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Chef Q&A: Keiichi Kurobe of Blackship
Kurobe's progressive menu blends Italian and Japanese cuisine
By Jacqueline Fitzgerald
March 31, 2020 — 5 Minute Read
Entering Blackship—one of West Hollywood's coolest restaurants—you can feel the pulsing kinetic energy. The busy bar hums, people coming and going create a gentle hustle and bustle, there's a free-form rhythm as staff swish by, attending to diners.
So perhaps it's not surprising that chef Keiichi Kurobe once toyed with the idea of being a hip-hop artist in Japan. Luckily for Los Angeles, he decided to cook for a living, and late last year opened his first solo venture—an innovative mix of Japanese and Italian cuisine. Prior to this, Kurobe was the executive sous chef at Hinoki & the Bird in Century City.
Learn more about Blackship on their website
At Blackship (the name is a reference to U.S. ships sent to Japan in the 1850s to promote trade), housemade pastas are a specialty, and you can share just about everything. The local albacore namerou (similar to tartare) is a blissful combination of texture and taste. Manila clam tonjiru warms you right up and carbonara ramen will delight you. The local swordfish and Kurobuta pork chop roast are standout entrées, and of course there are specials, such as Porterhouse steak.
The T.K.G. arancini (one of the most popular items) is a whimsical take on classic comfort food and arrives in a nest with its own little squeeze bottle of soy sauce. Oh, and if your love for the richly savory but delicate shungiku gnocchi (Brussels sprouts, brown butter dashi, pecorino) – borders on addiction, don't say we didn't warn you. Desserts include genmaicha tiramisu and a sweet-saké riff on budino.
We recently sat down with Kurobe to learn more about his one-of-a-kind kitchen.
What made you want to combine Italian and Japanese?
While both cuisines are very different, they have flavor notes that complement each other. Japanese is very subtle, you don't have a lot of spicy or high-acid stuff. Italian food complements that lack of boldness. Both cultures use a lot of grains in their cooking—rice, noodles—and they both have a lot of seafood in their cooking.
How do you decide what makes the menu?
My main goal is to make sure I'm creating new things with the seasons, progressing in a sense, to keep things interesting for the clientele. It also has to make sense though for me and the customer. I think that's where you can lose people—when it doesn't make sense. You lose the translation. A lot of my dishes are based around a flavor I know and I play with that, putting a twist on how it's prepared. That way, it's a lot more approachable for the diner.
How do you like Los Angeles?
L.A. has the best ethnic food of all the cities I've lived in. West Hollywood is a very exciting place and a lot of restaurants have been successful here. The energy is totally different from Century City. So far the people have been very kind and supportive.
What got you interested in cooking?
I come from a big family. Family plays a big role in my cooking. I was born and raised in New York but also lived in Japan. There are a lot of Italian restaurants in Japan and I grew up eating Italian foods. In New York, my mom would host dinners, potluck style, and my mom took us out a lot to eat at different restaurants.
I wanted to be a cook since I was a young kid. I always helped my mom and my grandmas in the kitchen. It was calming in a sense, it was kind of my niche. I was this kid who didn't like school. I was expelled twice. My mom pushed me to try something new. I was very lucky to have someone who supported me.
After working in Japan as a dishwasher at a French restaurant, I fell in love with the energy of the restaurant business. I worked my way up slowly and it's a life-long dream that has finally come true.
Does your mom like to cook?
Yes. When I go back [to visit], I refuse to cook. The reason is my mom will critique it over my shoulder. It doesn't matter that I have a restaurant. She still tells me, 'This is my kitchen, you go by my rules!' She'll always have something to say.
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The Irishman who claims to help people with 'unwanted same-sex attractions'
Mike Davidson has been heavily criticised for his approach to sexual orientation
Sat, Apr 20, 2019, 06:00
Fionola Meredith
Mike Davidson of Core Issues Trust: 'I don't hit people over the head with the Bible.' Photograph: Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker
On the evening of Valentine's Day in February this year, a group of gay rights activists gathered outside Townsend Street Presbyterian Church in North Belfast, holding banners saying "self-hatred is not therapy" and "love needs no cure".
The activists were there to protest about the Irish premiere of a film to be shown at the church that night. The name of the film is "Once Gay: Matthew and Friends". Produced and promoted by a Northern Ireland-based Christian charity, Core Issues Trust, it tells the story of a young singer-songwriter called Matthew Grech, a contestant in the Maltese version of the X Factor, who caused outrage when he announced his personal renunciation of homosexuality on national television.
Gay conversion therapy, which aims to change the sexual orientation of non-heterosexual people, or to reduce their attraction to others of the same sex, is probably one of the most controversial therapies in the world right now. Indeed, many experts take issue with the word "therapy" itself, in this context, since the practice is considered unscientific, unethical and potentially harmful by all major professional bodies.
Nobody is ashamed of being straight, are they? Nobody is kicked out of their family homes because they are straight. But it does happen to people because they're queer
Malachai O'Hara, an activist who attended the protest, says that the film is deeply damaging because it is based on the assumption that being LGBTQ is wrong, and that being heterosexual is right.
"Nobody is ashamed of being straight, are they? Nobody is kicked out of their family homes because they are straight. But it does happen to people because they're queer." O'Hara says that people who are troubled by their sexual orientation should access non-directive counselling to help them work through their internalised homophobia.
That's also the message from Anita Furlong, a psychotherapist with the Irish Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (IACP), who specialises in gender and sexual diversity issues. "It's not sexual orientation that causes distress, it's society's view of it," she says. "Conversion therapy doesn't work and it causes harm." Furlong is scathing about Senator Rónán Mullen's recent claim that such counselling should be an "individual choice" unless it can be proven to be harmful: "That was an insidious, disturbing and very irresponsible thing for a person of influence to say."
Following the release of "Once Gay", the IACP released a statement condemning conversion therapy as "barbaric", saying that young people are particularly vulnerable to this dangerous, discredited practice. And soon it may become illegal in Ireland: the Prohibition of Conversion Therapies Bill 2018 has now passed its second reading in the Seanad. The UK government is also bringing forward a ban as part of its LGBT equality plan.
But Mike Davidson of Core Issues Trust insists that there are vital issues of personal freedom at stake. He rejects the idea that sexual orientation is innate and immutable. He claims that sexual identity is a private matter, and that individuals must be free "to leave unwanted homosexual practices" and that they have a right to seek professional assistance to achieve that.
Davidson says that there's already a de facto ban on the kind of counselling he does. In 2014, he was removed from the British Psychodrama Association's register and since then he has operated independently, "providing counselling for people with unwanted same-sex attractions", as he puts it. He doesn't use the term conversion therapy.
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Davidson says that if he sees more than 20 people in a week, that would be a lot for him. Although the ethos of Core Issues Trust is explicitly Christian, he claims that just under half of his clients come from a no faith or other faith background. He mentions a Muslim man he has been working with for a long time. The work is very intense, he says, and he considers it a big responsibility: "It's people's lives."
For me, this viewpoint discrimination that we are experiencing is just unhealthy for society
Sitting in the small office of his Co Down home, with books on homosexuality in ancient Greece and Rome piled up around him, Davidson describes the challenges he encounters. "You can't get professional indemnity insurance when you're pushed out of a professional body," he says, which means that clients are not charged fees. "You can't get training. For me, this viewpoint discrimination that we are experiencing is just unhealthy for society." Davidson's voice is quiet, restrained, with a soft South African accent, but a sense of controlled frustration is evident.
He has been married for almost 40 years, and he does not describe himself as ex-gay, despite having had homosexual experiences as a younger man. Why? "Because I never identified as gay at all. This is the semantic quagmire we're in. For me, the bedrock of sexual politics is the whole construction around orientation – it now carries a notion of a fixed, unalterable category of existence. But new neural pathways can begin. I have some experience in terms of my own homosexual stuff. That's there. It's like your hard drive: you can't remove everything from your hard drive, but you work with your hard drive. You clean it up, and new ways develop."
He claims – highly controversially – that many of the clients he works with are suffering from "attachment hunger": a desperate need to connect with others of the same sex on an emotional, rather than a sexual level, because of negative early childhood experiences. "A man may fantasise about another man, and you could say that's his orientation, that's how he is and that's the end of the story," says Davidson. "Or you could say – 'actually I'm kind of objectifying that person'. So then the work is – how do I connect with that person in a healthy way so I'm not sexualising or objectifying him?"
To suggest that being gay is a manifestation of "sexual brokenness" which can be treated, diminished and perhaps even cured is profoundly offensive to many people. Can Davidson not see the hurt that causes? "I would hold to an orthodox Christian position. If you asked me a theological question, then yes, I believe that [homosexual practice] is sinful, though I don't hit people over the head with the Bible when they arrive at my door."
Davidson proactively seeks publicity for the cause he promotes. Under the banner of Core Issues Trust, he takes part in media debates, makes films, produces pamphlets, lobbies politicians. In 2012, Core paid for advertisements to appear on London buses, saying: "Not Gay! Ex-gay, post-gay and proud. Get over it!". The ads were banned by Transport for London, a decision which Core challenged and ultimately lost in the courts.
The stress of the internal conflict left my body in extraordinary pain. I ended up having a complete breakdown
All of this must take money, and a great deal of it. So how are Davidson's many projects funded? He says that he is self-supporting, and that most of the money comes from supporters. "As with any voluntary organisation, it's probably 10 per cent of our followers who provide 90 per cent of the money. Some businesses contribute." Does he receive any funding from groups in the US? "From the US, I would say we had about $500 in the last 10 years."
According to the most recent figures from the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, the income of Core Issues Trust is £67,400, for the year ending December 31st, 2017. The trustees' report for that period lists £64,660 under the category of donations and legacies. One of Core's three trustees is Andrea Williams, the co-founder and chief executive of the British conservative evangelical organisation Christian Concern, which campaigned against same-sex marriage.
Davidson has many critics, and the fiercest of them believe that it is morally wrong, and actively dangerous, even to discuss his activities publicly. Jayne Ozanne, a Christian LGBTQ campaigner who underwent conversion therapy which left her suicidal, is highly reluctant to speak about him at all. She has previously expressed her desire for the British government to criminalise Davidson. "If you name him and his business, you're driving business his way," she says.
Ozanne recently published a UK survey on faith and sexuality, with 4,613 respondents, of whom 458 people said there had been attempts to change their sexuality. A total of 193 said they had experienced suicidal thoughts and 91 said they had attempted suicide. Twenty-two people reported that they had been forced to undergo sexual activity with someone of the opposite gender.
Ozanne describes how, in her 20s, she decided to seek conversion therapy. "I believed God would heal me. When you believe you're wrong and an aberration, you believe there must be a way through that. But you're left feeling a failure, it always ends up your fault, because you don't have enough faith. I had no idea of the harm I was doing. The stress of the internal conflict left my body in extraordinary pain. I ended up having a complete breakdown. That's why the level of suicidal thoughts is so high, because you cannot keep going through the pressure you are carrying."
Since the very idea of being "ex-gay", or even trying to be, is an extremely contentious and disputed category, there are few people who will admit to identifying themselves in this way, especially in public. Darren (not his real name) is a married father of several young children. He is in his early 40s, but he looks much younger. "I have struggled with same-sex attractions since I was 17," he says. "My wife knew about this before we got married. Four years ago, I had a crisis of faith, and it derailed my reason for trying to move away from same-sex attraction. I thought 'this is who I am, there's no God, we're all just accidents'. I was headed for a marriage breakup."
You're effectively wanting me to break up my life with my kids. There's tolerance for people who affirm a gay identity and intolerance for anyone who chooses a different direction
During counselling with Davidson, Darren was encouraged to examine his early childhood relationships, and now claims to be feeling more comfortable in both his faith and his marriage. He vehemently opposes the idea of conversion therapy being banned. "For me, that means you're preventing someone from choosing the direction of their own life. You're effectively wanting me to break up my family, my life with my kids. There's tolerance for people who affirm a gay identity and total intolerance for anyone who wants to choose a different direction."
But an anonymous account of another Northern Irish man's experience, passed to Ozanne following the publication of her survey, paints a radically different picture. "I was a Christian, and the last thing I wanted was to be gay," the unnamed man writes. "But despite my fervent, heartfelt prayers, begging God to remove my feelings for men, they remained".
The writer describes how, in 2010, he joined a group led by Davidson for men struggling with unwanted same-sex attraction, and was also counselled by a volunteer from a Christian charity called True Freedom Trust. But by 2013, overwhelmed with shame and misery, he came to realise that his efforts were futile. "That same year, Alan Chambers, the president of the largest 'ex-gay' ministry, Exodus International, closed down his organisation, making an apology for the harm it had caused. I had to grieve my misplaced hope and the years I spent trying to change something that is both immutable and intrinsic to the way I have been made."
THE PAIN OF TRYING TO SQUARE THE CIRCLE
Colin Nevin at his home in Bangor, Co Down. 'I'm still same-sex attracted but I don't practise, because of my Christianity.' Photograph: Stephen Davison/Pacemaker Press
There are few easy answers. The pain of a life spent trying to reconcile his faith and his sexual orientation is written into Colin Nevin's face. Celibate for the last 10 years, and now terminally ill, Nevin lives alone in a small flat in Bangor, Co Down, in which framed Bible verses vie for space with Abba and Nana Mouskouri posters. He likes to dress all in white, from top to toe: hat, suit, shirt, shoes.
When I've fallen, I've had to fall on my own. They don't know what it's like to walk a mile in my little white shoes: the sorrow, the isolation, the forced secrecy
"I'm still same-sex attracted but I don't practise, because of my Christianity," he says. "Spirituality comes first. Other Christians have shunned me, blanked me, because of who I am. When I've fallen, I've had to fall on my own. They don't know what it's like to walk a mile in my little white shoes: the sorrow, the isolation, the forced secrecy. I've tried to square the circle and I can't, so this is the path I find easiest to manage. But I am lonely."
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Patterns in DNA reveal hundreds of unknown protein pairings
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Researchers have now found a new way to extract useful information out of sequenced DNA. By cataloging subtle evolutionary signatures shared between pairs of genes in bacteria, the team discovered hundreds of previously unknown protein interactions. This meth…
Method will be applied to human genome to learn more about how our proteins interact to carry out biological functions Sequencing a genome is getting cheaper, but making sense of the resulting data remains hard.
By cataloging subtle evolutionary signatures shared between pairs of genes in bacteria, the team was able to discover hundreds of previously unknown protein interactions.
This method is now being applied to the human genome, and could produce new insights into how human proteins interact.
It's remarkable that they can now be predicted en masse using the large amounts of genomic sequence data that have been generated in recent years," said senior author David Baker, professor of biochemistry at the University of Washington School of Medicine.
"Co-evolution has been useful for understanding how specific proteins interact, but we can now use it as a tool for discovery," said lead author Qian Cong, a postdoctoral fellow at the UW School of Medicine.
The research team compared more than 4,000 genes from E. coli to DNA sequences from more than 40,000 other bacterial genomes.
One of these, an interaction between a protein toxin and its antitoxin, may help explain, the researchers speculate, why some E. coli dominate their microbial niche.
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Australia revokes unvaccinated tennis star Djokovic's visa again 'in public interest'
By Newsroom	 Last updated Jan 14, 2022
On Friday, the Australian government canceled Novak Djokovic's visa for the second time, claiming the tennis world number one. 1, who is not vaccinated against COVID-19, may pose a risk to the community.
The decision raises the prospect of a second legal battle for the Serbian tennis star to be allowed to stay and try to clinch a record 21st major tennis title at the Australian Open, but time is running out with the tournament which starts Monday.
Australian Immigration Minister Alex Hawke exercised his discretion to revoke Djokovic's visa after a court overturned an earlier revocation and released him from immigration detention on Monday.
"Today I exercised my authority under Section 133C(3) of the Migration Act to cancel the visa held by Mr. Novak Djokovic for reasons of health and good order, on the grounds that 'it was in the public interest to do so,' Hawke said in a statement.
The government "is strongly committed to protecting Australia's borders, particularly in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic," Hawke said.
He said he had "carefully reviewed" information from Djokovic, the Home Office and the Australian Border Force.
Under the section of the Migration Act which the Minister used to exercise his power to cancel the visa, Djokovic would not be able to obtain a visa to come to Australia for three years, except in compelling circumstances which affect the interests from Australia.
Djokovic, the defending Australian Open champion, was included in Thursday's draw as the top seed and was set to face fellow Serbian Miomir Kecmanovic in his opener, likely on Monday or Tuesday.
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The saga has intensified the global debate over vaccine rights of choice, raised questions about Australia's failed handling of Djokovic's visa and has become a sticky issue for Prime Minister Scott Morrison as he campaigns for his re-election.
The vaccine skeptical tennis star fueled widespread anger in Australia when he announced last week that he was traveling to Melbourne for the Australian Open with a medical exemption from requirements for visitors to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
Australia has suffered some of the longest lockdowns in the world, has a 90 per cent vaccination rate among adults and has seen a runaway Omicron outbreak bring nearly a million cases in the past two weeks.
Upon his arrival, Australian Border Force officials decided his exemption was not valid and he was held alongside asylum seekers in a migrant detention hotel for several days.
On Monday, a court allowed him to stay on the grounds that officials had been "unreasonable" in the way they handled his interview in a seven-hour process in the middle of the night.
Djokovic's cause was not helped by an error in his entry statement relating to foreign travel in the previous two weeks, which he attributed to his agent. He also admitted that he should have postponed an interview and a photo shoot for a French newspaper on December 18 when he was infected with COVID-19.
An online poll by media group News Corp found 83 per cent in favor of the government trying to deport the tennis star.
"Absolutely he should go. He didn't do the right thing and he's a little cheeky about it," said Venus Virgin Tomarz, 45, who lives in Melbourne.
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There are some more details in some, you know, shehryar that was given to some profits and less in some others. But fundamentally, these are all you can think of it as these are all fruits from the same tree. So profits were not given different teachings. It's the exact same fundamental core teachings beliefs, values, ethics, that were given to new honey Salaam under the lake are the same that was given to you. When I was a woman was in a behavioral Hema with Lisa musawah Risa and whatever we counsel table Rahim musona Nisa, and Hakim would deem that you live and you stand by the deen and you establish it and you don't fall into division regarding it, there are some fundamental
things that were given to us now. So Allah is saying one of the most basic teachings of our religion, we're actually not to fall into, and not be obsessed with disagreements, not to become obsessed and separate yourself because of disagreements without that the Federal COVID don't become divided groups within. In this next I Allah then mentions a tragedy and he uses the pronoun home, which means they will not refer Rocco, that's the past tense, referring to the word they but we don't know who the noun for that is. And the reason for that is nation after nation from previous profits ended up making the same kind of mistake. So Allah sent prophets to different nations,
different cultures, different languages, different centuries, right. So life looks different in one century to another. The world looks different from one century to another world, the society looks different from one culture to another. But regardless of cultural differences in different, you know, areas of history, human beings have certain kinds of behavior, and they repeat that kind of behavior. So even though we are driving vehicles that have much more modern technology than people that were, you know, taking rides in vehicles 100 years ago, they had much more basic technology that we do, right, we may be wearing clothes that are different from what they wore. We may have
houses and luxuries that they never had. So life and the city you live in maybe the same city. They
But 500 years ago, it didn't look the same, right? So the world looked very different. But there are some things about human behavior, whether it was 1000 years ago, or it's today, or it's going to be 500 years from now, the same behaviors repeat themselves. And so some things advance over time, some things become, you know, they evolve, technology evolves, language evolves, right, human knowledge evolves, our ability, our lifestyles evolve, luxuries evolve, but there are some things that remain fundamentally the same. And there are some aspects of human behavior are, you know, right and wrong stays the same. What Allah said was right at the time of no Holly Salaam, and what was wrong at the
time of new Hyundai Salaam is still right and wrong. It hasn't changed. So between New Hyundai Salaam, and the Prophet Muhammad Ali salam, there are 1000s of years, and Allah says you've been given the same exact teaching, right? The same exact principles for architecture have expired, the same exact principles for medicine have expired, they're no longer applicable with the world moved on. But principles, right and wrong ethics teachings, that the millennia the things that we believe in, they haven't changed, they've stayed exactly the same. But on the other side, there's something else that stayed exactly the same. So this one, the first time I had number 13, was about the
teachings of Allah that have always been the same. But then the tragedy is human mistakes have also been the same. With we keep falling into the same traps over and over again, you know, like, it's it, you may have heard the expression you learn from your own mistakes or learn from somebody else's mistakes. Well, it seems like people we don't learn from the mistakes of others, we repeat the same exact mistakes again, and again, and again and again. And another way Allah describes that in the Quran is in Santa Luffy hustle, right, the human beings have, you know, are in loss, and they've always been in loss. And the same loss that happened with somebody who suffered from greed, or
jealousy, or, you know, low self esteem or pride that lived 1000 years ago, maybe they may have had a prior they may have had proud or probably behavior, probably behavior because of the house they lived in, or the hut they lived in, or the donkey that they had, who can't, who knows. And now you've got somebody who's got pride in their Ferrari or whatever else, right? So the things that you have pride in have changed, your pride is still pride. And they feel in the same exact way. So this is one of those failures that Allah is going to describe now, that is pretty scary. It's this is a failure of people who know, Islam. This is a failure of those who follow profits. This is not people
who don't know anything about Islam. These are people who know about Islam, and are even have even learned about their religion. So and to qualify what I'm going to say to make this inshallah the teachings of this Baba, easy to remember, I want you to think of people who follow Islam in two basic categories. Okay? Even though there's lots of categories, we're going to divide them into two very basic categories. There are people who follows
that, try to learn something about it, or have learned something about it. Right. So either as a child, they were taught some things about their religion, or they went to a religious education, or they went to a madrasa or they went to, you know, whatever, you know, they learn from the scholar, they learn from their parents, they memorize some things, right, they learn the rules and regulations. And so they have some education in Islam. And there are also a huge population of people that follow Islam that believe in profits that have had practically no education in Islam. What they know about Islam is very little to nothing. They know, at the most, they know some very,
very, very basic things. But outside of that, they basically know nothing, right? And this has been, this is not a new thing, this has always been there. This has always been there, the vast majority of Christians did not know a lot about Christianity. And a very few group of people actually studied their religion, right and knew something about it, or was connected to people who know less, but there's degrees of knowledge, but at least you can put all of them in that they know kind, they kind of know. And then they have a hue, you have a huge majority of people who don't know the same thing with Judaism. There's some elements of the Jewish community that know a lot about their faith. They
know a lot about their rituals, the laws, the scholarship, and all of that. And then there are people who know less than less, but then there's a huge majority of people who practically know just a couple of stories, they know a couple of festivals, a couple of major celebrations, but outside of that they know nothing. And the same is true of Muslims. There's a lot of Muslims who know quite a bit, you know, they know about the thick of prayer, they know about Voodoo or the Salah, and the differences of opinion and where the hands are supposed to be they've studied, you know, the the facade of the Quran or they attend some kind of circles or they or maybe they're not super scholars,
and they know a lot but at least they're trying to learn more. They're watching videos, you know, listening to lectures, taking notes, reading books, etc. So trying to enhance their knowledge. They've got a copy of some translation or tuxedo dakara. They've got a book out
And Muslim at home or something they're trying to read about the Prophet's life. That's one group of people. Some of them know a lot. Some of them know basic, some of them are starting up at least learning, right? Or they're learned. And then you have this huge population of Muslims, that practically knows nothing.
But they consider themselves Muslim too. And they're, they're a huge population of people also, that are practically not knowledgeable at all right? And you'd be surprised, they don't even know some of the most basic things. Like they wouldn't know how to summon Muslims, they wouldn't know how to pray, they wouldn't. Or they would know that maybe they learned a little bit about that in childhood. And they don't remember, if not, maybe three, or 400 is three, or what is the afternoon prayer, I forget what it's called, it could be Muslims like that, too. Right. And they, they're not the sort of small population of people. That's a very big population of people. And the purpose of
this company is not to praise one group and criticize another group. Because whether or not somebody's got to learn isn't necessarily a responsibility on them. They may be it's may be a part of their upbringing, it may be a part of the society that they were raised in. There are nations in the world. Today, we're learning about Islam was made illegal. So you couldn't learn it even if you wanted to. And it's no surprise that two generations down people know practically nothing about their religion. There are nations that were colonized, and Assad was gutted from that society. And you have people that know that you're supposed to pray in the masjid, praying the laws, and a woman
will know that I want to talk to God or pray. But I know you have to be the, you know, this is the house of God. And this show locking up the Muslim identifies as a Muslim remembers her grandma used to pray and recite blonde or whatever. And she's standing in the machine just staring at the ceiling, not knowing what to do. But you came here with sincere intention doesn't have any idea what to do. There are people like that too. That's a reality to this idea is going to be about a mix of both of them. The is going to start with the first group, the group that knows something, the group that learned and he says something a terrible behavior that the people that learned have a terrible
behavior, terrible tendency. The most fundamental teaching was Don't be divided in the religion right? Allah says Roma tarraco ilam embody majha homely rainbow bellion mina home, they did not fall into different groups, they did not break up into separations. FARC actually is the same verb that was used for when the water parted with Mussolini's and farrakhan v Komal.
But this is from the fire and our pattern that followed Raka Amata for Rocco, el amin valldemossa. The far rope is actually not only does it make it loves him, but it also adds a kind of mobilization to what that means in simple languages. They became separated, the oma is one. There are places in the Quran where Allah describes previous prophets and their people, their followers. And then he says in nahi, omoto, cometan wahida. All of this is your oma one single oma. So we're not just the oma of Muhammad Sallallahu sallam, we are the oma of all the prophets combined. We're all just one oma and Allah is our rub, we accept all of the prophets nanofibrillar kobina had a minimum, right?
But then you have people who follow prophets learn about their religion, but guess what happens, their religious learning, the education of learning, about, about Allah about what the prophet says about what Allah says, the whole focus of it is actually to, to, to point out how you your understanding is different from this person's understanding. You see, I hold my hands here, but this guy's going to Hellfire because he holds his hands here.
I have my beard this long, but this these people, these, these bees will basically imitate, imitate dockerfile they have it that long.
Or this person is just like this. That's why they're, you know, they're separate from us. And actually, with even within religious circles, in some countries, we wear this color turban, and that indicates that we're on the right path. And those people with those other color turbans, oh my god, I better not see one of them in my machine. It gets to that extreme. It gets to that extreme. So what what are they studying? What What is it no longer Islam, it's actually they're a bunch of, they become not all of them, but enough of them but become a bunch of cults. And each cult has, you know how in a gang there's a membership. And there's an initiation, and you have to, you know, look a
certain way or be indoctrinated into the gang, you have to get a certain kinds of tattoo or you got to wear certain kinds of color, whatever. You literally have initiations in these groups. And if you don't match the description, you're off. You're, you know, and I have you, you know, for people who are not religious or people who don't know much about Islam, they don't know anything about this world. It's like an internal thing. There are Muslims I know that I've never seen the inside of a Masjid. But once you enter this world, this people that are learned or are learning world
Then you'll see a strange kind of ugliness in the two, there's a beauty in it. And there's a strange kind of ugliness. And the two, I have literally gone to machines, where they update a list, they update a list of people in groups that are going to the Hellfire, don't listen to them. There's a post, like instead of the DA to enter the masjid, there is actually updated lists of who is no longer, you know, greatly guided. In case he wants people who walk in don't even know who these people are, but at least they have an updated list of, you know, hellbound individuals. You know, I've been to other machines that, you know, my shows that people give money and they donate to build
a Masjid, right. And a lot of people who come in Juma, they don't know anything. They just, they just come to pray the Jamaat, there's a guy who's a taxi driver, this guy's a doctor, this guy's this or that, they just come this gift for the sake of Allah. Now they take money for the sake of Allah, and I kid you not gone to Russia. And there's a giant board. This is a machine that belongs to and then there's the name of a very specific group. And if you do not believe in the following items, and they make a bullet list of items, if you do not do this ritual, the way we do it, and this ritual, the way we do it, and this ritual, the way we do it, then you are not welcome here. And
if you if you do want to come here, then you pray, but you don't. Don't ever question any of these, these these,
like the warning sign, warning label. Now this for someone who doesn't know much about a Muslim who doesn't know much about Islam has no idea that this drama exists. This, you know, cultish behavior exists, but it's there. And then it takes more than these are the more extreme examples, but it takes more subtle examples to there's something there's suddenly examples. The more someone becomes knowledgeable, all of a sudden, they become really interested. Interestingly, they become really interested in differences of opinion, that becomes an obsession.
Like instead of studying Islam, the thing that you want to learn about most in Islam is differences of opinion.
What does Allah say? Well, Montana fall in love in battle, the magic
almost fell off, we love him badly.
They did not fall into disagreements, they did not fall into broke broken up groups and categories, until after knowledge came to them. Before knowledge came. This person just said, I just want to be good.
I just want to I just I just want to be kind. I just want to make Allah happy. I just want to learn more about my Prophet sallallahu sallam, I don't want to hurt anybody, I don't want to cause any harm. I just want to lead a good life. That's it. I'll just tell me how to be good. Great intention, then they start learning. And what why were they learning because they want to get to know a lot more. They want to get to know their profit more. They want to become a better person, all the right reasons. But as they start learning, that that intention of wanting to learn more love wanting to become better, starts turning into what now I need to know why what I'm learning is right? And why
the other guy who's learning from someone else's wrong. And let me make a list of the reasons they're wrong. And I'm obsessed with refuting someone else, correcting someone else, putting in describing how this person is going to fire that person. And there's disagreement, disagreement, disagreement, disagreement, disagreement, constantly.
Then there's the other portion of it. You know, when when I'm so obsessed with somebody else's wrong, then what am i assuming about myself already?
That I'm right, I already have the ticket.
I mean, I already got my reservation, these people are on the wrong flight.
I already got I'm on the correct train, these people are on the wrong path. It assumes a kind of self righteousness, were you I am already safe. It's everybody else that needs saving.
And when a person develops a kind of self, even if they won't say they say I'm a very humble person, Allah knows best. But let me tell you even though Allah knows best, let me tell you what I know about how everybody else is wrong. It's the antonym the opposite of Allah knows, but but when a person develops this, then what comes with this, what comes with this is a sense of superiority is a sense of I'm better than others. I am better than others. And then this sense, it's not even limited to other religious groups that you disagree with. Even people who don't practice the religion, you start looking at them a certain way. You start having a certain kind of attitude. And it's not it's
noticeable. When people look at you look down at you, you can tell even if they don't say anything. If you go to a gathering and you're having lunch with somebody or dinner at a party or something and somebody is looking at you with disgust, you can tell
they don't have to come up to you and tell you I think you're disgusting. You can even look around mentions, there's a way to look at people
from my novel from Abba savasana.
All of those who are not about what he says it's the way he looked the way he frowned the way he turned his head, body language, body language just the way they are
Removing the way the leaves ninguna can be Apsara llama semiotica. Allah tells the prophesized that there are some people who stare at you, as if they would make you fall down the way they stare at you. Like if they could shoot laser beams from their highs, almost always look at him, when they hear the reminder, there's an there's a rage in their eyes, there's a disgust in their eyes. Now, let me tell you why I'm sharing this with you. This is a loaded conversation. It's a series of conversations, as you may have guessed, but at least we'll get started today. And the part of this I want to share with you is
they develop a way of looking at people looking down at people. And a lot of times it becomes so this stuff out Roca, this stuff will work the separation is even if they don't say it, you can feel it.
They don't even have to say this becomes a part of their being. And then you get a phenomenon you get people that when they are in their presence. They feel like this person is so arrogant. This person so judgmental, why are they looking at me? Like I'm disgusting? why they're looking at me like I'm not even Muslim. Why are they talking to me in this way. So you can you can feel the condescending tone coming from this person, right? Now what happens as a result, what happens as a result, very common, this is one of the most common kinds of messages I received. I want to wear a job a sister writes to me, she says I want to wear hijab well and good, but I don't wear it, because
I've seen hijab bees and how arrogant they are, and the way they look at you, and the way they do this and the way you like, what, so you want to do this. But the thing that's in your path is people that are already doing it. Because I've seen some extremely, you know, arrogant attitudes from them. And I've seen some of the worst behaviors from them. And I don't want to be anything like them. And I don't want to, I don't want anybody to think that I'm like them.
So that's why I don't do it.
And it's not just any example that again, was of a job. But there's a million other examples. There's something very wrong with that kind of thinking. But there's, there's two rounds, I told you there's two groups, right? There's the group that knows, and they develop certain bad habits, enough of them, not all of them, enough of them develop certain bad habits. And there is a group that doesn't know they have their own bad habits. They have their own bad habits. And what's interesting is this group becomes extremely judgmental. They start looking at enough of them, not all of them, enough of them, they look at others and they look down on them how misguided they are, how hellbound
they are, how deviant they are how disobedient to Allah, they are how you name it. You name the criticism, they got it right, because their Islam is just about criticizing others. Islam is no longer about how do you become more grateful today? How do you learn to have patience with your with your parents? Who are rock patients with you? How do you learn to reconcile with your brother? How do you learn to remember a lot better? How do you learn to you know, develop a stronger love for your profit sizer is nothing positive, it's always about something negative and usually negative directed at someone else, right. But what happens on the flip side, then you have people that look
at some of these people. So some some young woman sees enough hijab is that are condescending, or they talk down or they have bad behavior themselves, or they they talk about doing good, but they do a lot of bad themselves, etc. And she says what I'm not going to do anything about this, I don't want anything to do with Islam, because I've seen these Islamic people and they're so messed up that I would rather not anything to do with them.
And so in the series of hobas, I'm going to try to address both sides of this. Because these it's funny if you didn't recognize it already. This group is judgmental. And as a result,
enough people in this group also become
judgmental. They're all the same.
There are all these people with the beards, you don't know man, these guys are all frauds. All these guys that go to the washroom Watch out, they're scary.
All these women who are they're crazy. You don't even know how can I know some people? You know, some people actually you talk like you know all people. Not only do you know people, you know what's inside their hearts, do you know all of it.
But these people pass judgment. And in reaction, these people also pass judgment. And what's funny is that this group of people also says, I, the I hate them, they're so judgmental. The irony of the statement.
That's not a judgmental thing to say.
But you know what's happened in all of this? And what I just described, everybody's focus is everybody else.
Everybody's, this this group trying to distinguish themselves as some kind of a spiritual religious elite as opposed to everybody else. This group trying to distinguish themselves I don't want to be like these fake Islamic people. I'd rather be I'd rather keep it real and disobey Allah.
Right? And this this is the this is my genuine disobedience to Allah.
I don't want to be fake like them, you know.
And so, in both the religion is being defined just by comparison, just in comparison. And you know that the antidote to that would be, let's say in the eye before, the religion that was given to you as the same one that was given to who knew hunay snom Ibrahim Ali, salaam Ibrahim Mousavi. Somebody says, If you study the prophets, there's one thing you know, is that nobody accepts them. And they're not doing anything in reaction to anyone else. The the action they take is because Allah told them
what other people do or don't do doesn't affect their behavior. And above all of that is the religion of Ibrahim or they say, Rahim Allah Salaam is a nation by himself. He doesn't do what is acceptable or unacceptable. He doesn't leave a behavior because it mimics some other people. Listen, if I, you know, if I start doing this, if I start if I start thinking, the the silliness of this kind of thinking, Man, I hate people who I hate people who drink. I know some people who drink who drive cars to.
I'm never going to drive a car because I never want to be like these people.
I want nothing to do with cars, because I know some people who drink who also drive a car.
So what they do wrong, you want nothing to do with no, no, you don't just want nothing to do with what they do wrong. You want nothing to do with anything that represents them. But the real reason is, it's just an excuse. It's just an excuse to get away to justify First of all, it might turn into just you know your way of being judgmental.
And it might just be subconsciously, you and I are hiding. hiding away from the fact that we're afraid to disappear, are afraid to make a change, afraid to make a change in ourselves. And this is a pretty good cover. Nobody can accuse you of that only you can judge that for yourself. Right? So we wait when you look at others misbehaviors and then justify your own, I look at somebody else's wrongdoing, and then justify her and I say, then you say, Well, if I had the choice between being fake and being openly disobedient, I choose Open disobedience. I'm more righteous this way. No, this isn't righteous either. You have to choose the right thing. But is it real that when people
misbehave when people that are knowledgeable in the religion don't represent the teachings of the religion anymore? They become a source of division. When they do that? Does it have negative effects on society? Absolutely. Absolutely. It's not like I'm saying, oh, there's no excuse. There is an excuse. If enough people act this way, if enough Islamic looking people act in a certain way, then guess what, then I was raised, you know, when I was raised, a lot of my childhood was in Serbia.
I had, I've spent time in Pakistan, too. I spent time in the United States, my early, early adult life and then on in the United States. And I'm telling you being living in the Muslim world, I was afraid of religious people.
I was afraid of people that looked a certain way. Because every time I experienced something from them was extremely negative. And it was extremely terrifying.
And it just puts you off, it scares you. Right. So there's a reality to that to you has to be acknowledged. And it has to be addressed.
On the other side, how sometimes that turns into something irrational also has to be addressed. So that's what we're going to try to address through the study of these IR. So I leave you with this woman who el amin Valley, they didn't fall into disagreement, even after knowledge came to them. In other words, knowledgeable people sometimes instead of becoming a source of unity become a source of this unity. They want people to, instead of accepting differences, and accepting that people are at different levels, and accepting that people are on their own journeys. And you have to give them some room to grow. They want everybody to be just like them. And why do they want that? The secret
ingredient? The answer to that is what we're going to explore in the next year. That is something called I'll give you a clue. So you have an appetite for the next whole bunch Allah. There's something in Arabic called the Freudian, the who Marula who means, you know, if I say I'm hungry, or I ate, I ate a sandwich that I added, because
so whatever's coming after, because it's the reasons for which I did it. I ate a sandwich because it was yours. And I really wanted you to feel the pain of me eating your sandwich.
Whatever I add after because that's my reason. Allah says they fell into disagreement. knowledgeable people fell into disagreement. I understand the motion of goodwill and disagreement. The people who don't know we're in disagreement, while people who have knowledge in disagreement. They're supposed to be the source of unity.
To holiday The reason for disagreement, well, then Allah says because of that's my ruler, who it's the because of and the word word here is bullying.
Buying a home. That's the phrase we're going to explore. Why Why do people have knowledge fall into disagreement? Why do they become a source of the opposite of what their religion teaches? The previous I said latter, the Federal cofi don't fall into disagreements don't fall into groups don't become factions and cults. And the very next IR says once they learned they became cults, and here's why. The here's why is what the next clip was about. So we're going to try to complete that side of the equation. But I told you this is about both groups, right? The people who know the people who don't know. So once we explore that, then we're going to get to the next part, what happened to the
the rest of the people? What happened with them? What was the consequence of all of this? And so once we understand this problem, maybe we know how to deal with it ourselves better, in light of a less guidance barakallahu li walakum for oil hacking, when in fact and he will combine it with the cracking
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We just had our first interstellar visitor...and it's weird.
YouTube: https://youtube.com/watch?v=bManqDAYG1g
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Sometimes, the acceptance of a lack of knowledge is far more valuable than conjecture. That being said, let's talk about what we do know, because regardless, it is very weird.
Here are some of the things I checked out while working on this:
Rob Reid has an amazing piece in Ars Technica and the companion podcast is really really gooood
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/11/nailing-down-the-nature-of-oumuamua-its-probably-a-comet-but/
PBS Spacetime on Oumuamua:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wICOlaQOpM0
Bad Astronomy on Oumuamua
https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/is-oumuamua-an-interstellar-spaceship-im-still-going-with-no
This is a little out-dated but gives a /great/ overview of how the object was discovered and what happened after that in the scientific community
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfi3w9Bzwik
SciAm's Strange Facts
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/6-strange-facts-about-the-interstellar-visitor-oumuamua/
Propelling spaceships with light sails:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UI62RhPs0M
The Telescope that will tell us more about interstellar objects: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpdLDJXEmys
The Paper that was published arguing that a solar sail could explain the observations (if you want to look at a LOT OF MATH)
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1810.11490.pdf
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Good morning, John.
A little over a year ago, we observed the first-ever object that wasn't from here. A hunk of something that had traveled from another star system. Maybe thrown out as the system formed, maybe flung out much later. But now we know, officially: while we cannot visit other star systems, pieces of them can visit us—and Ê»Oumuamua is not what we expected.
Let's start with what we know: an object came into our solar system going around 25 kilometers per second, which is pretty fast. It was varying in brightness: so, we'd look at it one day and it would be 10 times brighter than on another day, a huge surprise: which is where we got the cigar hypothesis.
It was, they supposed, long and skinny, so when it was like this, it reflected more light than when it was like this. It was tumbling end-over-end, changing in brightness. There are no objects in our solar system shaped like this. ʻOumuamua has a length-to-width ratio of 10-to-1. There are barely any objects in our solar system with a ratio of 5-to-1.
How would an object like this form? We don't know. What would it be made of? Probably something very sturdy, or else it couldn't maintain this strange shape. It brushed surprisingly close to Earth, right into the habitable zone of our Sun, and then—maybe the weirdest bit of all—its velocity changed in ways that could not be explained by gravitation alone.
There are, as far as we can tell, only two ways this could have happened. One: ʻOumuamua is a comet, and it offgassed 10% of its mass as the Sun heated it up. And this is what comets do; it's what gives them their big beautiful tails.
Or two: instead of being a big rock, it's a 50–meter square of shiny foil less than a millimeter thick, which fans of space travel and/or science fiction will recognize as the description of a solar sail. See, weirdly enough, photons do not have mass, but they do have momentum, and when they hit something they give it a tiny push. A big sheet of something very reflective but very lightweight can take advantage of that fact and use it for propulsion; something we humans have actually experimented with.
But look, that can't be right. Right? Obviously a comet is a much more likely thing to have floating through interstellar space. But until we noticed the velocity change, we were pretty sure that Ê»Oumuamua wasn't a comet. For one thing, it was long and skinny, and that is a shape that is very difficult to have occur naturally at all, but even more difficult if it's not something that's rigid. And comets generally are fairly loosely–held–together balls of ice and dust. The idea is, that would definitely break apart, especially as it approached a gravitational well like our Sun.
Now, it's certainly possible that the change in brightness isn't caused by its unique shape. It could be that it's just much darker on one side than the other, like Saturn's moon Iapetus. So maybe we've just learned that it isn't such a weird shape. Also, we didn't think it was a comet because there was no tail. As it offgassed that theoretical 10% of its mass, we probably would have seen some of that mass. But maybe there are cometlike things from other solar systems that outgas differently from our comets: different compounds, different-sized dust particles, that would make it more difficult for us to detect. And finally, scientists think the offgassing would have changed the rotation of the object, which it appears to not have.
Now, adding to the solar sail hypothesis, the Spitzer Space Telescope pointed at the place where Ê»Oumuamua was, and it did not receive any thermal readings back, no infrared radiation, meaning that it was very dim in the infrared. So probably it had reflected away most of the heat received from the Sun. This is maybe the weirdest thing. It means that the object has an upper limit on how dark it can be. And that limit is shinier than either asteroids or comets from our solar system. Which, like, thank you Spitzer Space Telescope, this was not what you were designed for—but that is a very helpful and weird piece of data.
And then there's this: this shouldn't have happened. The telescope that spotted ʻOumuamua does a whole-sky survey and is not designed to catch things like this. In fact, it didn't spot the object until it was well past its peak brightness. The fact that the Pan-STARRS telescope caught an object like this in the first 10 years of operation means, statistically, that these events are probably very common.
But according to our computer models of how solar systems form and how much stuff they throw out, it should not be common. And this discovery, if it's natural and common, means that we were off by like orders of magnitude. And it's actually wonderful news that it did occur, because if it means it's more likely, then we will have more chances to study objects like this in the future.
Because we definitely do not understand what this thing was. I don't know! Maybe there's a natural way for a solar sail–like object to form in the galaxy! Who knows!
In general, jumping from "this is confusing and weird and I don't understand it" to "it's aliens" has tended to be a bad way to answer questions in the past. And as Carl Sagan said, "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence," which we, as ʻOumuamua speeds off away from us, do not have, and will never have.
Now, of course, arguing against the "extraterrestrials created a light sail" hypothesis are two main things. One: why would it be tumbling end over end? If you wanted to create a space probe to study a planet, you probably would want to keep everything relatively stable so that you could point stuff at the planet to study it.
Two: why is it going so slow? 25 kilometers per second is very fast to us, but very slow in terms of interstellar travel. It would take about twelve thousand years if you were going straight at Alpha Centauri to get there from here at that speed. This leads to alternate hypotheses, like "hey, there are more shipwrecks under the ocean than ships currently floating on the sea, so maybe this is a piece of something that broke down or ripped apart through age or accident or attack. It's artificially created, but it's a hundred percent dead, just floating through space." (Because if we're gonna start hypothesizing, we might as well start hypothesizing about interstellar war.)
But unless this is an extremely uncommon occurrence, debris from an event like that would have to be way too common. Like, I would just be very sad if there was that much detritus floating around in the galaxy.
A theory I haven't heard from anyone except my own brain is that maybe this thing is tumbling end-over-end and not going very fast because whoever sent it wanted us to see it. Maybe they thought, if there was some group of intelligences significantly advanced, they could chase such an object down. Maybe it's nothing more than an interstellar greeting card, blinking off into the distance, unreceived—this time, at least.
I shouldn't have said that. That was pure conjecture. And I probably shouldn't even be making this video at all. As a person who hosts a science show, has a master's degree, and looks like this, I am "credible". And I want to hold on to that credibility, and also use it wisely.
Observing an interstellar object on its own is huge news: it means that these objects are more common and more weird than we thought. But the story that would truly captivate all humanity is if we found out for sure that this thing came from somewhere else. Someone else.
How captivating an idea is for our minds should not have an effect on how scientists consider that hypothesis, but it does have an effect on how it is perceived by us. It has an effect on how we're gonna write that headline, make that video, and whether we're gonna click that link.
As a science communicator I'm aware that people are gonna see the sentence "This is probably not a spaceship" and see more of the "probably" part of the sentence than the "is not" part. So I'm aware that bringing up the possibility that there is explanatory power behind the hypothesis that ʻOumuamua was constructed by an intelligence outside of our solar system is going to inevitably lead people to looking much more at that part of the story than the parts where there might also be lots of other explanations.
This is, for example, true of me. Because I want it to be a spaceship. I want to know a new story. I want to have an event like that, where we all remember where we were when we heard the news. Not the bad news—just the big news.
So ultimately, I know that I'm not gonna be able to trust myself with this one, you know? I'm trying to look at more things that way: knowing that there are certain things that I can't really trust myself with, because I want things to be a certain way. And it's especially easy to see in this case, where the event was ephemeral, the data had been collected and analyzed, and now all that we have left to do is speculate.
Or maybe that isn't true. Right now, we have only one telescope that could have spotted ʻOumuamua. Another is going online in just a few years, and it will be orders of magnitude better. If, when we get that telescope online we see objects like this flitting through the solar system all the time, we may be able to determine that they are a new class of object. To understand them, study them, even visit them. Or, we could find that ʻOumuamua-like objects are rare. And, well, then we'll know that we saw something special. And that will be a big deal.
But maybe the best argument against the alien hypothesis is simply that the universe is weird. Many times we've seen things in the night sky and had no way to explain it, and thought, "Oh—this is it. Now we find the 'others.'" And then science caught up to observation.
This is an object unlike any we have ever encountered before. So maybe the fact that it's weird isn't actually that weird.
John, I'll see you on Tuesday.
I read a lot of good articles, listened to a lot of good podcasts and watched a lot of good videos prepping for this one. So I've linked to some of those in the description. Thanks to all of the scientists who worked on this project, got together very fast to make this happen, to start observing once we realized that we had something weird on the radar.
(Educational videos are exempt from the four-minute rule, obviously, just saying it.)
And the Project for Awesome next week. Next week! Next weekend, you guys! So if you're thinking about making a video promoting your charity of choice, please do that! Get it ready! Because we will as a community next weekend be voting on which of the charities promoted in those videos will be getting grants from the Foundation to Decrease Worldsuck. So, action! Do it! Boom! Excited! Product for Awesome's coming!
Thanks to the educational video exemption for allowing me to just ramble on for a while. John, I... I already did that.
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In this webinar, we presented data demonstrating performance of the PowerSeq™ Systems, and outline the strengths and limitations of massively parallel sequencing technologies for routine forensic analysis. The prototype PowerSeq™ Systems include primers and amplification master mix for sequencing autosomal short tandem repeats (STRs), Y-chromosome STRs, the mitochondrial DNA control region, and various combinations of the three on an Illumina MiSeq® System.
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This list of chess players includes people who are primarily known as chess players and have an article on the English Wikipedia.
The people in this list are famous in other areas of activity, but are known to have played chess, or have declared an interest in the game, or created works of art and literature in which the game is prominently featured.
Deep Blue, the IBM chess playing computer, was victorious in a 1997 match against then-world champion Garry Kasparov.
Deep Thought, an earlier version of Deep Blue, won many computer chess championships.
Deep Fritz achieved a draw in the 2002 match, "Brains in Bahrain", against Vladimir Kramnik. A variant, X3D Fritz, drew against Kasparov in 2004, and the version Deep Fritz 10 defeated the world champion Vladimir Kramnik in 2006.
Houdini (chess) Since the release of version 1.5 on 15 December 2010, it has taken the top spot in every rating list that includes it.
Hydra (chess) is a very strong machine which uses custom parallel hardware.
Junior is the winner of the 2006 World Computer Chess Championship, its third victory at this event.
Rybka is a recent engine. As of December 2006, Rybka has topped all chess engine rating lists and won the 2007 WCCC.
Shredder is another strong program, having won the WCCC twice.
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One of my favorite writers died recently—Brian Doyle: a left-leaning story grabbing unapologetic Roman Catholic and one heck of a mentoring inspiration to students, writers and the readers who loved his work.
If you've ever heard Brian speak—and I did at one of the Chuckanut Writers Conferences—you know that a podium could not contain him. He moved across a stage, engaging his audience with relentless charm, boundless energy, and a rare degree of empathy.
He died of what he called a 'big honking brain tumor," diagnosed last November. There is more information in the obituaries listed below, but for now, I'd like to leave you with Doyle's Last Prayer and the suggestion that you go to your local independent bookstore or library and buy Mink River, Ben Laden's Bald Spot, The Wet Engine, Martin, Marten, or his newest, The Adventures of John Carson in Several Quarters of the World: a novel of Robert Louis Stevenson.
Dear Coherent Mercy, Thanks. Best life ever. Personally, I never thought a cool woman would come close to understanding me, let alone understanding me but liking me anyway, but that happened!
And You and I both remember that doctor in Boston saying polite but businesslike that we could not have children but then came three children fast and furious! And no man ever had better friends, and no man ever had a happier childhood and wilder brothers and a sweeter sister, and I was that rare guy who not only loved but liked his parents and loved sitting and drinking tea and listening to them!
I could complain a little right here about the long years of back pain and the occasional awful heartbreak, but Lord, those things were infinitesimal against the slather of gifts You gave mere me, a muddle of a man, so often selfish and small.
But no man was every more grateful for your profligate generosity, and here at the very end, here in my last lines, I close my eyes and weep with joy that I was alive, and blessed beyond measure, and might well be headed back home to the incomprehensible Love from which I came, mewling, many years ago.
But hey, listen can I ask one last favor? If I am sent back for another life, can I meet my lovely bride again? In whatever form? Could we be hawks, or otters maybe? And can we have the same kids again if possible? And if I get one friend again, can I have my buddy Pete? He was a huge guy in this life—make him the biggest otter ever and I'll know him right away, okay?
Thanks, Boss. Thanks from the bottom of my heart. See You soon. Remember—otters. Otters rule. And so: amen.


The Financial Statements of the Government of New Zealand for the six months ended 31 December 2018 were released by the Treasury today. The statements are compared against forecasts based on the Half Year Economic and Fiscal Update 2018 (HYEFU 2018) published on 13 December 2018.
Core Crown tax revenue at $40.0 billion was $0.2 billion (0.4%) ahead of forecast. Within this, GST and customs and excise duties were both higher than forecast partially offset by corporate and other individuals tax revenue, which were below forecast.
Core Crown expenses of $42.3 billion were $0.4 billion (0.9%) below forecast. Of this, around $0.2 billion related to education expenses which were lower than forecast as a result of demand-driven factors across all sectors. Social assistance benefits and impairments of sovereign receivables together made up $0.1 billion of the core Crown expense variance while just under $0.1 billion related to KiwiBuild. These underspends are likely to be timing in nature.
The operating balance before gains and losses (OBEGAL) was a surplus of $1.1 billion, $0.3 billion higher than forecast. This was largely driven by the core Crown results offset by lower than forecast Crown entity and SOE results for the period.
Net investment losses were $3.1 billion at 31 December 2018, largely due to unfavourable changes in market prices and foreign currency exchange losses due to the movement in the NZD since the forecasts were prepared.
Net losses on non-financial instruments (eg, GSF and ACC liabilities) of $3.7 billion were primarily driven by changes to discount rate assumptions used to calculate the ACC claims liability at 31 December.
Core Crown residual cash was a deficit of $7.3 billion, $0.5 billion greater than forecast with operating cash flows being lower by $0.2 billion and higher capital spending of $0.3 billion.
Net core Crown debt at $64.1 billion, or 22.1% of GDP, was $0.1 billion higher than forecast. While the residual cash deficit was higher than expected (directly impacting net debt), increases in issues of circulating currency have offset much of this variance, resulting in net debt being close to forecast at the end of December.
Net worth attributable to the Crown (NWAC) was $124.5 billion, $6.3 billion lower than forecast at HYEFU 2018. The majority of this variance relates to the current operating balance deficit for the period.
Using the most recently published GDP (for the year ended 30 September 2018) of $290,902 million (Source: Stats NZ).
Favourable variances against forecast have a positive sign and unfavourable variances against forecast have a negative sign.
Using HYEFU 18 forecast GDP for the year ending 30 June 2019 of $300,168 million (Source: The Treasury).
Net core Crown debt excluding student loans and other advances. Net debt may fluctuate during the year largely reflecting the timing of tax receipts.
Gross sovereign-issued debt excluding settlement cash and Reserve Bank bills.


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At Intersec this year, Veracity demonstrated Coldstore Colossus, the 4U, 45-bay, 630Tb video storage solution. Coldstore Colossus is engineered to meet the long-term retention needs of the Middle East.
The Coldstore family offers unique benefits including a 10x increase in hard disk life and power savings of 90%+. In fact, according to Veracity, Colossus, with 630Tb and 45 disks, consumes less than 80W of power! This gives the Coldstore range not only a host of performance benefits but also a compelling total cost of ownership case not normally available with other video storage solutions.
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Also on display was Coldstore Pro, a 3U, 210Tb unit that uses only 0.4W per Terabyte. Visitors were also able to hear about the Coldstore embedded NVR functions and the ability to record from camera direct to Coldstore through ONVIF compatibility or using embedded Coldstream code in open platform cameras, such as Axis and Hanwha. Over 100 channels can be supported, at 4Mbps per second, on all but the smallest Coldstore units.
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UK-based Veracity operates from its regional office in Jumeirah Lakes Towers, Dubai, and the company reports that it continues to experience rapid growth fuelled by the development of strong relationships with many customers and partners across the Middle East.


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Two original Christmas cards sent to Fortess, one from Helen Tobler, 1951, of a watercolor and ink drawing of a woman reading on a park bench, surrounded by squirrels, and the other, a color etching of trees and people, 1953, from Margaret Harvig (?). Also included are a "Holiday Greeting" card sent by the Fortess', with an abstract print on the cover and a surreal landscape drawing of a mask on a tree inside; and a card "Karl and Lillian Fortess" with a drawing of a tree.
Painter; Woodstock, New York.
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Here are some ideas about how to shine in a nonprofit job search.
▪ Get to know the sector's leaders in your community. Attend United Way gatherings, major foundation events and other occasions to meet people who do what you want to do. Shake a lot of hands. Ask questions about their work and their needs.
▪ Watch nonprofit job boards or individual postings by the nonprofits you target in your job search. Then rewrite your résumé so that each application styles your experience and interests to fit the qualifications listed in the posting.
▪ Don't use a cover letter or goals statement to say what you want from the nonprofit job. Say what you would contribute to meet the nonprofit's needs.
▪ Understand terms and words that might have different meanings in the nonprofit sector. Read the nonprofit's annual reports. Decipher their abbreviations.
▪ Be aware of their financial or fundraising pressures. Except at the pinnacle of nonprofit organizations, you need to prepare for and readily accept the likelihood of lower pay than you've been making. Don't say you can if you really can't.
▪ Reflect positivity. A can-do attitude counts in all organizations but is particularly important in nonprofits that deal with human illness, suffering, abuse and other sad facts of life. Hirers want to believe you can stay up in the face of adversity.
▪ Emphasize your ability to work in a team. Individual stars are needed in every profession, but most nonprofits, especially small ones, need people to wear different hats, fill in for each other and be happy using multiple skills instead of filling a narrow niche.
▪ Show volunteer experience in the field. Even if you show passion, it might be hard to sell if you've never put in any time in that area of service.
Aside from making a difference, there are other worthy reasons for working in the nonprofit sector. Many of the positions are hands-on and aren't apt to be outsourced abroad or lost to automation. Also, most health, social service and development (fundraising) jobs will grow along with the aging boomer population.


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Blair Kamin
It's great that the Uptown Theatre has a future. What kind of future will it be?
By Blair Kamin
The surprising news that the long-shuttered Uptown Theatre will be renovated and reopen as a concert and live entertainment venue is a major victory for historic preservationists and a significant breakthrough in Chicago's ongoing drive to redevelop the North Side neighborhood, which has struggled to overcome an image of poverty and faded allure.
But it remains to be seen how much impact the transformation will have beyond the theater's ornate walls.
The theater, a Spanish Baroque Revival dazzler designed by the kings of movie palace architecture, C.W. and George L. Rapp, is an emblem of Uptown's lost glamour. Graffiti mars its exterior. Near the top of its bright red marquee, some of the script letters that spelled out the names of its developers, the theater chain owners Balaban & Katz, are missing, like gaps in a row of teeth.
Little is known at this point about the plans of the new developer, Chicago-based Farpoint Development, which is said to have cobbled together $75 million in public and private funds to revive the theater, located at 4816 N. Broadway.
Farpoint and its joint venture partner — the Chicago-based promoter Jam Productions, which has owned the Uptown since 2008 — are expected to keep the seating capacity of the venue, the largest of the Rapp & Rapp theaters, at 4,381. Removable seating on the main level could enable people to stand at events, bringing the overall capacity to 5,800.
Even so, a renovation architect has yet to be named. Without that crucial role filled, it's hard to gauge how serious the partners are about putting their financial muscle behind the high-quality rehab the theater so desperately needs. Exotic arches above the roofline are no longer present. Photographs of the interior, a magnificent three-tiered space, show a ceiling scarred by peeling paint.
It's all a far cry from the polished, fantasy-filled atmosphere, complete with twinkling ceiling lights and a perfuming system beneath the seats, that drew patrons to silent films when the theater opened in 1925. Yet the mystique surrounding the theater's interior remains undiminished.
Uptown Theatre will be restored: $75 million plan unveiled for grand palace on North Side »
Who wouldn't want to stick their head in there? Who wouldn't have mourned if the Uptown had been destroyed?
Local preservation groups — Landmarks Illinois, Preservation Chicago and Friends of the Uptown — and the Washington, D.C.-based National Trust for Historic Preservation, which in 1996 put the Uptown on its list of the nation's most endangered places, deserve credit for the tenacity they exhibited in fighting for what many assumed was a lost cause.
City officials also get kudos for laying the infrastructure groundwork that could help a renovated Uptown succeed.
Last year, a few blocks south of the theater, the Chicago Transit Authority opened its $203 million Wilson Avenue elevated station, an airy, spacious facility that serves as a welcoming gateway to Uptown. That project, which forms a model for the upcoming modernization of the CTA's Red and Purple lines, suggests that good things are in store for the now-decrepit elevated station at Lawrence Avenue, a short walk from the Uptown.
Despite such bright signs, the scale of the proposed Uptown renovation begs several questions:
• How often would such an enormous facility host events, in the process attracting new visitors and business to its neighborhood? Will the theater be a real anchor for revitalization or just a symbol?
• Is $75 million enough to fully renovate a huge theater that has been boarded up since 1981?
Inside the Uptown Theatre's unique features
The Uptown is one of the remaining Balaban and Katz movie palaces in Chicago
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• How will the renovated theater fare against competition from another rehabbed movie palace — Logan Square's long-shuttered Congress Theater at 2135 N. Milwaukee Ave.? The Congress is undergoing a $69 million redevelopment that will transform it into a live music venue with a capacity of 4,000 standees. The developer of that project, Michael Moyer, said Thursday it's scheduled to be completed in late 2019 — a year before the Uptown's projected opening.
If the Uptown really does wind up being reborn, it will mark a major change from 1961, which witnessed the destruction of Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan's Garrick Theater, a masterpiece of the first Chicago School of Architecture, and its replacement by a parking garage. Along with the demolition of the Chicago Stock Exchange Building in the early 1970s, that traumatic event helped lead to the creation of today's strong preservation movement in Chicago and the Uptown's bright new prospects.
The Garrick died, one could say, so the Uptown might live.
Blair Kamin is a Tribune critic.
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