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'Forces for good will prevail' – Taiwan welcomes massive US vaccine aid
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TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan reacted with an outpouring of thanks to the United States for shipping 2.5 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to the major semiconductor-producing island, more than doubling its arsenal as it deals with a rise in domestic infections.
Washington, competing with Beijing to deepen geopolitical clout through "vaccine diplomacy," initially had promised to donate 750,000 doses but increased that number as President Joe Biden's administration advances its pledge to send 80 million U.S.-made shots around the world.
"What a sight! What a gesture!" Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu tweeted in thanks late on Saturday, linking to pictures of the vaccines being loaded onto a China Airlines Boeing (NYSE:BA) 777 freighter at Memphis airport.
"The Taiwan-U.S. relationship is rock solid, & we'll keep cooperating closely in combating COVID19. Forces for good will prevail!"
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen tweeted she was touched by the U.S. move.
"Thank you to the U.S. for this moving gesture of friendship. These vaccines will go a long way toward keeping Taiwan safe & healthy."
The United States, like most countries, has no formal diplomatic ties with Taiwan, but is its most important international backer, to China's anger.
The 2.5 million Moderna (NASDAQ:MRNA) Inc doses, due to arrive at Taiwan's main international airport late Sunday afternoon, will more than double the number of vaccines that have already arrived on the island, including 1.24 million AstraZeneca (NASDAQ:AZN) Plc shots donated by Japan earlier this month.
China, which claims democratically governed Taiwan as an integral part of its territory, has offered Chinese-made vaccines, but the government in Taipei has repeatedly expressed concerns about their safety and efficacy.
Taiwan has accused China of blocking at least one foreign vaccine deal with the island. Beijing denies that.
Despite the pandemic, China has continued to pressure Taiwan militarily.
Last week, 28 Chinese air force aircraft, including fighters and nuclear-capable bombers, entered Taiwan's air defence identification zone, the largest reported incursion to date.
Taiwan is trying to speed up the arrival of the millions of vaccines it has on order as it deals with a rise in domestic cases, although infections remain comparatively low. Only around 6% of Taiwan's 23.5 million people have received at least one of the two-shot coronavirus vaccine regimen.
Tsai has come under pressure domestically to get vaccines faster.
On Friday the government said it would allow Terry Gou, the billionaire founder of major Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL) supplier Foxconn, and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd (TSMC) to negotiate on Taipei's behalf for vaccines.
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SUNDAY SLUGFEST: Batgirl #1
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Barbara Gordon got her legs back, and she's using it to their fullest potential: by beating up trick 'r' treaters. Also, she gets a roommate!
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Gail Simone has been tasked with perhaps the most difficult job in the DC reboot. While there are a few baffling titles, some that have all the pedigree in the world, and some that have to work a little harder for recognition, no character in the new universe has more eyes focused on her than the beloved Batgirl. Long a point of contention for arguments of feminism and the disabled in comics, when the news broke that Barbara Gordon would be returning to her mantle (stripped from her by a bullet from the Joker's gun in Batman: The Killing Joke ), the Internet set itself on fire with arguments. Simone, herself a writer who came to prominence through the blogosphere, has always been a vocal proponent of Barbara as both Batgirl and as Oracle. When she was announced as being the creative helm of this story, I was more excited than most, being a huge fucking fan of her work.
Batgirl #1 is not an amazing issue, nor is it a terrible one. Barbara's return to being Batgirl was hyped so much, and in the issue is treated rather matter-of-fact. The biggest argument, whether The Killing Joke is still canon, is addressed succinctly: it is, but she got better. This issue feels a bit too grim and serious for what one would expect from a Batgirl title. I'm usually for grim and gritty, but that's what we have the Bat-Man for: the fun of reading Batgirl is that… well, that it was fun. Simone can do gritty and fun with fascinating ease, as Secret Six has proven, but the images are incongruous — on the cover we have a smiling Batgirl, and on the credits page she could not be more elated to be back, but then the story takes a sudden turn for the dark. Mark Waid's Daredevil has proven you can have a vibrant, excitable hero without losing any gravitas or significance, but with Barbara's return being so sudden, it feels like too much too soon. A lot of the issue's focus is on Barbara's legs, including having her several times concentrate on them, or having passing references to being shaky or needing to stretch — a conversation between her and James Gordon feels too forced because of this motif, and Barbara and James' relationship is usually one of the more fascinating parts of those characters.
While I admire Simone's inclusion of a menacing serial killer as an attempt to bring some more severity to the title, it strikes me as a bit too much "Batgirl R.I.P," down to the masked and caped killer who is mostly gloves and a weapon, much like Morrison used Dr. Hurt in "The Black Glove" — when asked "Who the devil," the villain replies, "Precisely." By no means am I accusing Simone of ripping off or watering down Morrison (okay, Internet?) — it just feels like an idea that is a touch too similar for two wildly different characters.
That said, the motivations for the The Mirror and his list are revealed gradually, and it does hint at a much larger game that has quite some time to unfurl. Simone and Ardian Syaf work really well together, however- his clean yet kinetic style really fits the way Simone's energetic take on the character. There's plenty of action to be had, including a neat gang of killers who wear awesomely homemade monster costumes, and Simone's talent gives her title a voice much removed from Bryan Q. Miller's run. Her sense of humor runs throughout these pages, which gives them a brisk clip for the most part. I thoroughly enjoy the amount of story and sequence that get packed into these 20 pages — it doesn't feel incomplete or lacking, like Justice League #1 did. My major complaint can be summed as this: this issue feels like it needed to have a sense of importance, when in actuality its obsession with doing so saps some of the spirit. Barbara's an old friend we've been waiting to see for a while- we're happy to have her back, so she doesn't need to be so somber. While Batgirl #1 isn't a perfect issue, it's assuredly a fine start, and I have all the trust in the world that the series will find its footing.
Rafael Gaitan was born in 1985, but he belongs to the '70s. He is a big fan of onomatopoeia, being profane and spelling words right on the first try. Rafael has a hilariously infrequent blog and writes love letters to inanimate objects as well as tweets of whiskey and the mysteries of the heart at @bearsurprise. He ain't got time to bleed.
There are so many flexible things in the DC universe, death and severe injury being a few of them. Batman had his back broken and managed to come back from it, he's also died and traveled through — even Jason Todd was blown up and still that guy couldn't be kept down. Eventually he was killed at the behest of the fans. Characters come and go from the hospital and the grave like it's their commute to work. Nothing is permanent, one just has to wait it out for a year and all will be back to normal, this is the general rule of things in comic book land.
So then imagine the surprise when Barbara Gordon was shot by the Joker, crippled and confined to a wheelchair and didn't get back up. For 22 years. That's practically forever, and I think damn near everyone was in awe of DC ability to keep Barbara Gordon crippled and not just dunk her into the Lazarus Pit. This option was brought up so I've heard and it was vetoed because the fans liked Babs as Oracle. Stepping back to look at the bigger picture I agree with that. As Oracle, Barbara got to use her smarts so much more than she did as Batgirl. The gunshot that crippled her only made her a stronger character. Women usually play the piece of ass in a tight fitting suit who run around as the sidekick. They possess average knowledge, but are generally lead by their bigger, stronger male counterparts. When Barbara became Oracle, she became the go to girl for all the info, she knew everything, Batman would have been lost without her. She was the voice inside everyone's head guiding them, viewing the world they walked in; she played a godlike role.
Now, 22 years later, Barbara Gordon is Batgirl again and I've got so many mixed feelings about it. First of all, Barbara will always, always be Batgirl to me and to
so many others and to see that mane of red hair under the cowl again sets my heart aflutter. But after reading this new first issue it seems Barbara has lost her strength of character. All that hard nosed Oracle attitude is now missing because she's hasn't had that trauma of life in a wheelchair. She's still has that good ol' Batgirl gumption, but it's the hard fought bitterness that made Barbara Gordon evolve into a grown up.
She has doubts and fears and even freezes up when a gun is pointed at her. The events of The Killing Joke have still happened, but have been altered so that Barbara only spent three years in a wheel chair and has recovered, except for her unsettled fear of getting shot again. This won't work. Plot-wise I get it, the gun was pointed right at the same spot where she was shot by Joker, but it bothered me. As a crime fighter in Gotham City getting shot at is a night ritual. It's the same as if you hate vacuuming; you're not going to cut it as a maid. I really don't know what I was expecting from the comic, it's a bit of a heavy situation — basically undoing comic history and thrusting a character back into a role that had all but been forgotten. I think that's my problem with the story. We've gone back in time and have been asked to forget all we knew. Barbara had changed for the better but that doesn't apply anymore. That's my problem.
But shall I get to the actual story now? Gail Simone has stepped up as writer and this just sent Wonder Woman flashbacks running through my mind. Here I am ragging on Batgirl tripping out over being shot and I'm having my own PTSD about a bad run on Wonder Woman. You know I can forgive Gail Simone to some extent on her Wonder Woman, at least it wasn't absolute crap like Straczynski's nail-in-the-coffin run.
While I liked the general story involving The Mirror, the Final Destination inspired villain, it's some of Simone's dialog and internal monologues I don't care for. They make Barbara sound kind of naïve and immature. You know what I did like though? The artwork. Liked it lots with the great facial details and the expressions on characters' faces where really well conveyed. Colors as well, I'm a big sucker for coloring in comics. Ulises Arreola did marvels with the tones of the comic. I flip though the comic from time to time just to look at Batgirl's purple cape.
I guess I should summarize here, since that's a whole ton a stuff to sift through for any sort of meaning. For those of you who read through my babble, I commended you, and for those of you that made through myself and Ray Tate, you need a medal. You know what, I'm just harsh and cynical and I love tearing into DC, but Batgirl wasn't horrible. We've all seen, read, or heard of worse, let's face it. I think this was just such a big move, next to the end of Action Comics and Detective Comics and their renumbering. Giving Barbara Gordon her legs back after two decades is a shocking and uneasy thing. It's that proverbial knife's edge situation. People loved her as Batgirl and people loved her as Oracle, so no matter what one group or the other isn't going to be as pleased as the other. I, for one, am happy to have her back in her proper tights and I'd like to see how DC handles her big return — but just don't cripple her again; the kid's been through a lot.
Karyn Pinter has been writing for Comics Bulletin since 2008. Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and was one of those kids who was raised by TV, babysat by the likes of James Bond, Mary Poppins and Darth Vader. In college she spent her days critically analyzing Dorothy's need to befriend a lion, scarecrow and man of tin and writing papers on how truth, justice and the American way ultimately lead to Superman's death.
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Opening with a stylish murder committed by a new Big Bad that's staged with all the flair of a Sergio Martino giallo, Batgirl segues into a home invasion thwarted by Barbara Gordon not just walking but vaulting, kicking and fighting as the Darknight Damsel, the one true Batgirl. I've waited 22 years for this. I wasn't disappointed.
Simone cleverly observes that The Killing Joke was a home invasion, and it's fitting that this crime should be Batgirl's first case after a three-year hiatus. That's right. According to the new continuity, Barbara was confined to a wheelchair for only three years, presumably she also performed her duties as Oracle within that time. Hope that's good enough for the Wheelies, the fully mobile fans who wanted to keep Babs crippled. Oh, no, wait. I actually don't care what the Wheelies think. In fact, the Wheelies can suck it. Boo-ya!
The reduction in years allows Simone to bestow greater upper body strength to Barbara's arms and torso while preserving the muscle tissue in her legs, which would have atrophied in twenty-two years and made her more than merely "rusty" when using the gams. Adrian Syaf, Vincent Cifuentes and Ulises Arreola incidentally spotlight numerous visuals on Batgirl's legs. She uses them for trademark kicks, of course, but she also swings with them through the air and anchors them when performing a particularly awesome martial arts move in which she uses leverage and her foe's strength against him. Thanks to Batgirl, a heinous crime turns into a hopeful incident tricked out with Gothamites happy to be rescued by the Queen of the Batman Family .
Fetchingly outfitted, the accurately blue-eyed, crimson-haired Batgirl doesn't just look and fight like Batgirl, Simone characterizes Batgirl as Batgirl. She remembers her eidetic memory and fosters in her an upbeat attitude. She even makes her kind of hip, peppering her dialogue with some sixties grooviness that fits the history of the character.
When referring to her quarry, Babs states, in the narrative, "Found you didn't I? Oh yes I did, babies. How sad for you." When pulling her Batcycle out of its hideout in her van, she quips, "Come to momma, sweetheart." Batgirl has been associated with a motorcycle since the '60s television series, and it's fantastic that this aspect returns with the Daredoll Detective. Then we have a blast from the past with this: "Heh. Oh, my." The home invader protests. What is Batgirl laughing at? "You, little man." That "little man" comment was commonplace in the '70s. Batgirl used the phrase when disposing of the General's Batgirl-assassin, just before she saves Batman's life in a memorable Bronze Age issue of Detective Comics.
As much as I loved Batgirl, Simone's understanding of police and medical protocols needs improvement. No doctor is going to allow the police to wait in a patient's room, even if that patient is a felon. There's also no reason for the detectives to wait. They don't need information or even a confession. There's plenty of evidence for the DA to prosecute, and Batgirl rounded up the whole gang. So the detectives being in the room is just an ill-thought plot convenience.
Simone's dialogue-parceling for the detectives creates an inelegant and inaccurate portrayal: "<em
>Precinct sixty-three, we have an emergency here, repeat, we have…" That's just wrong. A cop reports to central dispatch. A detective would only call a specific precinct in a non-emergency. Instead, a police officer would identify himself to central, report the situation and request back-up. The dialogue of the two detectives should have been combined to read something like this: "Central, this is Officer John Smith. Shots fired at Sacred Hands! Shots fired!" He wouldn't actually need to call for backup since "shots fired" is the near equivalent to "officer down."
The detective's partner accuses Batgirl when our hero freezes at the sight of a gun pointed at her gut, the exit wound would be out the spine: "You let him kill that man. You just watched him die. Murderer."
That's ridiculous. A police officer would never expect a civilian, costumed or not, to place her life in jeopardy even if such a sacrifice would save another. The detective's overreaction was meant to accent the drama, but the scene would have played out better without a word. Then you would have seen the villain with with guns standing by the window, Batgirl still frozen after blaming herself — a perfectly legitimate response given her nature — and the detective pulling out a gun presumably to arrest Batgirl.
A pair of badly written third-tier cast members doesn't really mean much when the rest of the book is so well done. In the debut issue of Batgirl, Simone exploits the Billionaire's Boys Club as her model for the home invaders and justifiably throws a perfectly characterized Batgirl at 'em for a strong integrated centerpiece to an equally potent chapter in what looks to be a powerful story arc involving no mean fiend.
Ray Tate's first online work appeared in 1994 for Knotted. He has had a short story, "Spider Without a Web," published in 1995 for the magazine evernight and earned a degree in biology from the University of Pittsburgh. Since 1995, Ray self-published The Pick of the Brown Bag on various usenet groups. In the POBB, as it was affectionately known, Ray reviewed comic books, Doctor Who novels, movies and occasionally music. Circa 2000, he contributed his reviews to Silver Bullet Comic Books (later Comics Bulletin) and became its senior reviewer. Ray Tate would like to think that he's young at heart. Of course, we all know better.
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Bethany Lutheran College 1975-1976 snapshot of men's basketball player, Mike Schlomer
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Bethany Lutheran College's 1975-1976 men's basketball player, Mike Schlomer.
Bethany Lutheran College 1975-1976 snapshot of men's basketball player, Steve Mailloux
Bethany Lutheran College 1975-1976 snapshot of men's basketball player, Steve Mailloux.
Bethany Lutheran College 1975-76 snapshot of men's basketball player, Mike Miller
Bethany Lutheran College men's basketball game in 1975-1976. Mike Miller, a player from 1974-1976, vies for a rebound against GVLC.
Bethany Lutheran College 1975-1976 portrait of men's basketball team and coaches
Bethany Lutheran College 1975-1976 portrait of men's basketball team and coaches.
Bethany Lutheran College 1974-1975 snapshot of men's basketball player, Wes Cornnick
Bethany Lutheran College 1974-1975 men's basketball player, Wes Cornnick.
Snapshot of Bethany Lutheran College's President Branstad shakes MVP Dean Shoop's hand at a 1974-75 men's basketball game
Bethany Lutheran College's President Branstad shakes MVP Dean Shoop's hand at a men's basketball game in 1974-1975.
Bethany Lutheran College 1974-1975 snapshot of cheerleaders at a men's basketball game
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Cheerleaders at a Bethany Lutheran College men's basketball game in 1974-1975.
Snapshot of Bethany Lutheran College President Branstad and GVLC's President Upsahl at a men's basketball game in 1974-75
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President Branstad and President Upsahl at a Bethany Lutheran College men's basketball game.
Bethany Lutheran College 1974-75 portrait of men's basket ball player, Wally Krentz
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Wally Krentz, a basketball player for Bethany Lutheran College in 1974-1975, about to take a shot.
Bethany Lutheran College 1974-1975 snapshot of men's basketball game
The Bethany Lutheran College men's basketball team playing a game in 1974-75.
Bethany Lutheran College's men's basketball team and coaches in 1973-1974.
A photo of Bethany Lutheran College's men's basketball team with coaches in 1973-1974.
Bethany Lutheran College 1973-1974 snapshot of men's basketball player
A snapshot of a Bethany Lutheran College men's basketball player in 1973-1974.
Bethany Lutheran College 1972-1973 portrait of men's basketball player, John Moldstad
A portrait of Bethany Lutheran College's men's basketball player in 1972-1973, John Moldstad.
Bethany Lutheran College 1972-1973 portrait of men's basketball player, Steve Weddig
A portrait of Steve Weddig, a Bethany Lutheran College 1972-1973 basketball player.
A portrait of the 1972-1973 Bethany Lutheran College basketball team and coaches.
Bethany Lutheran College 1972-1973 portrait of men's basketball player, Dick Patterson
A portrait of Dick Patterson, a men's basketball player for Bethany Lutheran College in 1972-1973.
Bethany Lutheran College 1972-1973 portrait of men's basketball player, Dennis Olson
A portrait of Dennis Olson, a men's basketball player in 1972-1973.


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A review of Augustine by Mélanie Watt
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In Augustine, written and illustrated by Mélanie Watt, a young penguin must leave her South Pole home and the many people and places she holds dear when her father gets a job at the North Pole. Timid Augustine first doesn't play with the children at her new school, settling in a corner of the playground where she draws with her blue pencil. When classmates take an interest in the drawings, Augustine overcomes her shyness and tells them about one of her creations. Watt's acrylic and pencil crayon artwork is innovative and vibrant. The book's left-hand pages consist of nine individual squares of "Augustine's" art. Nearly all of these pages contain drawings inspired by artists: Warhol, Dali, and Monet. The title character's name is inspired by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, her stuffed-toy penguin is named Picasso, and her teacher's name is Miss Lisa. This charming tale, rich in polar puns, deals with themes of change, belonging, and self-expression in a clever and refreshing way. mRb
Carol-Ann Hoyte is the Quebec English-language regional coordinator for TD Canadian Children's Book Week and organizer of monthly mixers for Montreal anglophone children's book authors and illustrators.


A look at the present — and future — of e-mail marketing for travel brands. From responsive design and targeted sendings, to pushed content and pulling travelers into a fluid cross-channel narrative — e-mail marketers are steering the industry's course toward more reliable conversions, more of the time.
E-mail marketing has entered an era of maturity and travel brands, like never before, are poised to reach consumers in new and innovative ways.
As the number of e-mail users increases, globally, and as the open rates across platforms — but especially in the mobile space — rise, the time for marketers to fully implement e-mail targeting and personalization strategies is now. Content rules the e-mail marketer's approach. Within this drive for more and better technology to make e-mails useful to consumers in real time, every time they open a message (or re-open one), success in the e-mail marketing space is dependent upon the quality of the content.
If travel brands create compelling content, subscribers want that narrative in their inboxes. It has to find them, however, in just the right way. Optimization across different device types now goes hand-in-hand with content, and travel brands must align their e-mails (and landing pages) with the different sizes and shapes of the screens that their recipients use.
All of this being the case, the very concept of e-mail may be shifting. Consumers exist more accurately, perhaps, not in a world of neatly divided e-mails, texts, social-media posts, app notifications, and alerts but in a world of pushed content. In other words, the traveler may not care exactly how an airline's or hotel's message comes to them, only that it does. And they may well want it to come to them in multiple ways, all at once.


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Next to Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton, he was the third great virtuoso of the electric guitar in the 60s: Peter Green became famous with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, founded Fleetwood Mac and gave the world song classics like "Albatross" and "Oh Well". In 1970, after little more than three years, he left the band and only appeared sporadically in the spotlight after that. An obituary for a mentally unstable genius who was one of the greats of the classic rock era.
It is hard to imagine what would have become of this man with his sensitive fingers if he had finished the butcher apprenticeship he had begun. The excursion into the bourgeois working world, however, remained a brief intermezzo in the life of Peter Allen Greenbaum, because the 15-year-old soon put the butcher's knife aside in order to devote himself entirely to the guitar from then on. It was to lead him into the clear heights, but also into the darkest abysses.
Apart from one pandemic of a special kind, whose vectors, be they Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis or their forerunners such as Muddy Waters, B. B. King, Howlin' Wolf and Ray Charles, infected numerous English teenagers at the time: rock 'n' roll. Greenbaum learned his first guitar chords at the age of ten. When he finished school, he got his first taste of stage air. He has already shortened his last name to Green. After he was successful in various amateur bands, things finally got moving for the now 19-year-old in the summer of 1966 - Beatles, Stones, Kinks and Who were the spearhead of British pop: In the band Peter B's Looners, founded by keyboardist Peter Bardens, he met the spindly 1.96-metre giant Mick Fleetwood. Green will soon be moving on, but Fleetwood is to join his destiny in a decisive way
In August '66 Eric Clapton leaves John Mayall's band, and the otherwise rather shy, introverted Green forces himself upon the Bluesbreakers boss as his successor. He gets the job and succeeds in convincing Mayall's blues community. His tone is less spectacular, his licks are not quite as fast as those of "Slowhand", but he cultivates an amazingly mature, soulful, melodic style. The special thing about Green's playing is that he shades the notes with subtle vibrato as well as a lot of sustain, so that they resonate forever. He provides his licks with the finest dynamic nuances and has a remarkably tasteful intonation. Added to this is his feeling for the right note in the right place. He does not need many. On "A Hard Road" (1967), the only album Green recorded with Mayall, he shines with the instrumental piece "The Supernatural", in which he plays his unique B. B. King-trained style in a masterly manner. King himself will say only a few years later about this white boy: "He had the sweetest guitar tone I'd ever heard and was the only one that made me break out in a cold sweat."
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A reply to Winchester's mayor, objections to new CFO ordinance, a plea for clean energy and a mayoral candidate's views.
Fire-based EMS, public safety during snowstorms, snowy sidewalks and political brainwashing.
Delaware County CFO regulations, changing E15 rules, President Trump's claims and pavement problems on I-69.
Musings about Muncie, voting for yourself, immigration and a sinner doing God's work.
Leaders lacking military experience, tapestry of life and quitting smoking.
Due diligence on new jail, and Trump as God's avatar.
Men's views on women's health issues, and Christianity's association with Trump.
Readers' opinions on Donald Trump, Mike Braun, the Libertarian Party as another option, Republicans and unions.
New housing development, Susan Collins' retreat to her tribe and Sixth District Congressional race.
Response to anti-abortion writer, protecting Christianity, voting to clean up Muncie and the best way to watch a parade.
A corrupt administration, lying as the new normal and a call for year-round E15 sales.
City police contract dispute, city EMS proposal, judicial appointments and reaction to BSU trustees' decision to remove Schnatter's name.


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Concerts in New York
Concerts in Saratoga Springs 2022
We currently have 18 concerts in Saratoga Springs, NY on our list. You can find music events of all genres: country, rock, jazz, Christian, etc. Saratoga Springs concerts will be held at 5 venues. The average ticket price is $36. Check out the schedule below for tonight, this weekend, or any other date, and get tickets for your favorite artists!
Upcoming Concerts in Saratoga Springs (18)
Aqueous Tickets (18+ Event)
Putnam Den - Saratoga Springs, NY
Caffe Lena - Saratoga Springs, NY
Zac Brown Band: Out In The Middle Tour
Saratoga Performing Arts Center - Saratoga Springs, NY
Robert Plant And Alison Krauss Raising The Roof
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss
Line-Up Robert Plant, Alison Krauss
Saratoga Springs Performing Arts Center - Saratoga Springs, NY
The Doobie Brothers - 50th Anniversary Tour
Line-Up The Doobie Brothers, Michael Mcdonald, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Steely Dan with Special Guest Steve Winwood
Line-Up Steely Dan, Steve Winwood
Tedeschi Trucks Band - Wheels of Soul 2022
Line-Up Tedeschi Trucks Band, Los Lobos, The Gabe Dixon Band
Line-Up Morgan Wallen, Hardy
Chicago and Brian Wilson with Al Jardine and Blondie Chaplin
Line-Up Chicago, Brian Wilson, Al Jardine, Blondie Chaplin
Foo Fighters "LIVE IN THE USA"
Rod Stewart with special guest Cheap Trick
Backstreet Boys: DNA World Tour
Line-Up Matchbox Twenty, The Wallflowers
REO Speedwagon and Styx with Loverboy: Live and UnZoomed
Line-Up Reo Speedwagon, Styx, Loverboy
Goo Goo Dolls - Summer 2022 Tour
Line-Up Goo Goo Dolls, Forest Blakk
DISPATCH AND O.A.R Summer Tour 2022
Line-Up Dispatch, O.a.r.
Popular Artists Coming to Saratoga Springs in January 2022
Jake Xerxes Fussell @ Caffe Lena - Saratoga Springs, NY on Jan 29, 2022
Belmont Park - Long Island
Hammondsport
Pawling
West Nyack
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Session activity: Participants will get a brief over-view of Robotics and then get hands-on experiences using working robots to perform simple tasks.
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Second double bedroom with fitted carpet, gas radiator, rear aspect.
The property is in excellent condition, is close to all local amenities and on the main 17 bus route into Reading town centre. It is also close to all other transport links including Tilehurst station which has a direct line through to Paddington. There is one off road parking space to the front which is overlooked by the maisonette and a communal garden to the rear. The property has been renovated to a very good standard with many new features that have been added for the comfort of new tenants. Ideally suitable for a professional couple, available Now.


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Q: How they work: dehumidifier vs air conditioner From what I understand both dehumidifiers and air conditioners do the same thing. They blow air onto cooled pipes. This means that dehumidifiers must cool the air and air conditioners must dehumidify as well. So what is the difference in operation between them? How do their internal mechanisms differ?

A: the mass flow rate of air through a dehumidifier is typically low, to furnish the longest time possible for heat transfer from the cold coils to the air. This means that the compressor rating of a dehumidifier is also low, meaning that its capacity as a refrigeration device will be relatively low.
the mass flow rate of air through a room air conditioner is typically high, to furnish the largest possible flow of cooled air into the room. This means that the compressor rating of a room air conditioner is also high, meaning that its capacity as a refrigeration device will be relatively high as well.

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Environment: Small grains in perialkaline rhyolite.
Locality: Mt. Dore stratovolcano, near La Bourboule, France. Link to MinDat.org Location Data.
Comments: Pale green fine granular montdorite in iron-stained matrix.
Location: Charlunnes, Mont Dore, Puy-de-Dome, France. Scale: See Photo.
note: Specific Gravity of Montdorite =3.17 gm/cc.
U=PEMontdorite x relectron= 25.76 barns/cc.


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There's a storm coming... - June 22nd 2012 - Jays @ Marlins - Gamethread
By JohnnyG Jun 22, 2012, 6:50pm EDT
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April 2, 2012; Miami FL, USA; A general view of Marlins Park during spring training game between the New York Yankees and the Miami Marlins at Marlins Park. Mandatory Credit: Steve Mitchell-US PRESSWIRE
And now, the end is here And so I face the final curtain
Finally! The end of interleague is upon us as the Jays close out another <Redacted by the Commissioners office of MLB> stint of interleague. This year interleague seemed especially painful, now I recognize that may be because the Jays lost practically everyone in their rotation but still!
Ricky Romero takes the mound tonight against Anibal Sanchez. We all know the score so far this year on Ricky. He hasn't quite looked like the same guy from the past few years. There doesn't seem to be quite the life on his fastball and he just isn't spotting that change-up that has always been so effective for him. Despite this he is still holding down the 7-1 record and leads the staff with that mark (Way to pitch to the score Ricky!). The Jays are facing Anibal Sanchez who can strike out quite a few and if he has his good fastball going is likely to give the Jays fits tonight.
2012 - Ricky Romero 7-1 15 14 0 0 0 0 88.1 75 46 42 11 42 64 4.28 1.32
2012 - Anibal Sanchez 3-5 13 13 0 0 0 0 85.2 73 37 33 8 24 80 3.47 1.13
The Marlins are an interesting team this year. They spent and took on a bunch of salary in the offseason and while not all of it has worked out (*cough* Reyes *Cough*), they were going to get better regardless. The Marlins are currently sitting 4th in the tough National League East with a 33-36 mark. This is mostly because of a poor month that has seen them drop 14 of 18 games. Depending on how you want to look at it, this is either good news for the Jays since they are slumping, or bad news because they are due. Take your pick!
After the jump for series info and lineups.
3 game series vs Marlins @ Marlins Park
Toronto Blue Jays Bluebird Banter
@ Miami Marlins Fish Stripes
Friday, Jun 22, 2012, 7:10 PM EDT
Marlins Park
Ricky Romero vs Anibal Sanchez
Partly cloudy,rain. Winds blowing in from right field at 5-10 m.p.h. Game time temperature around 80.
Sat 06/23 1:10 PM EDT
Sun 06/24 1:10 PM EDT
7:10pm Blue Jays (R. Romero - L) @ Marlins (A. Sanchez - R)
1. Brett Lawrie (R) 3B
2. Colby Rasmus (L) CF
3. Jose Bautista (R) RF
4. Edwin Encarnacion (R) 1B
5. Kelly Johnson (L) 2B
6. Yunel Escobar (R) SS
7. Rajai Davis (R) LF
8. J.P. Arencibia (R) C
9. Ricky Romero (R) P
1. Jose Reyes (S) SS
2. Hanley Ramirez (R) 3B
3. Giancarlo Stanton (R) RF
4. Justin Ruggiano (R) CF
5. Omar Infante (R) 2B
6. Austin Kearns (R) LF
7. Gaby Sanchez (R) 1B
8. John Buck (R) C
9. Anibal Sanchez (R) P
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Singer/Songwriter RĀI returns with the new lead single from his upcoming EP with a throwback classic soul song, You're All I Need. The song was written by RĀI and features all live instrumentation. The single officially premiered yesterday, November 22, 2018. RĀI's upcoming project will be indicative of the feel and vibe of this single: Unapologetic, Traditional, Old School, Classic Soul.
If you like the single and think your audience would too, we certainly would appreciate your support.
SoundCloud link to the single is below.


This month we are focusing on the Sweat GUTR as our product of the month.
Now that things are heating up as we approach the summer months, it's the perfect time to start using the Sweat GUTR as your no.1 outdoor accessory.
Unlike other sweat bands, the Sweat GUTR is made of soft plastic to avoid saturation. This is the perfect accessory for cyclists and sport enthusiasts as well as workers in industrial environments.


Specializing in Chainlink, Vinyl, Ranch/Field and Temporary Fencing.
Taylor & Barbara Button have been building fences in Southern Utah since 1973. Family owned and operated, they service the entire southern Utah area along with the Mesquite NV area.
Taylor, Barbara, their son Arnold and daughter Janell pride themselves on quality service at a reasonable rate. Throughout the years they have established many loyal clients. They pride themselves in being great installers and their fence installations will be complete, on time and to your specifications.
We service the entire Southern Utah area including St. George, Washington City, Ivins, Santa Clara, Hurricane, Cedar City, Panguitch, Kanab, Beaver, and any where in between. We also service the Mesquite NV and Littlefield AZ area. Call us for a free estimate (within Washington county).


Hi guys. Does anyone know how to integrate the substance designer plugin into squad? I tried copying and pasting the plugin to the correct folder, but i got several DLL errors. Squad uses UE 4.14.3. Thanks in advance. Cheers!
Substance - Discussions - Edit Allegorithmic account email adress.
I have 2 email adresses in use (so 2 allegorithmic accounts). My own domain for my website will expire, so the email adress i have there will too, how do i transfer my licenses to my other email adress?
It would be cool if we could add presets to a substace on substance share the same way you can add images. That saves you from having to upload a new ZIP.
I think this is a bug: When i have an iray render going, i try to save the viewport image to disk, and it crashes substance. Im using an aperture of 5, and a 2K material on a high density cylinder.
Only the alpha channel is displayed.
in Substance im doing this: (to be absolutely sure the information i want is in the normalmap.
I've had a few complaints, and after checking for myself, there is a problem with the Camo material i made for Substance Share. (I could be in thr wrong topic here, since its made in SD, if so, sorry mods!).
When opening the SBS, the hue slider works as expected, but when publishing the substance, the hue slider cannot be altered, even though its an exposed parameter, and visible as such.
A feature i would love (and that might not be impossible to port over) is having the same particle brush options as Substance Painter has. That would help alot with weathering a material for a non-seamless material, like rain/fluid marks etc.
Having that could make awesome mask generators to hook up to parameters.
Substance Designer - Technical Support - .sbs roughness is as expected, .sbsar roughness is darker.
I love to use the fiber glass edge wear to add small details like scratches to surfaces, but for some reason since the last update, it doesn't allow using a custom grunge, meaning earlier work i made with it, now has the striated look, instead of the custom grunge I fed it. Will this be fixed next release?
What im really missing is a Voronoi cells noise with manhattan distribution.
This type of noise is very useful for sci-fi type materials (circuitry, panels, greebles, ship hulls).
Under the Tech header are examples.
(Right now i have to resort to Genetica to export patterns like that, but that bloats my substances, having it in SD would be awesome).
Im in the process of joining sketchfab to showcase my materials in an interactive way, and noticed that there are exporters for some applications that let you export directly to your 3d portfolio.
It might be cool to have that as an option in the future for Substance Designer. It would certainly get Allegorithmic even more exposure, as well as the artists themselves.
*Edit, it seems there is an exporter for painter already. Would be neat to have it as an option for SD as well.
After I reinstalled SD (latest version), my workspace keeps resetting every time I start it again after a crash. Is there a way to save the workspace?
Hi guys, I just updated since the message said it was a recommended update.
Thing is, when I start a new substance, or open en existing one, it immediately crashes. Perhaps this has something to do with the 3d view initializing?
Content - Substance Share - Cant edit submission.


The Dicionario Ilustrado project aims to create a strong connection between the word and its pictorial representation, making it easier to understand and memorize the words it presents. The vocabulary it covers is related to different themes from daily life, and is grouped into various categories, making it easy to use. This dictionary is aimed at a young or adult audience and is suitable for all levels of proficiency. It is an excellent supplement to other educational materials. Because of the sensitivity and timelessness of its illustrations, this project will contribute to perpetuating the Portuguese language the world over.


The Riders kicked off the 2014 preseason by knocking off the Redblacks in their inaugural game... much to the delight of the 7 people in the stands. The game had less Rider fans than most actual road games do. If nothing else this game proved that there are indeed limits to the fanatical nature of Rider fans.
The game itself was about as good as you could expect from a preseason game. There were some good things, there were some bad things, there were some people earning jobs and others who will be unemployed shortly. The best news is that there were no major injuries... like what unfortunately happened to Graig Newman. On that note: I think local junior players who elect to leave town are cursed of late. First Stu Foord, now Newman. Dan Clark better not be getting any ideas.
- I know it was only preseason and defense was liekly playing pretty base stuff but Durant looked dialed in just like at the end of last year.
- Nothing earth shattering from the receivers but for it being game 1 it was enough to give me hope. Swain gives me this vibe that he will not be the flashiest receiver but will be as reliable as they come. Also Ryan Smith looked good. I think we should just completely anoint him the new Dressler and have Coop come out with All Smithler and Un-Smithler chips. Riley still seems inconsistent but he reminds me of Taj Smith in 2012. He shows flashes and if he could ever put it all together he'd be a damn good player.
- No one jumped out for me at RB but Toston struck me as the best of the bunch... and not just because he steam-rollered that defender. Allen was probably second best. I get the sense our preference is for a bigger back this year with a speedier backup RB to change pace. I don't expect a lot of big runs this year but as long as we can find a guy to chew up yards when needed to move the chains and take the pressure off the pass game then we will be fine. I think the 2nd preseason game will decide the winner here.
- Holy return game Batman! Green made more guys miss then there were fans on the east side and Stoudemire looked good picking a lane and attacking it. I like Tristan Jackson but I think his job security may be in jeopardy with all these DB/returners.
- The way that Bartel was punting the only that concerns me there is having to endure Rod Black go on about him being australian. Side Note: I wonder if Bartel has ever played knifey-spooney before?
- The Rider Prophet endorsed Chad Kilgore didn't exactly light it up but I think he got better as the game went on and showed enough to stay in contention. That said Morty Ivy looked pretty good too so he's far from locked that job up.
- Macho was just feasting on the soon to be unemployed in the second half. Man I wish he wasn't made of dollar store material.
- I know Carlo Thomas is versatile and has done good things but he's another vet whose job security may be at risk.
- Dwight Anderson played better when he had charges pending.... I'm kidding. You could tell guys like Anderson and Maze where not quite giving 100% effort. They will be fine once things start to count.
- For a 3rd stringer, I like Seth Doege. It's just too bad his family refuses to pronounce the name like its spelled. I'm pretty sure its in the QB rule book that last names that don't sound like they are spelled are only acceptable if you've broken some all-time records... or texted pictured of your junk to a reporter.
- On that note did anyone else see the Winnipeg QB Robert Marve and go "See that's how you spell that pronunciation"
- I don't hate Henry Burris enough to wish injury on him but I kinda hope that he gets hurts and Ottawa is stuck wallowing with Thomas DeMarco lamenting the day the got rid of Kevin Glenn.
I will be interesting to see who our 10 cuts are... though it will likely be more like 5 cuts, 3 people placed on the 6 game IR (that's new this year) and 2 guys who are "cut" but sill be seen around practice for the next week or so.


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this week: surviving a meteor strike
July 7, 2016 December 15, 2016 / puckstruck
P.K. Subban was dining on liver in Paris, Adam Vingan of The Tennessean reports, when he got the word last Wednesday that the Montreal Canadiens had traded him to Nashville's Predators.
"Quoi?" tweeted Montreal's mayor, Denis Coderre, when he heard the news. The online shock was matched only by the outrage: "La twittosphère s'enflamme à propos de l'échange de P.K. Subban" was a Journal de Montreal headline from the following day.
"So that Subban trade really happened, eh?" wrote Gerald Butts, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Principal Secretary and a prominent Habs fan. "Call me old fashioned," groused another, actor and director Jay Baruchel, "but it's more fun to watch PK Subban play hockey than it is to watch Michel Therrien coach hockey. #fuckingHabs"
Also, in other news, the Toronto Maple Leafs convened a camp for their brightest prospects this week, in Niagara Falls. Mitch Marner was there, and William Nylander, along with, of course, Auston Matthews, drafted first overall in June's draft. Reported the Associated Press: Leafs skating coach Barb Underhill "quickly noticed a flaw in Matthews' stride: his left shoulder wasn't coming across enough."
Subban's personality was too big for Montreal, said The Toronto Star's Bruce Arthur.
Andrew Berkshire, a writer for Sportsnet who also commands editorial content for the analytics firm Sportlogiq: "The Montreal Canadiens have made possibly the worst trade in the history of their franchise, for no reason at all."
"Unbelievable," Subban told Adam Vingan, regarding his foie de Paris. About the trade, he said he felt closer to winning the Stanley Cup than he had to before. "I'm just happy to be in a situation where I can excel and feel good about myself coming to the rink every day."
"I don't want to take anything away from P.K.," Montreal GM Marc Bergevin said when he stepped up to face the media in Montreal. "He's made the way he is and he's a good person."
"This is the Roy debacle all over again," declared Brendan Kelly in The Montreal Gazette. "It's the worst move by the Habs since Réjean Houle dealt Patrick Roy to the Colorado Avalanche for a bag of pucks in 1995. It took the franchise years to recover from that horrible trade."
David Poile disagreed — but then he was the guy on the other end, Nashville's GM. "I'm a general manager," he said of Subban on the day, "but someday I'd like to be a fan, and he is a guy that I would pay money to see."
"We never had a problem with P.K.," was something else Marc Bergevin said. "You have 23 players on your roster and they're all different. They all bring different things. One of the most important things for me is punctuality. We never had a problem with P.K. with that."
At NHL.com, Adam Kimelman wrote about an 18-year-old draft prospect. His lede:
After surviving a meteor strike, moving to Canada became a bit easier for right wing Vitaly Abramov of Gatineau of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League.
Abramov led Gatineau and indeed all QMJHL rookies in goals, assists, and points (93) last season. Columbus ended up drafting him. Kimelman:
Abramov was at school in his hometown of Chelyabinsk, Russia on Feb. 15, 2013 when a meteor exploded over the city. The meteor was between 49 and 55 feet in size, with an estimated mass of 7,000 to 10,000 tons, according to CNN.
The estimated energy released by the meteor's explosion was 300-500 kilotons, or about 20 times the estimated amount released by the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan in 1945.
"I was in school and all the windows in my class crashed," Abramov said. "All windows in the city was gone. … It was like big panic because it was something none of us had ever seen. But after that it was fine when everyone said it was a meteorite and we're still alive.
"Normal school day and a meteor came down."
"I will not go into detail why we think we are a better team," Marc Bergevin told that press conference, "but we feel we are a better team."
In China, during an official visit by President of Russia Vladimir Putin, the Kontinental Hockey League announced that it would add a Beijing franchise to the league, HC Kunlun Red Star, for the 2016-17 season.
Other news from Montreal: the Canadiens acquired winger Andrew Shaw from the Chicago Black Hawks for a pair of draft picks. Known for his energy and a talent for annoyance, Shaw is also remembered for having been suspended in this year's playoffs for uttering an anti-gay slur. He talked to reporters on a conference call soon afterwards, including Mark Lazerus of The Chicago Sun-Times, who heard him say that Bergevin had been in on drafting him, Shaw, as an assistant GM in Chicago. "He likes the rat in me," Shaw said.
One new teammate Shaw mentioned was Brendan Gallagher.
"Me and Gallagher have had some fun battles," he said. "Now I'm excited to be on his side to annoy people together, I guess. It'll be a fun team to play with. I'm pretty excited about it. Can't wait for September."
The Calgary Flames, meantime, drafted 18-year-old Matthew Tkachuk, a.k.a. son of a Keith. "He's a pain in the ass," said Brian Burke, chief of Flames hockey operations. "We don't have enough guys who are pains in the ass… I like guys who are pains in the ass."
For his part, Tkachuk fils mentioned to a Calgary Herald reporter that he models his game on Corey Perry's. Wes Gilbertson:
And if he can, indeed, blossom into a Perry sort, he might not have to pay for a meal in Cowtown for his entire life.
After all, Perry is a guy who seems to routinely score 30-plus goals each season, never shies away from a collision and, thanks to his aggravating style, has probably been called four-letter words that most of us don't even know.
The Hockey Hall of Fame announced its 2016 class last week: Eric Lindros, Rogie Vachon, Pat Quinn, and Sergei Makarov. Here's Katie Baker, at The Ringer, on the erstwhile Number 88:
Lindros was named to the Hockey Hall of Fame, after six years of mostly silly rejection, and it's about damn time. Ever since he was a teenager, the center was an unceasing, and worthy, obsession of the hockey world. He was huge (6-foot-4, 240) and hugely skilled, capable of playing a style of hockey that seemed more of an abstract ideal than an actual bodily possibility. (Instead of using the 20/80 scale to evaluate prospects, hockey scouts ought to just rate them from 1 to Eric Lindros.) He was, for a time, hockey's avatar. In the biopic he'd be played by Channing Tatum, and you'd spoil the viewing experience for your kids because you'd keep pestering them: No, you don't understand, there was no one like him in his prime.
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New Study Challenges Planck Results
TOPICS:AstronomyAstrophysicsCosmologyHarvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
By Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics April 12, 2013
cosmic microwave background
A new view of the cosmic microwave background, as seen over the whole sky with the Planck satellite. Although analyses of this image indicate complete agreement with the simple model of a big bang inflation, a new paper suggests the agreement is so perfect that it is very unlikely the inflation model is actually the correct one. Credit: ESA/Planck
A new study from researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics challenges the inflation model, arguing that the new Planck results are actually too good.
The universe was created about fourteen billion years ago in a blaze of light known as the big bang. After about 380,000 years or so, once matter had cooled enough for neutral atoms (mostly hydrogen atoms) to form, light was able to travel through space relatively freely. We see that light today as the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR). The light is extremely uniform across the sky, but not perfectly so: Astronomers have discovered that the radiation actually has very faint ripples and bumps in it at a level of only about one part in ten thousand. These ripples reflect the architecture of the universe when the light was freed, and are the cosmic seeds for subsequent cosmic structures, like galaxies.
The CMBR was discovered by Penzias and Wilson in 1964. Those faint ripples were first spotted by the NASA's COBE satellite in 1991, and they have been studied in increasing detail during the past decade with NASA's WMAP satellite (as well as with millimeter ground-based telescopes). Last month, the European Space Agency announced the first results from its Planck satellite, launched in 2009 to study the CMBR with greater precision than ever before. They reported excellent agreement with current models, and updated some of the key values, for example finding that the age of the universe is 13.82 billion years. But the precisions of WMAP and especially Planck allow astronomers to think about more than just how galaxies developed after the matter cooled. They enable consideration of what happened in the invisible era, before the matter had cooled. The pivotal event of that epoch is thought to have occurred right at the start, within less than a fraction of the first second: inflation.
According to models of inflation proposed in the 1980's, based on concepts in elementary particle physics, the early universe underwent a dramatic and exponential growth spurt, swelling in size a trillion trillion trillion times. The power of this theory is that it explains many otherwise mysterious properties of the universe; for example, why distant regions located in opposite directions of space seem to be so very similar (and likewise, why do the CMBR ripples look everywhere so extremely similar to one another)? After all, the regions might be so far apart (both then and now) that they should have matured in completely independent ways? Inflation provides a solution by starting them all off rather close together and only then, somewhat later, pushing them quickly very far apart. The ideas of inflation have been constantly refined over the decades and numerous variations have been elaborated. The new Planck measurements seem to lend support.
Or maybe not. CfA astronomers Anna Ijjas, Paul Steinhardt, and Avi Loeb have just published a paper arguing that the new Planck results, far from lending credibility to ideas of inflation, actually undermine them. Indeed, they argue that they pose a challenge to cosmology overall. In an ironic and subtle twist, the scientists point out that the results of Planck are actually too good, because they confirm with high precision only the very simplest version of inflation. Yet, they argue, if one believes in the principles of inflation the simplest version is actually by far the most unlikely version. Hence the whole edifice of inflation becomes untenable. There are alternative ideas that have been proposed over the years to inflation. Perhaps the new Planck results and the criticisms in this new paper will prompt some provocative new reconsideration of modern cosmology.
PDF Copy of the Study: Inflationary paradigm in trouble after Planck2013
Image: ESA/Planck
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13 Comments on "New Study Challenges Planck Results"
Steve Moody | April 12, 2013 at 8:25 am | Reply
We know that the expansion of the Universe is accelerating. However, the above findings might be explained if the RATE of acceleration is now far less than it was in the past. If the acceleration immediately after the Big Bang was really fast but has slowed down over billions of years, that could be the explanation. Not that the Universe has ceased to accelerate, but that it's accelerating at a MUCH lower rate now than in the past.
Brian Wills | April 12, 2013 at 8:29 am | Reply
Trouble with all these theories, even though the math works very well for most, is that everything is made of light.. Light is infinitely divisible and so no beginning no end.. Sorry for that. Our creator will always know what we cannot comprehend..
Size time distance is only a matter of perspective and relative.
Robbie G | April 12, 2013 at 8:54 am | Reply
It has been very well demonstrated that light is quantized, ie, it comes in little packets called photons. Sorry for that.
Wardell Lindsay | April 12, 2013 at 10:20 am | Reply
It's not what we don't know, its what we know thats not so.
The Universe is not expanding. T.
The redshift is the gravitational refraction coefficient v/c = 1/n.
The redshift is related to the "Dark Energy". The "Dark Energy" is the omnipresent Momentum Energy cmV=cP.
The Universe is a Quaternion Cosmos,
W = -mGM/r + cmV = -vh/r + cP,
where P is the momentum vector and cP is the vector energy, the so-called Dark Energy.
The Force is the first derivative of the energy W:
F = XW = [d/dr, Del][-vh/r, cP]
F = [d(-vh/r)/dr -cDel.P, cdP/dr -Del vh/r + cDelxP]
F = [vp/r – cp/r cos(P), -cp/r 1P + v/p/r 1R + cp/r sin(P) 1RxP]
F = cp/r[v/c -cos(P), -1P + v/c 1R + sin(P) 1RxP]
At Continuity the scalar force is zero: v/c- cos(P) = 0 and v/c=cos(P)
At Boundary/Invariant the force is zero: v/c= cos(P) =1 or v=c and c2=GM/r.
The Universe is Bounded when v=c. My estimate of size r is 155E24 meters.
It is time for a recognition of Quaternion Physics and a Bounded Cosmos.
Fu-Rong Yeh | May 31, 2019 at 9:12 am | Reply
Maggnum | April 12, 2013 at 10:44 am | Reply
Could someone please illuminate what is less than a fraction of something? If it is less than a fraction, is that not just a smaller fraction?
Henry | April 12, 2013 at 5:03 pm | Reply
To me the problem with this theory and the Big Bang is it always but us/earth in the centre. It is made to look like we are the centre of the universe and all things move around us. This is to say if I was to look this way or that way the farthest I would see is 13.82 billion light years, then there is nothing. Is the universe in a bubble as to say, with an outer edge. If I was to travel 13.9 billion light years out towards the edge would I bounce off or would the edge move to let me travel, to look one way and see total blackness or a wall. How do we know from math the age of the universe? to when and how it all started is a question we will never really truly.
Laje | April 13, 2013 at 3:01 am | Reply
We are at the center of the observable universe. Beyond that, we can't see because the light is so far away it hasn't reached us.
We don't know for certain, but the age of the universe is estimated based on calculations of mathematical models.
Democritus | April 13, 2013 at 1:12 am | Reply
@henry you make a good point, gamma ray burst's are detected all the time in deep space, and even way past the 13.83 billion light years range, thus the universe must be larger than anticipated, many cosmologists are accepting that now, the universe may be older than it appears. As for reaching the edge of the universe, the universe has no edge, go in one direction and you will end up coming from the direction you just left, it is the same as Earth, keep going West and you will appear from the East going towards the West again. It is impossible to go in a straight line in the universe because of dark matter/Star's gravity. Space is curved in what we call an open universe, hence why our universe will expand forever (though i believe in the big crunch and not all the answers are complete). @Steve Moody there is a measurement called the Hubbles constant, this can be used to measure the rate of expansion of the universe by the distances other galaxys are red shifting, or moving away from us. But i agree that it is tricky to gauge a true reference point when we can only see a small portion of our universe. Through deduction of the CMBR the universe is made up of more dark energy and dark matter than there is of normal matter (hence the universes inflation(or expansion) but if Planck truly needs tweaking then this result is false and you may be right.
Tim | June 10, 2014 at 1:31 am | Reply
Is contemporary cosmological analysis driven more by the overarching requirement to establish a certain principle, than by the evidence itself?
If we need a certain age for the universe in order to support ideas relating to the evolution of life; and bearing in mind that this age, which was first given by the kabbalist rabbi Nechunya ben ha Kana in the first century AD, based not on satellite data ( !! ) but rather on an exhaustive analysis of the 42 letters of the Name of God, and resulting in an estimate of 15.36 billion years; then we will be inclined to hypothesize an initial inflation phase to achieve this aim; size of course being directly proportional to age.
Subsequent judaistic input into science is apparent in the writings of Rabbi Isaac Luria in the 16th century who adduced doctrines which word for word anticipate the Big Bang theory.
The Zohar of the jews in the 13th century laid out the way in which this apparently occurred; it involved the expansion of an initial speck of matter akin to a Cosmic Egg; the analysis additionally describes a 10-dimensional universe, and the concept of parallel universes.
The kabbalist Pythagoras first hypothesized a rotating orbiting earth in the 6th century BC; his ideas were subsequently restated by Aristarchus in the 3rd century BC, and eventually of course by Copernicus in 1543.
We begin, perhaps, to sense a certain carefully disguised religious underpinning to modern-day theoretical concepts.
I cannot see this from a quick read-through of the Planck data, but it seems that the most shocking part of what has been revealed is that there is a signal emanating from the furthest part of the universe which is pointing directly towards Earth.
A great deal with regard to an allegedly expanding universe seem to hinge on Hubble's Red Shift. Hubble himself, of course, questioned whether his observations indicated what various others assumed. It is certain however that many clearly-contiguous formations in the heavens have significantly different Red Shifts, which therefore can perhaps be better explained by suggesting that RS is generated by the passage of light through intense local EM fields, rather than by velocities or accelerations.
If this is the case, then the requirement for Dark Energy is removed. And if the universe is full of EM energy, as seems to be certain, then we can begin to dispense with those greatest chimaeras of all time, Dark Matter and Black Holes.
Torbjörn Larsson, OM | April 13, 2013 at 11:22 am | Reply
Why do I get the feeling that Steinhardt (which is an author of ekpyrotic and cyclic models of the universe) doesn't really like inflation? =D
Unless I missed something, he tried to have it both ways. The paper is arguing that the unlikely aspects of the universe such as the parameter values of the standard model of particles or the low cosmological constant shouldn't be taken as evidence for an anthropic selection on a natural eternal inflation multiverse while the likely aspects should be taken as evidence against.
One simple solution is a Susskind eternal universe that when we go backward we never run up against Planck scales. Then all the papers problems go away AFAIU (with a suitable Hubble parameter for the inflationary phase).
@Steve Moody: Changes in expansion rate doesn't solve the problems of the paper. But they are exactly what the inflationary standard cosmology predicts, a rapid inflationary phase followed by phases where radiation control, later matter and now lately dark energy. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_bang , last figure.]
So it is a part of the solution of the overall cosmology, as you perhaps surmised.
@Brian Wills: Creationists shouldn't comment on science, it is hilarious and makes deconverts from religion, see Dawkins's Convert's Corner.
Inflationary standard cosmology is, of course, explicit about many other particles (standard particle matter, dark matter). [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_bang ] It can't be any other way, matter exists.
@Wardell Lindsay: The Planck results makes "no expansion" a miniscule likelihood, see its data release papers. Conversely, any alternates must predict all that data, Tbytes of data! And you don't do that.
@Henry: No, inflationary standard cosmology is explicit that there is _no_ center, every volume expands as much, it isn't an explosion as you think. Also, due to the varying expansion rate, we can see ~ 46 billion light years out. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Size_of_the_universe#Size.2C_age.2C_contents.2C_structure.2C_and_laws ]
William | April 17, 2013 at 12:38 am | Reply
The way Inflation seems so perfect may be the whole,,,y,,,anticipated result
its good but something has made us doubt (( like the myth of the spirit ))
So when in doubt lets throw something into the pot,,,,hhuuummmm…lets say a ball that was covered with stuff that started to come loose and would float away from itself and then come back so itself began a movement of turning to
see these parts of stuff go and come back and since turning was fun, itself started to spin and itself spun one way and then another way, and it was so much fun itself thought let me give it a good run ,,,,,AND HENCE INFLATION
AND ITSELF IS STILL THERE IN THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE
SO INFLATION SHOWS MATTER AND ENERGY GOING STRAIGHT OUT AND KEEPS GOING…BUT
WHAT IF THE WHOLE UNIVERSE IS ROTATING IN ORBIT AROUND ITSELF WHOM IS IN THE
CENTER OF IT ALL.
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package com.wandrell.example.mule.wss.testing.util.test.integration.endpoint;

import javax.annotation.Resource;

import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
import org.custommonkey.xmlunit.XMLAssert;
import org.custommonkey.xmlunit.XMLUnit;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.mule.tck.junit4.FunctionalTestCase;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Value;
import org.springframework.core.io.ClassPathResource;
import org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner;

/**
 * Abstract integration tests for an endpoint flow testing that it handles
 * messages correctly.
 *

 * An endpoint expects a SOAP message, containing the query operation, for the
 * message. It returns the entity as a XML.
 *

 * Checks the following cases:
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A SOAP envelope is processed and a valid response returned.

 *

 *

 * Pay attention to the fact that it requires the WS to be running, and a Spring
 * context to populate the test data.
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 * @author Bernardo Martínez Garrido
 */
@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
public abstract class AbstractITEndpoint extends FunctionalTestCase {

    /**
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    @Value("${endpoint.flow}")
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    /**
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    @Resource(name = "configFiles")
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    /**
     * Path to the SOAP envelope for the request.
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    /**
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    public AbstractITEndpoint() {
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    /**
     * Tests that a SOAP envelope is processed and a valid response returned.
     *
     * @throws Exception
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     */
    @Test
    public final void testEndpoint_Envelope_ReturnsExpected() throws Exception {
        final String result;   // Response from the endpoint
        final String encoding; // Files encoding
        final String request;  // SOAP request
        final String response; // SOAP response

        // Loads the messages
        encoding = "UTF-8";
        request = IOUtils.toString(
                new ClassPathResource(requestEnvelopePath).getInputStream(),
                encoding);
        response = IOUtils.toString(
                new ClassPathResource(responseEnvelopePath).getInputStream(),
                encoding);

        // Sends the request to the flow
        result = runFlow(endpointFlow, request).getMessageAsString();

        // Verifies results
        XMLUnit.setIgnoreWhitespace(true);
        XMLAssert.assertXMLEqual(response, result);
    }

    @Override
    protected String getConfigResources() {
        return StringUtils.join(files, ", ");
    }

}

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