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Bing Energy International
Hydrogen based energy is the "holy grail" for clean energy. Bing Energy has the affordable solution.
- Stage Full Product Ready
- Industry Nanotechnology
- Location Tallahassee, FL, USA
- Currency USD
- Founded December 2009
- Employees 16
- Website bingenergyinc.com
Company Summary
Bing utilizes a patented carbon nanotube electrode structure for the membrane electrode assemblies of PEM fuel cells. The nanotube structure provides a more durable and efficient base for the platinum catalyst providing improved performance and durability without adding cost. The proposal is to prototype a peak shaving fuel cell system for buildings.
Harry ChenChief Technology Officer
Mr. H. Chen worked for several U.S. based companies as an expatriate in China and other Asian countries in the past 15+ years in manufacturing and logistical markets including a long career as a Regional Product Manager for GE Medical and Securities Division. Mr. H. Chen is a graduate of Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA.
Richard HennekVP - Business Development
Mr. Hennek is an experienced entrepreneur who has successfully founded, managed and sold several manufacturing companies. Mr. Hennek has worked with both private firms and Fortune 500 companies in bringing new products to both domestic and international markets.
Russell Dean MinardiChief Financial Officer
Mr. Minardi holds a master's degree in tax accounting and is a retired CPA after founding his own successful accountancy firm in Florida.
Yung ChenChairman, CEO
Mr. Y Chen has extensive experience in new product design, developing product lines, sourcing, and manufacturing products for the consumer market. He has been instrumental in the growth of several privately owned firms and has 31 patents to his name.
Jian-Ping ZhengDirector - Chief Consulting Scientist
Dr. Zheng is a professor at Florida A&M University and Florida State University. His primary fields of research have been in the fabrication and characterization of nano-materials and devices, energy storage and conversion devices, solid-state thin film deposition, photonic and chemical sensors, and nonlinear optics. Dr. Zheng developed the patent-pending MEA technology that the BEI group exclusively licensed from FSU.
Wei Zhu, Ph.D.Director, R&D
Dr. Zhu was the post-doc hired by Drs. Wang and Zheng to develop the FSU technology that is at the core of Bing's IP. Dr. Zhu is one of the named individuals on the two underlying FSU patents. He has jointly published over 22 times.
Ausley & McMullenLawyerUnconfirmedThomas Howell FergusonAccountantUnconfirmed
Previous Investors
Founders: $610,000UnconfirmedSeries A tranche 1, $3,046,000 (Angels)Unconfirmed


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So logic said: replace the fan.
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I did come across this: http://www.trademe.co.nz/Computers/Components/Cooling-fans/auction-281591675.htm
It seems to specify specific types of CPU.
I have an AMD 4600+ 64 X2 Dual Core 2.4Ghz - What I want to know, is if the linked fan/cooler will work,
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First, quick Halloween tip: This lovely and moist Halloween, kids 10 and under dressed up in their costumes eat for free at Edley's Bar-B-Que. That's 908 Main St. In case you'd like to build a base for all those fun-sizes.
Aside of Halloween, we're hard at work on the November/December issue of the magazine — news on street date soon — and we feel like this one'll offer a lot to talk about.
We also wanted to drop another quick reminder: Time's almost up for getting in your East Nashvillian of the Year nominations — you'll need to send off your suggestions by November 10, and again, you can nod to a business or business owner ("that in 2014 portrayed the best of what East Nashville has to offer") and/or a private citizen ("who best symbolizes what being a good East Nashville neighbor means").
Send names and a brief rundown of why you think your folks are contenders to lisa(at)theeastnashvillian(dot)com.
In other news, did you know that we do monthly (lately even more often) giveaways, with announcements coming first via our e-mail newsletter? Well we do. We have generous friends. If you aren't on our e-list, we'd love to have you there — missives come but once a week. Sign up?
Aside of all that, a few East Nashville news snippets to share, including some neighborhood business build-outs, neighbors on the small screen and more.
On to it:
East Nashvillians on TV
Over the past week and in the coming weeks, we saw/will see some East Nashville places and faces on the television box — which isn't unusual, necessarily, but is still cool nonetheless.
From Wednesday: Hit Food Network competition show Chopped brought in The Silly Goose's Ashlee Saylor (pictured up top) to battle with their boxes of weird ingredients/sometimes garbage. No spoilers here, so we'll just say if you missed it and wanna see, her episode airs again on November 6 at 8 p.m., or November 7 at 11 a.m.
That night's episode of Music City-themed drama pile Nashville also featured some East Nashville: New 5th & Main wine bar The Vine played a location, we're told. (Were there tears? Did someone drunkenly leave in a huff? We're a little behind on Nashville, so we can only surmise until we get some good DVR time.)
And coming up: The stately Riverwood Mansion in Inglewood — which, as we mentioned elsewhere on the blog, is soon to host the welcoming Local Fest — is set to be featured on CMT Inside Fame: Lady Antebellum on November 8 at 8 p.m.
For those of you sans cable, most of this stuff can be eyed on the Internet, though you probably already know that. Congrats, East Side small-screen stars.
Peeks at new-biz buildouts
If you've been reading our blog for a minute, you likely saw our mentions of The Local Taco opening an East Side spot and Sip Cafe moving to a new home.
We've been waiting a while to see doors open for both, and crews are still at working fleshing both locations out. But this week, we got a few peeks into the process(es).
Above: a look at the almost-complete bar that'll anchor The Local Taco's Fatherland Street home.
Then on Facebook, a look at turning an old Gallatin Pike bank into a coffee and ice cream hub, via local interior designer shonna sexton studio. They're incorporating as many bank touches as possible into the new design, so, fingers crossed, we'll be able to enjoy an Americano while sitting in a bank vault. Or at least at a cafe table made out of old ATMs.
Openings and grand openings: Cook Out, Moto Moda, East Side Music Supply
A handful of new East Nashville businesses opened doors and/or announced/held their grand openings this week.
New shop Moto Moda — which shares clothing, boots, bags and the like, plus, as the name implies, motorcycling needs like helmets — celebrated its grand opening this week at 521 Gallatin, No. 4, right next to Barista Parlor. The image above is from their Instagram feed, which'll give you a peek into the style and offerings of the space.
The new Cook Out restaurant we mentioned a bit back (at Gallatin and Trinity) opened its doors this week too, serving burgers and shakes and related things that lots of neighbors already seem to like pretty good.
And one for the musicians: The new Eastside Music Supply at 1006 Fatherland Suite 103, will host a grand opening celebration at the shop on Saturday, Nov. 15, kicking off at 2 p.m. and running until 10.
On schedule for the daylong party: lots of live music (including Moseley, the Lower Caves and many others); raffles for gear; adult beverages for purchase; other merriment. For a look at the full rundown, check out their Facebook event page.
Two years of East Side Storytellin'
From new faces to well-established ones: East Side Storytellin' — the twice-monthly writers-and-musicians affair hosted and launched by East Side Story's Chuck Beard — will celebrate two years of sharing Music City talent on November 4, at longtime haunt Mad Donna's.
The free celebration features words from Oni Woods and music from Boom Forest and, being a second birthday party and all, probably balloon animals and a petting zoo. (Definitely not those last two.)
East Side Storytellin' 48 = The 2-Year Anniversary Show! kicks off at 7 p.m. (and that's for real — they take pride in being "the only show to begin on time in all of Music City") at 1313 Woodland. For more about East Side Storytellin', visit the East Side Story website. For more on the celebration, check out their Facebook event page.
Things are poppin' at POP
It's been a busy clump of ramp-up months for East Side pop-up restaurant and event space POP, and if we were judging by November alone, safe to say the space has really hit a stride.
Along with regular service from POP founders Sarah and Brad Gavigan's Otaku South, POP has been hosting a slew of special food events with visiting chefs from around the land.
On the schedule for November: Dinner and a DJ with food from POP's Daniel Herget and music from KCRW's DJ Dan Wilcox; a pie-making demo from Nashville pastry chef Tony Galzin; and more.
Get a look at the POP ticket schedule for more.
New happy hour at Holland House
Just a quick shout for you Holland House lovers: On November 3, the East Side restaurant starts opening at 4 p.m. with a new happy hour, which'll include $5 cocktails and new happy hour menu items. Keep your eye on the Holland House Facebook page for a peek into the food offerings.
New menswear at Onyx
Remember when we mentioned that newish Gallatin Pike business Onyx was slinging coffee, jewelry, handmade soaps and lotions and stuff (and fixing watches, because East Nashville is nothing if not an explosion of eclecticism)? Add another twist: They just opened up a menswear section that stocks designer clothing, pre-loved items and accessories.
Swing by 3107 Gallatin Pike to check it out, grab a latte and/or get your pocketwatch lovingly repaired.
That's all for this week. If you're sitting on some fun East Nashville happenings, we'd love to hear about it. Drop us a line.


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Twig is a fat vault dweller from Vault 10, traveling with Scar and Ben, in the New Vegas area, in a search of Nuka-Cola.
Twig is a former Vault 10 dweller, a vault filled with overweight people. Despite this, Twig was the most picked on because he was the skinniest of all the dwellers, thus giving him the nickname of Twig; he has stated before that his high metabolism is to blame for his weight. Due to this, Twig takes being called fat as a compliment.
At some point after his escape from Vault 10, Twig met Benjamin "Ben" Eldridge and later rescued (or realistically, was rescued by) Scarlett from Legion slavers.
He later meets Touch Conners, mayor of Eastwood.
- Fallout: Nuka Break Fan Film
- Fallout: Nuka Break Web Series
Notable quotes
- "It's okay, Twig. Being mad at you if like being mad at a puppy... it's just too dumb to know any better." -Scar apologizing to Twig
- "I gotta' say boy, I never seen nobody drink so fast. You got a Lead Belly or somethin'? Heh heh." -Eastwood shopkeeper questioning Twig
- "I can't stop thinking about them (Nuka-Cola), that and Fancy Lad Snack Cakes. Er, I could really go for some Sugar Bombs about now!" -Twig complaining to Ben and Scar
- Twig is claustrophobic due to being stuffed in a refrigerator and laughed at for being "small" during his childhood
- Twig has a Luck stat of 10, which is the only reason he's alive, Twig also possibly has high Charisma and low Intelligence
- Twig may have the Lead Belly perk, as asked by the Eastwood shopkeeper, "You got a Lead Belly or somethin' sonny?"
- Twig wears an armored Vault 10 jumpsuit and has a Pip-Boy 3000 on his left arm
- Twig is addicted Nuka-Cola, to the point of hallucinations, and possibly addicted to other sweet foods like Fancy Lads Snack Cakes or Sugar Bombs, but this is not confirmed
- Twig has highest morals out of Twig & Co. and doesn't like stealing, killing, fighting, punching, kicking, and yelling
- Twig considers himself friends with Ben, but Ben claims that, "I don't even like the guy."
- Twig uses a .223 caliber pistol similar to, if not, That Gun
- Twig also uses a Shishkebab, which he stole the parts to make


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Charm Net, Baltimore, Md.
Clark Internet Services Inc., Ellicott City, Md.
CritiCom, Lanham, Md.
CrossLink Internet Services, Springfield, Va.
Cyber Services Inc., Tysons Corner, Va.
The Cycle Co., Bethesda, Md.
DataXchange, McLean, Va.
Digital Express Group (DIGEX), Beltsville, Md.
Digital Gateway Systems, Vienna, Va.
digitalNation Inc., Alexandria, Va.
Erol's Inc., Springfield, Va.
FastComm Communications Corp., Sterling, Va.
Fred.Net, Frederick, Md.
GCI Internet Services, McLean, Va.
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IMS Intercom, Clinton, Md.
Infinite Data Source, Alexandria, Va.
InfiNet, Norfolk, Va.
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IntelliSys Inc., Fairfax, Va.
The Internet Access Company (TIAC), Washington, D.C.
Internet Interstate, Bethesda, Md.
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KatSoft Internet Services, Gainesville, Va.
KIVEX Inc., Bethesda, Md.
Kompleat Internet Services LLC, Frederick, Md.
LaserNet Inc. Internet Services, Fairfax, Va.
Logitek Corp., Alexandria, Va.
MediaSoft Corp., Leesburg, Va.
The MetaNetwork, Arlington, Va.
Metters Industries Inc., McLean, Va.
Micro Access Technologies, Washington, D.C.
Monumental Network Services, Centreville, Va.
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NetRail Inc., Arlington, Va.
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I've seen many enraged notes from friends on how United Airlines will now charge for putting a bag in the overhead bin. While they aren't actually doing this, my reaction is not outrage, but actually something quite positive. And yours should be to, even when other airlines follow suit, as they will.
I fly too much on United. I have had their 1K status for several years, this year I logged over 200,000 miles, so I know all the things to dislike about the airline. Why is it good for them to do this?
Here's the situation: You're in a place with no bandwidth or limited bandwidth. It's just the place that you need to download an app, because the good apps, at least, can do more things locally and not make as much use of the network. But you can't get to the app store. The archetype of this situation is being on a plane with wifi and video offerings over the wifi. You get on board and you connect and it says you needed to download the app before you took off and got disconnected.
I believe we have the potential to eliminate a major fraction of traffic congestion in the near future,
using technology that exists today which will be cheap in the future. The method has
been outlined by myself and others in the past, but here I offer an alternate way to
explain it which may help crystallize it in people's minds.
Today many people drive almost all the time guided by their smartphone, using navigation
apps like Google Maps, Apple Maps or Waze (now owned by Google.) Many have come to
drive as though they were a robot under the command of the app, trusting and obeying it
at every turn. Tools like these apps are even causing controversy, because in the hunt
for the quickest trip, they are often finding creative routes that bypass congested
major roads for local streets that used to be lightly used.
Put simply, the answer to traffic congestion might be, "What if you, by law, had to
obey your navigation app at rush hour?" To be more specific, what if the cities and towns that own
the streets handed out reservations for routes on those streets to you via those apps, and
your navigation app directed you
down them? And what if the cities made sure there were never more cars put on a piece of road
than it had capacity to handle? (The city would not literally run Waze, it would hand out route reservations to it, and Waze would still do the UI and be a private company.)
The value is huge. Estimates suggest congestion costs around 160 billion dollars per year in the USA, including 3 billion gallons of fuel and 42 hours of time for
every driver. Roughly quadruple that for the world.
This approach would exploit one principle in road management that's been most effective
in reducing congestion, namely road metering. The majority of traffic congestion is caused,
no surprise, by excess traffic -- more cars trying to use a stretch of road than it has the capacity
to handle. There are other things that cause congestion -- accidents, gridlock and
irrational driver behaviour, but even these only cause traffic jams when the road is near
or over capacity.
Today, in many cities, highway metering is keeping the highways flowing far better than they
used to. When highways stall, the metering lights stop cars from entering the freeway as
fast as they want. You get frustrated waiting at the metering light but the reward is you
eventually get on a freeway that's not as badly overloaded.
Another type of metering is called congestion pricing. Pioneered in Singapore, these
systems place a toll on driving in the most congested areas, typically the downtown cores
at rush hour. They are also used in London, Milan, Stockholm and some smaller towns, but have never caught on in many
other areas for political reasons. Congestion charging can easily be viewed as allocating
the roads to the rich when they were paid for by everybody's taxes.
A third successful metering system is the High-occupancy toll lane. HOT lanes take
carpool lanes that are being underutilized, and let drivers pay a market-based price to use them
solo. The price is set to bring in just enough solo drivers to avoid wasting the spare
capacity of the lane without overloading it. Taking those solo drivers out of the other
lanes improves their flow as well. While not every city will admit it, carpool lanes themselves
have not been a success. 90% of the carpools in them are families or others who would have
carpooled anyway. The 10% "induced" carpools are great, but if the carpool lane only runs at
50% capacity, it ends up causing more congestion than it saves. HOT is a metering system
that fixes that problem.
Many are writing about the Electoral college. Can it still prevent Trump's election, and should it be abolished?
Like almost everybody, I have much to say about the US election results. The core will come later -- including an article I was preparing long before the election but whose conclusions don't change much because of the result, since Trump getting 46.4% is not (outside of the result) any more surprising than Trump getting 44% like we expected. But for now, since I have written about the college before, let me consider the debate around it.
By now, most people are aware that the President is not elected Nov 8th, but rather by the electors around Dec 19. The electors are chosen by their states, based on popular vote. In almost all states all electors are from the party that won the popular vote in a "winner takes all," but in a couple small ones they are distributed. In about half the states, the electors are bound by law to vote for the candidate who won the popular vote in that state. In other states they are party loyalists but technically free. Some "faithless" electors have voted differently, but it's very rare.
I'm rather saddened by the call by many Democrats to push for electors to be faithless, as well as calls at this exact time to abolish the college. There are arguments to abolish the college, but the calls today are ridiculously partisan, and thus foolish. I suspect that very few of those shouting to abolish the college would be shouting that if Trump had won the popular vote and lost the college (which was less likely but still possible.) In one of Trump's clever moves, he declared that he would not trust the final results (if he lost) and this tricked his opponents into getting very critical of the audacity of saying such a thing. This makes it much harder for Democrats to now declare the results are wrong and should be reversed.
The college approach -- where the people don't directly choose their leader -- is not that uncommon in the world. In my country, and in most of the British parliamentary democracies, we are quite used to it. In fact, the Prime Minister's name doesn't even appear on our ballots as a fiction the way it does in the USA. We elect MPs, voting for them mostly (but not entirely) on party lines, and the parties have told us in advance who they will name as PM. (They can replace their leader after if they want, but by convention, not rule, another election happens not long after.)
In these systems it's quite likely that a party will win a majority of seats without winning the popular vote. In fact, it happens a lot of the time. That's because in the rest of the world there are more than 2 parties, and no party wins the popular vote. But it's also possible for the party that came 2nd in the popular vote to form the government, sometimes with a majority, and sometimes in an alliance.
When the college was created, the framers were not expecting popular votes at all. They didn't think that the common people (by which they meant wealthy white males) would be that good at selecting the President. In the days before mass media allowed every voter to actually see the candidates, one can understand this. The system technically just lets each state pick its electors, and they thought the governor or state house would do it.
Later, states started having popular votes (again only of land owning white males) to pick the electors. They did revise the rules of the college (12th amendment) but they kept it because they were federalists, strong advocates of states' rights. They really didn't imagine the public picking the President directly.
There have been few postings this month since I took the time to enjoy a holiday in New Zealand around speaking at the SingularityU New Zealand summit in Christchurch. The night before the summit, we enjoyed a 7.8 earthquake not so far from Christchurch, whose downtown was over 2/3 demolished after quakes in 2010 and 2011. On the 11th floor of the hotel, it was a disturbing nailbiter of swaying back and forth for over 2 minutes -- but of course swaying is what the building is supposed to do; that means it's working.
Right now Uber, Lyft and traditional taxis are competing. But in the robocar world of the future, when large fleets of cars operate as taxis and replace car ownership for many, how will they compete with one another. Will there be a monopoly in each town, or just a couple of companies? Can we have dozens? Does the biggest fleet win?
I have a new major article on the subject. I also welcome comments on other ways these services might find a competitive edge.
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HBO released a new version of "Westworld" based on the old movie about a robot-based western theme park. The show hasn't excited me yet -- it repeats many of the old tropes on robots/AI becoming aware -- but I'm interested in the same thing the original talked about -- simulated experiences for entertainment.
The new show misses what's changed since the original. I think it's more likely they will build a world like this with a combination of VR, AI and specialty remotely controlled actuators rather than with independent self-contained robots.
One can understand the appeal of presenting the simulation in a mostly real environment. But the advantages of the VR experience are many. In particular, with the top-quality, retinal resolution light-field VR we hope to see in the future, the big advantage is you don't need to make the physical things look real. You will have synthetic bodies, but they only have to feel right, and only just where you touch them. They don't have to look right. In particular, they can have cables coming out of them connecting them to external computing and power. You don't see the cables, nor the other manipulators that are keeping the cables out of your way (even briefly unplugging them) as you and they move.
This is important to get data to the devices -- they are not robots as their control logic is elsewhere, though we will call them robots -- but even more important for power. Perhaps the most science fictional thing about most TV robots is that they can run for days on internal power. That's actually very hard.
The VR has to be much better than we have today, but it's not as much of a leap as the robots in the show. It needs to be at full retinal resolution (though only in the spot your eyes are looking) and it needs to be able to simulate the "light field" which means making the light from different distances converge correctly so you focus your eyes at those distances. It has to be lightweight enough that you forget you have it on. It has to have an amazing frame-rate and accuracy, and we are years from that. It would be nice if it were also untethered, but the option is also open for a tether which is suspended from the ceiling and constantly moved by manipulators so you never feel its weight or encounter it with your arms. (That might include short disconnections.) However, a tracking laser combined with wireless power could also do the trick to give us full bandwidth and full power without weight.
It's probably not possible to let you touch the area around your eyes and not feel a headset, but add a little SF magic and it might be reduced to feeling like a pair of glasses.
The advantages of this are huge:
In some cases, you need the player to "play along" and remember not to do things that would break the illusion. Don't try to run into that wall or swing from that light fixture. Most people would play along.
For a lot more money, you might some day be able to do something more like Westworld. That has its advantages too:
The latter experience will be made too, but it will be more static and cost a lot more money.
Warning: We're going to get a bit squicky here for some folks.
Westworld is on HBO, so of course there is sex, though mostly just a more advanced vision of the classic sex robot idea. I think that VR will change sex much sooner. In fact, there is already a small VR porn industry, and even some primitive haptic devices which tie into what's going on in the porn. I have not tried them but do not imagine them to be very sophisticated as yet, but that will change. Indeed, it will change to the point where porn of this sort becomes a substitute for prostitution, with some strong advantages over the real thing (including, of course, the questions of legality and exploitation of humans.)
Comma.ai, the brash startup attempting to make a self-driving system entirely from a neural network has announced it will cancel the "comma one" add-on box it has planned to sell to owners of certain Honda vehicles. The box stuck on the rear-view mirror and used the car's own bus commands to provide an autopilot similar to those offered by car makers, with lane-keeping and adaptive cruise control.
Of particular importance is the letter from NHTSA to comma.ai which I suggest you read. This letter creates several big issues:
To be clear, comma is a tiny company taking a radical approach, so it is not a given that what NHTSA has applied to them would have been or will be unanswerable by the big guys. Because Tesla's autopilot is not a pure machine learning system, they can answer many of the questions in the NHTSA letter that comma can't. They can do much more extensive testing that a tiny startup can't. But even so a letter like this sends a huge chill through the industry.
It should also be noted that in Comma's photos the box replaced the rear-view mirror, and NHTSA had reason to ask about that.
George's declaration that he's in Shenzen gives us the first sign of the new regulatory regime pushing innovation away from the United States and California. I will presume the regulators will say, "We only want to scare away dangerous innovation" but the hard truth is that is a very difficult thing to judge. All innovation in this space is going to be a bit dangerous. It's all there trying to take the car -- the 2nd most dangerous legal consumer product -- and make it safer, but it starts from a place of danger. We are not going to get to safety without taking risks along the way.
I sometimes ask, "Why do we let 16 year olds drive?" They are clearly a major danger to themselves and others. Driver testing is grossly inadequate. They are not adults so they don't have the legal rights of adults. We let them drive because they are going to start out dangerous and then get better. It is the only practical way for them to get better, and we all went through it. Today's early companies are teenagers. They are going to take risks. But this is the fastest and only practical way to let them get better and save millions.
This sentence, though in the cover letter and not the actual legal demand, looks at the question asked so much after the Tesla fatal crash. The question which caused Consumer Reports to ask Tesla to turn off the feature. The question which caused MobilEye, they say, to sever their relationship with Tesla.
The paradox of the autopilot is this: The better it gets, the more likely it is to make drivers over-depend on it. The more likely they will get complacent and look away from the road. And thus, the more likely you will see a horrible crash like the Tesla fatality. How do you deal with a system which adds more danger the better you make it? Customers don't want annoying countermeasures. This may be another reason that "Level 2," as I wrote yeterday is not really a meaningful thing.
NHTSA has put a line in the sand. It is no longer going to be enough to say that drivers are told to still pay attention.
Comma is not the only company trying to build a system with pure neural networks doing the actual steering decisions (known as "path planning".) NVIDIA's teams have been actively working on this, as have several others. They plan to make commentary to NHTSA about these element of the regulations, which should not be forbidding this approach until we know it to be dangerous.
It's no secret that I've been a critic of the NHTSA "levels" as a taxonomy for types of Robocars since the start. Recent changes in their use calls for some new analysis that concludes that only one of the levels is actually interesting, and only tells part of the story at that. As such, they have become even less useful as a taxonomy. Levels 2 and 3 are unsafe, and Level 5 is remote future technology. Level 4 is the only interesting one and there is thus no taxonomy.
I frequently say that there is no "internet of things." That's a marketing phrase for now. You can't go buy a "thing" and plug it into the "internet of things." IoT is still interesting because underneath the name is a real revolution from the way that computing, sensing and communications are getting cheaper, smaller and using less power. New communications protocols are also doing interesting things.
We learned a lesson on Friday though, about why using the word "internet" is its own mistake. The internet -- one of the world's greatest inventions -- was created as a network of networks where anything could talk to anything, and it was useful for this to happen. Later, for various reasons, we moved to putting most devices behind NATs and firewalls to diminish this vision, but the core idea remains.
Attackers on Friday made use of growing collection of low cost IoT devices with low security to mount a DDOS attack on DYN's domain name servers, shutting off name lookup for some big sites. While not the only source of the attack, a lot of attention has come to certain Chinese brands of IP based security cameras and baby monitors. To make them easy to use, they are designed with very poor security, and as a result they can be hijacked and put into botnets to do DDOS -- recruiting a million vulnerable computers to all overload some internet site or service at once.
Most applications for small embedded systems -- the old and less catchy name of the "internet of things" -- aren't at all in line with the internet concept. They have no need or desire to be able to talk to the whole world the way your phone, laptop or web server do. They only need to talk to other local devices, and sometimes to cloud servers from their vendor. We are going to see billions of these devices connected to our networks in the coming years, perhaps hundreds of billions. They are going to be designed by thousands of vendors. They are going to be cheap and not that well made. They are not going to be secure, and little we can do will change that. Even efforts to make punishments for vendors of insecure devices won't change that.
So here's an alternative; a long term plan for our routers and gateways to take the internet out of IoT.
Our routers should understand that two different classes of devices will connect to them. The regular devices, like phones and laptops, should connect to the internet as we expect today. There should also be a way to know that the connecting devices does not want regular internet access, and not to give it. One way to do that is for the devices to know about this, and to convey how much access they need when they first connect. One proposal for this is my friend Eliot Lear's MUD proposal. Unfortunately, we can't count on devices to do this. We must limit stupid devices and old devices too.
Wednesday, California held hearings on the latest draft of their regulations. The new regulations heavily incorporate the new NHTSA guidelines released last month, and now incorporate language on the testing and deployment of unmanned vehicles.
When people vote, what do they think it will accomplish? How does this affect how they vote, and how should it?
My apologies for more of this in a season when our social media are overwhelmed with politics, but in a lot of the postings I see about voting plans, I see different implicit views on just what the purpose of voting is. The main focus will be on the vote for US President.
The vast majority of people will vote in non-contested states. The logic is different in the "swing" states where all the campaign attention is.
I had hoped I was done ranting about our obsession with what robocars will do in no-win "who do I hit?" situations, but this week, even Barack Obama in his interview with Wired opined on the issue, prompted by my friend Joi Ito from the MIT Media Lab. (The Media Lab recently ran a misleading exercise asking people to pretend they were a self-driving car deciding who to run over.)
The social networks have access (or more to the point can give their users access) to an unprecedented trove of information on political views and activities. Could this make a radical difference in affecting who actually shows up to vote, and thus decide the outcome of elections?
I've written before about how the biggest factor in US elections is the power of GOTV - Get Out the Vote. US Electoral turnout is so low -- about 60% in Presidential elections and 40% in off-year -- that the winner is determined by which side is able to convince more of their weak supporters to actually show up and vote. All those political ads you see are not going to make a Democrat vote Republican or vice versa, they are going to scare a weak supporter to actually show up. It's much cheaper, in terms of votes per dollar (or volunteer hour) to bring in these weak supporters than it is to swing a swing voter.
The US voter turnout numbers are among the worst in the wealthy world. Much of this is blamed on the fact the US, unlike most other countries, has voter registration; effectively 2 step voting. Voter registration was originally implemented in the USA as a form of vote suppression, and it's stuck with the country ever since. In almost all other countries, some agency is responsible for preparing a list of citizens and giving it to each polling place. There are people working to change that, but for now it's the reality. Registration is about 75%, Presidential voting about 60%. (Turnout of registered voters is around 80%)
Scary negative ads are one thing, but one of the most powerful GOTV forces is social pressure. Republicans used this well under Karl Rove, working to make social groups like churches create peer pressure to vote. But let's look at the sort of data sites like Facebook have or could have access to:
Now imagine more complex queries aimed specifically at GOTV, such as: "My friends who match me politically but are not scored as likely to vote" or "My friends who match me politically and are not registered to vote." Possibly adding "Sorted by the closeness of our connection" which is something they already score.
After my initial reactions and Overall Analysis here is a point by point consideration of second set of elements from NHTSA's 15 point certification list for robocars. See my series for other articles or the first half of the list.
In this section, the remind vendors they still need to meet the same standards as regular cars do. We are not ready to start removing heavy passive safety systems just because the vehicles get in fewer crashes. In the future we might want to change that, as those systems can be 1/3 of the weight of a vehicle.
They also note that different seating configurations (like rear facing seats) need to protect as well. It's already the case that rear facing seats will likely be better in forward collisions. Face-to-face seating may present some challenges in this environment, as it is less clear how to deploy the airbags. Taxis in London often feature face-to-face seating, though that is less common in the USA. Will this be possible under these regulations?
The rules also call for unmanned vehicles to absorb energy like existing vehicles. I don't know if this is a requirement on unusual vehicle design for regular cars or not. (If it were, it would have prohibited SUVs with their high bodies that can cause a bad impact with a low-body sports-car.)
This seems like another mild goal, but we don't want a world where you can't ride in a taxi unless you are certified as having taking a training course. Especially if it's one for which you have very little to do. These rules are written more for people buying a car (for whom training can make sense) than those just planning to be a passenger.
This section imagines labels for drivers. It's pretty silly and not very practical. Is a car going to have a sticker saying "This car can drive itself on Elm St. south of Pine, or on highway 101 except in Gilroy?" There should be another way, not labels, that this is communicated, especially because it will change all the time.
This set is fairly reasonable -- it requires a process describing what you do to a vehicle after a crash before it goes back into service.
This section calls for a detailed plan on how to assure compliance with all the laws. Interestingly, it also asks for a plan on how the vehicle will violate laws that human drivers sometimes violate. This is one of the areas where regulatory effort is necessary, because strictly cars are not allowed to violate the law -- doing things like crossing the double-yellow line to pass a car blocking your path.
After my initial reactions and Overall Analysis here is a point by point consideration of the elements from NHTSA's 15 point certification list for robocars. See also the second half and the whole series
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These regulations require a plan about how the vehicle keep logs around any incident (while following privacy rules.) This is something everybody already does -- in fact they keep logs of everything for now -- since they want to debug any problems they encounter. NHTSA wants the logs to be available to NHTSA for crash investigation.
NHTSA also wants recordings of positive events (the system avoided a problem.)
Most interesting is a requirement for a data sharing plan. NHTSA wants companies to share their logs with their competitors in the event of incidents and important non-incidents, like near misses or detection of difficult objects.
This is perhaps the most interesting element of the plan, but it has seen some resistance from vendors. And it is indeed something that might not happen at scale without regulation. Many teams will consider their set of test data to be part of their crown jewels. Such test data is only gathered by spending many millions of dollars to send drivers out on the roads, or by convincing customers or others to voluntarily supervise while their cars gather test data, as Tesla has done. A large part of the head-start that leaders have in this field is the amount of different road situations they have been able to expose their vehicles to.
Recordings of mundane driving activity are less exciting and will be easier to gather. Real world incidents are rare and gold for testing. The sharing is not as golden, because each vehicle will have different sensors, located in different places, so it will not be easy to adapt logs from one vehicle directly to another. While a vehicle system can play its own raw logs back directly to see how it performs in the same situation, other vehicles won't readily do that.
Instead this offers the ability to build something that all vendors want and need, and the world needs, which is a high quality simulator where cars can be tested against real world recordings and entirely synthetic events. The data sharing requirement will allow the input of all these situations into the simulator, so every car can test how it would have performed. This simulation will mostly be at the "post perception level" where the car has (roughly) identified all the things on the road and is figuring out what to do with them, but some simulation could be done at lower levels.
These data logs and simulator scenarios will create what is known as a regression test suite. You test your car in all the situations, and every time you modify the software, you test that your modifications didn't break something that used to work. It's an essential tool.
In the history of software, there have been shared public test suites (often sourced from academia) and private ones that are closely guarded. For some time, I have proposed that it might be very useful if there were a a public and open source simulator environment which all teams could contribute scenarios to, but I always expected most contributions would come from academics and the open source community. Without this rule, the teams with the most test miles under their belts might be less willing to contribute.
Such a simulator would help all teams and level the playing field. It would allow small innovators to even build and test prototype ideas entirely in simulator, with very low cost and zero risk compared to building it in physical hardware.
This is a great example of where NHTSA could use its money rather than its regulatory power to improve safety, by funding the development of such test tools. In fact, if done open source, the agencies and academic institutions of the world could fund a global one. (This would face opposition from companies hoping to sell test tools, but there will still be openings for proprietary test tools.)
This section demands a privacy policy. I'm not against that, though of course the history of privacy policies is not a great one. They mostly involve people clicking "I agree" to things they don't read. More important is the requirement that vendors be thinking about privacy.
The requirement for user choice is an interesting one, and it conflicts with the logging requirements. People are wary of technology that will betray them in court. Of course, as long as the car is not a hybrid car that mixes human driving with self-driving, and the passenger is not liable in an accident, there should be minimal risk to the passenger from accidents being recorded.
The rules require that personal information be scrubbed from any published data. This is a good idea but history shows it is remarkably hard to do properly.
The recent Federal Automated Vehicles Policy is long. (My same-day analysis is here and the whole series is being released.) At 116 pages (to be fair, less than half is policy declarations and the rest is plans for the future and associated materials) it is much larger than many of us were expecting.
The policy was introduced with a letter attributed to President Obama, where he wrote:
There are always those who argue that government should stay out of free enterprise entirely, but I think most Americans would agree we still need rules to keep our air and water clean, and our food and medicine safe. That's the general principle here. What's more, the quickest way to slam the brakes on innovation is for the public to lose confidence in the safety of new technologies.
Both government and industry have a responsibility to make sure that doesn't happen. And make no mistake: If a self-driving car isn't safe, we have the authority to pull it off the road. We won't hesitate to protect the American public's safety.
There are always those who argue that government should stay out of free enterprise entirely, but I think most Americans would agree we still need rules to keep our air and water clean, and our food and medicine safe. That's the general principle here. What's more, the quickest way to slam the brakes on innovation is for the public to lose confidence in the safety of new technologies.
Both government and industry have a responsibility to make sure that doesn't happen. And make no mistake: If a self-driving car isn't safe, we have the authority to pull it off the road. We won't hesitate to protect the American public's safety.
This leads in to an unprecedented effort to write regulations for a technology that barely exists and has not been deployed beyond the testing stage. The history of automotive regulation has been the opposite, and so this is a major change. The key question is what justifies such a big change, and the cost that will come with it.
Make no mistake, the cost will be real. The cost of regulations is rarely known in advance but it is rarely small. Regulations slow all players down and make them more cautious -- indeed it is sometimes their goal to cause that caution. Regulations result in projects needing "compliance departments" and the establishment of procedures and legal teams to assure they are complied with. In almost all cases, regulations punish small companies and startups more than they punish big players. In some cases, big players even welcome regulation, both because it slows down competitors and innovators, and because they usually also have skilled governmental affairs teams and lobbying teams which are able to subtly bend the regulations to match their needs.
This need not even be nefarious, though it often is. Companies that can devote a large team to dealing with regulations, those who can always send staff to meetings and negotiations and public comment sessions will naturally do better than those which can't.
The US has had a history of regulating after the fact. Of being the place where "if it's not been forbidden, it's permitted." This is what has allowed many of the most advanced robocar projects to flourish in the USA.
The attitude has been that industry (and startups) should lead and innovate. Only if the companies start doing something wrong or harmful, and market forces won't stop them from being that way, is it time for the regulators to step in and make the errant companies do better. This approach has worked far better than the idea that regulators would attempt to understand a product or technology before it is deployed, imagine how it might go wrong, and make rules to keep the companies in line before any of them have shown evidence of crossing a line.
In spite of all I have written here, the robocar industry is still young. There are startups yet to be born which will develop new ideas yet to be imagined that change how everybody thinks about robocars and transportation. These innovative teams will develop new concepts of what it means to be safe and how to make things safe. Their ideas will be obvious only well after the fact.
Regulations and standards don't deal well with that. They can only encode conventional wisdom. "Best practices" are really "the best we knew before the innovators came." Innovators don't ignore the old wisdom willy-nilly, they often ignore it or supersede it quite deliberately.
Some players -- notably the big ones -- have lauded these regulations. Big players, like car companies, Google, Uber and others have a reason to prefer regulations over a wild west landscape. Big companies like certainty. They need to know that if they build a product, that it will be legal to sell it. They can handle the cost of complex regulations, as long as they know they can build it.
The long awaited list of recommendations and potential regulations for Robocars has just been released by NHTSA, the federal agency that regulates car safety and safety issues in car manufacture. Normally, NHTSA does not regulate car technology before it is released into the market, and the agency, while it says it is wary of slowing down this safety-increasing technology, has decided to do the unprecedented -- and at a whopping 115 pages.
Some people have wondered about my forecast in the spreadsheet on Robotaxi economics about the very low parking costs I have predicted. I wrote about most of the reasons for this in my 2007 essay on Robocar Parking but let me expand and add some modern notes here.
Today, researchers estimate there are between 3 and 8 parking spots for every car in the USA. The number 8 includes lots of barely used parking (all the shoulders of all the rural roads, for example) but the value of 3 is not unreasonable. Almost all working cars have a spot at their home base, and a spot at their common destination (the workplace.) There are then lots of other places (streets, retail lots, etc.) to find that 3rd spot. It's probably an underestimate.
We can't use all of these at once, but we're going to get a great deal more efficient at it. Today, people must park within a short walk of their destination. Nobody wants to park a mile away. Parking lots, however, need to be sized for peak demand. Shopping malls are surrounded by parking that is only ever used during the Christmas shopping season. Robocars will "load balance" so that if one lot is full, a spot in an empty lot too far away is just fine.
When robocars need to park, they'll do it like the best parking valets you've ever seen. They don't even need to leave space for the valet to open the door to get out. (The best ones get close by getting out the window!) Because the cars can move in concert, a car at the back can get out almost as quickly as one at the front. No fancy communications network is needed; all you need is a simple rule that if you boxed somebody in, and they turn on their lights and move an inch towards you, you move an inch yourself (and so on with those who boxed you in) to clear a path. Already, you've got 1.5x to 2x the density of an ordinary lot.
I forecast that many robotaxis will be small, meant for 1-2 people. A car like that, 4' by 12' would occupy under 50 square feet of space. Today's parking lots tend to allocate about 300 square feet per car. With these small cars you're talking 4 to 6 times as many cars in the same space. You do need some spare space for moving around, but less than humans need.
When we're talking about robotaxis, we're talking about sharing. Much of the time robotaxis won't park at all, they would be off to pick up their next passenger. A smaller fraction of them would be waiting/parked at any given time. My conservative prediction is that one robotaxi could replace 4 cars (some estimate up to 10 but they're overdoing it.) So at a rough guess we replace 1,000 cars, 900 of which are parked, with 250 cars, only 150 of which are parked at slow times. (Almost none are parked during the busy times.)
Robocars don't park, they "stand." Which means we can let them wait all sorts of places we don't let you park. In front of hydrants. In front of driveways. In driveways. A car in front of a hydrant should be gone at the first notification of a fire or sound of a siren. A car in front of your driveway should be gone the minute your garage opens or, if your phone signals your approach, before you get close to your house. Ideally, you won't even know it was there. You can also explicitly rent out your driveway space for money if you wish it. (You could rent your garage too, but the rate might be so low you will prefer to use it to add a new room to your house unless you still own a car.)
In addition, at off-peak times (when less road capacity is needed) robocars can double park or triple park along the sides of roads. (Human cars would need to use only the curb spots, but the moment they put on their turn signal, a hole can clear through the robocars to let them out.)
So if we consider just these numbers -- only 1/6 of the time spent parking and either 4 times the density in parking lots or 2-3 times the volume of non-lot parking (due to the 2 spots per car and loads of extra spots) we're talking about a huge, massive, whopping glut of parking. Such a large glut that in time, a lot of this parking space very likely will be converted to other uses, slowly reducing the glut.
To add to this glut, robocars can be the best parking customers you could ever imagine. If you own a parking lot, you might have sold the space at the back or top of your lot to the robocars -- they will park in the unpopular more remote sections for a discount. The human driver customers will prefer those spots by the entrance. As your lot fills up, you can ask the robocars to leave, or pay more. If a high paying human driver appears at the entrance, you can tell the robocars you want their space, and off they can go to make room. Or they can look around on the market and discover they should just pay you more to keep the space. The lot owner is always making the most they can.
If robocars are electric, they should also be excellent visitors, making little noise and emitting no soot to dirty your walls. They will leave a tiny amount of rubber and that's about it.
All of this will be driven by what I give the ironic name of the "spot" market in parking. Such markets are already being built by start-ups for human drivers. In this market, space in lots would be offered and bid for like any other market. Durations will be negotiated, too. Cars could evaluate potential waiting places based on price and the time it will take to get there and park, as well as the time to get to their likely next pickup. A privately owned car might drive a few miles to a super cheap lot to wait 7 hours, but when it's closer to quitting time, pay a premium (in competition with many others of course) to be close to their master.
Tesla's spat with MobilEye reached a new pitch this week, and Tesla announced a new release of their autopilot and new plans. As reported here earlier, MobilEye announced during the summer that they would not be supplying the new and better versions of their EyeQ system to Tesla. Since that system was and is central to the operation of the Telsa autopilot, they may have been surprised that MBLY stock took a big hit after that announcement (though it recovered for a while and is now back down) and TSLA did not.


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The movie I selected was "Gettysburg". I believe the theme of the movie "Gettysburg" is: Freedom is worth fighting for. My reasoning for this is because in the movie, the main focus is Col. Chamberlain and his regimen fighting for the Union. Throughout the movie he gives speeches to his soldiers and new volunteers, exclaiming why he and many men in his regimen have volunteered to fight for the North. Their reason is freedom for everyone in the nation, and this freedom is worth dying for. I will be talking about how the setting, characters, and presentation support the theme of: Freedom is worth fighting for.
The setting is 1863, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. During this time, the civil war is at it's peak in violence and the fate of slavery is "up in the air." Many people in the North disagree with slavery and that's why many volunteered to fight for the Union as Col. Chamberlain exclaims to his soldiers during one of his speeches. Col. Chamberlain is the protagonist in this story. He knows what he and his troops must do for the greater good. He says that his regimen was formed in May of 1862, and there were over 1,000 soldiers. Now, in July 1863, less than 300 still stand fighting the Confederacy. He also says the main reason for their sacrifice was because they believed freedom should be a right of everyone from ocean to ocean across the entire country. The antagonist in this movie is the Confederacy. The confederacy is fighting to break away from the US and become a new nation where states rights are more protected so practices like slavery would be allowed.The largest representation of support to the theme is the presentation from the director and writers. They purposefully portray the movie to show the Union soldiers displaying a mood of great courage, and remorse for slaves. They realize the importance of freedom, and how it is a God given right. They believe this in the highest possible manner that they will pay the ultimate sacrifice for others. The tone of the story also supports this ideology.
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With all acknowledgements to the original creator (Dr Diesel, I believe?), here is a Girl version which took its inspiration from the Happy New Year kolobok.
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Aiwan, I'm sorry to hear that! I hope that whatever the problem is can be sorted out soon. (Is it something to do with the version of PHP on the server? Or the permission settings for the folder?)
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End of Blog and Course - What I Got Out Of The Course
Wow, the semester is finally finished and so has this blog.
I have got a far deal more out of this course than i expected. Coming into the course i was not a big technology or computer fan. Now i'm not saying this has change all that much. But the course has definitely opened my eyes up. I have read some interesting material i would never in a million years have touched otherwise, and i have developed on what i already knew about some software programs i use everyday. I think for me my favourite part of the blog was working with my photos and photoshop. It was great to get some colour and life into my blog, and i really enjoyed working with photoshop to manipulate my images. Some ahd some interesting results. Its just great to be able to widen your horizons and ahve a look at all the amazing technology around that we do not embrace or give credit too. It was also good to start a blog and see how it works. Now i know i think i will have to start my own personal one in the future, for friends and family to access.
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Hello; I tried to install YouTube-Unblocker-056.crx on vivaldi 1.0.365.3 (Beta) dev (32-Bit) (Linux, deb) using vivaldi://extensions => developer mode => load extracted extension (all in german ...) but the file is greyed out. if I select the parent directory, I get the message "could not load manifest file" (in german) what is the Problem? How can I just install the extension, or what do I need the Manifest file for and where can I get it? I am unable to find the reason ... Thanks, Peter
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Chrome extensions have a very strict build up. The manifest file contains the name, the description, the version number, permissions and resources. Without it an extension won't work.
.crx is really just a zip file. Unzip the file and you will get a folder. If the folder doesn't contain a manifest file, you know that there is something wrong with it. If you want further help give me a link to the extension and I'll take a look at it.
Edit: I found your extension, the version number is 0.5.6. It installs without problems on my system and it contains a manifest file. Maybe your download was bad. Try to download it once more. Simply drag the extension from your file system onto vivaldi's extension page (but I guess you know that).
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vivaldi://extensions => developer mode => load extracted extension
This is only for loading a extension which is unzipped and used for extension development.
if you eant to install the extension open Extension Manager vivaldi://extensions and drag the crx file into page.
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Thank you for your helpful comments.
I now was able to install it after finding a "click-and-drag" capable program from where i could graphically "drag in" the crx-file.
actually, since I generally do not use "click-and-drag" capable desktop-managers and programs, but regularly and efficiently work from the commandline (xterm, etc), I am missing a simple option, to install extensions from within vivaldi (for example via a menu, at least as an alternative), instead of unnecessarily absolutely depending on external "click-and-drag"-capable window-managers and programs, which might not be available
Best, Peter
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Yes, install from a URL or open file window or by commandline does not currently work by opening the CRX file with Vivaldi. Thats missing.
But it was reported by me as bug VB-5152 long ago.
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Does the Extension work for you?
I've tried both ways, the 'extract and add as extracted extension in developer mode' way
and the 'drag 'n drop .crx file into extensions page' way,
but none of both makes the extension unblock music for me. (as it did in firefox etc.)


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On this episode, we discuss the trainwreck that was the Giant Robot Fight! We also try Jumpin' Jack Doritos, Mystery Flavor Oreos and Reptar Cereal! Which are good? Which are bad? You'll have to watch to find out! We also discuss Thor: Ragnarok and Justice League as both films are in theaters soon!
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Same-sex couples in Georgia who have been unable to marry in the state have had that right granted to them by a Supreme Court decision. On June 26, 2015, the Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to wed. The majority opinion written by Justice Anthony Kennedy noted that the definition of marriage has changed over time.
Same-sex family law issues still arise despite marriage bans
Currently, Georgia does not allow same-sex marriages, but courts still must deal with legal issues surrounding these unions. Rulings made by courts in liberal regions sometimes pose challenges to existing bans or prohibitions on same-sex couples, as was illustrated by a case in another state that has a constitutional ban on gay marriages.
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Common financial issues to consider in a Georgia divorce
While ending a marriage is an emotional event for many couples, allowing emotions to cloud an individual's judgment could lead to major mistakes during divorce settlement negotiations. For instance, not putting everything into writing could cause one party to the divorce to renege on a verbal agreement. An example could be a parent failing to pass an asset to a child because he or she is under no legal obligation to do so.


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The charity analysed 490 complaints about credit brokers from June and July 2013.
People are getting charged money on top of their payday loan, one in five of these people have had their details passed onto brokers without their permission.
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Corporate identity of Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk-2014 worked out
Corporate identity of Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk-2014 worked out
"Honestly speaking, this year we have fleshed out its elements with living neon colors," they say at the 'Vitebsk' Cultural Centre. "When people look at the festival posters, they will get various associations. For example, they can see fireworks in the festival sky, the fly-away skirts of the dancers or even a cornflower."
The corporate identity of the festival has been created by Darya Volkova — commercial artist at the centre.
The corporate identity of the festival is traditionally used by the decoration of print and video production and the making of souvenirs, as well as on tickets, posters, diplomas, accreditation cards, T-shirts and postcards. Advertising clips of presentation are being created also in this style.


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Thursday, September 29, 2016
How to Get to Heaven
The wife wanted the body cremated; the husband's religious brothers quickly made a proper burial; the wife sued and case went to court, but Rebbe Nachman intervened from above...
Rebbe Nachman made a bold promise that no other tzaddik ever made. He said that for any person who visits his gravesite (even once), gives a penny to charity, and says the ten special chapters of psalms that he selected, he would rescue that person from the fires of hell.
I wondered:
On a scale of one to ten, what level of certainty did I have in the Rebbe's promise?
Admittedly I did not have the same level of certainty in the Rebbe's promise that I had in certain natural phenomena, for instance that the sun will rise and set every day - I believed that with perfect certainty.
It began at 5:30 am on erev Rosh Hashanah. I knew that face. It was my old friend from Monsey, New York - Mendy Wurtzberger. Following the morning prayers, as we walked through the street together, there was a steady stream of people greeting Mendy warmly with utter amazement on their faces.
Feeling a bit lost, I asked Mendy what was going on. He said that something miraculous had happened to him in the last two weeks and that the story had gone viral on the web.
What Mendy proceeded to tell me over a cup of coffee is nothing less than the most amazing modern day Uman story that I've ever heard.There are a number of versions of this story going around; but I heard this one directly from Mendy - so it's the real deal.
Mendy was a successful businessman. He ran a huge plumbing company that had a contract with a Wall street firm. When the firm went belly-up about five years ago so did Mendy's business. It was about that time that someone gave Mendy the idea of spending Rosh Hashanah at the gravesite of Rebbe Nachman of Breslev in the Ukraine.
Prior to coming, Mendy received a phone call from a troubled cousin who said asked if Mendy could meet with a young man from a very religious family who had strayed very far from his Chasidic roots. The young man was married to a woman whose story was similar to his own. Neither of them had had any connection to Torah Judaism for fifteen years.
Good natured Mendy agreed and struck up a friendship with the young man. Since Mendy was heading to Uman in the hope of a blessing from the tzaddik to re-establish his business, he decided to take the young man with him. Reluctant at first, ultimately the young man acquiesced and accompanied Mendy on the arduous journey to Uman.
Mendy told me that the young man did not observe the Shabbos that preceded Rosh Hashanah that year but on Rosh Hashanah itself, he saw him spend the entire first day at the tzaddik's gravesite under his tallis (prayer shawl) pouring his heart out in heart-felt sobbing.
But when they returned to New York, nothing seemed to change for either Mendy or his young friend. Mendy's business situation only worsened, and the young man went back to life as usual apparently unaffected by his brief spiritual awakening.
Eight months later the young man was found in a Florida swimming pool - dead.
There were many more details that I cannot relate here, but this is how the story continued...
With Blessings for a happy healthy new year!
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TRENTON, NJ — Chopped romaine lettuce grown in Arizona is likely the source of an E. coli outbreak that has sickened at least seven New Jersey residents, including one in Monmouth County, according to federal and state health officials.
No specific grower, supplier, distributor or brand has been blamed for the outbreak, which has affected 35 people in 11 states, according to the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
In a statement today, April 13, the N.J. Department of Health (DOH) said there are four confirmed cases in Hunterdon County, and one each in Monmouth, Sussex and Somerset counties. As additional testing is completed, more cases may be added, it said.
DOH added it continues to work with its local health partners to identify, interview and obtain lab specimens from New Jersey residents, who may have become ill from this contaminated food.
The latest cases do not appear to be linked to earlier reports from Warren County health officials that an outbreak there may have been linked to a restaurant chain.
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Also, before purchasing romaine lettuce at a grocery store or eating it at a restaurant, consumers should confirm with the store or restaurant that the romaine lettuce did not come from the Yuma, Ariz., growing region.
"Individuals with this infection usually get better within about five to seven days; however some illnesses can be serious or even life-threatening," said state Health Commissioner Shereef Elnahal, M.D. "Anyone experiencing symptoms of this illness should see a health care provider."
The symptoms of E. coli infection vary. Some individuals may have mild to severe diarrhea, which may contain blood. Abdominal cramps, nausea and vomiting may occur. Usually there is little or no fever present. People are encouraged to contact their health care provider if they have diarrhea that lasts for more than three days or is accompanied by high fever, blood in the stool, or so much vomiting that they cannot keep liquids down and they pass very little urine.
In addition, about 5 to 10 percent of people who are diagnosed with Shiga toxin-producing E. coli infection develop a potentially life-threatening complication known as hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS). HUS develops about seven days after symptoms first appear, when diarrhea is improving. Clues that someone is developing HUS include decreased frequency of urination, feeling extremely tired, and losing pink color in cheeks and inside the lower eyelids. Anyone who develop these symptoms should seek out medical care immediately.
The CDC also advises that all restaurants and retailers ask their suppliers about the source of their romaine lettuce and refrain from selling or servicing any that was grown in Yuma..
The CDC and DOH will continue to provide updates as more information becomes available.
For more information on this outbreak, visit the CDC website. The Department of Health also has a website with more information on E. coli, including frequently asked questions.
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This year marks the 250th anniversary of James Watt's invention of the separate steam condenser and Glasgow Science Festival is celebrating with a series of events. We chatted to Professor Colin McInnes from the University of Glasgow.
Who are you and what do you do?
I'm Colin McInnes, James Watt Chair, Professor of Engineering Science at the University of Glasgow. Much of my research has centred on space engineering but I also dabble in a wide range of other areas including climate engineering and energy policy. I'm also interested in the long-term societal impacts of Engineering Science and often write on Energy, Innovation and Environment issues for the print and on-line media, reflecting my firm belief in the socially and environmentally progressive nature of Engineering Science.
What brings you to Glasgow Science Festival this year?
I'm giving a talk on 'Reclaiming the Human Future' which will help mark the 250th anniversary of James Watt's invention of the separate steam condenser which falls this year. The talk will make the case that we need to rediscover both the unconstrained free-thinking of James Watt and enlightenment-era ideas of progress to deliver an innovation-driven, human-centred future. The talk will also cover some off-the-wall ideas for the deep future on so-called terraforming and Dyson spheres, both of which are actually connected to James Watt's heat engine in unsuspected ways.
The Matrix, District 9, Moon… what sci-fi classic floats your… uhh… spaceship?
Oh, easy. It would need to be Dark Star, John Carpenter's quirky low budget film, which also had a leading role for Dan O'Bannon who went on to write the screenplay for Alien.
2015 is Scotland's Year of Food and Drink and among other things, we're exploring how eating insects might be the future. What's the weirdest thing that you've eaten?
As an academic I travel frequently and have had to sample some real gems, such as raw horse meat, but also delights such as roast duck in the fantastic Quanjude Qianmen Restaurant in Beijing.
Impress us with your favourite science fact or joke.
Nuclear energy, which is still Scotland's largest generator of electricity, comes to us from the final instant of the collapse of ancient stars before they exploded as supernovae; lighter elements were fused into Uranium and then scattered through space. Your smart phone or tablet is at least partly working off those ancient cataclysmic events.
Join Colin for Reclaiming the Human Future on Thursday 4th June at the University of Glasgow. The event is free, but please book online to guarantee a place!


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…and other stupid questions. Yesterday I had to go take the psychological exam at the Bariatric Center. The test comprised of 165 True and False questions that ranged from how I felt about myself, how I think others felt about me, whether I thought my religious beliefs would be the answer, and of course my favorite was question, number 106, "I flew across the Atlantic more than 30 times last year." The close runner up for favorite question was number 124 "I was on the front cover of several magazines recently." These were obviously control questions put in place just far enough into the test so that they can see if some one is just running through the test without reading the questions. After reading those questions my mind was already racing with thoughts. What if some one answered those questions honestly? I so wanted to answer "Yes" to both of those so I could see what the psychologist would say to me when I meet them next to go over the results.
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The Ted movie was one that captured the attention of audiences everywhere some time ago, with a plot that followed an adorable teddy that was supplied with a provocative personality.
In order to revitalize this, Medicom Toy has transitioned the character from the Ted movie into the medium of a Bearbrick collectible. What's most different about the product from other's that the company has released is its soft surface, as other versions generally maintain a sleek and shiny finish.
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