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Petition launched calling for all vaccinated British expats to be allowed to visit the UK without quarantining
There are still no clear guidelines for British nationals
2021-07-13 Palma	By Majorca Daily Bulletin reporter
The UK government is looking at the situation regarding British expatriates travelling to the UK.
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The British government's double-jab travel scheme has been welcomed by millions of Britons wanting to get away this summer and the outbound tourist industry, but the UK domestic travel sector is not that impressed as is calling for more government help while British expatriates feel they have been overlooked as well.
Conservative MP, Sir Roger Gale, in a letter to the Bulletin yesterday, stated that the UK government is looking at the situation regarding British expatriates travelling to the UK, but as yet nothing has changed, despite Boris Johnson's announcement on Monday night that the so-called Freedom Day will go ahead as planned on July 19.
Sir Roger wrote "As I understand it at present all EU residents will still be required to quarantine. However, following the Grant Shapps statement I raised this issue on the floor of the House. Negotiations regarding the acceptance of the EU "Vaccine Passport" are in hand and I am hopeful that there may be a further statement before the start of the Summer recess.
"The sticking point may be that the EU will be required to accept all WHO approved vaccines while some countries – notably France – are not inclined to accept the Astra Zeneca vaccine manufactured in India. Let us hope that Common Sense will prevail!"
In the meantime, a petition has been set up on the parliamentary website calling on the British government to allow all vaccinated British Expatriates to visit the United Kingdom without quarantining.
The petition states that there are an estimated 5-6 million British Nationals living abroad as expatriates.
"Many countries with large British expatriate populations appear on the red travel list from 17 May.
"We propose the Government allow all vaccinated British expats to return home quarantine-free to visit their families," reads the petition.
"The Transport Secretary recently outlined the traffic light system for international travel from 17 May, which is silent on British expats living overseas.
"Many expats live in countries with higher vaccination and lower virus rates than the UK, such as the UAE.
"Regardless of vaccination status, we face prohibitively lengthy and expensive hotel quarantine if we return home. Many of us have not seen family since before the pandemic and are being prevented from doing so by quarantine restrictions," the petition states.
Nearly 40,000 people have signed the digital petition - with 100,000 signatures the petition will be considered for debate in Parliament.
There are concerns that Spain, including the Balearics, could be demoted to Amber on the UK's travel traffic light system tomorrow due to the recent spike in Covid cases across the country, but for outbound UK travellers, the double-jab scheme will still mean that the best part of 35 million British residents will be able to travel, quarantine free on their return.
But, there are still no clear guidelines for British nationals, many of which have also been fully vaccinated, travelling to the United Kingdom.
To sign the petition go to: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/585438?fbclid=IwAR3YYKtoZGfV0bXZSDbmSdQeUO1_6nhTnMWqmDZT1Y94f-XALxydibxcZYI
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Major stretch of Central Corridor in St. Paul resumes normal car traffic
After months of work, a three-mile stretch of University Avenue in St. Paul will reopen this week. On Wednesday, University Avenue will transition back into two lanes in both directions.
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St. Paul businesses file lawsuit, ask for Central Corridor project to be stopped
The University Avenue Betterment Association says the city isn't doing enough to help them with their struggling businesses -- trapped in the middle of the construction. St. Paul officials say they'll review their programs to help those merchants next month.
Central corridor rail project 50 percent complete
A project that has delivered both promise and pain to parts of St. Paul has reached the halfway point. Central Corridor Light Rail Transit (LRT) officials say the 11-mile project that will link Minneapolis and St. Paul via Washington and University avenues is 50 percent complete and on schedule to be 75 percent completed by year's end. Service is slated to begin in 2014.
I-94 traffic switch to cause traffic headaches in Twin Cities
Transportation officials will shift traffic Tuesday night into Wednesday morning as the center lanes on that segment of interstate reopen and the outside lane closes.
Section of University Avenue will reopen by deadline
Three miles of University Avenue in St. Paul have been partially closed while construction continues on the Central Corridor light-rail transit project. Officials say the section will reopen Wednesday, meeting a Nov. 30 deadline.
St. Paul officials: Building permits up because of Central Corridor light-rail
Artists in Central Corridor fear being priced out
Artists up and down the Central Corridor fear their thriving community could be displaced as landlords raise rents or redevelop as the light-rail train line dramatically alters the area. But city officials say the train could bring a much-needed shot of energy to University Avenue and benefit artists by bringing them more customers.
Central Corridor LRT train makes first stop in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Council presented Wednesday the new light rail train that will travel the Central Corridor Light Rail Transit line, or the "Green Line," in 2014. Although no official opening date has been set, there are hopes of beginning service by July 15, 2014 for the MLB All Star Game at Target Field.
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"Our focus now is on infrastructure; roads, rail, power, and others," said the President who received the outgoing British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Paul Arkwright, in a farewell audience at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.
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It worked before, at The 1029, why not go for deuce?
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Well, hoist a Greenie high, chums! This is NOT a story about another dive bar being redeveloped into condos. It's a story about how a tiny kitchen might keep a dive bar going for another 60 years. OK we'll take 20, we'll need a nap after all those Greenies.
Nick O'Leary and Josh Thoma with their Greenies.
Josh Thoma and Nick O'Leary have signed on to take over the kitchen of iconic Nordeast watering hole Tony Jaros River Garden: Home of the Greenie. Longtime chef Bitsy Jaros has retired after 22 years of cooking at the bar, which sits across from Betty Dangers on Marshall, and the owners were looking for someone to run the small kitchen. They'd heard of what Thoma did at The 1029 Bar by running his Smack Shack concept from that bar's kitchen starting in 2010, so after a conversation and a handshake, the deal was done.
Thoma and O'Leary will officially launch Burger Dive at Tony Jaros today at 5pm. Pretty easy folks: it's burgers, at a dive bar. "We wanted to keep it simple, but really good. We cleaned out the kitchen and brought in some new equipment that included a new 4ft. griddle, so we're ready to smash some patties," Thoma told me. If you haven't been, Jaros is a classic corner bar, with one long 50 seat room anchored by a worn wooden center bar, which holds 31 of those seats. And Jaros bar is a split level: the coveted higher seats on the North side usually fill with regulars first. Opened in 1960 by local basketball hero Tony Jaros, the bar is still run by his kids.
O'Leary worked a few shifts with Bitsy to get the feel for the space, and while they've created a whole new menu, they know they have some regulars to keep happy, and will thusly do their best with the much-loved pork tenderloin sandwich (which, on their menu, is named Bitsy). Other than that, it's a short menu of griddled burgers that will be served in baskets from 11am to midnight, six days a week (the bar is closed on Sundays). "We'll do 6-8 burgers, we're going to grind the meat here, it's a special blend with a little bit of butter in there," O'Leary told me. "We'll do some funky cool stuff, we'll get an Impossible burger in there, but really we're planning to stick to the classics. Smash burger style, 4 oz patties, American cheese, pickles in there, and a nice gooey little bun that brings the meat and cheese to your face." That's all it has to do. There's also bar food: a pierogi, fresh pretzels, curds, and a couple of sandwiches, maybe a blue plate special. But hey, that kitchen is small.
It's really important to these guys to honor the bar, they know it's a place that means something to the neighborhood. "Look, this is just me and Nick," Thoma said, "we're the ones who will be working here every day. If Nick's not here, I will be making the burgers." The kitchen is a separate business from the bar business, so when you sit down, you'll order your Greenie from the bartender and if you want food, they'll buzz the kitchen and let them know to come out and take your order. It will be two tabs and the whole joint runs on cash only, be aware (there is an ATM on site).
Of course after a few Greenies, one starts to believe that, like Smack Shack, this might be a concept that has legs. Thoma and O'Leary (and third partner Kevin Fitzgerald) don't have another site planned, per se, but no one is counting it out.
Wait, you don't know what a Greenie is? Guess you'll have to go experience the limey punch in the face on your own, with a burger. Bring cash. And a driver.
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Amplitudes, Basic, Physics
Scattering Without Scale, Or The S-Matrix In N=4
April 25, 2014 edwardfhughes	1 Comment
My research focuses on an unrealistic theory called massless super Yang-Mills (SYM). This sounds pretty pointless, at least at first. But actually this model shares many features with more complete accounts of reality. So it's not all pie in the sky.
The reason I look at SYM is because it contains lots of symmetry. This simplifies matters a lot. Studying SYM is like going to an adventure playground – you can still have great fun climbing and jumping, but it's a lot safer than roaming out into a nearby forest.
Famously SYM has a conformal symmetry. Roughly speaking, this means that the theory looks the same at every length scale. (Whether conformal symmetry is equivalent to scale invariance is a hot topic, in fact)! Put another way, SYM has no real notion of length. I told you it was unrealistic.
This is a bit unfortunate for me, because I'd like to use SYM to think about particle scattering. To understand the problem, you need to know what I want to calculate. The official name for this quantity is the S-matrix.
The jargon is quite straightforward. "S" just stands for scattering. The "matrix" part tells you that this quantity encodes many possible scattering outcomes. To get an S-matrix, you have to assume you scatter particles from far away. That's certainly the case in big particle accelerators – the LHC is huge compared to a proton!
But remember I said that SYM doesn't have a length scale. So really you can't get an S-matrix. And without an S-matrix, you can't say anything about particle scattering. Things aren't looking good.
Fortunately all is not lost. You can try to define an S-matrix using the usual techniques that worked in normal theories. All the calculations go through fine, unless there are any low energy particles around. Any of these so-called soft particles will cause your S-matrix to blow up to infinity!
But hey, we should expect our S-matrix to be badly behaved. After all, we've chosen a theory without a sense of scale! These irritating infinities go by the name of infrared divergences. Thankfully there's a systematic way of eliminating them.
Remember that I said our SYM theory is massless. All the particles are like photons, constantly whizzing about that the speed of light. If you were a photon, life would be very dull. That's because you'd move so fast through space you couldn't move through time. This means that essentially our massless particles have no way of knowing about distances.
Viewed from this perspective it's intuitive that this lack of mass yields the conformal symmetry. We can remove the troublesome divergences by destroying the conformal symmetry. We do this in a controlled way by giving some particles a small mass.
Technically our theory is now called Coulomb branch SYM. Who's Coulomb, I hear you cry? He's the bloke who developed electrostatics 250 years ago. And why's he cropped up now? Because when we dispense with conformal symmetry, we're left with some symmetries that match those of electromagnetism.
In Coulomb branch SYM it's perfectly fine to define an S-matrix! You get sensible answers from all your calculations. Now imagine we try to recover our original theory by decreasing all masses to zero. Looking closely at the S-matrix, we see it split into two pieces – finite and infinite. Just ignore the infinite bit, and you've managed to extract useful scattering data for the original conformal theory!
You might think I'm a bit blasé in throwing away these divergences. But this is actually well-motivated physically. The reason is that such infinities cancel in any measurable quantity. You could say that they only appear in the first place because you're doing the wrong sum!
This perspective has been formalized for the realistic theories as the KLN theorem. It may even be possible to get a rigorous version for our beloved massless SYM.
So next time somebody tells you that you can't do scattering in a conformal theory, you can explain why they're wrong! Okay, I grant you, that's an unlikely pub conversation. But stranger things have happened.
And if you're planning to grab a pint soon, make it a scientific one!
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Basic, Math, Quantum Field Theory
February 7, 2014 edwardfhughes	1 Comment
It's been a while since I last posted – research life has become rather hectic! This week has been one of firsts. I've given my first PhD talk (on twistors), marked my first set of undergrad work (on QED) and taught my first class (on rotating frames). Meanwhile, I've been trying to fathom the mysterious amplituhedron that's got many physicists excited. I hope you'll forgive my extended blog absence.
To tide you over until the next full article, take a look at our new journal club website. The PhD students at CRST get together once a week to discuss recent advances or fundamental principles. It's a great opportunity for us to keep up to date with work in diverse areas of theory. We've decided to make resources from our meetings publicly available.
Why? I hear you ask. I believe that science is best done openly. A quick browse of our website gives the layman a taste of what researchers get up to day to day. Moreover our compilation of topics, ideas and resources may be thought-provoking for other students. Keeping an online record of our meetings is the best way to benefit others outside the confines of an individual institution.
I promise I'll be back this weekend with another popsci article. I'll talk about five big mathematical ideas in modern physics and explain why they're cool!
Finally, a shout out to my colleague Brenda Penante who has a paper out on the arXiv today. The paper focusses on an interesting generalization of scattering amplitudes, known as form factors. These can be used for experimental approximation but also give a deep insight into the structure of QFT.
The paper today pushes back the boundaries of our knowledge about form factors. As we chip away at the coal face of QFT, who knows what jewels we might find?
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Non-Perturbative QFT: A Loophole?
November 13, 2013 edwardfhughes	Leave a comment
I've been musing on yesterday's post, and in particular a potential loophole in my argument. Recall that the whole shebang hinges on the fact that is smooth but not analytic. We were interpreting as the coupling constant in some theory, say QED. But hang about, surely we could just do a rescaling to remove this behaviour? After all the theory is invariant classically under such a transformation.
But it turns out that this kind of rescaling is anomalous in (most) quantum field theories. Recall that renormalization endows quantum field theories with a function, which determines the evolution of coupling constants as energy changes. The rescaling will only remain a symmetry if is globally zero. Otherwise the rescaling only superficially eliminates the non-perturbative effect – it will reappear at different energies!
This raises a natural question: can you have instantons in finite quantum field theories? By definition these have function zero. Naively we might expect scale invariance to kill non-perturbative physics. A popular finite theory is SYM, which crops up in AdS/CFT. A quick google suggests that my naive thinking is wrong. There are plenty of papers on instantons in this theory!
There must be a still deeper level to non-perturbative understanding. Sadly most physics papers gloss over the details. Let's keep half an eye out for an explanation!
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Non-Perturbative Effects in Quantum Field Theory
In elementary QFT we only really know how to solve free theories. These require quantizing infinitely many harmonic oscillators, which is an easy problem. But the real world is described by interacting theories with Lagrangians like
in which the fields are mixed up together. The standard way of dealing with these is to write them as
and then split the path integral as
The first factor explicitly yields free theory propagators. The second factor may now be expanded as a Taylor series in some coupling constant . Often this is trivial since appears in precisely to first order. For example in QED we have
with being the electric charge. This means that the perturbation expansion is exactly the usual exponential series.
At present it looks like perturbation theory must capture all information in a QFT, provided you sum up all the terms. However, we've missed a crucial mathematical point. We'll view the scattering amplitude for a given process as a complex-valued function of a real coupling ; that is to say . We construct this function in (somewhat) trivial way from smooth functions, so it should be smooth.
However, smoothness does not guarantee analyticity! Put another way, we cannot be sure that the Taylor series for will converge for . Even if it does, it's not guaranteed to converge to the function itself. This means that there are effects that lie outside the realm of perturbation theory, even if you could sum every term.
Let's take an example. Suppose for instance that has a dependence. If you're balking at this "unphysical" choice, then rest assured that such Lagrangians do crop up. Now try to compute the Taylor expansion around for . A little thought shows that this is identically zero.
Such non-perturbative effects require new approaches. One fruitful method involves solving the full theory classically then then considering quantum perturbations around such solutions. For Yang-Mills theories in particular this yields the notion of an instanton.
Finally let's go back to QED and work out whether we should see non-perturbative effects there. Although not immediately as obvious as the simple example, one can argue that the perturbation series has radius of convergence. We follow Dyson and observe that if the radius of convergence were not zero, we'd be able to "reverse" the electric field by flipping the sign of . This would render the vacuum unstable against decays into electrons and positrons, since these would repel rather than annihilate within a "Heisenberg allowed" time period. To rule out this option, we must take formally.
This argument is not mathematically rigorous, and I don't know whether one can make it so. Please comment if you know! Thankfully there's a more modern perspective that sheds new light. We can view the sickness in QED in the context of Wilsonian renormalization. In particular, the theory has no well-defined high energy limit, as the coupling constants flow to infinite values at finite energy. This Landau pole behaviour is perhaps evidence that non-perturbative effects rule high energy QED. Again, I don't whether this argument can be made watertight, so please take a rain-cheque on that one!
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PORKY HEFER: HEART OF LIGHTNESS
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R & Company presents Porky Hefer's solo exhibition, Heart of Lightness opening at the gallery on January 17th. This is Porky's first solo show at the gallery and a presentation of all new work. An opening reception will be held on January 17th from 6-8pm in which the artist will be present.
The title of the exhibition tackles the troubling connotations and perceptions addressed by Joseph Conrad's classic, Heart of Darkness. Porky Hefer, who is from and lives in Cape Town, South Africa, is perturbed by the way colonialism perpetuated stereotypes that still exist today, which further preserve the overly broad classifications of Africa. This inspired Hefer to tackle the damaging role of largely unquestioned behaviors and perceptions. The exhibition is an exploration of perception and instinct, encouraging the viewer to go back to what is human, what is natural and what is playful.
All the pieces in the exhibition are handmade and draw from traditional South African craft materials and processes. Hefer conceptualizes his work instinctively rather than adhering to a set of learned design practices. His belief that humanity has become severely removed from its natural instincts and passive to what motivates it on a survival level, prompts him to invite his audience to engage with the exhibition instinctively. Porky Hefer states, "Each piece is meant to be inhabited like a hermit inhabits shells." He encourages visitors to curl their bodies into the playful, human-scaled shells and nests, or to drape themselves languidly over the leopard's branch.
By presenting his show, entirely crafted by hand in South Africa, in a New York gallery context, Hefer embraces a strong entrepreneurial spirit and makes a bold statement about eschewing what he terms 'the mothership' global economy and expectations for export. Using levity as his platform, Hefer challenges us to recreate our responses, preconceptions and limitations. The designer offers an opportunity to reconnect the senses, embrace instinctual reactions and to welcome childlike responses to the world.
Zesty Meyers, states – " Porky creates immersive environments that allow people to escape into a different world. They're beautifully made and seemingly weightless objects that make people thinking about installation, performance and design in a new way." Heart of Lightness also challenges us to question what makes us human and what connects us to the animal kingdom. By experiencing the feeling of being with a shell, or a nest, Hefer hopes to urge us to interrogate why we are so removed from our natural environment.


August 5th marks the 30th anniversary of Lionel Richie's album "Dancing On the Ceiling" and to celebrate here's a nostalgia overload of 80 movie dance scenes from the 80's getting down. This is my 6th video in an ongoing series of movie dance tributes.
This makes me really freaked out about my passwords all over the internet. Time to look through them all to ensure that they are LONG and WACKY. You should too. No, really, you should.


Fordham GSE graduated a dedicated class of teachers, educational leaders, counselors, and psychologists at the May 19th commencement ceremony. The class of 2017 is made up of 202 students who were awarded 165 master's degrees, 35 doctoral degrees, and 22 advanced certificates across 32 programs and all three divisions.
"Where we see problems, it is best to see opportunities. People need experiences of salvation because we live in a turbulent world," said his Eminence Óscar Andrés Cardinal Rodríguez Maradiaga, S.D.B., archbishop of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, delivering the keynote address to an estimated crowd of 20,000 gathered at the Rose Hill campus. Read more about the University's 172nd commencement.
This year marked the graduation of the first cohort of students resulting from GSE's partnership with the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Four instructors at the academy, who are active military, have earned a Master of Science in Education in the area of Curriculum and Teaching.


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{{Document |image=They_Lied.jpg |image_width=300px |publication_date=18 April 2017 |type=Article |source_name=LIBERTY BLITZKRIEG |source_URL=https://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2017/04/18/the-trump-administrations-syria-gas-attack-narrative-continues-to-unravel/ |authors=Michael Krieger |subjects=H. R. McMaster, Khan Sheikhoun, Syrian Chemical Weapons Attack, Theodore Postol, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Colin Powell, John Kerry, Nikki Haley, Bashar al Assad, Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Jean-Yves Le Drian |description=[[United States]] Government: "They Lied About [[Iraq]]; They Lied About [[Libya]]; They're Lying About [[Syria]]." }} Pretty much every official statement emanating from the U.S. government these days is a deception, fabrication, or outright lie. I understand that this is a hard thing for a U.S. citizen to admit, but as [[James Baldwin]] so accurately stated: :"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." So let's go ahead and face the facts. Governments lie. Governments have always lied. Extremely corrupt, imperial governments overseeing societies in deep economic and cultural decline lie even more. This isn't conspiracy theory, it's what obviously happens when you combine tremendous power with human nature. Although I've been questioning the [[Donald Trump|Trump administration]]'s fairytale narrative about the recent [[Syria]] gas attack from day one, I don't have the expertise to sufficiently examine the evidence and put some meat on the bones. In contrast, Professor Emeritus of Science, Technology, and National Security Policy at MIT, [[Theodore A. Postol]] does, and he's published a series of reports over the past week calling out what he believes is a deliberate deception by members of the Trump team. As ''[[Yahoo!]]'' reported: A leading weapons academic has claimed that the [[Khan Sheikhoun]] nerve agent attack in Syria was staged, raising questions about who was responsible. [[Theodore Postol]], a professor emeritus at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] (MIT), issued a series of three reports in response to the White House's finding that Syrian President [[Bashar al-Assad]] perpetrated the attack on 4 April. He concluded that the US government's report does not provide any "concrete" evidence that Assad was responsible, adding it was more likely that the attack was perpetrated by players on the ground. Postol said: :"I have reviewed the [White House's] document carefully, and I believe it can be shown, without doubt, that the document does not provide any evidence whatsoever that the US government has concrete knowledge that the government of Syria was the source of the chemical attack in Khan Sheikhoun, Syria at roughly 6am to 7am on 4 April, 2017. :"In fact, a main piece of evidence that is cited in the document point to an attack that was executed by individuals on the ground, not from an aircraft, on the morning of 4 April. :"This conclusion is based on an assumption made by the White House when it cited the source of the sarin release and the photographs of that source. My own assessment is that the source was very likely tampered with or staged, so no serious conclusion could be made from the photographs cited by the White House." The image Postol refers to is that of a crater containing a shell inside, which is said to have contained the sarin gas. His analysis of the shell suggests that it could not have been dropped from an airplane as the damage of the casing is inconsistent from an aerial explosion. Instead, Postol said it was more likely that an explosive charge was laid upon the shell containing sarin, before being detonated. :"The explosive acted on the pipe as a blunt crushing mallet," Postol said. "It drove the pipe into the ground while at the same time creating the crater." The implication of Postol's analysis is that it was carried out by anti-government insurgents as Khan Sheikhoun is in militant-controlled territory of Syria. Postol, formerly a scientific advisor at the Department of Defense (DoD), has previously outlined similar inconsistencies with US intelligence reports. Following the 2013 chemical weapons attack in eastern Ghouta, Postol again said the evidence did not suggest Assad was responsible – a finding that was later corroborated by the [[United Nations]]. In his latest reports, Postol hit out at what he says is a "politicisation" of intelligence findings. Postol said: :"No competent analyst would miss the fact that the alleged sarin canister was forcefully crushed from above, rather than exploded by a munition within it. :"All of these highly amateurish mistakes indicate that this White House report, like the earlier Obama White House Report [from Ghouta in 2013], was not properly vetted by the intelligence community as claimed. :"I have worked with the intelligence community in the past, and I have grave concerns about the politicisation of intelligence that seems to be occurring with more frequency in recent times – but I know that the intelligence community has highly capable analysts in it. :"And if those analysts were properly consulted about the claims in the White House document they would have not approved the document going forward." That's just the tip of the iceberg. Take a look at the "Summary and Conclusions" section from his third report courtesy of [[Naked Capitalism]]: '''Summary and Conclusions''' It is now clear from video evidence that the WHR (White House Intelligence Report) was fabricated without input from the professional intelligence community. The press reported on April 4 that a nerve agent attack had occurred in [[Khan Shaykhun]], Syria during the early morning hours locally on that day. On April 7, The [[United States]] carried out a cruise missile attack on Syria ordered by President Trump. It now appears that the president ordered this cruise missile attack without any valid intelligence to support it . In order to cover up the lack of intelligence to supporting the president's action, the [[National Security Council]] produced a fraudulent intelligence report on April 11 four days later. The individual responsible for this report was Lieutenant General [[H. R. McMaster]], the [[National Security Advisor]]. The McMaster report is completely undermined by a significant body of video evidence taken after the alleged sarin attack and before the US cruise missile attack that unambiguously shows the claims in the WHR could not possibly be true. This cannot be explained as a simple error. The [[National Security Council]] Intelligence Report clearly refers to evidence that it claims was obtained from commercial and open sources shortly after the alleged nerve agent attack (on April 5 and April 6). If such a collection of commercial evidence was done, it would have surely found the videos contained herein. This unambiguously indicates a dedicated attempt to manufacture a false claim that intelligence actually supported the president's decision to attack Syria, and of far more importance, to accuse [[Russia]] of being either complicit or a participant in an alleged atrocity. The attack on the Syrian government threatened to undermine the relationship between Russia and the United States. Cooperation between Russia and the United States is critical to the defeat of the [[Islamic State]]. In addition, the false accusation that Russia knowingly engaged in an atrocity raises the most serious questions about a willful attempt to do damage relations with Russia for domestic political purposes. We repeat here a quote from the WHR: An open source video also shows where we believe the chemical munition landed — not on a facility filled with weapons, but in the middle of a street in the northern section of Khan Shaykhun. Commercial satellite imagery of that site from April 6, after the allegation, shows a crater in the road that corresponds to the open source video. The data provided in these videos make it clear that the WHR made no good-faith attempt to collect data that could have supported its "confident assessment." that the Syrian government executed a sarin attack as indicated by the location and characteristics of the crater. This very disturbing event is not a unique situation. President [[George W. Bush]] argued that he was misinformed about unambiguous evidence that Iraq was hiding a substantial store of weapons of mass destruction. This false intelligence led to a US attack on Iraq that started a process that ultimately led to the political disintegration in the Middle East, which through a series of unpredicted events then led to the rise of the Islamic State. On August 30, 2013, the White House produced a similarly false report about the nerve agent attack on August 21, 2013 in Damascus. This report also contained numerous intelligence claims that could not be true. An interview with [[President Obama]] published in ''The Atlantic'' in April 2016 indicates that Obama was initially told that there was solid intelligence that the Syrian government was responsible for the nerve agent attack of August 21, 2013 in Ghouta, Syria. Obama reported that he was later told that the intelligence was not solid by the then Director of National Intelligence, [[James Clapper]]. Equally serious questions are raised about the abuse of intelligence findings by the incident in 2013. Questions that have not been answered about that incident is how the White House produced a false intelligence report with false claims that could obviously be identified by experts outside the White House and without access to classified information. There also needs to be an explanation of why this 2013 false report was not corrected. Secretary of State [[John Kerry]] emphatically testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee repeating information in this so-called un-equivocating report. On August 30, 2013 Secretary of State Kerry made the following statement from the Treaty Room in the State Department: Our intelligence community has carefully reviewed and re-reviewed information regarding this ''attack'', and I will tell you it has done so more than mindful of the Iraq experience. We will not repeat that moment. Accordingly, we have taken unprecedented steps to declassify and make facts available to people who can judge for themselves. It is now obvious that this incident produced by the WHR, while just as serious in terms of the dangers it created for US security, was a clumsy and outright fabrication of a report that was certainly not supported by the intelligence community. In this case, the president, supported by his staff, made a decision to launch 59 cruise missiles at a Syrian air base. This action was accompanied by serious risks of creating a confrontation with Russia, and also undermining cooperative efforts to win the war against the Islamic State. I therefore conclude that there needs to be a comprehensive investigation of these events that have either misled people in the White House, or worse yet, been perpetrated by people to protect themselves from domestic political criticisms for uninformed and ill-considered actions. Sincerely yours, Theodore A. Postol Professor Emeritus of Science, Technology, and National Security Policy Massachusetts Institute of Technology Email: postol@mit.edu The U.S. government is completely rogue and determined to drive the U.S. into an unwinnable war based on false pretenses, which doesn't serve the national interest. These lunatics must be stopped. For related articles see: [https://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2017/04/17/u-s-propaganda-is-embarrassingly-bad-and-why-it-matters/ U.S. Propaganda is Embarrassingly Bad (and Why it Matters)] [https://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2017/04/08/disturbed-intelligence-analysts-express-concern-over-trumps-wag-the-dog-syria-moment/ Disturbed Intelligence Analysts Express Concern Over Trump's 'Wag the Dog' Syria Moment] [https://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2017/04/07/prepare-for-impact-this-is-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-u-s-empire/ Prepare for Impact – This is the Beginning of the End for U.S. Empire] [https://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2017/04/06/goldman-sachs-and-the-deep-state-have-taken-over-the-trump-administration/ Goldman Sachs and the Deep State Have Taken Over the Trump Administration]
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Why so hell-bent?
by Lawrence Samuels
George Riley and his crew of anti-water advocates say they want to save money for ratepayers by seizing control of Cal Am and turning it into a government agency.Well, the opposite will happen if such a measure passes. Since Cal Am has no intention of selling, ratepayers will have to pay attorney's fees to prevent the takeover. On the other side, taxpayers will pay attorney fees to a government agency to pursue the eminent domain procedures against Cal Am.
Most citizens will pay for both attorneys, on both sides. The court battle could last for a decade, costing tens of millions of dollars or more.
Why spend so much money to exchange one monopoly with another? If Cal Am had been a government entity, ratepayers would still have to pay higher water rates due to the State of California's order to sell less water. Moreover, there would still be a huge cost of building the desal plant.
Why is Riley so hell-bent on taking over companies by force, like the leaders of Italy and Germany in the 1930s and 1940s? Why would anyone want to emulate such horrendous ideologies? Whatever the motive, Riley's actions will be extremely expensive.
(Letter to editor published in the Carmel Pine Cone concerning a 2018 ballot measure to eminent domain the local water company.)
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Lawrence Samuels: Sailing into uncharted fascist waters?
POSTED: 04/29/2017 Monterey Herald
By Lawrence Samuels, Guest commentary
In response to the Herald's reflections on the denial of free speech at UC Berkeley ("The battle over free speech on campus"), the question that begs to be asked is whether the political left has sailed into uncharted "fascist" waters. Are they intolerant, closed minded and violent? After all, the use of violence to silence opposition was a trait of the squadristi thugs in fascist Italy and the brownshirts in National Socialist Germany. But many prominent historians would take a different opinion, arguing that the extreme, modern left has always exhibited these reprehensible traits, essentially since they were the ardent midwife at fascism's birth.
Historically, the "ideology of fascism," which first surfaced in France, was according to one of the world's leading experts on fascism, Israeli historian Zeev Sternhell, "a revision of Marxism" that was assisted by the pro-violence teachings of Georges Sorels' "revolutionary syndicalism." A. James Gregor from UC Berkeley concurs, professing that "Fascism's most direct ideological inspiration came from"… "Italy's most radical 'subversives' — the Marxists of revolutionary syndicalism."
Even Hitler was heavily influenced by such collective ideology, who was elected Deputy Battalion Representative of the Bavarian Soviet Republic in 1918. Here, he followed the Jewish Marxist reformer Kurt Eisner, who was eventually assassinated. In solidarity, Hitler attended Eisner's funeral, where photographs showed him wearing a black armband on one arm and the red communist brassard on the other.
So, what is the actual meaning behind the left and right? Historically, the political spectrum first appeared during the French Revolution. The original leaders of the French Revolution were the bourgeoisie, capitalists, merchants and artisans who first attacked tax collectors before assailing the Bastille in 1789. According to their seating arrangement, the left wing was the classical liberals, which included Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson under the "Girondins" faction of the Jacobin Club. They lowered taxes, limited government, supported private property rights and emancipated the Jews. The right side represented the authoritarians and monarchy.
But by 1793, the revolution was hijacked by Robespierre's social revolutionaries (Montagnards faction) who sought greater power for government to impose social changes. On Oct. 31, 1793, 22 free-market French Deputies were charged with treason and guillotined, ushering in the Reign of Terror, where even Thomas Paine was arrested, jailed and almost guillotined.
So, what to make of all of this? It appears that the left is sometimes the right and the right is sometimes the left. It behooves political writers to first define ideologies before quickly slapping them with inaccurate left or right labels. Maybe this is why American is so divided today. Maybe nobody understands the nuances of the political spectrum and the ideologies that inhabit them.
Lawrence Samuels is a local author with a forthcoming book on the political spectrum.
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I've noticed my brakes are binding following being put away wet, after riding. I only notice this when pushing it around, seems fine after riding and putting the bike to bed. Just when left a few days, that's when the brakes/pads drag. 3 year old 1200x, pads 25% worn and not sure if they are standard Honda or high metal sintered jobs.
Anyone else had this effect ?
Re: Brakes binding after parking.
Good idea and that does make sense . I'm off to southern Ireland in two weeks, unless Brexit causes problems. Hence my concerns over brakes.
Longdude, whereabouts in Ireland are you off to.
BTW I always dry my bike with a pet dryer after riding it in the rain to stop things like binding etc.
Heading from Holyhead to Dublin, then north to Strangford, County Down. My bro has lived there 30 years. It's a great ride for me. Boring motorway on the way up (faster after working for the day), overnight stop in Colwyn Bay and ferry early next day. Then back home through Snowdonia national park and then the Wye valley to Chepstow. On to Devon after that.
First long ride on my relatively new to me, CT DCT. Can't wait.


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Woman with dementia dumped outside California nursing home, family says
January 31, 2019 / 12:56 PM / CBS News
Hospital accused of "dumping" elderly woman
Hospital accused of "dumping" elderly woman 02:07
A California woman says a hospital in Long Beach placed her mother, who has Alzheimer's disease, in a taxi and then dumped her in the middle of the night outside the memory-care facility where she lives. Costanza Zerbi says Alzheimer's has left her mother with the cognitive abilities of a small child and she cannot be left alone. So she says seeing security footage of 84-year-old Savina Zerbi trying to get into her care facility is heartbreaking.
"It's really sad. I mean, this is my mom who a year ago was driving," Zerbi told CBS Los Angeles. She said, "It's like taking a child and dumping him on the street in the middle of the night. It's insane. It's criminal."
The hospital, College Medical Center of Long Beach, issued a statement saying Savina Zerbi insisted on being taken home and that it complied with all regulations concerning discharge of the patient.
Security footage shows Savina attempting to open the front door to the Regency Palms memory-care home at 2:17 a.m. on Jan. 13. She is also seen pacing an alley and repeatedly returning to the door before gaining entry, though it is uncertain how she eventually got in.
Surveillance footage shows 84-year-old Savina Zerbi outside her nursing home in the middle of the night in Long Beach, Calif. via KCBS
Costanza Zerbi said the hospital knew her mother had Alzheimer's disease and was supposed to alert her when she was discharged. She says her mother was extremely agitated the night she arrived to the hospital. After spending four hours in the emergency room she was told Savina would be admitted. The daughter then went home and hours later received a call from Regency Palms that her mom was back.
"My mom is lucky that she didn't wander off or get kidnapped or get hurt," she said.
According to state records, regulators that oversee hospitals throughout the state found five deficiencies last year at College Medical Center. For a hospital of its size – 121 beds – the average deficiencies found in one year is no more than two, CBS LA reports. State officials say there is an active investigation into what happened.
Costanza Zerbi received word that officials from College Medical Center will meet with her to discuss the incident.
"I am hoping that they apologize," she said.
She says it's certainly possible that her mother insisted she go home on her own but that the hospital knew she had Alzheimer's and doctors have said her mother is in no condition to make a decision on her own.
First published on January 31, 2019 / 12:56 PM
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A few Christmas cocktails here, a glass or two of Prosecco there, a bottle of wine to go with the festive feast; it can be all too easy to let alcohol take over at this time of year.
Stylist contributor and founder of Soberistas.com, Lucy Rocca, explains why she's spending her Christmas without alcohol, and shares first-hand advice for anyone who wants to navigate the season sober too.
The last office Christmas party I ever attended resulted in huge personal embarrassment and a major dose of fear.
As was the case with any big social occasion back in my drinking days, I'd embarked upon the night with the intention of consuming only bottled lager (wine always went to my head a lot faster), keeping the volume to a minimum and interspersing with water. And, as usual, all those plans went straight out of the window just as soon as I'd got the first drink inside me.
I soon shifted my attention to wine – a lot of wine – and as the evening progressed, I increasingly began to act in a way that was massively out of character: flirtatious, loud and obviously drunk, falling all over the place and slurring my words.
When I woke up in the morning, I had virtually no recollection of getting home, and felt utterly petrified by the thought of what I'd done and said in front of my colleagues. I wanted to hide away at home and never face the office again – but of course, I had to go to work.
It turned out that I'd flirted rather outrageously with an office intern almost half my age (the shame!) and been driven home by a workmate who'd considered it necessary to carry me into my apartment block and lay me in the recovery position on my settee.
As I always did when I was a drinker, I attempted to laugh the whole night off, pretending I'd become unusually drunk and oh, how funny it was at Christmas to end up in such a state! But inside I was dying. I knew I couldn't control my alcohol consumption and had never seemed to have the elusive 'off-switch' like others did.
I was so ashamed of the way I acted when drunk and yet, I couldn't quite accept that I was a 'problem drinker', sufficiently bad to warrant quitting the booze entirely.
A few months later while at home alone one night, I drank a lot, again not intending to consume quite so much but finding that the capacity to recognise when I'd had enough simply wasn't present.
I woke up in a hospital bed, having been taken there in an ambulance by someone who found me lying on the street vomiting, close to where I lived. I was horrified and vowed never to drink alcohol again.
That was almost six years ago, and I stuck to my promise. I have been sober ever since.
The first eighteen months after quitting drinking were tough, emotionally and socially. I was never physically addicted to alcohol so had no problems with withdrawals or physical cravings, but I found it immeasurably hard being in all sorts of situations without my old crutch to lean on for a quick blast of fake confidence.
The first Christmas as a non-drinker was particularly horrible. I felt truly aggrieved that I was no longer able to go out partying as I always had, getting glammed up for festive soirées and letting my hair down.
Of course, the reality for me was that I regularly drank far too much and ended up hating myself because of the way I acted at social events. But with the rose-tinted glasses firmly in place, I just felt as though I was missing out on all the fun.
I couldn't wait for January to arrive so I could blend in with everyone else and focus on normal life once more.
As the next few months passed by, however, I began to find my feet with living an alcohol-free life. I started to love the weekends spent free from hangovers and self-recriminations, no longer having to cringe as I examined my phone to see what inappropriate text messages may have been sent during the drunken early hours.
I looked a million times better with brighter eyes and clearer skin. My bank balance was a lot healthier too, and I soon calculated (with a fair amount of shock) that I'd routinely been spending around £400 every month on booze, taxis, takeaways, and all the other things associated with the party lifestyle.
By the time the next Christmas rolled around, I was feeling much happier to be not drinking alcohol anymore. I felt the most confident I'd ever felt in my adult years, and the freedom I'd discovered in being fully in control of my actions all the time amounted to me finally beginning to like myself.
This was something of a novelty, as for years I had beat myself up over all the stupid things I'd done when drunk, and had always had incredibly low self-worth as a result.
I ordered some nice non-alcoholic drinks, spent money on a new outfit, had my hair and nails done, and no longer felt as though I had to stay inside and avoid all the parties.
I focused on my children and family, baked a lot of lovely Christmas treats, and found pleasure in all the little things that make the festive season so special.
The focus had moved away from getting hammered and on to all the things in my life that I was so grateful for. I remember midway through that Christmas Day in 2012, catching myself and thinking, 'wow, I'm really happy'.
As I approach my sixth alcohol-free Christmas, I no longer feel as though I'm missing out on anything. When I look back on the person I was as a drinker, I barely recognise her as me.
Stopping drinking gave me back my pride and self-esteem.
I love the fact that I am now totally present all the time for my family and friends, as opposed to being the embarrassing, out-of-control woman I once was.
If you're planning to go alcohol-free this Christmas, or are currently struggling with the idea of spending the season sober, here's some key advice from Lucy Rocca on navigating the festivities minus the booze, and having a wonderful time while you're at it.
Don't buy into the idea that you're missing out. Reverse the thinking and concentrate on all the things you'll be gaining, like lasting happy memories, more energy, and looking fabulous as a result of quality sleep and no hangovers.
Find a non-alcoholic drink that you love and that feels a bit special. When everyone else is downing the Prosecco you don't want to be nursing a glass of water. I love experimenting with mocktails, and online company DryDrinker has a huge range of non-alcoholic and low-alcohol drinks.
Go for a walk or a run on Christmas Day morning. When you don't drink, there are no days ruined by monstrous hangovers, which means you can fit in some extra exercise. Physical activity releases endorphins, helping you to feel happy, energised and ready for the day ahead. Plus, if you find Christmas Day a bit hectic then exercise is also a brilliant stress buster.
Treat yourself to a gorgeous new outfit and enjoy pampering yourself on Christmas Morning. We're often led to believe that alcohol is an integral part of social events, but all the people I know who no longer drink have discovered that they feel far more empowered now that they're no longer getting sloshed and muddling through the days with hangovers.
Remember that Christmas is really about family and spending time with loved ones. Somehow, the season has been hijacked over recent decades by alcohol. So if you are going to do Christmas booze-free this year, then plough your efforts into making it a really magical time. I love spending money on fairy lights and special presents, baking cakes, and cooking lovely food for my family and friends.
If you are struggling to cope without alcohol this festive season, there is a lot of help and support available online. Soberistas.com has thousands of members who support one another throughout the whole year, and it's packed full of inspirational articles to help you stay focused.


So with a little help from TickTock and a friend at Nissan, we've been able to replicate some of the specific CAN messages used by the technician's scan-tool to read data from the Leaf battery management system.
First of course I should say that SENDING CAN messages to your Leaf (as compared to passively listening) could cause problems although most of the harmful writable data is usually protected with additional check-sums.
Anyway.. Proceed at your own risk..
What we're doing here is sending specific request messages asking for groups of data from the HV battery subsystem.
As best we can tell all of the requests from the scan-tool regarding the HV battery are sent on the 0x79b CAN ID with responses on 0x7bb. All packets are 8 bytes although sometimes not all 8 are utilized.
Group 2 has 29 lines of data and contains all 96 of the cell voltages.
Group 3 has 5 lines and contains the Vmin and Vmax as well as a few other things we haven't figured out yet.
Group 4 has 3 lines of data and contains the 4 pack temperatures.
Group 5 has 11 lines and again, not sure what it is yet..
Group 6 (discovered by Lincomatic) has 4 lines of data and contains the status of the resistive cell balancing shunts.
The first byte is an index (incremented on subsequent lines), the 2nd byte is a sort of group size, the 3rd byte is 0x61 (responding to the 0x21) and the 4th byte is the group number. The actual data starts on the 5th byte.
In this example the first temperature is a 3 byte value (16bit raw A/D and 8bit temp) 0x01fb 0x15 meaning 21 degrees C with the raw 10 bit A/D NTC thermistor value 0x1fb or 507 decimal. The start of the 2nd temperature is the last byte of the message.
To ask for additional lines of data, they must be requested within about a second of the initial request. In my software I ask for the 2nd line immediately after receiving the first and then ask for subsequent lines every 16ms or so.
All subsequent lines will have an index in the first byte with 2 as the MS nibble and the lower nibble (4 bits) as the index.. The remaining 7 bytes are all data.
On a side note, I'm trying to recreate the thermistor circuit so that we might be able to get more precise temperatures calculated from the raw A/D value as compared to the car's 1 degree C reading. As temps go up, the A/D value goes down and it's nonlinear.. It's kinda noisy though so better than 1/4 degree C isn't likely.
In larger groups (cell voltages in group 2) the index byte continues 0x23, 0x24, 0x25 etc wrapping from 0x2f back to 0x20.
The cell voltages in Group 2 start with the 5th byte in the first line (just like the temps) with the first two cell voltages then subsequent lines contain another 3 and a half cell voltages on each.
If you ask for more than the above mentioned lines for each group (including the first line from the initial request), you won't get a response.
<edit> If the car is charging and is OFF (and has been OFF for more than one minute) then initiating a group data request may cause a small clicking noise near the steering column for every new group data request if spaced more than 1 second apart. Most likely this is some controller that is normally asleep during charge that is woken up upon CAN data queries then goes back to sleep after a second or so. Just to be on the safe side, probably not a good idea to sample in such a way as to possibly wear our the relay.. ie between 1 second and probably a few minutes. I would guess it's not a big deal if you were only sampling every few minutes. This is only an issue when the car is off but charging.
I've tried sampling group 3 (which has the Vmin and Vmax) at 4Hz (intermediate lines at 16ms) with no trouble. I tried intermediate line requests at 8ms and that seemed to work but there were a few glitches. Even at 16ms I'm not 100% certain I'm getting ALL the data ALL the time, but mostly it's working great. These 0x7xx messages are the lowest priority on the bus but it's still probably not a good idea to overload it..
<edit>In Group 1, the "Real SOC" (ie the EV-CAN 0x55b message) is represented in much higher resolution..
5 degrees C starts at 671 (?!?!) strange, double confirmed. P.S. Thanks Steve S for these single digit confirmations.
Group 6 has the cell balancing info as 24 bytes, the lower 4 bits on each byte reflecting the shunts on the resistive loads used to balance the pack.
I'll continue to update this first post as we find more info.
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Way to go, Greg! Finally, the holy grail! This will answer a lot of questions. I added your findings to the consolidated Leaf canbus doc (bottom of the EVCan tab).
Great work, and thanks a bunch for sharing.
What interface are you using to query the EV bus?
the CAR-CAN bus or the AV-CAN bus?
to only write the ACK bit to the "response" messages.
to the GID-Meter, probably only done once a minute, or so.
GregH wrote: So with a little help from TickTock and a friend at Nissan, we've been able to replicate some of the specific CAN messages used by the technician's scan-tool to read data from the Leaf battery management system.
In early experiments (before figuring out how to ask for successive lines) I was toggling between asking for the first line of group 2 and the first line of group 3 at a 1250ms interval (about the max it would let me) and I could hear an odd clicking sound coming from the OBD2 port. Now that we're getting all the data, the clicking seems to have gone away as well as the 1.1 second max sample rate.
A real step forward for the rest of us, Thanks again.
and never do your first experiments while driving, it is just too dangerous.
garygid wrote: Great work, and thanks a bunch for sharing.
Very cool.. I'll try to stop by the meeting tomorrow morning after my run.
I used Peak's PCAN dongle and PCAN-View initially to experiment with the bus, but once I'd locked down the major info I moved to a little 8 bit MCU board I made some years back with a single CAN port and 128x64 OLED graphics display. I've only got a few left and am not looking to manufacture or sell anything... There's plenty of other nice hardware already floating around this place!
I can demonstrate my setup tomorrow.
I have not played with the AV or CAR CAN buses although I have break-outs for them on my OBD2 cables.
I did see messages to/from another controller on EV-CAN (0x79d, responses on 0x7bd) but haven't played with it.
.. but for example I don't know if 537 would come down as 17 or 18 degrees.. so I'm looking to fill in this table with more data..
TickTock wrote: Way to go, Greg! Finally, the holy grail! This will answer a lot of questions. I added your findings to the consolidated Leaf canbus doc (bottom of the EVCan tab).
Yes, pack temperature is huge!!! Great work. Now, we need to break the code for Tesla / Toyota Rav4 (drooling).
Thanks again Greg! Just finished coding it up. Here's the money-shot.
TickTock wrote: Thanks again Greg! Just finished coding it up. Here's the money-shot.
Sweet!! That's gonna be awesome.
P.S.170 Gids @ 75.4%?? Ouch.. How many capacity bars are you at?
with the "Real SOC" percentage easier.
When I was looking at vehicles on the dealer lot I was trying to figure out an equation that could give a consistent battery health number.. Ideally something on the order of Gids/SOC although I saw a small drift in this equation at various states of charge.. What I found worked better (and have been using since) is Gids/(SOC-3)... This will return about 3.0 for a new car (a car capably of 276-281 Gids). Among the various vehicles I measured this morning at the meeting we saw a range from 2.55-2.85. I didn't have the CAN SOC data back with Joulee3 but if memory serves I was getting about 243 Gids on a full charge.. If we assume 95% is full that would be 243/92=2.64. Last night in the new car I had 281 @ 95.4% so 281/92.4=3.041. On a full charge two weeks ago I saw 278 Gids @ 94.5% so 278/91.5 = 3.038.. About the same. If you choose to use % Gids (which is a little confusing imho) then it's off by a factor 2.81.


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Advances in Leukaemia therapy bring hope to patients worldwide
Two Australian research teams have made exciting progress into leukaemia treatments, raising hope for patients around the world suffering from the blood disease.
In a study led by the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI) and the University of Adelaide's Centre for Personalised Cancer Medicine, researchers are testing a promising new approach to killing off leukaemia cancer cells.
They have found that cancer cells decide whether to live or die after a short period of intense exposure to a targeted therapy, reducing current treatment time, leading to reduced side effects in patients.
"This discovery is paradigm shifting," says Professor Deborah White, Director, Cancer Research with SAHMRI– who just last year accepted an ACRF grant of $1.8 million for the cutting-edge research being conducted at SAHMRI. "Our findings are not just applicable to chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) therapy, but to all targeted cancer treatments.
"In our research, we're looking for methods that will result in the cancer cell killing itself. This would provide an improved treatment and reduce the risk of cancer relapse."
In addition to the discovery by SAHMRI, a global phase III clinical trial has shown a new drug, called ibrutinib, is giving people with advanced leukaemia a ten-fold improved chance of going into remission, with long term survival, compared to the best current standard treatment.
The trial, involving 391 patients with advanced chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) was conducted in liaison with Peter MacCallum – a Melbourne-based cancer facility which has also received significant funding from the ACRF. They found that after one year, overall survival on ibrutinib was 90%, compared to 81% on the current available treatment called ofatumumab.
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It seems like we will be getting a full installable MeeGo for Nokia N900 very soon, maybe just this month. On the other hand the first image file for the Nokia N900 appeared in the downloads section on MeeGo.com along with image file downloads for netbooks. These image files are primarily intended for developers who want to hack and explore the new MeeGo base for the N900 and also see the process of merging Maemo and Mobilin in real coding. They are not for end users since they do not include a UI. The downloads are available here!


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Katharine Susannah and the "fifteenth-rate" writer, Charles Garvice
Posted by Nathan Hobby in biographical quests, Katharine Susannah Prichard
Charles Garvice, The Pioneers
Katharine Susannah became instantly famous across the Commonwealth when she won the Australasian section of the great Hodder and Stoughton All-Empire Competition in April 1915 (the very month of Gallipoli) for her unpublished novel, The Pioneers. It was the big break she had been working hard towards for a decade. I think The Pioneers, for all its faults, is genuinely a very good novel, but at the time of the competition, a number of critics were unwilling to take the winning entry seriously because of the judge, British writer Charles Garvice.
The columnist in Wellington's Dominion wrote, "…to foist such a fifteen-rate novelist as Mr Garvice upon Australasian writers as judge of their work was little short of an insult" (May 29, 1915, 14). Almost no-one remembers Garvice today, but at the time, he could claim to be the biggest-selling British author alive, having sold millions of the romances he produced many times a year. Among serious lovers of literature his name was a byword for dross. It seems that to have him judge a literary competition was a little like inviting Danielle Steel or Dan Brown to do so today. When his own books are so forgotten, it is a beautiful irony that one of his great legacies was to launch the career of such a significant Australian writer. Even if Garvice wasn't a great writer, could he have been a good reader, able to discern something special in Katharine Susannah's work? The Pioneers is a romance, melodramatic at times yet with characters more vivid and a plot more interesting than the genre usually produces.
I would love to know Katharine Susannah's opinion of Garvice's work, and the complicated feelings she would have felt at being awarded the prize by him. I think she would have been biting her tongue, and a little uneasy amidst the jubilation.
Garvice has fascinated at least two writers in recent years. In her fine essay "Pursuing the Great Bad Novelist", Laura Sewell Matter tells of her quest for Garvice, after finding some pages of an Icelandic-language book wash up on a beach in Iceland and eventually tracking it down as a translation of one of Garvice's novels. She flies to London to read one of only two copies held by libraries in the world. It is a classic biographical quest, the genre I researched for my MA, the quest for Garvice tied up to Laura's quest to find herself. You can download the essay from her website. Steve of Bear-Alley blog wrote a post on Garvice in 2010, tracking down some biographical details for Garvice, as well as a long (and still incomplete!) bibliography of Garvice's works.
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jennyrecorder said:
Danielle Steele judging the Man Booker (snigger)!
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Lucinda Elliot said:
Intriguing post. I too, have a rather morbid fascination with the dreadful novels of Charles Garvice. I first came across one amongst a number of books my parents had obtained in a 'job lot' in an auction. Bored and snowed in at fourteen, I read part of it. It was called 'The Outcast of the Family' and was probably the worst written novel I have ever read. I remembered it recently, and read it through. After that, delighted by the absurdities, I read a few more. I was interested to note that Georgette Heyer, who always claimed that her heroes were based on Byron's and Austen's, was in fact, heavily indebted to Charles Garvice.
I can just picture reading Garvice in the snow! You must read Laura's essay – it's so good.


Newt Gingrich and Bill Clinton "Government Shutdowners Of Today Are Sissies"
Former President Bill Clinton and House Speaker Newt Gingrich called out today's would-be government shutdowners as a bunch of sissies. Reminiscing about the differences between the shutdown of 1995 and a potential one before the end of 2015, the two former leaders of their parties called out today's players.
"That's right, sissies," Clinton said. "Now man up and shut the thing down, already." Adding, "I'm warning ya. Don't wait until Hillary's President. She frightens me a little."
Gingrich added, "President Clinton's right. These guys have it way easier than we did. What's that Paul Ryan worried about? He'll still be able to spend plenty of time with a bunch people acting like 7-year-olds... and his kids, too." When asked about a backlash from government-run entities like the National Parks being shut down, Gingrich said, "Frankly, my side looks out at that great wilderness and sees gorgeous 18 hole golf courses for as far as the eye can see." Clinton, "We Dems think they would make great harvesting areas for publicly-grown marijuana farms." Gingrich: "You say potato, we say potato, but don't call the whole thing off. A good shutdown does a country good."
Both men also agree the shutdown brought people closer together. "Hardship will do that, and besides these guys have it easy," Clinton said, adding, "Back in our day we had to eat Domino's Pizza for days on end. And not the new extra cheesy recipe but that cardboard tasting crap." Both men added that the shut down had nothing to do with alleged extra-marital affairs each man had. But as Clinton said, "All that extra time at the office. It certainly didn't hurt." The two men then high-fived.


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On the way to Porto Alegre:
Message from the Nordic-Baltic preparatory meeting
Tallinn 27th - 29th November 2005
1. SUMMARY OF THE MEETING
We, the participants (ca 70) to the WCC 9th Assembly in Porto Alegre from the Nordic-Baltic region, have been together in Tallinn to prepare ourselves for the for the upcoming Assembly. We want to express our gratitude to our Estonian hosts.
Through introductions on various issues and discussion both in groups and plenary, we have assembled on a journey towards Porto Alegre. The meeting was for the first time a preparatory meeting for the entire Baltic and Nordic region. We have come together from different historical, cultural and confessional backgrounds. The Baltic churches are still dealing with the consequences of the totalitarian communist regime. One important historical and contextual challenge to many of the Nordic churches is the need to continue the reconciliation process with indigenous peoples.
This paper reflects our dynamics on the way toward the plenary themes. Hence, it is not an exclusive expression of our vision for the WCC. Our hope and prayer for this Assembly is that the welcoming of young people will bring more joy and passion to the whole work for Christian unity.
2. MESSAGE CONCERNING THE WCC
In the process of reconfiguration of the ecumenical movement, we affirm our commitment to the WCC and its vision of unity in all the aspects of being Church. In this process, there is a clear need to connect the process of the CUV to the ongoing conversations. It remains a priority for the WCC to focus on the international work that the individual churches cannot do.
We recognize a need for priorities in the future work of the WCC and will specifically emphasize:
Strengthening and integrating the Faith and Order work in the whole agenda of the WCC, for example on the various controversial social and ethical issues. The pandemic of HIV/AIDS and the trafficking of human beings should be considered as a challenge to the whole fellowship of the WCC.
Continuing and strengthening the interfaith relation in
- deepening the reflection on theology of religion, and
- accompanying the churches in local interfaith dialogue, especially in the areas of conflict.
Renewing and strengthening the cooperation with the regional and national bodies as well as the Christian World Communions.
In setting the priorities for the WCC we will also emphasize the need for cohesion between the various programs and commissions.
3. SUMMARY OF OTHER IMPORTANT ISSUES RAISED IN THE GROUPS
A) Reconfiguration of the Ecumenical Movement
We recognize that the WCC was formed in a world different from today. Therefore we
- want to continue the reconfiguration process
- develop the Forum Idea
- strengthen Faith and Order
- affirm the WCC as the privileged instrument for the global ecumenical work
B) Economic Justice and Globalisation
We as European churches share the concerns in the Agape document and are aware of the different aspects, sometimes even painful, and debates over this issue. We specifically share a concern that the rhetoric used in the document does not open for dialogue.
Therefore, to engage in a fruitful discussion in Porto Alegre, we suggest that
- the Agape Call is divided into one prayer and one outline for a discussion that may end in a statement from the Assembly
- encourage the whole WCC to move beyond dividing political borders to be able to agree on strategies for eradication of poverty.
C) Christian Identity and Religious Plurality/Interfaith
WCC should within its framework
- facilitate international dialogue on interfaith issues and politics
- assist churches to engage in local interfaith dialogue, with a special attention to areas of conflicts with a religious dimension
- facilitate theological reflection and dialogue on the specific of the Christian faith in relation to other faith traditions and theology of religions in general.
D) Church Unity and Ecclesiology/Ethics
We have studied and warmly welcomed the document "Called to be the one Church", and have two specific remarks to the text
- an addition of "sexual orientation and disabilities" to nr. 10 is asked for when discrimination is addressed
- there is a lack of recognition of the role of Ministry in the document. Even if we know that it is a matter of disagreement it is important to stress the significance of our understanding of Ministry and who is the host and the giver of gifts in baptism, eucharist and ordination
We emphasize the importance of a continued ecumenical theological dialogue for the work of the WCC.
Ethics and Ecclesiology
- Unity is given to our churches. The concept of church as a eucharistic body has ethical implications. Because members of the church are affected by HIV/AIDS, the church - the body of Christ - is affected. This fact challenges our ecclesiological self understanding.
- It is important that disagreement on ethical issues do not become dividing factor for the eucharistic body.
E) Peace and Decade to Overcome Violence
"The working group on peace and DOV of the Nordic-Baltic preparation meeting for the WCC 9th Assembly proposed that "Shedding Light on Hidden Violence - Taking Action Locally" should be the theme during the 2007 European focus. Hidden violence includes violence that we can not see and violence that we close our eyes to. Churches should empower members in all age groups and at all levels of the church to recognize the different forms of violence and to act against them."
©2006 Conseil oecuménique des Eglises


THE FIRST free smartphone app to guide tourists around Kilkenny City and County's finest attractions has been launched.
The virtual guide is the brainchild of Trail Kilkenny, a non-profit company charged with developing leisure and tourism trails in the county.
The free app allows the thousands of tourists who visit Kilkenny every week to find and navigate Trail Kilkenny walk, cycle, craft and food trails. Complete with download maps, the app links tourists from one Trail to another. For example on the Walk Trail you will be directed to nearby restaurants, pubs, craftspeople and other tourism businesses.
The launch of the app is the result of a partnership between Trail Kilkenny and Everytrail, a US company which has developed technology that allows the plotting, upload and the sharing of routes of varying types all over the world. Trail Kilkenny is its first Irish commercial partner.
Sat Nav guide to the start of the individual Trails, Googlemaps directions from your current location to each member of the Craft and Food Trail.
Users can zoom in to any location and see more details about Trail Kilkenny members in that area and the plan is to add tourist providers in Kilkenny such as hotels, restaurants and other attractions to the app in the coming months thereby providing an even more comprehensive guide for the visitor.
Well known Kilkenny native and entrepreneur, Bobby Kerr, welcomed the launch of the app saying it is an invaluable tool for people visiting the county.
The Dragon's Den star – whose father Bobby Senior owned the well known Newpark Hotel on the Castlecomer Road for many years – said: "This is a great initiative. Kilkenny is one of Ireland's most attractive tourist centres and this new app will be the ideal guide".
Kevin Mahon, Chairman of Kilkenny Tourism, said the launch of the app is yet another win for Kilkenny. "This demonstrates that not alone is Kilkenny moving with the times, but is out there setting the standards for others to follow. The addition of the app by Trail Kilkenny demonstrates how mobile technology is so important to the Tourism industry. We in Kilkenny Tourism welcome this addition".
Trail Kilkenny has to date developed nine looped walking trails to Fáilte Ireland standards. Another six are scheduled to be completed later this year.
It also has several dozen Food Trail and Craft Trail members and Cycle trails. The Trail Kilkenny Craft and Food Trails are already market leaders in the themed trail sector in Ireland and there are plans to launch a Garden Trail and a 'Haunted Kilkenny' trail examining the folklore of the paranormal in the county.
Once the app is downloaded there are no more additional internet or wireless costs. This means a tourist you downloads it to a smartphone wont incur any roaming costs as they use it on their travels around the county.
To download the free app simply search for "Trail Kilkenny" in the app store. An extra feature is that you can use a QR code which can be scanned with your iphone to bring you directly to the webpage. The QR code can be downloaded free by searching for "QR" code in the app story.


St. Patrick's Day Cup Soccer Balls for Sale!
There is a very limited supply of St. Patrick's Day Cup tournament balls available for sale. Most are size 5 but there are a few size 4 balls. These are new and are $25 each. If you would like to purchase one, please contact Tammie Epps.


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The graduate students of the Department of Classics at UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University jointly organize a graduate colloquium each year. Flyers from past colloquiums are listed below. For information, contact the organizing committee at dukeuncclassicscolloquiumATgmailDOTcom.