are motivated to believe what they do, and unless those motivations change, it is unlikely they will be swayed by rational argument.
After all, in a world in which so much is known, and so little of it by us individually, it's tempting and empowering to think you have inside knowledge of what's really going on.
We know that entire industries are built on giving people excuses not to believe in science, excuses that allow them to maintain their delusions. We also know that believing in one conspiracy theory makes you more likely to believe in others.
The second reason is that their logic is self-sealing, designed to be impermeable to external reasoning. Let's take a look at how this works for conspiracies to do with science.
Science vs conspiracy
We may consider two general premises: the first, premise S, represents what the scientific community in general thinks is the case. The second, premise C, is what conspiracy theorists think is true.
Let's initially look at climate change. Premise S, the scientific position, is that the planet is warming and that humans are contributing to this effect.
Premise C, the conspiracy position, is that scientists are motivated to increase their funding (or support a green ideology, or both) by making extreme and unwarranted predictions about the dire consequences of global warming.
The devilish part is that confirming instances of Premise S are also confirming instances of Premise C. Whenever a result is published supporting that the planet is warming and that humans are in part responsible, that result also supports the idea that scientists are once again feathering their collective nests by appealing to fear. Each theory is strengthened, according to its proponents.
Premise S could be falsified if we found evidence showing either that the planet is cooling or that humans are not responsible for increasing temperatures. But that same evidence would be seen by conspiracy theorists as the truth finally emerging from beneath the layers of suppression.
Either way, it's a win for supporters of Premise C.
Any attempt to falsify Premise C is doomed to failure, as each new result that supports Premise S is simply seen as another instance of a conspiracy among scientists.
In the case of evolution, Premise S is that evolution has occurred and natural selection is its mechanism. Premise C, developed by religious fundamentalists, is identical to the climate change example, except that in this case scientists are said to be motivated to perpetuate the myth of evolution in order to promote their ideology and their atheism.
Again, evidence in support of Premise S (evolution) is also evidence in support of Premise C (conspiracy). Likewise, any evidence against Premise S, however weak, is seen as the truth coming out by supporters of Premise C.
How to topple a conspiracy theory
But there is a strategy that may change people's minds (or at least expose faulty thinking) when dealing with conspiracy theories in science; one loose scale in the logical armour that can be worked free.
Rather than look for more instances confirming Premise S, it is more effective to appeal to the rationality of conspiracy theorists – not because they are necessarily rational, but because they believe themselves to be – and ask them to state what would falsify their belief. It would work like this:
Step One – Agree on a phrasing of Premise S and Premise C for the issue at hand. The earlier examples show how this can be done.
Step Two – Agree that a theory should be able to be falsified for it to be scientific. There should be a sentence that says "if I am wrong, we would expect to see […]". If there is no such sentence, the theory is not scientific (with very few arguable exceptions).
Step Three – Ask what evidence would falsify Premise S, which is usually an easy task (even more so since most theorists think the evidence already exists).
Step Four – Ask them what would falsify Premise C. It is here they will falter. The conditions of falsification need to be clear and achievable, phrased in the language of the here and now. No shifting of goal posts and no redefining of terms.
And your answer is…?
Consider what evidence a global warming or evolution conspiracist would accept that shows scientists are not involved in a conspiracy. I invite the reader to suggest some. We could easily extend this to the topic of vaccination.
Consider also what evidence would falsify Premise C in terms of aliens visiting Earth, ghosts or any other situations in which there is an absence of any definite evidence.
This process demonstrates that conspiracy theorists are not behaving rationally, in as much as we might think of rationality being in line with scientific methodologies, not only towards others, but also to themselves.
Journalists may find their job more interesting, and audiences might better enjoy the outcome, if they shaped interviews with this process in mind. And politicians and others who hold to conspiracy theories might have to admit, when pressed, that their beliefs are at best unscientific, and at worst deluded.
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He was released several hours after the arrest, and misdemeanour trespassing and obstruction charges against him were later dropped.
Solomon was setting up his camera across the street from the rally and the 64-story, nearly 1,300 room non-casino Trump hotel when shopping centre security guards demanded he leave what they called mall property, McLetchie said.
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Only 'concrete action' will stop fraying of Israel-Palestine peace prospects
Obstacles to any lasting deal between Israel and Palestine continue to mount, the UN's Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process told Security Council members on Wednesday, and only "concrete action" towards a two-State solution will change that dynamic.
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'Collective' erosion of two-State solution, continues unabated: Mladenov
The "steady deterioration" of chances that a lasting peace can be negotiated between Israel and Palestine as two States live side by side, reflects a "collective failure" of leadership across the region and the world.
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'We are nowhere closer' to Israeli-Palestinian peace deal, than a year ago, Security Council hears
Recent violence and rising tensions in the West Bank are fuelling a climate of hatred and fear, "driving both Israelis and Palestinians further away" from a resolution to the conflict, the United Nations envoy for the Middle East Peace Process has said.
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If any side fails, every side fails – UN envoy for Middle East Peace Process
A senior United Nations official has called on the global community to remain committed to the two-state solution in the Middle East peace process, urging efforts to establish an environment conducive to the return of negotiations to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Gaza is 'on the brink' warns UN envoy, urging more international intervention
Rocket fire this week across the border between Gaza and Israel shows how close the region is "to the brink of war" a senior United Nations official warned on Wednesday, urging the international community to do more to help Israelis and Palestinians return to the negotiating table.
End 'cycle of violence' in Gaza, UN deputy chief tells forum on Palestine
The "cycle of violence" in Gaza serves no one and it must end, the United Nations deputy chief said on Thursday, calling on everyone with a stake in Middle East peace, to exercise utmost restraint to avoid further deaths, especially the lives of children.
Leaders obliged to confront anti-Semitism 'everywhere and always', stresses UN envoy
The United Nations' top official for the Middle East Peace Process has said that spreading "deeply disturbing" conspiracy theories which fuel anti-Semitism are unacceptable, and serve neither the interests of Palestinians themselves, or the pursuit of peace in the region.
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At Security Council, UN Middle East peace envoy reports on Israel's troubling settlement expansion
Reporting that over the past three months, Israel has advanced 22 plans for some 1,200 housing units for one area of the West Bank, a United Nations envoy warned Monday that such ongoing settlement expansion is eroding the prospect of a two-state solution to the long-standing Middle East conflict.
'There is no plan B,' says Guterres, reiterating UN's commitment to two-state solution to Israeli-Palestinian conflict
After over a century of hostilities including 50 years of continued military occupation, Israelis and Palestinians are still no closer to peace, a United Nations special envoy said on Tuesday, warning that even as many in the region have lost hope for positive change, the enemies of peace are growing more confident by the day.
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Time to stop 'managing' Israeli-Palestinian conflict, show leadership to resolve it – Security Council told
The United Nations, the Security Council and the wider international community all have fallen into a pattern of "managing, rather than resolving" the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the UN envoy on the Middle East peace process warned Thursday, saying it was time to end this paralysis, show political leadership and push for policies on the ground that rebuild trust.


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KAMALA HARRIS: RACISM & STUPIDITY ON DISPLAY
There is little or no doubt in my mind that California Senator Kamala Harris is a racist, viewing everything through the prism of race with the self-interested zeal of a Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton.
Now we find Harris asserting, without any shred of proof proffered, that Russian "bots" interacting with social media was behind the Colin Kaepernick controversy.
Kamala Harris: Kaepernick backlash was 'not a thing' until Russian bots 'started taking it on'
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) said the controversy surrounding the national anthem protests of former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick was "not a thing" until Russian trolls started fanning the flames on social media.
[OCS: I know it is hard to believe that a significant number of Americans do not live on social media platforms and that the fact of dishonoring your country, flag, or anthem would create a significant backlash among patriotic Americans who realize that their country is exceptional and unique in a world of real danger.
Kaepernick, a football player with minimal talent and few brains, has found a way to turn personal controversy into profits – much like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and even Kamala Harris turn racial animosity into a vehicle that promotes their own agenda.]
During a Friday interview with the radio show "The Breakfast Club," Harris discussed Russian interference in the 2016 election, and said the easiest way for Russian online trolls to sow discord in American politics is to stoke racial animosity.
"They test out a couple of things to see what can get the American public going at each other, pointing fingers at each other," Harris said. "Guess what gains the most heat? Race."
Harris specifically cited the explosive national debate that ignited in August 2016 when Kaepernick first chose not to stand during the national anthem.
"Remember the heat that ended up around the 'bend the knee' and Colin Kaepernick?" Harris asked. "Many smart people have said it actually was not a thing, the Russian bots started taking that on."
[OCS: I wonder if Harris actually pays attention to her briefing books, especially on the subject of the evidence behind the Mueller Report – which could not find concrete evidence of Russian "troll-bots" being used on social media platforms in a significant way.
Look behind the House Intelligence Committee, Chaired by the corrupt Adam Schiff (D-CA), and their report on "Exposing Russia's Effort to Sow Discord Online: The Internet Research Agency and Advertisements" and you will find little more than unproven prosecutor's assertions and allegations that have never been tested in a court of law.
Given the fact that most of America does not live on social media and most posts are self-extinguishing over a relatively short timespan, the impact of suggested "bot activity" has likely been overstated for political effect.
In fact, I am still waiting for Adam Schiff's "compelling evidence" that the President of the United States colluded with Russia."
Truth-be-told, Kamala Harris is like former President Barack Obama, willing to exploit race for personal gain, and is likely – like Obama – to leave the United States more racially divided than ever before. And, in return for their support, Blacks in America are likely to see the same type of treatment from Harris that they received under the elitist Obama.
We are so screwed.