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macOS Catalina: The MacStories Review
Mail now includes handy unsubscribe links in the header of email messages.
Unsubscribe links are often buried in tiny print at the bottom of an email message, which requires scrolling and makes them hard to find. I love that Mail now surfaces the Unsubscribe link at the top of the message where it's easy to click. It's a small touch, but the kind of thing where the saved time and aggravation avoided adds up over time, especially if you dive into your mailbox to unsubscribe to a bunch of mailing lists at once.
One of my favorite features of the Sanebox web service is the ability to bar messages from certain senders from my inbox. Apple has added a similar feature to Mail that lets you block certain senders, sending their messages directly to the Trash. I expect to use this feature a lot for misdirected messages and mailing lists that don't honor my unsubscribe requests. Between VIPs whose messages can be viewed in a special Smart Folder and blocked senders, Mail now has both ends of the spectrum covered well.
Another excellent quality-of-life feature added to Mail with Catalina is the ability to mute message threads, so you no longer receive response notifications. Handy for group emails with lots of back and forth about which you don't want to be notified, the feature can be enabled by going to the Message menu and selecting Mute, using the keyboard shortcut ⌃⇧M, or clicking the mute button in Mail's toolbar. A bell icon with a line through it appears next to any muted threads in Mail.
Mail can now highlight conversations to make them stand out from other messages in your inbox.
Mail has added new view options too. Perhaps my favorite is the ability to highlight conversations in the message preview column. It's a quick way to visually identify messages where you've received a response and may need to follow up further. You can also show and hide additional information in the preview column like message size, contact photos, and more as well as display message previews at the bottom of the window instead of to the side. I prefer Mail's default settings, but it's nice to have more options for users to make Mail suit the way they work better.
Siri Suggestions in Safari pull link suggestions from apps, other devices, your search history, and other sources.
The changes to Safari in Catalina are relatively minor compared to iOS and iPadOS. Still, there are a handful of helpful new features. You'll notice the first as soon as you open a new tab. Beneath any Favorites you've saved and your frequently visited sites are Siri Suggestions, which are a collection of links gathered from multiple sources. I've seen links pulled from my Reading List, Bookmarks, tabs that are open on other devices, my search history, and the Messages app. I haven't used the Siri Suggestions a lot, but especially with the links pulled from my Reading List and Messages, they've served as a reminder of things I want to read, even if I don't end up reading them that moment on my Mac.
There are a few other conveniences as well. When a video is playing in Safari, you can click and hold on the audio icon in the page's tab, which will give you the option to enter Picture in Picture mode. I'm not sure entering PiP mode this way is any easier than using the icon next to the playback controls for a video, but it's nice to have another option.
As you type a URL or search into Safari's address bar, in addition to suggesting search engine terms and sites from your bookmarks and history, the app now suggests any matching tabs you have open on your Mac or other devices. Also, Safari does more to encourage good password habits by warning you if you pick a weak password.
Apple has closed the Safari Extension Gallery too. Extensions are still available, but only through the Mac App Store. Behind the scenes, this means that the creators of Safari extensions need to have an Apple developer account, use AppKit to build their extensions, and deal with the Mac App Store as a distribution channel. The practical effect is that there are likely to be far fewer extensions available for Safari than in the past. The lack of options going forward will be a shame. However, I'm not surprised Apple wants extensions to be subject to App Review. I stopped using all but a couple of trusted extensions long ago because of the security risk they can pose and the drag many are on Safari's performance.
Photos has seen a lot of change in recent years as Apple has seemingly struggled to find a better way of displaying large photo collections. This year, the company has redesigned the Photos tab of the app on the Mac and iOS, aided by machine learning, with impressive results. Not only does Photos look better than ever, but it's easier than ever to move between the iOS and Mac versions of the app.
The lion's share of the Catalina changes to Photos are found in its redesigned Photos tab. Photos shares the general window design that has become popular in Apple's media apps and other system apps with a lefthand sidebar and a content viewing area that dominates most of the rest of the window. In Catalina, Photos' sidebar is exactly the same as it was in Mojave. What has changed is the way photos are presented in the Photos tab.
The Photos tab is at the top of the Library section of the sidebar. It's the tab that opens by default when you first launch the app, and for good reason; it's the main view into all of your photos. At the same time, the Photos tab has been the one that Apple has struggled to find an effective way to present, especially for users with large photo collections.
This year though, Apple has nailed it. The difference is striking from the first moment you open Photos. In Mojave, the Photos tab opened into what was effectively an 'all photos' view that included every image whether it was a duplicate, strikingly similar, or a screenshot, for example. Great shots that you'd like to revisit and share were easily lost among the junk. Be warned though, the first time you launch Photos, the process of analyzing your photos to generate the app's beautiful layouts takes time. I've got a library of 45,000 photos, and it took days to analyze my library the first time. I don't know if it was a beta bug or not, but after a couple of days, I stopped checking on the progress, and it finished.
Catalina brings machine learning to bear on your photo library to present you with only your best shots. The results aren't perfect, but they are far better than previous efforts. By way of example, check out the screenshots below that capture a small portion of my photo library from an August day I spent in Chicago. The screenshot of Photos from Mojave shows small versions of each photo in chronological order in the aspect ratios they were taken.
In contrast, Photos running on Catalina has created a much more compelling collage of my best photos, zooming in and framing the subjects of some of them using machine learning. Photos in Catalina has also reserved the most space for a short movie of an L train crossing the Chicago River, which auto-plays without sound, and hid three screenshots I took in the midst of scenes of the city.
The Photos tab in Mojave (left) and Catalina (right).
The view in the Catalina screenshot above is from the Days section of the Photos tab. Images can be browsed by Months and Years sections too. To provide a sense of place, moving from one section to another animates to the same spot in the newly-opened section.
For example, if I'm viewing Thanksgiving Day 2017 and click the Months section along the top of Photos' window, I'll be taken to a view of November 2017. Clicking the Years section takes me to 2017. Clicking back into Months or Days brings me right back to the same place I was previously viewing. Also, no matter how far back you are in your photo library, you can always click on the button for the section you're viewing to be taken to the current date.
The Years section is a simple grid of square thumbnails with one photo representing the entire collection for that year. The thumbnail chosen feels randomly selected, but because it's so hard to capture an entire year in one photo, it's hard to be sure. Unfortunately, there's no way that I can tell to switch the cover photo for a year.
Months view.
Months are displayed as rectangular collages of several photos per month that do a much better job of providing a sense for what happened in that time frame than Mojave did. The collages aren't as big as they are in the Days section, but the layout, along with location information, serves as an excellent way to browse within a particular year.
The biggest collages of photos are reserved for the Days section, which shows off a collection of square and rectangular still images and movies by day. Movies and Live Photos play without sound as they scroll into view. The Days section also intelligently groups collections of photos by events like birthdays, holidays, and locations.
Machine learning also aids in framing each image spotlighted in a collection, centering the primary subject of the image and hiding what it concludes are duplicates or screenshots. As you scroll through a date that has more than one screenful of photos, the date and location scroll along at the top of the window to help maintain your sense of place.
The fourth section in the Photos tab is All Photos, which is very close in design to the Photos tab in Mojave. I don't expect to spend a lot of time in this section of Photos going forward, but it's good to have when I'm looking for something that isn't highlighted elsewhere.
The All Photos tab of Photos hasn't changed much, displaying thumbnails of every image in their original aspect ratios.
The Months and Days views have an ellipsis button in the top-right corner of each collage of photos. Clicking it gives you options to Play Movie and/or Show Map depending on what information is available for that collection of photos. Play Movie starts an automatically-generated Memory Movie of the day, while Show Map switches to a map view of where that day's photos were taken.
Memory Movies are a new addition to the Mac, which were previously only available on iOS. The feature generates a slideshow of images and movies from an event with background music. When a movie is playing, you can adjust its length and background music from the gear icon next to the playback controls. In the Days view where the images for a particular day can extend beyond the available view of a window, the ellipsis button scrolls along the top of the view with the date and location information.
The ellipsis buttons in Photos are an interesting addition that I don't think everyone will like. They're a design element borrowed from iOS to reveal a menu of multiple options not unlike macOS' right-click context menu. The button has the advantage of being more discoverable than a right-click or option-click, but it is only implemented in some system apps and not always consistently.
A Photos ellipsis button tucked neatly underneath the one true pizza.
I'm not surprised by the occasional design inconsistencies between apps that have adopted Catalina's new design language. Other system apps don't adopt the ellipsis button at all because they weren't updated this year. There's a design shift occurring that's going to take time to permeate macOS completely and consistently. That said, I like the addition of the ellipsis button to Photos because it's more discoverable than right-clicking and familiar to iPadOS and iOS users.
I also expect that the ellipsis button won't be the last UI element that migrates to the Mac. SwiftUI promises to streamline UI development across all of Apple's hardware and one way to deliver on that goal is to unify UI elements where it makes sense. For example, I can imagine a scenario where the ellipsis button ends up dedicated to actions available across iOS, iPadOS, and the Mac, while the Mac retains right-click menus for Mac-specific actions and things like system Services.
Although the iOS and Mac versions of Photos are similar, iOS got new video editing tools that I wish were available in Catalina too. On iOS, you can make the same sort of edits to videos that you can to photos such as cropping and rotating, adding filters, and adjusting variables like exposure, brightness, and contrast. Currently, only clip trimming is available on both platforms. Still, Photos for the Mac outshines its iOS counterpart in some ways, including by having tools to retouch photos and adjust color curves, which iOS cannot do.
Unlike iOS, video editing on the Mac is limited to trimming in Photos.
I have 45,000 images and movies in my Photos library, and it's always felt like a chore to navigate it. The UI in Mojave worked, but it didn't lend itself to browsing and discovery of the best photos in my library. Catalina changes that. Probably the hardest part of writing this section of the review was stumbling across past events in Photos as I tested its features and getting lost in browsing them.
So many apps are essentially front ends for databases. The trouble is that once a database reaches a certain size, column views and sorting aren't enough. No two apps demonstrate this better than Photos and Music. By stripping away the ordinary, duplicates, and junk in Photos and surfacing related and favorite music in Music, Apple has moved away from a Finder-like list of files to something that is smarter and tailored to your tastes.
This is a big shift for Apple and one that won't be easily accepted in some quarters. Sure, you can still access a long list of every song in your Music library and a grid of every photo you've ever saved, whether it's an accidental screenshot or a family portrait, but those views have been rightly deemphasized.
For something like photos, it's the difference between re-experiencing special moments of your life and managing files. As much as I'd like to edit and curate every photo I've ever taken carefully, I simply don't have the time to do that. With the update to Photos, I no longer feel bad about that. Instead, I can simply enjoy my photos more easily than ever before.
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Ringo Starr And His All Star Band
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Ringo Starr and His All Starr Band are coming to Hard Rock Live on Saturday, June 27, at 8 p.m. Starr announced details for a North American tour with his current All Starr Band featuring Steve Lukather, Colin Hay, Gregg Rolie, Warren Ham, Gregg Bissonette and Hamish Stuart. This announcement comes on the heels of the release of Starr's 20th studio record, "What's My Name."
Gabriel Iglesias: Beyond the Fluffy World Tour
Iglesias is one of a handful of comedians with the distinct honor to headline and sell out the Staples Center, Madison Square Garden and the Sydney Opera House. In addition to being one of America's most successful stand-up comedians, Iglesias is also one of the most watched comedians on YouTube with more than 410 million views and more than 14 million fans across social media.
Bert Kreischer - The Berty Boy World Tour
Bert Kreischer's "The Berty Boy World Tour" is coming to Hard Rock Live on Saturday, May 2, at 8 p.m. Kreischer is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer and host who performs to sold-out crowds across the country. His standup specials "Secret Time" and "The Machine" are currently streaming globally on Netflix.
The Who: Moving On!
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Legendary rock band The Who continues their "Moving On!" tour on Tuesday, April 21 at 8 p.m at Hard Rock Live. The acclaimed "Moving On!" tour pairs singer Roger Daltrey and guitarist/songwriter Pete Townshend with local symphony orchestras across North America and was hailed by critics as a once-in-a-lifetime rock experience.
Comedian, actor, writer, producer and musician Adam Sandler comes to Hard Rock Live on Friday, March 13, at 8 p.m. Sandler's films have grossed more than $3 billion worldwide and include box office hits such as "Grown Ups," "Big Daddy," "The Longest Yard" and "The Waterboy."
Singer, songwriter, performer and producer Carlile is currently in the midst of a landmark year following the release of her Grammy Award-winning album, "By The Way, I Forgive You." Produced by Dave Cobb and Shooter Jennings and recorded at Nashville's historic RCA Studio A, the album includes 10 new songs written by Carlile and longtime collaborators and bandmates Tim and Phil Hanseroth, including "The Joke."
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Games: Blackjack, Casino War, Let It Ride, Mini Baccarat, Pai Gow Poker, Poker, Spanish 21, Texas Hold'em Bonus, Three Card Poker
Blackjack is a comparing card game between a player and dealer, meaning players compete against the dealer but not against other players. It is played with one or more decks of 52 cards. The objective of the game is to beat the dealer in one of the following ways: Get 21 points on the player's first two cards (called a "blackjack" or "natural"), without a dealer blackjack; Reach a final score higher than the dealer without exceeding 21; or Let the dealer draw additional cards until his or her hand exceeds 21. Wikipedia
The game is normally played with six standard 52 card decks. The cards are ranked in the same way that cards in poker games are ranked, with aces being the highest cards. One card each is dealt to a dealer and to a player. If the player's card is higher, he or she wins the wager they bet. However, if the dealer's card is higher, the player loses their bet. Wikipedia
Let It Ride is a casino table game based on poker, where the player wagers on a five-card poker hand formed by their own three cards and two community cards. Let It Ride is a variation of five-card stud, based on three player cards and two community cards. The two community cards are initially dealt face down. The most distinguishing feature of Let It Ride is that the player is given two opportunities to withdraw exactly one-third of their initial wager. One chance occurs after the player looks at their hand but before the first community card is revealed, and the second occurs after the first community card is revealed, but before the second is revealed. The player may reduce their wager on either of these occasions, or on both, or neither. If the player decides not to withdraw part of their wager, they are said to "let it ride." Wikipedia
Mini Baccarat
Mini-Baccarat is a smaller, lower-stakes version of Punto banco Baccarat. Mini-Baccarat is different in that it is generally lower limits than baccarat. It is also different in that the player does not get to pick up the cards, and the fact that the table is smaller in size. Like Baccarat, Mini-Baccarat is a comparing card game played between two hands, the "player" and the "banker". Each baccarat coup has three possible outcomes: "player" (player has the higher score), "banker" (banker has the high score), and "tie". It is strictly a game of chance, with no skill or strategy involved; each player's moves are forced by the cards the player is dealt. Wikipedia
Pai gow poker (also called double-hand poker) is an Americanized version of pai gow (in that it is played with playing cards bearing poker hand values, instead of pai gow's Chinese dominoes). The game is played with a standard 52-card deck, plus a single joker. It is played on a table set for six players, plus the dealer. Each player attempts to defeat the banker (who may be the casino dealer, one of the other players at the table, or a player acting in tandem with the dealer as co-bankers). The object of pai gow poker is for a player to create two poker hands out of the seven-card hand he/she is dealt (a five-card hand and a two-card poker hand) that beats both the dealer's corresponding hands. The five-card hand's rank must exceed that of the two-card hand, and it is for this reason that the two-card hand is often called the hand "in front" or "on top" or "hair", or the "small" or "minor" or "low" hand. The five-card hand is called the hand "behind", or the "bottom" or "high" or "big" (as they are placed that way in front of the player, when the player is done setting them). Wikipedia
Hotel Overview:
The Seminole Hard Rock AAA Four Diamond-rated, Green Lodging Certified hotel is characterized by authentic memorabilia that surrounds stay, play, and dine resort amenities. Their 469 rock star suites are outfitted with signature furnishings and our Sleep Like a Rock® bedding that is designed for guests to relax and recharge like rock royalty. The resort is centrally located 15 minutes from Fort Lauderdale's beaches and 30 minutes from Miami. Details
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Hotel has hair and salon services available for guests.
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Guests receive complimentary coffee and/or tea in their rooms.
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Discounts of up to 25% for hotel rooms to all Military personnel year round.
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Receive up to 20% off when you reserve 14 days in advance.
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Rock Star Stay-Cation! Florida and Georgia Residents save up to 20%!
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You don't want to go home. We don't want you to, either. Stay 4 or more nights and get the 4th night FREE.
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Enjoy modern, chic accommodations and service fit for a rock star like yourself, plus a $30 Breakfast credit at Blue Plate Restaurant.
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DJ Kay Sley has reportedly been hospitalized with COVID and is fighting for his life on a ventilator.
DJ Kay Slay was reportedly hospitalized COVID.
According to the Wack 100 music manager, the New York DJ and record performer is currently fighting for his life on the fan.
"Pray for my brotham @djkayslay," he wrote in an Instagram post. "It's not good," he said. He may be angry with me for those who know Slay, but he needs all the help he can get … He has been battling COVID for 14 days and he is just lying on the ventilator. Please keep it in your prayers. "
LL Cool J He also offered his support in a separate post: "Send power @djkayslay. I love you brother. "
This was said by hip-hop promoter / producer Van Silk HipHopDX that he had been concerned about Kay Slay's health for some time and that the artist's real name, Kate Grayson, had not been vaccinated.
"To my brother Kay Slay: I've known you since you were 15," he wrote in the text.
"We did a lot of work together – I helped you Direct Stuntin as the magazine's first editor, how many DJs we put on during the mixtape era and are currently working on the Rolling Deep 200 project. Brother, I love you and you need to be healed. You know, I was behind you about the vaccine.
During his career, Kay Slay has released numerous albums, including 2003's The Streetsweeper, Vol. 1, 2004's The Streetsweeper, Vol. 2, 2006's Champions: North and South, and 2010's DJJ. more ".
The incidence of his disease with the Omicron variant continues to rise in the U.S. and around the world.
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Q: How to install livewire-devtools under Chrome? In the console of my Livewire/livewire 2 / laravel 7  app I got error :
login?email=admin%40mail.com&password=111111:60 Uncaught TypeError: window.livewire.devTools is not a function
    at login?email=admin%40mail.com&password=111111:60
(anonymous) @ login?email=admin%40mail.com&password=111111:60
livewire-turbolinks.js:31 Uncaught TypeError: Livewire.hook is not a function

I found this https://reposhub.com/javascript/misc/beyondcode-livewire-devtools.html page and tried to follow it
I uploaded and unpacked chrome.zip, which contains
serge@AtHome:~/chrome$ ls -la
total 48
drwxrwxr-x  5 serge serge 4096 Nov 24 18:23 .
drwxr-xr-x 40 serge serge 4096 Nov 24 18:22 ..
drwxrwxr-x  2 serge serge 4096 Aug 30 23:47 build
-rw-r--r--  1 serge serge   78 Aug 30 23:36 devtools-background.html
-rw-r--r--  1 serge serge  383 Aug 30 22:09 devtools.html
-rw-r--r--  1 serge serge 6148 Sep  1 10:28 .DS_Store
drwxrwxr-x  2 serge serge 4096 Sep  1 15:08 icons
-rw-r--r--  1 serge serge 1175 Sep  3 23:34 manifest.json
-rw-rw-r--  1 serge serge   27 Nov 24 18:23 package-lock.json
drwxrwxr-x  2 serge serge 4096 Aug 30 23:36 popups
-rw-r--r--  1 serge serge  162 Sep  1 18:10 .web-extension-id

But trying to install it I got errors:
serge@AtHome:~/chrome$ npm install
npm WARN saveError ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/home/serge/chrome/package.json'
npm notice created a lockfile as package-lock.json. You should commit this file.
npm WARN enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/home/serge/chrome/package.json'
npm WARN chrome No description
npm WARN chrome No repository field.
npm WARN chrome No README data
npm WARN chrome No license field.

up to date in 0.523s
found 0 vulnerabilities

serge@AtHome:~/chrome$ npm run build
npm ERR! code ENOENT
npm ERR! syscall open
npm ERR! path /home/serge/chrome/package.json
npm ERR! errno -2
npm ERR! enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/home/serge/chrome/package.json'
npm ERR! enoent This is related to npm not being able to find a file.
npm ERR! enoent

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/serge/.npm/_logs/2020-11-24T16_23_38_605Z-debug.log

I do not see file package.json, but have file package-lock.json, which contains :
{
  "lockfileVersion": 1
}

What have I to do to install it under my Google Chrome Version 85.0.4183.121 (Official Build) (64-bit) ?
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I loaded and installed package from https://github.com/beyondcode/livewire-devtools
and selected in under chrome://extensions/
but I see erros buttons red: https://prnt.sc/vqgk51
and clicking on it I see error:
Error in event handler: ReferenceError: suffix is not defined
Context
_generated_background_page.html
Stack Trace
build/background.js:1 (anonymous function)

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I reopened Chrome and reloaded Kubutu.
What can be the issue and how to fix it ?
MODIFIED:
Looking at branch https://github.com/beyondcode/livewire-devtools/issues/6
I found some hints how it can be fixed:

*

*In file package.json I added

"devDependencies": {
"eslint": "^7.9.0"
},
eslint line and run
npm install
npm run watch-poll

with success

*In my project I found 3 files :
/vendor/livewire/livewire/dist/manifest.json
/public/mix-manifest.json
/public/vendor/livewire/manifest.json
but all these 3 files are autogenerated I do not know which file have I to edit as I read :
{
  ...
  "permissions": [
    "http://*/*",
    "https://*/*",
+   "contextMenus"
  ],
  ...
}
contextMenus is missed in manifest.json

?
Thanks!

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Meryl Streep Biography
Place of Birth: Summit, New Jersey USA
Wiki Biography: Considered by many movie reviewers to be the greatest living film actress, Meryl Streep has been nominated for the Academy Award an astonishing 17 times, and has won it three times. Born Mary Louise Streep in 1949 in Summit, New Jersey, Meryl's early performing ambitions leaned toward the opera. She became interested in acting while a student at Vassar and upon graduation she enrolled in the Yale School of Drama. She gave an outstanding performance in her first film role, Julia (1977), and the next year she was nominated for her first Oscar for her role in The Deer Hunter (1978). She went on to win the Academy Award for her performances in Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) and Sophie's Choice (1982), in which she gave a heart-wrenching portrayal of an inmate mother in a Nazi death camp. A perfectionist in her craft and meticulous and painstaking in her preparation for her roles, Meryl turned out a string of highly acclaimed performances over the next 10 years in great films like Silkwood (1983); Out of Africa (1985); Ironweed (1987); and A Cry in the Dark (1988). Her career declined slightly in the early 1990s as a result of her inability to find suitable parts, but she shot back to the top in 1995 with her performance as Clint Eastwood's married lover in The Bridges of Madison County (1995) and as the prodigal daughter in Marvin's Room (1996). In 1998 she made her first venture into the area of producing, and was the executive producer for the moving ...First Do No Harm (1997) (TV). A realist when she talks about her future years in film, she remarked that "...no matter what happens, my work will stand..."
Meryl StreepPhotos & Pictures
TV Title
Appeared As
Julia 1977 Drama
Angels in America Ethel Rosenberg 2003 - Drama
Faces of America With Henry Louis Gates Jr 2010 History
The 82nd Annual Academy Awards 2010
Marvin, Marvin Lee 2012
Movies Title
Uncommon Women and Others 1978
The Deer Hunter Linda 1978 0
Holocaust 1978 Drama, History, Romance
Kramer vs. Kramer Joanna Kramer 1979
Manhattan Jill 1979
The Seduction of Joe Tynan 1979 Drama
Still of the Night Brooke Reynolds 1982 Crime, Drama, Mystery
Silkwood Karen Silkwood 1983 Drama, Thriller
Falling in Love Molly Gilmore 1984
Plenty 1985 Drama
Out of Africa 1985 Adventure, Drama
Heartburn Rachel Samstat 1986 Comedy, Drama
Ironweed 1987
A Cry in the Dark Lindy Chamberlain 1988 Drama
She-Devil Mary Fisher 1989
Postcards from the Edge Suzanne Vale 1990 0
Death Becomes Her Madeline Ashton 1992 Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
The House of the Spirits Clara del Valle Trueba 1994 Drama, Romance
The River Wild Gail Hartman 1994 Action, Adventure, Crime
The Living Sea 1995
The Bridges of Madison County Francesca Johnson 1995 Drama, Romance
Marvin's Room Lee 1996
Before and After 1996 Drama, Thriller
One True Thing Kate Gulden 1998 Drama
Dancing at Lughnasa 1998 Drama
Ginevra's Story: Solving the Mysteries of Leonardo da Vinci's First Known Portrait Narrator 1999 Biography
Music of the Heart Roberta Guaspari 1999 0
Adaptation Susan Orlean 2003 Comedy, Crime, Drama
The Hours Clarissa Vaughan 2003 Drama
Angels in America Ethel Rosenberg 2003 Drama, Fantasy
Prime Lisa Metzger 2005 Biography, 0
Hurricane on the Bayou 2006
The Devil Wears Prada Miranda Priestly 2006
A Prairie Home Companion Yolanda Johnson 2006 Comedy, Drama, Music
The Ant Bully Queen 2006 Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Rendition Corrine Whitman 2007 0
Lions for Lambs Janine Roth 2007 0, 0, 0, Game Show
Theater of War 2008
The Fantastic Mr. Fox Mrs. Fox 2008
It's Complicated Jane 2008
Mamma Mia! Donna 2008 Biography, 0
Doubt Sister Aloysius Beauvier 2008 Game Show
Julia 2008 0
Dark Matter Joanna Silver 2008 Drama
Fantastic Mr. Fox Mrs. Fox 2009 0, Drama, 0
Julie & Julia Julia Child 2009 0
The Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher 2012 Drama
Hope Springs Kay 2012 Comedy, Drama, Romance
August: Osage County Violet Weston 2013 0, 0
The Homesman Altha Carter 2014 Drama
The Giver Chief Elder 2014 Drama, Fantasy
Into the Woods The Witch 2014 Fantasy, Musical
Suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst 2015 Drama
Florence Foster Jenkins Florence Foster Jenkins 2016 0


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using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class RockPaperSatoriOpponent : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField]
    private RockPaperSatoriController.Move move;
    [SerializeField]
    private Animator rigAnimator;
    [SerializeField]
    private GameObject thoughtBubble;

    [SerializeField]
    private SpriteRenderer handRenderer;
    [SerializeField]
    private SpriteRenderer thoughtRenderer;
    [SerializeField]
    private Sprite[] moveThoughts;
    [SerializeField]
    private AudioClip shuffleClip;

    [Header("Character sprites")]
    [SerializeField]
    private Sprite[] moveHands;
    [SerializeField]
    private Sprite[] fakeThoughts;

    [Header("Timing fields")]
    [SerializeField]
    private Vector2 fakeShuffleAmountRange;
    [SerializeField]
    private float fakeShuffleDuration;
    [Header("Set to high number to stay on first real hand image")]
    [SerializeField]
    private float realShuffleDuration;

	void Start ()
    {
        move = (RockPaperSatoriController.Move)Random.Range(0, 3);
	}

    public void startGame()
    {
        //TODO make thought bubble appear?
        rigAnimator.enabled = true;
        invokeShuffleRound();
    }

    public void throwHand(RockPaperSatoriPlayer.State playerState)
    {
        thoughtBubble.SetActive(false);
        rigAnimator.SetInteger("State", (int)playerState);
        handRenderer.sprite = moveHands[(int)move];
        thoughtRenderer.sprite = null;
        CancelInvoke();
    }

	void invokeShuffleRound()
    {
        thoughtBubble.SetActive(true);

        //Fake shufles
        int fakeShuffleAmount = Random.Range((int)fakeShuffleAmountRange.x, (int)fakeShuffleAmountRange.y + 1);
        for (int i = 0; i < fakeShuffleAmount; i++)
        {
            Invoke("fakeShuffle", (float)i * fakeShuffleDuration);
        }

        //Real shuffle
        Invoke("realShuffle", (float)fakeShuffleAmount * fakeShuffleDuration);

        //Recusively invoke after real shuffle
        //Invoke("invokeShuffleRound", ((float)fakeShuffleAmount * fakeShuffleDuration) + realShuffleDuration);

    }

    void fakeShuffle()
    {
        //Shuffle until we get a different sprite
        var currentSprite = thoughtRenderer.sprite;
        do
        {
            thoughtRenderer.sprite = fakeThoughts[Random.Range(0, fakeThoughts.Length)];
        }
        while (thoughtRenderer.sprite == currentSprite || fakeThoughts.Length < 2);
        playShuffleSound();
    }

    void realShuffle()
    {
        thoughtRenderer.sprite = moveThoughts[(int)move];
        playShuffleSound();
    }

    void playShuffleSound()
    {
        MicrogameController.instance.playSFX(shuffleClip);
    }

    public RockPaperSatoriController.Move getMove()
    {
        return move;
    }
}

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BWorld 369, Copyright and trademark in the ASEAN
* My column in BusinessWorld on September 17, 2019.
"A power 'to promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing, for a limited time, to authors and inventors, the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.'… The right to useful inventions seems with equal reason to belong to the inventors. The public good fully coincides in both cases with the claims of individuals."
— James Madison,
The Federalist Papers, No. 43, 1788.
This argument by Madison would be among the basis for the enactment of the USA' first copyright law in 1790. The US patent law was also enacted that year while its trademark law was made in 1881, revised and expanded in 1905.
The Philippines' law on these are contained in the Intellectual Property Code of the Philippines (RA 8293, 1997). A report in BusinessWorld, "Intellectual property applications climb 11% in first half" said:
"'Society is now appreciating the IP (intellectual property) system more than ever,' IPOPHL (Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines) Director-General Josephine R. Santiago said. Trademark filings rose by 11% year-on-year to 18,964 in the first half… Patent filings grew 4% to 1,991… Utility model filings grew 31% to 1,173… Industrial model filings rose 14% to 824… Copyright filings rose 53% to 990."
These are good numbers. I checked the World Bank's World Development Indicators (WDI) database, data on trademark application. Then, I also checked the World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Competitiveness Index (GCI) 2018 report — Pillar No. 12 is Innovation capability, and among the sub-pillars are patent applications and trademark applications per million population.
So for the numbers in the table, trademark applications are in absolute amounts, both country residents and non-residents, while the index for patent and trademark applications refers to per capita applications. China and India lead in absolute amount while Singapore and the Philippines are the laggards as of 2017. But in patent applications ranking, Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea were the world's top three (See Table).
The good news for the Philippines then is that we are fast catching up on the use of intellectual property rights (IPR). Trademark applications have doubled from 2007 to 2017, and for copyright, IPO's first half data for 2019 show a huge increase of more than 50%.
Recall also that the fastest-growing sub-sector in the Philippine economy over the past 5-1/2 years, 2014 to H1 2019, is intellectual property products, under Capital Formation (or private investments). It was growing at 28% per year, capital formation growing at 14%, and GDP at 6.3%.
Fast growth in IPR use also means fast growth in IPR infringement. This was tackled in the last panel of the BusinessWorld Industry Summit 4.0 last week, Sept. 9, at Shangri-La at The Fort at BGC. The last panel was about "Content and piracy" with speakers from the Coalition Against Piracy, the Optical Media Board, Globe Telecoms, and a film director.
So the role of the state in protecting private property, both physical and intellectual property, is reasserted by the current situation. And on this, two IPR-related events will be co-sponsored by our think tank, Minimal Government Thinkers (MGT).
The first is the launching of a new report, "The importance of IPR for progress: reform agenda for ASEAN countries," in partnership with Geneva Network (UK), on the afternoon of Sept. 24 at the Holiday Inn Makati. Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Secretary Ramon Lopez will give the keynote speech and, since the DTI is the mother agency of the Intellectual Property Office, he has a good overview of the sector in relation to the overall trade and investment environment.
The second is the global launch of the International Property Rights Index (IPRI) 2019 by the Property Rights Alliance (PRA, Washington DC) on Oct. 16 at Fairmont Hotel Makati. MGT and the Foundation for Economic Freedom (FEF) will be the local partners in launching this big event. The author of the report, Dr. Sary Levy-Carciente, and PRA Executive Director Lorenzo Montanari will come to Manila to present the report. Both events are by invitation only, but we will consider some interested individuals working on the sector who are not in our list. Send me an e-mail.
Private property is the cornerstone of economic freedom and free enterprise. Both physical property and intellectual property. Investors come if they are assured that their offices, investments, corporate brands/trademarks, patented and copyrighted inventions are respected and protected by the government against pirates and IPR thieves.
BWorld 366, 'Social cost' of carbon and trash to jetfuel, September 20, 2019
BWorld 367, FIRe, innovation and stealing of innovation, September 21, 2019
BWorld 368, More politics will worsen the Philippines' power deficiency, September 22, 2019
Report on IPR in the ASEAN
Last Tuesday, we launched this report, "The importance of Intellectual Property Rights for progress: reform agenda for ASEAN countries" at Holiday Inn Makati. https://geneva-network.com/article/intellectual-property-asean/. The recommendations are shown further below.
This is the program.
BWorld 368, More politics will worsen the Philippines' power deficiency
It is pathetic that people often politicize many things, whether food or medicines or electricity. Like creating a new energy company by legislation instead of the normal ERC-SEC process, or getting the Supreme Court to stop implementation of certain provisions of the EPIRA law of 2001 (RA 9136) such as the retail competition and open access (RCOA).
The Philippines, till today, is among the countries with the lowest electricity generation in Asia, both in absolute amount and per capita. I derived the per capita electricity production below from two data sources: generation from BP Statistical Review of World Energy (June 2019), and population from IMF World Economic Outlook database (April 2019). (see table 1)
We need to stop further politicizing the power sector because low power capacity automatically means that electricity prices will remain high as demand continues to rise. We should encourage more generation companies (gencos) to build more power plants and compete with each other in supplying (1) electric cooperatives, (2) private distribution utilities (DUs), (3) retail electricity suppliers (RES), and (4) the Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM). More market competition will lead to lower prices while more political intervention will lead to higher prices as gencos, DUs and RES have to factor in the cost of politics and more regulations and restrictions.
Recently, leftist Bayan Muna led by ex-Cong. Colmenares and Cong. Zarate went to the Supreme Court (SC) to stop the implementation of another provision of EPIRA law, the competitive selection process (CSP) on certain DUs. The target, as usual, is the biggest DU in the country, Meralco — demonized for entertaining a sister genco company. Earlier, there were attempts to stop — also via politics — this big DU from getting supply contracts from new big coal plants (to help "save the planet," the protesting party-list said).
Is it possible that big non-coal plants and companies — say, big gas plants — are desperately trying to stop these coal contracts to force Meralco into buying their power after these new coal plants have been demonized and isolated? If so, it's a lousy and ugly business model; and lefties are playing along.
Below I try to derive why there were many yellow and red alerts from March to July this year, and how much estimated available power there was during those five months.
First, I computed the implied capacity factor (ICF, measured as: ICF = (Generation)/(installed capacity x 24 hours x 365 days). For oil plants that are used mainly for peak load, I assumed an ICF of 70%, running for only around 6 hours/day for 200 days. From the ICF, the implied available capacity (IAC) can be derived (see table 2).
Then I made projections from 2019 to 2023. Peak demand from 2015 to 2018 rose by 5.7% a year on average, so for 2019 to 2023, I projected a 5% annual increase due to the recent GDP growth deceleration. From there, I computed the projected reserves (see table 3).
We should have reserves of at least 20%, not 2% or even -7%. Of course, there are power plants from the Visayas grid to augment Luzon, but Visayas provinces are also growing fast on their own.
Lefties like Bayan Muna have bad analysis and lousy mathematics in assuming that things in the power sector will be okay in the coming years. More politics, more Congressional harassment, and SC's TRO will not protect the public from blackouts and high electricity prices.
They should not announce their intellectual mediocrity and do more realistic power projections. Neither should they drag the country toward darkness, as dark as their leftist philosophical advocacies.
BWorld 365, FIRe, Innovation and rising income, September 5, 2019
Expensive bureaucracy and WHO vs cheaper medicines
A new report was released this week that should help remind the UN and country leaders, WHO and health Ministers or Secretaries, and many other officials flying to NYC for a UN High Level Meeting (UNHLM) next week on health, climate, many other issues -- that they themselves are part of the problem on expensive medicines and healthcare. Minimal Government Thinkers (MGT) is one of the many co-signatories of this report.
See the report here,
https://geneva-network.com/article/improving-access-to-medicines/
How do governments become contributors to expensive medicines, less affordable and less efficient public healthcare?
Via many taxes, duties, tariffs, non-tariff barriers (NTBs) on imported medicines and medical devices; via long and bureaucratic approval of patents of newly-invented and revolutionary drugs, and so on.
Take this chart from the report, ad valorem duties or tariffs on imported medicines.
Then the long approval process of newly-invented, patented drugs. Thailand and Brazil are the emerging economies' topnotchers in such delays.
To help remedy these problems and issues, the report has recommended the following:
1. Reduce unnecessary medicine costs by:
* Reducing taxes,
* Abolishing tariffs,
* Eradicating other trade barriers.
2. Accelerate access to medicines by:
* Speeding up patent examination,
* Simplifying the drug approval process,
* Modernising government medicine reimbursement decision-making, and
* Promoting open trade in medicines.
I am happy to be part of this very useful and important report.
Thank you, Geneva Network for initiating this study.
BWorld 367, FIRe, innovation and stealing of innovation
* This is my column in BusinessWorld last September 10, 2019.
"All creation is a mine, and every man, a miner… In the beginning, the mine was unopened, and the miner stood naked, and knowledgeless, upon it… Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship. This improvement, he effects by Discoveries, and Inventions…"
— Abraham Lincoln,
"Lecture on Discoveries and Inventions" (1858)
The Protection of companies' intellectual property rights (IPR) is very important to encourage more innovation and discoveries, as observed by Abraham Lincoln. And among the big issues in the ongoing US-China trade war are those related to IPR — forced technology transfer, if not outright stealing of the intellectual properties (trademark, patent, copyright, trade secrets) of US and other Western companies by Chinese companies including their state-owned enterprises.
I found this data on product counterfeiting, which reflects the smuggling of pirated commodities, from the US Chamber of Commerce's Global Intellectual Property Center (GIPC) report, "Measuring the Magnitude of Global Counterfeiting" (2016). China plus Hong Kong corner the bulk of such IPR infringement. Note that the Chamber is a private organization, not a US government body and, hence, more objective in its assessment of the degree of IPR stealing (See table).
At the BusinessWorld Industry Summit 4.0 held at Shangri-La at The Fort in BGC yesterday, IPR was not highlighted but it is among the assumed prerequisites, along with physical, financial property protection, for companies to engage in endless innovation and competition in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (FIRe).
Anthony Oundjian, Managing Director and Senior Partner of the Boston Consulting Group, emphasized the value of people and their creation — they comprise some 60% of total FIRe inputs, while processes comprise 30%, and technology, 10%.
Senator Grace Poe said that "innovations are unfolding at breakneck speed" while legislation takes years for important bills. She mentioned the 1936 law, the Public Service Act (PSA), which has restricted foreign investments and technology transfer in the country. The new bill amending the PSA will liberalize foreign investments in transportation (land, sea, air) and telecommunications, and limit "public utilities" — where foreign investments is limited — to only three sectors, namely, distribution and transmission of electricity, and water distribution. This bill should be among the priorities for legislation and enactment into new laws.
Dr. Jose Ramon Albert, Senior Research Fellow of the Philippine Institute for Development Studies discussed the potential labor displacement of robots, artificial intelligence, and other FIRe technologies, and what government and other stakeholders can do.
Looking at the list of major and minor sponsors of the BusinessWorld conference, they are just represented by their logo and one-word corporate name. The logo and brand say it all, both old and new companies from different sectors and industries. Which speaks of the underlying importance of IPR and brand protection.
Related to all this, two IPR-related reports will be launched in Makati over the next few weeks. On Sept. 24, the Geneva Network (UK) and Minimal Government Thinkers (MGT) will launch a new report, "The importance of IPR for progress: reform agenda for ASEAN countries." Four other independent and market-oriented think tanks from Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam are co-producers of this report. Department of Trade and Industry Secretary Ramon Lopez will be the keynote speaker. Philip Stevens of the Geneva Network and yours truly will present the report. Reactors will be Jess Varela of the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and Kristine Alcantara of the Foundation for Economic Freedom (FEF).
And on Oct. 16, the International Property Rights Index (IPRI) 2019 Report will be launched by the Property Rights Alliance (PRA, Washington DC, USA) in partnership with FEF and MGT. The author of the report, Dr. Sary Levy-Carciente who is a Venezuelan economist, PRA Executive Director Lorenzo Montanari, and Chris Butler of the Americans for Tax Reforms will come to Manila to present the report.
Both events are by invitation only but we will consider some interested individuals outside the list — just send me an e-mail.
With FIRe technologies and, in the next few decades, the Fifth Industrial Revolution, even more modern, seemingly impossible inventions and creations will emerge. Companies and individual researchers will just keep producing those new inventions and processes. The role of government is to ensure protection of private property, their inventions and corporate identities and brand.
BWorld 364, Brief analysis of Budget 2018-2022, September 03, 2019
Climate Tricks 86, Cannibalism and eating bugs to 'save the planet'
I have another climate debate with a friend last week when he posted this weird article in my fb wall,
(Why) The Next 3000 Days Will Decide the Fate of Human Civilization
How The Four Greatest Existential Threats in History Will Conquer Us This Decade — Unless We Conquer Them
umair haque Sep 7 2019
https://eand.co/why-the-next-3000-days-will-decide-the-fate-of-human-civilization-213e3f0561b6
Garbage in, garbage out. 3,000 days? Whaaat? I thought we only have 3,000 hours left?
I have little patience for long, literary, wordy papers with no tables, no charts or graphs, no hard data. Garbage is easier spread via wordy, emotional papers.
There are now many ways to extend the "3,000 days" Armageddon to perhaps 3,001 days left -- via cannibalism. Instead of eating more meat (more cow fart, more methane, which is one of several "catastrophic" GHGs), people should eat other people when others die. Very bright this cult called 'save the planet.'
Swedish Scientist Proposes Cannibalism to Fight Climate Change
CHRIS TOMLINSON 6 Sep 2019
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/09/06/swedish-scientist-proposes-cannibalism-fight-climate-change/
Swedish behavioural scientist Magnus Söderlund has suggested that eating other people after they die could be a means of combatting climate change.
The scientist mentioned the possibility of cannibalism during a broadcast on Swedish television channel TV4 this week about a fair in Stockholm regarding "food of the future".
Swedish Behaviourist Suggests Cannibalism to Combat Climate Change
Eric Worrall September 6, 2019
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/09/06/swedish-behaviourist-suggests-cannibalism-to-combat-climate-change/
Or instead of eating other people, they can eat cockroaches, termites, to 'save the planet.' Very idiotic proposals.
Would you eat insects to save the planet from global warming?
Jessica_E_Brown
Mon 15 Oct 2018 09.10 BST Last modified on Mon 15 Oct 2018 14.21 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/15/edible-insect-save-planet-global-warming-tasty-trendy
People are Eating Bugs to Fight Climate Change
https://entonation.com/people-are-eating-bugs-to-fight-climate-change/
Would eating insects save us from climate change?
Camellia Williams Jan 17 2019
https://medium.com/vizzuality-blog/would-eating-insects-save-us-from-climate-change-a7d9b1ad01f9
The "man-made" Gorebal warming is a movement of dishonesty, corruption, robbery, large-scale robbery. Lots of rains, flood and storms and we send more money to CCC, DENR, DOF, LGUs, UN, WB, ADB, etc. No rain, no flood, no storm and we send more money to CCC, DENR, DOF, LGUs, UN, WB, ADB, etc. Whatever weather, whatever climate, less cold or more cold, we must send more money to them and they will produce more global junkets, create new energy and carbon taxes and confiscate via legislation more money from our pockets and savings.
Those feed in tariff (FIT) in our monthly electricity bill; the higher oil/lpg/coal taxes in TRAIN law, the annual budget of CCC, higher climate budget of DENR and LGUs, billions of $ of climate loans from WB, ADB, etc -- those are ALL products of all these climate robberies and scam. All they want is more people sharing and spreading alarmist, frankenstein stories -- and that helps their rackets and junkets.
It is difficult to refute a derange argument -- that less rain or more rain, less flood or more flood, less dogs or more dogs -- ALL proof of 'man-made' Gorebal warming. And such deranged idea comes from the world's biggest and influential institutions like the UN.
The argument is as crazy as this: Mr. X and family have less money and more money, proof that they are poor, so taxpayers should keep sending them money, subsidize them forever.
And people clap the argument, and keep sharing it. Moronic, deranged argument and being shared endlessly.
Climate Tricks 83, On Greenland ice melt alarmism, August 05, 2019
Climate Tricks 84, 97% climate consensus in Sicily, August 12, 2019
Climate Tricks 85, Sachs and UN anger at Trump, August 31, 2019
BWorld 366, 'Social cost' of carbon and trash to jetfuel
* My article in BusinessWorld on September 4, 2019.
Among the topics discussed during the Heartland Institute's 13th International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC-13) that I attended on July 25 in Washington, DC, USA, was the social cost of carbon (SCC) vs social benefit of carbon (SBC).
Among the speakers was Dr. Kevin Dayaratna, Senior Statistician and Research Programmer of the Heritage Foundation's Center for Data Analysis.
Kevin discussed the "Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Green New Deal." The Obama administration proposed the Social Cost of Carbon (SCC) for regulation, defined as "the economic damages per MT of CO2 emission."
Kevin wondered how does one actually estimate the SCC and what really is the long-term economic impact of CO2 emissions across a particular time horizon. He mentioned three statistical models (IAMs) to estimate SCC: the DICE model, the FUND model, and the PAGE model.
Heritage altered the assumptions made by the Obama administration, they ran two of the three models, the results show that SCC can drop by 40-200%, can even be negative at times, under very reasonable assumptions. Negative "social cost" means social benefits. Like the greening of the planet, 1982-2009.
Kevin concluded that for the newly proposed Green New Deal (GND) in the US, instituting carbon capture regulations by 2040 will result in income loss of more than $160,000 for a family of four, increase in household electricity expenditures of up to 30%, and an aggregate $15 trillion loss in GDP. Thus, the GND should be junked, using the SCC for cost-benefit analysis should be junked.
Another speaker, Dr. Roger Bezdek, Founder and President, MISI, a DC-based economic, energy and environmental research firm, noted that: 1.) Fossil fuels and CO2 are demonized and blamed for everything but they are essential to modern life and will remain so in the future. 2. To reduce 2050 GHGs to 80-95% of 1990 levels implies that 2050 living standards in the world would be reduced to levels of 1800s; 3.) Benefit-cost ratios are very high and will remain orders of magnitude larger than any reasonable SCC estimates; and, 4.) The social benefits of carbon (SCB) and fossil fuels outweigh costs by orders of magnitude and will continue to do so.
Dr. Craig Idso, founder and former President of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, lead author of "Climate Change Reconsidered" series produced by the Non-governmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), argued that more CO2 emissions and fossil energy have improved human prosperity and benefit the human and natural world. Atmospheric CO2 is the basic food of plants, their primary raw material to construct their tissues and, aided by sunlight, produce their own food via photosynthesis. Thousands of laboratory and field experiments have shown that higher CO2 concentrations increase plant productivity and growth. Which means more trees, more crops, more food production. More, not less, fossil energy is needed to enhance the future of human environment.
He computed "total human life-years" until around 2017, I updated his computation to 2019 and expanded it to 2050. Data from the UN DESA and geoba.se/population. (See Table 1.)
From 1820 to 2019 or nearly 200 years, there was 17.4x expansion as humans live longer and healthier, mainly because humanity used fossil fuels to modernize their food production, transportation of goods and people, modern electricity that run 24/7 and so on. Projecting to 2050, there would be 24.3x over 1820 and 1.4x over 2019 levels.
The Philippines should never toy with the idea of following GND-type of energy policies. Currently, the per capita energy consumption of Filipinos on average is among the lowest in East Asia, only 18.5 gigajoule per person in 2018 — just one-half the consumption of an average Vietnamese and nearly one-fifth (1/5) of the global average. A gigajoule is equivalent to 277.8 kWh. (See Table 2.)
Last week, my friend and fellow BusinessWorld columnist Andrew Masigan invited me to a presentation by Trevor Neilson of i(x) investments, about the economics and technology of converting solid waste into aviation fuel or diesel. We often hear of biomass energy, converting agro-forest and household solid wastes into electricity, it is old technology but this one is new — solid wastes to aviation fuel. A summary of the economics and business prospects of this business innovation is found in Table 3.
It is a good initiative. Very costly investments but high potentials for the Philippines, singled out by the US business proponents because of its high solid waste production and geographical location — just two to four hours by plane to major business centers in the region, north-west-south of Manila.
BWorld 363, IPR protection in the ASEAN, August 31, 2019
China Watch 39, Martin Jacques as CN propagandist
Last Tuesday, September 10, I attended the lecture of Martin Jacques, afternoon of Day 1 of Mining Philippines Conference at Sofitel Philippine Plaza Hotel. Martin is a British academic who for many years now sound and speak like China Ministry of Foreign Affairs' spokesman and #1 propagandist.
I first heard Martin in 2012 when he spoke in Manila. That time I was less observant of CN and its activities in the region and the world. Second time I heard him was last May at the Jeju Forum for Peace and Prosperity, S. Korea. I was not impressed of him. So I didn't want to attend his lecture at Sofitel, will not waste my money on him (perhaps he should pay me so that I will listen to him :-)). Then a friend secured a ticket for me (ticket price is P7,500, roughly $150) with a soft arrangement that I would challenge Martin in the open forum, I agreed, that's why I attended his lecture.
For me, the three Filipino reactors were more quotable, more sensible, than the speaker. Images I got from Chamber of Mines of the PH (COMP) facebook page.
And this is the main speaker.
See his book (2012) -- when CN rules the world... hehehe. I took this photo at the registration table that afternoon.
And he kept using PPP (purchasing power parity) value of GDP where CN's is larger than the US'. Never showed any nominal values of GDP.
So during the open forum, I made these comments:
1. It is deceptive to use only PPP values of GDP size and not show nominal GDP sizes. In 2018, US GDP size was $20.5 trillion, CN $13.4 T, JP $5 T, so that US econ is larger than CN + JP economies combined.
2. Stockmarket capitalization 2018, US $30.4 trillion, CN $6.3 T, JP $5.3 T... so CN's is small, even if it's 2nd biggest in the world, compared to US.
3. Technology, the US Chamber of Commerce estimated global physical counterfeiting 2016, total $461 B, of which 72% came from CN. So CN development in technology is partly or largely due to cheating and stealing of IPR.
4. On CN having "peaceful" history, not colonized any country in the past, because CN is busy bullying and killing its own people, thousands killed during Tiananmen massacre (1989), during the Cultural Revolution of Mao and his gang.
(Background data for my first 3 comments, below:)
1. GDP size nominal values, 2018. See https://www.bworldonline.com/why-is-philippines-gdp-growth-decelerating/)
2. Stock market capitalization, see https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/rankings/stock_market_capitalization_dollars/
3. IPR stealing, counterfeits, see https://www.bworldonline.com/fire-innovation-and-stealing-of-innovation/
Martin responded. He was defensive that I raised using nominal GDP, saying that PPP values of GDP is more useful. Realllly?
Look -- when people use comparative data for exports and imports, foreign investments, remittances, tourism revenues, stockmarket capitalization, military spending, etc -- all are expressed in nominal values, not PPP values. So to be consistent, we should always show nominal GDP. Because one cannot compare say, exports (X/GDP) ratio, Investments/GDP, Savings/GDP, etc if the numerator is nominal while denominator is PPP value. One would look like an idiot moron,
Using nominal GDP sizes would crash his narrative, that CN is the rising and bigger power while the US is the declining, smaller power. Martin is dishonest, deceptive. Similar with Xi Jinping and the CN communist party leaders.
China Watch 36, Manila kowtows to Beijing, July 02, 2019
China Watch 37, US is winning the trade-IPR conflict with China, July 14, 2019
China Watch 38, China Army to attack HK protesters? August 13, 2019
BWorld 365, FIRe, Innovation and rising income
* This is my article in BusinessWorld last September 03, 2019.
Next week, on Sept. 9, the BusinessWorld Industry 4.0 Summit with the theme "Winning Together in the Fourth Industrial Revolution" (FIRe) will be held at the Shangri-La at The Fort, BGC, Taguig City. This big event is a partnership of BusinessWorld, the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), and the Philippine Chamber of Telecommunications Operators (PCTO).
The main speakers will be DICT Secretary Gregorio Honasan II, Senator Grace Poe, Anthony Oundjian of Boston Consulting Group, and Dr. Jose Ramon Albert of the Philippine Institute for Development Studies.
FIRe is the most recent of the technological revolutions that modern humans have invented. I searched for the approximate timeline, here is what I got. Others will have slightly different years but the period will not be far from what I have stated in Table 1.
Taking this timeline, I am curious how major economies and ASEAN countries have developed since the First Industrial Revolution, at least from 1800. I found data from the University of Groningen, Groningen and Growth Development Center (GGDC) – the Maddison Project Database, version 2018. Bolt, Jutta, Robert Inklaar, Herman de Jong and Jan Luiten van Zanden (2018), "Rebasing 'Maddison': new income comparisons and the shape of long-run economic development," Maddison Project Working Paper, nr. 10, www.ggdc.net/maddison. (See Table 2.)
Here are some important points to consider from the data in Table 2:
• One, growth and income from the First to Second Industrial Revolutions was modest, per capita income of the United States of America and the United Kingdom expanded only two to three times after 100 years.
• Two, incomes from the Second to Third Industrial Revolutions have expanded by 1.5 to 2.5 times after 50 years. Since ASEAN countries have no data in 1900 except for Singapore, we use 1913 as the region's Second Industrial Revolution income baseline. For the region, there was a decline or a modest increase in income from 2013-1950, that is after World War II.
• Three, the recurring belief that the "Philippines was the second strongest Asian economy after Japan after World War II" is a myth, not true. In the ASEAN alone, Malaysia and Singapore had per capita incomes nearly two times that of the Philippines.
• Four, the Third Industrial Revolution ushered fast growth in wealth worldwide, with incomes expanding by 1.5 to four times (Singapore) and eight times (Japan) in just 30 years between 1950-1980.
• Five, the Fourth Industrial Revolution (FIRe) was even more expansionary in terms of the material wealth and prosperity of people. Incomes have increased two to six times (Vietnam), and seven times (Singapore) from 1980 to 2016. The Filipinos' incomes expanded only more than two times during that period. Marcos' Martial Law's repression of the economy, and huge natural disasters (the Pinatubo eruption in 1990, the big earthquake in 1991) contributed to this sad story.
We have entered the beginning of FIRe, where smart mobile phones have become affordable to billions of people and they have more access to internet, where drones take aerial photos and videos much better, where robots and modern machines are used more in manufacturing, commerce, and restaurants.
It is also in FIRe period where intellectual property rights (IPR) are becoming more and more prominent. Innovation is the keyword that is almost interchangeable with modern IR and innovation cannot happen fast if innovators' patent and trade secrets of their inventions, trademarks and brands of their companies, copyrights to their compositions, are not respected and protected.
On Sept. 24, strong advocates of private property and market competition, the Geneva Network (UK) and the Minimal Government Thinkers (MGT, Manila) will launch a new report, "The importance of IPR for progress: A reform agenda for ASEAN countries" at the Holiday Inn Makati. Speakers will be DTI Secretary Ramon Lopez, Philippine Chamber of Commerce's IPR Committee Chair Jess Varela, Geneva Network Executive Director Philip Stevens, and yours truly for MGT.
IPR protection ensures more innovation, which fuels endless modernization and disruption under FIRe. Humanity's material prosperity is further ensured. More people, rich and poor, will ride cars, motorcycles, e-bikes and they will ride horses and bicycles only for leisure and sports. This is the positive impact of continuing IR and innovation, enabled by private property protection and market competition.
BWorld 362, More expensive electricity via climate tax, August 30, 2019
MGT and FEF to co-sponsor IPRI 2019 launching
This coming October 16, 2019, Minimal Government Thinkers (MGT) and Foundation for Economic Freedom (FEF) will co-sponsor with the Property Rights Alliance (PRA) in the launching of International Property Rights Index (IPRI) 2019 Report,
http://www.internationalpropertyrightsindex.org/.
IPRI 2015 to 2019 author Dr. Sary Levy-Carciente and PRA Executive Director Lorenzo Montanari will come to Manila to formally launch the report, also meet with some PH government officials, private sector and NGO players engaged in property rights protection, physical and intellectual property.
The index is composed of these three components and their respective sub-components, numbers are tallied and the overall scores determine the global ranking of countries and jurisdictions.
IPRI 2018 was co-sponsored by the following independent, non-government and market-oriented think tanks and research institutes.
The event is by invitation only but a few interested leaders and individuals outside the list may be accommodated. Send me a letter of interest, minimalgovernment@gmail.com.
FEF made the announcement too in their website,
http://www.fef.org.ph/uncategorized/fef-to-co-host-2019-ipri-report-global-launch/.
IPR and Innovation 35, Letter to WIPO on World IP Day, May 06, 2017
IPR and Innovation 42, Coalition letter to WHO re plain packaging, March 22, 2018
Energy 129, Fault in OPEC supply cut and oil price decline
Good news. World oil prices declining, now hovering at $53/barrel mainly because of higher supply from Iraq and Nigeria (they somehow disobeyed OPEC) and new all-time high US oil production, 12.5 million barrels per day (mbpd). See also US oil output, August of 2014-2016 (within last 3 years of Obama) vs August of 2017-2019 (Trump), huge discrepancy.
Obama was saying, "Yes to expensive oil so long as we keep US oil on the ground to help 'save the planet'." He's a good ally of Saudi and Russia. Trump does the reverse, "No to expensive oil, drill baby drill." He's a non-friend of Saudi and Russia. That's why the "Trump is Putin puppet" is an idiotic-moronic proposition at the onset.
Meanwhile another report,
Trade War Panic Sends Oil Lower
By Nick Cunningham - Sep 03, 2019, 6:00 PM CDT
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Trade-War-Panic-Sends-Oil-Lower.html
"Oil prices fell sharply on Tuesday as fears over the economic fallout from the U.S.-China trade war returned.
On Sunday, a 15 percent tariff on roughly $112 billion worth of Chinese goods took effect, and retaliatory tariffs by Beijing on American goods also went up. Trump had previously decided to hold off on putting tariffs on a much larger $300 billion tranche of Chinese goods – the remaining levies are set to take effect in December. Together, the tariffs could impose the equivalent of a $1,000 tax on American consumers over the course of a year."
Energy 126, Oil prices now only $51+ per barrel, June 06, 2019
Energy 127, Power underwhelming: Why are there power outages? June 22, 2019
Energy 128, Oil production and ENSO, July 08, 2019
BWorld 364, Brief analysis of Budget 2018-2022
* My column in BusinessWorld on August 29, 2019.
The Duterte government's fiscal and expenditure program can be briefly summarized and characterized as one of over-spending and over-borrowings. Four proofs in three tables below will show why.
One, the Philippine government's debt/GDP ratio has been declining steadily from 54.8% in 2009 (Arroyo administration) to 42.1% in 2016 (H1 Aquino, H2 Duterte), then it stayed there at 42% in 2017 and 2018. The steady decline has been halted by the current administration.
Compared to seven other neighbors, the Philippines has the biggest improvement, major decline in debt/GDP ratio at nearly 13% over the past nine years while China has the biggest deterioration, major increase of 16% over the same period. (See Table 1.)
Two, the level of spending despite rising revenues is huge, resulting in ever-rising budget deficit, from P558 billion in 2018 to projected P824 billion by 2022.
High deficit means high borrowings aside from high taxes. And so the interest payment alone, principal amortization not included yet, will double from P249 billion in 2018 to P504 billion in 2021, and further rise to P561 billion in 2022. Data are from the Department of Budget and Management's Budget of Expenditures and Sources of Financing (BESF) 2020.
Three, while actual GDP growth was higher than target/projections and inflation was lower than target in 2016 (last half-year of previous administration), it was the opposite by 2017 to present, growth was lower than target and inflation was higher than target from 2018 to present. Multiple tax hikes under TRAIN (Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion) law implemented in 2018, uncertainties of TRABAHO (Tax Reform for Attracting Better and High-Quality Opportunities) bill and other legislative proposals contributed to growth deceleration: 6.9% in 2016 to 5.6% in the first half of 2019. (See Table 2.)
It seems that the National Economic and Development Authority-Department of Finance — Department of Budget and Management triumvirate were using false assumptions in their growth and inflation projections. Like their assumption that tax hikes in oil, other products under TRAIN law would be low or insignificant — wrong.
Four, the bulk of high spending goes to salaries, meetings, travels, offices plus expanding subsidies, not in Build, Build, Build as often claimed. If we remove interest payment and bank charges, then allocation to local government units like the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority and Internal Revenue Allotment for provincial LGUs, most of which goes to salaries too, the combined shares of personnel services and Maintenance and Other Operating Expenses would be 70% and capital outlays for Build, Build, Build is only 30%. (See Table 3.)
What then to expect in the next few years?
What else but more taxes and regulatory fees. Public debt and interest payment keep rising, new agencies and departments are created, new welfare subsidies are invented and expanded, government personnel and consultants, national to local governments, their pay and perks keep rising.
While it is true that there are Build, Build, Build projects on-going, they are small compared to the hype and promises. It is possible to have faster growth and lower inflation with retained or lower budget, less taxes and borrowings. People and businesses keeping more money in their pockets and savings will prefer more investments, more integrated Public-Private Partnership infrastructure projects, and more household consumption.
BWorld 361, PCC, LTFRB, MMDA and transportation woes, August 25, 2019
BWorld 362, More expensive electricity via climate tax
Lion Rock 30, Positive non-interventionism
I like these two papers from Lion Rock Institute (LRI) in HK, reposting below. The image here, I got from the web, CTTO. Enjoy.
Asset (Mis)management
25/01/2019 Nick Sallnow-Smith
http://www.lionrockinstitute.org/en/2019/01/asset-mismanagement/
… The incentives with a privately held asset are to maximise its value. That could be a value consumed by the owner, through occupation of the flat. If the asset is an investment, the owner will rent it out or otherwise try to gain value from it. (I recognise that there are owners who appear to allow assets to remain unused. But these are rare and occur despite the incentives, not because of them.)
In the public estate, matters are quite different. Many sites controlled by bureaux and departments of the Government lie either unused or suboptimally used. Partly this may be due to site-use specifics of the land leases, as discussed in my Best Use piece. For example empty school sites cannot, under our current system, be easily switched to meet other needs. Hence the Bureau's seeking international schools to bid for some of these. No change in use needs to be sanctioned in that case. But switching out of educational use is more difficult.
More generally the failure to maximise value for the community comes not from land use restrictions but from other perverse incentives. These sites are out of the public eye politically (although you may walk past them every day and wonder why they lie vacant). Little criticism is occasioned by their lack of use, except perhaps occasional comments from the Government Auditor. By contrast, attempts to bring a vacant site into use will frequently lead to political criticism from those who would prefer a different use to the one proposed. For the civil servants concerned the best way of avoiding criticism is to do nothing with the site. In other words the incentives are against maximising the value for the community. The perverse result is that public sector ownership of assets is not in the public interest!
… Without addressing the question of whether the final plan represents "best use" for the community, my concern is with the loss of value to the community due to the lack of use of that site for over a decade. Had it been promptly redeveloped as an office building in the heart of Central it would have generated millions of dollars of income. That revenue should not be dismissed as merely "profits for greedy tycoons". That revenue would have represented willingly paid rent by occupiers who needed the space for their businesses. That is value to the community of Hong Kong which has been lost because of the lack of use of a prime asset. No private company would have left that asset idle for 10 years….
I often read comments that question why, given that Hong Kong is "so rich", there are still poor quality buildings and acres of poorly used land. A big part of the answer is that the system of land use in Hong kong is a million miles from being a set of privately held and freely traded assets. Many international think tanks continue to insist on rating Hong Kong as one of the freest economies in the world. It seems they look only at the traded goods sector and ignore the rest.
Positive Non-Interventionism
http://www.lionrockinstitute.org/en/2019/02/positive-non-interventionism/
…. We can assume that any violence against the individual or their property will already be illegal in any civilised society. So the "behaviour" referenced here is not illegal (yet!). It is simply disapproved of by certain members of society, who then attempt to contract the powers of the government to enforce their personal morality on all citizens.
For me, this has a distinctly medieval flavour. In those days a religious reference was usually needed to demonise certain "behaviours". Today, the references are mostly secular but the process is similar; use the state to impose a particular view of how people should "behave", under threat of coercion by the state. We are experiencing a regression to a time of less civility, less tolerance, less freedom.
I find this a very dispiriting trend. The change of attitude towards positive non-interventionism reflects this. Once citizens accept, as a given, that the role of government is actively to direct our lives (economically and otherwise) rather than to defend our right to direct our own lives, then the "policy debate" becomes an argument over whose view should be imposed, not whether any view should be imposed.
If you doubt whether this is now the prevailing view, consider two recent "policy decisions"; the golf course, and the proposed vaping ban. In the first case the debate concerns whether the golf course decision is right kind of intervention, not whether the "land problem" might be solved by removing as much Government intervention as possible. In the second case, the debate focuses on whether vaping is bad for you, whether it is worse the smoking, and so on….
In my opinion, this default way of thinking about the role of government is the complete reverse of positive non-interventionism. We now have a government focussed on what might be called "negative interventionism"; negative because it is aimed at preventing a personal choice, not enabling it – as did positive non-interventionism. How quickly the debate became about how much of the golf course should be confiscated; not whether it is any business of government to change the purpose of a lease more than 100 years old. (I am not arguing here that the lease does not provide the opportunity for the Government to do this legally but whether morally it should be doing so.)…
As I noted, this not only about economics, money and taxes (although these are important) but the bigger context of how people live their lives. Can citizens make choices about how they want to live without the modern day "inquisition" (a team of vaping inspectors?), telling them that "unacceptable behavior cannot be tolerated"?
If we are to make any headway in reversing the anti-freedom tide we are experiencing, it is crucial that citizens think about personal freedom and its four word summary, "live and let live", before zealously claiming a "right" to decide how all others should "behave", and beg their Legco member to fight for less freedom, rather than more.
Lion Rock 27, Conduct and HK is not a corporation, June 02, 2019
Lion Rock 28, HK as free market, and private property rights, June 29, 2019
Lion Rock 29, Government does not create wealth, August 02, 2019
BWorld 368, More politics will worsen the Philippi...
BWorld 367, FIRe, innovation and stealing of innov...
Climate Tricks 86, Cannibalism and eating bugs to ...
BWorld 366, 'Social cost' of carbon and trash to j...
Energy 129, Fault in OPEC supply cut and oil price...


I love it when these amazing camper restorations come back up, even though it kills a big chunk of time b/c I will read the whole thing again.
Great to see it in use!
Wow! What admirable dedication to correctly restoring a very historically significant bus!
Thank you. I do still have it and we going camping in it. Not as often as I would like, but we do enjoy it.
That is an amazingly beautiful bus.
Will we see it again at Bulli | No Dough Spring Meet?
^^Great pic with your family, can't ask for much more than that.
A buddy of mine sent me this pic he found on the world wide web. He pointed out the bus behind the carousel.
This is the first time I have seen an early Westy with just the beltline painted.
Very possible your bus, maybe one of one? How cool would that be. Like the FCG Westy I have never seen another like yours either.
It was so nice here last Sunday we had to take the Westy out to soak up some sun.
Looks like some recent work to the garage door too. Hope the bus isn't stuck.
Greg, I put the rack on the bus and backed the bus up to the door. The rear of the rack cleared, but as I started pushing the bus in, the front of the rack was about 2" too high. So I let some air out of all four tires and pushed it into the garage. What a pain, but less work than taking the rack on and off.
Yeah, I'd sooner swap over a set of 14" rollers then mess with the rack coming off and on. Time to build a new shop! Make the door high enough for a high roof with a loaded rack.
One of my all time favorite buses, you guys knocked it out on this build. Paul, Jerry and Joey it was great to meet you guys at the picnic. Hope you guys had a good time.
doesnt count till the rack is on the bus paul!! we need MOAR PICS!
He needs six tall people with white cotton gloves and dexterous fingers.
I usually remove and install my rack by myself!
but then again, my bus is og paint and I don't care about scratching it..


Bharti Airtel has introduced a new Rs 65 prepaid plan allowing users to get 1GB of 3G data for 28 days.
Airtel has started offering a new prepaid plan to its users looking for extra validity on their data usage. Airtel's new Rs 65 plan now offers 1GB of 3G data for a period of 28 days. Earlier, Airtel had introduced a Rs 49 plan offering 1GB of 4G data for just one day.
Airtel's new Rs 65 plan, however, does not promise 4G data and is limited to 2G and 3G data only. Airtel also has a Rs 98 plan for its prepaid customers in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. The Rs 98 prepaid plan from Airtel offers 5GB of 4G/3G data for a validity of 28 days.
Besides these, Airtel also offers a Rs 157 prepaid plan to select users. The Rs 157 recharge offers 3GB of 3G/4G data for a period of 27 days.
Airtel's new prepaid data offers should be checked on the website or the My Airtel app before recharging. The plans may not be available for all circles and may differ in their offerings based on a subscriber's location.
Airtel also recently introduced a VoLTE Beta programme for select regions. The programme invites users to test the company's network in selected regions and provide service feedback. Users who opt-in for the beta program will also receive up to 30GB of free data but on fulfilling some terms and conditions. You can read more about the Beta programme here.
Ever since Reliance Jio launched its services in the country, telecom providers have constantly been battling with each other to provide cheaper data-centric subscription plans. While the fight for the top spot is mostly between Airtel and Jio, Vodafone is also trying its best to lure customers to its platform.
Vodafone recently launched a Rs 21 prepaid recharge plan offering 'truly' unlimited 3G/4G data for an hour. The company is also expanding its VoLTE services across the country in order to compete with Airtel and Jio at the same level.


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What better way to celebrate the Holiday than coloring. Click the images above to download the coloring sheets. Enjoy!
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New York Giants win the Super Bowl XLVI over New England Patriots! Let your kids celebrate by coloring this great coloring sheet! Click the image to download the coloring sheet.
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This is a must try project! Even in the era of the cordless and the mobile, there's a lot to be said for the old-fashioned tin-can phone. There's nothing flashy about this model, and you can't send email through the wire – er, string. But it offers something more modern versions don't – a fun project to make with a friend, and a dramatic illustration of vibration and sound waves.
If the can opener left rough edges when you removed the tops, tape over them so your child won't scratch a finger. Give her the decorating materials and let her loose! She can personalize her "phones" however she'd like.
Turn both cans upside down and hammer a nail through the bottom of each can to make a hole in the center. Remove nail and set aside.
Cut a long length of string – up to 10 feet.
Poke one end through the bottom of one can, knotting on the inside. Repeat with the other end of string in the other can.
Instruct two kids to each take a can and move apart until the string is taut.
What happened? When you speak, your voice makes vibrations. Once the string is stretched tight enough, these vibrations travel down the string and vibrate the bottom of the can on the other end which, in turn, vibrates the air and those vibrations travel through the air to the other person's ear.
As an added bonus, I've created a Tin Can Phone Coloring Sheet. Click the above image to download it. Enjoy!
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in dates, holidays, and birthdays.
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