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A 65-year-old New York City cab driver from Queens, Nicanor Ochisor, hanged himself in his garage March 16, saying in a note he left behind that the ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft had made it impossible for him to make a living. It was the fourth suicide by a cab driver in New York in the last four months, including one Feb. 5 in which livery driver Douglas Schifter, 61, killed himself with a shotgun outside City Hall.
"Due to the huge numbers of cars available with desperate drivers trying to feed their families," wrote Schifter, "they squeeze rates to below operating costs and force professionals like me out of business. They count their money and we are driven down into the streets we drive becoming homeless and hungry. I will not be a slave working for chump change. I would rather be dead." He said he had been working 100 to 120 hours a week for the past 14 years.
Schifter and Ochisor were two of the millions of victims of the new economy. Corporate capitalism is establishing a neofeudal serfdom in numerous occupations, a condition in which there are no labor laws, no minimum wage, no benefits, no job security and no regulations. Desperate and impoverished workers, forced to endure 16-hour days, are viciously pitted against each other. Uber drivers make about $13.25 an hour. In cities like Detroit this falls to $8.77. Travis Kalanick, the former CEO of Uber and one of the founders, has a net worth of $4.8 billion. Logan Green, the CEO of Lyft, has a net worth of $300 million.
The corporate elites, which have seized control of ruling institutions including the government and destroyed labor unions, are re-establishing the inhumane labor conditions that characterized the 19th and early 20th centuries. When workers at General Motors carried out a 44-day sit-down strike in 1936, many were living in shacks that lacked heating and indoor plumbing; they could be laid off for weeks without compensation, had no medical or retirement benefits and often were fired without explanation. When they turned 40 their employment could be terminated. The average wage was about $900 a year at a time when the government determined that a family of four needed a minimum of $1,600 to live above the poverty line.
The managers at General Motors relentlessly persecuted union organizers. The company spent $839,000 on detective work in 1934 to spy on union organizers and infiltrate union meetings. GM employed the white terrorist group the Black Legion – the police chief of Detroit was suspected of being a member – to threaten and physically assault labor activists and assassinate union leaders including George Marchuk and John Bielak, both shot to death.
The reign of the all-powerful capitalist class has returned with a vengeance. The job conditions of working men and women, thrust backward, will not improve until they regain the militancy and rebuild the popular organizations that seized power from the capitalists. There are some 13,000 licensed cabs in New York City and 40,000 livery or town cars. The drivers should, as farmers did in 2015 with tractors in Paris, shut down the center of the city. And drivers in other cities should do the same. This is the only language our corporate masters understand.
The ruling capitalists will be as vicious as they were in the past. Nothing enrages the rich more than having to part with a fraction of their obscene wealth. Consumed by greed, rendered numb to human suffering by a life of hedonism and extravagance, devoid of empathy, incapable of self-criticism or self-sacrifice, surrounded by sycophants and leeches who cater to their wishes, appetites and demands, able to use their wealth to ignore the law and destroy critics and opponents, they are among the most repugnant of the human species. Don't be fooled by the elites' skillful public relations campaigns – we are watching Mark Zuckerberg, whose net worth is $64.1 billion, mount a massive propaganda effort against charges that he and Facebook are focused on exploiting and selling our personal information—or by the fawning news celebrities on corporate media who act as courtiers and apologists for the oligarchs. These people are the enemy.
Ochisor, a Romanian immigrant, owned a New York City taxi medallion. (Medallions were once coveted by cab drivers because having them allowed the drivers to own their own cabs or lease the cabs to other drivers.) Ochisor drove the night shift, lasting 10 to 12 hours. His wife drove the day shift. But after Uber and Lyft flooded the city with cars and underpaid drivers about three years ago, the couple could barely meet expenses. Ochisor's home was about to go into foreclosure. His medallion, once worth $1.1 million, had plummeted in value to $180,000. The dramatic drop in the value of the medallion, which he had hoped to lease for $3,000 a month or sell to finance his retirement, wiped out his economic security. He faced financial ruin and poverty. And he was not alone.
The corporate architects of the new economy have no intention of halting the assault. They intend to turn everyone into temp workers trapped in demeaning, low-paying, part-time, service-sector jobs without job security or benefits, a reality they plaster over by inventing hip terms like "the gig economy."
John McDonagh began driving a New York City cab 40 years ago. He, like most drivers, worked out of garages owned and operated by businesses. He was paid a percentage of what he earned each night.
"You could make a living [then]," he told me. "But everyone shared the burden. The garage shared it. The driver shared it. If you had a good night, the garage made money. If you had a bad night, you split it. That's not the case anymore. Right now we're leasing [cabs at the garages]."
Leasing requires a driver to pay $120 a day for the car and $30 for the gas. The drivers begin a shift $150 in debt. Because of Uber, Lyft and other smartphone ride apps, drivers' incomes have been cut by half in many cases. Cab drivers can finish their 12-hour shifts owing the garages money. Drivers are facing bankruptcies, foreclosures and evictions. Some are homeless.
"The TLC [New York City Transportation and Limousine Commission] wanted to limit yellow cab drivers to 12 hours a day," he said, referring to the distinctive yellow cabs that have medallions and can pick up passengers anywhere in the five boroughs. "There was a protest. Yellow cab drivers were protesting that they have to work a 16-hour day in order to make a living. It's cut everything. Everybody's fighting for that extra fare. You would be at a light with two or three other yellow cabs. You saw someone up the street with luggage you would run the lights to get to them. Because that might be an airport job. You're risking your own life, risking getting tickets, you're doing things you would never have done before."
"We don't have any health care," he said. "Sitting for those 12 to 16 hours a day, you are getting diabetes. There's no blood circulation. You're putting on weight. And then there's that added stress you're not making any money."
Uber and Lyft in 2016 had 370 active lobbyists in 44 states, "dwarfing some of the largest business and technology companies," according to the National Employment Law Project. "Together, Uber and Lyft lobbyists outnumbered Amazon, Microsoft, and Walmart combined." The two companies, like many lobbying firms, also hire former government regulators. The former head of the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission, for example, is now on the board of Uber. The companies have used their money and their lobbyists, most of whom are members of the Democratic Party, to free themselves from the regulations and oversight imposed on the taxi industry. The companies using ride-hail apps have flooded New York City with about 100,000 unregulated cars in the past two years.
"The yellow cab has to be a certain vehicle," said McDonagh. "It's a Nissan. [Nissan won the bid to supply the city's cabs.] Every yellow cab has to charge a certain price. When that drop goes down, that's regulated by the city. They added on all these extra taxes, for the MTA and for the wheelchair [half of all yellow cabs are required to be wheelchair-accessible by 2020], a rush-hour tax. Uber comes in. No regulations at all. They could pick whatever type of car they want. Whatever color of car. They could change prices when it's slow. They can lower the prices. When it's busy they can do price surging. It can be two or three times. Whereas the yellow cab is just plowing along at the same rate at the same time. Going to Kennedy Airport from Manhattan is $52. No matter what the traffic is like, no matter how many hours it takes you to get there. Uber will jack up its prices two or three times. You might have to pay $100 to get to Kennedy Airport. While the yellow cab industry is almost regulated to death, Uber is coming in with new technology, figuring out different ways how [it is] going to make money. … It's finished, with the yellow cabs."
Life for Uber and Lyft drivers is as difficult. Uber and Lyft use bonuses to lure drivers into the business. Once the bonuses are gone, these drivers sink to the same economic desperation as those driving yellow cabs.
"Uber is leasing cars," McDonagh said. "They have car dealerships that will sell. They advertise as, 'Listen, you can have bad credit. Come down to Uber. We'll get you the money or loan to buy this car.' And what they do is they'll take the money directly out of what you're making that day to pay for the loan. They can't lose. And if you go under, they'll sell the car back to the dealership and then redo it for the next immigrant driver. There's a whole scam going on."
"As a yellow cab driver, you don't see the world vision," he said. "But there's that famous term 'the race to the bottom.' You're working more and more hours for less and less wages. This is the new gig economy. Someone will use an Uber to go to an Airbnb and get on his phone to order something from Amazon to eat in his house. All those shops are now gone. From cashiers to cab drivers. I feel like I'm a blacksmith or a typesetter at a newspaper business trying to explain to you what the yellow cab industry used to be. We're becoming obsolete."
"Guys are sleeping in the cab," McDonagh said. "They'll go out to Kennedy at 2 or 3 in the morning. They pull into the lot and go to sleep to catch [passengers off] the first flight that's coming in from California a couple of hours later. You have guys who won't go home for a couple of days. They'll just stay out on the street. They roam the street to try to make money. It's dangerous for the passenger. The amount of accidents will be going up because drivers are drowsy."
McDonagh said Uber and Lyft cars must be regulated. All cars should have meters to guarantee an adequate income for drivers. And drivers should have health care and benefits. None of this will happen, he warned, as long as we live under a system of government where our political elites are dependent on campaign contributions from corporations and those who should be regulating the industry look to these corporations for future employment.
"We have to limit the amount of cabs, particularly here in New York City," McDonagh said. "If we did it in the yellow cab industry for 50 years, why can't we do it with Uber? They're adding 100 cars a week through the streets of New York. This is insane. When you call an Uber, the biggest complaint people have now is, 'The car is here too quick.' They're there within two or three minutes. I can't even get dressed. … They're rolling empty throughout the city, waiting for that hit."
"Horses in Central Park are regulated," he pointed out. "There's 150 of them. They make a great living there, the guys on the horse and buggies. Say Uber comes in and says, 'We want to bring in Uber horses. And we want to add 100,000.' And let's see how the market will handle it. We know what's going to happen. No one will make money. They're all around Central Park. And now no one can go anywhere because there are now 100,000 horses in Central Park. It would be considered madness to do that. They wouldn't do it. Yet when it comes to the yellow cab industry, for 50 years all we could have was 13,000 cabs, and then within a year or two we're going to add 100,000. Let's see how the market works on that! We know how the market works."
"They [the horses] work less hours [than cab drivers]," he said. "They don't work in hot and cold temperatures. If you believe in reincarnation, you should come back as a horse in Central Park. And they all live on the West Side of Manhattan. We live in basements in Brooklyn and Queens. We haven't upped our status in life, that's for sure."


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ADDISON COUNTY — The Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) will soon hire a consultant to do an inventory of existing septic systems that are working in difficult clay soils and determine whether those systems could be more widely used in Addison County.
Many local building projects and subdivisions remain on hold in the county due to the inability of developers to put in septic systems that will pass state permitting standards. Much of that has to do with Addison County clay, a largely impermeable substance that can lead to sewage effluent surfacing on top of the leach fields — something that is prohibited under state rules.
Sen. Claire Ayer, D-Weybridge, successfully lobbied this year for the $90,000 that will be used to pay for the septic system inventory and a study aimed at determining whether more conventional systems could be adapted — and permitted — for Addison County soils.
It used to be that developers of residential lots could skirt state septic requirements if they built on lots in excess of 10 acres. But the state closed that so-called 10-acre loophole in 2002. That's left many building projects in limbo in the Addison County.
"It feels like we're almost closed for business in Addison County," said Ayer, a member of the Senate Natural Resources and Energy Committee.
Ayer and other Addison County lawmakers have spent the past four years urging the DEC to study and approve alternative septic systems for use in difficult clay soils. That effort has not been very successful to date, but it has not been for a lack of effort, according to DEC Commissioner Jeffrey Wennberg.
The DEC last summer charged a technical advisory committee with looking at alternative septic systems that could work in difficult soils — even those that are incapable of holding water underneath the ground for the entire calendar year. Officials looked at "drip-disposal" and "storage-in-dose" systems, both designed to release effluent into the soil at a slower rate.
While DEC officials believe at least one of these alternative systems could be permitted for residential use, the estimated cost is being placed at $35,000 to $55,000.
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EDDINGTON — An excavator equipped with a big jackhammer smashed through the top of the Veazie Dam on Monday morning, sending chunks of concrete and a spray of water tumbling 32 feet to the riverbed below.
"The river seemed to take its breath," said John Banks, natural resources director of the Penobscot Indian Nation, standing on the bank of the Penobscot River and watching with more than 300 other people. "It said, 'Ah, freedom. Freedom."'
Monday marked the beginning of the end for the 100-year-old Veazie Dam, which was built to generate hydroelectric power and is being removed as part of a historic river restoration project that has gained international attention.
The volume of water flowing through the newly breached dam at first was barely enough for a good shower. By next spring, though, when the entire dam is gone, the Penobscot River will be roaring past here at a rate of more than 660,000 gallons per second.
Because the Great Works Dam 7.3 miles upriver was removed last year, the Milford Dam will then become the first dam on the river; however, crews are now building a state-of-the-art fish elevator there. Farther upriver, crews will build a natural fish passage around at the Howland Dam.
When the $62 million restoration project is completed, fish will have access to prime habitat in the Piscataquis, Mattawamkeag and Pleasant rivers, and the East Branch of the Penobscot River.
Removing the Veazie Dam alone will cost $6.8 million, with funds coming from the federal government and private contributions.
Once the overall project is complete, ocean-going fish, such as alewives and shad, will be able to swim into Maine's interior as far as Baxter State Park.
And because much of the habitat along the river basin is undeveloped and unpolluted, removing the barriers for migratory fish in the river will have a huge payoff, said Josh Royte, a planner with The Nature Conservancy.
About 12,000 alewife and blueback herring have been counted annually at the Veazie Dam. In few years, millions could pass through here to reach spawning grounds in the lakes and streams of Maine's interior, scientists say.
In the past, returning salmon captured at the Veazie Dam have been trucked to a state hatchery so their offspring could be distributed by truck to salmon habitat around the river basin.
The project will allow salmon to swim on their own upriver, and it will also improve the survival rates of juvenile salmon, many of whom are killed in hydropower turbines as they swim to sea, said Bill Taylor, president of the Atlantic Salmon Federation based in St. Andrews, New Brunswick.
Because salmon live five to seven years at sea before returning to the river to spawn, it will take that long to see any increase in the population, he said.
Only 624 salmon were counted at Veazie last year. In 20 years, the river should be supporting runs of 10,000 to 12,000 salmon, Taylor said.
Patrick Keliher, commissioner of the Maine Department of Marine Resources, said he has great hopes for the river's ability to recover.
"While man does his best to knock the snot out of these rivers, they do recover," he said. "They do heal."
Since the Great Works Dam was removed last year, there has been no noticeable increase in fish because the Veazie Dam downstream has continued to block fish passage. However, kayakers now enjoy paddling on the new whitewater rapids that emerged after the Great Works Dam was removed and the pond behind it receded. The river now looks natural, Banks said.
Because the Veazie Dam is the first dam on the river, its removal represents the first big step for improving fish access.
In terms of the amount of habitat that would be regained, the entire project is the largest river restoration project in the United States.
The project is seen as a model for river restoration efforts around the world because it was made possible by cooperative agreement among environmental groups, federal agencies, an Indian tribe and a power company.
The agreement improves fish passage while allowing a power company, Black Bear Hydro, to increase power generation at six dams in the river basin, so there will be no net loss of power production.
During negotiations with the power company and federal regulators, the Penobscots used their claim of tribal fishing rights as leverage to improve fish passage. For the power company, the agreement provided the stability it needed to invest in technology that allowed its turbines to work more efficiently.
Developing countries in Africa, Latin America and Asia are eager to build dams to produce cheap power. Environmentalists will never be successful if their only argument is to never build one, said Tom Rumpf, associate state director of The Nature Conservancy.
He said the Penobscot River Restoration Project provides an alternative model: Plan for an entire river basin and build dams in strategic locations so that fish can still access spawning areas.
"You can maintain hydropower and still have tremendous conservation benefits," he said.
In 1833, when a dam was built at Veazie for the first time to power a sawmill, the Penobscot Indians protested that the dam would destroy the annual runs of salmon and other sea-run fish.
Their complaints went unheeded, even when thousands of shad and alewives the following spring lingered about the new dam and died there, filling the air with a powerful stench.
The sea-run fish that once journeyed up the Penobscot River by the millions to spawn have dwindled to the hundreds. It's been more than 25 years since the Penobscot Indian Nation formally harvested a salmon for a ceremony.
On Monday, while crews continued to hammer away the dam, Joe Dana, a Penobscot Indian, paddled toward the dam in a birch bark canoe he made with other members of the tribe.
Kirk Francis, chief of the Penobscot Indian Nation, looked on and remarked that most elders never imagined that this day would come.
"Our entire community is ecstatic," he said. "What this project represents is hope for the future that has been lost for a very long time."
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A major winter storm that is already dropping snow and freezing rain on the Southern U.S. will send temperatures plunging, cause hazardous road conditions and power outages and move up the East Coast in the coming hours.
The major system could leave more than a foot of snow and in excess of a quarter inch of ice in some areas, the National Weather Service warned.
Snowfall and freezing rain began before sunrise in areas of North Carolina. Parts of Georgia began to see freezing rain and wind gusts early Sunday. States that don't typically experience such severe winter weather — such as Arkansas, Alabama and Mississippi — also were seeing heavy snow and ice.
The Georgia Department of Public Safetyreported multiple people losing control of their vehicles due to icy road conditions and advised residents against non-essential travel.
Heavy snow was expected throughout the day in the Tennessee Valley, the Appalachians and parts of the Mid-Atlantic, the NWS predicted, with significant rainfall in parts of the Southeast as well as the Appalachians and the mid-Atlantic.
Meteorologists said the storm system would move north Sunday evening into Monday morning.
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Officials from Georgia to the Carolinas and Virginia — all of which were under states of emergency — were urging residents to stay off the roads as snow began falling Sunday morning.
In addition to fast-accumulating snow and the possibility of ice, strong winds were expected to knock down trees and power lines, making driving even more hazardous.
More than 2,500 U.S. flights were canceled Sunday, the flight tracking website FlightAware reported. Slightly less than half of the cancellations were at Charlotte Douglas International Airport in North Carolina, which cancelled almost 90% of its flights.
In advance of the storm, Amtrak also cancelled dozens of trains over the weekend and into Monday.
Power outages have started to pop up
Strong winds and ice accumulation are bringing the threat of widespread power outages – possibly for a few days – and disruptions to the electricity supply were already beginning in the early hours of the storm.
Power went out for more than 109,000 customers in Georgia at one point Sunday morning, according to the website poweroutage.us. Around 89,000 customers in South Carolina, 31,000 customers in Florida as well as another 16,000 customers in North Carolina also had no electricity.
Ice accumulation meant that power outages could persist even after the storm moves out of the area, authorities said.
Given the possibility of significant power outages across the region, officials were urging people to only use gas-powered generators and grills outside to avoid the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning.
Next stop: the northern U.S.
The storm will advance northward overnight Sunday into Monday morning, the NWS said, stretching from the Ohio Valley to New England.
Parts of the Ohio Valley, Lower Great Lakes and the Northeast could expect heavy snow, while rain and freezing rain will hit other parts of the Northeast and southern New England.
New York City is expected to get less than an inch of snow, but New York and New Jersey towns about an hour's drive west could see around five inches. Washington, D.C. was slated for two to three inches of snow, while parts of western Maryland were bracing for 8 inches to a foot.
Strong winds and flooding along the Atlantic coastline are likely.
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Chief Executive Officers of All National Banks, Department and Division Heads, and All Examining Personnel
The guidance attached to this bulletin continues to apply to federal savings associations.
On October 8, 1999, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the Federal Reserve Board, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the Office of Thrift Supervision jointly issued the attached "Interagency Guidance on High LTV (Loan-to-Value) Residential Real Estate Lending." The guidance discusses the credit risks associated with high LTV residential real estate lending and reminds national banks that the 1992 Interagency Guidelines for Real Estate Lending Policies apply to these transactions.
A high LTV residential real estate loan is any loan, line of credit, or combination of credits secured by liens on or interests in owner-occupied one- to four-family residential property that equals or exceeds 90 percent of the real estate's appraised value, unless the loan has appropriate credit support. Appropriate credit support may include mortgage insurance, readily marketable collateral, or other acceptable collateral that reduces the LTV ratio below 90 percent. The guidance provides examples on how to calculate an LTV ratio when multiple loans or more than one lender is involved.
The guidance reminds national banks that the aggregate limit for all loans in excess of supervisory LTV limits is 100 percent of total capital, and clarifies that high LTV residential real estate loans should be included in those calculations. If a national bank exceeds this limit, the OCC will determine if it has a supervisory concern and take action accordingly. In making such a determination, the OCC will consider, among other things, the institution's capital level and overall risk profile, as well as the adequacy of its controls and operations. Supervisory action may include a request to sell high LTV loans, raise additional capital, or submit a plan to achieve compliance with the capital limitation.
The guidance also responds to questions from the industry regarding the "abundance of caution" and "loans sold promptly, without recourse, to a financially responsible third party" exclusions to the 1992 guidelines.
The guidance is intended to remind national banks of their obligations to effectively manage the risk in their high LTV portfolios and to comply with applicable fair lending and consumer protection laws and regulations. It is not intended to restrict access to mortgage credit for affordable housing for low-to-moderate income borrowers, or to restrict financing of well-managed community development and rehabilitation programs. High LTV loans may be used to help first-time homebuyers by financing closing costs or rehabilitation costs into their mortgage. Additionally, prudently extended high LTV loans can serve a useful purpose in helping financially burdened borrowers consolidate and manage their debts. Further guidance on affordable mortgage lending can be found in Advisory Letter 97–7, dated July 23,1997.
For further information, contact Tom Watson, national bank examiner, Credit Risk Division, at (202) 649-6670.
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Cocaine is a powerfully addictive stimulant that directly affects the brain. It's made from the dried leaves of the coca plant. Cocaine generally is sold as a fine, white, crystal powder. It's also known as coke, C, snow, flake, or blow. Street dealers often dilute it with things such as cornstarch, talcum powder, or sugar. They may also mix it with other drugs. These can include procaine, a chemically related local anesthetic. Or stimulants such as amphetamines, or synthetic opioids, including fentanyl. The powdered form of cocaine can be snorted into the nose. Or it can be dissolved in water and then injected into a vein.
Crack is the street name for the drug's freebase form. This is processed to form a rock crystal that can be heated in a pipe. The vapors are then smoked. Crack cocaine resembles white or tan pellets. The term crack refers to the crackling sound heard when the mixture is heated and smoked. Because crack is smoked, the user gets a high in less than 10 seconds. The immediate effects and crack's low cost have made it popular.
Cocaine use ranges from once in a while to nonstop. There is no safe way to use the drug—any way it's taken can lead to a heart attack or stroke that could be fatal. And using cocaine during the hot summer months is more likely to cause overdose and death.
Cocaine is a stimulant. Its effects appear almost immediately after a single dose and disappear within a few minutes to less than an hour. The drug often makes the user feel happy, excited, energetic, talkative, and mentally alert. It also can briefly decrease the need for food and sleep. The short-term effects also include increased heart rate and blood pressure, narrowed or constricted blood vessels, increased temperature, and dilated pupils.
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A little monkey business is revealing a few clues about natural remedies that animals use to protect themselves against biting insects and arthropods.
Certain species of animals, such as monkeys and birds, anoint themselves with citrus, other plants, and creatures like millipedes. To find out more about this behavior and to determine if any chemicals in the anointing substances effectively deter ticks and mosquitoes, scientists are examining responses to natural compounds.
Scientists at the Agricultural Research Service Henry A. Wallace Beltsville [Maryland] Agricultural Research Center (BARC) and the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI) at the National Zoological Park in Front Royal, Virginia, compared the effects of citrus compounds on lone star ticks and yellowfever mosquitoes. They also investigated compounds found in millipedes.
Citing Citrus Effects
"We tested a number of components known to be abundant in all citrus extracts, not just lemons, limes, and oranges, but all the fruits that are used in anointing—including citrus leaves," says SCBI researcher Paul Weldon.
Of the more than 20 citrus compounds they evaluated, the scientists found that 10 deterred ticks and/or mosquitoes, and 9 impaired basic tick behavior.
Weldon used a feeding membrane module that he developed to test citrus compounds against mosquitoes. Some compounds were very effective. But the same compounds were not effective at all when mosquitoes were exposed to them in a wind tunnel module by chemist Ulrich "Uli" Bernier, in the Mosquito and Fly Unit at the ARS Center for Medical, Agricultural, and Veterinary Entomology in Gainesville, Florida.
"We viewed the results of the wind tunnel as being more authentic," Weldon says. "The compounds didn't affect mosquitoes that much, but mainly affected ticks. It was a step forward in pinpointing what we believe is the reason that animals anoint themselves with citrus substances."
Ticking Off Ticks
Mosquitoes, ticks, and other blood-feeding arthropods are attracted to certain chemicals, such as carbon dioxide in an animal's breath. One behavior of host-seeking ticks when a host draws near is to climb up a plant to reach the passing host and then find an attachment site on the host's body.
Entomologist John Carroll, of BARC's Invasive Insect Biocontrol and Behavior Laboratory, and colleagues conducted several experiments to evaluate citrus compound repellency against ticks. One test involved putting lemon rind exudates and various citrus chemicals on paper strips. When they sensed a host cue, the ticks started climbing the paper. Information was recorded on whether a tick crossed a line into chemically treated zones, continued crawling, turned around, crawled back down, or fell off the paper. On average, 9 out of 10 ticks rushed to the top of the paper strip treated with acetone—the control. Stopping, retreating, and falling off the paper indicated repellency, Carroll says.
"In another experiment, we put ticks inside filter-paper packets treated with citrus chemicals," he says. "After an hour, ticks were removed from the packets, placed on their backs, and timed to see whether they could turn themselves right side up, walk, and climb out of a low enclosure."
Some of the chemicals that had repellency also had a big effect on tick behavior, but so did some of the nonrepellent ones, Carroll says. Some ticks did not crawl out and appeared uncoordinated. Of 24 ticks exposed to 1 chemical, only 1 tick righted itself. Of more than 20 chemicals tested, only 1 killed ticks exposed to it for an hour. Several other chemicals appeared potentially useful in deterring tick attachment.
Milling Millipedes
While some animals use citrus to ward off parasites, others roll on or rub themselves with crushed millipedes.
"Certain millipedes discharge chemicals to protect themselves," Carroll says. "If you pick up some species of millipedes, you'll notice the characteristic smell of cyanide."
Carroll and his colleagues tested the responses of lone star ticks to three benzoquinone chemicals found in millipedes and to permethrin, a commercial insecticide and repellent. Ticks were confined in filter-paper packets treated with each chemical for 1 hour.
Only one of the benzoquinone chemicals killed ticks, but it was not as toxic as permethrin, Carroll says. In the behavioral tests, all three benzoquinones inhibited righting and climbing. At higher concentrations, they impaired tick climbing for months.
"Some of the experimental methods that we used are kind of simple, but they can provide a lot of information," Carroll says. "In fact, one of the things that came out of the citrus chemical study was a much-needed method for statistically analyzing repeated behavior."
Measuring Multiple Behaviors
Although scientists had compiled data on many different host-seeking behaviors, they needed a simple method to determine how to assess repellency.
Based on data collected on the effects of five chemicals on lone star ticks, BARC statistician Matt Kramer devised a method to collapse several tick behaviors into one score when tested with different chemicals.
"The idea is to use the behavioral differences observed as ticks are tested on different compounds to find optimal weightings of these behaviors," Kramer says. "The sum of these weighted behaviors produces a single score for each tick." These scores are the best single numbers that could be used for discriminating among the compounds, he adds.
"We knew different compounds should produce different behaviors," Kramer says. "We just didn't know which behaviors were the most important to use in the score and how much weight each should get before summing them."
A technique called "canonical discriminate analysis" tells how much to weight each measure or behavior to best separate known groups—animals tested on different compounds, Kramer says. With some minor changes, this technique was used to create the composite scores.
The new method allows scientists to determine which chemicals are most effective in tests, greatly reduces the complexity of the analysis, and provides a valuable tool for measuring animal behaviors.
"It can be applied not only to other animals, but also to plants and in many situations where you have multiple measurements or dependent variables for a single individual," Kramer says.
Behavioral studies are valuable in understanding organisms that affect the health of animals, humans, and plants. With the new scoring system, scientists can obtain more accurate data that will benefit the producers of repellents and, ultimately, the people who use them.—By Sandra Avant, Agricultural Research Service Information Staff.
This research is part of Veterinary, Medical, and Urban Entomology, an ARS national program (#104) described at www.nps.ars.usda.gov.
To reach scientists mentioned in this article, contact Sandra Avant, USDA-ARS Information Staff, 5601 Sunnyside Ave., Beltsville, MD 20705-5129; (301) 504-1627.
"Linking Animal Behavior to Useful Natural Repellents" was published in the March 2013 issue of Agricultural Research magazine.


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This is Melba's latest Stack and Whack quilt, one of many I have quilted for her. This time I used the Feather Curl panto in the centre and custom quilted the borders.
The outer border is one of my favourite free hand border designs and I call it 'Rosebuds'. I saw something similar done on a quilt on a quilting forum and they called it 'Onions and Garlic'. I played with that design and put more emphasis on the swirl and it now looks like a rosebud to me.
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Happy 2009! The year's first guest blogger is Georgia Kotretsos, an artist based in Athens, Greece. Kotretsos holds an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2004) and a BFA from The Durban Institute of Technology (2000) in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. She is a founding agent of Boots Contemporary Art Space, in St. Louis, MO and the founder and editor-in-chief of Boot Print, a publication dedicated to contemporary art and published by Boots.
In her work, Kotretsos has been exploring the interdependence and interrelation of the artwork/viewer, attempting to bind the two entities together. By challenging boundaries, authorship, and authority, she has created a body of work that is characterized by its conceptual consistency. Kotretsos has exhibited her work in South Africa, the United States, and Europe.


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The Department of Theatre and Cinema offers a Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, a Minor in Theatre and the interdisciplinary Minor in Cinematic Arts. Both Majors and Minors may choose to emphasize performance (acting/directing) or design/technical theatre.
The aim of our curriculum is to deeply engage students in course material, foster interaction between faculty and students, and connect classroom concepts to practical application. Students complete a production assignment each semester to expose them to all aspects of the art both on and backstage. Great emphasis is placed on collaboration; therefore, students work closely with faculty and other students on a consistent basis. Across the curriculum students are challenged to become critical thinkers and effective communicators using visual tools and the spoken and written word.
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James Lumbers 1975
Framed Limited Edition Fine Art Print #195/395
23″ x 29″
One of Four prints, released while he was teaching in N.W.T., extremely rare, we have two. One I am keeping .
James Lumbers graduated from the Ontario College of Art and worked for many years as an
industrial and corporate designer. It was in the late 60's when he started to paint. When
an opportunity was presented to him to join a scientific expedition to travel to the Sub
Artic to document the wildlife of the area. His love affair with the north was to continue
for the following 10 years.
In 1973 Lumbers was elected a Fellow of the Explorers Club of New York as a result of his
visual documentation of peoples and wildlife of the far north. In the same year he was
also elected a member of the Society of Animal Artists of New York.
Lumbers is documented in Who's Who in American Art and A Dictionary of International
Biographies in the UK. He has appeared on numerous TV and radio shows over the years
and there have been documentaries, magazine and newspaper articles produced
about the man and his art .
By the late 70's Lumbers was recognized as one of Canada's best known realist painters.
Over the years, he has had numerous exhibitions across Canada and through the United
States. The one recurring theme in all his work is portraying our heritage
in Canada and the traditions that make us what we are.
Lumbers has painted many celebrities over the years, John Diefenbaker, Chief Dan George,
Sir Edmund Hillary, Andrew Davis& the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Wayne Gretzky,
Gordie Howe, and Joe Montana and several other personalities.
The style of painting that brought international recognition to Lumbers all started on
a summer afternoon some years ago. When sketching an abandoned house on an island
in The Georgian Bay, he found a diary with some photo negatives tucked inside it.
Some months later, he printed these negatives and found that someone had
photographed the family sitting on the same porch as in his sketch. The diary documented
that the pictures were taken in 1913. It was this event that launched a series of
paintings that is still ongoing today and called "Moments in Time".
Lumbers has developed a strong sense of history while researching his paintings
and has often remarked that"We are the products of our memories and traditions".
He established his own publishing company to market his work and to help younger
artists get their creations in front of the public. A book was published in 1993
about the man and his work. Today Lumbers is a household name across Canada
and recognized for his subjects around the world.


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An element is a single type of atom as defined by its atomic number, which is the number of protons in its nucleus.[1] In contrast, a single element may have varying mass numbers, relating to the number of neutrons in its nucleus.
The element hydrogen has only one proton whereas the element uranium has 92, and there are elements with even more protons than that. However, uranium is the largest naturally occurring element in nature.
All known elements are listed on the periodic table, with the ones with more protons than uranium produced in a laboratory. Joining atoms of the same or different elements produces chemical compounds. The elements and their compounds make up all matter on the earth and quite possibly all matter outside of the earth as well.
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- ↑ Wile, Dr. Jay L. Exploring Creation With Physical Science. Apologia Educational Ministries, Inc. 1999, 2000


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How Do Two-Way Mirrors Work?
A two-way mirror in the film The Cabin In The Woods. Photo Courtesy Lionsgate Entertainment.
It's a familiar scene from every police procedural: In one brightly lit room, a perp is being questioned. In an adjacent room, officers watch the proceedings in near darkness, downing cup after cup of coffee. Between the rooms is a two-way mirror, which allows the officers to watch the suspect's questioning without being seen. But how is that even possible?
Traditional vs. Two-Way
Traditional mirrors are created using a process called silvering, in which a coating of a reflective material (such as silver, tin or nickel) is applied to the back of a pane of glass. After a layer of copper is added to prevent oxidation of the metal, a layer of paint is applied. It serves two purposes: to protect the reflective coating, and to ensure that all light is reflected forward to the person standing in front of the mirror—which means that it's impossible to look through a regular mirror.
The trick of the two-way mirror is accomplished through manufacturing and lighting. To make this type of mirror (which are also sometimes referred to as one-way mirrors), a thin layer of metal—usually aluminum—is applied to the front of a pane of glass. The layer is so thin that only half of the light that hits it is reflected back; the rest goes through the pane.
Let There Be Light
In order for the mirror to work properly, one side—the interrogation room, for example—must be very bright, while the other side—the police observation room—must be dark. The bright light in the interrogation room reflects back off the mirror's surface; all a criminal sees when he looks at it is his own reflection. The observation room, meanwhile, is kept dark so that very little light is transmitted into the interrogation room. The large amount of light coming from the criminal's side is what allows the detectives to observe his activity as if they were looking through a regular tinted window. Make the light levels the same in both rooms, however—either by turning the lights in the observation room on or switching the lights in the interrogation room off—and the people in each room will be able to see into the other.
There are many uses for two-way mirrors besides interrogation rooms, including teleprompters, scientific and marketing research, security cameras, and to create various stage effects.


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As we begin to prepare for the 2019-2020 school year, we have decided to collect all Chromebooks and district-issued charging cords prior to summer vacation. Chromebook cases will not be collected; students will be responsible for keeping those cases over the summer. Chromebook collections will be conducted during the school day according to the schedule below. Collecting all student Chromebooks and charging cords will allow our technology department to properly inspect the Chromebooks and make the necessary repairs prior to the first day of school on Monday, August 26, 2019.
All students will be required to complete a Chromebook Condition Form which will be provided to them by their homeroom teachers. An example of this form can be found by clicking here. On that form, students will indicate whether their Chromebook needs to be repaired or does not include a charger. The first accidental repair claim for a student with a valid 2018-2019 protection plan is $0. The second accidental repair claim for a student with a valid 2018-2019 protection plan is $30. The third accidental repair claim for a student with a valid 2018-2019 protection plan is $30. If a repair needs to be made to a student's Chromebook and that student does not have a valid 2018-2019 protection plan, the family will be required to pay the full repair/replacement cost for parts and devices prior to the Chromebook being re-issued to the student in the fall. Students will be invoiced for all fees or repair/replacement costs.
The collection schedule for spring 2019 is:
We plan to issue new Chromebooks in the fall to next year's fifth and ninth grade students. All other students will be re-issued their original Chromebook in the fall, pending the inspection and any needed repairs by our technology department staff. More details about fall Chromebook distribution and 2019-2020 protection plans will be shared in early summer.
If you have any questions about Chromebook collection, please contact your school office.
Thank you for your cooperation as we work to ensure the success of the Chromebook program for the 2019-2020 school year.


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Intel's Hades Canyon NUCs with Radeon Graphics are Official: $799-$999, Shipping in Spring 2018
by Ganesh T S on January 7, 2018 9:01 PM ESTLAS VEGAS, NV — Intel's Skylake-based Skull Canyon NUC has been a popular mini-desktop since its launch in early 2016. We didn't see a corresponding Kaby Lake version last year. However, thanks to the leaks of the NUC roadmap back in September, we unofficially knew what the pipeline contained. Undoubtedly, the most interesting of the new systems were the Hades Canyon models that apparently came with discrete graphics. As details of the Intel with Radeon RX Vega Graphics processors started trickling in last week, we got some hints about the processor inside the Hades Canyon NUCs. The launch today provides us with the official specifications of the new processors aimed at systems that need to have discrete graphics while remaining thin and light.
Unlike Skull Canyon, which has only one SKU (NUC6i7KYK) with the Core i7-6700HQ, Intel is launching Hades Canyon in two versions. The more powerful of the two is the $999 VR-ready NUC8i7HVK sporting the 100W TDP unlocked Core i7-8809G. The other SKU is the $799 NUC8i7HNK with the 65W TDP Core i7-8705G. The rest of the features are identical across the two SKUs.
NUC8i7HVK and NUC8i7HNK - I/O Distribution across Front and Rear Panels
The table below compares the various features of the two Hades Canyon NUCs against the Skull Canyon NUC that currently targets this market segment.
Aspect | Hades Canyon | Skull Canyon | |
NUC8i7HVK | NUC8i7HNK | NUC7i7KYK | |
CPU | Intel Core i7-8809G Kaby Lake, 4C/8T 3.1GHz (up to 4.2GHz), 14nm+, 8MB L2 100W Package TDP |
Intel Core i7-8705G Kaby Lake, 4C/8T 3.1GHz (up to 4.1GHz), 14nm+, 8MB L2 65W Package TDP |
Intel Core i7-6770HQ Skylake, 4C/8T 2.6GHz (up to 3.5 GHz), 14nm, 6MB L2 45W TDP |
Graphics | Radeon RX Vega M GH 24 CUs, 64 PPC 1063-1190MHz GPU, 800MHz Memory 4GB / 1024-bit HBM2 On-Package |
Radeon RX Vega M GL 20 CUs, 32 PPC 931-1101MHz GPU, 700MHz Memory 4GB / 1024-bit HBM2 On-Package |
Intel Iris Pro Graphics 580 On-Die 128MB eDRAM |
Memory | 2x DDR4 2400+ SODIMMs 1.2V, 32GB max. |
2x DDR4 2133+ SODIMMs 1.2V, 32GB max. |
Storage | 2x M.2 22x42/80 (key M) SATA3 or PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe/AHCI SSD RAID-0 and RAID-1 Supported |
I/O Ports | 2x Thunderbolt 3 (rear) 4x USB 3.0 Type-A (rear) 1x USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-C (front) 1x USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-A (front) 1x USB 3.0 Type-A Charging Port (front) 1x SDXC UHS-I Slot (front) CIR (front) 2x USB 3.0 / 2x USB 2.0 internal headers |
1x Thunderbolt 3 (rear) 2x USB 3.0 Type-A (rear) 1x USB 3.0 Type-A (front) 1x USB 3.0 Type-A Charging Port (front) 1x SDXC UHS-I Slot (front) CIR (front) 2x USB 3.0 / 2x USB 2.0 internal headers |
Networking | 2x Gigabit RJ-45 (Intel i219-LM and i210-AT) Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 8265 M.2 2230 (2x2 802.11ac - 867 Mbps) Bluetooth 4.2 |
1x Gigabit RJ-45 (Intel i219-LM) Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 8260 M.2 2230 (2x2 802.11ac - 867 Mbps) Bluetooth 4.2 |
Display Outputs | 1x HDMI 2.0a (front) 1x HDMI 2.0a (rear) 2x mini-DP (DisplayPort 1.3) (rear) 2x USB-C (via Thunderbolt 3 ports, rear) |
1x mini-DP (DisplayPort 1.2) (rear) 1x HDMI 2.0a (rear) 1x USB-C (via Thunderbolt 3 port, rear) |
Audio | 7.1 digital (over HDMI and DisplayPort); L+R+mic (F); L+R+TOSLINK (R) | ||
Audio Codec | Realtek ALC700 | Realtek ALC233 | |
Enclosure | Metal and plastic Kensington lock with base security |
Power Supply | 230W (19V @ 12.1A) Adapter | 120W (19V @ 6.32A) Adapter | |
Dimensions | 21mm x 142mm x 39mm / 1.2L | 216mm x 116mm x 23mm / 0.69L | |
Miscellaneous Features | Replaceable lid with customizable RGB LED illumination Status LEDs in front panel Quad beam-forming microphone array VESA mounting plate 3-year warranty |
Replaceable lid Status LEDs in front panel VESA mounting plate 3-year warranty |
The footprint of the Hades Canyon NUCs (221mm x 142mm x 39mm / 1.2L) is slightly bigger than the Skull Canyon NUC (216mm x 116mm x 23mm / 0.69L). It is not surprising, given the wealth of extra I/O and the additional cooling requirements for the higher TDP processor. The power adapter also receives a hefty uptick in specifications, moving from 120W to 230W. Customizable RGB lighting for the lid is an attractive feature in the gaming market.
It must be noted that all the six display outputs in the Hades Canyon NUCs are driven by the Radeon GPU. The Intel iGPU is still active in the 'headless' mode, and features like QuickSync and the internal protected audio/video path can be used. Intel confirmed that the platform is capable of playing back UltraHD Blu-rays with HDR (Update: After our hands-on review, it was discovered that the Hades Canyon NUCs will not be able to utilize the integrated GPU's PAVP, and playback of UltraHD Blu-rays is not possible using them). It will also be PlayReady 3.0-compatible, enabling the system to access and play back premium 4K content. We have seen a trend in desktops to place a HDMI port in the front panel for easier hook up of virtual reality head-mounted displays, and both of the Hades Canyon NUCs have adopted it. Given the VR-ready marketing tag for the NUC9i7HVK, it is a welcome move.
DDR4-2400 is now the base supported memory speed, which is a step up from the DDR4-2133 in the Skull Canyon NUC. We were able to get the G.Skill Ripjaws DDR4-3000 SODIMM kit running stable in the Skull Canyon sample. With overclocking natively supported in the VR-ready NUC8i7HVK, we expect faster kits to be compatible too.
In terms of I/O, we have an additional Thunderbolt 3 port in the Hades Canyon NUCs compared to Skull Canyon. (Update: We confirmed that the controller is not the new Titan Ridge silicon, but, the JHL6540 Alpine Ridge dual port version) We also have an extra LAN port (enabled by the Intel i210AT gigabit controller). One of the front USB 3.0 Type-A ports has also been replaced by two USB 3.1 Gen 2 ports (1x Type-A, and 1x Type-C). Intel is using an ASMedia ASM2142 USB 3.1 Gen 2 controller for this. It is uplinked directly to the CPU's PCIe lanes with a PCIe 3.0 x2 link.
The Wi-Fi also receives a slight upgrade, moving from the AC8260 to AC8265. The main difference is the availability of MU-MIMO in the latter. The audio codec also receives an update. While the ALC233 in the Skull Canyon was a stereo codec, the new ALC700 is an upgrade with features that lie between the ALC892 and ALC662. It supports 7.1 digital output over optical/toslink and also supports analog output from the front and rear jacks.
Moving on to the core platform, it appears that the Thunderbolt ports as well as the M.2 slots are hooked up to the PCIe lanes off the PCH. Moving some of the bandwidth-hungry peripherals (in particular, the Thunderbolt controller) to the CPU's PCIe lanes could ensure that the DMI link between the PCH and the processor package is not a bottleneck. That said, it is at least good to see the Bayhub SDXC controller and the ASM3142 controller connected directly to the CPU using 1x and 2x lanes respectively. Due to lane bifurcation rules, the 8x PCIe 3.0 lanes can't be sub-divided any further to accommodate the Alpine Ridge controller.
Intel plans to price the NUC8i7HVK and NUC8i7HNK around $999 and $799 respectively. Fully configured systems will likely be $300 to $400 more, depending on the configuration. The products will be available for purchase in Q2 2018 (tallying with the leaked roadmap from September 2017). The NUC8i7HNK will be available first with the VR-ready NUC8i7HVK following a few weeks later.
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skavi - Sunday, January 7, 2018 - link
Damn, that's a lot of IO. Also, I'm dumb. What does one do with two LAN ports? -
DanNeely - Sunday, January 7, 2018 - link
Either teaming the connections with a higher end router for 2gb total bandwidth instead of just 1 (only makes sense if you've got a second device with teamed networking or the router has at least 1 2.5/5/10g port active; or as a DIY firewall/router (with a downstream switch)/etc. The latter doesn't need a big GPU though. -
theopensauce - Wednesday, February 21, 2018 - link
It also could be used for fault tolerance or a NAS system. We really need 10Gb LAN fast. 1Gb is just too slow for modern hard drives, and with NVMe drives we should just ship 10Gb and move straight to 100Gb. Also remember LAN ports are in bits not bytes. So 1Gb/s LAN is only 125MB/s. 10Gb/s is 1.25GB/s. The current fastest NVMe drive is the Samsung 960 Pro which is 2.1GB/s per second on a single drive, and this supports 2 NVMe drives in RAID 0. Which after accounting for overhead is theoretically 3.78GB/s writes and 3.5GB/s read speeds in single drive and 5.6GB/s in RAID 0. There are other limiting factors too complex to get into with actual speeds. But this is just current technology. And with only a single drive and the 2.1GB/s writes, a gigabit connection only supports 1/17th of this single hard drives write capacity and 1/28th of its read capacity. We need to start getting future proofed. Fiber optic cables are likely the next step. -
redavni0 - Monday, January 8, 2018 - link
The simplest reason is access to two networks. I used to buy extra IP addresses from my ISP, and just network my home pc's with switches. No router needed.
A more realistic reason would be a dedicated VOIP network delivered over Ethernet where packet loss needs to be zero, and latency needs to be minimal. -
euler007 - Monday, January 8, 2018 - link
Better to have an edge router taking care of the virtual ip adresses, and your VOIP use case makes no sense. Small businesses can have hosted VOIP and large businesses would have dedicated Cisco/Avaya/etc hardware interacting with the IP phones and soft clients, this machine would fit nowhere in the infrastructure. Best justification to have a 2nd port is redundancy for future failures. -
cheese23 - Thursday, January 11, 2018 - link
You're right that a business isn't likely to use a NUC in their networking infrastructure, but I like a 2nd Ethernet port because it gives me the option to run the machine as a home router when I'm done using it as a desktop. Also, I like to play around with networking. The second Eth port enables me to do all kinds of fun stuff. I think there is a lot of value in that. Though it's probably not for everyone, I mostly made this comment because I want companies to continue to provide a 2nd Ethernet port. -
forgerone - Thursday, February 8, 2018 - link
I wonder how it would work as a mining rig? Buy a stack and build a mining cluster. -
theopensauce - Wednesday, February 21, 2018 - link
LOL! This would be an awful mining rig. You really should do some research before you blow a ton of money like that on something that will cost you money instead of making you money. If you do not do your research you will loose your house, truck, shirt, pants and dog before you know it. If you already have one of these for another use yeah go ahead and make $10-20 a month on it. But at $999 before hard drive and memory, it is a very bad investment for mining. With large operations and the huge climb in GPU costs, unless you have 1m plus to invest, mining is not going to get you a decent return any more. You are better off investing your money with a reputable stock trader. Hell you are better off hunting for scrap metal. -
cheese23 - Thursday, January 11, 2018 - link
A second LAN port, lets you use this as a media server. The GPU can encode video and stream it to many clients in a home without having to worry about overwhelming one LAN port (like if many people were streaming 4k video or something).
This media server use case is just one of many others that a second LAN port enables. I buy computers with a second LAN port, so I have the option to use the machine as a router (when it's no longer fast enough to be a desktop). Also if you run out of ports on a switch, you can plug in another device to the second LAN port and share its connection (if you know how to config your OS)
Having more than one LAN port is fantastic! Thought it's something that power users tend to appreciate. And even power users only come around to enjoying it after they've had a computer with two LAN ports. -
hubick - Friday, January 12, 2018 - link
Use it to build a little Linux/BSD based router! :-)


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My Visit to the Home of Confucius:
The wall & gate surrounding the hometown of Confucius.
See also the golf cart, er, I mean police car on patrol.
Unable to get a train ticket to the next city on my art-buying journey, I realized that I'm in Shandong, which is also holds the ancestral home of Confucius. The name of the city that claims the title as the birthplace and home of the Great Sage is Qufu (pronounced like "chew foo").
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Are you seeing a theme yet?.
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A door that leads to a garden in the Confucian compound.
The Confucian compound is like a maze, here I am lost in the labyrinth.
This mural is of an animal that might be a Qilin (Kirin) but some characteristics of a dragon or lion as well. This is the "beast of greed" who grabs everything and every treasure in the world, but it never satisfied. This mural is placed where all members of the family of Confucius are forced to look at it when they leave the compound. It is to remind them that greed will only lead to misery, and benevolence should instead prevail.
Things are pretty mellow in the hometown of Confucius. Police patrol the town in this glorified electric golf cart.
Even the hometown of Confucius is getting commercialized. Here a total knock-off of Kentucky Fried Chick has opened. The CBC stands for "China's Best Chicken".


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