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Stage Review
Schemes come true in Lyric Stage's 'Fast Company'
By Jeremy D. Goodwin Globe Correspondent,March 8, 2016, 10:00 p.m.
Tyler Simahk, Lin-Ann Ching Kocar (center), and Theresa Nguyen in "Fast Company."Mark S. Howard
In "Fast Company," the misdirection arrives in various forms. There's the legerdemain of Francis (Tyler Simahk), who is fond of pickpocketing packs of cigarettes and then making them seem to appear out of thin air. And there's the multiple plot feints of playwright Carla Ching, who in telling the story of a family of con artists seeks to pull a few clever tricks on the audience.
The tautly drawn four-hander is making its New England premiere at Lyric Stage Company of Boston, in a production that director M. Bevin O'Gara unspools at a quick pace and gamely infuses with a sense of intrigue.
Ching aims to build tension in an escalating series of cons and double-crosses that are meant to leave audiences guessing at what to believe, as do the characters. But the less compelling tension is that between a would-be character study and the genre conventions and tics that undermine it.
Amid all the talk here of roping marks, boosting scores, avoiding the can, and getting pinched — plus a glossary of established cons, from the Pig in a Poke to the Spanish Prisoner — is a story about family dysfunction and the limits of loyalty. We see four family members alternately supporting and scheming against each other, and bits of backstory that are meant to throw light on these relationships.
Yet the densely packed plot is never as gripping or revelatory as others we're already well familiar with from television, film, and the stage (yes, it is a minor misstep to remind us of David Mamet's excellent "The Spanish Prisoner" not once but twice), and the actors sometimes strain to burrow convincingly into these characters.
Simahk does impress as Francis, a likable one-time con man whose conscience has led him to pursue a different sort of exploitation, as a David Blaine-like illusionist staging showy public endurance tests for "Dateline." In his professional stage debut, Michael Hisamoto does well as the more slippery and ineffective H.
Tightly wound and defensive, Blue (Theresa Nguyen) is a chip off the old block of her adoptive mother, Mabel (Lin-Ann Ching Kocar), though her failure in a cruel childhood test of her grifting facility has left her the odd one out in the family business. ("Any field is a [expletive] field for women!" Blue declares, in the play's best line.) Yet she's an innovator, seeking to infuse hoary old cons with elements of game theory she's picked up in college.
So when the world's most valuable comic book goes missing, mucking up "the job of the decade," the old Pig in a Poke won't suffice. Blue wants to spring a "psychological game."
There's some fun in watching each of these four play their roles in the developing scheme, sometimes outmaneuvering the others and sometimes being taken for a chump. Garrett Herzig's between-scene projections and Arshan Gailus's jazzy, crackling original music reinforce the sense of a fast-moving caper film. In the play's most successful sleight of hand, pieces of scenes are sometimes replayed as characters scan their memories for missed details or play out the outcomes of different strategies. This is achieved with a high level of craft.
But credibility strains when it's time for the traps to be sprung and secrets to be shared. A showpiece deception is weirdly and graphically off-tone, causing squeamish groans in the audience. Cued by the family-drama cliché of an "Ah ha!" revelation, the conclusion feels more like a movie's sequel pivot than a plausible course-correction for this group. A sense of deepened character insight is one illusion that just isn't pulled off.
Written by Carla Ching. Directed by M. Bevin O'Gara. At Lyric Stage Company of Boston, 140 Clarendon St., through March 27. Tickets: $31-$65, 617-585-5678, www.lyricstage.com
Jeremy D. Goodwin can be reached at jeremy@jeremydgoodwin.com.


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Julian Schnabel's Clueless Self-Indictment
This photo makes me angry.
I haven't seen or suspected anything could be this delusional in the art world since Jeff Koons claimed he improved upon old-master paintings by affixing a gaudy, blue gazing ball to assistant-painted copies of them.
Koons added value to the Mona Lisa.
It's not just that Schnabel had the arrogance to curate his own work next to a Van Gogh self-portrait, but chose to dwarf it. Bigger art does NOT make better art, it just makes more profits off of people who are dim enough to buy art by the square foot.
There's a new phenomenon in the art world where celebrity artists get to curate their own shows. Schnabel got to re-work the Musée d'Orsay in his own image. Sure, sure, it's OK for artist's to curate shows. The problem is putting themselves in them.
I need a basin for the rare occasions when I decide to see what's become of the art world. Among many other comical problems, it's producing megalomaniacs.
Not only did Schnabel attempt to make Van Gogh's art look diminutive next to his own rather crude portrait (no, painting over broken plates glued on canvas is not better than painterly impasto because thicker), he had the temerity to pose in between them.
It's just agonizing to look at this. Even if an artist thought he was a living master who would stand the test of time — in my estimation Schnabel's over-inflated art has 0% chance of holding interest more than a century after his death — he wouldn't opportunistically present himself as such in the very present. That kind of astounding arrogance, especially when most probably utterly delusional, is not a characteristic we associate with genuine artists.
Additionally, he did the same thing to Basquiat in his movie about him. There's a scene where Basquiat has an existential crisis of self-worth while visiting Schnabel's studio, and his small, hunched-over body is dwarfed by 2-story high Schnabel, machismo, neo-Expressionist paintings.
Fictionalized scene in Schnabel's flim, "Basquiat", in which the dead artist's ego is crushed by Schabel's towering genius.
Can you imagine Van Gogh himself, in his lifetime, placing one of his paintings next to a Rembrandt, and posing between them?! There's nothing to indicate he saw himself that way. He struggled to be taken seriously at all, meanwhile dozens of his neighbors signed a petition to have him removed from the community as a worthless pariah. And in Van Gogh's case, his paintings ARE worthy of hanging next to a Rembrandt.
So here we have one of the richest artists who ever lived, posing next to one of the poorest (certainly of any we've heard of), and presuming his own sincerity, as reflected in his art, is greater.
We have an artist whose inability to sell anything in his lifetime (except one painting) was undoubtedly a factor in his suicide, and we have an artist so astoundingly wealthy and smug, that he can curate a show and place himself front and center.
Schnabel reminds me of the people who go around touting themselves as enlightened. If they were, they wouldn't do that. And an artist who claims, like Koons or Schnabel, that he is on par with the best artists who ever lived, surely is not.
Schnabel's success, like that of Koons, or Hirst, or many other big names, is at least 90% due to stupid luck, nevertheless these individuals credit it to their own towering genius. In their defense, I think this is a common human weakness of the mind, such as royalty actually believing they are somehow above normal mortals, and the 0.001%ers believing they either earned it the hard way or somehow otherwise deserve it, or mostly deserve it.
Allow me to give a musical analogy, because for some reason people are much less stupid about music than art. Imagine Jon Bon Jovi — who sold over 130,000,000 albums, and is one of the world's best selling musical artists — curating a concert, and playing one of his songs after a performance of, say, a Beethoven symphony. Bon Jovi turns up the volume on his speakers and the sound of the first notes dwarf the climactic bars of the Beethoven symphony. Bon Jovi poses next to a bust of Beethoven for a publicity shot.
Nobody, including Bon Jovi, would take Bon Jovi seriously as equal to or better than Beethoven just because he made a shit-load of money and sold more than 100,000,000 records in today's market. The idea is ludicrous.
And so it is with Julian Schnabel. I have no problem with contemporary painting or Neo-Expressionism, but Schnabel has always struck me as a "B" artist with A+++ promotion, as in his paintings never quite hit a home run aesthetically speaking — despite his having every advantage monetarily, and in terms of opportunity — but seek to. While Van Gogh just gets better as I get older, Schnabel just gets more dreary, the more-so because his paintings are consistently outstripped by his colossal ego.
As evidence of the latter, I offer this photo he posed for:
Which we are not supposed to draw a parallel with:
If you require a less humorous example, Schnabel has attempted to trump Van Gogh at flower paintings. Here's a Schnabel, ostentatiously titled, "Rose Painting (Near Van Gogh's Grave) III":
Julian Schnabel, "Rose Painting (Near Van Gogh's Grave) III" (2015)
And here is a Van Gogh:
The critical difference is the number of colors employed, and how they work. Schnabel seems to have used just two, green and magenta, if you discount black and white. Further, he did a blockbuster show of 20 of these paintings, all of which only use those 4 minimal colors.
They may seem impressive at first, like all of Schnabel's work, but the impression wears thin very quickly. You'd think an artist with all the time and money at his disposal to do a tribute to one of the greatest colorist in art history, would bother to F'ing study the artist's use of color, and at least try to do some justice to it.
Using just 4 colors to trump a Post-Impressionist (not that any label other than "Van Gogh" suits "Van Gogh" is an astounding over-site).
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Schnabel had a grand show at Pace Gallery of this one spare contribution, which is that broken plates, when painted green, kinda look like real leaves. But in order to achieve shading, Schnabel just used black (the worst novice mistake), and the result of black and green is a kind of army camouflage effect. Van Gogh would be horrified by these misconceptions of his own art.
Oh, it's UGLY! The least we can ask of visual art is that on close examination it isn't visually ugly.
And yet, Schnabel thinks he's out Van Goghed Van Gogh. And the gallery ins't embarrassed to present this pretentious schlock?
Excuse me while I slap my forehead.
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Grain growing is our primary farming activity. We strive to grow as many types of grain as possible. We have successfully sourced seed, planted, cultivated, harvested and cleaned: oats, barley, hard red spring wheat, hard winter wheat, soft spring wheat, winter wheat, corn for grits, durum wheat, Red Fife wheat, buckwheat, silver hull buckwheat, Polish wheat, fall and spring rye, triticale, yellow and brown mustard, and flax. We are attempting to grow sorghum, pearl millet, amaranth, and quinoa. There are so many errors that can be made in the whole process that our failure rate is much higher than it should be.
Without chemical fertilizer and sprays, our yields are generally 40% of conventional. Another factor in the lower yield is our lack of tile drainage. This may be a larger factor. This seems low but is generally the norm compared to actual yields. I always read of organic yields of close to conventional but when you look at the actual data, they are inline with ours. We do lose more yield after cleaning and dehulling, luckily we are able to feed this loss to our pigs and chickens. We try to follow the biodynamic calendar in our planting, cultivating, and harvesting. What is amazing (some chalk it up to farmer IQ) is that the days that are best in terms of conditions, and my general feeling/desire to get out there, corresponds favourably with the calendar. Sometimes I even test myself by looking at the calendar after I decide to "get out there" and it normally is correct. For the moment I'm chalking it up to luck.
To beat the weeds, we clean our own seed or use certified organic seed. If neither is available, we have to use untreated conventional seed. We cultivate twice, one week apart immediately before planting. Then we drill the seed in both directions at 75% the recommended seed rate (resulting in a 50% seeding rate above the recommended rate). A great improvement this year was the purchase of my mentor's larger seed drill with double discs and an attached sprocket packer. Twice as wide and twice as good a job is how I describe it. Grain emergence this year was perfectly uniform and only took half the time. This year, I did not plant in both directions, but still planted at 50 percent over the recommended rate. After planting I place an old storm window on the ground. This speeds the germination and emergence of the seed. The day I see sprouts emerge, is the day I pony harrow the fields. Generally the seeds are two days ahead under the glass. This has occurred in as few as 4 days (late in the season when the ground is warm) to as many as 16 days, early in the year. We plant oats first after cleaning the drill very well. We follow with all the others, simply vacuuming the drill between seeds. At the three-leaf stage we pony harrow again. At the four-leaf stage we pony harrow again at right angles to the second. These two final cultivations almost leave the field destroyed. In actual fact, most of the plants are merely slightly buried. Two weeks later, all is well again and there is almost no impact on the plants, perhaps only two days behind test areas where no cultivation was done. The real impact comes when the uncultivated test areas are eventually taken over by weeds, while the cultivated areas normally have the weeds beat. I use a pony harrow because I cannot afford a Lely or Einbock tine weeder. A proper tine weeder would do a better job and perhaps only two passes would be necessary. During the third cultivation, I drag three lawn seeders attached to the pony harrow to broadcast inoculated double cut red clover. We do this to fix nitrogen in the soil. We normally cut it for hay the next year once, then cut to mulch two more times.
Despite all this extra work and expense (seed, fuel, depreciation, wear, labour, plant injury, etc) we still have to swath our grain. Years ago, everything was swathed, but since sprays eradicated weeds, combining can now be done with a direct cut head. This year I direct cut some Red Fife wheat, but the grain was too wet and got musty. We'll be swathing everything from now on! We swath about a week before our neighbours combine (direct cut), which is on the second day of a dry spell. We try to combine several days later, but generally it rains and we have to combine two days into the next dry spell. This allows any weeds to dry down. This makes for easier combining (cleaner sample due to better sieving, scalping, and scour cleaning) and less staining of the grain by green weed seeds. At all cost we try not to have to rake the swath, but occasionally we have to. This year, I raked a durum wheat field five times and still had an OK yield. Unfortunately it was too high in fusarium – a waste of time indeed. I have always borrowed a gyro type rake, for the least amount of damage, but have found that it does not allow a soaking wet sheath of grain to fluff up and this year we purchased a swath turner which should help in merely rolling the swath over.
We try to keep the combine pickup slightly off the ground to prevent the picking up of dirt and stones. We do lose some yield here but unfortunately do not have a destoner to clean out small stones. We are now commissioning a new gravity table (new to us, but actually 65 year old wooden table) purchased at an auction in Nebraska. Hopefully it will remove the last remaining stones, which our cleaner cannot remove.
Our combine is in very good condition and we clean it out end to end (about 2 days' work) before the harvest. Oats are always harvested first, allowing us to keep our oats free from contamination from other grains left over in the combine. Since doing this our oats have consistently tested less than 10 ppm of gluten. We use the EZ Gluten test on the first bucket of oats, testing at the market opening, you are welcome to witness the test, just call or email me, so I can tell you the rough time that we will be setting up at that particular market.
We try to winnow out some of the chaff using the wind when unloading by placing the spout near the edge of a wooden box (about a 7 foot fall). We only use a gravity box for our oats, spelt and wheat. Our harvest requirements of all the other grains are less than one tonne per year. If the grain is slightly wet, we screw our aeration fan to a port on the bottom edge of a box and run it for several dry days. If the moisture level is above the safe level for aerating alone, we are in a real jamb. In an emergency we have to spread the crop out on a very large black tarp in the sun for two days, covering it at night or for rain and dew. Anyone out there know of a one tonne grain dryer? Everything is run quickly through the cleaner before storage in their wooden boxes. Each week we clean only enough for the market until early winter, when we have enough time to clean the rest of the grain. Depending upon the grain we try to grow enough for minimum two years' market supply. This is not necessary in normal grain farming, but for us if we have a crop failure in oats or wheat, we are out of business. Producer based farmers' markets demand that all products for sale are our own and thus I cannot purchase grain from somewhere else if I have a failure. This necessitates that we take huge (not normally economical) steps to ensure we do not have a crop failure. This year I planted seven varieties of hard red spring wheat at two different planting dates (two weeks apart). Normal flour mills simply import from somewhere else if there is a crop failure in their local area. Because we store in aerated wooden bins, our crop can last for many years.
Augers and elevators are difficult to clean out. Luckily, at our size, we do it all by bucket, this allows us to keep everything clean. Our new cleaner has two elevator legs that are very easy to vacuum out. We have a separate small cleaner, dehuller and roller for the oats. This allows us to test gluten free so far.
To be frank, we do waste a lot of effort and yield to produce a premium product using the basic equipment we have. We do our best with the equipment we can afford. It can be discouraging but to sell a person flour they cannot purchase anywhere else locally is quite rewarding.
I comb the net every morning from 4:30 to 5:30 looking for certain pieces of equipment at auctions and in various classifieds. In the past year. We sell most of our grain for $1 per cup. Bulk costs are less than half of small serving sizes. We sell 5 gallon buckets or by the tote (totes must be ordered before the season).
If there is ever a type of grain that you feel we should grow please make us aware of it. If anyone knows of a source of seed as well, that would be appreciated. We limit wholesale sales to guarantee we maintain enough supply for the retail market. Generally, cups are $1, buckets are $75 retail, and bulk is half again. For spelt and "oats like rice" we charge more for buckets, $75. We are currently supplying our existing wholesale customers, and are accepting new wholesale orders for the fall. If you are interested, wholesale orders are due by March for fall delivery next year.


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const double HMMWV_Driveline4WD::m_central_differentialbox_inertia = 0.6;
const double HMMWV_Driveline4WD::m_front_differentialbox_inertia = 0.6;
const double HMMWV_Driveline4WD::m_rear_differentialbox_inertia = 0.6;
const double HMMWV_Driveline4WD::m_driveshaft_inertia = 0.5;
const double HMMWV_Driveline4WD::m_frontshaft_inertia = 0.5;
const double HMMWV_Driveline4WD::m_rearshaft_inertia = 0.5;

const double HMMWV_Driveline4WD::m_front_conicalgear_ratio = 0.2;
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Life in the Hampshires
On: August 12, 2013 July 6, 2015 By: Mark
Two days and two nights in the Northampton, Massachusetts area has left me with mixed feelings about the place. My feelings are mostly effusive, thankfully, but no community meets all the checkboxes for a perfect community, and Northampton has a few tiny minuses. Curiously its "minuses" reveal more about me and what make me uncomfortable than they do about the community. What makes me a tad uncomfortable about an otherwise beautiful mountainous area of Western Massachusetts? In the case of Northampton, it's its obvious lack of ethnic diversity. People there largely look a lot like me: white, prosperous middle class just twenty or more years younger than I am. There are some Asians, and I saw some Hispanics and one Muslim woman covered except for her face. Otherwise, it was an all-White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) paradise. Maybe the protestant in WASP can be left out. There are churches in Northampton, but many of them have been converted to other uses. Six Catholic churches have collapsed into one church. The community strikes me as an overly educated lot, not surprising as Hampshire County is overrun with colleges for its relatively small population. The University of Massachusetts across the Connecticut River in Amherst is the heavyweight college, but there are also lesser known private universities such as Hampshire College (where a niece went) and Smith College. Consequently they have little need these days for traditional religion. Sundays instead are genuine days of rest, and generally far away from a church. It is a good day to commune with nature, and there is plenty of nature readily at hand. So it is a good community for those into spirituality but not so much religion. Soak in the fresh air, let the natural sound of wind rustling through leaves fill you with peace, and enjoy the smell of honeysuckle and midsummer flowers in the air instead.
Connecticut River near Northampton, MA (Holyoke MA)
Those darn hippies have basically taken over Hampshire County. Curiously, those darn hippies have done a great job of it, modeling the sort of society we should become everywhere. In some ways those hippies are downright conservative. One of them in a guy named Craig, who runs the B&B we stayed at. He is a passionate community activist and organizer, and passionate about Hampshire County in particular. He did not know we were looking at retirement areas until we arrived. He spent over two hours the next morning driving us around, showing us almost every housing option available, and giving us invaluable insight into the culture and values of the hippies that reinvigorated this area. They are conservative in the sense that they hate to tear down anything so up have gone the historic districts instead. They work closely with developers to restore old houses, keeping the character of a community a hundred years earlier. Their work is quite impressive. Northampton is just beautiful: a community anyone who lives there can be proud of, closely knitted, walkable, bikeable (lots of bike trails, and bike paths on the major roads), with natural areas interwoven into traditional neighborhoods.
Looking west from Mount Tom, MA toward Easthampton
Northampton only gets funky downtown. There it becomes Mayberry if it were overrun with flower children and their descendants. All sorts of boutique shops and excellent restaurants can be found downtown. It's a popular place to be, and draws not just people from the immediate area but from much further out. Which takes me to one of the other things I don't like about Northampton. It reminds me too much of Georgetown, the well-moneyed historic district in Washington, D.C. where, like Northampton, it's impossible to find a parking space. People are just drawn to it. It is a combustible mixture of old and new, melded together somehow into something unique that Madison Avenue would like to manufacture, but cannot.
That is because real communities like this cannot be installed. They work when the people come together and decide to push their values, and do so over many decades. The mostly white teenagers hanging out downtown with pierced nostrils, the incense filled boutiques with naughty T-shirts and novelties, are a result of a community that sets standards where people can breathe a little bit, and it's okay. While there may be a lack of ethnic diversity in and around Northampton, you can't say the same about its cultural diversity. There are more lesbians in Northampton than in any other place of its size in the country. Your sexual orientation or lack of it, your love of pierced nostrils makes you utterly common. Everyone sort of sees past it.
An oh, the scenery! The Connecticut River winds through the county. It is a beautiful river, lined with green shores and capped with green mountains, odd only in the sense that they run east to west instead of north to south. This is the richest farmland in the country, for those who want to farm it, and there are plenty of farms in the area. Large tracks of land have been purchased so they will always be farmland. As in other communities like Boulder, Colorado, other areas have been purchased to be forever natural. Those darn hippies show their conservative side: nature is beautiful and precious and they won't let anyone mess with it. The result in an area that is intoxicating in a good way: peaceful, natural, community-focused and healthy. In short, it is a compelling area for us to consider retiring to, made much more compelling by its relatively low real estate prices. Granted, many of the houses are a hundred years old or more, and more than a few need substantial renovation. But where else can you enjoy such unique combination of people and nature at such a low price? These houses generally sell for between $250,000 and $350,000. It's a great value, but what make it a best value are not the affordable housing prices, but the community.
We spent our two nights in Florence, a village just to the west of Northampton. Curiously I found Florence more compelling than Northampton. I have a limited ability to appreciate boutiques and vast numbers of ethnic restaurants, although it is nice to know they are there should I want them. Florence on the other hand felt more real. It is a community with its own compelling history, including Sojourner Truth, who tried to create a utopian society in Florence. Florence, as well as Northampton, has liberal religious values that go back to the Underground Railroad, where it was a popular way station. It stitches itself together with neighboring villages through bike paths, ordinances, veterans' hospitals, old houses with big verandas and high walkability scores. For most of life's necessities you don't need to get in a car. You simply walk or bike to it. This includes sublime pleasures like having breakfast at Miss Florence's Diner, with the 60's juke box at the table and a deliciously simple western omelet for breakfast with two pieces of multigrain toast with butter hanging off the side of the plate.
In short, Northampton and the various *hampton communities that nestle nearby, including Florence, Easthampton, Amherst and Hadley offer a compelling lure for those looking for authenticity in a community, in spite of its lack of ethnic diversity. Those babbling brooks, winding roads, old mills (many of which are being restored and repurposed) present a compelling package for those of you out there hungering for home, like quite possibly my wife and me.
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Does Restoro actually work?
By: Mitch | Last updated October 7, 2021
Is Restoro effective?
How does Restoro fix the computer?
Is Restoro safe for the computer?
Restoro is an application made for improving computer speed. It is made for Windows PCs with versions from XP to Windows 10. It is made to be used by all users regardless of their computer proficiency which can be seen with its intuitive controls. This article is a quick run through on the effectiveness of the application, its different features, its safety, and more.
Restoro is very effective for speeding up the computer. We concluded this after testing the application on three different PCs.
Our first test laptop was a 2008 Toshiba laptop using a Windows 7 operating system. It had started having issues with loading applications including browsers, video games, and movie players. It only had half of its original performance.
We also tested it on a Windows 10 Acer laptop and a Windows 10 desktop computer, both of which were suffering from constant lags and freezing. From what we observed, all three testing PCs had a lot of files installed in the computer, have been used for at least five years, and do not have any anti malware applications installed. As we can see, it is only expected for these to have slower performance.
Upon downloading, installing, and running Restoro, all of them increased in performance by about 50% or more. First, this can be seen with the fast startup time of the computer. Next, the application loaded fast and without issues. There were also less Windows error dialogues that appeared upon our test.
Keep in mind, though, that the application still has limitations in its fixes for the PC. First, anything caused by outdated hardware will not be repaired. This is because the parts of the computer also have their own "expiration date" when they will no longer be able to open newer applications. This is mostly seen with video games and video editing apps which require a lot of resources such as RAM, video cards, and processors.
Restoro is only focused on the software of the computer as opposed to being able to fix hardware, which is usually left for in person repair shops.
Restoro is built to be easily used by any level of computer user, and this is why we think it is a great pc repair tool. Because of this, it has a straightforward process for fixing the computer.
First, it scans the computer to look for the parts of the software which have issues. This includes the operating system itself, the registry, your different files, and more. This will take five minutes at most.
After knowing which parts have issues, the application will then start using its different features to fix these. It has dedicated features for different computer parts. The app's features include:
·Malware remover – Malware pertains to any files that can potentially damage the computer. Restoro will instantly quarantine this away from your other files to ensure that it won't spread itself and corrupt other files. Users can then choose to delete these files totally in case they find it unsafe for their computer.
·File replacement – Even with normal usage, some files of the computer may get corrupted. If this happens, you will experience more Windows errors. You can also encounter slower loading times. Restoro can be used to repair these. It can also download and directly replace these with files that come from their online database which has more 25,000,000 genuine files for Windows computers. These are always updated to ensure that it will be usable.
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Q: Equivariant differential forms. I have some question about the equivariant differential forms on a smooth manifold: \
The equivariant differential forms over some smooth manifold $M$, on which the compact Lie group $G$ acts, are defined to be
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where $\mathfrak g^*$ denotes the dual of the Lie algebra $\mathfrak g$ of $G$. Then many authors say that these forms can be considered as polynomial functions on the Lie algebra $\mathfrak g$ of $G$, but I am not sure how this is to be done. For example if we consider the element $(x_1 \otimes... \otimes x_i) \otimes \omega$ where $x_1,..., x_i$ are elements of $\mathfrak g^*$ and $\omega$ is a differential form, what is the evaluation of this element on some $a \in \mathfrak g$ in the Lie algebra of $G$.

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Attended the local SW:X-W League event tonight and in two games flew 6x Rebel Z-95 Bandits (PS=2), each with a missile (2x Adv.Homing, 2x Cluster, and 2x Concussion) and Munitions Failsafe.
First opponent had: Dash with Kyle & HLC, Blount, and 2x Z-95 Bandits. This game seemed to last forever. I was surprised at how long my crazy list survived. I did lose, but eliminated Blount and 1x Z and had his other Z and Dash both down to one hull remaining.
Second opponent had: Darth Vader in Adv. Tie with x-1 and a Decimator with Rebel captive, Gunner, and Weapons Engineer. I could not believe how many blanks that my friend rolled when defending his Decimator and I was able to get it down to one hull remaining with three of my ships coming after it when it flew of the board while making a hard-two turn. Then the wily Vader kept arc dodging and barrel-rolling and three ships one-by-one.
A very fun evening. Got lots of practice maneuvering a mini-swarm, but I've kind of lost confidence in using missiles with Munitions Failsafe, since you need to have a Target Lock AND then be at the appropriate Range for the Missile to fire. Half my ships died before they could launch their secondary weapon and then my opponents would gladly take one hit (usually just loosing a shield) in order to negate the MF.
Between the 3 of us, we took 5th, 8th and 9th, so a pretty good day. The Falcon+Miranda Owing took the win for the day, that was a really tough build to take down, very little you can do against those turrets.
Several guys told me the say thing last night and my reply was, "Oh great, there's another ship, I'll have to buy just to get another stupid little (41 x 63 mm) card." It is a fun game and I'm looking forward to the next Wave, but Fantasy Flights is literally sucking the money out of wallet the same way that Hasbro did, back in the day of frequent HeroScape Waves. Maybe I need an 12-Step Program to fight this addiction.
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Been playing w it quite a bit lately and it does well against most match ups. The 36 health tends to outlast even the rebel regen lists in the 75 min time limits.
Found a really cool Android app called Startactics. It's a squad-building tool. The interface is great.
I like how obstacles change the game from joust -> k-turn -> joust into more interesting maneuvers. We had 3 big obstacles in the center, towards my side, then one small one in the center towards his side, and two semi-small ones in his corners.
He pointed his headhunters at the center, while I lined up three of my ships on my left side with one x-wing centered but angled hard left. His Kirhaxz was to my right, but he opened by cutting in front of them and going hard for my left. His headhunters all went to my right, going to lure my x-wing over there (which they did) whole the Kirhaxz fighter went head to head with my other three ships. They only had one go at him before he zoomed straight at the Dagger Sq. Pilot, who had been hanging back as the third point in a triangle. Dagger got in a solid hit, then my B-Wings k-turned to give chase while the rookie banked right to go after the headhunters. By then they had looped around going back towards my left, except N'druu, who jousted with Red (and lost his shields) before K-turning to chase him. Red opted to go after the pirates and let the Rookie swing around to clear N'druu off his tail. This worked pretty well except that Red rolled terrible defense and went down. Rookie managed to knock out a pirate.
Meanwhile Talonbane, too stressed to turn around, tried in vain to escape Dagger's reach, but was gunned down. My brother had not realized that B-Wings have a 2 k-turn and so would be so hot on his tail so soon.
The B-Wings veered towards the fight in the asteroids, and Dagger had the first (of about 4 for me this game) miscalculated maneuver to run into an asteroid, so he lost a shield.
The rest of the game was the rookie, blue, and Dagger dancing around the asteroids with N'druu and a pirate. The Rookie got a damaged cockpit, Blue lost all his shields, and I lost Dagger, but I pulled out a close win.
I understand now why competitive players think proton torpedoes aren't worth it. I never used my one torpedo that Dagger had, although maybe I should have. The next time I play this list I will drop the PT and the failsafe to upgrade both of the 2 pilots to 4s and give the second B-Wing a Fire Control System.
I'll probably skip on the R2 Astromech, and maybe even BB-8. I don't think the R2 is very good for an X-Wing. It always seems like a nice usable but affordable choice, but I think it has mattered only once or twice in all of my games.
I love BB-8 though. What a fun Astromech.
I like the X-wing Squadron Builder on the android. In addition to building squads, you can enter your collection so it will tell you when you don't have enough cards for a particular build. It has a complete reference for the cards so you can tell which packages a card comes from. Nice app.
I like the R2 Astromech as a filler if I have an extra point. Adding choices for dealing with stress is a good thing and makes your opponent have to think more about where you're going to be on the next turn. You may not actually select a 2 green in a game but you had the option to do a 2 green. That can be just as important.
Startactics does all that too. It will also let you track the W/L of your squads. As nice as the interface is, my favorite feature might be the ability to "export" your collection so another player can import it to the app and build their own lists with your collection. Now when my brother and I meet can just use a list we've already made and start playing. Pretty nice since before this at least a third of our time was spent picking our squads out.
R2 Astros are amazing on X-Wings (and Y-Wings). Being able to do a k-turn and then a 2 sharp afterwards is very nice. Also, with the Integrated Astromech card, the X-Wings get effectively a 1 pt Shield upgrade that they can use whenever they wish.
Yup! I agree. Although I'd consider loosing your Astromech droid to be one last Hull Point that your opponent has to punch through rather than as an extra Shield Point, but I see your point that it could be the 4th Shield (or even 5th with a Shield Upgrade) prior to taking any damage.


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The University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB) is a university situated in Beijing, China. The key vision of USTB is to develop and train their enrolled students with the principles of integrity, practical ability, and innovation in disciplines such as engineering. This allows them to not just serve the needs of the industry but also the overall society. The university is best known for its study of metallurgy and materials science. Though the main focus and target are on engineering it is still well able to maintain a balance between the programs of science, management, humanities, economics, and law.
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Matt Beers and Wessel Botha (NAD) won the FNB Wines2Whales Shiraz on 4 November after another drama-filled day of racing on a course that had to be rerouted overnight to avoid protests near Hermanus.
The third and final stage ended in a sprint involving five teams with Under-23 cross country world champion Alan Hatherly of South Africa and his Danish teammate Simon Andreassen (Spur Specialized) getting across the line first. Belgians Frans Claes and renowned road rider Jasper Stuyven (Waypoint Leuven) were second with Beers and Botha third.
Late last night the FNB Wines2Whales organisers were instructed by emergency services in Hermanus to stay away from the town – where the race was scheduled to end – because of the protests. A road near the town had been blocked by burning tyres and rocks.
A decision was taken to hold the stage in the Elgin/Grabouw area on an out-and-back course starting and finishing at Oak Valley wine estate. The race's route team worked through the night to plan a new course and then mark it. The stage they came up with was 56km long and was mostly held on trails in the area that had not been used in the previous two stages.
"It was a really cool course … they did really well to design it and mark it in that time," said Botha afterwards.
The 19-year-old from Pretoria and Beers began the final stage with a 2 minutes and 54 seconds cushion. They had a setback halfway through the ride when Beers got a puncture. Their support team of Gawie Combrinck and Nico Bell (NAD 2) was with the front group "so we swopped a wheel and then it was a mad dash to get back", said Botha.
They were helped when the front riders missed a route marker and had to turn back.
"We just all rode together from there. For the last five kays we just had to hang tight," said Beers. After celebrating on the line in a spray of champagne, Beers said his first FNB Wines2Whales win "is such a good feeling".
For Botha it was his first win in a major stage race and the more experienced Beers said "Wessel has been really great … our riding styles are very similar and we gelled very well".
Hatherly had also suffered a puncture early on in the ride and chased back after plugging it. At about 40km he and Andreassen caught the front group and immediately attacked up a switchback climb.
"Then we took a wrong turn and that's where everybody came together again," he said. Hatherly and Andreassen were, however, able to celebrate their second stage win in two days – they had also won Stage 2 in a sprint.
Second in the dash for the line were Claes and Stuyven, an accomplished road rider who finished fifth at the Paris Roubaix classic this year and who was taking part in his first mountain bike race.
Stuyven said he had gone for skills training in Stellenbosch the day before the event and became more comfortable on a mountain bike as the race progressed. "On the first day I bonked (ran out of energy) but yesterday and today were great. I enjoyed it a lot but I've still got a lot to learn on a mountain bike," he added.
Bell and Beers were third in the sprint, fourth went to Calle Friberg and HB Kruger (HiQ Ellsworth) and Bell/Combrinck finished fifth.
Another team celebrating their accomplishment were Dutchmen Mitchel Steenman and Matthijs Jasperse, the only riders to finish the Jereboam – all three three-day FNB Wines2Whales events (the Chardonnay, Pinotage and Shiraz).
Steenman, an Olympic rower who stands a full 2m tall, said they had enjoyed their nine days of riding and the new course today had made for bit of a change from what they had expected. They finished the stage in 2 hours and 33 minutes, placing them a commendable 30th overall. They also won the whale category for teams in which both riders weigh more than 90kg.
"It's an amazing feeling to have finished them all," said Jasperse before the pair headed off for the airport and their flight back to Holland.
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Carl Zeiss Pte. Ltd. was first officially registered as a company in Singapore in 1984. This year therefore marks the 30th anniversary of ZEISS operations in Singapore. The Singapore office has been the sales and service company (SSC) responsible for the Southeast Asia region since 1990, acting as the base for ZEISS business in countries including Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines.
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Commercial transport technology is changing at a rapid pace. Wireless charging roads, autonomous coaches on our streets and flying taxis above us; these developments are now within our reach. But in truth, these technologies are still a long way off for the majority of people. Instead, it's the smaller, less conspicuous technologies that make a difference to ordinary drivers.
Features like inbuilt GPS, driver attention detection software and adaptive cruise control are all changing how we get around in subtle ways. But of all the onboard amenities available today, one of the most overlooked is the humble dashcam. Dashcams for coaches are quickly becoming an essential feature as operators begin to see their value as a tool to lower costs and increase efficiency.
So what purpose do dashcams really serve? The dashboard camera of today can serve multiple functions for drivers and operators, a far cry from the blurry footage and boxy designs of yesteryear.
Reduce insurance premiums
First and foremost, adding dashcams to your coaches will go a long way to decreasing your insurance premiums. After all, if you can provide visual evidence of your driver's journeys, you technically pose less of a risk to the insurers.
Be warned, your insurance company isn't obligated to lower your insurance rates simply because you've bought a dashcam. However, it's generally accepted that installing dashcams on your coaches can lead to reductions, with some insurance providers offering up to a 15% discount for those with onboard cameras installed.
In 2015, insurers began accepting dashcam footage as evidence when settling claims. That means recorded journeys can give operators leverage in the event of an accident. Clear, incontrovertible evidence can be used to expedite investigations and reduce the amount of time a vehicle is off the road.
It's a sad truth that some road users are willing to cause a crash for a quick cash settlement. It's also a sad reality that fraudsters increasingly target company vehicles in a bid to extract bigger payouts. But with a dashcam, drivers can be assured that
These 'cash-for-crash' scammers often stake out their victims in advance. The very presence of dashcams on your vehicles could be enough to deter anyone from trying to scam you. Of course, if they do try to instigate a crash when your vehicle is stocked with CCTV, they'll soon discover that their luck has run out.
Dashcams are also a handy addition for operators looking to integrate another layer of security to their fleet. While onboard CCTV gives operators total visibility of anything that happens on their coaches, it doesn't capture the action outside. Capturing external footage won't protect drivers and passengers in the event of a crash, but it can make drivers think more about how they're driving.
While it's true that some insurers suggest drivers cover or hide their dashcams when the vehicle is empty, a visible camera can act as a vital deterrent to criminals. Even the presence of a camera can be enough to make thieves think again.
Dash cams can increase more than just driver and passenger safety. With integrations for Pedestrian Auto Emergency Braking technology, coaches can potentially alert drivers to vulnerable road users and reduce the impact speed of a crash.
Track journeys
Front and rear dashcams for coaches are increasingly being used to track journeys and identify congestion points. When used in conjunction with tools like the Sygnal GPS and Engine Tracker, operators can begin to build up a detailed understanding of where vehicles are most likely to experience delays. From these insights, operators can begin to cut down on fuel consumption, reduce journey times and increase passenger satisfaction.
It's not just about data analysis and route optimisation. Drivers are also in a unique position to capture stunning views. Picture driving through the scenic Scottish Highlands or exploring the twisting country roads of the Lake District; these images can be used to sell your journeys to new passengers and update your company website.
Improve training programs
Dash cams can also be a great source of information for new drivers in the form of visual training material. Offering visual instruction on how to manoeuvre tight spaces, respond to high-speed incidents and adhere to local driving regulations when on an international coach tour; dashcams can capture real-world illustrations of all these and more.
Video footage gathered from different driving situations can inform new practices and define standards for a new generation of drivers. Simultaneously, new drivers can record their journeys, then receive feedback from instructors on where they need improvement.
Things to bear in mind
While dashcams offer a great range of solutions to some big transport issues, there are some details every operator should be aware of. For instance…
It's an offence to cover or obscure front or rear windows in your vehicles, so any dashcams must be positioned correctly. That's why Sygnal provides a handy guide to setting up and placing your cameras with every purchase of a Sygnal dashcam.
As the operator, you are obligated to inform passengers that you have recording equipment on board. This can be done easily, however, with the addition of a clearly displayed vinyl sticker on your vehicles.
Not every insurer will agree to use dashcam footage in a claim, particularly if the footage only provides a one-sided view of the incident. Of course, having a dashcam system is still a better option than not having any kind of footage protection.
Even with these considerations, dashcams are an invaluable investment for your coach company. With Sygnal's centralised onboard CCTV system, operators can monitor footage from all of their vehicles and roll-out updates at the click of a button. Likewise, footage can be downloaded and stored on an external device as and when it's needed.
To see the full range of Sygnal products and packages, click here. To find out more about installing dashcams on your coach fleet, get in touch with Sygnal today.
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Q: Aggregate functions with EF repository Lets say that I have a products catalog MVC web application that utilizes EF 6.0 where all CRUD operations are handled by repositories. Now, one of the views has to show a List of Categories along with some aggregate information about Products from that Category, I mean that next to Category name column should appear three columns with total count of products from that category, along with minimum and maximum prices of products.
public class Product
{
    public string   Name    { get; set; }
    public decimal  Price   { get; set; }
    public int      CategoryId             { get; set; }
    public virtual  Category    Category   { get; set; }
}

public class Category
{
    public string   Name    { get; set; }
    public virtual  ICollection<Product>   Products   { get; set; }
}

Then if I have a repository of Bakery products
unitOfWork.ProductRepository.Insert(new Product(){Name="Doughnut", Price=4.0, CategoryId=1});
unitOfWork.ProductRepository.Insert(new Product(){Name="Apple Pie", Price=7.0, CategoryId=1});
unitOfWork.ProductRepository.Insert(new Product(){Name="Meat Pie", Price=9.0, CategoryId=1});

I need the view to show
#  Category        Total Products        Min Price        Max Price
1  Bakery products 3                     4                9

I don't believe that it is a bright idea to handle out of the repository the query, since it ruins all the idea of using repositories, and AFAIK it's widely recognized as a bad practice.
Some queries that utilize the DbContext directly could be written but I wanted to know how this type of tasks is handled in real world applications?
Maybe a new view model is required and then another read-only repository should be added that will get this data? Something like this?
public class CategoryStatsVM
{
    public string   Name    { get; set; }
    public virtual  ICollection<Product>   Products   { get; set; }
    public int      Count   { get; set; }
    public decimal  MinPrice    { get; set; }
    public decimal  MaxPrice    { get; set; }
}

A: I'm not sure by what you mean by "I don't believe that it is a bright idea to handle out of the repository the query, since it ruins all the idea of using repositories".
The main idea behind a repository is to abstract away DATA ACCESS. If you want to do some aggregation, some other calculation or something like that, that's mostly part of your business logic. The VM is the component that requires you to do the count, the max and the min. The VM is basically an abstract view, and views are usually derived from business requirements. So I think doing these queries are not part of the data access, thus not part of the repository.
What I would do is add a method to the repository interface like this:
public IQueryable<Category> GetById(int i)
{
    return dbContext.Category.Single(c=>c.CategoryId==i);
}

And then in the business logic you can use it like this:
unitOfWork.CategoryRepository.GetById(3).Products.Count();
unitOfWork.CategoryRepository.GetById(3).Products.Min(p=>p.Price);

This also has the added benefit of not loosing the deferred execution of LInQ to Entities, so the counting and looking for the minimum will be executed on the database.

A: As already mentioned by @Ivan Stoev. DbContext IS Repository. It handles all the basic CRUD operations and another repository layer on top of it seems to be redundant. What you're talking about sounds rather as a business layer that calls repository for "raw" data, apply additional logic and provide data to presentation layer.
So in your case you would have a service/business factory/class - whatever you call it - with a method like this:
public IEnumerable<CategoryStatsVM> GetCategoryStats()
{
    IList<Category> categories = dbContext.Categories.Include(m => m.Products).ToList();

    foreach (Category category in categories)
    {
        yield return new CategoryStatsVM
        {
            Name = category.Name,
            Count = category.Products.Count(),
            Products = this.GetProducts(category.Products),
            MinPrice = category.Products.Aggregate(GetMinPrice),
            MaxPrice = category.Products.Aggregate(GetMaxPrice)
        }
    }
}

private Product GetMinPrice(Product min, Product current)
{
    return min == null || curr.Price < min.Price ? curr : min;
}

private Product GetMaxPrice(Product max, Product current)
{
    return max == null || curr.Price > max.Price ? curr : max;
}

private IEnumerable<ProductVM> GetProducts(IEnumerable<Product> products)
{
    List<ProductVM> products; // create instance of the product view model list
    return products;
}

Just one note about the last function - It's there because you should create a view model class for the product too. You shouldn't work with data models in presentation layer.
I created separated functions for the aggregation just to make it more readable. you can of course have everything in one method:
MinPrice = category.Products.Aggregate((min, curr) => min == null || curr.Price < min.Price ? curr : min),

A: You can use the Aggregate function like this to get the UserLogs last logging of transaction file
UsersLogs.Where(i => i.Id== _id).Max(x => x.transId)


Certain issues in India require closer attention but have failed to generate enthusiasm to capture enough audience. There probably would be several reasons to this but if you put these issues at the middle of several concentric circles, the outermost and the biggest and strongest barrier is the State itself which underplays most of it. This is a significant challenge and to overcome it would require generating interest and discussions among the citizens. The Centre for Public Policy Research (CPPR) has been constantly challenging conventional planks on which the State justified its existence. This has had the dual impact of creating a critical space in evaluating policies even as it allowed challenging and restricting regulations under the State. As part of this continuing innovation in understanding ground realities and providing alternatives, CPPR is attempting to generate debates around certain State activities and policies. We project six major issues in this context, based on business largely handled by the State and into which penetration has been literally restricted. These projects are supported by ATLAS Research Foundation, Washington, DC. Understanding each of these issues and alternatives would systematically deconstruct the regulatory environment around us and ensure that growth proceed smoothly and undeterred in the near-term.
Lack of public transportation facilities at most parts of the country has a debilitating impact on the overall economic growth. From urban to rural areas, the standardisation of the public transport in the form of buses restricts the availability, affordability and accessibility for the passengers/users of the system. Government prepares policy vesting control of public transport systems in them which limits the mobility in the market and access to institutions leading to social costs of higher order. Here CPPR research tries to analyze the lack of innovation and efficiency in public transport because of the market barriers.
In India, The Central Motor Vehicle acts and their counter parts at the States level put up barriers for the Intermediary Para Transit Vehicles (IPT); Auto Rickshaws, Share Autos, Tuk-Tuks etc to be a constituent of the public transport system. CPPR study will look into the role of IPT's in meeting the mobility needs of Indian population in almost all cities/towns and have been facilitating the last mile connectivity. This is in addition to being the vehicle for the Urban poor. The law however does not legalise the operations of these vehicles as main stream operators of a public transport system. The National Urban Transport Policy of India and the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission is worded in favour of government monopoly over urban transport and limits private participation. Recognition of many of such IPT's systems is vital for enhancing the mobility requirements of people. For eg: the permit system has discouraged the Automobile manufacturers of IPT sector to limit the investments, bring innovation and technical upgrade of the existing vehicles. It is argued that like Mobile revolution, removal of the permits and easing out of the Motor vehicles act would result in a transportation revolution ensuring the last mile connectivity for all the citizens of the country. Given the high density of population and narrow roads in many cities, experts have vouched for IPT systems to serve the mobility requirements compared to Public bus systems.
Traditionally this sector has been under government control. All arguments based on morality and the importance to legislate morality flies in the wind when one takes the profits made by successive governments from this sector. CPPR's research tries to light these opaque liquor policies by raising certain difficult questions including the need to liberalize the sector and ensure competition. We point out that this cosy affair with alcohol which has been continuing for so long and at the cost of the consumers. Successive history of legislations never had any underlining purpose but only to generate wealth in the form of tax for the State.
From the specific case of alcohol emerge the issues in trade policies of India. What surfaces is a complicated state of affairs with less transparency and huge restrictions. In addition complicated customs procedures, lack of a single publication ensuring details that a trader would require, service barriers in the various sectors and a range of possibilities in which trade liberalization would have certain benefits have all deterred business in this economy. CPPR raises these issues to foster greater activity which could lead to furthering our trade with the rest of the world.
The woes on poor quality have time and again generated reforms in education. But what was considered as reforms opened the Pandora's Box of corruption and redtapism. Rather than reforming the sector it created profitable platforms not only for the politicians but also for the academicians to talk and write volumes. The sector is as important now as it was at the point when such reforms were necessitated. This has led to some crucial questions that we need to ask the State. CPPR raises these questions in our research. We look at the policy of the State to find out the problems faced by this sector.
There are protected trees enmeshed by a series of laws at various levels of the State in India. It is possible that a private individual could face the possibility of prosecution under one or more such laws if he were to attempt cutting one of these trees from his gardens. The State says that much of this has been eased but still we find that no one takes forestry as a profitable investment option. This casts doubts on the claims of the state. CPPR attempts to clear these weeds and shrubs which distance interested businesses from our forests.
India has one-sixth of the world population, enough people to compete but no one to translate these competition to medal in international sporting events. While Olympic medals have been rare, internationally competitive sportsmen have been rarer still during this entire period of management of the sector by the state. CPPR points out to a new and emerging direction which has probably changed the game in India: being a sportsperson is now a reputable enough profession. And the private sporting leagues is what made this difference. But these factors require further examination to understand these links and enhance it.


Incredible. That many people died just so that a company wouldn't fall behind another.
"Nearly every 737 Neo has been grounded?" . nearly??
so it's true when the CEO of LION AIR said they are only dollars in front of Boeing Company. how Boeing company take responsibility for hundreds of people who died inside their planes?
1. They told the pilots about the MCAS for them to train more on how to control the plane and not fighting the MCAS functions.
2. If they didn't say that the new plane behaves like the previous one even if it doesn't because of the f*cking MCAS. They are more worried on how the buyers will compare both planes and ofcourse, people will tend to pick the one that is better but feels like the previous version like the A320NEO.
3. If they didn't rush things out and have a detailed plan and gave more time to learn all about the errors that the new plane is producing.
Boeing, please take your supporters a free ride on your test flights.
Boeing needs to pay for their corporate greed. the decision makers who pushed this model to production needs to be punished severely along with FAA personnel who certified it. Alas it's too late for the 370 souls who left earth . We the people of the world are so ignorant of how corporates use us as guinea pigs and thinks of the common man as cattle for them to herd and misuse to earn more money and power. How much is enough....it never is enough...basic nature of humans.
This video is so clearly funded by Airbus.
Vox is clearly unimformed and ignorant of actual facts of the cause of the 2 flights to crash. As a pilot, the engines being mounted higher have nothing to do with this incident it is purely computer malfuntion.
Sad. Is it safe to say the CEO's at Boeing are responsible for loss of life? Or would that be too harsh?
Regulation is Important!!! stop electing people pushing deregulation.
This is so sad, over 100 people died just because another person wanted to be the best. I feel so bad for all of the families of the people on board the plane when it crashed. Just because of this rush to have the best plane some young people couldn't live their life to the fullest. Rest In Peace everyone who was on board the Boeing 737 MAX 8.
People say your more likely to crash in a car than a plane but I say which one are you more likely to survive??
The way we traditionally bury the dead is horrible for the environment.
The modern way of burying a body, the "casket in the ground method" most of us are used to is horrible for the environment. It uses an incredible amount of resources, emits toxic pollutants into the air, and pumps the ground full of formaldehyde, which is known to cause cancer. It's also prohibitively expensive. The average cost of a modern funeral costs between $10,000 to $12,000.
There are a number of greener options available though. Cremation uses less resources and requires less space than a traditional burial, but isn't perfect. There are more experimental methods on the horizon such as promession and alkaline hydrolysis.
No matter which method we choose, it's clear that we need to reform how we bury the dead.


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Florida plans to expand electric vehicle infrastructure
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The state government is charging ahead with its project to expand the state's electric vehicle infrastructure.
The plan is designed to increase the number of charging stations along major thoroughfares throughout the state.
"As electric cars become more prevalent on our roads and highways, the development of these charging stations is essential to the success of our ever-evolving transportation system," said Governor Ron DeSantis.
The plan will be funded in part by Florida's $166 million portion (awarded to improve air quality) of the the 2018 multi-state Volkswagen settlement. The funding will allow for significant investment to reduce diesel emissions and expand the infrastructure for electric vehicles.
Florida's beneficiary mitigation plan for how the state intends to spend the full $166 million is now available for public comment.
"Duke Energy is thrilled to be a part of Governor DeSantis' plans to support clean transportation on Florida's highways," Duke Energy Florida president Catherine Stempien stated. "Today's announcement is readily supported by our Park and Plug pilot program, which is bringing 530 EV charging stations to our customers and communities.
Florida Power & Light and Electrify America also applauded the move.
"We look forward to working with the State to make Florida a leader in the electrification of transportation," said Florida Power & Light president and CEO Eric Silagyb. The company plans to install more than 30 million solar panels by 2030 and to help the state expand its EV charging station infrastructure.
"Electrify America is thrilled to see the state of Florida support private sector investments in charging infrastructure along its highways," said Matthew Nelson, director of government affairs of Electrify America. The company is installing charging stations at 23 sites along I-95, I-75, I-10, and in the Miami metro area.
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Not everything you want will be handed to you. Sometimes, you have to go out and get it. And if you want major success -- you will have to be assertive.
Being assertive means you know how to communicate what you want in a clear and respectful manner. It means you are not afraid of speaking your mind, and you highly value expressing yourself in authentic and powerful ways. When you are effectively assertive, you are neither aggressive nor passive -- instead you are honest, direct, and skilled at articulating your views.
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Villa Jemma is a private rental property built in 2007 and located in the stylish part of Seminyak Bali. This is a contemporary and luxurious place to spend your holiday in a prime neighbourhood of Seminyak Oberoi. With carefully selected features and facilities this has fast become one of the more sought after holiday place for tourists. You will like the interiors and ambience of the pool villa with its design around a well planned private swimming pool, a tropical garden and a Bale. The property for rent lies in an area of 610 square meters just 300 meters away from the beach. You can easily reach some of the famous restaurants including Ku De Ta, La Lucciola, and Hu'u, within just three minutes of walking distance.
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Dr. Aaron Dickens is a Reno native and McQueen High School graduate. He obtained his undergraduate degree from Oregon State University where he was a scholarship soccer athlete then returned to his hometown to attend the University of Nevada School of Medicine. Dr. Dickens completed his orthopaedic surgery residency training at the University of New Mexico and received additional training in orthopaedic traumatology at the University of California San Diego.
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Gene therapy has become an exciting and controversial issue on the scientific and medical horizon. Science offers new technologies that, in the future, will be able to treat and cure common genetically passed diseases. However, as it is an extremely broad subject, some time must be dedicated to its interpretation and explanation. First, a general definition of gene therapy is required. Genethics, the Clash between the New Genetics and Human Values, by David T. Suzuki and Peter Knudtson, defines gene therapy as "the medical replacement or repair of defective or faulty genes in living human cells." It is not really so elementary as the definition would imply. Within gene therapy there lie certain aspects, some more controversial than others, some more achievable and probable than others. The ethical question must be addressed at each turn. However, all of this will be discussed at greater length subsequently.
There are two types of cells that can theoretically receive gene therapy. The first is the somatic cell, also called the body cell. This cell's lifetime is only as long as the life span of the individual patient. This is to say that whatever therapy performed on somatic cells is obsolete upon the death of the patient.
The second type of cell is the germ-line cell which is also known as the reproduction cell. These are not bound by human life but instead belong to lineages that may be immortal. Therefore, unlike the somatic cell, whatever therapy, successful or not, undergone by a germ-line cell will be passed on for generations.
...and that the "promise of gene therapy" is still intact. There is good reason to be optimistic.
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