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Catholic log chapel is Grand Teton wonder that 'evangelizes,' says deacon
Posted on October 21, 2016 by Administrator1
Father Lucas Kazimiro Simango greets Massgoers as they enter the log Chapel of the Sacred Heart in Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. (CNS/Nancy Wiechec)
(Fifth in a series)
By Nancy Wiechec
GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (CNS) — Mary Morris was lured to the Chapel of the Sacred Heart inside of the national park by a small wooden road sign.
"I didn't know the chapel was here," the Hampshire, Illinois, resident told Catholic News Service in August during a visit to Wyoming's popular national park. "I just happened to see the sign and stopped in."
(CNS illustration/Liz Agbey)
Morris had been camping in Yellowstone when she made the drive south to Grand Teton National Park.
She walked through the chapel door, made the sign of the cross, signed a guestbook and ducked into a pew to pray.
Afterward, she said the beauty of chapel in the Tetons made her feel grateful.
"I just came in here to say a little prayer of thanksgiving for everything."
The chapel's all-log construction is in character with the mountain environment.
Inside, shadows of swaying pine branches flitter behind the saturated hues of a single stained-glass window. The space is warm and quiet.
"It's a beautiful church, beautiful inside and outside," Morris said. "I really like it because of the setting. … This is such a gorgeous place and it keeps you very grounded."
Deacon Doug Vlchek has heard similar impressions expressed by other Sacred Heart visitors many times over.
The Catholic deacon lives in Grand Teton National Park and has had a connection with the chapel for much of his adult life. It's the place he says that makes him feels closest to God.
"This chapel does something for everybody that walks into it and certainly for everybody who worships here," he said. "This building evangelizes people."
The chapel was constructed in 1937 before the expansion of Grand Teton National Park. It now sits within the park's boundaries and is a summer mission of Our Lady of the Mountains Church, where Deacon Vlchek is based in nearby Jackson.
"On any given day we probably have 100 to 200 people come and visit this chapel, sit and pray for a little while, have a beautiful respite and some time to spend with God," he said.
When the church and chapel were founded in the late 1930s, the population of Teton County was 2,500 and was considered mission territory by the church. Today, the county has more than 22,000 residents and annual visitors numbering around 4 million.
The chapel has been restored twice, in the late 1960s and again in 2002. The latest renovation included new log beams, a new sanctuary and the addition of the Sacred Heart stained-glass window. The total cost — $450,000 — was funded by a single New York and Wyoming family in memory of the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Sacred Heart is open 24 hours a day June through September. During those months, Mass is celebrated Sunday evenings. It's closed in the winter.
Although a log chapel inside a national park might seem uncommon, there are actually two within Grand Teton.
Chapel of the Sacred Heart is located near the shore of Jackson Lake across from Signal Mountain. Further south, near the park's Moose entrance, is the Episcopal Chapel of the Transfiguration, constructed in 1925 to serve ranchers and tourists. Both worship spaces welcome all visitors.
During the National Park Service's centennial this year, visitors to many of the U.S. parks have told CNS the peace and beauty offered by these preserved outdoor spaces help them connect spiritually and the worship spaces inside the park perimeters add to that experience.
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I keep trying to listen to this for the tune, but can't pull myself away from the video.
I've been trying to find this song for 15 years. I didn't even know what or who it was.
If you haven't seen this by now, your life wasn't complete.
And now, for something dangerously funny: the Joker serenading "Look Who's Laughing Now", from Batman: Arkham Knight.
BRMBug wrote: I've been trying to find this song for 15 years. I didn't even know what or who it was.
Debbie dear give the people what they want!
Here is the first look at the sweet DC Super Villain movie coming out in 2016 called "Suicide Squad"
I think of this commercial every time I have to take the Manaboard (forklift for loading/unloading big stock from the warehouse shelves) up to get an appliance from the top shelves. The higher you go, the slower it moves.
Drunk Santa It's that time of the year.
'Tis the season. Happy hooooolidays Everybody.


You are here: Home FAQ Are there communities based on matriarchal structure?
Since I am familiar with lots of different projects in Germany and Austria, I know little about other countries. If somebody has information, let me know, I will add it here.
Webring of intentional communities - These web sites contain information and referrals for those who are actively seeking, or simply curious about, alternate lifestyles for themselves and their families.
Besides the mixed gender communities there is a rapidly growing number of "women's cohousing projects" in German countries, for women and their children only. I coudn't find something like that in English, even not an expression. Send info if you have; meanwhile I keep searching.
I started a section "Alternatives" under Weblinks and added Cohousing links.


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Stoneware plate, engobe and lustre decoration, diameter 51cm, 2013.
Stoneware vase with handle, engobe and lustre decoration, heigth ca 45 cm, 2011.
Stoneware scuplptures, engobe and lustre decoration, length of biggest chanterelle 45 cm, 2013.


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Q: How to design a dynamic page in Orchard? I am developing an IT company's home website using orchard CMS. It has 8 different pages with Header and Footer remaining same throughout. I have created home page in Orchard from the admin panel using widgets and modules. I am confused how do i create pages like Team, Services, About us. I know I can create pages using simple HTML editor provided in CMS. But the page has few widgets and modules defined. I am not sure how to place them on other pages. I am also aware about Layering in CMS. But, I don't think so that will help. Could some one direct me to a proper guide about creating multiple dynamic pages with different modules on each page?
Thanks

A: Your question is not very clear to me, so allow me you give you an outline...
First, you should create a new theme in Orchard. There are a lot of tutorials on how to do this, for example:
http://docs.orchardproject.net/Documentation/Writing-a-new-theme
After you created this theme, copy over all files in "views" and "styles" from the default theme (called TheThemeMachine) to your new theme to get a decent starting point. Finally set the new theme as current in the Orchard dashboard.
In your theme you can find "Layout.cshtml". That's the master view. Everything you put in there will render on all pages. So this is where you will typically place your header and footer stuff.
For each page, you need to create a seperate page. Main content goes into the html editor you mentioned.
Widgets are bound to layers. Layers can be bound to a url. So if you need a widget on one page only, create a layer with a url-rule then drop the widget on that layer.
If you need more specific advice, please clearly state what you are trying to do.

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Video Streaming Service Spuul partneres with Star Plus to Stream TV Shows
Online video streaming portal Spuul has partnered with Star TV to stream shows that come on the television channel 30 minutes after they are aired in India.
Spuul's users in Pakistan and India will have access to Star Plus' content including daily soaps like Diya Aur Bati Hum, Ek Nanad Ki Khushiyon Ki Chaabi – Meri Bhabhi and Pyaar Ka Dard Meetha Meetha Pyaara Pyaara and reality show Junior Master Chef among others.
Founded in 2010 in Singapore, Spuul offers Bollywood movies and T.V shows to viewers all around the world. It has monthly subscription plans and pay-per-view options along with a free plan which includes only selected movies. The service is available on web, mobile (Android and iOS) and through Facebook app.
All the plans have advertisements included, thus it has an ad supported business model along with subscription.
Back in May 2013, Spuul signed an agreement with IndiaCast Media Distribution (a joint venture between TV18 and Viacom18) for streaming over 60 current and upcoming movies from Hindi and Regional languages.
Earlier this year, Google started YouTube Rentals, a pay-per-view model in India. Also it has introduced paid subscription for selected channels. Box T.V, Eros Now, BIGFLIX are some of the players in Indian market offering online video content.
iStream, was another similar Indian service that offered videos on demand and had paid subscription model. The company which crossed 6 million unique users and over 12 million video views in March, shut its services in May this year as it ran out of cash.

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Much of the work of German Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 1900) is antireligious, since Nietzsche saw in many religions (particularly the Christian religion) a negation of his life-affirming will to power, which sought to actualize the potentialities of the mind and body. Among Nietzsche's most significant works are Thus Spake Zarathustra (1883-92). Beyond Good and Evil (1886), and On the Genealogy of Morals (1887). The Antichrist (written 1888; published 1895) is, with The Twilight of the Idols (written 1888; published 1889), his most unrestrained attack on religion. In the extracts printed below (in the 1920 translation by H. L. Mencken), Nietzsche, in his typically exuberant style, focuses on the myth of Adam and Eves expulsion from Eden for eating from the tree of knowledge to excoriate Christianity for its hostility to science and the advancement of learning.
H.L. Menken, is the reporter in Sinclar Lewis' "Elmor Gantry." In life, an interesting combination of literary artist, intellectual, skeptic, and decadent boozer.
I chose to stick Nietzsche, not with the site of famous thinkers on religion, http://jeromekahn123.tripod.com/thinkersonreligion but with the literary figures, for though he has been labled a philosopher, the lack of organized, logical arguments dictates this location.
The thing that sets us apart is not that we are unable to find God, either in history, or in nature, or behind nature--but that we regard what has been honoured as God, not as divine, but as pitiable, as absurd, as injurious; not as a mere error, but as a crime against life.... We deny that God is God. If any one were to show us this Christian God, wed be still less inclined to believe in him.In a formula: deus, qualem Paulus creavit, dei negatio.1 Such a religion as Christianity, which does not touch reality at a single point and which goes to pieces the moment reality asserts its rights at any point, must be inevitably the deadly enemy of the wisdom of this world, which is to say, of scienceand it will give the name of good to whatever means serve to poison, calumniate and cry down all intellectual discipline, all lucidity and strictness in matters of intellectual conscience, and all noble coolness and freedom of the mind. Faith, as an imperative, vetoes sciencein praxi, lying at any price. . . . Paul well knew that lying--that faithwas necessary; later on the church borrowed the fact from Paul. The God that Paul invented for himself, a God who reduced to absurdity the wisdom of this world (especially the two great enemies of superstition, philology and medicine), is in truth only an indication of Pauls resolute determination to accomplish that very thing himself: to give ones own will the name of God, thora2that is essentially Jewish. Paul wants to dispose of the wisdom of this world: his enemies are the good philologians and physicians of the Alexandrine schoolon them he makes his war. As a matter of fact no man can be a philologian or a physician without being also Antichrist. That is to say, as a philologian a man sees behind the holy books, and as a physician he sees behind the physiological degeneration of the typical Christian. The physician says incurable; the philologian says fraud.
Neverthelesshow terrible!, the edifice of knowledge begins to tower aloft, invading heaven, shadowing the godswhat is to be done?The old God invents war; he separates the peoples; he makes men destroy one another (the priests have always had need of war. War--among other things, a great disturber of science!--Incredible! Knowledge, deliverance from the priests, prospers in spite of war.So the old God comes to his final resolution: Man has become scientificthere is no help for it: he must be drowned! .
I have been understood. At the opening of the Bible there is the whole psychology of the priest.The priest knows of only one great danger: that is science--the sound comprehension of cause and effect. But science flourishes, on the whole, only under favourable conditionsa man must have time, he must have an overflowing intellect, in order to know.... Therefore, man must be made unhappy,this been, in all ages, the logic of the priest--it is easy to see just what, by this logic, was the first thing to come into the world:sin. The concept of guilt arid punishment, the whole moral order of the world, was set up against science against the deliverance of man from priests. ... Man must not look outward; he must look inward. He must not look at things shrewdly and cautiously, to learn about them; he must not look at all; he must suffer.. . . And he must suffer so much that he is always in need of the priest.Away with physicians! What is needed is a Saviour. The concept of guilt and punishment, including the doctrines of grace, of salvation, of forgiveness--lies through and through, and absolutely without psychological realitywere devised to destroy mans sense of causality: they are an attack upon the concept of cause and effect!And not an attack with the fist, with the knife, with honesty in hate and love! On the contrary, one inspired by the most cowardly, the most crafty the most ignoble of instincts! An attack of priests! An attack of parasites! The vampirism of pale, subterranean leeches1 When the natural consequences of an act are no longer natural, but are regarded as produced by the ghostly creations of superstitionby God, by spirits, by soulsand reckoned as merely moral consequences, as rewards, as punishments, as hints, as lessons, then the whole groundwork of knowledge is destroyed--then the greatest of crimes against humanity has been perpetrated.--I repeat that sin, mans self-desecration par excellence, was invented in order to make science, culture, and every elevation and ennobling of man impossible; the priest rules through the invention of sin.
In this place I can't permit myself to omit a psychology of belief, of the believer, for the special benefit of believers. If there remain any today who do not yet know how indecent it is to be believingor how much a sign of decadence, of a broken will to livethen they will know it well enough tomorrow. My voice reaches even the deaf.It appears, unless I have been incorrectly informed, that there prevails among Christians a sort of criterion of truth that is called proof by power. Faith makes blessed: therefore it is true.It might be objected right here that blessedness is not demonstrated, it is merely promised it hangs upon faith as a condition--one shall be blessed because one believes. But what of the thing that the priest promises to the believer, the wholly transcendental beyond--how is that to be demonstrated?... The proof by power, thus assumed, is actually no more at bottom than a belief that the effects which faith promises will not fail to appear In a formula: I believe that faith makes for blessedness....therefore it is true. .. . But this is as far as we may go. This therefore would be absurdum itself as a criterion of truth But let us admit, for the sake of politeness, that blessedness by faith may be demonstrated (not merely hoped for, and not merely promised by the suspicious lips of a priest): even so, could blessedness...in a technical term, pleasure--ever be a proof of truth? So little is this true that it is almost a proof against truth when sensations of pleasure influence the answer to the question What is true? or, at all events, it is enough to make that truth highly suspicious. The proof by pleasure is a proof of Pleasure nothing more; why in the world should it be assumed that true judgments give more pleasure than false ones, and that, in conformity to some pre-established harmony, they necessarily bring agreeable feelings in their train?The experience of all disciplined and profound minds teaches the contrary. Man has had to fight for every atom of the truth, and has had to pay for it almost everything that the heart, that human love, that human trust cling to. Greatness of soul is needed for this business: the service of truth is the hardest of all services.--What, then, is the meaning of integrity in things intellectual? It means that a man must be severe with his own heart, that he must scorn beautiful feelings, and that he makes every Yea and Nay a matter of conscience!--Faith makes blessed: therefore, it lies.
The fact that faith, under certain circumstances, may work for blessedness, but that this blessedness produced by an idee fixe by no means makes the idea itself true, and the fact that faith actually moves no mountains, but instead raises them up where there were none before: all this is made sufficiently clear by a walk through a lunatic asylum. Not, of course, to a priest: for his instincts prompt him to the lie that sickness is not sickness and lunatic asylums not lunatic asylums. Christianity finds sickness necessary, just. as the Greek spirit had need of a superabundance of healththe actual ulterior purpose of the whole system of salvation of the church is to make people ill. And the church itself doesnt it set up a Catholic lunatic asylum as the ultimate ideal?The whole earth as a madhouse?The sort of religious man that the church uants is a typical decadent; the moment at which a religious crisis dominates a people is always marked by epidemics of nervous disorder; the inner world of the religious man is so much like the inner world of the overstrung and exhausted that it is difficult to distinguish between them; the highest states of mind, held up before mankind by Christianity as of supreme worth, are actually epileptoid in form--the church has granted the name of holy only to lunatics or to gigantic frauds in majorem dei honorem. . . .4 Once I ventured to designate the whole Christian system of training5 in penance and salvation (now best studied in England) as a method of producing a folie circula ire6 upon a soil already prepared for it, which is to say, a soil thoroughly unhealthy. Not every one may be a Christian: one is not converted to Christianityone must first be sick enough for it.... We others, who have the courage for health and likewise for contempt,we may well despise a religion that teaches misunderstanding of the body! that refuses to rid itself of the superstition about the soul! that makes a virtue of insufficient nourishment! that combats health as a sort of enemy, devil, temptation! that persuades itself that it is possible to carry about a perfect soul in a cadaver of a body, and that, to this end, had to devise for itself a new concept of perfection, a pale, sickly, idiotically ecstatic state of existence, so-called holinessa holiness that is itself merely a series of symptoms of an impoverished, enervated and incurably disordered body! ... The Christian movement, as a European movement, was from the start no more than a general uprising of all sorts of outcast and refuse elements. (who now, under cover of Christianity, aspire to power). It does not represent the decay of a race; it represents, on the contrary, a conglomeration of decadence products from all directions, crowding together and seeking one another out. It was not, as has been thought, the corruption of antiquity, of noble antiquity, which made Christianity possible; one cannot too sharply challenge the learned imbecility which today maintains that theory. At the time when the sick and rotten Chandala7 classes in the whole imperium were Christianized, the contrary type, the nobility, reached its finest and ripest development. The majority became master; democracy, with its Christian instincts, triumphed. . . . Christianity was not national, it was not based on race--it appealed to all the varieties of men disinherited by life, it had its allies everywhere. Christianity has the rancour of the sick at its very core--the instinct against the healthy, against health. Everything that is well-constituted, proud, gallant and, above all, beautiful gives offence to its ears and eyes. Again I remind you of Pauls priceless saying: And God hath chosen the weak things of the world, the foolish things of the world, the base things of the world, and things which are despised:8 this was the formula; in hoc signo [in this sign we conquer] the decadence triumphed God on the crossis man always to miss the frightful inner significance of this symbol?Everything that suffers, everything that hangs on the cross, is divine.... We all hang on the cross, consequently we are divine. We alone are divine.... Christianity was thus a victory: a nobler attitude of mind was destroyed by itChristianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.
And mankind reckons time from the dies nefastusl13 when this fatality befell--from the first day of Christianity!Why not rather from its last?From today?--The transvaluation of all values!
From Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist, trans. H. L. Mencken (New York: Knopf, 1920), pp.


Today, AMD unleashed the world's fastest graphics card for machine learning development and advanced visualization workloads, Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, available now.
Designed to empower the next generation of data scientists, game designers and visualization professionals, Radeon Vega Frontier Edition allows users to tackle massive datasets with ease, and scored up to 33 percent faster than the competition in the DeepBench benchmark measuring the performance of basic operations involved in training deep neural networks.
Unmatched performance and TCO in machine learning applications together with AMD's open-source, fully scalable ROCm software platform. Developers can now use the power of the "Vega" architecture for machine learning algorithm development on the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition faster than with any other GPU on the marketi, before deploying it out to massive servers equipped with Radeon Instinct accelerators.
Advanced photo realistic rendering performance to drive increasingly large and complex models and to deploy real-time visualization and physically-based rendering. Together with Radeon ProRender, AMD's powerful physically-based rendering engine that enables creative professionals to produce stunningly photorealistic images, Radeon Vega Frontier Edition allows professionals to render assets up to 172 percent faster than the comparable competitor card. A visualization powerhouse, the GPU offers exceptional multi-GPU scaling, with 91 percent faster rendering using two Radeon Vega Frontier Edition GPUs.
Accelerated game design and immersive workflows by providing a single GPU that is optimized for every stage of a game developer's workflow, including everything from asset production to playtesting and performance optimization. With the Radeon Pro Settings user interface, users can seamlessly switch between "Radeon Pro Mode" and "Gaming Mode" to alternate between development on animation applications like Autodesk Maya and performance optimizations with free, open source tools available through AMD's GPUOpen initiative.
Groundbreaking VR content creation to provide the needed performance across all stages of VR content creation workflows, from the initial design stage to the final VR experience. AMD's fastest Radeon VR Ready Creator graphics card ever, Radeon Vega Frontier Edition achieves the maximum possible score in the SteamVR benchmark, up to 21 percent higher than the multi-GPU Radeon Pro Duo solution. When used with Radeon Loom, creators can stitch high-resolution video in real time at up to 8K x 4K.
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition graphics cards are available from etailers in select regions today with an SEP of $999 USD for the air-cooled edition. The water-cooled edition is expected to launch in Q3 with an SEP of $1499. You can find more information here. Following the beta release of the Radeon ProRender plug-in for Blender and the Radeon ProRender add-in for SOLIDWORKS earlier this year, the first production versions are freely available for download here. AMD is also releasing a beta version of its Radeon ProRender Game Engine Importer, a tool that allows you to easily import your geometry and materials using Radeon ProRender from applications like SOLIDWORKS right into Unreal Engine and view them in VR. Check out the following blog to learn more.
Is that FP64 number correct as that TFLOP count a bit pitiful as it would be comparable to a K6000. While there are limited dual precision workloads those who need that precision are usually the ones that have large amounts of capital to spend on these cards. Or are they targeting the titan Xp/1080ti instead of GP100?
AMD did not include any double precision numbers but Jeff over at Tech Report did some asking and heard "the card will perform FP64 operations at 1/16 the FP32 rate, or 819 GFLOPS."
They are conveniently picking hardware and software to make it shine against competitor product, like comparing Vega FE to the Titan Xp in professional software where a GP104 based Quadro P5000 is faster than a Titan Xp or Vega FE and that with a 180W TDP while having a similar price (it was the same before AMD dropped the price by $200).
And this one may be the same as a Titan Xp is considerably faster (have seen more than 20%) than a P100 in some of the DeepBench tests.
They also tested P100 with uuDNN 5.1 while version 6 is available since March and we don't know which test those number represents, DeepBench is not like 3DMark where you are given a single score, was the test done for inferencing or learning? at which matrix size? was pseudo FP16 or mixed precision used on GP100 or was done with FP32?
There's really nothing convenient about that, they're marketing it against the TITAN Xp and pricing is reflective of this. You're comparing a professional (application certified) Quadro against the prosumer model from AMD which costs far less. Those products will come later from AMD. Whether or not they're competitive remains to be seen.
Is the HBCC 48bit(256TB) or 49bit(512TB)?
Ive read seemingly conflicting things.
It's 512TB of virtual address space according to AMD, and I just wonder if there will be any benchmarks to test Vega's HBC/HBCC subsystems because it will be great to have a reletively unlimited Texture/Geomentry space that can be swapped out of the HBM2/CACHE to regular DRAM, or even Virtural memory swap file on an SSD, so some Graphics Workloads with large and very detailed scenes/meshes can be utilized.
I'm sure that Vega's HBCC will probably be able to handle having whatever the GPU's HBM2 size is paired with maybe 3 times the HBM2's allotment swapped to regular DRAM/SSD and allow any game to run from the HBM2/CACHE with no GPU performance degredation. That HBCC looks like it has the ability to manage any regular DRAM/SSD to HBM2/CACHE traffic in the background and keep the Vega NCUs feeding from HBM2 and the L2/l1 Cache levels above.
AMD's driver engineers are probably doing 80 hour weeks for the next 5 weeks up to SIGGRAPH and RX Vega's release. And I fully expect at least 3 more months of intense GPU driver updates owing to the new IP introduced with the Vega GPU micro-arch. All that HBC/HBCC technology, NCU tweaking, and primative shaders/other IP probably will see things on the driver side from AMD on a intense and constant update path for the remainder of 2017 into 2018.
1600 MHz is not the base clock. It would have been a miracle if it was. 1600 MHz is the boost clock. Also, as Anandtech points out, 1382MHz is the *typical* clock, not base clock. AMD haven't given a base clock.
4 years ago when the technical press was 200% Intel/Nvidia fans searching for reasons to bash AMD, there was a major attack against AMD's R9 290 series cards for not keeping a stable 1GHz frequency. It will be interesting to see tech press' reaction if the air cooled Frontier Edition throttles under that 1382MHz frequency. The tech press today treats AMD way much better.
Well, how do you think they would have treated other companies if they released a product that wasn't sustaining the advertised frequency because of the crappy cooler or for power consumption going out of control while gaming, causing framerate drop and inconsistency?
It was ... interesting ... trying to get the information for this post. The PR did not have a lot of numbers in it but you are right, that should be 'peak clock'. Fixing now.
Well this Vega SKUs appears to be like that Radeon Pro Duo with some switchable professional drivers and gaming drivers for some non safety essential workloads and not really tuned in the hardware for gaming workloads.
I kind of cringe at the thought of this SKU being used for Professional workloads where the Radeon Pro "WX"(formally branded FirePro) SKUs or Nvidia Quadro SKUs are are really necessary.
You are not going to ever see any structural engineering firms using any SKUs but the Xeon or Epyc Workstation CPU SKUs alongside any AMD Radeon Pro WX or Nvidia Quadro GPU SKUs. And that includes any Xeon or Epyc Motherboard SKUs that are fully certified for error free(As much a possible) workloads.
That certification is what makes the AMD Radeon Pro WX and Nvidia Quadro SKUs cost so much and each and every professional software package has to be fully certified to work with any Radeon Pro WX and Quadro GPU SKUs at the cost of millions and many millions of extra programmer hours. Ditto for the motherboard UEFI/BIOS, and Professional WX/Quadro GPU BIOSs, on the certified motherboard/PCI card hardware, and all that extra QC/QA runs in the millions for software and hardware OFFICAL certification processes.
For some students this Vega Frontier Edition is low cost(Relative to the WX/Quadro SKUs) with at least the Pro drivers available for learning and programming. So I can see this used by colleges for training and development for software that targets the Professional drivers used in the production legal "WX" branded Real Professional GPUs from AMD. This Radeon Pro Frontier Edition will never be legally used for any Engineering Production workloads as that will legally require the WX version of the GPU(And Pro CPU platforms), but for students and software development(Non production workloads) it's similar in reach to the Radeon Pro Duo that AMD released last year.
There is supposed to be a Vega Radeon Pro WX version of this card and it will very likely be demonstrated at SIGGRAPH 2017. It's kind of funny that a Gaming card is being premired at SIGGRAPH(A professional Trade Show for the professional market) but AMD has been very busy lately and in need of some better better techical/writing staff. So hopefully EPYC sales will bring in the revenues for AMD to begin to Hire more Technical writing/engineering folks who can begin producing the better whitepaers and such that are beyond the pay/brain grade of any marketing monkyes.
"The memory size for the Vega is interesting, HBC is AMDs High Bandwidth Cache Controller which not only uses the memory cache more effectively but is able to reach out to other high performance system memory for help. AMD states that the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition has the capability of expanding traditional GPU memory to 256TB..."
(should be a comma after "effectively" above, btw.) - & also, methinks the correct term for the above is HBCC, not HBC?
I cant believe there isnt more of a fuss about ssd ~= vram?
Its a pity it isn't a striped array?
How much is the ssd option for vega?
Its always mentioned, but never any specifics?


A deal ending a long legal flap will give 13 charities control of $1.7 billion in endowments from foundations built on the Reader's Digest fortune, The New York Times reported May 4.
The endowments generated $900 million for the charities in the past 20 years but limits on control of the assets, tied to Reader's Digest stock, triggered concerns by the charities that they couldn't earn more, the Times said.
The deal gives the charities total control over the money, which had been controlled by boards of the Wallace-Reader's Digest Funds that shared most members with one another and the Reader's Digest Association.
Charities involved range from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center to two small Hudson River conservation groups.


Rathausky, who was responsible for the development of RHI Magnesita's sustainability strategy, initiated the cooperation. Having been a national champion in fencing multiple times, Rathausky knows what it takes: "Performance orientation and discipline are equally important as team spirit and respect. And all of these values also count in business." RHI Magnesita supports the Sports Aid Foundation's principle of life-long learning not only ideally but also financially. "It is important to us to take on social responsibility," Rathausky explains the reasons for the partnership.
Specifically, RHI Magnesita's support will enable four top athletes to build an economic basis for themselves after their successful career in sports. The athletes will be supported by RHI Magnesita when they pursue a degree at the University of Applied Sciences in Eisenstadt while working at the same time. This school specifically targets professional athletes. The program helps the athletes to successfully contribute their qualities such as commitment to performance and further development also outside the sports venue. The four scholarship recipients are rowing world champion Magdalena Lobnig, multiple snowboard world champion Benjamin Karl, Paralympics bronze medal winner Andreas Onea and snowboard overall world cup winner and double world champion Andreas Promegger.


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Obama administration steps up oversight of health insurers
By Noam N. Levey, Washington Bureau
Health insurers will have to start publicly justifying big rate hikes, according to a new requirement of the healthcare law implemented Thursday to get insurance companies to hold down skyrocketing premiums.
The new rules will mandate that insurers post explanations of premium increases exceeding 10% on their websites and submit them to state and federal regulators, who will also post them, starting later this year.
"For far too long, families and small employers have been at the mercy of insurance rate increases that often put coverage out of their reach," Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius said in a statement. "Rate review will shed a bright light on the industry's behavior and drive market competition to lower costs."
The new rules do not give state and federal regulators new authority to block rate hikes, however, even if government officials find the increases are unjustified.
Some states already have this power, and several particularly aggressive states, such as Oregon and Rhode Island, routinely make insurers lower their rate increases after determining proposed rate hikes are unjustified.
At the same time, state regulators have been beefing up oversight of insurance companies with the help of federal grant money made available by the healthcare law President Obama signed last year.
But to the chagrin of consumer advocates, 30 states still do not have authority to block rate hikes in the individual and small-group markets, according to a 2010 survey by the nonprofit Kaiser Family Foundation.
"Disclosure alone will never be enough to prevent health insurers from charging unreasonable insurance premiums. To protect consumers, regulators must have the power to review and reject excessive rates," said Carmen Balber, Washington director for California-based Consumer Watchdog.
The insurance industry, long a powerhouse in state capitols nationwide, has vigorously fought efforts to give regulators this enhanced authority, saying it is unnecessary.
This week , an effort in California to give the state's insurance commissioner greater authority collapsed in the statehouse.
Thursday, America's Health Insurance Plans, the industry's Washington-based lobbying arm, reiterated it opposition to enhanced oversight, suggesting that premium hikes are "a reflection of the underlying cost of medical care in a local market."
The Obama administration plans to rely on state insurance regulators to scrutinize insurance rates.
But federal regulators will conduct insurance oversight in several states where the administration has determined that state oversight is inadequate.
In the future, the Obama administration plans to work with states to set individual state-by-state threshholds for rate hikes that will require public explanation from insurance companies.
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Noam N. Levey writes about national healthcare policy out of Washington, D.C., for the Los Angeles Times. He covered passage of the 2010 Affordable Care Act and has written extensively about the landmark law and reported on its implementation from around the country. A former investigative and political reporter, he is a Boston native and a graduate of Princeton University. He joined the newspaper in 2003 and has reported from Washington since 2006.


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Adidas Al Hilm – World Cup Final Match Ball
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This weekend, we get to see Argentina and France go head to head in the World Cup Final. It is crazy that the greatest soccer tournie is already coming to an end. Adidas has announced that "Al Hilm" will be the official match ball for the game! This is the same ball that was used in the semi-final games, so it might look a little familiar.
"Al Hilm", translated as "The Dream" in Arabic, features a shimmering golden color palette, similar to the shades seen at the final venue and on the famous trophy. It combines Speedshell panel technology, surface texturing and diamond debossing for high-precision play.
You can actually find the World Cup final match ball with match-up and date printed on the surface of Al Hilm at SOCCER.com.
The ball has been designed from the inside out using data and rigorous testing at adidas labs, in wind tunnels and on the pitch by football players themselves. And according to adidas, Al Hilm is expected to provide "the highest levels of accuracy and reliability on the field of play, partly due to its new panel shape and surface textures."
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We're Still Hunting Thugs Who Snatched National Assembly Mace – Police
The police have said they are still searching for thugs who snatched the mace belonging to the national assembly last year.
Some thugs allegedly led by current deputy senate president, Omo-Agege, invaded the senate chamber and snatched the mace in April 2018.
Omo-Agege was arrested after the incident, but was subsequently released while police say they have launched an investigation into the incident, which generated a national outcry.
He was subsequently suspended by the senate for three months, however, he challenged the case in court, which ruled that the upper chamber does not have the power to suspend him.
The mace was subsequently found under a flyover near Abuja city gate, where it was abandoned hours later.
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Six suspects that were also arrested in connection with the incident were released by the police.
One year and three months after the debacle, the police said the case is still alive, but have not made any progress on it.
"The case was dropped because we are yet to apprehend all the thugs who stole the National Assembly's symbol of authority. Although Omo-Agege was detained briefly in connection with the theft and released on personal recognition, the investigation has not ended or closed," Sunday PUNCH quoted a top police source as saying.
"It could be revived anytime we have fresh facts or information. So, it is wrong to say the Senator is out of the woods on account of his emergence as Deputy Senate President. We could invite him for interrogation when the need arises; he doesn't have immunity from criminal prosecution."
The PUNCH further said another source in the force said the testimony of the former Divisional Police Officer in the National Assembly, CSP Abdul Sulu-Gambari, indicting Omo-Agege and others, was part of the evidence linking the suspects to the incident.
In his testimony on before the joint Senate and House of Representatives ad hoc committee set up to investigate the invasion of the Senate on May 9, Sulu-Gambari blamed the incident on the conspiracy among some security agencies and lawmakers.
He also tendered photographs, identities and other exhibits recovered from some of the suspects arrested in connection with the incident.
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This week, we hear from four researchers who discuss the effects of high article processing charges on inclusivity and hear an opinion from Tribune on the benefits of publicly owned publishing. Meanwhile, we learn that SAGE has recently retracted over 30 fraudulent papers, and we see how preprints may benefit from trusted intermediaries. Finally, we hear how patient learning tools can be designed to be accessible to all and learn about a case study for running social media video content for the healthcare industry.
High APCs may reduce inclusivity in scientific publishing via Times Higher Education | 4-minute read
As the push towards open access (OA) tears down paywalls, making science accessible to all, researchers in developing countries are struggling to publish under escalating article processing charges (APCs). In this article, four Brazilian researchers discuss the prohibitive costs of APCs and the challenges facing researchers in upper-middle-income countries such as Brazil. The authors suggest the extension of full waivers to lower-middle-income countries and the extension of substantial automatic discounts to upper-middle-income countries.
Socialist solutions to publisher profits via Tribune | 6-minute read
The traditional publishing model sees publicly funded universities paying to both publish and access their own work, with profits going to large publishers. Despite being a step in the right direction, the gold OA model has paved the way for high APCs, which are ultimately paid for by public research funding. Conversely, initiatives such as the Rights Retention Strategy allow researchers to follow the green OA model. Under the Rights Retention Strategy, which is endorsed in Plan S, authors retain the copyright to their work and can therefore make their final article freely available in a public repository. Tribune argues for a publicly owned scientific publishing system that would ensure scientific knowledge is owned and controlled by the people who benefit from it.
SAGE retracts more than 30 fraudulent papers via Retraction Watch | 6-minute read
SAGE Publishing has retracted more than 30 articles after finding similarities in their text and suspected image manipulation. The papers were flagged by Elisabeth Bik alongside some 400 other suspicious articles. The fake papers were likely generated by 'paper mills', which produce and sell fraudulent manuscripts. SAGE says that it has now employed more thorough peer review processes, including the evaluation of raw data.
Preprints need a trusted intermediary via The Geyser | 8-minute read
As the COVID-19 pandemic has developed, the visibility of preprints has increased dramatically. However, the increased access to preprints has raised concerns for some over the spread of potentially inaccurate, non-peer reviewed information. This piece discusses the inclusion of preprints in point-of-care evidence-based clinical information tools such as UpToDate and BMJ Best Practice. These platforms are trusted intermediaries that implement strong filtering and may therefore provide a means to rapidly disseminate the scientific information held in preprints without the potential risk of spreading health misinformation that can accompany unvetted preprints.
Genetic counselling materials should be understandable by all via RARE Revolution | 5-minute read
Genetic counselling involves complex and emotive discussion around genetic risk and testing. Cultural or socio-economic language barriers can present additional difficulties for patient decision-making. The Decision-aid & E-Counselling for Inherited Disorder Evaluation (DECIDE) tool was designed to teach users about genomic concepts and to assess their priorities using plain language. This article also discusses how DECIDE was successfully translated into Simplified Chinese and Punjabi to help serve diverse communities.
A case study of social media video content for the healthcare industry via The Publication Plan | 2-minute read
Video content is expected to soon overtake text as the most common content type on the Internet. A recent article presents a case study of the YouTube channel Industry Voice, which shows interviews on current research trends with leaders in the pharmaceutical and clinical research industries. The interviews have proven popular thanks to key considerations on topic selection, choice of speakers, location, format and the use of analytics. Social media videos could help encourage transparency and open discussion in the healthcare industry.
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SYD.cloud is a platform managing highly secure business transactions. In short, it is a business-oriented Facebook, used exclusively by identified and authenticated members and independent experts able to provide advisory services. The project, carried out by PaySecure WorldWide, was implemented at the Technoport in Foetz. Supported by real heavyweights, its creation was carried out in collaboration with technology players like IBM, Luxembourg's digital authentication specialist LuxTrust, and the European leader in the management of sensitive information EBRC, as well as several legal and financial experts.
This enables due diligence to evaluate all the participants and to check the accuracy of the information transmitted to identify them. In a simple and ergonomic way, the transaction process via the platform will allow everyone to intervene at any time. All stakeholders, including intermediaries, are invited to join a specific transaction. Throughout each step, the user can detect risks and, if necessary, suspend or cancel the transaction.
The platform will also prove very useful to professionals like notaries and lawyers. Both of those have to battle with extensive documentation each day, including many drafts before the final version, and there are always several updates... On SYD.cloud, all the steps of a transaction are visible. All the documents, and their history, are available via the database. All participants are notified in real time about any updates to a document. And the database is accessible anywhere and at any time, which enables truly "paperless" document management. For financial institutions and banks, SYD.cloud will answer some of the most pressing operational questions. When can the financing procedure be launched? Does the final purpose of the transaction correspond to the original presentation made during the application for funding? And how can all the parties involved in the transaction be properly identified? Via the specifications and the agreement, it is possible to verify the ultimate purpose of the transaction with a simple click. In line with the platform's independence, the procedure will only start once all participants have responded to the invitation and the due diligence has been successfully completed. Full contact details are available via the platform and an online messaging tool is available to interact with the various participants.
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Hamiltonians could be commuting by train to Auckland by March 2020 as the most detailed view of the potential service yet is revealed ahead of a crucial vote on its future.
It could see up to 150 passengers travelling from Frankton to Papakura stations twice in the morning from 5:30-7am week days, stopping at Rotokauri and Huntly stations along the way.
The service would take 91 minutes, including stoppage times at stations along the route. The travel time to Britomart from Frankton is longer, taking 2 hours and 29 minutes or 2 hours and 20 minutes leaving from Rotokauri.
Passengers will have to transfer to another train once they reach Papakura to travel on to Britomart.
Details of the service, including its long awaited business case have been outlined to the Waikato Regional Council's regional transport committee.
The Hamilton to Auckland passenger rail service should be up and running in 2020, funding pending.
The committee will vote for the passenger rail service to be included as a new activity in the Regional Council's 2015-2045 Regional Land Transport Plan when it meets on November 5.
There are also plans for a daily return service during weekends with the exception of Sunday services which may not be provided for the first three years.
Total funding needed for the project is $81.7 million. Local government will contribute $10.98m of that with the remaining $70.8 million coming from central government's National Land Transport Fund.
Regional transport committee chairman Hugh Vercoe expected the proposal to get backing on Monday, and head to a full council meeting on November 21.
From there the case will be sent to NZTA's board for consideration.
The Waikato District Council and Hamilton City Council will also vote on the business case at their respective meetings this month and NZTA to consider the project in December.
"This is the cheapest way of getting people to Auckland," he said. Potential ticket prices are not covered in the document.
If NZTA approve the funding, Vercoe said they will then look to purchase carriages off Auckland Transport, which are currently sitting in storage in Taumarunui.
"Once we buy them, we then give them to Kiwi Rail, who will refurbish them and have them ready for this."
This process was expected to take 14 months, which would see the service begin operating in March 2020.
More projects would also have to be completed to get the service established.
These were the construction of a railway station in Rotokauri, upgrading existing railway facilities in Huntly, the modification and overhaul of trains and carriages by KiwiRail and constructing a maintenance facility for the trains in Te Rapa.
Hamilton based Labour list MP Jamie Strange said the rail service had a lot of public interest because of the difficulties in driving to Auckland.
"I think people have had enough of driving to Auckland and are looking for alternatives. It will be the start in terms of rail for this region."
Strange said the next step will be getting a rail service from Hamilton to Tauranga, which would great a 'golden triangle' between the three cities.
"That's the ultimate goal is to have a passenger rail service linking the golden triangle. This service here, if we get funding from NZTA would be the start."


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Q: C#: Does String.Format call ToString of the input? Does String.Format run ToString?
For example, if I have an object of a "complex" class, can I do:
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A: From the documentation:
How arguments are formatted:

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*If the argument is null, the method inserts String.Empty into the result string.

*If you call the Format(IFormatProvider, String, Object[]) overload and the provider parameter implements the ICustomFormatter interface, the argument is passed to the provider object's ICustomFormatter.Format(String, Object, IFormatProvider) method. If the format item includes a formatString argument, it is passed as the first argument to the method. If the ICustomFormatter implementation is able to provide formatting services, it returns the string representation of the argument; otherwise, it returns null and the next step executes.

*If the argument implements the IFormattable interface, its IFormattable.ToString implementation is called.

*The argument's parameterless ToString method, which is either overridden or inherited from the Object class, is called.

So yes, finally - as a fallback - the ToString method is called.

A: All objects inherit from System.Object which has a ToString() method which will be used if you do not override it.  If you want a more meaningful output, you should override it.
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If the immigration appeal is allowed, it means that the appellant has been successful in the immigration appeal and the home office will then take steps to implement the Ld. Immigration judge's decision, if it considers no merits in making permission application against the decision of the Ld. Immigration Judge.
If the immigration appeal is dismissed, it means that the appellant has not been successful in his appeal and has a right to seek permission to appeal from the First Tier Tribunal for appeal to the Upper Tribunal (UT).
The Ld. Immigration Judge may also with the consent of both parties, remit the matter back to the Home office for a fresh decision. This will result in the making of a fresh decision by the home office and another right of appeal, if the refusal decision is maintained for some other reason.
Whatever the decision may be, the Ld. Immigration Judge gives a detailed and reasoned decision of the Appeal and should that be a dismissal, it needs to be looked into carefully to assess the merits of going further in the appeal process.
All in-country applicants are given 14 calendar days to lodge permission applications for appeals to the First Tier Tribunal for Appeal to the Upper Tribunal (Immigration & Asylum Chamber) from the date the decision is sent to the appellant. The Immigration Tribunals are quite strict in adherence to the deadline of 14 days and one has to give a good reason, in case of any delays.
All out-country applicants are given 28 calendar days to lodge permission applications for appeals to the First Tier Tribunal for Appeal to the Upper Tribunal (Immigration & Asylum Chamber) from the date the decision is sent to the appellant. The Immigration Tribunals are quite strict in adherence to the deadline of 28 days and one has to give a good reason, in case of any delays.
One has to carefully consider and draft the grounds on which he or she may rely in their permission applications for appeals to the First Tier Tribunal for Appeal to the Upper Tribunal (Immigration & Asylum Chamber). The main point here is to identify an error of law in the determination of the Ld. Immigration Judge who must have given a detailed and reasoned decision of the appeal. One has to see whether the Ld. Immigration Judge has made a fair decision in the light of the relevant law, rules or regulations with reference to the decisions of the Upper Tribunal or the higher courts. It requires a wealth of expertise and experience to draft good grounds in such matters enhancing the chances of success.
If the permission is refused then the appellant may then apply for permission to appeal to the Upper Tribunal directly.
Once permissions is granted, the matter is listed for hearing at the Upper Tribunal and we then prepare for the court hearing, which includes responding to the Rule 24 response of the home office, complying with the directions issued by the Tribunal, preparing bundle for the hearing and a brief for the counsel. Here comes the job of the Immigration Barristers once again and we really trust our barristers in arguing the legal flaws in the decision of the First Tier Tribunal, and have won several appeals for our clients. Working in liaison with our Immigration Barristers allows them to have a deep insight in the matter and to prepare themselves accordingly. It is equally important to prepare the client for the hearing at the Upper Tribunal, advising them on what to expect on the court hearing and how to handle any unexpected questions.
How our Immigration Solicitors can help you in making Permission of Appeal to First Tier Tribunal for Appeal to the Upper Tribunal (Immigration & Asylum Chamber) in the UK?
Our Immigration Lawyers shall discuss your Permission to Appeal to the First Tier Tribunal for appeal to the Upper Tier Tribunal of Immigration and Asylum Chamber in length and advise you on the required documents and procedure of the Permission to Appeal matter to the Upper Tier Tribunal.
Permission to Appeal to the First Tier Tribunal for Appeal to the Upper Tribunal is complex immigration casework and it is strictly not recommended to consider this a straight forward matter. We have extensive experience in representing our clients in complex appeal matters successfully and have been able to obtain relief for many of our clients who were wrongfully refused visas or further leave to remain and residence card or permanent residence under the EEA regulations.


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TAXWatch: Proposed State Improvement Surcharge
Tom Yamachika March 1, 2020
In the past few legislative sessions, there always had been one or two proposals to raise taxes in a big way. Some of them got pretty far along the road to becoming law, and some of them actually became law. You might recall that in 2017, Act 107 permanently reinstated the "temporary" 9%, 10%, and 11% income tax brackets that we thought we got rid of in 2016. In 2018, a proposed constitutional amendment to allow the State to surcharge the counties' real property tax made it to the general election ballot, only to be voided by the Hawaii Supreme Court in the eleventh hour. In 2019, Act 3 hoisted the top rate of our estate tax to 20%, tying Washington state for the highest estate tax rate in the country.
So what's in store for 2020? House Bill 1990 starts off by saying this: "The legislature finds that the department of education faces educational infrastructural issues caused by overcapacity and underfunding, while the highways division of the department of transportation faces a threat of inundation and damage to the state highway system caused by climate change as well as transportation infrastructural issues related to overcapacity and underfunding. The legislature also finds that certain state funds will need an additional, temporary source of moneys in the future."
The bill then goes on to establish a "State improvement surcharge" in the General Excise Tax Law. It'll be half a percent, and it'll be for five years. The bill now says the surcharge will be imposed between 2031 and 2035…but I have a sneaking suspicion that the overall grand plan is for those numbers to change. Maybe from 2021 to 2025, at least to start.
And, lest we forget, "temporary" tax increases have a way of making themselves anything but temporary. Those who remember 1986 might remember the birth of the Transient Accommodations Tax. It was supposed to be only 5%, and only to fund construction of the Hawaii Convention Center. It's now 34 years later, the rate is 10-1/4%, and the fund distribution section of the tax (section 237D-6.5, HRS) has more ornaments than a Christmas tree, funding tourism marketing, payments to the counties, the Turtle Bay easement purchase, and scads of other things.
That isn't the only example; the 9%, 10%, and 11% income tax brackets I spoke of earlier were enacted in 2009. Those also were supposed to last five years, starting in 2010 and ending in 2015. The rates did indeed sunset, and we were free of them in 2016, but that is where the holiday ended.
The State improvement surcharge also has a Christmas tree feel to it, because the money from the tax is supposed to fix our aging school buildings, repair our washed-out highways and byways, pay down interest on our state's borrowings on the bond market, pay pensions and benefits for state retirees, and fatten our reserve fund for hurricanes so we'll be ready just in case one hits.
Sound like a tall order? A half percent increase in the GET, which is what this is, can be expected to produce 250-300 million dollars each year it is in effect. Those are some serious dollars! And then, five years down the road, people will have gotten used to paying the tax and legislators will have gotten used to spending the money – and if that's what happens, the likelihood of the "temporary" tax increase becoming a permanent tax increase ticks up, higher and higher.
Is this what we want? Is this how we count on our lawmakers to spend the people's money wisely? Already we see lots of folks throw up their hands, pack their bags, and leave. What fate is to befall the rest of us who stay here and now have to make up for the taxes that otherwise would have been paid by former Hawaii residents taking up residence in Nevada? California? Washington? Colorado? If this is not what you want, now is a good time to let your voice be heard.
The MAUIWatch Community Network invites readers to express their views in the Community Viewpoint. Community Viewpoint columns should be on or around 800 words. Community Viewpoint submissions are subject to editing. We do not print letters announcing events to come, extensive quotations from other material, open letters or form letters. Send to contact (at) mauiwatch (dot) com. The opinions and information expressed in the Community Viewpoint are solely those of the authors and not the MAUIWatch Community Network.
Tom Yamachika is the President of the Tax Foundation of Hawaii, a private, nonprofit educational organization dedicated to informing the taxpaying public about the finances of our state and local governments in Hawaii. Tom is also a tax attorney in solo practice and has been since early 2013. Prior to 2013, he was with the accounting firm Accuity LLP, which was formed in 2006 from the Honolulu office of Coopers & Lybrand (which later became PricewaterhouseCoopers). Before that, he served as an Administrative Rules Specialist in the State of Hawaii Department of Taxation from 1994 to 1996, where he drafted rules, interpretive releases, and legislation on several different state taxes. Prior to that, he practiced litigation and tax law with Cades Schutte Fleming & Wright in Honolulu.
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How to save a Time Shift?
Time Shift is used to alter the timestamps of packets in a trace file. In 101.pcapng,the original arrival time was Jul 7, 2017 14:36:56.111000000. I have shifted the arrival time by +3.2 seconds. The new arrival time was Jul 7, 2017 14:36:59.311000000 and save it called 101new.pcapng. When I open the 101new.pcapng, I get the arrival time is the same as 101.pcapng. Although I changed the arrival time by +3.2 seconds and saved, the new arrival time return to the orignal arrival time. Why?
Did you try marking all of the packets and then exporting them? Didn't try it myself, but it might be worth a try.
Don't know whether it is supported to save time shifted packets in Wireshark.
However I can recommand to use editcap -t 3.2 infile.pcap outfile.pcap for this purpose.
As far as I can tell, it's not possible to save a time-shifted capture file directly from Wireshark. If you would like to be able to do this, I would suggest opening a Wireshark enhancement bug report at https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/.
EDIT: Bug 14306 is tracking progress on this feature.


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Ray Stein's Mailbox | Myles Garrett adds to Browns' history of dysfunctional behavior
Ray Stein
Ray: I don't know whether to nominate Myles Garrett for the Dwayne Rudd Award for Spoiling a Victory with Behavior Involving a Helmet or the Kellen Winslow II/Johnny Manziel Award for Foolish Self-Destructive Behavior by a First-Round Draft Choice.
But one thing is certain: This recent culmination of a long string of infractions for unnecessary roughness (which must be laid on the coaching staff) cements the Browns' long and continuing reputation as a bumbling, stumbling, rambling wreck of a dysfunctional organization.
Kevin F. Duffy, Columbus
Kevin: Garrett might deserve his own category: the Myles Garrett Award for Delivering a Cheap Shot That Bordered on Simple Assault. But you're right that this was no one-off; there hasn't been a team this unhinged since the Mean Machine took on the prison guards.
Ray: Garrett's attack on the opposing quarterback in the closing seconds of the Pittsburgh game gave further evidence of a Browns team that is out of control.
Garrett's postgame comments show that he suffers little remorse, though he appears to take responsibility. To say the Browns' win was "overshadowed by what happens in eight seconds" doesn't cut it. This has been happening for about a year now.
And, of course, the helmet swinging followed the ejection of Damarious Randall for a helmet-to-helmet hit on a Steelers receiver. Freddie Kitchens, you need to do more than express your embarrassment.
Don Denton, Westerville
Don: Disgraceful is the only word for it. Kitchens can talk until his moonpie face turns blue that he doesn't coach football that way, but the statistics and the eye don't lie. I'd be shocked if Kitchens survives this shameful episode.
Editor: It's time to admit the failure of adding Rutgers and Maryland to the Big Ten and void their respective contracts. And yes, I know there's more than football offered at these schools.
Let's pull back a bit and have something more geographically reasonable. Go after the likes of Pittsburgh and Iowa State as replacements. Forget these expansions that have teams flying halfway across the country.
But one has to wonder about Northwestern and Nebraska, as well. The conference is looking a little anemic lately.
Larry Cheek, Dublin
Larry: Maryland, I believe, has the potential to compete in Big Ten football, to say nothing of other sports. Rutgers, though, seems destined to join the University of Chicago in the conference dustbin. As for replacements, Notre Dame or bust.
Ray: I'm beginning to think there are adjustments needed for the Jackets.
I don't know what that would be, but looking at the team's stats is scary. At this writing (Monday), they are last in the league in goals scored, 24th in goals allowed, 25th on the power(less) play and 25th on the penalty kill. Even I, a diehard day 1 season-ticket holder, can see these aren't good.
Joonas Korpisalo isn't horrible, but if he was to be the horse, then why only give him a one-year contract? And why didn't we look for a veteran backup? It also would help if someone got in front of the net in case one of the softballs we throw in from 60 feet is on target.
Will it stop me from going? Not a chance; I've seen worse over the past 20 years. They can turn it around, but it's going to take a lot of mental toughness.
Fred Haefner, Hilliard
Fred: Mental toughness is one thing, yes — and tantrum-throwing Korpisalo apparently could use an infusion — but there are more issues than that. For one thing, this team misses Artemi Panarin way more than they're willing to say.
Ray: Over the past couple of years, I have contacted OSU about broken plaques in Buckeye Grove. They replied twice, assuring me that they would be replaced, but nothing has ever been done.
If you could urge someone to finally get on that I would be grateful. I was fortunate enough to know Sid Gillman and his plaque has been missing for years. I hope to walk through there and see it again someday.
Dennis M. Singleton, Dayton
Dennis: I will at least do my part by publishing your letter. Sid Gillman was the man, and he doesn't get enough credit for helping modernize football.
Ray: I always enjoy the buckeye-leaf ratings of the Ohio State games, and agree with your assessment (last) week, with one minor note: Drue Chrisman's shanked punt got no mention.
I guess it was a good day when the only negatives are an inconsequential shanked punt and a bunch of penalties on the backups.
Roy St. John, Columbus
Roy: Yeah, considering it was 52-0 when Chrisman got all sideways, I figured I'd let it pass. See? I do have a heart.
Ray: Wow! What more needs to be said about the very young basketball Buckeyes' 25-point upset over Villanova? I've watched enough basketball games in my 64 years to know that early, big leads almost always tend to slip away, especially against a higher ranked team. But not this game.
The Nuthouse was rockin' all night, but how long can the athletic department continue to cover up three or four rows of prime seats running the length of the court behind both benches before it becomes a national embarrassment?
When OSU first started doing so, we were told the reason was fans sitting behind these blocked-off rows would not be able to see, unless, heaven forbid, they stood up. If fans want to sit, there are always available seats in the 300 level.
OSU needs to place screaming students in all those empty seats to turn Value City into a truly home-court arena. I will once again be writing athletic director Gene Smith, urging him to rethink this asinine policy. I urge all basketball fans to do so as well. Coach Holtmann and his players deserve it.
Steven H. Spring, South Charleston
Ray: I have been watching and playing sports for more than 50 years. The egregious misconduct by Myles Garrett against the Steelers quarterback is the worst I have seen in that time.
How does ripping the helmet off a player happen with five seconds to go in a game? That jerk should be suspended without pay for an entire season — the rest of this year and part of next year.
Oh, and coach Freddie Kitchens should be fired immediately. It's hard to watch an undisciplined, out-of-control team. The Browns are too talented to look this bad.
Mickey Geslak, Lewis Center
Ray: I thought you need a printed correction on (Tuesday's) caption underneath the picture of Chris Ash and Ryan Day after last year's Rutgers game.
Urban Meyer was the OSU coach for that game because I was part of the team walk that day! Ryan Day's last game as interim coach was the TCU game in Arlington, Texas!
Bruce Peterson, via email
Bruce: No correction needed. OSU played Rutgers in week 2 last year, when Meyer was on sabbatical.
Ray: There is no need to wait for the playoff committee to announce the final four. All the speculation and emotion that goes into the weekly poll can now be announced. The final four will be two Southeastern Conference teams, Clemson, Ohio State.
Clemson will meet Ohio State in the final and the Buckeyes will prevail.
The LSU and Alabama game this past weekend was exciting and Joe Burrow will win the Heisman based on his performance. But, both teams gave up over 500 yards and will not come anywhere close to this against Clemson or Ohio State.
The final two touchdowns in that game were the result of no tackling by Alabama and no pass defense by LSU. Actually it was that way all through the game.
I will now sit back and enjoy the games.
Andrew Burneson, Lima
Editor: What's with the so-called Big Ten Conference? They bring in Rutgers and Maryland — two schools that aren't even close to being Big Ten caliber (and never will be) instead of inviting Pittsburgh and West Virginia into the conference.
Rutgers belongs in the Ivy League, and Maryland best belongs back in the ACC or maybe even Division II — and that's being kind. If the conference honchos thought they were going to expand conference exposure and revenues by bringing in Rutgers and Maryland, they're delusional.
On the other hand, Pitt and WVU would greatly increase conference revenues. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out. Apparently they have none of those in the Big Ten hierarchy.
Milton Frantz, Jay, Okla.
Ray: Whew, another squeaker, 73-14. Hey, if we spot the Terrapins a point a minute, the Buckeyes lose 74-73. Something to think about, Buckeye Nation.
Seriously though, after the 10th scrimmage, with Rutgers, OSU's real season will begin. Yes, they look invincible now, the Superman of college football, but this youth-challenged observer has seen many an "unbeatable" superpower fall when the chips are really on the table.
Let's talk after Penn State, the Team Up North and the Big Ten championship game are in the rearview mirror, with nothing but Ws on the scoreboard. The Buckeyes certainly look like the real deal, but the fun begins when the Nittany Lions slink into the Horseshoe next Saturday.
Thad Woodman, Westerville
Mr. Stein: Your people probably caught this but just in case they didn't: The TV announcers (last Saturday) were talking about how lots of outstanding people have come out of OSU.
They mentioned three by name. The first was a football player whose name I don't remember because I was so shocked by the second: John Glenn.
Now, Mr. Glenn may have attended some academic class there but he didn't graduate, nor did he get anything other than an honorary degree from OSU. One of its schools is named after him but that's the extent of it.
Edward B. DeVennish, Blacklick
Ray: So Chase Young has been suspended for the OSU-Maryland game for accepting a free plane ride for his family to last year's Rose Bowl. On its face, yawn, another NCAA suspension, this one far less sensational than most.
But what struck me was the selection of for what game(s) he would be suspended and unable to play. The Buckeyes just waltzed through what many thought would be a series of competitive games, now facing only patsy, Maryland (Buckeyes giving 42 points), Penn State and Michigan.
I find it curious that the remaining game that we least need Young's sizeable talents is the one that he will serve a suspension. I do realize that he may be prevented from playing additional games, but time will tell.
At the end of the day, Young would be foolish to ever put pads on again as a Buckeye and instead use this suspension as an opportunity to "pull a Bosa" and rest up for the upcoming NFL combine.
Am I justified in smelling a rat in all of this or just a conspiracy theorist run amok?
Chris Dalheim, Galena
Editor: In 1974, my high school, Louisville St. Thomas Aquinas, made it to the OHSAA state football championship. In that year only four teams made it in Class A, AA and AAA playoffs for a total of 12 teams.
In 1974, a high school only needed to win two playoff games to be state champions. In 1980, Ohio switched to five divisions and through the years added a sixth division and seventh division.
They also increased the number of participants in each division so that now 32 teams qualify in each division for a total of 224 teams. This seems to be overkill but whatever. To win a state championship a school needs to win five playoff games for a total of 15 games a season.
So if it is OK for 14- to 18-year-old kids to play 15 games a year, why can't the 18- to 24-year-old men in college play at least 16 or 17 games a year? If given that opportunity maybe Clemson can schedule at least a few marquee games instead of playing the sisters of the poor in the ACC every year.
Lou Thomas, Hilliard
Ray: My darling spouse and I were sitting in C8, row 31, for the OSU-Maryland game. As kickoff approached, a family with a service dog went to take their seats in row 32. Unfortunately, the dog couldn't find its footing and straddled rows 31 and 32.
We tried to avoid the stumbling dog and lost our balance. I was lucky; sitting on the end of the row, I grabbed the railing and didn't fall. My wife wasn't so lucky; she lost her balance and tumbled down to row 28. The result? A broken leg that requires surgery.
It left me wondering about OSU's policy regarding service dogs and why OSU would allow one to be taken to nearly the top of the stadium. There has to be a better way.
Michael Lucas, Columbus
Editor: Thanks so much for your coverage of the OSU women's basketball team. (Last Sunday's) article captured the feelings of many supporters who, while enjoying the first game, are still keeping our fingers crossed as we go into future pairings.
It would be nice if space was made available to put a team roster in the newspaper. Especially with all the new players, it would be quite helpful.
Looking forward to future team coverage.
Nancy F. Beja, via email
Ray: I will continue to write these descriptive emails until one is published or until the Cleveland Browns mend their ways. This one is being written five minutes after their very fortunate three-point win over the Buffalo Bills. Case in point:
On the Browns early touchdown, receiver Jarvis Landry was penalized for taunting (even made helmet contact). The result was a yardage setback on the ensuing extra point attempt and a narrow miss which would have been good without the penalty.
That single point could have been the difference between victory and defeat. As it turned out, the Bills' late field goal attempt missed by the skin of the football. But had the Browns been ahead by four instead of three, it would have forced Buffalo to go for a touchdown in the waning seconds, a much tougher task.
To make things on Lake Erie even more nebulous, the TV broadcasters (and even the coaches) make alibis, saying things like, "You have to understand the bad blood," etc., intimating that the lack of control by these children called professional ballplayers, is acceptable.
So, until the Browns exercise some strong leadership, they will continue to be frustrated at the goal line (nine continuous times) and to come miles short of their potential.
rstein@dispatch.com


It's that time of the week where we are bring a recipe idea to you straight outta the kitchen of our beloved contributor Smarty Marty(My sister) and This week delicious delights is a take on Kale and Rigatoni noodles!
Bring a large pot of water to a boil for the rigatoni.
Preheat broiler and place a rack in the upper third of oven. Arrange the tomatoes on a baking sheet and toss with a little olive oil. Place under the broiler and char until they burst.
Heat a large, deep skillet over medium-high heat, add olive oil, 2 turns of the pan. Add sausage, brown and crumble. Add shallots and garlic, and season with salt and pepper. Stir shallots and garlic into sausage for 2-3 minutes then deglaze with sherry or sweet vermouth. Add kale to pan and wilt into sausage. Add charred tomatoes to sauce.
Cook pasta in salted water to a minute shy of cooking time, reserving a mug of starchy cooking water. Drain rigatoni and toss with sauce and starchy water for a full minute.
Plate pasta in shallow bowls topped with a fat mound of ricotta, some thyme, a drizzle of EVOO, a sprinkle of salt and pepper. Shred or shave pecorino over the dish and serve.


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