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When you attempt to apply a configuration change to a deployment, the attempt may fail with an error indicating that the change could not be applied, and deployment resources may be unable to restart. In some cases, bootlooping may result, where the deployment resources cycle through a continual reboot process.
To help diagnose these and any other types of issues in your deployments, we recommend setting up monitoring. Then, you can easily view your deployment health and access log files.
To confirm if your Elasticsearch cluster is bootlooping, you can check the most recent plan under your Deployment Activity page for the error:
Plan change failed: Some instances were not running
Following are some frequent causes of a failed configuration change:
Secure settingsedit
The most frequent cause of a failed deployment configuration change is due to invalid or mislocated secure settings.
These are settings typically added to the keystore for the purpose of:
- Setting up third-party authentication, for example SAML, OpenID Connect, or Kerberos.
Setting up a
<<{p}-custom-repository,custom repository>>.
The keystore allows you to safely store sensitive settings, such as passwords, as a key/value pair. You can then access a secret value from a settings file by referencing its key. Importantly, not all settings can be stored in the keystore, and the keystore does not validate the settings that you add. Adding unsupported settings can cause Elasticsearch or other components to fail to restart. To check whether a setting is supported in the keystore, look for a "Secure" qualifier in the lists of reloadable settings.
The following sections detail some secure settings problems that can result in a configuration change error that can prevent a deployment from restarting. You might diagnose these plan failures via the logs or via their related exit codes
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Invalid or outdated valuesedit
The keystore does not validate any settings that you add, so invalid or outdated values are a common source of errors when you apply a configuration change to a deployment.
To check the current set of stored settings:
- Open the deployment Security page.
- In the Elasticsearch keystore section, check the Security keys list. The list is shown only if you currently have settings configured in the keystore.
One frequent cause of errors is when settings in the keystore are no longer valid, such as when SAML settings are added for a test environment, but the settings are either not carried over or no longer valid in a production environment.
Snapshot repositoriesedit
Sometimes, settings added to the keystore to connect to a snapshot repository may not be valid. When this happens, you may get an error such as
SettingsException[Neither a secret key nor a shared access token was set.]
For example, when adding an Azure repository storage setting such as
azure.client.default.account to the keystore, the associated setting
azure.client.default.key must also be added for the configuration to be valid.
Third-party authenticationedit
When you configure third-party authentication, it's important that all required configuration elements that are stored in the keystore are included in the Elasticsearch user settings file. For example, when you create a SAML realm, omitting a field such as
idp.entity_id when that setting is present in the keystore results in a failed configuration change.
Wrong locationedit
In some cases, settings may accidentally be added to the keystore that should have been added to the Elasticsearch user settings file. It's always a good idea to check the lists of reloadable settings to determine if a setting can be stored in the keystore. Settings that can safely be added to the keystore are flagged as
Expired custom plugins or bundlesedit
During the process of applying a configuration change, Elasticsearch Add-On for Heroku checks to determine if any uploaded custom plugins or bundles are expired.
To view any added plugins or bundles:
- Go to the Features page and open the Extensions tab.
- Select any extension and then choose Update extension to renew it. No other changes are needed, and any associated configuration change failures should now be able to succeed.
OOM errorsedit
Configuration change errors can occur when there is insufficient RAM configured for a data tier. In this case, the cluster typically also shows OOM (out of memory) errors. To resolve these, you need to increase the amount of heap memory, which is half of the amount of memory allocated to a cluster. You might also detect OOM in plan changes via its related exit codes
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Check the Elasticsearch cluster size and the JVM memory pressure indicator documentation to learn more.
As well, you can read our detailed blog Managing and troubleshooting Elasticsearch memory.
Existing indexedit
In rare cases, when you attempt to upgrade the version of a deployment and the upgrade fails on the first attempt, subsequent attempts to upgrade may fail due to already existing resources. The problem may be due to the system preventing itself from overwriting existing indices, resulting in an error such as this:
Another Kibana instance appears to be migrating the index. Waiting for that migration to complete. If no other Kibana instance is attempting migrations, you can get past this message by deleting index .kibana_2 and restarting Kibana.
To resolve this:
- Check that you don't need the content.
Run an Elasticsearch Delete index request to remove the existing index.
In this example, the
.kibana_2index is the rollover of saved objects (such as Kibana visualizations or dashboards) from the original
.kibana_1index. Since
.kibana_2was created as part of the failed upgrade process, this index does not yet contain any pertinent data and it can safely be deleted.
- Retry the deployment configuration change.
Insufficient Storageedit
Configuration change errors can occur when there is insufficient disk space for a data tier. To resolve this, you need to increase the size of that tier to ensure it provides enough storage to accommodate the data in your cluster tier considering the high watermark.
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Oddly enough today I am not going to be writing about the joys of sexbots. Not that I have anything against them, other than the fact that they are the first step is allowing our cybernetic overlords to enslave us. Instead I'm going to talk about stuff that has actual human benefits. The kind of stuff that can help you live longer, healthier, more productive lives. Even better, not one word of this blog will involve the consumption of kale. Nor will it involve you taking a survey of any kind. You can just sit there naked, eating Cheetohs, being all 50 Shades of Passive, and allow me to pour knowledge into your brain, much like they did in THX-1138. Only without the cattle prods. Or leather clad officials with thigh high boots and helmets.
I'm sorry if you'll miss that part.
While Japan, naturally, is working on a variety of sexual aids that will have artificial intelligence, think SIRI with a whole new purpose, other scientists have been looking for more practical applications. Nothing wrong with sex but you can't eat or breathe it. At least not literally.
There is a thing called the Turing Test which is what scientists use to detect sentience. There is a visual aspect and an aural aspect. Each requires cognitive recognition by the subject. Natalie Zutter writes that a cybernetic mind just passed the first part.
In 2014, artificial intelligence experts at the University of Reading celebrated as their AI program managed to pass the Turing test. Coined by Alan Turing in a 1950 paper, the test requires that a computer convince testers that it is human at least 30% of the time through keyboard conversations. Now, this apparent triumph has since been disputed, with opponents pointing out that the AI program was designed to act like a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy, putting certain constraints on the conversation at the start. Now, a new research article in the latest issue of Science claims that an AI program has passed the Turing test—but a visual test, not a conversational one.
The test was fairly straightforward: Both a human and the computer system were shown a character that doesn't belong to any of the world's alphabets but looks like it could be part of a fictional language; i.e., it shares features with preexisting letters. Each was then asked to redraw the character, but with subtle differences; you can see below that that means changing the proportions while maintaining the original form. In other tests, both the software and the person were given a set of unfamiliar characters (again, not real letters) and asked to create a new one that matches the others in the series.
A team of human judges were then asked to guess which set belonged to the human, and which to the AI. Here's the kicker: They could identify the AI's characters only about 50 percent of the time, the same as chance.
The fact that this visual test is deceptively simple actually supports the scientists' reasoning. As the researchers explained in the Science paper,
People learning new concepts can often generalize successfully from just a single example, yet machine learning algorithms typically require tens or hundreds of examples to perform with similar accuracy. People can also use learned concepts in richer ways than conventional algorithms—for action, imagination, and explanation. We present a computational model that captures these human learning abilities for a large class of simple visual concepts: handwritten characters from the world's alphabets.
Rather than approach the problem like a computer would, the AI mimicked humans' elasticity of learning, including the ability to learn new concepts from just a few patterns. This computational model is called a probabilistic program, the researchers further explained in a press release from MIT. Josh Tenenbaum, one of the system's co-developers who comes from the MIT Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines, lays it out: "In the current AI landscape, there's been a lot of focus on classifying patterns. But what's been lost is that intelligence isn't just about classifying or recognizing; it's about thinking."
Go ahead and try it yourself. It's not as easy as it seems. But, it's also what your mind does naturally every day. You can extrapolate concepts from limited data. You don't need to have a full data set of meteorological research in front of you to know it feels likes it's going to rain. It's the basis behind what we know of as sentience.
And that balance we maintain can be disrupted in the most unusual ways. T.J. Raphael writes about how reading digital content can cause your mind to be unable to process real world content, such as newspapers and books.
Manoush Zomorodi, managing editor and host of WNYC's New Tech City, recalls a conversation with the Washington Post's Mike Rosenwald, who's researched the effects of reading on a screen. "He found, like I did, that when he sat down to read a book his brain was jumping around on the page. He was skimming and he couldn't just settle down. He was treating a book like he was treating his Twitter feed," she says.
Neuroscience, in fact, has revealed that humans use different parts of the brain when reading from a piece of paper or from a screen. So the more you read on screens, the more your mind shifts towards "non-linear" reading — a practice that involves things like skimming a screen or having your eyes dart around a web page.
"They call it a 'bi-literate' brain," Zoromodi says. "The problem is that many of us have adapted to reading online just too well. And if you don't use the deep reading part of your brain, you lose the deep reading part of your brain."
So what's deep reading? It's the concentrated kind we do when we want to "immerse ourselves in a novel or read a mortgage document," Zoromodi says. And that uses the kind of long-established linear reading you don't typically do on a computer. "Dense text that we really want to understand requires deep reading, and on the internet we don't do that."
Linear reading and digital distractions have caught the attention of academics like Maryanne Wolf, director of the Center for Reading and Language Research at Tufts University.
"I don't worry that we'll become dumb because of the Internet," Wolf says, "but I worry we will not use our most preciously acquired deep reading processes because we're just given too much stimulation. That's, I think, the nub of the problem."
Deep reading is also what inspires your imagination and other cerebral attributes that allow you to process data more thoroughly. Not that the internet will make anyone dumb, just that it could limit your ability to survive outside of a well controlled environment.
Like the ones your robot overlords are preparing.
And, as with any venture by humans into any new realm, there can be unintended consequences. Josh L. Davis writes about how global warming is postponing the next ice age.
It appears that through the burning of fossil fuels and filling the atmosphere with carbon, mankind has caused the world to "skip" an ice age, potentially postponing the next one by between 50,000 to 100,000 years. The new research came to this conclusion after modeling the conditions needed to tip the planet into a glacial period. They found that while Earth is at the right point in its orbit around the Sun, the level of carbon dioxide currently in the atmosphere is far too high.
The study reports that the onset of a major glaciation, in which ice sheets would cover most of Europe, North America, and Russia, was prevented at the start of the Industrial Revolution, as the burning of coal caused the amount of greenhouse gasses being emitted to rise above threshold levels, at 240 parts per million of carbon. Since then, as the amount of carbon in our atmosphere has been steadily rising (currently sitting at around 400 parts per million), the researchers calculate that we've probably pushed the event back by around 100,000 years.
"The bottom line is that we are basically skipping a whole glacial cycle, which is unprecedented," explains Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research's Andrey Ganopolski, the lead author of the study. "It is mind-boggling that humankind is able to interfere with a mechanism that shaped the world as we know it."
The new paper gives further weight to the notion that we have entered a new geological epoch – the Anthropocene – in which the Earth and its climate is impacted by humanity, to such an extent that it will still be affected tens of thousands of years into the future.
Before you break out the cargo shorts in celebration, keep in mind that we have arable soil, that stuff that grows stuff, thanks to the last ice age. Also keep in mind that without the regular cooling there are many other bad things that can happen to our planet. Rising water levels, expanded deserts, less land for agriculture, and so on. Since we need land to live on and food to eat, those are things worthy of your concern.
So, do I have any good news? Actually, yes. Chris Matthews reports that Ghana has started a space program.
Yes, Ghana. And for a series of reasons that should make you want to grow ours.
Nestled on the top floor in between university classrooms and engineering laboratories, the epicentre of ANUC's space initiative is a small, unassuming room. Multiple monitors on one side make up its ground station while a prototype of its CubeSat and a white board of ideas draw your attention at the other.
"I remember the very first day we heard a voice," said Bennett. "We were here one evening just tracking satellites… and we turned it on and we could hear a voice. [It's] not very common in our region to hear a live voice signal. We were very excited and jumping around the place."
This excitement for space science was spurred by Ghana's government, which in 2011 launched the Ghana Space Science and Technology Institute (GSSTI). It follows in the path of several other African nations in promoting space science and looking to the final frontier to help address on-the-ground issues and local problems.
Approaching the gates of Ghana's Atomic Energy Commission in Accra, where two guards stand in front, I enter and pass down the long driveway and a cluster of concrete buildings hidden from the roadside come into view.
Individuals in white coats and suits walk around the well-kept lawns as staff from the GSSTI drive me around the complex. Here, development work for the government program is underway, but is kept under wraps during my visit. GSSTI's conversion of a 32-metre satellite antenna into a telescope as part of its radio astronomy project is off limits, although GSSTI said it should be completed in June.
In addition to unveiling a telescope and astronomy centre in collaboration with the South African government, GSSTI has designs to send its first satellite to space by 2020. The government allocated GHC$38.5 million (US$10 million) to nuclear and space science technology in 2015 as it aims to further space education and benefit from its own satellite imagery.
A short drive outside the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission is the University of Ghana's graduate school where many GSSTI staff are based, including Eric Aggrey, a project manager at the institute.
"[People] always see space science as just sending man to the Moon," he explained. "I am very much keen about human development… most of the time our teaching ends on the blackboard and now we can have people practising their skills. [That] will help us a lot."
The government has 20 staff at its institute, while the nearby University of Ghana has started courses in astronomy, as does the Kwame Nkrumah University in Kumasi. ANUC's initiative currently employs six people, and the school has aspirations to start academic courses in astronomy and space science. Outreach programs on space education are also happening at primary schools across the country.
But the value of the nascent Ghanaian space program isn't just for education. At present, the nation is reliant on satellite images from foreign companies, but by having its own independent satellites, Aggrey and others believe significant benefits can be felt across society.
"God willing, we will also go into launching our own satellite. In the next couple of years we are going to be able to clearly define our needs and design a satellite to fill our needs," Aggrey said.
"If we have our own or a regional satellite then we will have a common agenda if it is for agriculture, environmental degradation, storms… then we can use them to address local problems," said Godfred Frempong, chief scientist at the country's Science and Technology Policy Research Institute (STEPRI).
"[In] Ghana, for example, illegal mining is destroying our environment," Frempong continued. "So if we have a satellite [in orbit] we can use it to pinpoint where activity is going on. That would perhaps not be activity of interest to the US, but it is of interest to us."
As you might have noted, their concerns aren't about harvesting asteroids but getting a better grip on their agriculture and natural resources. A working space program can give them that. In fact it's really the only way.
Here's something else a space program can provide; materials that can handle horribly adverse conditions. Why does that matter to you? Well, the next time a plane crashes keep in mind that, thanks to Vladimir Tatarenko utilizing these new technologies, instead of dying you could float safely to the ground.
"Surviving in a plane crash is possible," claims Ukrainian aviation engineer Vladimir Tatarenko who devoted much of his life to inventing a life-saving capsule that can help thousands to survive in aviation accidents.
While working at the Antonov serial production plant, the aircraft manufacturing company in Kyiv, Tatarenko was often a member of special commissions, working on the scenes of accidents.
"Looking at these horrible scenes and knowing the statistics of crashes I came to certain conclusions. People are wrong about air disasters, because some 80% of them happen due to human error," the inventor told in an interview to the Ukrainian e-zine AIN.UA
"While aircraft engineers all over the world are trying to make planes safer, they can do nothing about the human factor," Tatarenko added, explaining how he came up with the idea of a rescue container.
After five-decade research Tatarenko has received a patent on the invention of the escape capsule system designed to rescue crew and passengers of a civil aircraft in case of emergency.
The idea of an ejecting capsule in the commercial aircrafts is not new, Russian inventor Gamil Halidov has also come up with the similar concept of a passenger compartment with a huge parachute.
"For years the research community was unable to bring it to life, because engineers could not find a suitable material. But we have used carbon-fiber – a very strong and lightweight material, which proved to be suitable," Tatarenko said.
The system envisages that the capsule with seats for passengers and crew is installed inside the aircraft's fuselage. It could escape through the rear hatch of the aircraft within two to three seconds in case of almost all emergencies – engine failure, fire on board, technical problems triggered by bad weather conditions and other troubles.
The benefits there are self-explanatory. Right now the only downside is that all luggage would be lost, but they're working on it. Unlike your robot overlords, they put people first.
Well, someone had to.
Now, I'm sure that you've seen those cute electric cars on TV and the occasional street. And I'm sure your first reaction was "GO BACK TO BERKELEY YOU FUCKING TREE HUGGER!"
That's okay. Not everyone reacts well to change. That said, one basic problem with them is that you have to charge them every few hours and random strangers tend to frown on you pulling up to their homes and plugging your car into their electrical outlets.
That was then. This is now. Inventor Ismael Aviso, in the Philippines, has come up with a self charging motor. All verified independently by the Philippine's Department of Energy (DOE).
DOE Test Results
The Technology Application and Promotion Institute, a division of the Philippine Department of Energy, tested two technologies developed by Ismael Aviso: his electric car and his repelling force.
In testing the electric car, they compared the efficiency of the DC motor using a conventional power supply (MERALCO), to the efficiency of the DC motor using Aviso's power source. Their measurement equipment included a dynamometer (which measures the torque produced by the spinning wheel); and oscilloscopes, to measure electrical output. They ran three tests of each type.
As was expected, the efficiency of the DC motor using the conventional power supply coming from a wall outlet was 45%. More than half the energy is being wasted as back-EMF, resistance, and heat.
But with Aviso's apparatus in place, the DC motor measured the efficiency as 133% — meaning that more energy was produced than was consumed; validating the claim of "self-running" (with unseen energy being harvested from the environment).
In his preparatory meeting with them last week, he told them that the "conventional" mode will show the DC motor running at its rated efficiency of around 65%, while the Aviso mode will show at least 90% efficiency; and he told them he wouldn't be surprised if it showed 140% efficiency – very clearly harnessing energy from the surroundings. Now today, he nearly reached the 140% high projected.
In the repelling force test, his mode of propelling a one kilogram weight 33 feet in the air consumed four times less energy than by means of an ordinary low speed motor.
Aviso said the full test results report will be made available next week, after which they will recommend the funding of his technology (not by the Philippine government, which does not have the budget for this, but by qualified third parties).
Aviso provided the following video of today's testing, most of it in time-lapse mode to speed up the video.
Here's a letter that the department sent Aviso on February 14 to schedule today's test. It says that the testing would be witnessed by members of the Inter-Agency Technical Evaluation Committee at the UP-VTRL compound of the Technology Application and Promotion Institute, a division of the Department of Energy.
As mentioned in our last story about this technology, Aviso was featured Monday morning on Channel 7, the largest TV network in the Philippines. They accompanied him to the meeting with the Department of Energy on February 17, in which the proposed testing procedure was discussed. Here's the video of their coverage that they posted today on their site.
If you click Ismael's link above you can even get the plans to build your own engine and try it out yourself. For a micro-car or two-seater, it works fine.
In America, legendary drag racer, Big Daddy Don Garlits, has developed an electric motor which can attain speeds of over 200 mph. So the engines needed to make electric cars commercially feasible now exists. With Ismael's new technology you can look forward to quiet, high speed, environmentally friendly, vehicles that would have many commercial applications.
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One way of differentiating types of interviews is by the person who is leading the interview: whether it is interviewer led or interviewee led. For example, McKinsey is interviewer based and BCG is interviewee led.
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There are a myriad of ways the world tries to define the female experience. Then there are all the ways on top of that the world tries to define the work of female artists. In Girlwork, on view at Flight Gallery, eight women artists reclaim what it means to be, simply, an artist. Featuring Abby Hinojosa, Barbara Miñarro, Brittany Ham, Casey Galloway, Jacqueline Saragoza McGilvray, Jesse Ruiz, Nicole Poole, and Rebekah Hurst, the show combines a multitude of mediums and styles that go beyond exploring themes of womanhood and femininity. A theme that, according to curator Audrey LeGalley, is underlying and ties their artwork together, but does not exclusively set the tone of the exhibition as a whole. While some of the content and materials arc back towards the female experience and art historical references of womanly "craft" art, there are issues present in the exhibition that go beyond that.
"Yes, there are these themes of femininity and womanhood but there are also these adjacent ideas that are just human. Because we're just people. I feel like an issue with girl shows is that they can be perceived as kind of one tone. That's what I wanted to break down with this show. I wanted to show complexities and layers of dealing with issues of femininity and everything else."
Among the other conversations occurring in the show are physical intimacy, immigration, familial remembrances, and more. Some of the artwork is created using what some would call "traditional" female materials often associated with craft arts (i.e. textiles, flowers, beads, and so on). If the notion of associating these materials solely with female artists is absolute bullshit to you, well, it is to me too on some levels. The idea that women can only be successful with these materials is ridiculous. Simultaneously, women can create artwork in whatever medium they want. Their selection of materials should not undermine the quality or content of their work. Just as there are different ideas centering around what it means to be feminist or what it means to be a woman, if you're under the notion that this show is about a singular female experience, you're wrong. Just like true equality is about letting women be exactly who they want to be (whether that includes being feminine or not), this exhibition shows the intricacies of being human and being a woman.
Nicole Poole – Nicole Poole's artwork in Girlwork is an incredibly minimal and intimate piece that utilizes transparent thread gridded and pulled across a square of ash wood. Titled Ode To Agnes Martin One, the work is honoring the work of Agnes Martin, an artist that pushed the boundaries of Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism in the 1960s. Nicole Poole is an artist and creative professional currently working in San Antonio, Texas. A native of Detroit, Michigan, Poole earned a B.B.A. in Marketing and Communication from Eastern Michigan University before relocating to San Antonio in 2008. In 2018 she earned a B.F.A. and B.A. in Art History and Criticism from The University of Texas at San Antonio. During her time at UTSA, she was a recipient of the Mellon Humanities Pathways Fellowship, the Elton Smith Memorial Endowed Scholarship in Art, and the Gloria Galt Endowed Scholarship in Art.
Barbara Miñarro – Barbara Miñarro's work in this exhibition is a collection of brightly beaded forms that invoke memories of childhood, home, and loss. Like much of the artwork featured in this show, the cheery exterior of Miñarro's work disguises a deeper trauma. In La escalera, vibrant, plastic beads are plated together to form a ladder that drapes from a supportive beam and falls to a pool on the floor. The ladder represents the home that many immigrants hope to reach, but as we've seen in recent events, often the ladder is unsteady, breakable, and doesn't lead anywhere. Miñarro was born in Monterrey, Mexico and currently lives and works in San Antonio, Texas. She earned a BFA from the University of Texas at San Antonio in 2017.
Brittany Ham – At first glance, Brittany Ham's paintings appear to be a mellow and abstract study of female life. With loose marks forming the figures and their environment, and the selection of a pastel palette, we encounter a seemingly idyllic setting. However, Ham is actually challenging how traditional painting and portraiture of women has been captured by the male gaze for centuries, depicting beautiful women surrounded by nature, bathing and placed in unnatural poses. Ham is depicting twenty-first-century women in an unapologetically genuine fashion.
Casey Galloway – Casey Galloway's two fiber pieces, Pattern in the Path and Random Acts #4 provide a formal addition to the group exhibition. LeGalley selected Galloway's work due to its materiality and formality, allowing the meticulous execution and hand dyed cotton speak for itself. Casey Galloway holds a BFA in Fiber from the University of North Texas and is the Fiber Department Coordinator at Southwest School of Art. Along with being a visual artist, Casey is dedicated to handmade and naturally dyed functional work.
Rebekah Hurst – Rebekah Hurst deals with ideas of womanhood in a very direct way, using pieces of the female body to transcend beyond what typical materials can do. In Passage I, II, III, Hurst utilizes menstrual blood to draw very sporadic lines across a slab of raw wood. The blood has dried to a dark red, thicker in certain parts than others, and resembles a very Minimalist mountain range or countryside. LeGalley admires the brutal interaction between the selected materials and appreciates the irony of these conceptual pieces reflecting Abstract Expressionism and the male painters that created them. Rebekah Hurst (1998) is an interdisciplinary artist based in San Antonio, Texas. In 2016, she began earning her Bachelor of Fine Arts in New Media with minors in Museum Studies and Art History at The University of Texas at San Antonio.
Jacqueline Saragoza McGilvray – The two photographs by Jacqueline Saragoza McGilvray, Braids and Take it back, are from her series Sisterly. Originating from her experience being pregnant and giving birth, this series explores the relationships between, yes, sisters, but more than that, the relationships we have as human beings and how they mutate over time. McGilvray's focus is particularly on human interaction and presence (or the lack thereof). In Braids, we see one woman braiding another's hair, an image that makes many women reminisce on their own mothers, sisters, or female friends breading their hair as a child. This act, however, becomes less common as we grow up. Partly, perhaps, because it's something we learn to do ourselves. Also, because touching another person's hair is a very intimate act and these intimate acts that are innocent and welcomed when we are children become strange and uncomfortable when we are adults. McGilvray earned an MFA in Photography and Integrated Media from Ohio University and a BFA in Photography from Texas State University. She is currently working as the Curator and Exhibitions Manager at Blue Star Contemporary.
Abby Hinojosa – Abby Hinojosa's I love you so much is a delicate and beautiful tribute to her late grandmother. Using vintage doilies from her grandmother's home, Hinojosa has embroidered the words mija, baby, and pansecita in the center of each doily, accompanied by simple stitching of flowers, greenery, or hearts. Hinojosa is a Mexican-American fiber artist from San Antonio, Texas who is currently living and working in Austin, Texas. She earned her BFA in Fibers & Textiles from Oregon College of Art and Craft in 2017. Working in both fiber and ceramic mediums, her work explores identity and memory as a way to express the nostalgia associated with everyday life.
Jesse Ruiz – Colors and forms are the primary subjects of Jesse Ruiz's drawings, collages, watercolors, animations, and paintings. Her two pieces in Girlwork follow in this vein. LeGalley stated the visual importance of her work in the show, representing the broad way in which female artists work. Jesse earned an MA and MFA in 2014/2015 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She graduated from Barnard College-Columbia University in 2011 with a BA in Philosophy and attended San Antonio College for fine arts courses in 2009.
Girlwork will be on view at Flight Gallery with an opening reception happening tonight, Friday, July 5th from 6-10pm
Flight Gallery
112R Blue Star
San Antonio, TX 78204


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Last night, husband and I attended the Atlantic Council Annual Awards Dinner (our first black tie event since moving to DC), as the guests of new friends here. The Atlantic Council promotes constructive US leadership and engagement in international affairs. It's non-partisan in weaving a network of world leaders who together aim to "bring ideas to power and to give power to ideas." Last night's big shindig selected and celebrated impressive individuals who've contributed in outstanding ways to 21st-century challenges.
The Distinguished Humanitarian Leadership Award went to Bono (introduced by a surprisingly small Senator John McCain). The lead singer of U2 (with over 140 million albums sold and 22 Grammys to his name) has forged a phenomenal path as an activist against AIDS and extreme poverty in Africa. Bono spoke about the successes of his ONE and Product (RED) campaigns, which have diminished Third World debts and raised money for AIDS drugs respectively. His words were full of character and conviction, tripping off his tongue in catchy couplets. He talked about America as "an idea" plump with potential to inspire all, provided that idea renewed itself continually in the context of today's fast-flux world. He quoted the well-known words of past Presidents (labeling them "great lyrics from the American songbook") as templates for action in our times. And it was when he mentioned that "liberty, justice and equality" are as crucial to world affairs as "rhythm, melody and harmony" are to a smashing song, that today's painting popped into my mind.
Hot Chord (1965) is by the African American painter Sam Gilliam (b. 1933). Born in Tupelo, Mississippi, Gilliam grew up in Louisville, Kentucky. Like Alma Thomas (see Feb 13), he settled in Washington, DC to teach art in the public schools. He's associated with the Washington Color School and is broadly considered a color field painter. Gilliam's work experiments with color and abstraction, making those two things the subjects of his art: Hot Chord captures the lyricism of this approach. A bright, blocked-out background of red platforms a zinging strip of stripes dashing across on a diagonal. Is it any wonder that I thought of Gilliam when Bono brought up the "bright line" that divides the functions of 'peaceniks' like him and military men (of whom many were in attendance last night)? Gilliam's "bright line", with its mobility and momentum, evokes the "separate yet shared path to development" that Bono's activism is all about.
President Clinton closed the night when he accepted his award for Distinguished International Leadership. His lead motif was the extreme "interdependence" of our age, telling us that his choices now are informed by one straight question: "will this positively affect our interdependence?" Even Clinton's theme of interdependence tugged me back to Gilliam's picture, with its strumming strings lined up in positive, parallel formation. On a stringed instrument, chords are corrupted if even one string breaks: that's interdependence in musical terms. Thus Clinton's words were well-matched with Bono's aural analogies.
The cultural critic and author Eleanor Heartney has said that Gilliam's works are shot-through with meaning that's "woven into the structure… as part of their strivings for unity and their measured accommodation of freedom and order. [They're] painstakingly orchestrated to create a sense of internal harmony. Planes are locked together in compositions full of internal rhymes and rhythms." Dynamic harmony, whether in music or world affairs, seemed to be the theme of the evening, as emphasized by a powerful performance by the Senegalese singer Baaba Maal on guitar. And what's more, when George H.W. Bush appeared on video to introduce his friend Bill Clinton, I couldn't help but be struck by the patterning of his favourite tie…


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A few years ago, Jasmine Silver was a divorce attorney. She cut back on full-time work to raise her young children, but still wanted clients. However, she had no idea how to find them.
Runa Knapp was a senior manager in KPMG's credit practice. When her kids were born, she too left the full-time workforce.
The 2 women met through their children's Westport pre-school. Realizing how many friends they have with corporate backgrounds — "intelligent women who took time off for their kids," but who wanted either part- or full-time jobs — they brainstormed ideas.
"There are so many super-educated, super-ambitious people here, and in the rest of Fairfield County," Jasmine says. "They're untapped talent. But they needed a resource to re-enter the job market."
Now, they've got one. ConneCTalent helps both stay-at-home professionals and employers by, well, "connecting" them with each other. Opportunities include law, engineering, finance, marking, public relations, non-profits and "creatives."
They're also a great resource for commuters looking for opportunities closer to home. Plus people already employed, hoping to move up the corporate ladder.
It sounds like it's aimed solely at women. Yet, Runa notes, many men face the same job market issues.
In some ways, conneCTalent is like a typical recruiting agency. Employers pay a commission, based on the first year salary. However, Jasmine explains, their rates are lower than others.
In addition, there's a human touch lacking in most keyword-driven agencies.
She and Runa source jobs personally. They also hear of opportunities directly from employers.
Their database of job-seekers is filled with people who are not listed elsewhere. Some are just beginning their search. Others simply like Jasmine and Runa's personal touch.
"We don't just match buzzwords on resumes with jobs," Runa says. "We have conversations with people and businesses. That's how we make thoughtful, curated matches and connections."
ConneCTalent is growing rapidly. It will grow even more after a launch party on September 5 (6:30 to 8:30 p.m., B:Hive Southport). The event includes a career transition coaching workshop led by Morgan Mermagen; a resume writing workshop with Lesley Vanderlee, and a roundtable discussion on social media tips headed by WestportMoms co-founder Megan Rutstein.
ConneCTalent will sponsor more workshops this fall. Runa and Jasmine hope to see many new faces at those events. After all, the idea is that everyone in their current database will be busy working.
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Postmodernism is a political ideology that developed in the late 20th century. It's characterized by subjectivism and relativism and deconstructs Enlightenment concepts of reason, objectivity and merit. The root idea is that "everything is a social construct." Thus, it asks, how can one identify and qualify merit.
"We choose truth over facts." — Joe Biden
The other root idea is that no real effort, insight or knowledge is required to achieve and have value in society. The end goal is leveling and is little different than the Illuminist revolutions described by Nesta Webster.
For further reading on Illuminism and Nesta Webster, see:
- "Illuminism and Freemason Uprising Part I: A Deep Dive into Revolutionary History with Nesta Webster and James Billington"
- "Illuminism and Freemason Uprising Part II: Nesta Webster on Henri San-Simon and His Utopian Proto-Socialist Disciples"
- "Illuminism and Freemason Uprising Part III: The European Revolutions of 1848"
Postmodernists don't truly believe everything is subjective, or "not real" (aka Cartoon or Clown World). After "disproving" existing reality, they choose a very specific new reality. They use subjectivism as a strategy to destabilize established thinking and tear down the pillars of Western establishment so that they may recreate society with their own Illuminist vision.
That vision is a socially-engineered "utopia" of anti-meritocracy, tyranny of the minority, pseudo-science, Orwellian double-think and control over speech and behavior.
Read "The Prescience of George Orwell — '1984' is Here"
The very word "postmodernism" is Orwellian double-think gibberish. A better word is counter-Enlightenment.
This is the "everyone is a winner" cargo-cult philosophy. Cargo-cult thinking is the belief that if we simply emulate the visual evidence of achievement through materialism, then real achievement will follow automatically. If you build it, they will come.
Special status and rights are given based on victim status. Additional power is gained by these "identity groups" by claiming they are oppressed, "not equal yet," and for perpetuity. But it's much like a land rush given that 99.9% of the people on the planet can claim some sort of ancestral oppression. So the "winners" of the postmodernist land rush are those con-artists who whine, and manipulate the loudest about so-called "grievances." In practice it is not diversity, but shallow land grab diversity.
Ultimately, the postmodernism cult is about raw power. Once infiltrated into various institutions, they can infest and advance fellow cultists and useful sycophants.
Read "Clown World: Destructive Cults in the Broader Culture"
The cult, once in ascendancy, can pursue the subjugation of the majority of the population (in this case, by targeting majority "identity groups") on behalf of a numerically faux-oppressed elite (minority groups), who tell everyone else how they should think and what they can do and say. This is a bizarre "tyranny of the minority" or idiocracy/kakistocracy.
Since judging and criticism are considered "oppressive" under cargo-cult postmodernism, it can serve as cover and smoke and mirrors for the kakistocracy — or rule by the worst. Kakistocrats thrive in a relativist, subjectivist or "do as thy wilt" system. It's an environment made to order.
One of the tricks of postmodernism is to define it as a solely leftist phenomenon. Although it's most definitely based in discordian Illuminist Marxism, it can more accurately be thought of as a strategy for asserting political and economic power than a true belief system.
Read "Portrait of Evil: Karl Marx, a Disciple of Hell on Earth"
Thus, we arrive at the age of warring postmodernist cults. Here, the warring cults on the left and faux-right accuse each other of "post-truth" and "fake news." They set up a fake Hegelian dialectic. At this point, postmodernism seems to be the establishment ideology across the West.
There was a huge bandwagon effect. But having altered the environment so that objectivity and facts no longer matter, the strategy was opened for use by anyone, not just the postmodernist left. Enter Donald Trump, who just borrowed it. If facts don't matter, and it's just about subjectivity, then my subjectivity is just as good as yours. And so the postmodernist-right was born. This is personified by the Ben Shapiro soft-toss types.
Indeed, the large corporations have undeniably seen value in postmodernism. We know this because they have used their corporate media arm (five Jewish owned and managed corporations, headquartered mostly in New York) to widely spread the ideology and have strictly enforced it through their individual human resources departments. It shows up in inexplicable loss-leader advertising, such as with Gillette. Or it's pushed to the limits with pornographic incest promotion. The more perverted, the more it is celebrated.
For further reading on this subject, see
- "Cultural Marxist Echo Chamber Infiltrates Gillette and Creates Toxic Ads"
- "Latest Gillette ad Features Dad Teaching Transgender Son to Shave for the 1st Time"
- "MindGeek, PornHub and the Incest Trend"
As the plebs inevitably begin to struggle and revolt against corporatism due to the externalities of predatory profit maximization, the Crime Syndicate Owners can opportunistically use postmodernism as an efficient way to suppress them. Again, this is accomplished through the suppression of majority groups, using the façade of "freeing minorities" from oppressive majority-group tyranny (an imaginary enemy fabricated using their media assets). Additionally, the plutocrats can posture as "good" as they "protect" their minority tyrants.
Read "Microsoft Word Rolls Out Orwellian Newspeak Editor"
They can even go so far as to develop snitch technology so that brainwashed divided-and-conquered plebs can police and report on each other, making it cost effective.
For further reading on this topic, see
- "University Takes Campus 'Offensive' Speech Reporting App National"
- "In Soviet Sweden, a Social Media Snitch is a National Hero"
Winter Watch Takeaway
This coalition of ideological postmodernists, pragmatic manipulative kleptocrats and opportunistic psychopathic politicians have utilized the no-accountability counter-enlightenment postmodern movement to broadly seize and exercise power.


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Lamborghini is bringing its "most reactive car" to the Geneva Motor Show this week, a car almost certain to be the hardcore Aventador SuperVeloce spied recently during a photo shoot in southern Europe.
Now we have our first look at what's likely to be an open-top version of the car. This photo, sourced from the Teamspeed forums, shows a prototype for what's likely to be an Aventador SuperVeloce Roadster.
Giving away the car's identity are the aggressive rear diffuser, extra vents in the rear bumper, and the quad-pipe exhaust tips. While the rollover protection looks similar to that on the stock Aventador Roadster, the engine cover appears unique, signaling some differences here.
Lamborghini only applies the SuperVeloce title (SV for short) on its most extreme models, and this Aventador SV Roadster already appears much more extreme than the stock Aventador Roadster. If previous SV models like those based on the Miura, Diablo and Murcielago are any indication of what to expect, look for less weight and more power.
Lamborghini's 6.5-liter V-12 fitted to the Aventador LP 700-4 develops 691 horsepower, but more potent versions of the engine exist. In the Aventador LP 720-4 50° Anniversario power was dialed up to 710 hp, and in the Veneno the same engine produces as much as 740 hp. The Aventador SV could pack the most potent version of the engine we've seen yet.
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We are watching a livestream of the ECMA folk stage at St. Paul's Anglican Church across the street.
Our bandwidth at home is beamed across Prince Street from the Reinventorium (in the basement of the Parish Hall of the selfsame church) into an Apple Airport Extreme upstairs, which has an Apple Airport Express extender downstairs that Oliver's MacBook Air in using for his wifi.
Oliver's got the livestream playing on his laptop, and is streaming it to our Apple TV.
The Apple TV is connected to our 20 year old analog Sony Trinitron using an HDMI to RCA converter.
Where we're watching music being performed in the church. Across the street. As it's happening.
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Point Pleasant Disorderly Conduct Lawyers
We have represented many clients charged with Disorderly Conduct in Point Pleasant and made sure that this offense did not appear on their record. Disorderly conduct in violation of N.J.S.A. 2C:33-2 is a petty disorderly persons offense. While this is the lowest graded offense in the New Jersey State criminal justice system it still carries fines, penalties and possible time in jail. This will also appear on your record. In many instances, there are constitutional defenses that revolve around freedom of speech. There is also time when the police simply get it wrong. Regardless, I have represented thousands of clients and have had great success defeating and defending disorderly conduct offenses. If you have been arrested and charged with disorderly conduct in Point Pleasant, we offer a consultation and can answer all your questions.
The offense of disorderly conduct consists of either:
A) Improper behavior: which if with purpose to cause public inconvenience, annoyance or alarm, or recklessly creating a risk thereof, a person:
- Engages in fighting or threatening, or in violent or tumultuous behavior; or
- Creates a hazardous or physically dangerous condition by any act which serves no legitimate purpose of the actor. Or,
B) Offensive language: which if in a public place, and with purpose to offend the sensibilities of a hearer or in reckless disregard of the probability of so doing, a person addresses unreasonably loud and offensively coarse or abusive language, given the circumstances of the person present and the setting of the utterance, to any person present.
"Public" is defined as affecting or likely to affect persons in a place to which the public or a substantial group has access; places include highways, transport facilities, schools, prisons, apartment houses, places of business or amusement, or any neighborhood.
The penalties you will be facing if charged with Disorderly Conduct include fines, assessments, possibly probation with conditions, community service and jail time. Specifically, you could face a fine of up to $500 pursuant to N.J.S.A. 2C:43-3; court costs of approximately $35, a $50 Violent Crimes Compensation Board assessment and a $75 Safe Neighborhood Services Fund assessment. Restitution will also be imposed for any damage done as a result of the disorderly conduct.
If your sentence includes probation then you will have to submit to random drug and urine testing. Probation will likely include community service and reporting requirements. A violation of probation will likely result in jail. The maximum jail sentence for a petty disorderly persons defense is 30 days.
You will have a criminal record if you plead guilty or are found guilty of a petty disorderly persons offense. While it may not be the most serious offense it still could prevent you from being hired if another candidate has no criminal record. This offense could cause you to lose out on a promotion or be asked to resign from a public office. N.J.S.A. 2C52-3 permits expungement for which you must typically wait 5 years.
This offense could affect an application for citizenship or naturalization causing it to be delayed or denied. You may even be deported depending on your status.
There are defenses to disorderly conduct. The key is to analyze the totality of the circumstances. For example under the the prohibition of improper behavior did you act purposefully or recklessly? These are states of mind and the actual actions must be looked at in detail to infer your intent. Also, was your behavior truly fighting or threatening or perhaps horseplay that was misinterpreted? Under the prohibition of offensive language were you aware you were in public place and there are people that could hear you? Perhaps it was late at night and you just realized you were locked out of your car after a long day in the city and it was bitterly cold as you stand there with a dead phone and you start screaming and don't realize there is a family with young kids just 3 cars down. You may have been exercising your right to free speech. This may be a scenario where a dismissal would be appropriate.
The point is that the facts need to be scrutinized and analyzed to fight this charge. In some instances if the States' case is strong than a plea offer, a down grade to a town ordinance may be the best option, this would result in a fine, but not a criminal conviction. I hope that you will consider hiring an experienced criminal trial lawyer like myself to review your case and help you get the best possible outcome.


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Turbulent separated inert and reactive flows over a triangular bluff body
Application Area 2: Combustion
Application Challenge AC2-12
This test case concerns the dynamics of nonreactive and reactive bluff-body wake flows. The test conditions can be described by the Reynolds number (based on the bluff-body base), Re = 28,000 – 47,000, which is in the sub-critical flow regime. The key features of the flow mechanics for this Reynolds number range are the laminar boundary layer, separated shear layer, wake and the flow instabilities (the absolute and convective), which lead to complex, nonlinear interactions between them. For the reactive cases, the flame (and the turbulence-chemistry interaction) introduces additional physics by effects of exothermicity and flow dilatation on the flow field, which leads to large differences between the non-reacting and the reacting wake. Here, combustion is characterized by the lean, premixed propane-air mixture of equivalence ratio, φ = 0.6 – 0.65 ("thin reaction zone" regime). Several studies point out that turbulence levels in the reacting flow are much lower than in the non-reacting case, particularly in the vicinity of the recirculation zone, which can be explained by the stabilization of the convective instability, increased viscosity in the post-flame gases and the vorticity sink induced by the gas expansion.
The experiments for the present test case have been carried out by the Volvo Company. The Validation Rig consists of a straight channel, divided into an inlet section and a combustor section. Triangular bluff-bodies were used for flame stabilization.
The simplicity of the geometry makes this test case an ideal platform for validation and verification of different numerical methods and mathematical models. A series of numerical simulations undertaken to study both non-reacting and reacting bluff-body flows are reported here. The purpose is to assess the applicability of different turbulence and combustion (turbulence-chemistry interaction) models to capture the unsteady (combustion) physics. Heat transfer effects are investigated as well. Different calculation approaches like RANS/URANS, LES and hybrid RANS/LES (SAS) and different turbulence models are compared. Results obtained by several turbulence-chemistry interaction models like TFC and EDC are compared and discussed as well.
|Schematic view of the flow mechanics of the non-reactive and reactive bluff-body flows.
Contributed by: D.A. Lysenko and M. Donskov — 3DMSimtek AS, Sandnes, Norway
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UNKRICH, Lee - Toy Story 3 Clip - Playtime At Bonnie's - 2010 USA
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Toy Story 3 is a 2010 American computer-animated comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures. It is the third installment in the Toy Story series and the sequel to Toy Story 2.
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Biloxi Mayor Frustrated with Idle Casino Project
July 16th, 2010
The mayor of Biloxi aired out some frustration on Wednesday over the Margaritaville Casino project that's sat idle for two years:
"I think Margaritaville is through — at that location," Holloway said during Breakfast with the Mayor, sponsored by the Biloxi Chamber of Commerce at the Donal Snyder Community Center.
Last week, he talked with John Payne, the central division president of Harrah's Entertainment, who told him the company is not in negotiations with any investors, Holloway said.
The mayor said he is frustrated when he reads that Harrah's is buying properties when the project in Biloxi has remained idle since 2008.
Asked what's going to happen to the metal skeleton on the site, Holloway said Harrah's would "probably knock it down. I don't know what else they can do with it."
LuAnn Pappas, vice president of marketing and non-gaming operations at Harrah's Grand Biloxi Casino, said that isn't planned.
"Our position on that property remains the same," she said. "We continue to maintain that site as we evaluate options."
First announced in 2007, original plans called for a $700 million resort with 798 rooms, a full-service spa, a pool/deck area with cabanas, bar and tropical landscaping, all on 46 acres of land south of U. S. Highway 90 (view artists rendering).
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Chairman, Round 13 Capital
Former Star of CBC's Dragon's Den
Co-Founder, LavaLife
Bruce Croxon made his mark as a digital pioneer by co-founding Lavalife and revolutionizing how people connect. Under his direction, he grew this early tech start-up into the marquee brand in online dating with over two million users. Partner, chairman and CEO, Croxon helped lead the company's growth from four to 600 employees, achieving revenue of just under $100 million.
After its spectacular rise, he led the sale of the company for $180 million dollars. Since that time, Bruce has been active as both an investor and advisor in early-stage companies in the technology and hospitality sectors, continuing to expand the reach of his entrepreneurial successes. As an ex-Dragon on CBC's Dragons' Den, he adds a broad range of businesses and products to his portfolio that taps into his passion for digital media, health and marketing.
Croxon currently helms Round13, a company dedicated to investment in growth-stage digital Canadian companies. He currently co-hosts The Disruptors on BNN and CTV, a weekly show spotlighting Canadian business, and believes our entrepreneurs can hold their own with anyone in the world.
There are successful maverick entrepreneurs – but they are the exception and stand out because of it. Most successful businesses are built of partnership and collaboration.
"The results of the group far outweigh those of the individual, every time," says Bruce Croxon, digital pioneer and co-founder of Lavalife.
Bruce guides the audience along the exciting and intense entrepreneurial path, describing — through his own experiences and informed insight — what it takes to achieve success in today's ever faster and demanding entrepreneurial environment.
Clear vision and unwavering values are the driving force that built Lavalife into a 100 million dollar business. Often entrepreneurial success is defined retrospectively — not so with Lavalife, whose executive team were early adopters, not only of technology, but of organizational development strategy.
Bruce Croxon shares his philosophy for business growth and success, and how the impact of decisions guided by core values, benefits recruitment, culture, innovation, and ultimately success.
Bruce Croxon shares marketing strategies and tales from the trenches from his vantage point at the helm of the very first online social network.
Having navigated Lavalife from its start in the 80s as Telepersonals, a telephone-based dating service, Bruce recounts how getting on-side emerging trends and influencing societal shifts revolutionized how people connect and led to Lavalife's 97% brand recognition in Canada.


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» Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) German Dictator
The culture of Greece is not the same as the culture of Germany, and to fuse them into a single unit is extremely difficult.
» Alan Greenspan (1926-?) American Economist
For a few years, more people have been leaving our country than entering it. Wherever it is possible, we must lower the entry hurdles for those who bring the country forward.
At the beginning of the 60's our country called the foreign workers to come to Germany and now they live in our country. We kidded ourselves a while, we said: 'They won't stay, sometime they will be gone.' But this isn't reality.
If we remind ourselves of the fact that every fifth American today rightly points and perhaps also with a certain degree of pride to his German ancestry or her German ancestry, we can safely say that we, indeed, share common roots.
I am not the German Tony Blair. Nor am I the German Bill Clinton. I am Gerhard Schroeder, chancellor of Germany, responsible for Germany. I don't want to be a copy of anyone.
To have united the purposes of an entire Nation, is the great historical achievement of the man in whose strong hands our President has placed the fate of our people.
Through years of secret work, scientific and basic ground work was laid, in order to be ready again to work the German Armed Forces at the appointed hour, without loss of time or experience.
I could only speak in the smallest, most intimate circles about the real reasons which made me undertake the changeover of the plants for certain lines of production for I had to expect that many people would not understand me.
I felt really sorry for Oliver Kahn. Up to that point he had made lots of saves for the German team. Of course he could have caught the ball but it just happened. It was bad luck. In that situation, you need to be very strong psychologically to carry on.
The people in East Germany have lived through so many changes in the last 15 years like never before in the country, and they did this often with great enthusiasm. But in the West we also have a high degree of transformations.
Overcoming the Cold War required courage from the people of Central and Eastern Europe and what was then the German Democratic Republic, but it also required the steadfastness of Western partner over many decades when many had long lost hope of integratio
With these men and women who work-for the cause with all their hearts, with cool heads and skilled hands we will master every fate.
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This is a bit scary of me to say, but the Buy List has been doing incredibly well lately. We?ve beaten the S&P 500 for 14 of the last 17 days. Now I promise not to get too cocky because I?m still trailing the market for the year. In fact, just mentioning this makes me think that I?ll jinx it. Last week, I noted that the Buy List had its best day relative to the S&P 500 for the year. It was only the third time we?ve beaten the market by over 1% in a day. Well yesterday was the best day ever against the S&P 500. We were up 0.16% while the S&P 500 was down -1.00%. I?m stunned that these days are coming so close together. I build the Buy List to roughly conform to the overall market, but just do a little bit better (hopefully). Our daily correlation usually runs about 85%. S
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Interconnected Air Suspensions with Independent Height and Stiffness Tuning
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Suspensions play a crucial role in vehicle comfort and stability. Different types of suspensions have been proposed to fulfill the essential characteristics of vehicle suspensions. A semi-active suspension with adjustable damper improves the performance of a suspension in different conditions and it is better than a passive suspension in terms of ride comfort and handling. Furthermore, it is not as expensive and complicated as an active suspension. Semi-active suspensions rely on adjustable damping coefficient. A new type of air suspension with independent ride height and stiffness tuning has been developed recently. By using two air chambers in the suspension system, ride height of vehicle and stiffness of suspension can be adjusted independently and simultaneously. The conventional air suspension systems use compressor to pump the air into a single flexible rubber airbag and by inflating the air, the chassis will be raised from the axle (ride height control). In this type of suspensions, the stiffness of spring is not under control. In the new air suspension system, by controlling the air pressure on both chambers, one can tune the suspension stiffness and the ride height of the vehicle at the same time for different driving conditions. The air suspension is also able to maintain the vehicle body at the same height and natural frequency for different load or number of passengers. This thesis discusses about the design analysis of an air suspension with ride height and stiffness tuning. The analytical formulation is developed for the optimum design of the new air suspension system. In this thesis, the interconnection between the pressurized chambers of the new air suspension with ride height and stiffness tuning is studied to further improve the performance. Proper interconnection of air springs can help the suspension system to distribute the load between tires more evenly on rough roads or uneven surfaces. Different configurations in air spring interconnection have different impact on the handling and tire load distribution. To study the effect of air spring interconnection configurations on tires load distribution and vehicle handling, a general mathematical model is developed. This model is used to compare various configurations in detail. Results show that interconnection could improve tire load distributions greatly. It is also shown that improving tire load distribution will deteriorate roll stiffness that in turn deteriorate vehicle handling at higher speeds. Since on rough roads, vehicle's speed is necessarily low, interconnection will not have adverse effects on vehicle handling when activated.
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Peyman Karimi Eskandary (2014). Interconnected Air Suspensions with Independent Height and Stiffness Tuning. UWSpace. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/8414
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With any sports game, different fans have different interests. Some fans want to only play online game modes while others just want to take control of their favorite team, and turn them into championship contenders.
With NHL 16, the developers at EA Sports had a lot of work to do when it came to making sure as many fans as possible were pleased with the game mode offerings and improvements to the next-gen console offering. After the disappointment that was NHL 15, the team in Vancouver knew that this was a major year for the franchise as a whole.
"We know some of our fans were disappointed that some of the depth and breath wasn't there with some of the modes," lead producer Sean Ramjagsingh said regarding NHL 15. "It was really important for us, when we set out for NHL 16, to understand what our fans wanted. And make sure worked closer with them than we ever have throughout the entire development process with NHL 16. We've literally done more research than we ever have with our fans."
From polling fans directly to checking what they played when they were signed online, the team in Canada found out details regarding the fan base that helped them decide how to split of time in regards to working on the various game modes available in NHL 16.
The research found that Hockey Ultimate Team was the far and away most played game mode for fans, which lead to the team working on fixes and tuning for the mode. However, they know that not everybody likes to play HUT, let alone online. Defining the different types of personas, as the team calls them, that enjoy the NHL franchise was a big thing towards making the game fun for everyone.
"We really understand that not everyone plays online; not everyone plays EASHL," Ramjagsingh said. "Some guys play our games strictly for Be-A-GM or Be-A-Pro, and don't even play the game play, they just do the managerial aspects of it. So, if you're a Be-A-Pro guy or Be-A-GM guy or more of a social player, what are you looking for when you play our game?
"It's about making sure the depth is there for Be-A-GM while also delivering new experiences. Same with Be-A-Pro, making sure the things that people love are there, but also delivering a new experience there as well," he said. "If we were to put all of our focus into one mode and not focus on everything else, then we'd be alienating our fan base. We really balance it to focus on all of our most-played modes so we can deliver something for everyone."
Those improvements include the addition of player morale in Be-A-GM mode, which could lead to GMs having to part with certain players just because they aren't happy with the organization. It adds a new twist to a mode that has become quite dry for some over the years. Also back is the ability to manage and play as your NHL franchise's AHL affiliate.
Be-A-Pro adds a new progression system for your player that determines attributes solely based on actions taken on the ice. For HUT, the introduction of single player seasons is a long-awaited feature that has fans of the mode excited. Now, players can test their lineups and perfect their craft before diving into competitive online battles.
With NHL 16, EA Sports is aiming to regain the trust of the fans that being skeptical with the somewhat poor transition to the newest generation of consoles. Based on the improvements in game modes and on-ice play, it may be safe to say that the company is moving in the right direction.
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Famous audit and consulting company expects market growth only in 2016.
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Ernst & Young experts have made a detailed forecast of future development of auto market in Russia during 2015-2016. Rapid decrease of sales is expected in 2015. However in 2016 the market growth will take place. It will become stable and have positive value. The information is provided by "Izvestiya".
Russian Association of Auto Dealers expects third of all Russian dealers to leave the market in 2015. At the same time prices will increase by 10%.
The level of sales has decreased by 12.7% over the last month of 2014. At the same time GDP growth is expected only in 2016. This will result in sales increase on auto market up to 6%. However such increase will be noticed only in the end of the next year.
Ernst & Young specialists explained their methods of calculation. It is based on the fact that Russian market is not saturated enough at the moment. This rate is even lower in comparison with other countries from former Soviet Union which have already entered EU.
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6 Curved Rail blocks from CathyC
September Block Lotto is Curved Rail Blocks in Batiks
…………. oh no, curves!!!!!
I have never done curves before.
I thought to myself, "Sophie has never steered you wrong yet!"
so I gave it a go
Sophie, here are my six (6) blocks for this months block lotto which I will donate 😉
I am really hoping to get some more batik fabrics and make up some more later in the month.
I REALLY enjoyed making these blocks 😉
so much so I made another 9 – these can't go in for Block Lotto as they all use the same three fabrics and due to a cutting error on my part only measure 8 1/4″, but I am smitten with these batiks ……… I can see a lap quilt coming up in the near future.


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Sake World Newsletter
July 2008
Top Story
Naturally Occurring Yeast
Naturally-Occurring Yeast.....Or the Lack ThereofThe yeast used in sake brewing is, with but a mere handful of exceptions, not naturally occurring
yeast, but rather cultured stuff added at the yeast starter stage. Sure, it might be cultured at home, in other words, proprietary stuff kept and reproduced in house, but with just a very few exceptions it
comes from an ampule, or a slant in a test tube, or some other pure preserved form. What it does not do is fall into the tank naturally, from the ambient environment, at least not in the last century or so.
The misconception that sake is brewed using the yeast that is clinging to the ceiling in the kura (brewery) is perhaps most prevalent amongst yamahai and kimoto styles, partly because these are the yeast starter methods used when natural yeast were the driving force
behind sake, well over a hundred years ago. But such is not the case now. However, as with everything in the damn sake world, there are exceptions. I thought there were none; in fact, I was sure of it.
But then ran into Furosen of Shiga Prefecture and found out there were indeed using only naturally occurring yeasts. Soon thereafter, the energy or vibes of this must have traversed the ethereal web
that connects all sake brewers, because I have run into it no less than four more times since then. The first of these was Kariho of Akita Prefecture. The owner-inherit, Yohei Ito, caught the bug from his
friend at Furosen, and wanted to give it a try. "Yamete kure," (please, give up the idea) came the reply from the toji. "It's too risky."Ito-san would have none of it, and made a couple of tanks of
yamahai and added no yeasts. The moto naturally bubbled up at the prescribed time, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. When they had the foam analyzed, they found there were two dominant yeasts: No. 10 and AK-1,
both strains that are very, very commonly used in that kura. Which is the point. It is a lot less random than you might think, since in a sake brewery the yeast hanging around in the air and
(ostensibly) on the rafters is for the most part the stuff that has been being burped off of the yeast starters and fermenting mashes of the countless tanks made in that environment. In fact, Kenbishi,
one of the most storied breweries in the country and about the 15th to 20th largest maker uses a bit of cultured yeast at the beginning of a season, but then that's it: the rest of the year they depend on the
environment they have created and maintain, as all the yeast from then on out comes from the ambient environment. I had long ago heard it but chalked it up to urban myth of the sake world, until it was
verified recently. Then, there is Philip Harper, the lone non-Japanese toji in the history of the craft. At his new place of brewing employment, Tamagawa in Kyoto, he made a tank of natural yeast
kimoto. The first year he was there! Talk about guts and confidence! It was intended to be a one-time deal, but it sold out while still way young, necessitating a second batch be brewed. I suppose that tells
us something. Lastly, or most recently anyway, was Sugii-san of Suginishiki in Shizuoka, who lately has been into yamahai and kimoto style brewing to augment his already sharp, tangy style. His, too,
was successful. But interestingly, he had different theories on where the yeast came from. "Rafters, schmafters," he began. "It sticks to the tools; to the poles you mix with, and to the dakidaru
you use to adjust temperature." Dakidaru are aluminum or traditionally wooden cans holding maybe ten liters (two gallons) of either ice or hot water put into moto (yeast starters) and mixed around to make the
day-to-day single-digit temperature adjustments called for in some moto. "No matter how well you wash 'em," he continued, "you have some yeast clinging to those tools. And as you put them in and out of
the various moto, the yeast gets transferred. You only need a bit, and the conditions of the moto take over from there." Rafters, shmafters, or tools, shmools, one place the yeast is not coming from on
his batches is little ampules or test tubes. So how were these sake? I have had Kenbishi countless times, Furosen often, and the naturally occuring yeast versions of Tamagawa (Philip Harper's sake) and
Suginishiki but once as well. All are deep, fairly indicative of the yamahai or kimoto styles -- gaminess and breadth, but surprisingly not nearly as idiosyncratic as one might expect. All are fairly true to
style but nothing about having used drop-in yeast made them lean too weird in any one way. I was a tad surprised, but impressed as well. Why do many feel these methods are risky? Because in truth there
is no guarantee that the winning yeast will be what you want it to be, nor any that there is enough of that in the environment (or on the shmools) to make it all work. Or it might take its jolly old time, and
not function on a predictable schedule (nature is like that), screwing up everything else on down the line. Nor can one ensure as much precise control over the style of the sake, left up to the whims of the
cosmos as it is. It is much easier to get aimed-for or desired aromas, acidities, or flavors if you specifically choose your yeast and create environs within which the chosen ones flourish. And this is
why so few do it, and with the exception of Kenbishi, for just a tank or two. Surely there are more out there, but it is hardly widespread. And four small and one large brewer does not a critical mass make, so
I do not expect things to change too drastically on this yeastern front. Beyond the aforementioned risks et al, using naturally occurring yeast is more hassle-laden and less precise, adversely affecting
control over consistency. As such, the main point here is, actually, that ALMOST ALL sake, including almost all yamahai and kimoto sake, uses cultured yeast. It may be proprietary, but it is cultured
and added. There are only a couple of rough riders making sake using naturally occurring yeast. Don't Diss The Big BoysAt Least Not Off the BatI
have long been a proponent of drinking sake, not the label on the bottle. And very often what this means is not holding a bias against large brewers, and tasting their sake with an open mind and an open
palate. Often people assume the largest brewers make only slop, and only sake from boutique artisan brewers is worth consideration. But it just isn't true. What is true is that, sure, most of
what the largest brewers make is inexpensive low-grade sake. But in truth, with very few exceptions, most smaller brewers make that too. And much of this -- from a lot of brewers -- is perfectly enjoyable. But
what is also true is that these larger brewers can do anything they want. If they want to make gold medal sake, they can. And, in fact, they do. If they want to make great ginjo, they can. They have the
wherewithal and technology to do whatever they want. And so, it is important to always taste a sake with no bias toward scale or size. While I could drone on longer with anecdotes and reasons, I will
wrap this up here by saying please remember this point. And then I will note two things. Gekkeikan, long the industry leader but now the number two volume producer in Japan, recently saw an increase in
its production. Not massive, less than one percent in fact; but there nonetheless. Why is this significant? Because sake is still in decline, and the ones suffering the most are the biggest brewing companies,
as less expensive sake is taking the hardest hit. And amidst that environment, Gekkeikan saw growth. It speaks volumes for the big G and a bit for the industry as a whole too.Next is the above
mentioned Kenbishi. They are a quiet, efficient, secretive company whose sake has been selling on its well-deserved reputation for literally centuries. Their products are few, and not all that diversified. It
is just the way they choose to quietly, calmly go about their business. I recently saw that they came out with the first new product in 21 years. Twenty-years years! In an industry where people are
trying new rice and yeast types, styles, bottles, and methods all the time in attempt (read: scramble) to win over women, youth, hipsters and traditionalists, this company stoically serves up their first new
product since 1987. What is it? It's called "Zuiho Kuromatsu Kenbishi" and is a yamahai junmai-shu made using Yamada Nishiki rice and Aiyama (lit. "love mountain") rice, a variety that Kenbishi had
cornered for decades but is now more commonly found. Also, it is being released in Japan and the US simultaneously. It retails for 1575 yen (720 ml) in Japan, so expect that to almost double in the US.
For Japan-based readers: KokodakeyaYou Can Only Get it Here!We're all looking for that special something, that sake that smacks of rarity and
specialness, that you can't get just anywhere; stuff with a story behind it. But where to look for that kind of sake? Even if you find a good retailer, rarely do you find things sold only at that one shop.
But that kind of thing is all they carry at Kokodakeya. In fact, the name itself, koko dake ya, implies "you can only buy it here." Run and owned partly by Haruo Matsuzaki, perhaps the most respected sake
writer and critic in Japan and my own most significant teacher. Kokodakeya (www.kokodakeya.co.jp) opened a couple of months ago for shipment
of sake and other goodies within Japan. For sale at Kokodakeya you have of course sake, but also shochu (don't even think about it), seasonal sake dispensers like those glass ditties with a separate
pocket for ice so it chills without thinning, traditional sweets and more. The sake is all rare or unusuals stuff and runs the gammut from aged sake to fruit flavored and infused sake-based drinks to good
orthodox sake from little-known brewers in the boonies of Japan. Other liquors, beers, whiskey, and more are also available. Note, the site is only in Japanese, but still give it a click-through and
perusal. NOTE: Kokodakeya only ships within Japan. 2008 Stateside Sake Professional CourseSan Francisco, August 10 - 12, Sold OutSold
Out. The 2008 Stateside Sake Professional Course will be held in San Francisco on August 10, 11 and 12. The course will be held at The Firehouse in the Fort Mason Center, located in the historic piers and
buildings of Lower Fort Mason, which is itself located between Fisherman's Wharf and the Golden Gate Bridge on San Francisco Bay. Attendees will be afforded spectacular and stunning views during breaks.
The course will run for three full days, after which participants will have an opportunity to take an exam for Level I Sake Specialist certification. The cost fo r the course is $750, which includes three full
days of instruction, materials, all sake for tasting, and one shot at the exam. Meals, lodging an the like are not included in the tuition. The 2008 Stateside Sake Course is sold out. The next course
will be held in Japan in January 2008. More information about content et al is available on the Sake World site at www.sake-world.com/html/spcny.html.
Educational Products from Sake-World.comThe Sake-World e-store currently offers three educational products that can be immediately downloaded following your purchase. See Educational Products at Sake-world.com. Odds-n-Ends:Links to Sake Book Info and ArchivesMore information on the following topics can be found athttp://www.sake-world.com/html/nl_related.html
Questions and comments should be directed to John Gauntner. Email John from this link: www.sake-world.com/html/email.html
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Another first for the team at Ruck Science. We have our first graduate level business program on board as one of our partner clubs. Today, Thunderbird Rugby FC has signed up to start receiving donations as part of our sponsorship program for amateur rugby clubs. The rugby club is an integral part of the Thunderbird Global School of Management's campus community. With this new partnership, we're hoping the club will be able to provide added incentives to get more students playing rugby.
The Thunderbird Rugby Football Club (TRFC) prides itself on being the largest, oldest and most visible clubs on the Thunderbird school campus. They are a long-standing and well-respected member of the Arizona Rugby Union and one of the top Rugby Teams in international MBA competition. Every spring, a team is selected from the current players who then travel to the World MBA Rugby Championships at Duke University to compete against teams from business schools all over the world (in 2008, they secured the Mug Champion trophy – apparently that's a BIG deal!).
The TRFC enhances both the Thunderbird brand name and the community at large. Being one of the largest clubs on campus we are able to play an active role in the greater Arizona Community. Each year, we host a blood drive and volunteer in various ways around the area to give back to the community and campus we love. Some of the most awesome rugby tours imaginable!
Rugby tours don't seem to be as big of a thing here in the US as they are in other places with more ingrained rugby traditions. But that hasn't stopped Thunderbird Rugby from putting on some of the most impressive sounding tours we've heard of in years. The past three have included:
Thunderbird Rugby FC trains on Wednesdays and Thursdays from 4:30pm to 6:00pm. This leaves plenty of time to get a good run in and still get off to the school's other on-campus activities in the evenings. They train at the Thunderbird Rugby Pitch on the main campus.
Firstly, you can make a purchase on ruckscience.com and use the coupon code THUNDERBIRDRFC. You'll get $10 off your first purchase. This process also provides the club with a donation up to 20% of the value of your order. Or you can find them another sponsor. This would be huge for the club. Their sponsorship criteria is available here on the club's website. Check it out and see if your company can lend a hand to support the boys at Thunderbird Rugby FC.