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Farr 37. Probably the best known of the 37s, Pippin has competed in some 17 Hobarts, an Osaka and many other notable events. A 1983 boat that has been constantly upgraded to extend her illustrious racing career and good to go again.As you expect, she has bags of sails, some of which are near new and most are in reasonable condition.Powered by a 30HP 4cyl Sole diesel, with a feathering prop. The engine has about 2000 hours up.Sat com C (with email) and a Barrat HF radio, 8 man liferaft, a cutter rig set up, and a modified keel designed by Lyons which has made a marked improvement on windward performance and also on stability.Accommodation is made up of 4 bunks in the stern, 4 bunks in the saloon, and a Vee berth fwd. Call Mooloolaba Yacht Brokers for more information.


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Research Article| April 01 2017
Introducing the GEneva Music-Induced Affect Checklist (GEMIAC): A Brief Instrument for the Rapid Assessment of Musically Induced Emotions
Eduardo Coutinho;
Eduardo Coutinho, University of Liverpool, Department of Music, 80-88 Bedford Street South, Liverpool L69 7WW, United Kingdom. Phone: +44 151 795 8558; E-mail: e.coutinho@liverpool.ac.uk
Klaus R. Scherer
Music Perception (2017) 34 (4): 371–386.
https://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2017.34.4.371
Eduardo Coutinho, Klaus R. Scherer; Introducing the GEneva Music-Induced Affect Checklist (GEMIAC): A Brief Instrument for the Rapid Assessment of Musically Induced Emotions. Music Perception 1 April 2017; 34 (4): 371–386. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2017.34.4.371
The systematic study of music-induced emotions requires standardized measurement instruments to reliably assess the nature of affective reactions to music, which tend to go beyond garden-variety basic emotions. We describe the development and conceptual validation of a checklist for rapid assessment of music-induced affect, designed to extend and complement the Geneva Emotional Music Scale. The checklist contains a selection of affect and emotion categories that are frequently used in the literature to refer to emotional reactions to music. The development of the checklist focused on an empirical investigation of the semantic structure of the relevant terms, combined with fuzzy classes based on a series of hierarchical cluster analyses. Two versions of the checklist for assessing the intensity and frequency of affective responses to music are proposed.
emotion, feeling, music, measurement, checklist
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Florida first lady launches initiative to teach students resiliency
7:56 PM EST, Sat February 27, 2021
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Florida First Lady Casey DeSantis on Friday announced the launch of a new initiative to teach public school students about resiliency and perseverance with the assistance of athletes from professional sports teams from around the state.
Pro athletes from Florida's NFL, MLB, NHL, NASCAR, and professional soccer teams have been enlisted for public service announcements and outreach to schools, The Associated Press reports. They will provide a message that sometimes life gives you knocks but you can work to overcome them, DeSantis said at a news conference at the Amway Center, where the Orlando Magic play.
A goal is to help overcome some of the stigma students associate with admitting to having mental health problems and reframe that narrative into one of resiliency and hope, said DeSantis, who has made mental health issues a priority in her work as the state's first lady.
"We know that no one is immune to adversity and hardship," she said.
The initiative will make available curricula that teachers can use to teach about perseverance and also enlist the athletes to spread the message about the importance of resiliency.
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Rolling Stone Dark Snow Piece on Line
The "banned in Boston" dead-tree version of Rolling Stone is hard to find in most places, due to a wrong-headed non-controversy about the cover. But now Jeff Goodell's story is online, in a special, first-of-its-kind-for-rollingstone media enhanced version, with several embedded videos that the Dark Snow media team produced during its stay in Sisimiut in early July.
One video RS did not use was the one I shot from our Air Greenland chopper as we floated along the 400 foot calving wall of the world's fastest moving ice-stream, the Ilulisat, or Jakobshavn glacier – see above, and Jeff's description below.
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A few weeks ago, on a blue-sky day on the west coast of Greenland, our helicopter swooped along the calving front of the Jakobshavn glacier, flying dangerously close to a 400-foot-high wall of ancient melting ice that stretches for about six miles across Disko Bay. Jakobshavn is the fastest-moving glacier in the world, and it is sliding into the sea at a top speed of 170 feet a day. How quickly this giant slab of ice and snow – and hundreds like it across the North and South Poles – disappears is the biggest uncertainty in the world of climate science. The faster these glaciers melt, the faster seas will rise, inundating cities throughout the world, and the more unpredictable the world's weather system is likely to become. Our future is written in ice.
The chopper cruised back and forth at the southern edge of the glacier, looking for a patch of open ground that Jason Box, a 40-year-old glaciologist who is leading the expedition, had identified in satellite photos. Box and the pilot exchanged words on the intercom, then Box gave a thumbs up. The chopper touched down on an unremarkable stretch of rocky tundra about the size of a Walmart parking lot, and Box jumped out, followed by a videographer. "Welcome to New Climate Land," he announced and then launched into a giddy, erudite stand-up monologue for the camera that would have made his high school science teacher proud. "For thousands of years," he explained, this spot had been covered by a tall building's worth of ice and snow. But now, in the past few months, the final traces of that ancient ice had disappeared. "We are likely to be the first human beings to ever stand on this piece of ground," Box said excitedly.
It was all a tad melodramatic, perhaps. But Box doesn't shy away from bold strokes. As he sees it, the general public has been betrayed by the reluctance of climate researchers to speak about the dangers of climate change with sufficient urgency. For Box, this has never been a problem. In 2009, he announced the Petermann glacier, one of the largest in Greenland, would break up that summer – a potent sign of how fast the Arctic was warming. Most glaciologists thought he was nuts – especially after the summer passed and nothing happened. In 2010, however, Petermann began to calve; two years later, it was shedding icebergs twice the size of Manhattan. Another example: In early 2012, Box predicted there would be surface melting across the entirety of Greenland within a decade. Again, many scientists dismissed this as alarmist claptrap. If anything, Box was too conservative – it happened a few months later. He also believes that the climate community is underestimating how much sea levels could rise in the coming decades. When I ask him if he thinks the high-end projections of six feet are too low, he doesn't hesitate: "Shit, yeah."
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Zhang Enli: A Room With Colour. Long Museum (Chongqing), Chongqing, China
by Martin Cid Magazine
From 21st August to 21st November 2021, Long Museum (Chongqing) will present the exhibition 'Zhang Enli: A Room with Colour'. Curated by Wang Wei, director of the Long Museum, is the first major retrospective of Zhang's works in the Southwest of China. It will feature over 70 works, including urban portraits from the 1990s to the early 2000s, depictions of everyday objects from the 2000s to the 2010s, abstract paintings and 'space painting' installations created in recent years, as well as several manuscripts and a video. These works systematically present the artist's 30-year creative journey.
Zhang's works have been collected by the Tate Modern, and have been exhibited at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, amongst other institutions. Each stage of Zhang's works has its own style, but the changes in theme and technique are not sudden, but rather a natural shift in style throughout his work. When we look closely at Zhang's different series of works, we can perceive the intimate connection between them, that is, the artist's constant concern for humanity, for everyday objects, for life, and for space.
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Men Multitasking: Why Men Can't Do 2 Or More Things At The Same Time
What does science say about this?
Mums, has it ever frustrated you that your husband seems to be incapable of doing more than one task? And Dads, do you get mad when your wife expects you to juggle a million things like she does? Here's what science unveils about men multitasking (or not being able to!).
Men multitasking: Is it ever going to be a possibility?
What science says about men multitasking
Women are more composed than men
UK psychologists did rapid task switching tests to see differences in women and men multitasking. Although both sexes struggled, men suffered more on average. According to the paper in the journal BMC Psychology, men were slower and less organised than women.
In a second test, a group of women and men were given eight minutes to complete a series of tasks. These included locating restaurants in a map and planning how they would search for a lost key in a field.
However, there was no way to complete all these assignments in time. Both women and men multitasking had to prioritise tasks, organise their time, and keep calm under pressure.
In the end, scientists observed that women were particularly successful in the key search task. Co-author Prof Keith Laws, of the University of Hertfordshire explains why. "Women were more organised, planning how to achieve their goal, whereas men impulsively jumped into it", says Prof Keith Laws.
Differences in brain structure possibly linked to multitasking abilities
Biological studies also support these findings. Dr. Ragini Verma from the University of Pennsylvania and her colleagues conducted a study on 428 men and boys, and 521 women and girls.
They found out that men had much more dominant connections in the cerebrum, the side specialised for logical thoughts. Women, on the other hand, had balanced connections in the cerebellum and cerebrum, the side for intuitive thoughts.
In other words, it is possible that the cross connection between the left and right sides in women show better multitasking ability. In contrast, men's brains are "wired" in a way that results in one-track thinking.
Dr Verma also observes that these variations are not congenital and occur with age. Young boys and girls show very few differences, which become more pronounced as they grow older.
Multitasking and its cons
Although multitasking is becoming more common, some believe it is not ideal. Multitasking can be inefficient in handling different tasks that require brainpower. If you can't absorb enough information for the short-term memory, it's unlikely you'll remember it later, or ever.
Paolo Cardini, a designer and educator argues that multitasking isn't efficient. Information overload can reduce productivity and our curious drive for adventure.
Dr Gijsbert Stoet, from the University of Glasgow, suggests that a one-track mind is beneficial in some aspects. Not multitasking and ignoring distractions has helped us achieve things we couldn't otherwise do, such as discover fire.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce also reports that multitasking is rewiring our brains. The better we multitask, the worse we are at creative problem solving and thinking deeply.
Nicholas Carr from the Shallows explains further. Multitaskers are likelier to "depend on traditional solutions rather than challenging them with original lines of thought.", says Mr Carr.
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Mums and Dads, we know this difference can cause a lot of arguments at home. Knowing all this, what can we do to improve family dynamics and lifestyle?
It all boils down to understanding one another and communicating honestly in non-judgmental ways.
For Mums:
If you find yourselves nagging your hubbies because they are unable to multitask, pause for a second. Ask your husband to cool down as well for a few minutes. Remember, us guys are wired differently.
Sit down calmly and evaluate the situation. Be honest with your husband and do not judge him. Ask yourself: what are the problems – is it that neither side is willing to give in? Is there a solution that can benefit both your wants?
For Dads:
Hubbies, I know you take great pride in your work. But when you're wife scolds you for not being able to multitask, she's not attacking you. She's attacking your behaviour.
If it really is impossible to multitask, then delegate among yourselves a housekeeping role at fixed times. Maybe mum can do the chores during the weekdays, while Dad helps out on weekends.
For your little ones:
Challenge your children with monotasking problems – but don't provide all the solutions! Let them solve it themselves creatively. For instance, you can make a treasure hunt but put puzzles and hints for them.
Don't provide gadgets and smartphones early on. Let them roam the great outdoors (under adult supervision, of course!). Even when they are mature enough to use these gadgets, do implement non digital times. For instance, you can ban cell phone use before bed time.
Clearly, the average woman is better at multitasking compared to the average man, as outlined by differences in how they are wired. However men can learn from women to be organised under pressure, and vice versa.
At home, it's important to remember to have open and honest conversations with your spouse and find solutions. For the little ones, do remember to challenge them to think creatively, and limit gadget time.
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Q: Getting AttributeError: 'Picture' object has no attribute 'getFrameColour' while trying to access the array file The program stores pictures as objects. It stores the dimension, frame colour, and description of the picture. The program needs to input its requirements for a picture. The user will enter colour, width, and height. Then the program will search the array and output the picture description if any picture meets the requirements.
class Picture:

    def __init__(self, DescriptionP, WidthP, HeightP, FrameColourP):
        self.__Description = DescriptionP  # string
        self.__Width = WidthP  # integer
        self.__Height = HeightP  # integer
        self.__FrameColour = FrameColourP  # string

def getDescription(self):
    return self.__Description  # Fixed method to return the associated attribute to the user

def getWidth(self):
    return self.__Width

# Key rule: Only use parameters if they are passed, otherwise only use self and attributes.
def getHeight(self):
    return self.__Height

def getFrameColour(self):
    return self.__FrameColour

# In such questions, do not think much just solve normally. Use the parameters(mentionned...
def SetDescription(self, DescriptionP):
    # ...during class definition) and imagine that they have already been given a value by the user.
    self.__Description = DescriptionP

# Do this to show blank array instead of doing the method where you write 'None' multiple times.
PictureArray = []
# This is class with parameters so can happen directly but can't be blank. In case of...
for i in range(100):
    # ...object with parameters, it has to be defined first(tho can be blank there at least).
    PictureArray.append(Picture("", 0, 0, ""))

def ReadData(PictureArray):  # In object case array is not needed as parameter.
    filename = "C:\\Users\\ayush\\Downloads\\Pictures.txt"
    NumberPicturesInArray = 0
    try:
        file = open(filename, "r")
        # For internal work so .lower() used in string case, or bcoz extra variable avoided.
        Description = (file.readline()).strip().lower()
        while (Description != ""):
            # Just prefer mentionning data type for int(and .lower() here for string).
            Width = int((file.readline()).strip())
            Height = int((file.readline()).strip())
            Frame = ((file.readline()).strip()).lower()
            # Extra step to do when without 'object'...
            PictureArray[NumberPicturesInArray] = Picture(
                Description, Width, Height, Frame)
            # ...where '.append' can be thought to be replaced with '[Counter]='.
            Description = ((file.readline()).strip()).lower()
            NumberPicturesInArray = NumberPicturesInArray+1
        PictureArray.append(Picture(DescriptionP=Description,
                            WidthP=Width, HeightP=Height, FrameColourP=Frame))
        file.close()
    except IOError:
        print("Could not find file!")
    return NumberPicturesInArray, PictureArray

    # In the without 'object' case, when a return value is...
# ...there in function then use it to call the function.
NumberPicturesInArray, PictureArray = ReadData(PictureArray)

# .lower allows any case alphabets to be input but be processesed as lower only!
FrameColour = input("Input the Frame colour ").lower()
MaxWidth = int(input("Input the Maximum Width "))
MaxHeight = int(input("Input the Maximum Height "))
print("Matches Frames shown")
for Z in range(0, NumberPicturesInArray):  # This range is crucial.
    if (PictureArray[Z].getFrameColour() == FrameColour):
        if (PictureArray[Z].getWidth() <= MaxWidth):
            if (PictureArray[Z].getHeight() <= MaxHeight):
                print(PictureArray[Z].getDescription(), " ", str(PictureArray[Z].getWidth()), " ", str(
                    PictureArray[Z].getHeight()), " ", PictureArray[Z].getFrameColour())

I'm getting the error-
 if (PictureArray[Z].getFrameColour() == FrameColour):
AttributeError: 'Picture' object has no attribute 'getFrameColour'

I'm trying to call the method to read the array data.
Expected output- Description of the picture

A: Your __init__ method is correctly indented inside the Picture class. However, the other "methods" are not indented at all, so they're not actually part of the class; they're simply top-level functions. So when you create an instance of Picture, it does not have a getFrameColour method.
You want something more like this:
class Picture:
    def __init__(self, DescriptionP, WidthP, HeightP, FrameColourP):
        self.__Description = DescriptionP  #string
        self.__Width = WidthP  #integer
        self.__Height = HeightP  #integer
        self.__FrameColour = FrameColourP  #string

    def getDescription(self):
        return self.__Description

    def getWidth(self):
        return self.__Width

    def getHeight(self):
        return self.__Height

    def getFrameColour(self):
        return self.__FrameColour

This does still have some issues. Standard practice in Python is to use "snake_case", for instance using get_frame_colour instead of getFrameColour; more importantly, you don't really need getter methods at all. It would be much cleaner to use the attributes directly. You might also want to try dataclasses to streamline things.

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Srila Prabhupada called it the encyclopedia of spiritual life, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu called it the amala (spotless) purana. The Srimad Bhagavatam (Bhagavata Purana) is the essential and complete guide to Krishna Consciousness. It is a journey of 18,000 verses from the Lord's lotus feet in the first canto to His smiling face in the tenth. This edition contains Sanskrit devanagari, roman transliteration, word for word translations, translations, and purports by Srila Prabhupada. 12 Cantos in complete in 18 volumes.
These last sets of the printed deluxe format, have been stored for some years in a humid environment, thus the following small faults are found on the volumes:
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Description of decorations: Fine light sand, pebbles, calcareous stones with fossils of the Ordovician period, dry branches of trees with leaves, structural background for the aquarium.
Description of the area surrounding the biotope: The Lava River is 31 km long and starts in peat bogs to the south of Naziya settlement. In the upper and lower reaches, the Lava flows in a shallow valley. On the middle reach, however, the river cuts deep into the limestone, up to 30 m, and makes a picturesque canyon about 7 km long. On the banks leaf trees grow: elm, ash, alder. In the spring waters destroy the calcareous layers, and the stone blocks fall into Lava. Limestone, which forms the walls of the canyon, is rich in fossil organisms of the Ordovician period. These are the remains of numerous echinoderms, trilobites, bryozoans, brachiopods and cephalopods. Their age is 485-443 million years. Often fossils can be found right in the river bed, among the pebbles. In the lower course, the river bottom gradually becomes muddy. A few kilometers north the Lava flows into the Ladoga Lake. Lava is a reservoir with pronounced seasonality. In spring, during the melting of snow, the river becomes turbulent and full-flowing, the current is very fast and strong. In April and May, the Lava is popular among athletes, kayakers. In summer the water level gradually falls, and by August the Lava is more like a wide and fast stream. Canyon of the Lava River is a geological monument of the Leningrad Region.
Description of the underwater landscape of the biotope: The bottom of the river is covered with plates, stones, calcareous pebbles and sand. In shallow water, the stones are covered with algae. The water has brownish color, rather transparent. The flow in this part of the river is relatively fast, there are even small thresholds. That is why at the bottom you can find only large driftwood or fallen trees, small branches and leaves are carried away by the current. Here there are chub, belica, gudgeon, etc. The chub, represented in the photo, were caught as fry in the Lava river, and for 3 years they are kept in an aquarium. Actually, this area of the Lava has a few aquatic plants due to the rapid flow. The rocks are rich in water moss Fontinalis antipyretica. Among the pebbles on the shore, Cardamine amara often grows. In this part of the Lava rhyophilic organisms live that need high concentration of oxygen: mayflies, stoneflies, caddisflies, etc.
Description of the parameters of the habitat: The water is clear, brown, alkaline (pH 8), fairly stiff (KH 8, GH 10), saturated with oxygen.
List of fishes: Aspius aspius, Squalius cephalus, Rutilus rutilus, Phoxinus phoxinus, Esox lucius, invertebrates of Heptageniidae, Hydropsychidae.
Threats to the ecology: In recent years, the Lava River suffers from pollution, which is clearly harmful to the inhabitants of the river and endangers the existence of this unique biological community.
It is another example of a perfect display tank in a public aquarium. Even though the volume could be bigger for this amount of large, cold-water fishes, they all look very healthy and thriving. The decorations are very attractive, with lots of details provided by small branches with dead leaves, and solid "optical frame" provided by large fragments of wood. This tank shows that cold-water European underwater habitats and their inhabitants are also very attractive, and should be demonstrated to the public as often as possible.


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10 Most Popular Fish Make Up 90% of Volume
From canned tuna to cod, the top ten most consumed seafood items by Americans are a very familiar group that feeds a growing market, according to recent data released by the federal government that found overall seafood volume netting 4.65 billion pounds. The data also showed American seafood companies exported a record 3.3 billion pounds valued at $5.4 billion.
Officials from the National Fisheries Institute (NFI) said the data shows the importance of the U.S. seafood market, which is now the second largest in the world. "Strong export numbers confirm that our customers in Europe and Asia value sustainable and healthy American seafood products," said John Connelly, NFI's president. "The seafood sector is growing in the volume and value of seafood we can provide to consumers here and abroad."
While America's palate may not be as adventurous as some when it comes to seafood, experts say that's not necessarily a bad thing.
Indeed, Jennifer McGuire, NFI's manager of nutrition communications, said the continued popularity of mild white fish, like Alaska Pollock, and other species that are often considered "starter-fish, is actually good news. Whether it's in tacos or on the grill, swapping in seafood for the usual proteins will mean significant public health benefits."
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The game was originally due to kick-off at 1pm, but has been rescheduled for 2pm following a pitch inspection.
Martin Devaney's side have scored 40 goals in 25 league games this season, while the Tractor Boys have 38 from the same amount of matches.
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There are hotkeys to rotate selections. Press Ctrl+R or Ctrl+T and your selection will rotate 90 degrees.
Select both of the stacks, copy and paste it, then use the Rotate tool to rotate it 90 degrees. Move the copy so it fits next to the other stacks.
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i have some older MTH passenger cars I would like to remove the silhouette windows add clear windows and add an interior like what comes in the current MTH cars.
has anyone done this? Can you buy the interiors from MTH or someone else?
Truthfully, you'd be better off just buying the ones with interiors. Building them up is going to be a lot of work. If you have a somewhat unique road name, you "might" consider buying a similar set with interiors and swapping shells. If you shop around, MTH cars can be had fairly inexpensively at times. Since you wouldn't be looking for a specific roadname, that might be the cheapest and easiest way to do the deed.
These are Empire State express cars that match a engine I have. They are a nice aluminum car. I planed to add led lighting using GRJ's modules.
Rich, since these are MTH cars, try them first. Do they have aluminum cars that use the same extrusion as your cars? If so, you can probably buy interiors that will work in your cars with internal modifications to adopt them.
My reason for suggesting you contact MTH is that LIONEL's aluminum cars, at least the ones I'm interested in, use the same extrusion which permits use of the interiors introduced in newer production. Most, however, require use of a different frame, and even trucks--so it's not without expense.
I've asked Midge a while ago... interiors were not available from MTH!
Check out this link to LIONEL's website--lots of "interiors" (the search term) available, including K-Line, aluminum, heavyweights, etc. Not every one, of course.
If MTH's extrusion was the same or highly similar to LIONEL's, this may be a good alternative.


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Q: Project Management Issues I am leading a a software development team of 15 members. I am facing a list of problems are
Not getting enough time to do planning and tracking
Not able to make all team members busy
Not able to deliver products on the committed dates

What could be the possible ways to handle this? where can I get more information?

A: Your job is to do the planning and tracking. This is your first responsibilty and you should not be doing other tasks ahead of this especially any coding. In fact, since you say you can't keep your people busy, you should not be doing any coding at all. You should start the day with tracking every day. If you don't know who is doing what and what they are stuck on and what they are ahead on, you don't know who is available to assign other tasks or who needs help. In other words, you are not managing if you don't do this task.
If you do the first task, the second should solve itself unless you have developers who are not capable of doing the tasks you have to assign. If so, get rid of the deadwood and hire better people.
If you do the first task, the third should either solve itself or give you the ammunition you need to go to the higher levels and request a deadline extension. These are easier to get when you have the detailed data to show that the work cannot fit into the time allotted.

A: I think good planning is an essential part of the software development life cycle. Therefore, time should be spent on planning. Moreover, part if the planning is deciding who should do what and when (so that no one remains without anything to do). It also involves identification of potential risks for your project and combined with the task management, it should help you meet your deadline. All this of course depends on which process are you following.

A: Software Estimation is probably a big part of it. I'd recommend Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art, by Steve McConnell. He runs Construx, a company that helps out on that sort of stuff too. Using a tool that breaks down projects into smaller chunks like Microsoft Project or Telerik Teampulse would probably be helpful.


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NTBs: what you need to know
Martin G Kaspar	| 01/08/2018 3:37 pm
While trade tariffs are getting all the press, less visible non-tariff barriers (NTBs) might arguably be the bigger impediment to free trade. Martin G Kaspar explains.
The most heated discussion of our day, that of the rise of protectionism and the breakdown of free trade, often lacks the level of detail needed to arrive at a nuanced and more realistic picture. It is not just the fiercely debated tariffs that are obstacles to trade, but also the less visible layer of so-called non-tariff barriers (NTBs). Arguably, these might even be the bigger impediment. So what are NTBs, and why should we worry about them?
For the past two or three decades, trade has grown steadily and ever more rapidly. Tariffs have continuously been removed, or at least been lowered. Only the recent spate of anti-trade outbursts from US president Donald Trump and his threats of punitive tariffs on everything from steel to cars have tainted the otherwise glorious picture of everlasting progress, that it has never been as easy (or cheap) to do business with the world. But has it really?
As any businessman can tell you, the true picture is not quite as rosy as the tariff reductions (usually announced with big fanfare) would have us believe. There is a less visible story; while tariffs have been reduced, the number of NTBs has steadily been increasing.
Undefined something
The tricky thing about NTBs is that there is not even an agreed definition for them. The best way to describe NTBs is as discriminating approaches that, in the widest sense, are designed to keep foreign firms out and protect one's own domestic firms. Due to their hidden and often subtle nature, they are hard to detect and even harder to measure. Hence, robust figures are difficult to come by.
The most obvious NTBs are import controls, import bans or quotas. But other than that, where do you draw the line? Health and safety or environment protection is making life difficult for exporters and investors, but these restrictions are dealt with by both local and foreign companies, and are arguably legitimate measures to protect the greater good of society. Therefore we would not consider them NTBs.
The most widely applied measures – which most commentators also class as NTBs – are not 'negative actions', such as bans, but a sort of positive discrimination in the form of financial grants or subsidies provided to domestic companies in order to give them a competitive advantage. It might be debateable whether supporting one's own firm base is necessarily always protectionism.
But where the case is abundantly clear is where nations start to attempt to keep others out of their own markets and make their lives as difficult as possible. A prime example would be the Byzantine licensing or documentation requirements – particularly for non-national investors or capital import rules – that keep foreign firms busy for months and make them wonder whether it is really is worth the effort.
Worst offenders
Having established what NTBs are, the next question is: who is applying them? And here, one might be surprised to find that the most 'protectionist' nation in terms of NTB use is the US. With nearly 800 non-tariff measures listed in the Global Trade Alert database, the US leads in erecting barriers by a wide margin. The measures employed range from the "stricter enforcement of Buy American rules" on a broad range of products from footwear to steel, to subsidies for the US merchant marine, the producers of textiles or of cotton.
The second most protectionist nation in terms of NTBs is India (with 312 measures), followed by Russia (250) and Saudi Arabia (151). China – which is especially surprising, given the sheer volume of its trade and investment engagement, as well as the constant accusations of unfair trading practices – only ranks ninth.
As opposed to the US approach of 'Buy American', India operates with a different pattern of NTBs. Apart from being one of the most active users of anti-dumping measures, its licensing and permitting regimes are so extremely complex, and variable from state to state, that foreigners almost never find their way through the opaque maze without the help of local consultants.
Clearer picture
This brings us to the last question: why should you worry about NTBs? Because they are arguably more problematic and damaging than tariffs; tariffs and duties are clear to see and firms know what they are letting themselves in for. With NTBs, the story is one of gradual discovery, often when significant costs have already been incurred. And while for products that are in heavy demand, tariffs are merely a cost item added to the product price (and essentially paid for by the customer), the way to deal with NTBs is often less clear.
So while tariffs only keep out foreign companies whose products are merely me-too, NTBs discriminate against all foreign companies, often in ways that are not only price-related. Local content requirements keep you from bidding for government contracts, while Byzantine licensing keeps companies out, no matter how unique their product might be.
Most importantly, however, is that a clearer view of NTBs makes the debate about 'fair' and 'unfair' trading practices correspond a little more closely to the real picture.
Martin G Kaspar is head of business development at a German mittelstand company within the automotive industry. E-mail: martin.georg.kaspar@gmail.com
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If anyone can help me get my hands on the ads or knows anything about the history of the mag (Entrepreneur Magazine) and its founder I'd love to talk to you.
The founder of Los Angeles-based Entrepreneur magazine, Chase Revel, was arrested Thursday at his Pacific Palisades house on suspicion of being a convicted felon in possession of a handgun, forgery and perjury, the Los Angeles County district attorney's office said.
Revel was convicted 20 years ago of two bank robberies and three attempted bank robberies in Houston and Las Vegas under his given name, John Leonard Burke.
That palimony suit, filed by Kristin Barrett-Whitney, alleged, among other things, that Revel, the author of a number of books on how to start small businesses, was actually Burke, the convicted bank robber. It also indicated that Revel had used the name Jacques Victor Baron, and as Baron had been convicted of mail fraud in a small business scheme in 1972.
Rooker said Thursday that he had confirmed that Revel, the author, was indeed the same man as Burke, the robber, and Baron, the perpetrator of a mail fraud scheme.
Chase Revel, who started Entrepreneur in the early 1970s, was a leading purveyor of goods and services related to the swift acquisition of wealth. His published works include 184 Businesses Anyone Can Start and Make a Lot of Money and 168 More Businesses Anyone Can Start and Make a Lot of Money. Revel's ideas ran the gamut from the seductive and legal to the nefarious and illegal. In 1966 he was sentenced to four years in prison under his given name, John Leonard Burke, for attempting to rob four banks in Houston in one day, according to articles published 20 years later by the Los Angeles Times. Revel (then Burke) hired helpers to deliver letters warning bank tellers that their children had been kidnapped. (Revel researched which employees had school-age kids.) The notes stated that the children would be returned only if the tellers surrendered large canvas bags stuffed with cash. In fact, no children had been snatched, and the scheme collapsed almost immediately.
After moving on to other pursuits, Revel continued to have scrapes with the authorities. As recently as 2006 he denied wrongdoing and paid $27,500 in a settlement of civil allegations by the Federal Trade Commission that he created false advertising for Gero Vita dietary supplements.
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Press Conference by Defense Minister Inada (11:19-11:30 A.M. January 17, 2017)
Press Conference by the Defense Minister
Time & Date: 11:19-11:30 A.M. January 17, 2017
Place: Press Conference Room, Ministry of Defense (MOD)
(This is a provisional translation of an announcement by the Defense Minister and the Q&A session at the subsequent press conference for reference purposes only.)
The original text is in Japanese.
1. Announcements
2. Questions and Answers
I would like to ask you about ACSAs. Recently, there have been ACSA-related moves, such as revising the Japan-Australia ACSA and agreeing to hold negotiations about an ACSA with France. Could you explain the significance of signing ACSAs? Also, could you tell me about the progress in consultations about an ACSA with the United Kingdom and about the prospects for submission of bills related to other ACSAs to the Diet, although I understand that a bill related to the Japan-U.S. ACSA has already been submitted to the Diet?
First, regarding the significance of ACSAs, ACSAs are agreements that prescribe the framework of determination procedures that enable smooth mutual supply of goods and services between the SDF and foreign military forces. Through them, it becomes possible to smoothly conduct various activities, such as joint exercises and PKO, so I believe they promote close defense cooperation between the SDF and foreign military forces. Regarding ACSAs with the United Kingdom and France, which you mentioned just now, we are now holding negotiations. As for the status of negotiations, I would like to refrain from making comments out of consideration for our relationship with our partners. Regarding the submission of bills to the Diet, nothing particular has been decided for now.
Miyakojima City's mayoral election and vote counting are scheduled for January 22. Media reports are stating that the incumbent mayor and other candidates are divided over supporting or opposing the deployment of a GSDF unit, and depending on the results, the deployment could be affected. Could you share your comments on that?
First, I would like to refrain from commenting on behalf of the MOD on the situation of Miyakojima City's mayoral election on January 22 based on conjecture. However, the MOD believes it is necessary to steadily proceed with the deployment of a GSDF security unit in Miyakojima from the perspective of resolving the lack of SDF presence in the southwestern region at an early time. Therefore, we intend to proceed with it while continuing to provide conscientious explanations to the local community, and whatever the election results may be, this policy will remain unchanged.
What do you think of the fact that a matter concerning national defense has become an issue of contention in the mayoral election?
Of course, the viewpoint of national defense is an important matter that relates to the national interests and Japan's security, not just local interests. At the same time, we must adequately take into consideration the impact on the local residents' everyday life, so there are two sides to this issue.
In relation to that, there have been a succession of developments related to Okinawa, including the Osprey accident and a supplementary agreement concerning the scope of the civilian component that was signed yesterday. Are you considering visiting Okinawa in person in order to provide explanations about these matters to the governor or the mayor of Nago City, or about the Miyakojima issue to relevant people?
Mitigating the impact on Okinawa is also a very important challenge for the Abe administration. Regarding the recent Osprey accident, after flight operations were suspended temporarily, the MOD held intense, close consultations with the U.S. side in stages, before the resumption of flight operations and before the resumption of aerial refueling training, so I believe that we did all what could be done. On the other hand, it is important to provide adequate explanations to local residents in Okinawa. Furthermore, regarding Miyakojima, about which I received a question earlier, we also face the challenge of resolving the lack of SDF presence in the southwestern region at an early time. Therefore, my wish to find an opportunity to provide adequate explanations myself remains unchanged, although the timing has not been decided.
President-elect Trump will take office on January 20. The president-elect himself has been making few references to an increase in the costs that the allies should bear. Do you think that this indicates that Mr. Trump has appropriately understood the arguments made by Japan and other allies? Or do you think there is a risk that he will comment on matters like that again in the future?
We should not make comments based on conjecture about what policies President-elect Trump may adopt after taking office. However, since immediately after the election, he has been referring to the importance of the Japan-U.S. Alliance, and the Prime Minister met with Mr. Trump earlier than any other national leader and made the first move toward developing a relationship of trust. The Japan-U.S. Security Arrangement is not a framework from which only Japan or the United States benefits, and I believe that the expenditures for the stationing of the U.S. Forces should be appropriately shared between Japan and the United States.
I have a question concerning Henoko. Regarding floats now being installed to indicate the temporary restricted area, ropes were strung over the floats at this time. Could you tell me why this new measure was taken at this time, in addition to indicating the temporary restricted area?
After installing the floats, we are installing barriers to prevent the spread of muddied water caused by the construction work. There will be no change in the fact that these floats indicate the demarcation of the temporary restricted area in order to ensure the safety of the work. In any case, the MOD will make efforts to mitigate the impact on Okinawa at an early time by realizing the return of MCAS Futenma as early as possible.
Will floats like those previously used be unable to ensure the safety?
This time, we are installing floats that have been selected as the best from the perspective of the appearance of the demarcation line of the temporary restricted area and also from the perspective of ensuring the safety of the work.
In relation to the clarification of the scope of the civilian component under the Japan-U.S. Status of Forces Agreement that was announced yesterday, do you expect this will reduce incidents like the one that occurred last year?
First, regarding the supplementary agreement concerning the civilian component, this clarifies the scope of the civilian component, specifies types of civilian component personnel and prescribes the procedures for being recognized as civilian component personnel and the development of the suitability evaluation criteria. This is the second supplementary agreement, after the supplementary agreement concerning the environment. As it is legally binding, it has landmark significance and is different from the improvements of enforcement made in the past. Through the implementation of this agreement, I expect that cooperation between Japan and the United States will be promoted further, and I also expect that as a result of the clarification of the scope of the civilian component, the recurrence of incidents like the one that you mentioned will be prevented through further enhancement of the management and supervision of the civilian component of the U.S. Forces in Japan.
As Okinawa Prefecture is asserting, incidents and accidents in Okinawa Prefecture have been caused not only by civilian component personnel but also by U.S. military personnel themselves, so this is apparently unlikely to lead to recurrence prevention in relation to military personnel. What would you say to that?
I expect that clarifying the scope of the civilian component in this way, making it legally binding, and further enhancing the management and supervision of the civilian component will have effects on military personnel as well.
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I don't fully know how to feel so here's some graphs
The day after the election I said "I'd be extremely surprised if it doesn't turn out to be National-NZ First." Well, I have the pleasure (I think?) of being able to say again: I was wrong.
I'm not entirely sure how I feel yet.
(I guess I'm happy? We'll have to wait and see the content of the agreement and what the govt actually does. I hope the Greens demanded a lot and got it (this looks promising but we don't have details or confirmation yet), and that Winston emphasised the 1/3 of him that's like Sanders rather than the 2/3 of him that's like Trump. There is real hope of climate action, more paid parental leave, faster minimum wage increases, reversal of the step-backwards pay equity law, adequate funding for health especially mental health, more support for students and some free education, repeal of national standards and charter schools, more affordable housing even if limited crackdown on speculation, adequately funding a full superannuation system in the future with the taxes future retirees are paying now, less poverty in families where adults are in paid work, and maybe even some benefit rises/humanisation.)
So instead of reactions or analysis I thought I'd do what I do best and make a couple of graphs.
Here's the first one. It compares the votes received by the parties that ended up making up the government with the votes received by other parties who (a) managed to make it into Government and (b) plausibly might have banded together to form a government.1
The takeaway from this is:
The 2017 government represents a majority of votes as well as a majority of seats. Under FPP, the government hadn't represented the majority of votes since 1951. And even under MMP, governments don't represent a majority of party votes every time (five times out of eight so far).
The alternative bloc (National & NZ First) would have been an even bigger majority: it got 1.29% more party votes than the bloc that formed the government. But this isn't new. In 1996, the alternative bloc (Labour & NZ First & Alliance) got 4.42% more party votes than the bloc that formed the government. Both times NZ First chose what they thought was the best government bloc, not the biggest government bloc.
As I argued in my last blog, MMP creates monarch-maker situations more often than FPP because it more accurately reflects how people vote. As Winston pointed out in his reveal speech, neither National nor the Labour-Green MOU succeeded in winning a majority and king/queenmaking themselves. This left NZF able to make up a majority with either side. A lot of people don't like kingmakers—especially when they're people we don't like, and especially when they don't choose how we'd like. And I get it. But First Past the Post was worse. It artificially advantaged major parties and leads to disproportionate situations like 1978, 1981, 1984, and 1993 where the opposition bloc won more votes (often substantially more votes) than the government bloc but didn't get the all-important majority of seats.
Here's the second graph:
The takeaway from this one is pretty obvious.
This means I've excluded other parties who might have liked to be part of a government bloc but they didn't make it into Parliament (TOP, Conservatives, Christian Coalition, Legalise Cannabis, Values, sometimes Social Credit, sometimes NZ First, etc.). I've also excluded parties where it's not plausible that they might have worked together: e.g. ACT with National and NZ First this time (they wouldn't have been needed or wanted). I dunno if it's plausible that Social Credit might have gone with Labour in 1978 and 1981 and National in 1984 because I don't really know anything about Social Credit, but I've erred on the side of "who knows—maybe". If we removed Social Credit from the numbers, the opposition blocs would be reduced. But still, in '78 and '81, Labour won the popular vote but National won a majority of seats. ↑
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Hone and Johnny
John Campbell has started a series of interviews with party leaders and their partners in their homes. The first two were with John and Bronagh Key and Hone Harawira and Hilda Halkyard-Harawira.
Both couples feed John a meal and talk about their lives and their political involvements – that's about where the similarities end. Hone has photos on his wall from the Springbok tour protests. John famously can't remember his stance on that issue, but he vividly remembers when he first wanted to be Prime Minister a few years earlier.
This is a good illustration of the main difference between Key's and Harawira's interviews, and indeed their overall political personas: Harawira's interview is far more about politics and real issues, while Key's is far more about superficiality, personality and content-free generalities like "making a difference" and "economic management" (Ha!).
Key does talk about "vulnerable people" and kids in poverty after Campbell observes the extreme wealth of their context. But for him these "vulnerable people" are an abstraction – they're completely absent from his life.
Harawira's concern for the marginalised is far more real. His biggest achievements are sacrifices he's made for real live vulnerable people – be it Māori, the poor, South Africans suffering under apartheid, or his grumpy father-in-law. Mana's policies are primarily motivated by real justice for those who most need it.
Moreover, Key's claimed concern for kids growing up on welfare belies the fact that his government has kept benefit rates at 1991 levels. 1991, you may recall, was the year National deliberately set benefits to only cover 80% of minimum nutritional needs. This was an attempt to incentivise people into accepting the new low-wage jobs – or at least, those lucky enough to find jobs. They also encouraged a certain level of unemployment to drive wages down and again incentivise these poverty-wage jobs. This shows individual incentivisation may fill low-wage jobs, but it can't cure unemployment: that requires broader socio-economic changes. These policies were and are sacrifices of the poor to support rich poverty-wage employers.
Two things have changed since then: One, poverty dropped slightly among working families (see p.47 here) since the last Labour government's third-way policy, Working for Families. Key called WFF "communism by stealth" at the time, but he's kept it, and praises it in the video for how it subsidises low wages. Two, National's rhetoric is all anti-unemployment these days.
But three things still speak volumes: One, Key's more willing to use taxpayer money to subsidise poverty-wage employers than make them pay living wages. Two, he sees no problem with WFF's exclusion of beneficiary children from assistance, even though he notes they're the majority of kids in poverty. Three, Key looks no further than individual solutions to the societal issue of unemployment.
Meanwhile, the real-life vulnerable people who miss out on the limited number of subsidised jobs offered by this "economic management" suffer now more than ever. Key thinks leftover Labour policies and welfare scapegoating is enough to help them. Harawira does not. I know which one I'd rather vote for.
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Together with its customer HJS Emission Technology, Sensor-Technik Wiedemann (STW) has implemented a solution for the remote condition monitoring of exhaust gas treatment systems for London public transport.
For years, discussions have been featured almost daily in the media regarding the exhaust gas emissions of diesel vehicles. London is an important path-breaker in the implementation of measures for air pollution control, and last year it set up a so-called Low Emission Zone (LEZ) across more than 1,500 square kilometers for the greater region of London. In order to fulfill the specifications and to ensure further operation, many of the vehicles are now reliant on the retrofitting of exhaust gas after-treatment systems for diesel engines. The SCRT (Selective Catalytic Reduction Technology), provided by the company HJS Emission Technology for the retrofitting of electronically-controlled systems adds urea (AdBlue) and uses particle filters and catalytic converters to reduce soot particles and nitrogen oxide (NOx) in several steps. By 2021, more than 5,000 buses of companies in London's public transport network (Transport for London) are to be equipped with retrofit solutions.
Due to the legally-specified certification obligations, important data is to be recorded centrally, and initially stored for 60 days. In the same way, live access to current parameters must be provided if required with response times of only a few seconds. The implementation of the real time condition monitoring was facilitated through the use of the telematics platform TC1 and the device and application management portal "machines.cloud" by STW.
The TC1 with embedded Linux, especially optimized for mobile use in adverse conditions, features amongst other things an integrated GPS/GLONASS module, a cellular modem and two CAN interfaces for reading out the required parameters from the existing vehicle bus. The recorded parameters are reliably provided with a time stamp and transferred wirelessly to the STW telematic/IoT portal "machines.cloud" when an Internet connection is available. There the current performance parameters, location and status reports can be visualized at any time. For further evaluation, the historical data is of course also made available. Through the unique "Live-Widget", a data channel is set up if required directly to the vehicle, and values are sent and displayed at one-second intervals. In this way, current values such as the NOx reduction, fine dust particle reduction, the fill level of the urea tank, the current location and speed and possible error messages and alarms from individual vehicles or vehicle groups, or the entire fleet, can be monitored. The historical data can be exported with the report in accordance with the specifications on an hourly, daily, weekly or monthly basis.
Due to the extendibility and the open interfaces of the cloud solution, it is possible to realize interfaces to existing CRM or ERP third-party systems without complications. The same applies for the integration of customers' own applications.


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University of Birmingham > Talks@bham > Artificial Intelligence and Natural Computation seminars > Graph Analysis through Quantum Walks
Graph Analysis through Quantum Walks
Dr Luca Rossi, School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham
Mechanical Engineering, B01.
If you have a question about this talk, please contact Lars Kunze.
Classical random walks model a diffusion process on the vertex set of a graph, where transitions are allowed only along the graph edges, and have proven to be a useful tool in the analysis of its structure. More recently, there has been an increasing interest in using quantum walks to as an alternative to classical ones. Despite being similar in their definition, the dynamics of the classical and quantum walks can be remarkably different. For example, it has been shown that quantum parallelism and interference effects allow quantum walks to spread exponentially faster than their classical counterpart, over certain structures.
In this talk I will give a brief introduction to quantum walks and their use in graph analysis. In particular, I will show how to use the quantum Jensen-Shannon divergence between suitably defined quantum walks to perform a number of tasks, such as detecting the presence of structural symmetries in a graph, measuring the centrality of a vertex and defining a kernel on (un)attributed graphs. The experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of these approaches and serve as a motivation to investigate further the rich expressive power of quantum walks in graph-based pattern recognition and network analysis.
This talk is part of the Artificial Intelligence and Natural Computation seminars series.
Artificial Intelligence and Natural Computation seminars
Computer Science Departmental Series
Computer Science Distinguished Seminars
Mechanical Engineering, B01
IMA West Midlands Branch Featured talks Type the title of a new list here
RSC S F Boys-A Rahman Award Lecture TBA Combining Organic Synthesis, Isotopes and Synthetic Biology in Natural Products Research Role of Mechanics and Geometry in Cellular Information Processing School Seminar The Griess Algebra and the Monster


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Awesome GTA 5 Mod Takes Players To Space To Battle Aliens
Check out Grand Theft Space.
By Alex Newhouse | @AlexBNewhouse on July 31, 2017 at 11:14AM PDT
There's been no shortage of crazy and incredible mods made for Grand Theft Auto V, but most of them stay within the bounds of San Andreas. At this point, though--years after the game's original release--a group of modders apparently decided that the city was feeling a little stale and wanted to expand. And so they created a mod that takes GTA V to the final frontier.
Grand Theft Space, as it's called, is an ambitious mod that aims to let you explore space and battle with aliens. It's still in development, but the trailer that the team released gives a glimpse of a mod that's already awesome. Check it out below.
You can see from the video that you'll be able to blast off into space in a shuttle, explore the solar system, careen around the moon in a buggy, and meet new NPCs. You can see a list of features that the mod team is working on here.
"The earth has been alone in this galaxy since the very moment it was formed, but far far away in another galaxy, there was intelligent life peering at the people of earth for a millennium," modder Sollaholla wrote. "This life was not the friendly life we would like to believe. The NASA research team have found remnants of alien spaceship parts scattered around the state of San Andreas. We never thought that these intelligent life-forms would ever reach our planet; but they're coming and they're not on our side. It's your mission to take out these alien scum before they reach earth."
There's no set official release date for the mod yet; the modders say that it'll launch "when we think it's ready," Sollaholla said.
In other GTA V news, publisher Take Two has made controversial decisions regarding multiplayer mods, choosing to shut down the popular Open IV modding tool. Developer Rockstar intervened on its behalf, successfully allowing development on the tool to continue as long as it focuses on single-player mods. In addition, the game continues to sell extremely well even four years after release. In addition, it recently received a content update from developer Rockstar, which you can read about here.
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CraigTL
CraigTL - 1 year ago
That is incredible.... it just seems at some point you would just want to make your own stand alone game and get the true credit you deserve.
lionheartssj1
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lionheartssj1 - 1 year ago
This is impressive! Looks like they were doing an Interstellar style warp at the end.
smashthestars
smashthestars - 1 year ago
this should be GTA6
Pelezinho777
Pelezinho777 - 1 year ago
Is that Barack Obama?
Metalnoid
Metalnoid - 1 year ago
Where no mod has gone before...
GinsuVictim
GinsuVictim - 1 year ago
Holy s***!!!


If you're the type of driver who finds yourself worried about getting a speeding ticket, there's a number of things you can do to help improve your odds to avoid a speeding ticket. Obviously you could aim to not speed, but there's always the risk of inadvertently missing a speed limit drop zone, you can get popped even following the flow of traffic, or you may get zapped at the bottom of a downhill when your car sped up naturally, so it's helpful to be aware of your surroundings so you can respond intelligently. Here's a couple things you can do to help avoid speeding tickets.
1. Stay alert for cops up ahead.
Use your eyes and look for the telltale clues of a police car up ahead. A car on the shoulder may be a cop, often shooting radar, and if they're parked sideways on the road, they're usually shooting laser out their side window. Being parked sideways is a very telltale giveaway.
2. Stick close to the flow of traffic.
If you drive within 5-10 miles of the flow of traffic, you won't stick out as an obvious target for police to go for.
3. Get a good radar detector.
One of the most common ways that police give speeding tickets is with a radar gun. A radar detector will give you advanced warning so you can slow down before he clocks you. They will pay for themselves many times over. Avoid cheapy detectors though. They give very limited range and tons of false alerts so they'll generally be more annoying than helpful. For my recommendation on good radar detectors, see my best radar detector buyer's guide.
4. Install a good laser jammer.
Police also use laser guns all over the country to give speeding tickets. A radar detector doesn't help against laser so you'll want to get a laser jammer like the AntiLaser Priority that can stop the laser gun from getting a reading off your car, giving you enough time to slow down, turn off your jammers, and let them clock you doing the speed limit. Learn everything you need to know about getting set up with laser jammers here.
A "rabbit" is a car up ahead driving quickly that you follow from a distance. The idea is you give them some room up ahead of you and if a police officer hits them with radar or laser, they'll draw fire and get the ticket instead of you.
6. Watch for brake lights up ahead.
If drivers up ahead of you are suddenly braking, that can be a clue that they may have just spotted a cop.
7. Be extra careful when you're alone on the road.
If you don't have a rabbit up ahead, it's really best to stick to the speed limit. Without that added layer of protection, you're easy pickings without a pack to hide inside of.
8. Check your rearview mirror.
Police can follow behind you, do the same speed as you, and look at their speedometer to see how fast you're going. This is called pacing and neither a radar detector nor a laser jammer will help with this. Keep an eye out for light bars on top of the vehicle and the headlights of the style of police cars used in your area.
9. Know the common hiding spots.
Keep an eye out for common police hiding spots like underneath or on top of overpasses, highway onramps to clock cars from behind, or right after you crest the top of a hill. Slow down as you crest the top of a hill and check your side mirrors on on-ramps behind you.
10. Use apps that let you know where police officers are sitting up ahead.
There's free apps like Waze that are navigation apps that also have real time alert sharing capabilities meaning people can report where there's things like traffic, accidents, or even police cars on the side of the road, potentially looking to give people tickets. You can run the app and see where other people have marked where cops are and contribute by marking any police officers you see as well.
With these 10 tricks, you will significantly help lean the odds in your favor. While you can't totally prevent yourself from getting speed tickets altogether, you can definitely help improve your odds as much as you can.


Many years ago, I sat in an obstetrician's office and feared I was miscarrying. My husband stood near me as we waited for the ultrasound's results."Everything looks good," the doctor said.
"That's good news, isn't it?" the doctor asked.
I laughed and cried at the same time.
"I don't know," I admitted.
Months later, I walked into the hospital 38 weeks pregnant, dilated to 10. My husband was again at my side as we waited for an ultrasound to tell us whether our breached babies had shifted. But before I could get the news, my water broke, a tiny foot was felt and an emergency cesarean performed.
Seconds before I slipped under the anesthesia, I asked that pictures be taken. While unconscious, my first son, Samuel, was born. One minute later, my second son, Max, arrived. An hour or so passed and I woke.
"Bring me my babies," I demanded.
As I held them in my arms, I smiled through my tears.
This past week, we celebrated their ninth birthdays.
Beautiful! I have newly-minted nine and seven-year-old boys. Every day I am astounded by it all.
I think I would be just as beside myself after such news; at the question "That's good news, isn't it?"
Your boys are great and they look mighty good at three-legged races.


Connecting a USB flash drive to a smartphone was unimaginable once, but now, almost every smartphone has the USB On-The-Go (OTG) functionality. You can attach a flash drive to your smartphone to extend the storage capacity of your Android smartphone, or most likely to back up your data like pictures or videos on it. Some might even prefer carrying extra data including movies and large files to access them later.
Below are the methods using which you can connect the USB flash drives to your Android phone for data transfer.
Connect the USB OTG to your smartphone.
Now connect the flash drive to the other end of the USB OTG adapter.
The USB flash drive will start blinking (if in case it has an LED indicator).
On your smartphone, you'll get a notification that a USB storage has been mounted.
Open any file manager app and access the data on the flash drive.
To remove the flash drive, open notification drawer and tap the "Eject to Safely Remove USB drive" button in the notification panel. You will get a toast message that USB storage ejected, now you can disconnect your flash drive from the smartphone.
As the USB OTG functionality is spreading in latest smartphones, flash drive makers have manufacturing dedicated USB OTG flash drives with both connectors on the same drive; USB Type A and micro-USB connector. You can easily connect this drive to PC as well as your smartphone to transfer data.
Some popular manufacturers even have started giving options of flash drives with USB Type-C and Lightning connectors to be compatible with the current upper-midrange Android smartphones and iPhones, respectively, in addition to the commonly used MicroUSB OTG flash drives.
Certain USB flash drives can be accessed wirelessly, be it from your smartphone, PC or tablet. One such example is Sandisk Connect Wireless Stick; using the Sandisk's app on your Android phone you can upload, download, save, share and play all your stuff from a distance, to and from the device you want to use. Not only you can share it with your friends but also can stream videos to multiple devices, simultaneously and hence saving a lot of time.


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Q: laptop fan weird behavior: very loud noise when working at high speed(rpm) My laptop fan gets a strange problem. When it turns with high rpm (e.g. when high load on CPU or when CPU is working for a while or just when I click fan dust extraction in Lenovo driver) it produces a very high noise.
I removed the fan, clean it from dust and put it in place again but no difference happened.
My laptop is Lenovo g4070 and it's fan is SUNON EG75080S2-C010-S9A.
Besides replacing fan with a new one, anyone knows the cause this very amazing problem?
Another question
If I go for buying a new one and there is no exact model of this fan present in the mall, can I use different models?with what considerations?
Thanks

A: Some fans are louder than others.
I can't say if yours is defective, but SUNON fans are known to be loud.
For example, one answer on Ars Technica to the question of
Sunon fans any good? says :

They are on the loud side, and they are powerful. They are a good combo of power and noise, but they arent quiet. They also arent a Panaflo/Papst quailty. But definatly not BAD fans... just not the best.

Another testimony
says "at 2 in the morning it wakes the whole street up", which might be an
exaggeration.
You may also compare the noise you are hearing to others of that manufacturer
on Youtube :
Sunon Micro Fan - Noise Test
and
Sunon fan noise maglev.
As you have fully verified the fan, perhaps it is working according to specs.


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Country Group Sugarland and Their Not-So-Sweet PR Debacle
By: Shawn Paul Wood
Welcome to Customer Service 101. Our first cardinal law is "The customer is always right." Second, see number one.
They pay your bills. They are your brand ambassadors. They are the reason you get out of bed in the morning. And, if you are the country music dynamic duo Sugarland, they are the focus of your success. Right? Well, if you ask their attorneys, not so much.
Let's rewind to last August, the dateline of all hell breaking loose during one of their concerts at the Indiana State Fair. According to the story in The Tennessean:
The background is this: Several victims filed a lawsuit Nov. 22 in Marion Superior Court in Indiana, claiming that negligence on the part of Sugarland and others contributed to the tragedy. [Note the picture for said tragedy.] Sugarland says it is blameless in the stage and rigging collapse at the Indiana State Fair, calling the mishap "an act of God" caused by a surprisingly high gust of wind."
Forget what Sugarland says. It's what their dunderhead lawyer said that got them in the crosshairs of a PR ballyhoo. Aside from the idiotic default "act of God" comment, the lawyer continued to say that "fair officials and Mid-America Sound Corp. were responsible for the stage setup, and that the fans voluntarily assumed risk by attending the show." Yes. So classy.
Look here, dude. If these fans went to church, listened to a service amidst a blizzard outside, and the roof caved in, that is still not an "act of God."
Now that we have that cleared up, here's Sugarland worried about seven people that died and 58 others that are injured because of this stage. Now we have a legal beagle advising that they are dead or injured because they just didn't get out of the way of God's swift hand fast enough? Brilliant.
Fast forward to now, Sugarland is in court walking a tightrope as they defend themselves and erase the harmful words of their legal team. The duo continues to hold benefit concerts for the families affected by the tragedy in Indiana; however, those words are still stinging. An attorney for a victim's family, Carl Brizzi, is still a little perturbed, offering up this quote to CNN:
Sugarland's response is a carefully crafted legal document that inappropriately attempts to distance the band from the responsibilities incumbent upon the show performers as to the safety of their fans... And this spin doctoring of Sugarland's role in the case is both offensive and outlandish.
For eons it seems, PR and legal professionals have always collided when it comes to the court of public opinion. We understand how to protect a client from looking bad. For instance, blaming dead and injured fans that pay your bills is probably not the best way to say, "Indiana. We love you. Be sure to buy tickets when we come back in eight months." Lawyers don't think that way. They see "client-must-protect-evil-must-bash."
Naturally, if you were to ask a legal consultant, they would shed light on the snake oil we flacks seem to sell everyone, so we're even. The point is this, "The customer is always right." From entertainment to law to PR, we are all in the world of service. Specifically in our world where perception is reality, we're doomed if we forget to see the world through a customer's — or client's — viewpoint. Regardless of how cross-eyed, closed, or full of astigmatism that vision is, it's always our job to say, "Shut up and just point to where you want to go."
Shawn Paul Wood is a hack-turned-flack with more than 20 years of collective journalism, copywriting and marketing communications experience. Shawn Paul is founder of Woodworks Communications in Dallas, Texas. If you need him, ping him here or follow him on Twitter @ShawnPaulWood.
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The Rescue Center for Endangered Marine Species (CREMA) runs four sea turtle nesting beach conservation projects on the southern Nicoya Peninsula of Costa Rica. The projects are open annually during the Olive Ridley nesting season. Olive Ridleys are the principal species that nest on these beaches, but there is also sporadic nesting of Green, Leatherback, and Hawksbill sea turtles. Egg poaching is the principal threat to the nesting sea turtles on these beaches. Secondary threats include nest predation, plastic pollution, beach development and tourist traffic. In the beaches CREMA operates we use a multifaceted approach for the conservation of sea turtles, including; beach patrols, relocating nests into project hatcheries, environmental education and awareness with the local community, generating job opportunities for the locals and promoting sustainable tourism development. Research Assistants are responsible for assisting the Coordinator with all aspects of the project, including managing volunteers, leading night patrols, organizing community environmental education activities, and maintaining the station house.
San Miguel and Costa de Oro are projects with a variable number of volunteers. Assistants of these projects must be really sociable and be willing to work with a constantly changing team.
Bejuco Project is more rustic and strongly involved with the local community.
Research Assistants are trained to conduct and lead nightly 3-4 hour beach patrols, in which they take biometric data from nesting sea turtles, tag their front flippers, and move their nests to a protected area if there is one available.
Assisting in the training of new volunteers.
Leading volunteers and tourists on night patrols.
Conducting morning censuses to check the status of in-situ nests.
Recording physical data such as precipitation levels and temperatures.
Building and maintaining the project hatchery.
Monitoring the hatchery during the night or day for emerging hatchlings and intruding predators.
Exhuming nests and collecting data on unhatched eggs.
Maintaining and cleaning the station house.
Advanced university student or recent graduate in biological sciences or related fields.
Able to adapt to unexpected situations and unfamiliar cultures.
Able to undertake physical labor during night and day in extreme weather conditions.
Experience working within a team.
Previous experience with sea turtles or conducting field research.
Since many of the research assistants' responsibilities are physically demanding, they are expected to be in good physical and medical shape. Also, since our projects are in isolated locations where access to medical treatment can be challenging, participants must disclose any medical conditions or possible risks before confirming their placement with our program.
- Research Assistants pay a $1100-1400 USD fee that covers basic meals and accomodation for the entire internship.
- Turtle Trax and CREMA provide a training workshop upon arrival. This includes several lectures on current sea turtle conservation research topics, safety training, team building activities, and field research training.
- All RA's have the option of participating in the Independent Research Project Program, in which they can complete a project with their team during the internship with the assistance of one of CREMA's biologists.
- All interns must follow the Turtle Trax Program Rules for the entire duration of their placement. Failure to do so results in immediate termination of placement without refund.
Cover letter (specifying which period and location options you would prefer).


As most of you know, this will be night number two where low temps are going to reach the mid to upper 20's in SW Florida!!! I left the office early to prepare my property for the freeze I most likely will encounter tonight! While in the back looking at the river, I noticed a Yellow-Crowned Night Heron that was obviously as cold as I was because he/she was a stud of a model!! I was happy the way this turned out due to supper low light and being hand held!