I have a Panamax surge protection strip. It has 2 coax inputs & outputs labeled SAT which I have used for my T-60 & now my HD TIVO. I am running two new RG6 lines to keep my T-60 in the mix. The surge protector also has 2 inputs & outputs that are labeled cable.
Can I hook the T-60 up to the "cable" coax surge protectors? Is there really any difference or is it just labeling?
You can certainly use them, but they do attenuate the signal somewhat. More importantly, what is the point? Other than a direct hit on your dish from a lightning strike that will fry your Panamax and everything connected to it, there is virtually no possibility of a surge coming down the line from your dish. Cable signals DO need surge protection, since inductive surges can and do travel long distances down the coaxial cable.
I use the coax filters on my monster surge protectors on the 4 lines from my dish before going to my 4 x 8 switch. The lines run past the electric meters for my condo building to get to the grounding block. then run back by the electric meters again to get to my 4 x 8 switch in my living room. Without the coax filters I get a wavy lines on the TVs. This disappears when connected to the coax protection.
Just make sure your dish is properly grounded.
It is grounded but because of those electric lines I get interference in the lines. This is because of the crappy company MASTECH. I won't let them anywhere near my equipment again. especially after they mounted the dish and they couldn't figure out why I wasn't able to get all 3 sats. Well the building next door was inthe way. I moved the dish over a few feet a remounted the pole and did a better job in 1 hour than they did working on it for 4 hours. They tried to tell me that I was in the only location that couldn't receive the signals from all 3 sats because of my location on earth.
MASTECH is a bunch of crooks.
It is possible for a nearby lightning strike to jump to the cables coming from the sat dish. Obviously a direct hit to the sat dish will potential fry evrything downstream including your house. But I think it certainly worth protecting all incomming wires and cables via surge protection.
Also, realize that Panamax WILL NOT HONOR THEIR WARRANTY on any equipment that has ANY cable path (power or coax) to it that is not protected by one of their surge protectors.
This is explicitly stated in words and pictures in all of their documentation.
That alone is reason to run the coax cables through the Panamax.
Panamax MAX8 DBS+5 Surge Protectors and UPSs everywhere!
Obviously, YRMV, but I wasn't aware that a surge protector could filter out video noise. That isn't what they are designed to do. Even though the coax is going to a ground block, it may be that it isn't actually being grounded there, but gets it's ground at the surge protector.
The way you have wired your system, with the coax passing through an ungrounded multiswitch on its way to the grounding block, you may have created a ground loop which is actually causing the video noise.
The switch is grounded. The cable is the dual RG6 with a ground wire in the middle. This ground is connected to the switch and the grounding rod for the building(where the telephone and CATV are grounded) Before I had the 4 x 8 switch inside, I just used the four outputs from the switch on the dish. The interference definitely comes from the cables runnning by the main power lines. I tested this by running lines straight from the dish through a window and I didn't have any problems. I then used those cables and ran them behind the conduit for the meters outside(where the buried cable is)Once i did that I had the same interference on screen. Only when I ran it through the protected coaxial connections on the Moster Surge protector, did the interference disappear.
You cannot "see" interference in a digital signal. From the info you gave me I would have to say the problem is between your reciever and the TV.
It is electrical interference. I spent some time trouble shooting the problem. The only way to resolve it was to either avoid running the cables by the electric meters or running the cables through the coax protector. those were the only two things that solved it. When i say interference, I mean there was a line or 3 moving up the screen, a disturbance to the picture, the same thing you get with electrical disturbance on the line. I tried this with receivers in different locations, also having things plugged into different circuits. The results were the same. The only the common to the disturbance was the electric meters. take that out of teh equation and the lines are gone. Since I can't take that out of the equation, my only alternative is the coax surge protector. This has worked without any negative results fro 2.5 years now.
Would I rather have the lines run a different way, yes I would. But that crappy company MASTEC ran them right behind the electric meters. Another reason on a long list that I never want anyone from MASTEC near my equipment ever again. And this was 2.5 years ago. Everytime I think about all the time I wasted with that crappy company(MASTEC) I get furious. DirecTV gave me some credits but it didn't even come close to compensating me for all the time I wasted with them. i had to remount the disgh myself, a few feet away, since those idiots couldn't figure out that the buiding next door was obscuring the signal.
Somewhat related (since my dish coax are all send to a grounding rod), what's a good coax surge protection for the cable coming into my cable modem?
Typically, for most multiple dwelling buildings, the system ground is tied to the water main. (If you see a large guage wire jumpering the water meter, that is the case.) You can have other grounding points such as ground rods, but if they aren't bonded to the system ground, you almost certainly will generate a ground loop.
If the main service entrance is generating the noise, it is a 60 hz sine wave causing the problem. This is virtually impossible to filter out, and certainly a surge protector won't do it. My RG-6 is bonded to my system ground right in my service entrance panel. There is no noise whatever, and I don't run the cables through any surge limiting device whatever, even though I do have one for telephone and power lines for my system.
I'm not saying you didn't observe what you say you did. What I am strongly suggesting is that the circuitry inside your Panamax has nothing to do with curing the problem, and that you probably would observe the same result if you simply grounded the coax cable and all your equipment at any single point that is tied to the system ground. Your Panamax is grounded to your system through the grounded outlet at your wall, and in my view, that is the only reason the Panamax solves your noise problem.
What your Panamax is doing is, in effect, bonding the CATV ground rod to your system ground by way of your wall outlet. The wall outlet ground is bonded to the ground bus in your apartment's subpanel in your apartment, and that ground bus is bonded to the ground at the service entrance of the building, thereby eliminating the ground loop's effect on your TV. This scenario is symptomatic of an unbonded CATV ground rod.
I don't believe there is any way your Panamax surge protector could possibly filter out a 60 hz ground loop, and there is likewise no way the electrical service equipment could generate any other spurious signal in your coax lines but 60 hz.
I am ground to the exact same spot that the electric meters are grounded, the Telphone lines are grounded and the cable company is grounded. The wire runs from the coax grounding block to the wire from the grounding rod where everything else for the building is grounded.(Everything is in the same location) I also grounded my 2 OTA antennas(2 squareshooters) in the same spot as well.
If what you say is true, then can you explain why the CATV system is not subject to the same video noise you evidently are experiencing.
I still say that from the symptoms you describe, you have a ground loop. It's easy to see if that is the case. Just connect a polarized 2 wire extension cord to your surge protector, leaving the ground unused. Then connect a milliameter between the surge protector and the ground at the wall receptacle. There should be no measurable current flowing. If any current at all is flowing you have one of two things going on: Either a ground fault (not good) or a ground loop (also not good). A ground fault receptacle is supposed to trip at 5 milliamperes, which is a lot of current to be flowing through the ground--enough to be dangerous. I doubt that would be the case.
But something on the order of .1 millivolt certainly is strong evidence for a ground loop. And if you have that kind of reading, your coax does not have a good ground.
You may not care enough to check it out, but clearly there is something amiss with your ground, somewhere in the system. 60 hz A/C at line voltage will not induce noise in a properly grounded system. What do you think the shielding is for? If it were just to provide a ground, we would still be using 300 ohm twin lead.
Ive seen it myself many times. Just the fact that you are grounded to a ground rod is a red flag for me. Is there no ground coming in on the power drop? Try grounding directly to the power meter. I think you'll see he is right. Coax is far less susceptible to power interference than twisted pair and other forms of media transmission.
If they ran your lines right in front of the power meter then why not ground there and do it right? Why go to all of the trouble of running the ground wire to the ground rod?
Maybe a picture would give us a better idea of what you are talking about.
Even with a good single point grounding system, large differences in lengths of conductors can cause problems. A second ground point or a bad ground connection are more often the culprits though.
It is grounded by the power meters. All the utilites are in the same location(within 3 feet) The meters are using the same grounding rod as the other utilites. I am connected to the same grounding rod.
Anyway it's been like this for 2.5 years and I don't have any problems, so I see no need to change it now.
Thought i'd throw out my recent predicament.
I then ran the 4 wires into my house where they connected to a ground blcok, which then connected to 4 runs which ran to different rooms in my house. 2 of these ran to my hd tivo. Both of these ran through a panamax max with sat protection.
I had a close lightning strike or severe surge which must have jumped the coax made it through everything and fried my hd tivo. I put my zenith 520 back there and found that my satellite too had been fried. I received a new satellite and have now found that all 4 lines running from my satellite to the ground block are fried. I will test the 4 runs that were coming from the ground rod to the receiver but i fear the worse here as well.
Argh, i mean what are the odds of losing all my coaxial lines throughout my house. Nothing else was damaged.
Ouch! http://www.cinergy.com/surge/ttip08.htm explains the problem. Any ground rod separate from the main building ground needs to be bonded to it with a 6 guage copper wire or equivalent.
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package org.locationtech.geomesa.jobs.mapred

import org.apache.accumulo.core.client.mapred.AccumuloInputFormat
import org.apache.accumulo.core.client.security.tokens.{AuthenticationToken, PasswordToken}
import org.apache.accumulo.core.security.Authorizations
import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobConf
import org.apache.log4j.Level
import org.locationtech.geomesa.accumulo.AccumuloVersion._

object InputFormatBaseAdapter {

  def setConnectorInfo(job: JobConf, user: String, token: PasswordToken) = accumuloVersion match {
    case V15 => setConnectorInfo15(job, user, token)
    case V16 => setConnectorInfo16(job, user, token)
    case _   => setConnectorInfo16(job, user, token)
  }

  def setConnectorInfo15(job: JobConf, user: String, token: PasswordToken) = {
    val method = Class.forName("org.apache.accumulo.core.client.mapred.InputFormatBase")
        .getMethod("setConnectorInfo", classOf[JobConf], classOf[String], classOf[AuthenticationToken])
    method.invoke(null, job, user, token)
  }

  def setConnectorInfo16(job: JobConf, user: String, token: PasswordToken) = {
    val method = classOf[AccumuloInputFormat]
        .getMethod("setConnectorInfo", classOf[JobConf], classOf[String], classOf[AuthenticationToken])
    method.invoke(null, job, user, token)
  }

  def setZooKeeperInstance(job: JobConf, instance: String, zookeepers: String) = accumuloVersion match {
    case V15 => setZooKeeperInstance15(job, instance, zookeepers)
    case V16 => setZooKeeperInstance16(job, instance, zookeepers)
    case _   => setZooKeeperInstance16(job, instance, zookeepers)
  }

  def setZooKeeperInstance15(job: JobConf, instance: String, zookeepers: String) = {
    val method = Class.forName("org.apache.accumulo.core.client.mapred.InputFormatBase")
        .getMethod("setZooKeeperInstance", classOf[JobConf], classOf[String], classOf[String])
    method.invoke(null, job, instance, zookeepers)
  }

  def setZooKeeperInstance16(job: JobConf, instance: String, zookeepers: String) = {
    val method = classOf[AccumuloInputFormat]
        .getMethod("setZooKeeperInstance", classOf[JobConf], classOf[String], classOf[String])
    method.invoke(null, job, instance, zookeepers)
  }

  def setScanAuthorizations(job: JobConf, authorizations: Authorizations): Unit = accumuloVersion match {
    case V15 => setScanAuthorizations15(job, authorizations)
    case V16 => setScanAuthorizations16(job, authorizations)
    case _   => setScanAuthorizations16(job, authorizations)
  }

  def setScanAuthorizations15(job: JobConf, authorizations: Authorizations): Unit = {
    val method = Class.forName("org.apache.accumulo.core.client.mapred.InputFormatBase")
        .getMethod("setScanAuthorizations", classOf[JobConf], classOf[Authorizations], classOf[String])
    method.invoke(null, job, authorizations)
  }

  def setScanAuthorizations16(job: JobConf, authorizations: Authorizations): Unit = {
    val method = classOf[AccumuloInputFormat]
        .getMethod("setScanAuthorizations", classOf[JobConf], classOf[Authorizations], classOf[String])
    method.invoke(null, job, authorizations)
  }

  def setLogLevel(job: JobConf, level: Level) = accumuloVersion match {
    case V15 => setLogLevel15(job, level)
    case V16 => setLogLevel16(job, level)
    case _   => setLogLevel16(job, level)
  }

  def setLogLevel15(job: JobConf, level: Level) = {
    val method = Class.forName("org.apache.accumulo.core.client.mapred.InputFormatBase")
        .getMethod("setLogLevel", classOf[JobConf], classOf[Level])
    method.invoke(null, job, level)
  }

  def setLogLevel16(job: JobConf, level: Level) = {
    val method = classOf[AccumuloInputFormat].getMethod("setLogLevel", classOf[JobConf], classOf[Level])
    method.invoke(null, job, level)
  }

}

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The 62-year-old leader asked why the Modi government has failed in preventing people like Nirav Modi and Vijay Mallya from fleeing the country.
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati criticised the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday, 1 July, on the occasion of the one year anniversary of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) accusing him of shielding the corrupt.
At a press conference in Lucknow, the former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister said that Modi has also not fulfilled his promise of bringing back black money because many of those having wealth offshore are close to BJP.
"People of the nation want to know why the government, especially PM Modi, is silent on black money," she was quoted as saying by ANI.
"Is it because most of those people who deposit money abroad are those close to BJP, due to whom it has emerged as the wealthiest party of India in such short span of time?" alleged Mayawati.
"People in the country are wondering why is Narendra Modi govt so helpless when it comes to stopping them?" she said referring to the absconding businessmen who are accused of bank frauds amounting to thousands of crores.
Mayawati alleged that the Modi government is trying to divert the nation's attention from the core issues that relate to unfulfilled promises with communal and divisive politics. She claimed that the reason behind pulling out of the government in Jammu-Kashmir was BJP's decision to return to "agenda of hatred".
"People are recalling promises made by PM, especially the one to bring back black money. That's why BJP has chucked development issue and come back to its original agenda of hatred, communal disharmony, and divisive politics. That's why they pulled out of the alliance government in J-K," said Mayawati.
The BJP-led NDA government is celebrating the first anniversary of the implementation of GST on 1 July. Imposed on this day in 2017, the GST has been criticised and praised with equal measure.
GST has now replaced over a dozen central and state levies including factory-gate, excise duty, service tax and local sales tax or VAT. Aimed at modernising Asia's third largest economy, the GST is India's biggest tax reform in 70 years of independence.
After one year of GST, economists believe a single tax would better serve the purpose though not everyone is of the same opinion. Outgoing Chief Economic Advisor Arvind Subramanian believes that the highest rate should go.


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Thursday Reads: Villager Gossip, A Priceless Art Discovery, The Troubled NFL, And The Psychopathic One Percent
Posted: November 7, 2013 | Author: bostonboomer | Filed under: 2012 presidential campaign, morning reads, U.S. Politics | Tags: "Double Down", bullying, Chris Christie, Clint Eastwood, fat hatred, fine art, gossip, hazing, Jonathan Martin and Richie Incognito, Mitt Romney, Nazis, NFL, Obamacare, priceless paintings, psychopathy, Stuart Stevens, top 1% as psychopaths, Virginia governor's race | 50 Comments
All the villagers are talking about the gossipy new book about the 2012 presidential campaign by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, Double Down. I can't bring myself to read it, but Pat J. said she is reading it, so maybe she can give us more detail on the story of Romney adviser Stuart Stevens vomiting backstage after Clint Eastwood's embarrassing performance at the Republican National Convention.
Lawrence O'Donnell had Heilemann on his MSNBC show last night. O'Donnell "loved" book and was especially joyful about the anecdote about Stevens. I have to admit, it's pretty funny. The Washington Post has a lengthy review of the book with some more interesting bits.
On Chris Christie:
According to the authors, Romney and his team were shaken by what they discovered about Christie during "Project Goldfish," as the hush-hush veep search process was known. His "disturbing" research file is littered with "garish controversies," the authors write: a Justice Department investigation into his free-spending ways as U.S. attorney, his habit of steering government contracts to friends and political allies, a defamation lawsuit that emerged during a 1994 run for local office, a politically problematic lobbying career that included work on behalf of a financial firm that employed Bernie Madoff. And that's not to mention the Romney team's anxiety about the governor's girth.
For Christie, who is coasting to reelection on Tuesday and already laying behind-the-scenes groundwork for a 2016 presidential bid, the book's revelations are a Drudge-ready public relations nightmare that will send his advisers scrambling to explain awkward aspects of his record and his personal life just as he is stepping onto the national stage.
Mitt Romney is apparently obsessed with fat people, and even criticized men on his staff if they went out with women that Romney deemed to be too "fat." You can just imagine what he thought of Chris Christie. From an earlier WaPo article:
Romney initially crossed Christie off his short list. The governor's vetting file was incomplete, and Romney had been bothered by Christie's propensity to show up late at campaign events and by his lack of physical fitness, the book says.
"Romney marveled at Christie's girth, his difficulties in making his way down the narrow aisle of the campaign bus," the authors write. "Watching a video of Christie without his suit jacket on, Romney cackled to his aides, 'Guys! Look at that!'"
It brings back memories of the tales about Romney bullying classmates in high school. What a horrible man he is! There's much more gossip in the Post review if you're interested.
Corporate media and talking heads have been busy trying to interpret Tuesday's election results as helpful for Republicans. Supposedly the only reason Terry McAuliffe beat Ken Cuccinelli in Virginia and Chris Christie is now on the fast track to the White House–sorry Hillary.
Ed Kilgore at Political Animal: Tell Me Again Who Won in Virginia?
Before we get into any more election analysis, I have to make a preliminary objection to what we are hearing this morning about the Virginia governor's race. Yes, we all play the expectations game, and Terry McAuliffe only won by two-and-a-half percent, which is less than most of the late polls anticipated. But to read this morning's spin, you'd think he (and the Democratic Party) actually lost. The results are being widely read exactly as Ken Cuccinelli wanted them to be read: a negative "referendum on Obamacare." Politico's James Hohmann, in a piece entitled "Why Terry McAuliffe barely won," draws bright red arrows pointing to an exit poll showing that 53% of voters said they opposed Obamacare. That's entirely in line with about three years of polling about the Affordable Care Act, and doesn't indicate any last minute "surge" against the law.
Michael Tomasky at The Daily Beast: The Wrong Election Takeaways From Christie's Win, Virginia, and More:
The conventional wisdom on New Jersey: Huge Chris Christie win sets him up to steamroll his way to the Republican nomination in 2016, proving that a more mainstream conservative can win in a blue state. The conventional wisdom on Virginia: Ken Cuccinelli's stinging loss in a purple state in an off-off-year election against Terry McAuliffe, a flawed Democratic candidate, shows not only that he was too extreme but also that Virginia is inching its way into the Democratic column. As the Times put it in its headline, "McAuliffe Win Points to Virginia Changes."
Well, God invented conventional wisdom so people like me could beat it down. In New Jersey, Christie doesn't emerge from his victory nearly as strong as he appears to. And the Virginia outcome isn't really very strong for Democrats, especially down the ballot. No, I'm not buying into the right-wing spin that Cuccinelli's narrow margin of defeat really represents some kind of loss for Obamacare. It does not.
Peter Beinart at The Daily Beast: Chris Christie Is No George W. Bush, and 2016 Is Definitely Not 2000:
In the wake of Chris Christie's reelection romp on Tuesday, the press is filled withcomparisons between the New Jersey governor and a pre-presidency George W. Bush. They're both Republican governors who appear moderate and bipartisan compared to their party's zealots in Washington. They're both beloved by big donors. Each has made inroads among the Democratic-leaning constituencies with whom Republicans must do better. But there's a problem with the analogy. It's unlikely Christie can "win" the presidency by running as a second Bush, in part [because] America still remembers the first one.
Lots more at the link.
Did you hear about the priceless art works stolen by the Nazis that were found in a dirty, run-down apartment in Munich, Germany? From NPR:
The revelation Monday that more than 1,000 paintings and prints seized by the Nazis during World War II were found in a Munich apartment has set off excitement in the art world and spurred anger among Jewish groups that German officials didn't publicize the discovery when it was first made.
With a potential value of $1.35 billion, the trove of art contains previously unknown works by Henri Matisse and Marc Chagall; other artists represented include Pablo Picasso, Auguste Renoir and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
The stash of art was reported by Germany's Focus magazine Monday, under the headline "The Nazi Treasure" (Der Nazi-Schatz). Tax officials discovered the cache when they visited the cluttered Munich apartment of Cornelius Gurlitt, a descendant of a man who was an official in wartime Germany.
Of nearly 1,400 oil paintings, prints and other works, 1,285 had been stacked in a drawer, unframed. They include work by German expressionists such as Franz Marc and Max Beckmann, in addition to a previously unknown self-portrait by Otto Dix. The trove also includes Albrecht Dürer and Canaletto, who worked in earlier centuries — a detail that could make the collection's origins even more difficult to explain.
The paintings were found in 2011, but the stunning and unprecedented discovery was just announced this week. A couple more links:
Max Fisher at WaPo: Why Nazi-seized art is only now resurfacing – and how it will change the art world.
Bloomberg: Nazi Art Trove Surprises Family Searching for 70 Years.
This will be a story to watch for anyone who is interested in fine art. We still don't know for sure which paintings were found.
The NFL is back in the news, and, again, it's not in a good way. It's a story of racially charged bullying and hazing at the Miami Dolphins. Reportedly, a veteran player, Richie Incognito was told by someone at the team to "toughen up" rookie Jonathan Martin. Even the GM may have been involved. Incognito, who is white, chose to do so by leaving messages containing racial slurs on Martin's voicemail. Martin, who is African American, ended up in the hospital for emotional distress and eventually left the team. If you can believe it, other Dolphins players and veterans of the team are supporting Incognito.
Here are a couple of interesting reactions to the story.
Valerie Strauss at the WaPo: If a 6'5, 312-pound Miami Dolphin can be bullied…
Jonathan Martin, the 6-foot-5-inch, 312-pound Miami Dolphin offensive lineman who left the NFL team because he was being bullied by at least one other player, has done a favor for school kids everywhere.
How can such a big guy get bullied? Because bullying behavior isn't about physical intimidation. It's about mind control and creating fear — and no one, not even very large professional athletes — are immune. That's a useful message for kids and adults working to create safe climates at their schools.
So is the way Martin ultimately handled his problem. After many months of being a victim, he got up, walked away and later accused the Dolphins of creating and allowing an unsafe work environment. He is forcing the powers that be to take a look at the problem. As my Post colleague Sally Jenkins wrote in this column:
Turns out the real tough guy is Martin, whose decision to rebel against a vicious culture in the Dolphins' locker room has triggered a league-level investigation of [suspended Dolphin Richie] Incognito, and, if reports are true, needs to extend to other veteran players and management as well.
In schools, the programs that work best in combating bullying are those that teach kids that they can't stand by and watch bullies go after other students. Bystanders have to get help — and everybody in the school, adults included — have to be on the same page. That didn't happen in Miami.
Veteran WaPo sportswriter Tom Boswell: Richie Incognito bullying allegations are the latest in long list of NFL problems.
Where are we? Where is pro football? The NFL doesn't have a PR problem. It has a reality problem. And it may be a grave one. Every month — and it seems every few days — the NFL is inundated by new, barely suspected revelations. What has the NFL become? Or is this what it has been for some time? Is the truth coming out of the shadows?
The list is stunning. Its cumulative effect, not any one particular item, is the true confidence-shaking shock.
The NFL is now the league of murder charges against Aaron Hernandez — gang execution style. The NFL is the league of murder, then suicide, with Jovan Belcher killing his girlfriend and then shooting himself in the head in a parking lot by his stadium as his coach and general manager watched….
The NFL is the league where future Hall of Famer Junior Seau, barely retired, shot himself in the heart so his brain could be studied by science to help prove that chronic traumatic encephalopathy is a core part of football, with risk of brain damage down to the smallest kids who play it….
The NFL is the league of thug bullies such as suspended Miami Dolphins guard Richie Incognito, who allegedly extorted money, texted racist insults and made death threats to a younger teammate. It's the league of $15,000 stripper parties in Las Vegas, paid for by intimidated, hazed rookies who don't make the trip but pay the check even if it busts them.
The article is well worth a read even if you don't follow sports.
We've been talking a lot lately about the studies that show that rich people are more narcissistic, less empathetic, more likely to be dishonest, rude, and thoughtless than other people. Here a long read at Alternet about the top 1% as functioning psychopaths: Inside the Psyche of the 1% — Many Actually Believe Their Ideology of Greed Makes for a Better World.
Do the rich and super-rich tend to be psychopaths, devoid of guilt or shame? Are the 1% lacking in compassion? Does their endless accumulation of possessions actually bring them little to no happiness? To each of these, the answer is "yes"—but a very qualified "yes" with lots of subtleties. Even more important is what these issues suggest for building a society which does not ravage the last remnants of wilderness and rush headlong into a climate change tipping point.
Check out the article to get all the details.
Those are my offerings for today; now what are you reading and blogging about? Please share your links in the comment thread.
Alec Baldwin and film armorer formally charged for Rust shooting

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using System;
using System.Data;
using System.Data.SqlClient;
using Pchp.Core;
using Pchp.Library.Database;
using Pchp.Library.Resources;

namespace Peachpie.Library.MsSql
{
    internal sealed class SqlConnectionManager : ConnectionManager<PhpSqlDbConnection>
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Last failed connect attempt error message.
        /// </summary>
        public string FailConnectErrorMessage = "";

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets the manager singleton within runtime context.
        /// </summary>
        public static SqlConnectionManager GetInstance(Context ctx) => ctx.GetStatic<SqlConnectionManager>();

        protected override PhpSqlDbConnection CreateConnection(string/*!*/ connectionString)
        {
            return new PhpSqlDbConnection(this, connectionString);
        }
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// SQL connection resource.
    /// </summary>
    internal sealed class PhpSqlDbConnection : ConnectionResource
    {
        readonly SqlConnection _connection;

        readonly SqlConnectionManager _manager;

        internal SqlConnection SqlConnection => _connection;

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets underlaying connection.
        /// </summary>
        protected override IDbConnection ActiveConnection => _connection;

        ///// <summary>
        ///// Gets reference to script context. Cannot be <c>null</c>.
        ///// </summary>
        //readonly Context/*!*/_ctx;

        /// <summary>
        /// Creates a new connection resource.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="manager">Containing connection manager.</param>
        /// <param name="connectionString">Connection string.</param>
        public PhpSqlDbConnection(SqlConnectionManager manager, string/*!*/ connectionString)
            : base(connectionString, "mssql connection")
        {
            //if (ctx == null)
            //    throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(ctx));

            //_ctx = ctx;
            _manager = manager;
            _connection = new SqlConnection(connectionString);
            // TODO: Connection.InfoMessage += new SqlInfoMessageEventHandler(InfoMessage);
        }

        protected override void FreeManaged()
        {
            base.FreeManaged();

            _manager.RemoveConnection(this);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets a query result resource.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="reader">Data reader to be used for result resource population.</param>
        /// <param name="convertTypes">Whether to convert data types to PHP ones.</param>
        /// <returns>Result resource holding all resulting data of the query.</returns>
        protected override ResultResource/*!*/GetResult(IDataReader/*!*/ reader, bool convertTypes)
        {
            return new PhpSqlDbResult(this, reader, convertTypes);
        }

        /// <summary>
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SOURCES – EPISODE 029 CHOLERA
2020-05-08 age-of-victoria MEDICINE & DISEASE EPISODES, SOURCES 1 Comment
There are a huge number of sources on Cholera and the Victorian response to the great pandemics. It affected everything from science to art to culture to city planning. I used the following sources for episode 029, but there is so much more to discover. This should provide some good jump off points.
Queen Victoria's Diaries (herself, editors various)
Thomas, Amanda J "Cholera, The Victorian Plague"
Hidden extras: cholera comes to Victorian London http://broughttolife.sciencemuseum.org.uk/broughttolife/themes/publichealth/cholera
E Chadwick, Report on The Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population(Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1984) originally published 1842
Stephanie J Snow, Commentary: Sutherland, Snow and water: the transmission of cholera in the nineteenth century, International Journal of Epidemiology, Volume 31, Issue 5, October 2002, Pages 908–911, https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/31.5.908
Chan, Christina H et al. "Historical epidemiology of the second cholera pandemic: relevance to present day disease dynamics." PloS one vol. 8,8 e72498. 22 Aug. 2013, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0072498
http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow/pandemic1826-37.html (2nd pandemic)
http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow/pandemic1846-63.html (3rd pandemic "Asiatic Cholera Outbreak")
Global epidemics and impact of cholera https://www.who.int/topics/cholera/impact/en/
Amrita GHOSH, « The Horror of Contact: Understanding Cholera in Mann's Death in Venice », Transtext(e)s Transcultures 跨文本跨文化 [En ligne], 12 | 2017, mis en ligne le 24 octobre 2018, consulté le 26 mars 2020. https://journals.openedition.org/transtexts/779
Illness as a metaphor https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1978/01/26/illness-as-metaphor/
Mohammed, Yahaya et al. "Antimicrobial resistance of Vibrio cholerae from sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review." African journal of laboratory medicine vol. 7,2 778. 6 Dec. 2018, doi:10.4102/ajlm.v7i2.778
https://www.wired.com/story/farm-animals-are-the-next-big-antibiotic-resistance-threat/
Chan, Christina H et al. "Historical epidemiology of the second cholera pandemic: relevance to present day disease dynamics." PloS one vol. 8,8 e72498. 22 Aug. 2013, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0072498 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3749991/
Epstein, Paul S. Algal blooms in the spread and persistence of cholera. Biosystems Volume 31, Issues 2–3, 1993, Pages 209-221
Platizky, Roger S. "Tennyson and Cholera." Victorian Poetry, vol. 35, no. 4, 1997, pp. 533–542. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40002266. Accessed 26 Apr. 2020.
Brice, A. W. C., and K. J. Fielding. "Dickens and the Tooting Disaster." Victorian Studies, vol. 12, no. 2, 1968, pp. 227–244. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3826494. Accessed 29 Apr. 2020.
http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/14th-april-1849/9/her-majestys-secretary-for-the-colonies-having-con
http://thecircumlocutionoffice.com/blog/tooting-pauper-farm/18490217-examiner/
https://blackwells.co.uk/extracts/9780199202584_ormerod.pdf
https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?div=t18490409-919 (The Drouet Tooting Infant Establishment Disaster Case)
https://www.buckingham.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Charles-Dickens-and-Medicine.pdf
SOURCES FOR QUEEN VICTORIA'S CORONATION.
SOURCES ON QUEEN VICTORIA'S CORONATION
Details on Queen Victoria's coronation are available, but the event is often skimmed over in popular histories on the topic. I touched on her coronation in episode 24, and used the following sources to provide a favour of the day. Tracking down the musical and Order of Service was tricky, but luckily some dedicated Circular in 1902 had gone to a lot of trouble to do a detailed reconstruction, and I'm really glad about that. I will add to this list when I do a future deep dive into the coronation.
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/11/18/queen-victoria/
https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/material-relating-to-the-coronation-of-queen-victoria
http://www.queen-victorias-scrapbook.org/contents/2-4.html
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40002938?
"Music at the Last Coronation." The Musical Times and Singing Class Circular, vol. 43, no. 707, 1902, pp. 18–21
Coronation Order of Service: https://www.westminster-abbey.org/media/5487/queen-victoria-coronation-music.pdf
Fredeman, William E. "Introduction: 'England Our Home, Victoria Our Queen.'" Victorian Poetry, vol. 25, no. 3/4, 1987, pp. 1–
Durbach, Nadja. "Roast Beef, the New Poor Law, and the British Nation, 1834–63." Journal of British Studies, vol. 52, no. 4, 2013, pp. 963–989.
In addition to those, I consulted the usual general sources on Victoria that are listed in the sources for episodes on Victoria's early life.
Sources on Politics 1820s&1830s
Political history is always complicated; below are the main sources I've used for the politics episodes set in the 1820's and 1830's. You can always find plenty more, depending on your particular interests. Hopefully these are a useful starting point.
https://www.alistairlexden.org.uk/news/hanoverian-succession-and-downfall-tory-party-tercentenary-essay
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/emancipation2.html
https://history.blog.gov.uk/2012/01/01/the-institution-of-prime-minister/
https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/periods/hanoverians/ultra-tories-and-fall-wellington-government-1830
https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/50994/220.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
http://www.irishidentity.com/stories/emancipation.htm
Napier, C "The War in Syria Vol 1" https://www.gutenberg.org/files/53498/53498-h/53498-h.htm
Best, Geoffrey. "The Scottish Victorian City." Victorian Studies, vol. 11, no. 3, 1968, pp. 329–358. JSTOR,
Fraser, Derek. "Politics and the Victorian City." Urban History Yearbook, [6], 1979, pp. 32–45.
Morris, J. "Victorian Values in Scotland and England" https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/sites/default/files/78p031.pdf
R.A. Schweitzer BRITISH CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION MOBILIZATION, PROTOTYPE OF REFORM? University of Michigan December 1980
O'Ferrall, Fergus. "'The Only Lever . . .'? The Catholic Priest in Irish Politics 1823-29." Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, vol. 70, no. 280, 1981, pp. 308–324
Moriarty, Thomas F. "The Irish American Response to Catholic Emancipation." The Catholic Historical Review, vol. 66, no. 3, 1980, pp. 353–373
Melissa Score, review of The Dawn of the Cheap Press in Victorian Britain: the End of the 'Taxes on Knowledge', 1849-1869https://reviews.history.ac.uk/review/1675
JENKINS, BRIAN. Era of Emancipation: British Government of Ireland, 1812-1830. McGill-Queen's University Press, 1988
Lingelbach, Anna Lane. "William Huskisson as President of the Board of Trade." The American Historical Review, vol. 43, no. 4, 1938, pp. 759–774.
Sinha, Mrinalini. "Britishness, Clubbability, and the Colonial Public Sphere: The Genealogy of an Imperial Institution in Colonial India." Journal of British Studies, vol. 40, no. 4, 2001, pp. 489–521.
Smyth, Jim, and Alan McKinlay. "Whigs, Tories and Scottish Legal Reform c. 1785-1832." Crime, Histoire & Sociétés / Crime, History & Societies, vol. 15, no. 1, 2011, pp. 111–132.
Wasson, Ellis Archer. "The Great Whigs and Parliamentary Reform, 1809-1830." Journal of British Studies, vol. 24, no. 4, 1985, pp. 434–464.
Phillips, John A., and Charles Wetherell. "The Great Reform Act of 1832 and the Political Modernization of England." The American Historical Review, vol. 100, no. 2, 1995, pp. 411–436.
Tewari, Archana. "THE REFORM BILL (1832) AND THE ABLOLITION OF SLAVERY (1833): A CARIBBEAN LINK." Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, vol. 73, 2012
Rubinstein Britain's Century.
Kate Williams Becoming Queen.
Julie Baird Queen Victory
A N Wilson Queen Victoria
Letters of Queen Victoria (by herself).
SOURCES: PETERLOO MASSACRE
There are a lot of sources for this episode. I used a lot of general background material on the period, and on the British Military that I'd used for the Napoleonic Episodes and Mt Tambora
Specific sources for the Peterloo episode were
"Hand Weavers Lament" (Traditional/Popular song)
Artists Print "The Manchester Reform Meeting Dispersed by Civilian and Military Power." from August 1819
HONE, WILLIAM "The Political House that Jack Built"
Simon Schama's History of England vol2
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jan/04/peterloo-massacre-bloody-clash-that-changed-britain
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/29/peterloo-britain-kings-queens-mike-leigh-massacre
E.P. Thompson The making of the working class
MESSINGER, G: "Manchester in the Victorian Age – The Half Known City"
Riding, J; "Peterloo, the story of the massacre"
Walker, A. Stanley. "Peterloo, Shelley and Reform." PMLA, vol. 40, no. 1, 1925, pp. 128–164.
POOLE, ROBERT. "'By the Law or the Sword': Peterloo Revisited." History, vol. 91, no. 2 (302), 2006, pp. 254–276
POOLE, ROBERT; "The Manchester Observer: biography of a radical
newspaper" http://clok.uclan.ac.uk/28037/1/28037.pdf
https://revjosephharrison.wordpress.com/the-peterloo-era-1819/ (A good article with plenty of primary source letters quoted).
http://britishcavalryregiments.com/35-15H/15H.html
https://www.nam.ac.uk/explore/15th-kings-hussars
https://london-medals.co.uk/the-exceptional-and-important-peninsular-war-southern-france-1814-orthes-and-toulouse-well-documented-waterloo-1815-and-possible-peterloo-massacre-officer-s-pair-awarded-to-lieutenant-later-colonel-henry-lane-15th-king-s-regiment-of-hussars-later-1st
Report of the Metropolitan and Central Committee, appointed for the relief of the Manchester sufferers; with an appendix, containing the names of the sufferers, and the nature and extent of their injuries. (https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/lists-of-the-killed-and-wounded-from-the-peterloo-massacre)
http://historyofpublicspace.uk/peterloo/
http://www.peterloomassacre.org/names.html This is the spreadsheet with the complete list of the victims, occupations, age/sex, and cause of death. It is a fantastic source.
SOURCES – MASTER CRIMINAL CHARLES PEACE
2019-06-04 age-of-victoria SOURCES, William Habron & Charles Peace 0 Comments
Charlies Peace, Master of Disguise.
Charles Peace was notorious during his criminal career. He is a favourite of many historical true crime fans. There are a lot of events and anecdotes about him; too many to cover in one show.
For the outline I gave you, I used the following sources.
Smith, Jacob. "A Distinguished Burglar: The Cinematic Life of a Criminal Social Type." Journal of Film and Video, vol. 63, no. 4, 2011, pp. 35–43. JSTOR,
The Banner Cross Murder; Confession by the Prisoner." Manchester Guardian 25 Jan. 1879
D Hanrahan: The Victorian Master Criminal: Charles Peace and the Murders of Cock and Dyson
Duman, Daniel. "Pathway to Professionalism: The English Bar in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries." Journal of Social History, vol. 13, no. 4, 1980, pp. 615–628.
Schramm, Jan-Melissa. "'The Anatomy of a Barrister's Tongue': Rhetoric, Satire, and the Victorian Bar in England." Victorian Literature and Culture, vol. 32, no. 2, 2004, pp. 285–303.
Wong, Yue-Chim Richard. "An Economic Analysis of the Crime Rate in England and Wales, 1857-92." Economica, vol. 62, no. 246, 1995, pp. 235–246.
Swift, Roger. "Urban policing in early Victorian England, a reappraisal" https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/modules/hi398/timetable/seminar2/j.1468-229x.1988.tb02152.x.pdf
Leigh, L. H. "Manslaughter and the Limits of Self-Defence." The Modern Law Review, vol. 34, no. 6, 1971, pp. 685–690. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1094588.
http://www.historybytheyard.co.uk/charlie_peace.htm
https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/sites/files/oxlaw/the_impact_of_being_wrongly_accused_of_abuse_hoyle_speechley_burnett_final_26_may.pdf
https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3041344/3041351/77/Hugh%20William%20Griffiths
https://digital.nls.uk/english-ballads/archive/74893357?mode=transcription
Enthusiasts can find plenty more about him as there are plenty of sources and he pops up everywhere. I even saw a photo of one of his violins on Twitter. It has been put in a museum.
Sources on Napoleon & The 100 Days
In the first episodes of the Age of Victoria we've been covering Napoleon and the 100 days. There are a ton of great sources out there. I've used
Memoirs of Napoleon by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne.
The 100 Days by Philip Guedalla.
Waterloo: A French Perspective by Andrew Field.
Prelude to Waterloo: Quatre Bras: The French Perspective by Andrew Field
Siborne's 1815 Campaign Vol 1: The March to Waterloo.
The Ascendancy of Europe: 1815-1914 by MS Anderson.
French History since Napoleon edited by Martin S. Alexander.
Waterloo 1815: Quarte Bras (Waterloo campaign).
Redcoat by Richard Holmes.
With Napoleon's Guns: The Military Memoirs of an Officer of the 1st Empire by Colonel Jean-Nicolas-Auguste Noel
Wellington's Guns: The Untold Story of Wellington and his Artillery in the Peninsula and at Waterloo by Colonel Nick Lipscombe
Rifles: Six Years with Wellington's Legendary Sharpshooters by Nick Urban
Swords Around a Throne: Napoleon's Grande Armee by John Elting
Art of Warfare in the Age of Napoleon by Gunther Rothenburg
Marshal Louis Davout and the Art of Command by Major John M Keefe
Napoleon and his Marshalls by MacDonell
Waterloo: the aftermath by Paul O'Keeffe
French and British Sources will all contain some bias's. Primary sources will naturally have limited views due to the confusion during battles, or the relative positions of the observers. Junior officers particularly tended to have a limited view point and overestimate the importance of their section of the conflict. After the restoration of the Bourbons, the writings of many senior French officers and key Bonapartists were necessarily constrained.
Other primary sources will be plagued by bias's where people exaggerate their own importance (consciously or otherwise), or they will slander people they dislike or adopt national prejudices. Napoleon was habitually dishonest when it suited him and he was bad at accepting fault, preferring to shift the blame onto his subordinates albeit often deservedly. Still primary sources provide one of the best windows into events at the time and how contemporaries perceived them. Napoleon in particular has suffered at the hands of pro and anti Napoleon historians and writers, so especial care should be taken when reading Napoleonic sources. British sources are very prone to adopting a British=good guys, French=bad guys dichotomy.
This barely scratches the surface. There are reading materials covering everything from uniforms to supply wagons to cooking equipment to grand strategy. There are officers journals and accounts by private soldiers. Napoleon had an incredible career so it is well worth diving deeper into.


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Palazzina Vincenti is a residential building overlooking Balluta Bay in St Julian's, Malta. It was built in 1948 by architect Gustavo R. Vincenti as his own residence, and it is considered to be one of the best examples of Modernist architecture in its country. As of 2021, it is currently proposed that the building be demolished and replaced by a hotel.

History
Palazzina Vincenti was designed by Gustavo R. Vincenti, a prominent Maltese architect, as his personal residence. It has been described as the epitome of his own architectural development, in which he embraced the Modernist style as opposed to Art Nouveau and Art Deco which had influenced his earlier works. It was constructed in 1948, and Vincenti lived in the building until his death in 1974. The architect's son, Hilaire Vincenti, subsequently lived there until his own death in 2019.

A request to schedule the building was submitted by architect Edward Said to the Planning Authority (PA) in 2019. By 2021 the property was split between several owners including the developer Carlo Stivala, and parts of the building were in a dilapidated state. In November 2021 it was reported that Stivala submitted an application to the PA to demolish the building and replace it with a 14-storey hotel designed by architect Robert Musumeci. Following this proposal, the Superintendence of Cultural Heritage, the AD+PD political party and other organisations and individuals including the mayor of St Julian's made numerous calls for preserving the building, citing its historical and architectural importance. On 17 December 2021, the PA issued an Emergency Conservation Order which granted it Grade 1 scheduling for a year.

Architecture

Palazzina Vincenti is one of the best examples of Modernist architecture in Malta, and it is one of the earliest residential buildings of this style in the country.

The building consists of a number of filleted cubic volumes built over a group of garages. The façades are characterised by plain limestone walls with long horizontal windows and cantilevered concrete balconies with austere steel railings. Internally, the residence includes a grand foyer, waffle slab ceilings and a prominent staircase built out of concrete.

The building also contains a tunnel which leads to the foreshore of Balluta Bay.

See also
 Balluta Buildings, an Art Nouveau building located at the opposite end of Balluta Bay

References

External links

1948 establishments in Malta
Houses in Malta
Limestone buildings in Malta
Modernist architecture in Malta
Houses completed in 1948
St. Julian's, Malta

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A multiple-award-winning documentary about Jamaica's vibrant and fascinating dancehall scene is set to enthrall audiences as part of the annual We Beat festival, on Saturday 2 June from 7pm at the St James Amphitheatre.
The screening of Hit Me With Music is part of the trinidad + tobago film festival (ttff) and bpTT Community Cinergy series of film screenings, and is presented in association with the St James Community Improvement Committee. Admission is free of charge and open to all persons 16 years and over.
Released in 2011 and directed by Miquel Galofré, Hit Me With Music is a brilliant exploration of the various facets of dancehall culture, including feuds between rival musicians, skin bleaching, and the "daggering" phenomenon. Dancehall pioneers Yellowman and the late Bogle make appearances in the film, as well as more recent stars Elephant Man, Mavado and Vybz Kartel.
The film—which has been playing to enthusiastic audiences in North America and Europe—won both the jury and audience awards for best documentary at the ttff/11. Following the screening there will be a Q&A session with the director.
Before the film there will be a lime, from 6pm. Food and drinks will be on sale.
Date: Wed 23 May, 2012
Category: community cinema, ttff news and features
Tags: hit me with music, miquel galofré, ttff/12, we beat


Every morning, as Lynn Schmidt walks out of her Long Island, N.Y., home, opens the door to her baby-blue Prius, waves to her grumbling neighbor and pulls out of the driveway, she has every reason to smile.
It's not just the 45 miles per gallon her gasoline-electric hybrid vehicle is getting. And it's not only that she can go three weeks without a fill-up.
It's also because that through her choice of automobile, Lynn is doing what she considers her share of being ecologically reasonable.
"Everyone should be concerned about the level of emissions," says Schmidt. "We all need to do our part and make changes for the better."
She's not alone. With skyrocketing oil prices, many owners of hybrid vehicles and practitioners of the "green" lifestyle are seeing their eco-friendly choices pay off.
But that's led to some grumblings from late adopters — and charges that the greener-than-thou are guilty of "eco-snobbery."
Schmidt says she bought the Prius two years ago partly because of the huge potential savings on gasoline, but also because the car offered her a chance to be environmentally conscious.
The other day, she pulled up next to another Prius — and the two drivers exchanged a knowing smile of eco-camaraderie.
"There can be some smugness on the part of the Prius owners because it's distinctive," says Michael Omotoso of the automotive-marketing-data giant J.D. Power and Associates. "It's 'Hey, look at me, I'm driving a hybrid!'"
Studies conducted by J.D. Power show that the typical hybrid purchaser is better educated and wealthier than the average car buyer. Furthering the exclusivity is the fact that available hybrids are hard to find.
"If someone wants a Prius, they better put the order in," says Erin Dwyer, a salesperson at Sunrise Toyota of Oakdale, N.Y. "The list is getting longer each day."
Waiting lists of three months seem to be common nationwide, to the point where an online support group has sprung up.
Auto analysts say that in California, demand is so high that used Priuses go for close to what a new one would sell for.
"Unless Toyota sends a lot more cars, we're going to see Prius wait lists spin out again to about six months," one Berkeley, Calif., Toyota dealer told HybridCars.com in June.
In fact, sales were down in June of this year because dealers simply ran out of stock, prompting Toyota to switch a planned Mississippi factory's production line from Highlander SUVs to Priuses.
This gives the entire idea of hybrid driving a slightly our-crowd feel.
"I think that we Prius owners need a dating/whatever program, to hook us up with other Prius owners," says one poster on Priuschat.com.
He admits it's half a joke, but says it "stems from my inability to look at people with gas-burning cars as attractive."
It's clear that hybrid buyers want to appear environmentally conscious, observes Aaron Bragman, a Detroit-based research analyst with the Global Insight economic-forecasting company.
"A big component [of hybrid ownership] is the social aspect," he says, adding that if a consumer just wanted to save money on gas, he or she could buy a new subcompact for $11,000 instead of forking out a minimum of $22,000 for a hybrid.
Toss in the tax breaks and access to highway HOV lanes that hybrid drivers get in many locales, and it's no wonder old-school drivers can get irritated.
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Some environmentalists are cheered that skyrocketing hybrid sales seem to be boosting green awareness in general.
The Center for Science Teaching and Learning, a Rockville Centre, N.Y.-based organization that houses animal exhibits and educational displays about nature, is seeing 40 percent more bookings as a birthday-party venue this year as compared to 2007.
Green-related inquiries to the center, such as asking how to use eco-friendly products in a home garden or how to get a hydrogen-powered car, have increased 56 percent from last year, says Director Ray Ann Havasy.
But as with many aspects of the environmentally consciously lifestyle, such as organic milk in the supermarket or the surcharge New York's Con Edison utility slaps on kilowatt-hours generated by wind turbines, there's a premium to be paid.
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That principle applied to automobiles is what's preventing a lot of potential hybrid buyers from making the switch.
Long Island mom Beth Wollweber says a brand-new hybrid just isn't economically feasible right now, even though it takes about $150 to fill up her old GMC Suburban, which she uses mainly just to run errands around town and doesn't think she could sell for much.
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Priyanka in Delhi
Chitrangda Singh rarely shows us her private side, preferring to focus on her Bollywood career instead. So we decided to dig in, and find out what makes the gorgeous actress tick, what makes her angry, how she met and fell in love with husband Jyoti Randhawa, how she brings up son Zorawar even though she's constantly travelling.
In a two-part series, Priyanka interviewed the men in Chitrangda's life, to get a sense of what the actress is all about.
Here, she speaks to her golfer husband Jyoti Randhawa.
One of the most well-known golfers in the country, Jyoti Randhawa lives a quiet life in a Delhi suburb, while wife Chitrangda Singh is busy charting a career in Bollywood.
Not many know that Jyoti didn't know right away that he wanted to be play golf professionally. He was good swimmer and played basketball, hockey, football and cricket in school. Golf came much later, and stayed with him.
He now stays and practices in Delhi, and misses his wife when she's away.
Jyoti talks about his life with Chitrangda, how they met, and how their relationship has matured over the years:
How was life before Chitrangada's career in movies started?
Oh, it was a wonderful time. She married a golfer and travelled the world for the first seven years of our marriage. For these seven years, we were hips attached to one another. We traveled all across Europe, Japan and Asia. I feel grateful that she travelled with me and supported me.
A few years ago, she signed her first movie, and then took a break and we had a son.
Now, I think that those years gave a very solid base to our marriage. We like to give each other space and time and let the other do what we want to do.
Image: Chitrangda Singh and Jyoti Randhawa
'Her look, especially when she gets angry, was getting repetitive in Inkaar'
How did she get her first break in movies?
She had done a few modeling assignments, and then we got married. After a chance meeting with (filmmaker) Sudhir Mishra for a screen test when he had come to Delhi, she bagged her first role in a feature film (Hazaaron Khwahishein Aisi, in 2003).
I think it is amazing because she has had no training in acting, she's never gone to a drama school. She is a natural.
Do you give her inputs on her work? Are you critical about it as well?
Frankly, I do tell straight up what I don't like. Sometimes, I know it's not good for the artist to hear that kind of stuff and hear someone close get critical.
For instance, in her latest film Inkaar, I pointed out that her look, especially when she gets angry, was getting repetitive. You can't get angry in the same way all the time. And I thought it was strange because I have seen her angry in real life. She needs to work on it, on getting a variety of skills, of different moods.
I liked the movie though and thought it should have done more business.
Image: Chitrangda Singh in Inkaar
'She gets angry about me not working hard'
What does she get angry about in real life?
In real life, she gets angry about me not working hard.
She feels I am not practicing enough and not putting my best effort in golf. She thinks that I can do much more than what I have done and that I need to push myself.
I like to relax while she just can't sit at home. She gets angry and hyper often about the fact that I like sitting at home.
Chitrangda is very energetic, she wants to do something all the time.
How is she as a person?
She is bindaas. She's very concerned about her diet and exercise, and I understand that because she has to maintain herself. But she does not strain herself over it.
We have been married for almost 12 years now, and over the years, she has become more of a friend than a wife.
She loves sports. That's one of the things we have in common. She likes tennis and golf.
As a mother, I don't see her getting too protective about our son, Zorawar. She gives him space, and lets him be. She lets him experiment. She loves spending time with Zorawar and me, wrestling in bed, throwing pillows at each other...
I am very calm, relaxed and patient, whereas she likes to know what people are talking or doing. She is a very people person.
Image: Chitrangda Singh with Jyoti Randhawa and their son
'It used to bother me initially that we were not together as we used to be'
Is it hard to maintain a long distance relationship, now that Chitrangda stays in Mumbai for work and you live in Delhi?
A long distance relationship is tough to handle since both of us are traveling. Luckily, our son is very understanding and mature. So far, we have lucky that we are able to manage our home well. I stay at home when she is working, and when I have to go for golf tournaments, she returns home. So one of us is always there for Zorawar.
It used to bother me initially that we were not together as we used to be. But this is how I reason it: When I played gold, she followed me. Now, when she has an opportunity to do what she likes, I should do the same.
I do get concerned about her safety, and we stay in touch on the phone or SMS.
I do miss her. The house feels empty without the woman of the house but our professions are demanding. I like the feeling of doing what we have to do and then coming back stronger to each other.
Image: Akshay Kumar and Chitrangda Singh in Desi Boyz
'Someone asked me if Chitrangda and I were separating. I was utterly shocked'
How did you two meet?
My dad was in the same regiment in the army as her father was. The first time I saw her was when I had gone to her house; she was in class 8 then and I was in the last year of school. She moved to Delhi later and we moved as well, as my father was posted here.
That's when we started going around. The courtship lasted for five years.
How do you take filmi gossip about link ups? Does it bother you?
I have to realise that it's masala for people, to sell magazines. We know who we are. We are a simple family with an army background, we enjoy life and want to stay with each other. If people are going to talk about something we don't even know, let them talk. It doesn't bother me. And if I am not bothered then she is also not bothered.
On my part, if people want to indulge in gossip, there is nothing I am going to do about it.
I often tell her that in your profession, you have to be strong and take everything in your stride.
What is the craziest rumour you've heard?
Someone asked me if Chitrangda and I were separating. I was utterly shocked. I don't know how these stories come up.
Image: Arjun Rampal, Chitrangda Singh and Sudhir Mishra
Photographs: Pradeep Bandekar
'Before, she was a simple girl'
What changes do you see in her since her career in films started?
She has become stronger and more independent. She is more aware of the world now. Before, she was a simple girl.
Many people admire the way she dresses. What do you think suits her best?
Yes, she carries her outfits and herself very gracefully and I love that about her. She often tells me what to wear, and I give her inputs as well.
I love it when she wears khadi kurta or a patiala salwar because that is what she was wearing when I saw her in college -- a normal, simple girl, without make up.
Who is your favourite actress?
Among her contemporaries, I like her best. But I also like Madhuri Dixit and Rekha.
Image: Chitrangda Singh
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BALIANS AND HEALING ARTS | HEALING IN BALI
Have you ever been curious to learn more about healers in Bali? Here are some perspectives from both local and foreign healers based in Bali as well as tips on how to find and choose a healer if you wish to experience a healing session.
by Cat Wheeler
and Shervin Boloorian
Even before Covid-19, we were living in a time of mounting anxiety. Bali, with its strong spiritual traditions, became known as a 'healing centre' to which people flocked in search of a 'healer'. But what is a healer?
What is a healer?
From Cat Wheeler…
A healer 'holds the space' between the client's soul and the 'Divine'. This demands wisdom derived from their craft, experience, humility and impeccable integrity. Ultimately we are our own healers. In an era of instant gratification and dwindling standards people often arrive in Bali with the attitude, "You're a healer, fix me." But there are no quick fixes; a major aspect of healing is that we need to do our own work. So the role of a healer is catalytic, supporting our transition to balance.\
The word 'healer' is a very loaded one, carrying a cargo of surrender and expectation. The many visitors coming to Bali in search of 'healing' need to be aware that a wellness industry has sprung up to serve and sometimes exploit them. Not all who offer 'healing' are genuine or ethical. Seekers need to take responsibility not just for their own work but for those with whom they choose to work.
The Balian
There's a long history of magic and healing in Bali. But the ancient role of the Balian, who is guided by the gods to aid humans through mysticism and ritual, has been reduced to just another item on the tourist itinerary, sandwiched between a massage and a surfing lesson. "I've had people tell me they need to be at the airport by five o'clock but still have a few hours, so take me to a healer," said I Made Surya, who is named in Lonely Planet Online Travel as a leading authority on Balinese healers. "These are not people with problems to be solved; they look on it as entertainment." Balians are traditional healers who play an important part in the local culture by treating physical and mental illness, removing spells and channeling information from the ancestors. The Balian is an instrument of divine healing, and the client enters a covenant to receive this healing with respect, reverence and humility.
There are about 8,000 Balians practicing on Bali. The Book and film 'Eat Pray Love' focused international attention on Bali's men and women of magic. Surya reports an escalating demand from tourists to be taken to a 'healer' after its release. "Demand has created an industry. If tourists want to visit healers, then healers they shall have. It's become a good business. Ubud has the buzz, and it's become a stage for commercial enterprises delivering traditional healing." Both Balinese and Westerners are getting in on the act. According to Surya, there are plenty of bogus Balians out there. Genuine Balians don't advertise, draw attention to themselves or even like to be addressed as Balian. A visit to a genuine Balian will be very public, with all other visitors watching closely. S/he may make magic, create fire, use mudras, draw patterns on the body, spit wads of chewed herbs on your skin, apply scented oils, poke you with sharp sticks or perform a deep tissue massage or manipulation which can be very painful indeed. Many traditional Balians won't see foreigners at all because they feel it's too difficult to communicate the subtlety and nuance of their work across the language and cultural barriers, even with a translator.
How to choose a 'healer' to work with?
Be aware that the genuine will not boast or embellish when they advertise. Take time to learn whether the practitioner lives their practice. If a non-Balinese, research her/him online. There have been allegations of emotional, financial and sexual abuse from the 'healing' community in Bali.
Trust your intuition – you are placing your body and soul in this person's hands. If your gut says no, walk away.
If you choose to work with a Balian or non-Balinese 'healer', you still need to do your own work. That means showing up to your practice, whatever it may be, recognising the process, and acknowledging that there is no end to this path of finding and keeping our balance in life. The path to healing is one of endless growth and transformation. Find stillness, go deep, take time, examine what is painful, release what you no longer need to carry.
The Art of Healing
From Shervin Boloorian…
Indeed, 'healing' is often discredited as a field of practice largely because of a lack of humility among those making outlandish, farcical or unsubstantiated claims about their 'powers'. It's true there are unexplained healing miracles and mysteries the world over, but most acknowledge that there can be no attachment to outcomes. Healing is no substitute for medical science or psychological services either. It complements these by going outside of pure anatomical symptom-based analysis. After ten years of practice with sound, I have come to discover that healing is an art form.
It is not anywhere near a perfect science and it is not typically effective when purely intuition-based. If the healing practice is grounded in an ancient holistic study like Traditional Balinese or Chinese Medicine, then there is already a time-honored holistic system and body of literature or lineal wisdom in place.
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Healer or Hyper?
To echo Cat's point, those who have trained in the holistic arts know that the 'Golden Rule' is that nobody has the authority to force or fix anything. My first Balinese teacher, an exceptional channel called 'Jero Ayu Sekar', never once described herself as a 'healer'. She never claimed to 'fix' anybody's life. Nothing is, in fact, ever broken…
I have visited my share of Bali practitioners who embellish. One Western European past-life specialist lectured me about his abilities and my inadequacies for 40 minutes. I nodded and smiled. We were in the same room, but I may as well have been a piece of furniture. I finally interrupted and asked if he wanted to know why I had made the appointment to see him. "Fix-It-Felix" hyperbole and lack of practitioner presence turns off the public. Moreover, it muddies what a bona fide holistic practitioner is really about.
I have come to observe some of my so-called sound therapy peers in Bali (most with limited or no training) tell me that 'this tuning fork will help a person improve their relationships', 'this frequency from the latest new electronic sound wave device will evaporate depression and despair'. Other 'healers' are convinced that the shock of a giant metal instrument planted atop the crown or bashed against a crystal laid flat on someone's 'Third Eye' will somehow open their 'chakras'. Electrical devices, like surgical tools or drugs, can offer essential relief but can they substitute for the subtleties and evolution of a healing journey, which often requires a total recalibration of perception about illness?
Fresh Perception
Dealing with perceived flaws, frailties, excesses and absences requires outside support from a practitioner who defies allopathic or Judeo-Christian conventions. Each stage of life (including this surreal age we are in now) provides a fresh set of physical, emotional and mental challenges to navigate. Nothing can be fixed but 'healer-artists' can help. As we are witnessing today amidst a global crisis, the inability to interface in a healthy way with the outside world due to prejudice, worry, rage, paranoia, fear, grief etc is rooted in conflicted inner relationships. Talking about it with clinical counselors doesn't always work.
There are a number of esoteric gifts, tools, and techniques available in the energy world to open a receiver to appreciation, acceptance and new awareness. But the receiver has responsibility to do 85-90 percent of the work.
What I would add to Cat's list of how to choose a 'healer' is: be realistic about your expectations and beware of placing healers on too high a pedestal. Integrity is big but it is unrealistic to expect that anyone lives like a modern saint. ALL holistic artists struggle with their own imperfections. They have limits and vulnerabilities. They are on their own journeys too. Unhealthy projections placed on holistic professionals by their guests create the illusion that healers are incapable of making mistakes. I believe the age of the 'Guru' is over precisely because we are realizing that everyone, including the advanced spiritualists, are flawed and cannot know it all. Life is a 360 degree healing journey; or, as a Jungian might put it, everyone has a shadow.
Holistic practitioners are artists first. Quality matters in art. Solid training, experience and credentials matter. When someone joyfully and repeatedly shows up to their craft they become better at serving through it. Those working with sound, color, essences, movement, visualization, Light, Nature's Elements, healing touch or other energy modalities can provide added vibrance to the energetic painting already adorning the human canvas. Ultimately, the healer-artist is a space holder and cheerleader for the soul's unique, incomparably exceptional qualities that are already complete inside each being.
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Q: Install Scip optimization I'm trying install Scip optimization for python and I'm following a video but in the video it is installing Scip Optimization 7, and I'm installing Scip Optimization 8. Then I need to install on prompt too.

pip install pyscipopt

but it gave me an error:
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C:\Users\matsu>pip install pyscipopt
Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
Collecting pyscipopt
Using cached PySCIPOpt-4.2.0.tar.gz (661 kB)
Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... done
Requirement already satisfied: wheel in c:\users\matsu\appdata\roaming\python\python39\site-packages (from pyscipopt) (0.37.1)
Building wheels for collected packages: pyscipopt
Building wheel for pyscipopt (setup.py) ... error
error: subprocess-exited-with-error
× python setup.py bdist_wheel did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
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Assuming that SCIP is installed globally, because SCIPOPTDIR is undefined.
  running bdist_wheel
  running build
  running build_py
  creating build
  creating build\lib.win-amd64-3.9
  creating build\lib.win-amd64-3.9\pyscipopt
  copying src\pyscipopt\Multidict.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.9\pyscipopt
  copying src\pyscipopt\__init__.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.9\pyscipopt
  copying src\pyscipopt\scip.pyx -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.9\pyscipopt
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  copying src\pyscipopt\relax.pxi -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.9\pyscipopt
  copying src\pyscipopt\sepa.pxi -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.9\pyscipopt
  running build_ext
  building 'pyscipopt.scip' extension
  error: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 or greater is required. Get it with "Microsoft C++ Build Tools": https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/visual-cpp-build-tools/
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note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
ERROR: Failed building wheel for pyscipopt
Running setup.py clean for pyscipopt
Failed to build pyscipopt
Installing collected packages: pyscipopt
Running setup.py install for pyscipopt ... error
error: subprocess-exited-with-error
× Running setup.py install for pyscipopt did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
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Assuming that SCIP is installed globally, because SCIPOPTDIR is undefined.
  running install
  running build
  running build_py
  creating build
  creating build\lib.win-amd64-3.9
  creating build\lib.win-amd64-3.9\pyscipopt
  copying src\pyscipopt\Multidict.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.9\pyscipopt
  copying src\pyscipopt\__init__.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.9\pyscipopt
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  copying src\pyscipopt\benders.pxi -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.9\pyscipopt
  copying src\pyscipopt\benderscut.pxi -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.9\pyscipopt
  copying src\pyscipopt\branchrule.pxi -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.9\pyscipopt
  copying src\pyscipopt\conshdlr.pxi -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.9\pyscipopt
  copying src\pyscipopt\cutsel.pxi -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.9\pyscipopt
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  copying src\pyscipopt\sepa.pxi -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.9\pyscipopt
  running build_ext
  building 'pyscipopt.scip' extension
  error: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 or greater is required. Get it with "Microsoft C++ Build Tools": https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/visual-cpp-build-tools/
  [end of output]

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: legacy-install-failure
× Encountered error while trying to install package.
╰─> pyscipopt
note: This is an issue with the package mentioned above, not pip.
hint: See above for output from the failure.
Can anyone help me?

A: I was stuck with the same problem.
It was resolved by installing the "Microsoft C++ Build Tools" for desktop C++ development which I had not chosen in my earlier attempts.

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The scene is usually set like this: The youngsters have been home alone, and there is an urgent need for cleaning up. In the Arctic, however, the situation is quite opposite.
Following a long-lasting home-alone party for adults, a thorough cleaning up is needed before the coming generations of northerners assume power.
I have just left the arena following two days as participant, journalist and moderator at the High North Dialogue conference in Bodø. Those who argue that there has been an inflation in Arctic conferences probably have a point, though I do not necessarily agree. The conference arenas have a vast geographic range, and they also have vastly different contents and complement each other rather than compete.
High North Dialogue is characterized by aiming particularly at the younger generations, at those who are to assume power in eight Arctic states. Both the program, the participants and the many debates reflect this. Today's top leaders here face those who are on the threshold waiting to take over.
They meet in a time of great uncertainty paired with great opportunities.
Insecurities are first and foremost tied to the current security policy situation, climate challenges and an ageing and, with time, declining population.
The Arctic is still described by the states involved as a low-tension area, however, as State Secretary Audun Halvorsen of the Norwegian MFA said when meeting with ambassadors from a.o. Russia and the USA: We cannot take that for granted.
- We do not consider Russia a threat, but a concern.
At the same time as his statement came on the HND stage in Bodø, NATO's Secretary-General and former Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg brought the same worry into the American Congress. Using the alleged Russian violations of agreements limiting production and use of nuclear missiles as the main reason, Stoltenberg was repeatedly interrupted by American applause when continuing to push up NATO's national defense budgets.
Nevertheless, in the Arctic, dialogue is still to play the main part.
If dialogue is what it takes to keep the Arctic peaceful, dialogue is nevertheless not enough by far when it comes to the climate threat, if we are to believe our offspring. Dialogue must be replaced by action.
That is why this is where the clean-up has to start. Because just like climate change, the declining population also constitutes a major threat to the High North.
Simply put, we must clean up in the Arctic in order to make it an attractive region in which young people want to settle down. Colorful descriptions of the joys of living in the High North from those of us who are already convinced, and also blessed with a solid dose of well-wishing towards climate changes happening around us, will no longer do the trick.
Business in the Arctic is definitely about to make the necessary transition, though it is– to a far too high degree – still subject to decisions made further south.
- The development of necessary tools often takes place in the south, but are these tools fit for the High North? Dean Erlend Bullvåg at Nord University Business School asked after his presenting an abundance of numbers and statistics that demonstrate the potential of the international High North.
Erlend Bullvåg could have dropped the question mark.