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Rifle Weight Balance & Fit
By John Barsness
Got a gun that kicks too hard or just doesn't feel right? Here are the common problems ... and solutions.
Most hunters have a notion of how much a rifle should weigh, but think that balance and stock fit only apply to shotguns. The truth is that all three can be important, and they're often tied to the ammunition we shoot.
Many hunters today look for the lightest possible rifle. In some hunting, though, extra weight can be very desirable — particularly when taking the smallest and largest game.
In long-range varmint shooting, a heavy rifle not only works better because it can be held steadier, but also because of lighter recoil.
The biggest benefit of reduced recoil is being able to spot your own shots through the scope. When I took up prairie dog shooting in the 1970s, cartridges like the .22-250 Remington and .243 Winchester were popular. The .22-250 was used because the bullets of the day weren't particularly sleek, so they had to be pushed fast to remain effective at 300 yards or more. Those who shot .243s typically used their deer rifle to practice for the big game season.
Either round recoils enough that we can't see the bullet strike. This means that for truly effective shooting, somebody else must stand beside us, spotting where the bullet lands. This isn't as much fun as watching the bullet hit and, as with any volunteer labor, spotters vary in skill.
Many of us also found that shooting several hundred .22-250 rounds a day could eventually result in a flinch. This may seem weird, but it's true.
Years ago, I was among several writers invited to field-test a new Kimber .22-250. It was a neat rifle, with a free-floated, fluted barrel and a nice walnut stock. With a typical varmint scope, it weighed around 9 pounds —not exactly light, but not heavy, either.
The prairie dogs were numerous, so the shooting was fast. I kept track of how often I fired by putting the empties in a cardboard box.
Sometime during the middle of the second day, the .22-250 suddenly started feeling like a .375 H&H every time it went off. This was so startling that it took a few shots to recognize that I was starting to flinch unless I concentrated hard during the trigger squeeze. Suddenly (after 600-plus rounds), shooting wasn't fun anymore. I switched to a .22 rimfire, and shooting became fun again.
This effect is even worse with a sporter-weight rifle chambered for a so-called dual-purpose varmint/deer cartridge like the .243. The .243 is a fine coyote rifle, and even pretty good for shooting 'chucks, whether Western rockchucks or Eastern woodchucks. But even a heavy-barreled .243 is a moderately miserable tool for serious prairie dog shooting.
A light deer rifle is sincerely miserable for that purpose, and it's the main reason we don't hear nearly as much about dual-purpose rifles anymore.
Today's plastic-tipped varmint bullets are much more efficient than the soft points and hollowpoints of 30 years ago. I clearly remember using Nosler Ballistic Tips for this first time on a prairie dog shoot. Like many prairie dog shooters in those days, I brought both a light rifle, a .223 Remington, for close shooting and a .220 Swift for shots beyond 300 yards. After a day of shooting, I realized that with new ammo, the .223 had become a much longer-range rifle, so I didn't shoot the .220 Swift nearly as much as planned.
After the advent of multipoint reticles, I quit shooting my .22-250s and .220 Swifts at prairie dogs entirely. The .223 is now effective at 300-500 yards, ranges formerly considered the domain of bigger rounds.
In fact, today the .223 has become my "big" prairie dog round, along with the .204 Ruger. At closer ranges, I mostly use the .17 HMR and .22 Hornet, both with plastic-tipped bullets. None of my prairie dog rifles weigh more than 9 pounds or so, yet the bullet strike can be seen through the scope in all of them. Truly heavy prairie dog rifles aren't needed anymore, due to advances in bullets and reticles.
At the opposite end of the spectrum is big game weighing more than 1,000 pounds. For them, we tend to choose cartridges from the various .300 magnums on up to real elephant rounds. Various recoil-reducing devices such as muzzle brakes and today's marvelous recoil pads made of assorted elastomers can help, especially if you don't mind muzzle brakes blasting your ears or raising dust clouds. But the big recoil reducer is still rifle weight. I don't mind one of the smaller .300 magnums such as the .300 WSM or .300 H&H in a rifle weighing 8 pounds with scope, but most of us shoot .338s, .375s and (heaven forbid) .416s or .458s in somewhat heavier rifles.
With the African cartridges, a 9-pound rifle isn't bad. It's reasonably portable, yet heavy enough to take the sting out of, say, a .416 Rigby. Thankfully, we don't shoot those rifles very often, and most African dangerous-game hunting doesn't involve hiking up and down steep mountains. The real troublemakers, in my opinion, are the rifles between .300 and .375, mostly .338s mixed with a few .35s and 9.3s.
I'm a fan of the .338 Winchester Magnum and have used one for quite a bit of hunting since the mid-1980s. Mine's a custom rifle based on the FN Mauser action and originally weighed around 9 pounds scoped, because many experts claimed that's what a .338 should weigh. I found it a pain in the, uh, arms to carry ready in my hands through lodgepole timber, and didn't find recoil all that bad. Eventually, the rifle was fitted with a slimmer barrel and a lighter stock, losing a pound.
Back then, I was in my mid-30s and more flexible, and recoil didn't seem as unpleasant. I also believed the experts who said 250-grain bullets were necessary for elk, moose and larger African plains game.
The .338 was developed around 250-grain bullets because when it was introduced more than 50 years ago, there weren't very many good bullets around. A 250 at moderate muzzle velocity penetrated deeper than lighter bullets.
We have a lot of good bullets today, so I mostly use bullets in the 200-grain class. They kill quicker, shoot flatter and kick less.
You'll often hear macho men claim that the .375 H&H isn't really enough for dangerous game, whether brown bears or Cape buffalo. This is bull. The only reason the .375 got an iffy reputation decades ago was iffy bullets. The same bullet revolution that allows us to use smaller varmint cartridges and lighter elk bullets also boosted the .375.
If you cannot cleanly kill a brown bear or Cape buffalo with a .375 H&H, the reason isn't the cartridge but your shooting. Virtually all of the professional hunters I've come to know in Africa think the .375 is the perfect buffalo cartridge for a visiting hunter. And Alaskan guides snort at the notion that it's not adequate for brown bear. So, no, you don't have to carry a 10-pound .416 or .458, whether wearing hip boots in Alaska or during 100-degree weather in Africa.
Balance affects shootability as well. In the past, many lightweight rifles sported super-thin barrels, making them difficult to aim. Luckily, hunters of mountain game have finally realized this, and today we have a number of rifles made on lightweight actions with normal-weight barrels instead of the other way around.
This trend was started by Melvin Forbes with his New Ultra Light Arms rifles, using slim but very strong bolt actions. The lightest NULA action, the short model for rounds like the .284 Winchester, weighs 20 ounces versus the 35 ounces of a short Remington 700 action, a savings of almost a pound. This means a normal barrel can be used, yet the entire rifle will weigh 6 pounds or less with scope and still be very shootable. Since the NULA came out in the 80s, a bunch of lighter factory actions have appeared, such as the Kimber 84 and Remington 700 Titanium, bringing the advantage of a normal barrel and better balance to factory-made lightweights.
Balance can even affect heavy varmint rifles. When I still used a .22-250 for prairie dog shooting, the thought occurred to me to stuff the hollow butt of the synthetic stock on my Savage with lead shot, bringing the rifle's weight up to 15 pounds. This would tame recoil, allowing me to spot my own shots and tolerate shooting hundreds of rounds. It didn't work. The extra rearward weight made the rifle a pain to maneuver and less steady to shoot. Halfway through the first day, I poured the shot out.
The sensation of recoil is not only affected by rifle weight, but also by stock shape. Elastomer recoil pads help, but stock shape really begins to affect felt recoil in lighter rifles.
The common wisdom for years was that a straight buttstock reduces felt recoil because it kicks straight back instead of tilting upward into the cheekbone. This is exactly the sort of stock Melvin Forbes designed for NULA rifles.
It works very well for some people — me, for instance. However, that's because I'm a fairly typical man: a little under average height with a relatively short neck and square shoulders. When I shoulder a straight stock, the recoil pad fits firmly against my shoulder and my cheek is firmly on the comb. This feels natural and easy.
My wife, Eileen, is a little shorter, and has a longer neck and more sloping shoulders, common among women and even found on some men. When she shoulders a straight classic stock, she has to lean her head way forward to make cheek contact with the comb. Even then, the natural position of the recoil pad is with the bottom (toe) of the pad right in the middle of her shoulder joint. Consequently the muzzle rises during recoil, and the toe of the stock pokes her in the shoulder. This doesn't feel good.
A stock that truly fits her has the Monte Carlo hump many sophisticated rifleman think is in poor taste. It wasn't designed to look funny, but to provide a comfortable fit for shooters with longer necks and sloping shoulders. This just happens to describe Roy Weatherby, one of the promoters of the Monte Carlo stock, though in many photos this isn't obvious because he wore suits with padded shoulders.
Women aren't wimps. They generally have higher pain thresholds than men, but most riflestocks don't fit them. A couple of years ago, Eileen had a custom-fit .308 Winchester made on a Kimber action. It fits her perfectly, and she feels relatively little recoil when shooting. On the few occasions I've shot the .308, the little rifle has felt miserable because it doesn't fit me. Eileen mostly uses the .308 on bigger game like elk and the larger African plains game. Her main deer rifle is a Weatherby Ultra Lightweight in .240 Wby Magnum, also with a Monte Carlo stock.
So yes, balance and fit affect how we shoot rifles. If your rifle doesn't feel right or, worse, kicks like the devil when it shouldn't, look beyond weight and at the stock itself.
Read More Articles by John Barsness:
• Troubles with Choke Tubes: All sorts of things prevent shotgun chokes from doing what we expect of them.
• The .30-06 Just Plain Works: Many of us know intellectually that the .30-06 is a good all-around big game cartridge, but explanations are not experience.
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Hey... Want to take cab?
Well, My father-in-law has just returned his cab. Given up. Times are indeed back for both drivers and passengers.
Business is going from bad to worse. Last weekend, I was in town around City Hall and it's the first time I've seen so many empty taxis available for hire. Also, the people queuing up for a cab outside the Esplanade was almost none-existent.
I no longer take cabs when coming back from work. Opting to take an hour-long bus ride instead and then take a 15 minute walk home. I have been condescending on the last hike but this recent one is really too much for me to afford.
In the past, sometimes I go downtown for a meal and light shopping with my wife after work. I'll always suggest to take the taxi back home. My argument? "I'm gonna save time cos my time is worth more than the trip." Yeah well, I hate waiting. LOL. A typical trip back would have cost around $8-10 can cost well over $13 now. Special note and thanks to the rise in town boarding surcharge.
It really might not sound like much of a hike in terms of OVERALL PERCENTAGES. It's a term that our dear local business and not-so-business entities like to employ to lessen the impact and create an impression that a just a few percent increment is not much. And then they'll do it several times in succession.
Guess we'll all just have to adapt to the current changes or adopt some other alternatives. There's no way the prices will ever come down. Perhaps we will get used to it after a while. Get tired of complaining, and just move on with the flow. That's what I kinda heard a taxi driver said on radio station Love 97.2fm one morning - "The increment won't matter much lah. After a round of complaining, they will get over it. Singaporeans are very obedient one." Guess we'll just have to wait & see.
Just for the record... my money is bet on the "Get over it and move on" direction. We always do.
For now, I'll just enjoy my daily naps on the bus.


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Its unusual to get condensation on a party wall, as the heat from next door should keep it warmer than the external walls. You say that it gets worse when raining, but the party wall is an internal wall - unless you have a roof leak or moisture coming down a chimney.
Your 'surveyor' should also have given you practical advice on treating the condensation.
Was it skimmed at the time the dpc was done? If so it may be waterproof plaster, which slows evaporatoin thus makes it wetter, although it takes some time to get wetter.
You dont really give enough information. Is there a chimney there? If so possibly lack of ventilatoin or salt contamination. Leakage from roof is also a possibility. However probably the number 1 suspect would be too high interior RH, which is corrected by looking at what else has been done with hte property to modify its damp handling abilities, and by reducing damp input at sources. Really theres just not enough info in your post to pin it down any fuirther.
Assuming this is the ground floor party wall, is the corresponding upstairs wall also damp?
Agree, properties with solid walls have cold walls(*). The normal cause of interior condensation is lack of ventilation, normally caused by the installation of double glazing.
No drying of clothes over radiators or on drying racks or if you do make sure there is ventilation (open a window a bit). Bath rooms and kitchens to have extractors that are used. The difference changing our cooker hood from recirculate to "dump outside" made to the downstairs humidity was very noticeable. Must fit an extract to the bathroom sometime, upstairs suffers from condensation.
(*)Great in the summer, keeps the place cool. Great in the winter, keeps it warm but what ever you do don't let it cool down as it'll take days to warm back up.


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In October 2016, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) voted in a resolution that denies Jewish heritage and history to the Temple Mount. The resolution refer to the place only by its Muslim name, "Al-Haram al-Sharif", and not mentioning its original name, "Temple Mount".
Visitors that come to the Temple mount, often wonder how come the Israelis, that got this place in the 6-days war (June 1967) still let the Muslims control over the place.
In today's status-quo, Only Muslims are allowed to Pray in the Temple Mount.
Anyone that is not a Muslim: either Jew or Christian, can go up to the Temple Mount but not into the mosques. This can be done only in certain hours, not in weekends, and one is not allowed to pray in the place, and not to bring any Bible, cross or Star of David with him.
Moreover, until last year, Israeli tour guides could not even guide groups in the site, as groups of praying Muslim women would start to shout every time someone spoke in the place.
This rude behavior was stopped by the Israeli police and it is much easier to tour in the place today.
Why did Israel let the Muslims to control the place?
Temple Mount is the most holly place for the Jews, although for centuries they were not allowed to enter or pray in it.
In June 1967, after Israel got east Jerusalem, there was an historical opportunity to set a Jewish rule over the Temple mount.
Moshe Dayan, who was the Minister of Defense in 1967, returned the keys to the Temple Mount to the Muslim Waqf (the religious Muslim property) and took the Israeli flag from Temple Mount immediately after the war ended.
What was the reason he did that? Such an action was not taken in any other part that was taken in 6-days war.
Some people say that Dayan understood the sensitivity of the place and prepared for a peace process in which lands will be returned back to the Kingdom of Jordan. But this does not make a lot of sense as most people in Israel believed that Jerusalem will remain united forever.
The reason is different and comes from a religious Jewish consideration that some people do not always understand.
This sign is only an announcement and warning. But why is it there?
In not so many places in the Torah we get such a detailed explanation of the law and what needs to be done. The issue of the red heifer is very serious because this is the key for purifying people that are unclean. Who is the unclean? People that touched dead bodies.
Since the destruction of the second temple, the breed of red heifers was lost, and all the detailed procedure to prepare water of purification cannot be performed.
The meaning is that almost anyone is unclean and hence, should not enter the holy place of the Temple Mount!
The Chief Rabbinate of Israel warn anyone, in particular Jews, to avoid from entering Temple mount until the Third Temple is built!
Moshe Dayan, understood that this place is explosive.
On the one hand, The Muslims ruled the place for centuries and claim that this is the third most holy place for them.
On the other hand, the Jewish Rabbinate do not want Jews to enter the place.
He made a quick decision to keep the status-quo that was before the 6-days war and not to create a new reason for another war.
And he was very right!
The Temple Mount, or Al-Haram al-Sharif as it is called by the Muslims, is being the heart of the religious conflict between Muslims and Jews for 100 years.
The first riots were in 1920, while the British still ruled the place. The Muslims claimed that the Jews want to take over Al-Haram al-Sharif and started murdering Jews.
This happened again and again until in the year 2000, The Muslims started extensive riots that they literally called: "Al–Aqsa Intifada" (Al-Aqsa is the name of the most holy mosque) .
And today, nothing has changed: you can hear in Muslim media again and again that Israel is aiming to take over Al-Aqsa and all Muslims are called to unite against Israel.


Which Is The Better Best Picture: All About Eve or The Silence of the Lambs?
Upon turning 40, Margo Channing (a leading light of the theatre, devilishly portrayed by Bette Davis, who was never better) finds out that her close circle of friends has made room for one more: a young lady named Eve (Anne Baxter). Eve is a starstruck ingenue who'd like nothing more than to be Margo's assistant, but wouldn't turn her nose up at being her understudy either. And from there, well, the world's your oyster. "Everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end," a character wisely observes of Eve's agenda. One star on the wane as another rises … it's the kind of timeless plot that'll never go out of fashion (hello, The Artist!).
And this year's Oscar front-runner will surely be delighted if it winds up winning six statues, like All About Eve, which walked away with Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay as well as Supporting Actor (George Sanders, who didn't exactly give the most gracious of acceptance speeches), Costume Design and Sound Recording. And you can make a considerable case that Davis should have taken home a seventh Oscar but was arguably denied Best Actress because voters couldn't decide between her and Anne Baxter's Eve, to say nothing of a certain Gloria Swanson, whose portrayal of aging silent star Norma Desmond, dominates Sunset Boulevard. In the end, the Oscar went to Judy Holiday for Born Yesterday. TIME's original review in 1950 noted that All About Eve is "probably Hollywood's closest original approach to the bite, sheen and wisdom of high comedy," which was high praise indeed. As they say, they don't make 'em like they used to.
The second big screen adaptation of one of Thomas Harris' popular serial-killer novels (following Michael Mann's Manhunter), Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs ratchets up the fear factor even further. The film is underpinned by an utterly captivating (and still, to this day, genuinely chilling) performance by Anthony Hopkins, whose psychopathic Dr. Hannibal Lecter chews up the screen — as well as his victims — with unbridled relish. But The Silence of the Lambs (both the original text and this film) doesn't descend into messy chaos thanks to Jodie Foster's FBI agent-in-training, Clarice Starling. She might be having a tough time solving the case of finding the serial killer Buffalo Bill but Lecter is particularly taken by her and offers a deal of sorts: if she opens up to him during their conversations then he'll review the evidence in the Buffalo Bill case.
While everyone will forever remember the bloody, violent sequences and Lecter's infamous "I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti," it's the tense, terse interplay between Hopkins and Foster that has the most impact. And Oscar couldn't have been more enthralled: it's only the third film ever to sweep the board in the main five categories (along with fellow bracket entrant It Happened One Night and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest): Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Actor, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. And to show that the studio clearly had a sense of humor, today marks the 21-year-anniversary of the movie's release. You read that right: The Silence of the Lambs came out on Valentine's Day.


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Myeloid cells (shown in green) exacerbate the severity of multiple sclerosis by sending out chemical signals that boost inflammation and attract autoimmune T cells (shown in red) to the central nervous system.
But the molecular cues that enable autoimmune T cells, which are usually kept at bay by the blood-brain barrier, to slip into the central nervous system had remained unclear. In their latest study, published in the Nov. 2, 2015, advance online issue of Nature Immunology, researchers at the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology report that these disease-causing autoimmune T cells are lured into the nervous system by monocytes and macrophages, a subset of immune cells better known as the immune system's cleanup crew.
"Our results show that macrophages and monocytes actively participate in the initiation and progression of multiple sclerosis, which has long been considered a primarily T cell driven disease," says the study's senior author Catherine Hedrick, Ph. D., a professor in the Division of Inflammation Biology. "They exacerbate the severity of the disease by sending out chemical signals that boost inflammation and attract autoimmune T cells to the central nervous system."
"Multiple sclerosis affects millions of people worldwide," says the study's lead author, Iftach Shaked, Ph.D., a postdoctoral researcher in the laboratory of LJI professor Klaus Ley, Ph.D. "But what's really puzzling is that we all have autoimmune T cells that recognize myelin basic protein but normally they do not infiltrate the central nervous system and cause disease. "
Stress can worsen symptoms of inflammatory diseases such as multiple sclerosis but the molecular mechanisms linking cellular stress signaling and neuroinflammation had remained unclear.
A chance hallway encounter between Shaked and co-first author Richard Hanna, Ph.D., an immunologist in Hedrick's laboratory, sparked a collaboration that provided a starting point to track the elusive link. Hanna studies a protein known as Nr4a1, which responds to both inflammatory and stress signals and the researchers hypothesized that it may be a key factor in the prevention of autoimmunity affecting the central nervous system.
To address the importance of Nr4a1 in brain autoimmunity, the researchers induced experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), a model of multiple sclerosis, in mice with and without Nr4a1. In the absence of Nr4a1, auto-reactive T cells infiltrated the central nervous system much earlier and in greater numbers exacerbating the progression and severity of the disease when compared to the control group.
When Shaked and Hanna dug deeper, they discovered that Nr4a1 represses the production of norepinephrine, a major mediator of the body's response to physiological and psychological stressors. Without Nr4a1 to put a damper on production, monocytes and macrophages increase secretion of norepinephrine, which in turn leads to the activation of macrophages, thereby amplifying neuroinflammation and causing a massive influx of T cells into the central nervous system.


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Educational First Steps, whose mission is to increase the number of economically disadvantaged children receiving high-quality early childhood education, held its sixth annual One Childhood One Chance luncheon on November 13 at Renaissance Dallas Hotel. Co-chairs were Wendy and Marc Stanley and Michele Valdez and Gary Kennedy.
1. One in four Dallas families has an annual income less than $25,000 and more than half the families have an income less than $50,000.
2. Childcare is "home" for these children for 10-12 hours a day, so these families can work.
3. Only 18% of daycares in Texas meet minimum standards, just to babysit a child, much less teach a child.
4. A high quality child care center can give these children developmental opportunities they would not get anywhere else.
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16. Howie Kendrick
Howie Kendrick was one of the most highly touted prospects in the early 2000s, and while it can be argued that he did not live up to the hype, it can't be disputed that his long career is the envy of most who ever made it to the Majors.
The Angels nabbed Kendrick with their 2002 First Round Pick, and he made the roster in 2006, predominantly playing at Second. Kendrick was not a defensive star, but he was versatile and often played at First or in Leftfield when needed. Offensively, Kendrick got into a groove, never batting lower than .279 in a season and showing moderate power with at least ten Home Runs three times. Kendrick would also make the All-Star Game in 2011.
Kendrick was traded to the cross-town Dodgers in 2015 and would later win the World Series as a member of the Washington Nationals in 2019. As an Angel, Kendrick collected 1,204 Hits with a Batting Average of .292.

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The chapter starts off with a well-dramatized rendering of a TE1 that is acknowledged as having first appeared in "Dennett (Daniel) - Where Am I?".
The conceit of the TE is that I wake up having found that my brain has been removed and held to ransom in a vat of nutrients.
In contrast with many BIV2 cases, the BIV doesn't receive simulated experience, but real experience because the brain is in contact with the body by remote control.
Of course there's some hand-waving description – a "transducer" in your skull is connected by wires to your ears, eyes, spinal cord, … and the brain is connected via a bundle of wires to a computer. The communication – two-way transmission of information – is "for all practical purposes" just the same3 as if your brain was in your skull attached in the normal way to your sense organs and spinal cord.
Everything feels "exactly" as normal4; pain reception and physical coordination are given as examples.
The hero of the TE is said to be a neuroscientist who – for many years – has been 100% sure that "we are5 our brains6", given the way our minds depend on it, and are affected by damage to it.
If so, he ought to feel that he is in the vat, but he doesn't. Knowing where your brain is has no effect on your belief that "you" are situated somewhere within your (now substantially empty) skull.
We are referred to Link (Defunct) for a "closer look".
Dainton now briefly regales the virtues of – and necessity for – philosophical TEs7 in general. This one (due to Dennett, as noted above) raises the question "what are we?" ().
We can be as certain of our existence as we can of anything, but what sort of thing are we? What is doing the thinking8?
It is natural to suppose that we are Human Beings9 – members of the species homo sapiens10 but many people think that while we "have" bodies11, we are more than biological organisms12.
Dainton gives some stats to the effect that around 70% of people think that there's more to us that biology and that we have – or are – souls13. The point of us being, rather than merely having, souls is that the motivation for souls is the hope or expectation of post-mortem14 survival. Since what's worth having is one's "personality, intellect and conscious mental life", a soul is akin to a mind15.
The purpose of this book is to look at competing views of the Self16. Just what is the self? In particular, Dainton wants to see whether the self is separable from the body. It need not be a soul, but he wants some bearer of our psychological capacities that can survive the destruction of our physical bodies.
Dainton says – correctly – that the nature of the self is not just of theoretical interest. But his example is "with accelerating computer technology, and advances in neuroscience and medicine" the separation of selves from their bodies may become practical, and this will require us to "re-examine the ethical and metaphysical underpinnings of our legal frameworks related to personhood". This may be so, but in my view, the issues are entirely different17 with respect to advances in computer technology, as against medicine and neuroscience.
Dainton mentions two further standard TEs: Brain State Transfers and Teletransportation18. His conclusion – fairly standard for those supportive of the PV19 – is that these TEs demonstrate – whether or not these technologies are ever possible – that we are separable from our bodies, in that we'd have – he claims – all that matters20 to us in these circumstances. I doubt21 this. He also says that such TEs help us focus on "those features of our lives that are essential to our existence". This sentence is capable of being misunderstood22.
Dainton claims – reasonably enough – that consciousness23 is amongst the most important qualities of selves, despite it being an ill-understood and contentious phenomenon.
While we all know what phenomenal consciousness feels like, the problem with consciousness is its relation to the physical world – in particular the brain. Is consciousness physical or non-physical? Science has advanced by being objective, yet consciousness is essentially subjective.
Dainton locates the "problem" in the conception of the physical world that arose in the Scientific Revolution.
What Dainton characterises as the most promising "solutions" will have contrasting implications for the nature and transformability of selves and their relation to the physical world.
Returning to the "uploading24 to computer" possibility alluded to before, he floats the idea that – if such practices become possible and cheap – the number of computer-generated selves might in the future greatly exceed the number of physical selves – and that in consequence we ourselves might be such. He will investigate whether such ideas make sense25.
Dainton now notes that the Self – defined as a mental thing separable from the body – has a bad press today, and is assumed to have been exploded26 by science. Dainton, however, hopes to demonstrate that a concept of a "unified conscious subject" is coherent and scientifically respectable.
He will in the next chapter ("Dainton (Barry) - Dreams and Destinations") address the question what modes of transport selves can survive and claims that only metaphysics27 – rather than the physical sciences – has the answer.
Supply a note of just what might go wrong with this suggestion, and what the presuppositions are.
Again, add a note on the assumptions here.
Descartes' Cogito argument still has legs.
But – while focus on the thinking inclined Descartes to the view that we are (immaterial) thinking things – it's now natural to suppose that we are "really" our brains – which after all do the thinking for us. Dainton's interpretation of Dennett's TE is presumably supposed to cast doubt on this.
"Crane (Tim) - The Mental States of Persons and their Brains".
What Dainton has in mind is "uploading to computers".
This seems to be a metaphysical confusion, but is not even a good thing. Immortals can be treated badly as well as well. Forever.
I intend to treat of this under the head of Transhumanism.
My thoughts on Forward Psychological Continuity suggest that we wouldn't have anything that matters.
This is orthogonal to the question whether the TEs are identity-preserving, which I also doubt.
It depends on what's intended by "essential" and "existence".
If what's in mind is "necessary for our well-being", then – clearly – our psychological properties are essential. But if what's intended is "our persistence" – then – as the animalists have argued – this is false. If we are identical to animals, then psychology is irrelevant to questions of our persistence.
But, of course, Dainton would disagree with animalism.
Footnote 25: He doesn't at this stage mention "Bostrom (Nick) - Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?", but it's in the bibliography.
Footnote 26: At this stage, Dainton doesn't say why. There are continuing objections to Selves as unified theatres of consciousness, so it'll be interesting to see what he has to say.
Footnote 27: Contrast this view with "Snowdon (Paul) - Philosophy and the Mind/Body Problem"!


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The State of IPv6: One Step Forward, Several Outages Back
It seems that awareness and adoption of the transition from IPv4 to IPv6 addresses is being taken more seriously, not only by network operators, but ISPs as well. According to World IPv6 Launch, Verizon currently leads the nation's high-speed IPv6 rollout with over 50 percent of their network IPv6 ready. As of August 2014, U.S residential ISP Comcast has reached nearly 30 percent IPv6 deployment nationwide. AT&T has a little over 20 percent of IPv6 deployment, with Time-Warner Cable coming in at a little under 10 percent.
As the pool of available IPv4 addresses has exhausted around the world, transitioning to IPv6 is even more important. While American ISPs are improving their deployment, it's still a rocky path to integrating IPv4 and IPv6 on a global level.
This is in part due to ISPs using band-aid solutions, such as limiting available memory for IPv6 due to recent internet outages. Popular websites such as eBay and services like password manager LastPass were hit by outages around the middle of August. This was due to older routers and switches that make up parts of the internet failing, due to a 512k BGP route limit that was surpassed for a small amount of time.
In the future, as the internet grows beyond 512k routes, numerous ISPs are changing default configurations to take away memory from IPv6 routes to facilitate IPv4's growth for the time being. While this is no issue for now, as the IPv6 routing table is less than 20,000 routes, over time it will be necessary to upgrade equipment to carry a full IPv6 and IPv4 routing table.
Jim Cowie, a scientist for DNS solutions provider Dyn said that this is an example that "IPv4 has never really been healthier", while John Curran, president and CEO of ARIN was quoted as saying, "[It] doesn't change the need for ISPs and websites to move to IPv6."
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Fintastic fathers
Sheree Marris | VOLUME 30, ISSUE 4
Emperor penguin dads nurture their young while mum heads out to sea for a feed.
If you've ever thought being a father had its tough moments, spare a thought for some of nature's finned and feathered dads …
It's that time of the year again, when the socks, jocks and bad ties come out in force around the world in celebration of Father's Day. Us human folk are lucky that our dads are some of the most dedicated in the world. They're there when we're born, watch us grow and are relentless in their support.
But believe it or not, this level of dedication and care is pretty rare in the animal kingdom, where there aren't many male role models when it comes to parenting. Most are dead-beat dads; they do the deed and then leave, never, ever meeting their kids.
There are, however, some exceptions to this rule and the most spectacular are found in the sea. They're an inspirational group of guys whose commitment to their kids can't be questioned. Some take parenting to an entirely new level, others challenge stereotypes, while some throw the rules for reproduction out the window.
So as a tribute to our hardworking dads, we thought we'd use this opportunity to celebrate some of the unsung fathers of the sea.
HARDEST WORKING DAD
Despite the fanciful messages in Finding Nemo, the partnership between mum and dad anemone fish wasn't all happy families, and while it was sad that a barracuda ate mum, in reality it was a blessing, as you'll discover.
You see, when it comes to nurturing their young, dad carries out 90 per cent of the caring. Once the eggs are laid this comical looking clown spends pretty much every waking minute (yes, fish do sleep) swimming around cleaning the eggs, aerating them and keeping them safe from potential predators until they hatch.
This level of dedication may also be a part of this dad's strategy to keep the female at fin's length and give his young the best chance of survival. The reason? These mums have been known to eat their young, especially if they hang around after they've hatched. So while we think this dad is a winner, don't expect to see mum on any Mother's Day roll honours.
ULTIMATE BABYSITTER
Meet the male cardinalfish, a caring kind of bloke that eats up fatherhood – literally. After the female has laid her gooey ball of eggs, the male dutifully fertilises them and … promptly puts them is his mouth, which becomes an incubator for the unborn. His cheeks bulge out like a chipmunk's and he spends around 20 days juggling the eggs around in his gob.
You'd imagine that this dad would be pleased to see his kids, then leave once they've hatched as he can't eat the entire time, but this dedicated dad lets them swim in and out of the safety of his mouth until they're fully developed. He's the ultimate babysitter, while the female patrols the waters chasing away any fish that come near him.
MOST DEVOTED DAD
The emperor penguin has a lot going for him – he's a sharp-looking guy in a suit, but there's more to this feathered father than just appearance. He'll go to extremes to look after his chick, even if it means toughing it out in minus 35 degrees with 200km/h icy winds whipping around him, while mum is at sea feeding her face.
It's a tough gig as the dads try to balance the egg on their feet, keeping it warm with their feathered belly fat. They huddle together, with the occasional shuffle as any wrong move could see the egg tumble off dad's feet and onto the ice, where it will freeze.
If the young hatches and mum still hasn't returned, daddy doesn't disappoint, regurgitating a substance from his oesophagus for his newborn chick. These dads don't eat during this time, which can last for over 100 days. As a result they lose up to 50 per cent of their body weight. Ever the glutton for punishment, they'll do it all again in another year's time.
MOST CARRIED AWAY
It's usually long legs that males find attractive, but in the sea stereotypes are turned on their head. When it comes to sea spiders, it's the female who falls for the charms of her eight-legged beau, and with good reason. His legs aren't just made for walking, they're made for reproduction.
The ladies carry their eggs around until they find 'the one'. He then produces some fancy footwork that encourages her to release her eggs, which he then fertilises. The male collects the eggs and secretes a substance that attaches them to his special 'legs', called ovigers. He carries them with him until they hatch, with a few dedicated dad sea spiders continuing to carry their young around until they're big enough to survive in the big blue by themselves.
MOST SELF-SACRIFICING
This award goes to the lumpsucker, a funny-looking fish that will stick around for his young even if that means risking his own life. After setting up a nesting site in the shallows, which often includes a rocky crevice or depression in the sand, his lady love leaves around 200,000 eggs and then high-tails it back to the open ocean.
This doting dad faithfully protects his brood for up to eight weeks, aerating and fanning them with his fins and tail. He keeps a constant watch over his young and glues himself to the spot using his pelvic fins that have fused to form a large suction cup. Even when the tide goes out, instead of leaving his young high and dry this dedicated dad sticks around risking death, exposing him to hungry birds and other predators. Once his young have safely hatched, he returns to a lonely life in the open ocean.
The sea stallion takes fatherhood to the extreme, leaving others in his wake. He's also every woman's dream, and for good reason – he's the one who gets pregnant and gives birth to the young! He's the only male in the entire animal kingdom to do so.
When a male and female seahorse meet they engage in an elaborate underwater ballet, with some gentle prodding. If she likes him (and what's not to like about a strapping male with a horse-like head, monkey tail and big pot-belly), the female deposits her precious eggs into his pot-belly pouch and 'impregnates' him. It's here the magic happens and the male fertilises and incubates the young. Weeks later, he goes through contractions and gives birth to baby sea ponies and rides off into the sunset.
HERE'S TO DADS
As you have seen, the extremes that these fathers will go to to protect their young are nothing short of inspirational and imaginative. They play a vital role in the nurturing and caring of the kids – although it often goes unrecognised and unseen.
So to all fathers out there, whether you have fur, fins, feet or flippers, we salute you all!


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The AKC Gazette: Celebrating the Sport of Dogs
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By AKC Staff
Apr 26, 2015 | 3 Minutes
What are the nuances of this breed? What should I notice when evaluating my dog's structure, or his movement? What do I need to know when considering breeding? How can I bring out the best in my dog at a dog show?
To those with "an abiding interest in dogs," questions like these are just the tip of the iceberg. Since the rise about 150 years ago of organized events that brought together like-minded people wanting to compare their dogs and discuss breeds, the enjoyment of learning more about the dogs we love has always been a key aspect of involvement in the sport. Learning more means finding authoritative sources and connecting with those who have the insight and experience you seek.
For dog people, the AKC Gazette has long been a primary place to find such expert knowledge. Published since 1889, the magazine has evolved from a record of show results and club notes to a venue for lively and knowledgeable discussion encompassing the wide-ranging world of purebred dogs, dog people, and canine events.
"The sport of dogs is wonderful and multifaceted, with a place for people from all walks of life who have an abiding interest in dogs."
—Anne Rogers Clark
An official journal of the dog sport was part of the American Kennel Club's vision from the start. The AKC's first president, August Belmont Jr., strongly believed in the need for such a publication, and his dream was realized with the launch of The American Kennel Gazette just months after his 1888 election.
Since then the magazine has continued every month as an invaluable resource and touchstone for generation after generation of dog folk—dedicated, passionate people with an unquenchable thirst for information about all things canine.
Among the Gazette's favorite elements are the breed columns, which had their beginning in the 1920s in a section called "Where Fanciers Gather" that featured commentary about individual breeds, and the breed columns have continued through the decades as authoritative sources of breed-specific information. Each column is written by an expert on behalf of the breed's national parent club, with all the breeds rotating throughout the year on a quarterly basis. Each issue of the Gazette also includes "AKC Updates," a roundup of news about dog events and happenings, and "Times Past," where archival photos and artwork provide a look at the incredibly rich history of our life with dogs. Also in every issue are the Secretary's Pages, which provide an essential record of AKC proceedings.
A unique highlight of the Gazette is "Dog People," where Bud Boccone, one of the magazine's editors who is also our talented in-house artist, captures in pen-strokes the essence of personalities known and dear to the dog world.
So for those with "an abiding interest in dogs," the Gazette offers ongoing education and inspiration—and delight. Because what is it, if not delight, that ultimately drives someone to relentlessly pursue a passion, despite challenges, discouragements, and occasional heartbreak? Why else continue to be involved in dog events and breeding?
In an article titled "What Is Beauty Good For?" in the July 1927 issue, Chihuahua fancier Clara L. Dobbs put into words a dog person's perspective:
"To the dog lover, of course, one does not have to explain that the joy of owning dogs is in the love one gives them, and the love they give us in return. "
The beauty of line and color in my dogs is as satisfying as the melodies the musician evokes from the pianoforte, the harmonies the artist lays with his brush on his canvas or the sculptor fashions from marble or bronze.
"'What is it good for?' It is a stupid question. What is beauty good for? Something essential is lacking in any nature that does not find joy in some one or more of the manifold aspects of beauty.
"For many years now my Chihuahuas have helped to satisfy this hunger for the beautiful. From the first one I ever owned, down to the latest born of my present family, there has been a succession of canine individuals as distinct in beauty and lovableness as one may find in human beings. And unlike human beings, I have yet to find in my dogs any ingratitude. Always they repay in devoted affection the care and tenderness expended for their comfort and well being."
Speaking of times past, enjoy this brief newsreel footage of the 1960 Westminster show, featuring a look at English Springer Spaniel judging:
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CPR's New Podcast Follows The Thin Line Between Black and Blue in 'Systemic'
Hilal Bahcetepe June 8, 2021 Lifestyle + Culture
When Jo Erickson moved to Minneapolis to cover police shootings– and other beats–for Minnesota Public Radio (MPR), she hadn't prepared for a personal encounter with the police.
Erickson covered the Jamar Clark protests that sparked after the 24-year-old was shot by Minneapolis police officers Mark Ringgenberg and Dustin Schwarze. After an interview with a group of protestors on the job, she got in her car to leave. But before she could even pull her car out, a police officer approached her.
"By the time I got into the car, I had the flashing blue lights behind me. I had this huge, white cop come up to me, and I have to say, it was the worst experience of my entire life. I've never forgotten that. He came up to the car with his hand on his gun and he was so aggressive," explained Erickson. "You literally don't hear anything at that moment, you're frozen."
Erickson's encounter has stuck with her since. She's spent years as a journalist, particularly engaging with the Black community to cover police shootings and protests. It led her move to Colorado to produce a new podcast, Systemic, with Colorado Public Radio which aired on May 19.
"When the protests happened after George Floyd's death, I think everybody felt like 'this is it. This is the moment where everything is going to change.' It was like we had had enough, and this was finally it."
Erickson's series follows the personal experiences of Black police officers, activists and survivors. She said those voices are often left out of mainstream conversations about law enforcement. Yet it's the voices from the Black community, that come from direct experience, that are crucial to understanding where the system lies and how it affects different communities disproportionately.
"Their voices are always excluded from the conversation. Even the protestors. Most news reports get a few words in, and then it cuts to a politician. You're hearing a snippet of their argument, and then it cuts to the law enforcement people, the legislatures or whoever else is in charge. They don't really get to say what they want to say," she explained.
Systemic dives into the disparities between Black communities and the criminal justice system. In the first episode, Black and Blue, Erickson follows two Black female police officers: a veteran deputy from Colorado Springs and a rookie cop from Minneapolis –officer Rae Brown.
With the rare exception of someone like officer Brown, most cops don't police their own communities, or even one's they are familiar with. Erickson said this is a foundational issue that's prevalent in police departments throughout the country.
"In a concentrated residential area – where there are huge populations of people of color – those are the areas that are over-policed and under-protected. The police go in with such aggressive tactics, not understanding the cultural aspects of the community, and then things escalate and get worse and there's the distrust," said Erickson.
Restoring that lost trust is difficult, said Erickson. After decades of the same injustices, it becomes even hard to dissect. But Erickson believes something must be done, and though the show may not have all the answers, conversations about police reform, defunding the police and police accountability are more urgent than ever and are the most effective when the voices from those who matter the most are front and center.
"It's about giving insight into what the issue is for various people and how they are chipping away at a system that is so rigid and has been there for so long and has never changed. It's kind of difficult, and you go on their journey."
Erickson, who had never seen a gun in her life, up until her encounter with the cop in Minneapolis, can't help but draw comparisons between policing in the United States and policing back in her home of the United Kingdom, where they carry no guns.
"They walk around communities and get to know people. When people get lost, they go to the police for help with directions," said Erickson.
In a place like downtown Minneapolis, however, the idea of approaching a police officer for directions, or any help for that matter, terrifies her. "That could be misinterpreted as, not me looking for directions, but as me being aggressive to the police. That's how nervous the police are in the U.S. In the U.K., they do not have guns on them. The most they have are sticks and a taser. They talk to people, there's no barrier. But don't get me wrong, there's a ton of police issues in the U.K., it's not perfect," she said.
Without the instant access and legal authority to use weapons, Erickson said police are better trained to de-escalate situations and require developing a better sense of empathy and engagement towards the community.
In the case of Lawrence Stoker, who Erickson follows in the episode Survivor, police brutality runs much deeper. Stoker was De'Von Bailey's cousin; a 19-year-old who was killed by Sgt. Alan Van't Land and officer Blake Evenson in Colorado Springs, after seven shots in the back.
Stoker said the experience still haunts him every time he closes his eyes. He fought for change, organized local protests and got legislatures to consider a few things, but nothing did enough to get justice for his cousin. After a grand jury review, the two cops were dismissed from any wrongdoing, and the FBI ruled that Bailey's rights were never violated. Sgt. Land and officer Evenson continue patrolling the same community today. Stoker runs into them around town every once in a while.
"I don't know how to remedy this. Not just with policing, but policing is very much a part of the societal problem of how we recognize the other," said Erickson. "A lot of people mention trauma. And it is a matter of trauma. I don't know how you deal with it," said Erickson.
Since last summer, the spike in dialogue around systemic racism and law enforcement accountability has provoked heated observations towards policing. For most of us, we recognize that the system does not work. But how we move forward with that reckoning is controversial. For some, the narrative is led by defunding the police, meaning allocating funds out of the police departments and putting them back into the community, whether that be for education, mental health or socio-economic resources.
"Everyone in the world has an opinion on this," added Erickson. "I think most Black groups and activists describe it as less policing, less officers dealing with crisis. So, taking homelessness and people who have mental health issues out of the police's control and reinvesting those into neighborhoods, so that crime doesn't become an overarching issue. That to me, I found it more fascinating."
Still, Erickson says the road ahead is long. And despite her podcast not having any answers, her passion to tell the stories of those voices that have historically been left out are apparent in each episode.
Listen to Systemic by Colorado Public Radio wherever podcasts are streamed. New episodes are posted every Wednesday.
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For Scripture support indicating these areas being Turkey, see the link below.
Russia will be joined by several countries with their future invasion of Israel (Ezekiel 38-39). Chief among those countries is Persia. This is modern day Iran. The country was known as Persia until the name change in the 20th century.
Iran and Turkey have struggled in the past for regional power and dominance.
In a strange twist, Iran supports the President Erdogan in Turkey. Strange in that Erdogan and Turkey are Sunni Muslims and the Iranian regime is Shia. These two countries disagree on how to manage Syria. History says Shia and Sunni do not get along and are competing factions of Islam.
August 7, 2016: Over 1 million Turks participated in the Democracy and Martyrs' Rally in Istanbul. President Recep Erdogan announced he was in support of reinstituting the death penalty. This act is a step away from Europe.
He was also able to get all three of Turkey's political party on the same page. This is being hailed as an incredible display of unity. There was worldwide media coverage of the event.
August 8, 2016 a lawmaker in Turkey has called for the closure of the Incirlik Air Base. He says the US/NATO occupied air base is a "virus" in the Middle East. It is viewed as a threat to the security of Turkey. President Erdogan is uniting Turkey.
August 8, 2016 Vladimir Putin met the leader of Iran Hassan Rouhani to increase military ties. Iran received military equipment including defense missiles. They continue to agree on the management of Syria. The meeting took place in Azerbaijan.
President Putin is now playing both sides of the Muslim equation, Sunni (Turkey) and Shia (Iran).
Russia, Turkey, and Iran are strengthening their political, economic, and military ties.
Is this blog identifying Recep Erdogan as the antichrist? NO!
Is this blog identifying Vladimir Putin as Gog? NO!
Is this blog stating current events of 2016 are the beginning of the fulfillment of the prophecy from Ezekiel 38-39? NO!
Is the group of nations assembling as written approximately 2,700 years ago by the prophet Ezekiel in chapter 38? YES and it definitely merits our attention. This group of nations has never been allied in the past. They have spent their history fighting against each other.
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Star Wars fans are really being spoiled this week as a brand new trailer arrives for the movie.
Following the release of the fantastic new poster for the movie, Star Wars: The Force Awakens has unleashed its latest trailer and we're getting very, VERY excited. You may have to watch it several times just to take in all of the epicness that it contains!
Lucasfilm and director J.J. Abrams join forces to take you back again to a galaxy far, far away as Star Wars returns to the big screen with Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
You can watch the latest trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens at the top of this article.


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Jeff Goldblum Releasing His Debut Jazz Album
by Derrick Rossignol
May 30 2018 • 11:30 AM
There are plenty of iconic elements to Jeff Goldblum: His singular charm, the wine-like way that he's aging, and of course, his voice. He's one of those celebrities that everybody does an impression of, and he's used his voice for some singing here and there. For instance, here he is performing "Just A Friend" with Biz Markie and Jimmy Fallon years ago:
It's a bit of a goofy performance, but there are shades of Goldblum's vocal abilities here, and a more obvious look at his ability to lead an engaging musical performance. Now, he's getting serious about his music: Universal's classical label Decca Records has signed Goldblum to a record deal, and the actor will release his first album later this year (via Billboard).
It was actually the performance below, in which Goldblum accompanies Gregory Porter on "Mona Lisa," that caught the attention of label executives. Decca director of A&R Tom Lewis accurately says of Goldblum in a statement, "As far as I can tell, everyone loves Jeff Goldblum. He's a fantastic jazz pianist, a great band leader, and just about the loveliest man in the world. His love of jazz is infectious and whenever he plays he makes you feel very happy. If we can take Jeff's music into people's homes then we will be helping, in our own small way, to make the world a happier place."
There's no word yet on what Goldblum's album will entail, or exactly when it will be released, but it's definitely something to look forward to later in 2018.
Are you looking forward to the album? Do you think Goldblum's charm will translate well into song? Let us know what you think in the comments!
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Aviva Ventures takes £5m stake in home insurtech Neos
By Tom Flack2017-05-25T10:45:00+01:00
Aviva Ventures leads Series A funding round as Munich Re joins as underwriting partner
Neos, the smart home insurtech, has secured a £5m Series A investment from Aviva Ventures – one of the largest raises by a UK insurtech to date.
In a related move the startup has signed a partnership with Munich Re, who will underwrite the business in the form of an MGA. Neos has an existing deal with Hiscox. The move to broaden its partnerships suggests the insurtech is preparing to penetrate the mass market.
Neos uses proprietary smart camera technology to detect fire, theft, and water leaks, sending real-time updates to the customer's smartphone.
Existing investors in Neos include former Ageas chief executive, Barry Smith, specialist insurtech fund, Eos Venture Partners, and Gary Lineker. The group invested £1m in the business in October last year. In November Neos signed a distribution partnership with ZPG group, whose brands include Zoopla and uSwitch. A spokesman for Neos would not disclose further details of the latest round – including whether Munich Re had also taken a stake.
Aviva Ventures have made two other investments in home startups, Cocoon and Opun. Munich Re has placed a series of bets in consumer-facing insurtechs in the past 12 months including Slice Labs, the UK's Bought By Many, and Trov.
The UK home insurance market is worth around £7bn. The Internet of Things (IoT) market is expected to grow 12-fold to 156m connections by 2024, according to Ofcom.
Matt Poll, Neos chief executive, co-founder and former director of More Than, said: "The investment and strategic partnership from two respected insurance brands, Aviva and Munich Re, cements our belief that what we're doing is the future of insurance, given their leadership in innovation.
"When you combine this with our distribution partnership with Zoopla (ZPG plc), and underwriting support via Hiscox, we're excited about the benefits we will be bringing to consumers at full market launch later this year, through positively disrupting the market."
Ben Luckett, Managing Director for Aviva Ventures added: "Investments are all about talent, future, and disrupting the status quo. Our involvement in Neos reflects all of these three elements, surrounded by great technology delivering a great purpose."
Andy Rear, managing director of Munich Re digital partners said: "Neos is defining the standards for the future home insurance industry in the UK. By putting smart sensors into the home and alerting the owner on their smartphone, Neos enables issues to be addressed before they become bigger problems. Detecting a leak early is a much smaller problem than coming home to a big flood. It's a clever proposition which will have an impact on the wider insurance industry."
Aviva chief executive Mark Wilson told City AM the insurer was spending £100m per year on its Digital Garage, based in Shoreditch's Hoxton Square – next to Neos. On Tuesday, at the Insurance Times Innovation and Disruption 2017 event, AXA revealed its ringfenced global innovation budget – comprising its own incubator, Kamet, AXA Strategic Ventures, and its research arm (but excluding internal costs) – was around £350m.
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Neos' UK consumer awareness could prove 'challenging' for Sky – GlobalData
A quarter (25%) of respondents in GlobalData's survey who have household insurance also own a smart thermometer
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Neos CEO ramps up growth plans
The chief executive and co-founder of Neos is looking for more insurer partnerships within home as well as the SME insurance sector and has his eye on the international market


Good morning Jennifer! Love your card, the color combo is fantastic! I just recently discovered aquapainting and it is so much fun. This stamp set is so perfect for it. Thanks for sharing!
Dawn- Thank You!!! The aqua painters make it so easy!!! And your right lots of fun!
A little watercoloring for the watercooler challenge. Woo hoo! This is gorgeous, Jennifer! Such beautiful colors.
Thank you Jennifer for playing along. Your watercoolering is awesome.
Great that you included your technique.
Bev-Thanks! I try to include as much as possible so that it will be easier to recreate. I enjoyed playing along with you guys!
Hi Jennifer, what a gorgeous card! Love the watercolouring and the colours you've chosen. Thanks so much for joining our Watercooler Challenge. We hope you'll come back Wednesday to see the brand new challenge and play along.
Heidi- Thank You! I am glad to be playing along with you guys. I'm sure I will be playing along again soon. As I do love to watercolor!
Great watercolour card Jennifer. I love working with Aqua Painters too. Loved the picture of your "coming together moment", I know exactly what you mean! Thanks for sharing.
Penny- First of all, Thank You!!! I seem to have to have a "a-ha" moment for the card to be right.
Jennifer, what a wonderful card. Your watercoloring is beautiful. That strip with the watercolored stripes is striking and artistic. You've done a beautiful job on our Watercooler challenge and we appreciate your participation!
This is simply beautiful, Jennifer! I love the little extra touches – the watercoloring, the watercolored strip, and the wonderful colors you used. Love it!


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Offers a large selection of novelty and superhero t-shirts.
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Get A Clue unique t-shirts for airline crew members and everyone else. So stop by and take a look around for unique one-of-a-kind t-shirts.
Fashion retailer based in East London UK. Stocking a number of contemporary brands from across the globe.
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An online store selling designer menswear from leading brands. Greens For Him are based in the UK.
Has a large selection of Halloween costumes and costume accessories.
Find the latest fashion trends at Hebeos, a shopping resource site for girls hoping to find a flattering and unique prom dress for the prom and other formal events.
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Josh Hazlewood ruled out of Perth Test owing to hamstring injury
On Saturday, the Australian management confirmed that Hazlewood has in fact suffered a hamstring injury and will not bowl again in the match.
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Josh Hazlewood of Australia. (File Photo: IANS)
In a recent development, it has been revealed that right arm Aussie pacer Josh Hazlewood will not be bowling for the rest of the ongoing Test match between Australia and New Zealand owing to an injury.
Notably, Hazlewood injured himself while attempting to bowl his ninth delivery in the final session of Day Two and was forced to leave the field as he was in discomfort. The speedster did not take the field after that.
On Saturday, the Australian management confirmed that Hazlewood has in fact suffered a hamstring injury and will not bowl again in the match. His injury has also put doubts over his availability for the rest of the Three match Test Series. His recovery is expected to be monitored regularly and only then shall a call will be taken concerning his availability or unavailability for the rest of the series.
On Friday just after Hazlewood left the field after picking up that injury, former Australian captain Ricky Ponting stated that he feared that Hazlewood might have to miss the entire Australian summer after he was in pain and left the ground.
"Looking at that (Hazlewood's reaction) I reckon it could be his summer over," Ponting said.
"Just looking at his reaction you could tell he thinks it's quite a serious one.
"The three New Zealand Test matches aren't that far apart so we'll keep our fingers crossed and hope it's not too serious.
"It's a huge blow in the game for the Aussies," he added.
It is worth highlight that both the teams are now a bowler short after Kiwi bowler Lockie Ferguson was also ruled out of the Test after he sustained a calf injury on the opening day of his debut Test for Australia.
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5 Asian American Poets You Should Know
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April 21 to May 21 marks the Taurus season, and there's plenty to celebrate about these beautiful bulls. The sign of icons like Adele, Aidy Bryant, and Cher, Taurean traits include perseverance and stubbornness, but also patience, gentleness, and a
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Each website built with BeTheme will look in a different manner. What you need to create amazing websites with no coding knowledge is the Muffin builder paired with the options panel.
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The shortcode generator is what you need. The shortcodes allow you to build pages easily and quickly. Any element you see in the demo can be inserted anywhere on the page.
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Soniccouture has announced Sheng Khaen Sho, an Asian free reeds collection featuring 3 instruments for Native Instruments Kontakt Player and NKS.
The Chinese Sheng, Laotian Khaen, and Japanese Sho are three very similar instruments with a common ancestor. They have been traditionally made from bamboo, the aluminium of the east, since the 14th century BC. Sound is created by both inhaling and exhaling – as with a western mouth-organ.
By controlling his breath the player can keep an almost endless sustained sound, characteristic of Japanese Sho technique, or a quick rhythmic pulsing, typical of Khaen performance.
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Until February 28th you can get 30% off Sheng Khaen Sho. Discount marked on website. The regular price is 129 EUR / $139 USD.


1.Toast the oats in a frying pan, being careful not to burn them.
2.Lightly whip the cream until it reaches the soft peak stage then fold in the whisky, honey, oatmeal and raspberries.
3.Serve in dessert glasses garnished with a few raspberries and mint.


*Originally posted 9/18/12 but I had to pull it out of the blog vault and move it up in the lineup.
Confession: I stink at meal planning. And I hate grocery shopping. And I don't fully embrace cooking in general.
But now I have some hope!
Last week my friend brought over this lime, avocado, baby shrimp, rice salad thing with Ranch dressing. It was AMAZING. I thought, "I want to make stuff like that but don't have time to troll Pinterest and cooking sites for recipes!"
Enter Grocery Shrink Plus by Angela Coffman. Andrea told me that the recipe was from a new meal planning email dealy jobber she signed up for that is only $5 a month! I figured I could handle that financially, especially since Andrea told me some of the meals are meatless and will save my family money instantly! I signed right up!
Since I signed up on a Wednesday and shopped that night, I didn't follow the meal plan perfectly. I substituted things here and there, swapping out recipes where it worked better for our schedule. It was just great to have the options and the cool recipes. It was also nice to have a grocery list to shop from and serving sizes for 2, 4, 8 and 12.
That last point bears repeating: this program is great if you have 10 kids or if you have zero kids. Angela tells you how to make the portion smaller or larger so you can make a bigger batch for company or a smaller batch for just yourself.
I tackled Asian Vegetable Soup and my kids actually ate it. The same night I made eggrolls all by myself, baked in the oven and the kids loved them!
I also made this amazing Tuna and White Bean Salad for crackers, which was perfect for a go-to in-the-car snack on a Sunday night on the way from a family even 1 1/2 hours away to church. For the same car ride, I whipped out this snack mix (I call it Better Than Chex ... get it?) that is pretzels, nuts, Chex and dried apples. Before you add the apples you drizzle the rest with honey, butter, brown sugar and vanilla and bake it!
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static java.lang.String
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TagAttributeDescriptor()

TagAttributeDescriptor(java.lang.String pName,
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Q: How can I undo a 'sudo' command before entering the password? I typed sudo [bad command]. The system is asking for my password. I do not want to run this command. How can I exit the password-request prompt?

A: Press CTRL+D to exit out of the password prompt. CTRL+C also works, but which one or if both works might depend on your system.

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A scene from an upcoming episode of I Wanna Marry Harry, which will no longer air on U.S. broadcast television, because we live in a society.
When Fox premiered the dating-deception show I Wanna Marry "Harry" last month, it raised the question of whether there was yet a reality-show concept so insulting, cynical, sexist and shameless that TV viewers would refuse to watch.
There was, and they did. The show, in which an English working stiff passed himself off as Prince Harry to a dozen American women, premiered to staggeringly low ratings in May, and they only got worse–bad enough to get Fox to pull the show off the schedule even in the low-ratings months of summer. Barely 2 million people watched the first showing; by this week, that number dipped just below a million. Ultimately, one assumes, it would be watched only by the losers of bets and people who had just died in front of their television sets.
This is a contentious time in a polarized nation. We can't agree on politics or cultural norms. But it is often said that Americans' divisions stop at the water's edge. That we may be divided and squabble among ourselves at home, but when a threat to our being arises from without our borders, we unite. And so we did this time, America. Faced with an assault against our sensibilities by a gross, misogynist reality show fronted by a usurper British prince (OK, and produced by Ryan Seacrest), we hoisted our remotes like Minutemen, like the flag-bearers on Iwo Jima, and as one, changed the channel. This will not stand.
Harry is dead as a broadcast TV show, but it's not gone altogether: Fox will make the rest of the episodes available through video-on-demand and online–including Fox.com and Hulu–where space is endless and it need never be cancelled. But never say never, fellow countrymen! We've got Harry on the run–we need to get out there and not-watch the show even harder than before.
Thank you… and God bless America.