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MOJO HD's "A Shot at Glory" to Feature First-Time Olympian Laura Bennett
July 29, 2008, 6:12 p.m. (ET)
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3 Reasons why You Shouldn't Replace Your for-loops by Stream.forEach() – Java, SQL and jOOQ.
Awesome! We're migrating our code base to Java 8. We'll replace everything by functions. Throw out design patterns. Remove object orientation. Right! Let's go!
Java 8 has been out for over a year now, and the thrill has gone back to day-to-day business.
A non-representative study executed by baeldung.com from May 2015 finds that 38% of their readers have adopted Java 8. Prior to that, a late 2014 study by Typsafe had claimed 27% Java 8 adoption among their users.
What does it mean for your code-base?
// Java 8 - of course!
The anonymous class style really doesn't add any value here.
I claim that the "modern" approach should be used with extreme care, i.e. only if you truly benefit from the internal, functional iteration (e.g. when chaining a set of operations via Stream's map(), flatMap() and other operations).
Java performance tutorial – How fast are the Java 8 streams?
In many cases, performance is not critical, and you shouldn't do any premature optimisation – so you may claim that this argument is not really an argument per se. But I will counter this attitude in this case, saying that the overhead of Stream.forEach() compared to an ordinary for loop is so significant in general that using it by default will just pile up a lot of useless CPU cycles across all of your application. If we're talking about 10%-20% more CPU consumption just based on the choice of loop style, then we did something fundamentally wrong. Yes – individual loops don't matter, but the load on the overall system could have been avoided.
In other cases, when we're performing relatively easy calculations on primitive data types, we absolutely SHOULD fall back to the classic for loop (and preferably to arrays, rather than collections).
We're software engineers. We'll always discuss style of our code as if it really mattered. For instance, whitespace, or curly braces.
The reason why we do so is because maintenance of software is hard. Especially of code written by someone else. A long time ago. Who probably wrote only C code before switching to Java.
Things start getting a bit more interesting and unusual. I'm not saying "worse". It's a matter of practice and of habit. And there isn't a black/white answer to the problem. But if the rest of the code base is imperative (and it probably is), then nesting range declarations and forEach() calls, and lambdas is certainly unusual, generating cognitive friction in the team.
And this is already using jOOλ, to simplify writing functional Java.
Let's think again of our previous example. Instead of multiplying values, we divide them now.
Obviously, this is asking for trouble, and we can immediately see the trouble in an exception stack trace.
Wow. Were we just…? Yes. These are the same reasons why we've had performance issues in item #1 in the first place. Internal iteration is just a lot more work for the JVM and the libraries. And this is an extremely easy use-case, we could've displayed the same thing with the generation of AA, AB, .., ZZ series.
From a maintenance perspective, a functional programming style can be much harder than imperative programming – especially when you blindly mix the two styles in legacy code.
This is usually a pro-functional programming, pro-declarative programming blog. We love lambdas. We love SQL. And combined, they can produce miracles.
But when you migrate to Java 8 and contemplate using a more functional style in your code, beware that FP is not always better – for various reasons. In fact, it is never "better", it is just different and allows us to reason about problems differently.
We Java developers will need to practice, and come up with an intuitive understanding of when to use FP, and when to stick with OO/imperative. With the right amount of practice, combining both will help us improve our software.
The bottom, bottom line here is simply this. OO programming is good, when you know what it is. Functional programming is good when you know what it is. And functional OO programming is also good once you know what it is.
http://www.azulsystems.com/blog/cliff/2011-04-04-fixing-the-inlining-problem is the reference article explaining why higher-order methods are slow; ticket on OpenJDK: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8015416.
Hmm, you seem to conflate Stream.forEach and Iterable.forEach here. Streams do have a heavy CPU cost, but functional style looping on Iterables doesn't.
You're right, but that is on purpose (somewhat). The thing here is that developers will stop caring about where that forEach() method is declared / implemented. Often, this doesn't matter, but sometimes it does, from a performance perspective.
I'm going to go ahead and refute every point you've made here.
Did you miss flatmap() in the new Stream API? Ignoring the trivial example, let's go with something more reasonable.
3. Maintainability: I would almost concede this point if I hadn't worked with modern Java frameworks like Spring and Hibernate. Stacktraces like the one you show in this article are much worse and more commonplace that even I (as someone who works with Java everyday) would like to admit. There's eventually a point where you (as an engineer) just have to "deal with it" and move on.
Did you miss flatmap() in the new Stream API?
flatMap() clearly underlines my point #2. By using flatmap in such a case, in order to retain a (i, j) tuple, I'd have to introduce a third party library to add support for tuples in streams. It would further add cognitive friciton to an otherwise trivial algorithm – and short of value types, perhaps even excessive pressure on the GC, for absolutely no added value. At least in this example.
Ignoring the trivial example, let's go with something more reasonable.
Your example is also trivial :) The imperative solution would probably loop over the list, maintain a temporary HashSet for the dates produced by ts.dates() and outperform even your parallel solution. Parallel is really overrated, but that's an entirely different discussion.
There's eventually a point where you (as an engineer) just have to "deal with it" and move on.
Heh :) We've reached that point in our industry, haven't we… Well, the winners are the tool vendors. Eventually, they'll "refactor" the display of stack traces to more meaningful things.
Keep calm and use Javaslang.
Beware of premature optimization. First write correct, readable, concise code. Then identify bottlenecks. Often more readable but slower variants don't affect the overall time/mem performance at all.
The important aspect here is that by changing the general style from imperative to functional, we increase the overall load of the system. There's not much you can do against that, once the style ship has sailed. We're then not talking about bottlenecks in terms of performance, but about load.
We're then not talking about bottlenecks in terms of performance, but about load.
And here comes scalability into play. Functional code is scalable, imperative in general not.
The medium-size systems I used to "scale" so far only used very classic legacy code (granted, pretty stateless stuff), and SQL. I'm not sure what kind of blog post you're expecting…?
I would start with an example, where the increased load you mentioned leads to significant problems. In a second step there could be an example how to balance the load to keep the system stable/responsive.
But while writing this I think I've yet not fully understood which kind of _overall system load_ you mean. Maybe database centric – managed via statistics, execution plans et al.
Aha, I see what you mean. Well, that particular blog post is in the pipeline, don't worry :) It's going to be a big rant about this premature optimisation cargo cult, which is often just an excuse for people to stop using their brains in early project phases when it really matters. It won't be generally comparing FP / imperative though, or mutable / immutable. That's not the real issue here.
But I like your comment. It goes in the same direction. You're suspecting that it might have to do with execution plans, which is again targeting performance of individual queries, rather than the overall load.
I'm not doing it for you :) It is already decided. Too late.
Lambdas are great but as programmers we still have to use our brain and ask ourselves "Am I using the right tool for the job?".
The link to Angelika Langers talk leads to a 404 page.
I found another problem with IntStream foreach. I noticed this with threading code.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say. Your IntStream.range(0, 10_000) stream is never "consumed", i.e. it never runs a terminal operation. How should it work?
wow, this article is very inaccurate. You don't lose performance with stream, in any case you may gain performance if your stream is not in memory. Also streams support parallel operations right out of the box if you have multiple cores in your system.
Easy. forEach() returns void, thus your map() method doesn't compile.
But still I am against mutating/side effect we are about to produce with peek. In my opinion peek and forEach must be avoided with alternate immutable solution.
How do you use Java 8 Streams?
I find it a quite readable (ad hoc) version including good things of both worlds. Did not check performance.
Yeah, interesting. How about taking it a step further and make horner a higher order function?
Started to dislike my previous solution because you do not have control about how many elements you get. I started with 2000, but many of them (all containing 0) are filtered out. How many are these?
Here a more combinatorial solution. I prefer this one because in my opinion it shows nicely the power of the functional approach and recursion smelling not more like Java than absolutely necessary. No forEach (except test) and no extra libraries are used.
// combines a string with the seed list, i.e. produces a stream which has all the seed elements appended to s.
// constructs the sequence recursively. To each element of the current sequence each seed element is appended (by combine method). The resulted stream of streams is flattened and appended to the current list.
I agree with this point "forEach in bad in stream". But not in the way you are claiming but because it encouraging mutation.
If you use foreach in a stream. I bet you are mutating/or producing side effect. Mutating/side effects are evil when you want to run your program concurrent/parallel.
In a way you are defending/arguing you are not able to mutate but my counter is Functional programming is all about not changing the state/mutation.
Never whine that you are not able to cut the tree with a chainsaw like you did with an axe. chainsaw should be used differently.
The article wasn't about functional programming per se, but about replacing for loops (external) by forEach loops (internal), a practice that is currently quite widely used. Both loops have side-effects and are thus not strictly functional. Nor is parallelism essential to this argument.
So, in fact, I'm not sure what your argument really is. Care to discuss chainsaws, trees, and axes instead?
I afraid that, your article may mislead the new java 8 users to move away from streams.
Performance: The compiler/runtime can change and find a better algorithm which can run faster. Its not programmers job anymore to control the performance in code level. As a programmer all we need to worry about was the clean code and less headache while debugging. Declarative style does that. stream is all about declarative style. And stream can change its underlying algorithm any time to improve the performance.
Maintainability : Well! I am able to read and understand the stack trace in both the cases. Moreover Java 9 improves to understand the stack better way http://www.javaworld.com/article/3188289/core-java/java-9s-other-new-enhancements-part-5-stack-walking-api.html . As I said the language can improve itself from its current behaviour.
Having said that, I still stand with this point "the peek and forEach methods in stream is bad because it encourages immutability, not because of the performance issue". Programmers have to move towards functional in other words immutable world. As quoted by uncle bob "The state is failed" and immutability is the rescuer.
I'm flattered to hear that you found my article so powerful, but I sincerely doubt that this will happen. People will think for themselves. They will meh at this article and move on. Cheers!
I probably should not have quoted that article. It does not make any apparent reference to how the benchmark was performed. Also, the comments you mention seem to measure things with System.currentTimeMillis(), which is not at all reliable. JMH should be used instead. Additionally, those comments make assumptions about Math.max() being the problem. They don't prove it.
I would expect list2 is the same as list1, but not. list2 has duplicates of elements from list1.
What Java version and what specific list can be used to reproduce this?
I put your last example into IntelliJ … and ran it, and got a stack trace exactly pointing out the line that gave the exception. In that sense: I am not able to "repro" your issue. I get a stack trace, and it says in which line it belongs. what else do you need.
The point of the example is not that the exception was wrong or misinforming. It was that for something trivial, we got a stack trace of 6 lines instead of just 1.
I agree with performance. Readability comes together with maintainability, and it depends on the users' habits, very strongly. Performance is killed when you chose java, so just put the work to adapt to the new world, even if you're already old.


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Adelaide Festivals / Interviews / Music / February 16, 2015
Jo Quail (UK): Modern Cello With Traditional Techniques To Create Musical Landscapes – Adelaide Fringe Interview
Jo Quail is a cellist and composer from London, UK, who plays a Starfish electric cello with Boss loops and effects pedals – a virtual one-woman orchestra! Jo will be performing music from her albums 'From The Sea' and 'Caldera' and it looks and sounds something like this…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQSPnD-m2OY
www.joquail.co.uk
Adrian Miller speaks with Jo via email. Here is what Jo has to say
First gig; when and where and how did it go?
"My first solo performance was in a tiny pub in Brighton, UK in 2010, and it was nerve-wracking and great fun! It went very well, though at the time I was very new to the technology I'm using now, and it was far more (unnecessarily) complicated than it needed to be, with keyboard, channel selectors, loads of stuff I now don't need!"
If you could, who would you choose as your 'musical parents'?
"My own parents! My mum is a cellist, she began learning as an adult, the same time I began as a child, and she has always been a great inspiration. My dad is responsible for introducing me to Pink Floyd, The Kinks, Tony Joe White, good classic rock in short. Outside of actual parents my teacher Gwyn Pritchard is a constant presence even though with Gwyn I focus on traditional repertoire – I find it all feeds in to what I write and perform in my own music. And Jos Pijnappel, my great friend and also conductor when I perform my music with ensembles and orchestras, Jos is always someone I call when I'm either stuck with something or excited about a piece, and he offers great encouragement and sage advice. Including the immortal line 'Stop what you're doing, drink a glass of wine and listen to 80s rock!' during a particularly taxing moment in my latest work This Path With Grace. "
Favourite performer?
"I work with all sorts of musicians, so that would be a huge list, as they are all inspirational. From a cello point of view I love Steven Isserlis. Matt Howden (violin/vox) and Jordan Reyne (guitar/vox) are superb musicians, both fellow loopers and good friends of mine, I always feel uplifted and inspired watching a concert of theirs."
Duo or trio; who would be your partner/s in crime?
"I'm very lucky, I've just had this experience! I performed a big concert here in London last Saturday with a cello quartet and they are superb! Anna Scott, Laura Passey and Raf Ottonello. All very different cellists and unique in their approach to our instrument, but unified in their generous musicality and good vibe. I also had Daniel Merrill on violin, he's awesome, and Al Richardson on percussion, who one interviewer described as a 'secret weapon in human form'! Plus the Green Army Choir, super musicians and all of them great and treasured friends. "
What is your best 'cover version' of a song?
"Nine Inch Nails' The Great Below but sadly you won't hear that on this tour as I need a cello quartet to play it! It's not a looper…"
What is the last song you played on iTunes/iPod/CD?
"Duke Garwood's Heavy Love. He's utterly amazing. Sensuous dark new blues."
Favourite song line?
"Gosh. Too many to mention! Probably Tom Petty Won't Back Down is most appropriate. But we used to laugh like drains at David Lee Roth's 'Vaccinated by a phonograph needle one summer's day' from A Little Ain't Enough'. Not sure why really, it's not that funny but it seemed so at the time!"
Best gig, worst gig and why?
"Best gig – so far it would be last Saturday in London, and last March in Gdansk, Poland where I was accompanied by orchestra Cappella Gedanensis, absolutely brilliant orchestra and such superb individual talents there too, I was utterly humbled. Worst gig, well, there's iffy bits to each and every gig. The only one I've had a really funny vibe at was in September last year, I knew it from the moment I walked in to the venue and I was really keen not to perform for some reason – it just felt 'funny' in there, something 'wrong'. Not with the people, the other acts, just something else. Anyway I did it. People said afterwards it was a rather cathartic performance. !!!"
What is your hidden talent?
"I ride motorbikes quite fast. Not so much since I've had my daughter though! And I can make good stews."
Tell us something that people don't yet know about you.
"I write all my dreams down in a little spiral bound book. I've been doing this for years. The net result is that sometimes I recall dreams as clearly as reality, in fact more so because they are written, whereas I don't keep a diary of daily events."
Favourite childhood memory?
"Lots! My memory goes a long way back, so I have a vague recollection of learning to walk, and of trying to climb on the hospital bed when my sister was born. Most cherished memories are bundled together as the time we spent on the East Sussex coast as kids on holiday, pure summer, long days, full of adventure."
Celebrity meet that left you star-struck?
"Steven Isserlis. I said a load of rubbish to him. I've met lots of really great musicians and artists in my session work, but it's only Mr Isserlis that rendered me idiotic."
Pet hate?
"Intolerance and lack of empathy, I guess. Just being able to appreciate something from another view, not having to agree."
Secret crush?
"My husband. We are both freelance workers in our fields, and it means we don't see each other as much as perhaps is considered normal, and I still have a flip flop feeling when I see him!"
What's something from your childhood that you still love and have today?
"My bear!"
Best or worst advice you were ever given?
"Best advice, Jos with 'have a glass of wine and listen to rock'. It is usually a sensible thing to do if in doubt.
A missed opportunity that you would give anything to go back and try?
"I would like to have been more mature during my study years and more confident as a cellist, but if that were the case I daresay you and I wouldn't be chatting now, as all things would be different, not worse or better just very different."
Any famous last words?
"This time with dynamics! That relates to our quartet work, that's the most uttered line during our rehearsals. Otherwise it would be my personal motto which is 'do it with verve and aplomb'. Regardless of what you're getting in your monitors. !"
Jo Quail performs at Church Of The Trinity from 7.30pm on Fri Feb 20 and Sat Feb 21.
Book at FringeTIX on 1300 621 255 or adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix. Click HERE to purchase your tickets.
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HomeNew ArrivalsRay Harryhausen's Fantasy Scrapbook: Models, Artwork and Memories from 65 Years of Filmmaking
Ray Harryhausen's Fantasy Scrapbook: Models, Artwork and Memories from 65 Years of Filmmaking
A treasure trove of Ray Harryhausen material. Perhaps inspired by 1973's Film Fantasy Scrapbook, Ray Harryhausen's Fantasy Scrapbook is a completely different book from top to bottom. Out of print.
Ray Harryhausen is one of the most innovative and influential film animators in the history of the medium, responsible for such classic films as Jason and the Argonauts, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, Clash of the Titans and One Million Years BC. A pioneer of stop-motion animation he has won countless awards, including a star on the Hollwood Walk of Fame, and inspired numerous film-makers, such as Stephen Spielberg, George Lucas and Peter Jackson. Ray's story has been told in books such as An Animated Life and many of his concept drawings and models have appeared in The Art of Ray Harryhausen (both of which books were also published by Aurum). This new book reveals a wealth of fascinating artefacts relating to his films that has never been seen before, many of them recently discovered in a garage in Los Angeles. Designed in the form of a scrapbook, it provides a visual feast for Harryhausen fans. There are models from unrealized projects, such as dinosaurs from the unfinished film Evolution; prints of outtakes from various films including The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms; early concept drawings and storyboards; colour transparencies of Ray at work; written artefacts such as letters and production budgets and a diary that details Ray's first meeting with his mentor Willis O'Brien; early film treatments and script extracts; publicity posters and brochures; and much, much more. Some of the items show Ray's earliest artistic endeavours such as watercolours painted when he was 15 years old and marionettes of creatures from King Kong that he made when he saw the film in 1933. Organized into themed chapters covering the different genres that Ray worked in, each film is given a brief introduction and every image has a detailed caption. In many cases images are juxtaposed to show how a creature or effect evolved or to compare a concept drawing with a still from the finished film. The result is a treasure trove of rare artefacts and material which not only offer new insights into how Ray created particular effects, but bring the worlds of his films to life in a new way and paint a fascinating visual portrait of the man himself and his creative imagination. This is a must for every Ray Harryhausen fan.
This came from the collection of Steve Sherman, a writer,artist, puppet-maker, puppet-performer, and avid collector. Steve worked as Jack Kirby's assistant, at Filmation, and Sid and Marty Krofft, before forming his own company Puppet Studio in 1984 contributing to "Pee-Wee's Playhouse", "Men in Black 1 & 2", "Mighty Joe Young", "Muppets" and numerous other TV series and feature films.
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'There absolutely will be a black market': How the rich and privileged can skip the line for Covid-19 vaccines
By Olivia Goldhill and Nicholas St. Fleur Dec. 3, 2020
Bill Lang didn't get much of a break over Thanksgiving. Almost every day last week, the medical director at a high-end concierge medical practice, WorldClinic, heard from clients asking when a Covid-19 vaccine would be available.
Two patients even texted on Thanksgiving day. "Since then, I've had at least three texts or calls every day just asking, 'When do you think I can get a vaccine?'" said Lang, who is based in Washington, but also speaks with patients across the U.S. and internationally.
Athletes, politicians, and other wealthy or well-connected people have managed to get special treatment throughout the pandemic, including preferential access to testing and unapproved therapies. Early access to coronavirus vaccines is likely to be no different, medical experts and ethicists told STAT. It could happen in any number of ways, they said: fudging the definition of "essential workers" or "high-risk" conditions, lobbying by influential industries, physicians caving to pressure to keep their patients happy, and even through outright bribery or theft.
The worst attempts to nefariously procure a vaccine may come a few months into distribution, once vaccines are available that don't require ultra-cold storage and local pharmacies and physician practices get allotments. "There absolutely will be a black market," said bioethicist Arthur Caplan of New York University. "Anything that's seen as lifesaving, life-preserving, and that's in short supply creates black markets."
'Covid is all about privilege': Trump's treatment underscores vast inequalities in access to care
At WorldClinic, which charges members $10,000 to $250,000 a year for 24/7 care, no patients have asked for special treatment and the clinic would not undermine its integrity by trying to secure vaccines unethically, said Lang, who was a White House physician during both the Bush and Clinton administrations. "The optics of trying to jump the line would be so bad, they don't want to do that." But within the broader system, he added, some people will inevitably cut in line.
"Essential workers" are expected to receive early access to the vaccine, and the definition of this category is open to interpretation by state health departments, creating a means for influential industries to lobby for priority. "The devil's going to be in the details of how the state runs their program," Lang said he tells his patients.
Members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), the federal panel recommending how to distribute the vaccines, want to prioritize essential workers to help ensure people of color, who are often the hardest hit by the virus, get early access. But the predominantly white workers in the financial services industry are also considered essential, according to guidance from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, which was referenced by ACIP, as well as executive orders from several states including New York, Illinois, Colorado, and California. Public-facing bank tellers face contagion risks in their work, but aren't the only financial services employees included.
"It was left a little bit nebulous but basically covered people who oil the movement of money, so exchanges, trading floors, trading operations, and people who keep money moving at the retail [banking] level," said Lang. "They're defined very broadly in New York and Illinois, because that's where so many of our financial services industries are based."
The concept of "essential workers" has already been tested during the pandemic, when Florida declared that World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) met the definition and could remain open during lockdown. The chairman of WWE, Vince McMahon, is friends with President Trump, while his wife, Linda McMahon, served in the administration and is chair of a pro-Trump super PAC. Neither WWE nor Florida's health department responded to requests for comment about whether WWE would be considered essential for the vaccine rollout.
Other powerful industries might be tempted to follow this example. The potential of industry lobbyists "redefining what an essential worker is is a very strong possibility," said Glenn Ellis, a visiting scholar at the National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health care at Tuskegee University and a narrative bioethics fellow at Harvard Medical School.
Health workers, long-term care facilities should get Covid-19 vaccine first, CDC advisory panel says
Prioritizing essential workers is intended to give early vaccine access to those who provide a critical societal function and cannot socially distance easily, the Colorado health department said in a statement that acknowledged it can be difficult to write airtight rules. "Given the thousands of different job descriptions in the state, it is impossible to come up with a complete list for every occupation for a specific vaccine phase. Vaccine providers will need to use their best judgment about which patients may qualify for vaccination during this phase."
The California health department confirmed financial services employees, including those needed to "maintain orderly market operations," will have early access to the vaccine as essential workers, as will people in the news media, such as reporters. State health departments in New York and Illinois did not respond to requests for comment about whether those in financial services would receive a vaccine early.
Another opening that could be exploited to skip the line involves high-risk medical conditions that warrant early access to the vaccine. Smokers are within this group, according to ACIP, and people with conditions such as moderate-to-severe asthma and high blood pressure could also be included.
This leaves room for a doctor to, for example, portray a patient's mild asthma as severe enough to justify early access to a vaccine, said Jonathan Cushing, head of major projects of the health initiative at Transparency International, a nonprofit focused on global corruption. The profit motives within U.S. health care make it particularly susceptible to such distortions, he said: "It's a market-based economy. You as a doctor want to keep your clients coming back."
Given the need to protect patient privacy, Lang said he doesn't expect immunization sites to demand documentation of health risk factors. Instead, they will likely either ask patients to state that they have one of the relevant conditions, without disclosing details, or require physician certification, he said: "A lot of that is left to a doctor's judgment."
Exaggerating sickness is not a new phenomenon in the U.S. medical system. Insurance companies have portrayed Medicare patients as sicker than they really are, so as to receive higher government payouts. Similarly, physicians to wealthy patients could "make sure they're among the first to get the vaccines by fudging it in a way that would enable their clients to cut in line" said Wendell Potter, former head of corporate communications at Cigna and current head of the nonprofit Center for Health and Democracy.
The U.S. health care system is generally designed to give preferential treatment to those with wealth and connections, ethicists said. "When we talk about the concept of individuals being able to get to the front of the line, that's not difficult, because our system is designed to advantage those people with means like that," said Tuskegee's Ellis. "They don't have to really do anything sinister. All they have to do is access the system that they are a part of."
Powerful companies can leverage their connections with insurance companies to get access to shots quickly, for example. "Some of the richest investment firms have their own mini health systems, so they can run vaccines through those doctors that give the physicals and maintain the health of the executives in the company," said NYU's Caplan.
GPS tracking on vaccine shipments will make it harder to pilfer shots en route, though not impossible. "I have a lot of respect for the creativity of criminals," said Alison Bateman-House, a bioethicist at New York University Grossman School of Medicine. "If someone can see a way to make good money off of driving a pallet of vaccines off in a forklift, I'm sure somebody will figure out how to do it."
But bioethicists believe pharmacies, urgent care clinics, and doctors' offices are among the most vulnerable points along the distribution chain. The state-line divides within the health care system make it especially vulnerable to abuse. "There's far less scrutiny of state legislative and regulatory bodies than at the federal level," said Potter. "The fragmentation makes gaming the system easier and more likely."
Vaccine administration sites are subject to less scrutiny than vaccine shipments, agreed Hani Mahmassani, the director of the Northwestern University Transportation Center. "Once this product is in the hands of the entities that are responsible for vaccination, and that's going to be your, sort of, your local entities, really, anything could happen." Vaccine administrators who accept bribes could face serious deterrents potentially including prosecution, he said, but the possibility can't be ruled out.
The supply of a high-demand, life-altering vaccine will never be completely protected from abuse.
"Will there be people who do break the line? Yes," said Lang. "Will family members of Congress somehow get immunized a little bit early? Who knows."
At a certain point, though, vigilance brings its own risks. "If you add too many inefficiencies of checking and double-checking everyone, then you put so much bureaucracy into the program, you slow things down," he added.
The public shame of being caught should act as a deterrent, especially if the backlash is akin to what several Hollywood celebrities and wealthy parents faced following the 2019 college admissions bribing and cheating scandal, said Bateman-House.
"I can promise you, no CEO wants to be on the front page of the newspaper for giving preferential access to his college roommate," she said. "I think a few public naming and shamings would probably tamp down some activity."
Instilling a sense of public responsibility and solidarity is another way to deter malfeasance, said Cushing, though this is easier in theory than practice. Otherwise, he said, vaccine delivery should be clearly and transparently tracked, and there should be reporting mechanisms to flag abuse, ideally with state hotlines specifically focused on vaccine line-cutting.
Several bioethicists warned that the number of high-profile politicians, including President Trump, Chris Christie, and Ben Carson, who received early access to experimental Covid-19 treatments set a dangerous precedent. When that occurred, the general consensus, Caplan said, was a wink and a blink and a, "Well, that's the way it is."
Following the vaccine rollout, the response to the wealthy and powerful cutting the line needs to be different and fierce, he said. "Everybody has to condemn them: the media, your neighbor, your boss, everybody."
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B. Delaney says:
Professional athletes and politicians were able to access frequent, sometimes daily, testing when frontline medical personnel were not. There's no surprise in any of this, Americans have demonstrated their admiration for celebrities by electing a totally unqualified reality television performer to the presidency.
I just wish these people would ask a professional athlete for help when they can't breathe.
Timothy Raymond Schmakel DDS, MD says:
Devils advocate here, say you deny the mild asthmatic patient the vaccine early on and they God forbid get the virus and die. The malpractice lawyers with all over that one…… Just sayin". Need some solid guidance and rules
Qi says:
This article reads like it was written by a couple of Bernie campaign folks. But then just the repetition of the same idea over and over without expanding the logic made it a poor piece. By the middle, it became unreadable. You will get that sometimes when the writers are range bound within their heads. They cannot see the world beyond a narrow view.
Let's do whatever ity takes to dismantle #45 from his cushy chair.
Deb Rose says:
Why don't we use this to our advantage? The first vaccines should be offered to people willing to buy the refrigerator for a hospital or other vaccine distribution center. Let people that buy and donate the refrigerators have a certain number of vaccines for their family. Everyone wants everything for free, but that isn't possible. And jumping up and down complaining about it won't help. If we know the wealthy will find a way to "cut in line" then put it out there. Let them pay for the refrigerators and go first.
Steve White says:
I am fine with that idea. Since they ARE people too, it is not like people are jot being vaccinated
Lol… USA polls show that over 50% of people won't even take the vaccine. They couldn't give this thing away even if they wanted too.
Mayor deBlasio said the areas hardest hit in the first wave will get the vaccine preferentially.
In some of those areas we are told 30% of populace has antibodies. So, unless everyone is tested first, far more vaccine doses will be wasted than if they gave the wealthy areas preference.
Also, should the previous irresponsible actions be cause for more protection? Chasing the worst hit areas may do that
All this is a roundabout way of pointing out, while the author wants to give us reasons to be upset about line skipping, I feel we should only be upset if we favored the line priorities -which have not yet even been written.
DeBlasio is using some kind of social justice rules, a different official will use different rules. I will hold my outrage until I see something outrageous
Sorry for double comment, what I wanted to say was, YES, they will be able to give it away. I will take your dose if you do not want it
Michael Roof says:
Sick priorities! How did a supposedly scientific journal manage to morph the complexities of vaccinating billions of people into a matter a class warfare? And I'm a liberal.
The author is speaking the truth. Live with reality.
Hank B says:
Stat News was really good back in April. Glad to see they've jumped on board with the hysteria, anxiety inducing click bait, and "here's why you're being screwed" approach to journalism we've come to expect from rest of the media.
Seriously you could see the evolution from a source nobody had even heard of before March to what I'm sure was unprecedented site traffic for Stat, to the inevitable desire to keep raking in the clicks. Gosh I wonder why the media appears to be upset when it's suggested this could be over by summer. What will they do without Trump and Covid????
Girish Malhotra says:
Animal instincts will prevail. Greed and money are the best friends of rich and famous. They will exploit every opportunity they will get to get ahead.
RobertDudley says:
Public shaming will not be a deterrent for rampant corruption and personal favoritism…our shared American lifestyle. The movie, Contagion, used a birthday lottery in the realization that all people are considered equally essential.
Mark Berenson says:
Perhaps a combination of "truly essential/healthcare-related" workers with a birthday lottery should be considered? The birthday lottery was used in the drafts for the Vietnam War and although there were those like the president who did not get selected for service everyone had to report to the draft office based on the sequence of birthdates selected.
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Previous / How a 'butt-kicking' helped shape MotoGP's newest winner Next / Dovizioso's consistency "not enough" to win 2020 title
MotoGP Interview
Lorenzo says 2021 Ducati deal "almost happened"
The following chat took place between Jorge Lorenzo and Motorsport.com last weekend, while the current MotoGP world championship riders competed at Misano.
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Over 17 seasons as a grand prix rider himself, if there was one thing that characterised the triple world champion (2010, 2012 and 2015) it was his honesty – a trait that is not exactly abundant in the paddock and one that didn't always work in his favour.
As you will detect from this interview, conducted over the telephone from his home in Lugano, Switzerland, Lorenzo remains as candid as ever as he reveals how close he came to a return to racing with Ducati in 2021, confirms that his racing career is now definitively over and analyses the current state of the championship - including the absence of Marc Marquez, Andrea Dovizioso's decision to leave Ducati and his own lack of track action as a Yamaha test rider.
Q. What is your typical day like right now? It looks like you are enjoying life after racing.
Jorger Lorenzo: I am very happy. I have all the time in the world to do practically whatever I am interested in. When I'm at home I keep a routine to stay in shape – I train in the morning and then have the afternoons free to study, plan my future or simply have fun.
Q. Some sportsmen find that after retirement they feel there's a gap that they struggle to fill. Have you had this feeling?
JL: I am not going to deny it: at certain times I have missed racing a little bit. The feeling of winning, which is unique and impossible to replicate, or the celebrations with the team after a great result. These are the things I miss the most. Other things, like injuries or the nerves on a Sunday morning before the race, I don't miss at all. We all have to accept that we can't have everything in life and I arrived at a point when, after all I had achieved, the negatives outweighed the positives. That's why I decided that it was time to start enjoying everything I had worked for.
Q. There has been a lot said, and written, about a hypothetical return with Ducati. How seriously were you actually considering that?
JL: It was a very real possibility and it almost happened.
Q. Ducati insists that you offered yourself to them, that you said you wanted to come back in 2021, come what may...
JL: It wasn't exactly like that. During lockdown, I had a call from Gigi Dall'Igna [General Manager, Ducati Corse] to wish me a happy birthday. We talked about personal matters, family and things like that, and at the end of the conversation I asked him, out of curiosity, about the future of the team and the riders.
Shortly after, Michele Pirro sent me a message - half joking, half serious - asking if I wanted to go back to Ducati. Between the call from Gigi and the message from Michele I figured there was a certain level of interest from Ducati, and I started to consider the idea of racing again. Maybe it was being locked down for those few months, or because I was missing that winning feeling, but the phone call triggered the thought in my head about making a comeback.
We started negotiations, but the closer we got to signing, the more the factors that forced me to retire gained weight. After several days of deliberation, I regrettably had to say no to Gigi. I felt really bad and I am still very sorry now, because I put him in an awkward position with the factory and I could have avoided it.
If I had been certain from the start then I wouldn't even have gone into negotiations. The truth is that I will always be thankful for the faith shown in me, but at that moment I felt that I needed to think purely about myself, and I came to the conclusion that being a motorcycle racer did not stack up for me anymore.
Q. So do you think that you will ever go back?
JL: The chance of that happening decreases with every year that passes. Honestly, having taken such a difficult decision, I think I can say my racing career is over, although I would like to stay involved in the sport in some way.
Q. Last weekend both Fabio Quartararo and Valentino Rossi said that they can't understand why Yamaha are not using you more as a test rider. What is the reason?
JL: According to what Yamaha have told me, the situation with coronavirus creates logistical problems for their personnel travelling from Japan. It is a real shame I have not been able to bring my experience to the project.
Q. Are you interested in renewing your contract as a test rider?
JL: That's my priority. I hope Yamaha still want me and that there is still the desire to create a testing team that can help improve the bike. I think that with my experience and feel, I can bring a lot.
Q. Have you been approached by any other factories about your situation?
JL: Yes.
Q. Can you be more specific?
JL: I would prefer not to name names.
Q. In your opinion, why is MotoGP proving to be so unpredictable and inconsistent this season?
JL: I think Dorna have done a magnificent job with the rules in recent years, which has created more parity between the manufacturers. That much is evident from the lap times and from the distribution of victories.
Also, it is clear that the strongest rider not being on the grid has had an impact on the mindset of the others. Marc's absence has made other riders believe that they have a genuine chance to be world champion.
Q. In your experience, do you think Marquez would be as susceptible as the others to this inconsistency?
JL: I think it would have depended on how competitive his bike was at the different circuits, even though at the moment there is no doubt that he is still the strongest and most complete rider on the grid. I am sure he would be winning races and fighting for the title.
Q. Do you think that Honda's current troubles highlight the need for a conceptual rethink of their bike? This is something you yourself requested.
JL: I don't think Honda's priority when they signed me was to make an easier bike, although if I had stayed there I am sure we would have achieved it. The truth is that Marquez has an inimitable style and with every year that passes the bike adapts more and more closely to his style and further away from the rest of the factory riders.
As people we only tend to look for drastic solutions when the situation is critical, and whilst ever Marc continues winning titles for Honda, I don't think the factory will look to change their approach.
Q. What did you take from Dovizioso's decision to leave Ducati without anything else on the table for 2021?
JL: I think Dovi and his agent were clear about what conditions they were prepared to accept and what they weren't. Maybe they thought that Ducati would end up conceding, but that didn't happen. The market moved very quickly in the meantime and now he doesn't have many options.
Q. Would you opt for Bagnaia or Zarco as teammate to Miller?
JL: Logically, I have to think that they will go for Pecco [Bagnaia], especially after such a great performance at Misano when he wasn't physically at 100 percent. He has a big future ahead of him and in some ways his riding reminds me of myself, with such very high corner speed and a smooth, elegant style.
Q. Were you surprised when Pol Espargaro signed for HRC?
JL: I think Pol has always believed that he could do a good job on a Honda and get to a similar level as Marc. I don't think it will be at all easy for him, but then it wouldn't be the first time somebody has surprised me.
Q. Did you expect Vinales to have made more of the opportunity to take advantage of Marquez's absence?
JL: A little bit, yes. I was expecting a lot from Maverick before the start of the season because he looked strong at the end of 2019 and also in the preseason tests. It looked like he had found the confidence and the conviction to take that next step. However, that hasn't happened yet and he was also very unlucky in the two races in Austria. He has no shortage of talent or speed, but to win titles you need all the pieces to fit together. Hopefully he can manage it.
Q. What did you think when you saw the accidents at Red Bull Ring?
JL: Episodes like that are a reminder that our sport is still very risky. An accident such as one of those can change your whole life in one second. That's exactly why, once you feel like you have achieved the goals you set yourself, the intelligent thing to do is to seriously evaluate whether or not it is worth the risk.
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By German Garcia Casanova
Following Suzuki's decision to quit MotoGP, both of its former riders have landed at Honda for 2023. But perhaps its biggest signing from the now-defunct team could instead be a highly-rated technical manager. Is Ken Kawauchi the right man at the right time to steer HRC back to glory?
How the MotoGP paddock has offered refuge to Suzuki's former team
Suzuki's unexpected departure left more than 40 professionals virtually jobless for the 2023 MotoGP season. But that human drama has been successfully corrected by the paddock itself, with most former Suzuki crew members absorbed into other operations.
How one MotoGP team went from title challengers to losing it all in four years
By Lewis Duncan
The Petronas Sepang Racing Team came into MotoGP with a bang in 2019 as regular front-runners, with wonder rookie Fabio Quartararo mounting a title challenge in 2020. But it all went wrong for the Razlan Razali-helmed squad as the team changed hands and tumbled down the order - and RNF Racing plans to right this in 2023
Is Marc Marquez ready to reclaim his MotoGP throne?
Marc Marquez's sixth premier MotoGP title seems a long time ago given the injury woes he has faced in the three years since. At the end of a fraught 2022, in which he had a fourth major operation on his right arm, the Spaniard speaks exclusively to Motorsport.com.
How MotoGP's underachiever is working to reverse its fortunes in 2023
As European manufacturers emerged as the strongest force in 2022 in a changing of the guard for MotoGP, one powerhouse couldn't quite match the feats of Ducati and Aprilia. Its motorsport chief tells Motorsport.com why this is and what it is doing to become a consistent frontrunner in the class of kings
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By Germán Garcia Casanova
With the expansion of the calendar to 21 grands prix and the introduction of sprint races, the 2023 MotoGP season will take the riders to almost 1,300 kilometres of more competition than this year, a factor that forces adjustments in their physical preparations.
Luca Marini: Why he's more than just Valentino Rossi's brother
Surname pressure is something many have had to deal with in their motorsport careers. And while Luca Marini doesn't have that, his familial relation and the team he rides for in MotoGP have cast a brighter spotlight on his progress. But, as he has shown in 2022 – and as he reveals to Motorsport.com – Marini is so much more than just the brother of a legend.
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Advent 4 – What does the birth of Jesus mean? There are three more feasts to explain the true meaning of Christmas: He is our Sacrifice (January 1). He is the true King of the World (January 6). He is the true God (February 2nd). Keep celebrating!


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I love everything about books; how they feel in your hand, the sawdust-smell of the pages and the distinctive covers. But, I have to confess… I have finally gone over to the dark side. I have swapped books for a Kindle!
My family are all book worms and Kindle converts. They had been nagging me for ages so I finally gave in. Although I was reluctant at first, I already love my Kindle. It's so convenient and lightweight. Hundreds of books are only a few clicks away and there are even plenty of free books you can try. There are lots of beautiful Kindle cases to choose from too.
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1. When and where does Falling Walls Venture take place?
Falling Walls Venture takes place each year on 8 November in Berlin, as a part of the expanded programme of the Falling Walls Conference on 9 November.
2. What is my benefit if I participate?
Falling Walls Venture is a platform to showcase the entrepreneurial potential in science. We provide a stage for pioneering founders who have turned science into business, creating entrepreneurial solutions for today's most pressing challenges.
Why should you join Falling Walls Venture as a start-up?
win a trip to Berlin (7-10 November 2019) to present your start-up in front of a high-level jury of international innovation experts and investors (travel and accomodation stipend included for start-up presenter)
receive a ticket for the full Falling Walls programme and exclusive networking functions
if you become the "Falling Walls Science Start-up of the Year", present your company in front of a high-level audience of 800 decision makers from business, finance, academia and government at the Falling Walls Conference
as one of 25 start-ups, get international visibility and media coverage
obtain personal advice from the jury
join the Falling Walls network of leaders and luminaries from science and business and make strong connections to successful entrepreneurs, corporate innovation leaders and investors
receive pitch coaching and preparation on the presentation
Why should you join Falling Walls Venture as a nominating institution?
boost your spin-off and your university's entrepreneurship initiatives
get visibility for your university, including a slot on stage to introduce your start-up
join the Falling Walls network of leaders from science, industry and politics and meet entrepreneurs and innovators from all around the world
See what past participants and guests said.
3. Eligibility criteria for start-ups: Who can apply for Falling Walls Venture?
Falling Walls is about breakthroughs in science and society that have a positive impact on our future.
Falling Walls Venture targets entrepreneurs and scientists whose start-ups are based on scientific research and advanced technology/engineering.
Applications are open to all scientific disciplines.
Each start-up must be endorsed by a nominating institution. This can be a university or a research institution.
The company must be founded (incorporated) by the time you apply and cannot be older than 5 years (i.e. founded between 1 January 2014 and the date of application)
If you have already participated in Falling Walls Venture as a presenter on stage, you cannot apply again.
Start-ups should at least have a protoype/proof of concept and and should have received financial funding (e.g. government funding like the German EXIST up to Series A).
4. How does the application process work?
In order to apply for Falling Walls Venture, every start-up must be endorsed by a nominating institution (university or research institution). Nominations are submitted online via our website. We will ask you for the name and contact details of a representative of the nominating institution.
Applications will be open from 6 May until 30 June 2019. Once the deadline has passed, the nominated start-ups will be evaluated based on the following three criteria:
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Scope of impact (impact on industry, society, environment, market situation,..)
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From all nominations, our selection committee will choose 25 start-ups who will be invited to participate in Falling Walls Venture in Berlin on 8 November. Applicants will be notified by beginning of September at the latest.
5. What are the things the Falling Walls Foundation is looking for in a start-up?
Falling Walls Venture is committed to science based start-ups, i.e. new companies that are founded by researchers and based on new research insights or advanced technology.
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Start-ups should at least have a protoype/proof of concept and and should have received financial funding.
The start-ups matching the above criteria best are chosen to participate in Falling Walls Venture in Berlin on 8 November.
6. What does the programme of the event look like?
Every start-up will have up to 10 minutes of time.
The first minute is reserved for the endorsing institution and its reasoning why they believe their start-up should become the "Falling Walls Science Start-Up of the Year".
After that, the founder has five minutes to present his business concept. In conclusion, up to four minutes of question time will be available to the jury and audience.
At the end of the day the jury will award the title "Falling Walls Science Start-Up of the Year". The winner will get the opportunity to present their company to an audience of 800 institution leaders from business, finance, academia and government at the Falling Walls Conference on the next day.
Falling Walls Venture will be held in English.
7. Is there time to discuss my breakthrough with the jury?
Yes. Every participant has 5 minutes time to present her/his company and business model. The jury will ask questions or make comments following the presentation.
For a more detailed discussion on your research work or business idea, exclusive networking events and several breaks allow you to make meaningful connections and engage in deeper exchange with our judges.
8. My start-up is in a very early phase, can we apply?
We also welcome start-ups in early stage and seed phases. The company must be founded by the time you apply and cannot be older than 5 years (i.e. founded between 1 January 2014 and the date of application). Start-ups should at least have a protoype/proof of concept and should have already received some funding.
9. Can I apply more than once?
The participation at Falling Walls Venture is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Therefore, participation is allowed only once. By applying, the candidate confirms that she/he has never participated in Falling Walls Venture as a presenter on stage before. If a candidate applied in previous years, but was not selected as a finalist, she or he can apply again.
10. Who can I contact in case I have a question about Falling Walls Venture?
Please contact the Falling Walls Venture Team in Berlin at venture@falling-walls.com.


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Інтерконектор 1, 2 — офшорні газопроводи між Великою Британією та Республікою Ірландія.

Починаючи з кінця 1970-х Ірландія почала використовувати для виробництва електроенергії природний газ із власного родовища Кінсейл Гед. Проте вже на початок 1990-х останнє знаходилось на завершальній стадії розробки, що змусило звернутись до пошуку інших джерел газопостачання. Враховуючи стрімкий розвиток офшорного видобутку у Північному морі, було вирішено спорудити трубопровід для подачі блакитного палива з Великого острова Британії.

Газопровід Інтерконнектор 1 ввели в експлуатацію у 1993 році. Він складається з кількох ділянок:
 80 км трубопровід діметром 750 мм по території Шотландії від Мофат до Brighouse Bay;
 205 км підводний трубопровід діаметром 600 мм через Ірландське море від Brighouse Bay до Loughshinny;
 9 км секція діаметром 750 мм, що з'єднує Loughshinny з газотранспортною мережею Республіки Ірландія.

У 2003 році спорудили другий газопровід між тими самими береговими пунктами у Шотландії ті Ірландії — Інтерконнектор 2. Його потужність складає до 8,4 млрд.м3 на рік, тоді як у першої лінії цей показник 6,2 млрд.м3. Втім, загальний обсяг транспортування обома маршрутами не може перевищувати 8,4 млрд.м3 через характеристики наземної шотландської ділянки. Такими чином, наявність двох газопроводів перш за все забезпечує гарантоване постачання блакитного палива навіть за умови виходу одного із ладу. Крім того, від Інтерконнектор 2 існує відгалуження до англійського острова Мен. Роботу системи забезпечують дві компресорні станці у Шотландії — Beattock та Brighouse Bay.

У 2014 році через інтерконектори до Ірландії було поставлено 4,5 млрд.м3 газу, що покрило 94 % потреб. При цьому можна зазначити, що у 2015 році на газові електростанції припадало 75 % потужності всіх ТЕС Республіки Ірландія. Після введення в розробку ірландського газового родовища Корріб частка імпортного газу впала до 30-40 %. Втім і у цьому випадку очікують на швидке вичерпання запасів, що змусить повернутись до попередніх об'ємів імпорту через Інтерконнектор 1, 2.

Примітки

Газопроводи Великої Британії
Газопроводи Ірландії

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It was a relaxing day today. In the morning I entered my diaries onto the Internet. Now, my Lifestyle Notebook diary and my Internet diary are the same. After that I worked on my Trev Report and sent it off. In the afternoon I taught at Tani Elementary School. We had all 11 kids in the school in the class today. I love this school. Everyone is like a small family. This evening Signe and I will be playing Pickleball together in the Tani Elementary School Gym.


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Chicken burrito topped with melted cheese. Served with rice and beans, sour cream and a salad.
Shrimp, beef or chicken with salad. Topped with cheese sauce and rice.
Flour tortilla stuffed with beans, ground beef, rice and cheese topped with chili and cheese.
A large tortilla filled with seasoned ground beef or chicken, topped with lettuce, tomatoes, sour cream and cheese, served with rice and beans.
Flour tortilla rolled and stuffed with ground beef, topped with cheese, lettuce, tomatoes and sour cream.
One chicken or beef burrito topped with nacho cheese, with guacamole salad and sour cream.
Fried burrito (beef, chicken or pork) topped with nacho cheese sauce served with rice, beans and sour cream salad.
Three deep fried tacos filled with shredded chicken or beef topped with cheese dip or guacamole served with rice, beans, lettuce, tomatoes and sour cream.
Three chicken enchiladas served with special sauce, guacamole, lettuce and rice.
Tortilla chips cooked in green sauce topped with cheese, choice of chicken or beef, served with rice and beans.
Three chicken enchiladas topped with green sauce and cheese, serve with rice and beans.
Shrimp served with sauteed onions, bell peppers, rice and beans. Comes with flour tortillas and guacamole salad.
Seasoned shrimp served with rice, salad and baked potato.
Two catfish fillets and shrimp served with rice and guacamole salad.
Grilled shrimp with onions, mushrooms, olives, lettuce and avocado.
Shrimp quesadilla served with rice and guacamole salad.
A shrimp chimichanga served with rice and beans, guacamole salad.
Two catfish fillets served with fries and steamed vegetables.
Crispy flour tortilla with cheese sauce topped with seasoned shrimp, sauteed onions, bell peppers, guacamole, tomatoes, lettuce, cheese and sour cream.
Chicken breast topped with shrimp and cheese dip served with fries and salad.
Three rolled corn tortillas, filled with shrimp topped with sauce and melted cheese served with rice, beans and pico de gallo.
Succulent shrimp prepared in our special tomato sauce. Served with avocado, onions and cilantro.
2 pieces of grilled tilapia served with mixed vegetables and baked potato.
2 catfish fillets served with fries.
Crispy flour tortilla with seasoned beef or chicken fajitas, sauteed onions, bell peppers, guacamole, tomatoes, lettuce, cheese and sour cream, topped with cheese sauce.
One each, chicken and beef fajita burritos, topped with cheese sauce and sour cream salad.
Grilled chicken breast topped with onions, bell peppers, mushrooms and melted cheese, served with black beans and a salad.
Tostadas topped with beans, chicken or beef fajita strips, peppers, onions, lettuce, tomatoes and sour cream.
Three rolled corn tortillas stuffed with chicken or beef fajita meat, topped with sauce and melted cheese, served with rice, beans, lettuce and pico de gallo.
Flour tortilla rolled and stuffed with chicken or beef fajita strips with green sauce and white cheese served with rice and beans.
Marinated beef or chicken cooked with onions and pepper, with rice, beans, guacamole, sour cream, salad and tortillas.
Specially marinated beef, chicken and shrimp cooked with onions, peppers, served with rice, beans, sour cream, guacamole, salad and flour tortillas.
Sizzling platter of beef, chicken, shrimp and chorizo sauteed using a special recipe, with rice, beans, salad and tortilla.
Grilled marinated chicken breast topped with cheese, served with rice and beans.
10 oz. T-Bone steak served with salad, rice, beans and tortillas.
Ribeye steak served with hot sauce on top, rice, beans ands and tortillas.
2 thin grilled steaks served with peppers, onions, rice, beans, guacamole, sour cream lettuce and pico de gallo.
Marinated chicken served with rice, salad and a cheese enchilada.
Ribeye steak served with vegetables and baked potato.
Grilled flour tortilla filled with chicken or beef fajita meat, peppers, onions and tomatoes served with sour cream, salad and rice.
Tortilla filled with chicken or beef fajita meat, peppers, onions and tomatoes, with melted cheese and served with a taco.
3 tortillas filled with chicken or beef fajita meat and served with rice, beans, lettuce and pico de gallo.
Grilled chicken breast topped with onions, mushrooms and bacon, with sides of rice and beans.
Two poblano peppers stuffed with chicken or beef, served with rice, salad and sour cream.
Marinated meat including steak, a pork chop, a chicken breast and shrimp cooked with onions, peppers, chorizo, nopal and cheese.
Sizzling pineapple platter of beef, chicken, shrimp and chorizo sauteed using a special recipe. Served with rice, beans, salad and tortillas.
2 juicy pork chops grilled to perfection, served with salsa, rice and beans.
Ribeye, shrimp, french fries and rice.
10 oz. ribeye steak with shrimp on pita bread, comes with potatoes, grilled peppers and onions.
Shrimp, rice, vegetables and melted cheese.
Choose any two or three items. Served with rice and beans.
C. Vegetarian Fajitas, grilled onions, bell peppers and mushrooms with refried beans, rice, cheese, guacamole salad, topped with sour cream and tortillas.
G. Enchilada Ranchero, three cheese enchiladas topped with lettuce, tomatoes and sour cream.
H. El Jefe Special, bean burrito with rice and beans topped with lettuce, tomatoes and sour cream.
Lettuce, tomato, cucumber, olives, ham, boiled egg, cheese.
Grilled chicken, lettuce, tomato, cucumber, onion, olives, cheese.


In case you have this blog linked in your favorites, you may be missing the realignment I did on my site a couple of weeks ago. So, michaelmufasa.com now opens to my gallery page, not the old splash page that gave you a choice of "The Words" or "The Images".
Take a look at my gallery for the latest pieces I am working on as well as upcoming events.
Also, I am on Twitter. I prefer to just keep connected to favorite artists and organizations so I don't often tweet. But if I have something I think is worthwhile I will chirp it out.
As a volunteer for ONE.org, I was at the U2 concert at the University of Phoenix stadium. Awesome show.
The video screen redefined what a video screen is. 54 tons, expands to 14,000 sq feet. (oh, and I had good seats 🙂 "The inner circle" I believe they called it) Not too mention a brief stint on the outer ring of the stage.
But we were there to sign people up…and kiss 🙂 grueling work, but someone had to do it.
Hey, that's me in the background…but okay, you think the foreground is better huh 🙂 That's Destiny, my fellow photographer for the campaign.
and I met some new friends… like Kelly and Sarah….
But the goosebump moment for many of us clearly came when Bono dedicated the song "Walk On" to Aung San Su Kyi. The democratically elected leader of Burma has been held under house arrest by the military for almost 20 years. The show of support for her from the 60,000 in attendance was genuine, profound and moving.
…And that's us that Walked On the stage at the end of the song 🙂 Incredible feeling.
I joined "One.org" and "join(Red)" years ago. Founded by U2's front man, Bono, these truly grassroots organizations fight poverty and AIDS around the world.
At ONE, we achieve change through advocacy. We hold world leaders to account for the commitments they've made to fight extreme poverty, and we campaign for better development policies, more effective aid and trade reform. We also support greater democracy, accountability and transparency to ensure policies to beat poverty are implemented effectively.
Tomorrow (Tuesday 10/20), U2 brings their tour to Phoenix for a stadium show (opening act "Black-eyed Peas"- are you kidding me?!), and I am going to be there!
I was chosen (fooled 'em again?) to be a volunteer to work the ONE booth, signing up new members and talking about ONE.
This is going to be fun, informative, proactive, entertaining and maybe monumental.
The email I received from ONE says that after the show starts we will get to watch it and there will be "a special surprise". My guess is one or more of the following… A) good seats, B) backstage, C) meet Bono.
I'm fired up to advocate for a great organization!
Last night's "The Office" did a spoof on the original (and real) youtube viral wedding of "Jill & Kevin" (which you can see a few posts below this one). Yes it even worked IMO. The original was an amazing display play of love, joy, friendship, and promise.This one has all that plus the irony, slapstick, and personality that either make you cry or cringe.
Either way, it's a testament to the hopes, possibilities and love, that art could not imitate unless it were true….


This is a short photo tutorial showing the basics of how to crochet an infinity cowl. It is very easy, but it can be a bit confusing if you've never crocheted one before.
The hardest part about crocheting an infinity cowl is joining the chains properly and working the first few rounds. Once the first few rounds are done, you can sit back and relax as you finish the cowl.
For this tutorial I used my Cross-Over Long DC Cowl pattern, but the principle works basically the same for any cowl. I put this together because the instructions for the cowl are not clear enough. Let me know if you still run into problems or if you need additional pictures and I'll be happy to improve this tutorial.
Make your chains – as many as the pattern says. Notice the different sides of the chains. Here you see the right side, also referred to as the top of the chains. If you hold your work up you will notice that each chain creates a small "V".
This is the Right Side, also referred to as the "Top".
This is the wrong side, also referred to as the back side. What you see here are the back loops, also referred to as the back bumps.
Wrong Side – Referred to as the Back Loops or Back Bumps.
Place a stitch marker in the back bump of the last chain made. This helps to take the guesswork out later as it can be difficult to see where the last stitch needs to be made.
Place marker in back bump of last chain made.
Lay the chains flat on a table so that all the Vs are facing up. Then take the tail end and twist it so that the back bumps are sticking up. So on one side here you see the Vs and on the other you see the back bumps. This is referred to as half a twist.
Now join the chains with a slip stitch in the back bump of the first chain. This causes the half twist to remain.
The join is complete and you have half a twist in the chains.
You can use different markers if you like, but notice the tail-end sticking out at the bottom. For the second part of this round this tail end will face up as you begin to work into the free loops.
Single crochet in first chain and mark the first chain as well as the free loops below.
Continue to single crochet into all the back bumps. The first image below shows the black stitch marker in last back bump (chain) that needs to be crocheted into. The second image shows the round (or first half of the round) completed. You'll see the joining slip stitch in between the stitch markers – Do Not work into that stitch.
Also, notice how the tail end is now facing up. If it's not, untwist or twist your work so that it is while at the same time making sure that you have half a twist in the circle.
One stitch left in fist round (or first part of first rnd).
First round (first part of first rnd) completed.
Here is a more detailed view. For the second part of round 1, begin working into the first Free Loop where the stitch marker is.
Begin working into first free loop that's marked.
Below is a Re-Cap of the second part of Rnd 1 – I used single crochets, but the principle works the same with any other stitch the pattern calls for.
Working the 2nd Part of First Rnd.
For this tutorial I used my Cross-Over Long DC Cowl pattern, which requires you to skip the first free loop and begin to crochet into the second loop. For this pattern, work the first 3 stitches as instructed.
But for this pattern, you'll skip the first free loop.
Then come back and work the cross-over long dc into the skipped stitch (free loop).
Continue to crochet around working into all the free loops. In the image below I've crocheted around and am ready to begin crocheting into the very first single crochet that was made in step #5.
For some patterns you might need to make a join here. But for this pattern I crocheted directly into the first stitch. This way you can sit back and crochet mindlessly until the cowl is complete without having to join any rounds.
Although it seems like you crocheted two rounds, technically you only crocheted one because in an infinity cowl one round goes around both the top and bottom.
Continue to work around on both sides of the cowl until you have reached a desired height or as the pattern instructs.


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Below is the 2018 Grade 5 Math challenge questions.
____________ 1 What is the value of the largest digit in 5 804 263?
____________ 2 Fill in the blank: 5.361 = 5 + 0.3 + _____ + 0.001.
____________ 3 The tens digit of a three-digit number is one less than its ones digit. If the number is a palindrome (reads the same forward and backward), what is the smallest number that satisfies such condition?
____________ 4 Calculate 4 × 80 + 5(23 − 7).
____________ 5 Round the product of 1563 × 28 to the nearest hundred.
____________ 6 Which is bigger, or ?
____________ 7 What is the product of 2.47 and 1.9?
____________ 8 What is the greatest number which rounds to 50 400 when round to the nearest hundred?
____________ 9 If no digit is repeated, what is the difference between the largest and smallest whole numbers that can be formed using the digits 1, 3, 4, 6, 7?
____________ 10 What digit can be put in the blank so that the resulting number is divisible by 4: 10 6_____6?
____________ 11 List in increasing order the three lowest odd ϐive-digit numbers formed using all of the digits 0, 1, 3, 5, 6.
____________ 12 What is the greatest common factor of 108, 162, and 180?
____________ 13 If the GCF of 18 and 6795 is 9, what is their LCM?
____________ 14 The tens digit of a two-digit number is 2 more than its ones digit. If the number is divided by 10, the remainder is 6. What is the number?
____________ 15 If 123.4 × 6.017 = 742.4978, what is the value of 12.34 × 6017?
____________ 16 What number is halfway between 1.9 and 1.91?
____________ 18 Find three decimals on the number line between 3.2 and 3.3 so that the give decimals are equally spaced.
____________ 19 A five-digit number is divisible by 9. A new number is formed by interchanging the hundreds and ones digits. What is the remainder when this new number is divided by 9?
____________ 20 Four-sevenths of the class bring lunch to school. Twelve students do not bring their lunch to school. How many students are in the class?
____________ 24 Given a proper fraction, what will produce a bigger number: multiplying both numerator and denominator by 2, or adding 2 to both numerator and denominator?
____________ 25 Write down all common multiples of 9 and 12 which are less than 100.
____________ 26 Round 6% of Php 56.85 to the nearest centavo.
____________ 27 The number 138 is 60% of what number?
___________ 30 How many pieces of ribbon m long can be cut from a piece of ribbon 8 m long?
____________ 31 A movie lasting 2 hours and 43 minutes ended at 1:25 PM. At what time did the movie start?
____________ 32 A classroom has length 12 m and width 8 m. What is its perimeter in cm?
____________ 33 A blackboard has area 72 sq ft. What is its area in sq yd?
____________ 34 There are 240 Grade 6 students and 320 Grade 5 students in Bagong Pilipinas ElementarySchool. Give the ratio in lowest terms of the number of Grade 6 to Grade 5 students.
____________ 35 The ratio of the number of boys to the number of girls in the class is 7 ∶ 9. If there are 48students in the class, how many more girls are there than boys?
fraction of the class are 12 years old boys?
____________ 38 If the square in the grid has area 1 sq cm, what is the area of the shaded polygon?
____________ 39 Kyle's car uses 5 liters of gasoline per 150 km. How far can Kyle drive on 3.5 liters of gasoline?
____________ 40 The area of a rectangle is 50 sq cm. If both length and width are increased by 10%, what is the area of the resulting rectangle?
____________ 41 A t-shirt was marked Php 300.00. Roland bought it at 20% discount and sold it at 15% profit. How much did he sell the t-shirt for?
____________ 42 A ball bounces of the distance it has fallen. If a ball is dropped from a height of 18 ft, how high will it go on the third bounce?
____________ 43 The average of 30, 42, 𝑁, 50 is 38. What is the value of 𝑁?
____________ 44 August 12, 2018 can be written as 8-12-18. If the hyphens are ignored, it reads the same forward and backward. We call August 12, 2018 a palindromic date. How many palindromic dates are there in 2018?
____________ 46 How many two-digit numbers are divisible by 3?
____________ 47 What is the sum of all proper fractions with denominators less than 6?
____________ 48 Carlo was born in January. This year, Carlo's age is the same as the date of his birthday. If Carlo's age is divisible by 5 and the sum of the digits (more than one digit) of his age is aprime number, how old could Carlo be?
____________ 50 A number 𝑁 is divisible by 10 but not by 25. If 𝑁 has three digits and has only two prime factors, what is the highest possible value of 𝑁?
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The track opened on 18th June 1980 and the surface was Tartan 3M. The infield was an Astroturf hockey/football pitch which means that throwing events were not possible inside the track but the full range of jumps were available. There was an Athletics Throwing Area next to the track with a synthetic JT runway but no other circles although there was a DT/HT cage with one circle at one time. The track was used by Herne Hill Harriers until 1985 when Tooting Bec became synthetic. Due to a problem with the irrigation from the Astroturf, the track was a bit bumpy in parts and, even by 2000, meetings had not been held here for many years. In 2015, the track still exists but is now totally derelict.