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High-Tech Search & Rescue
This episode is sponsored by Audible In the centuries ahead, humans will explore and visit every corner of the Earth and Solar
System. It's tempting to hope that technology will
somehow protect us from serious accidents. But if history is any guide, the technology
that allows this exploration facilitates bigger accidents… and in more dangerous and remote
places. Every year our first responders to emergencies
are called upon to perform countless thousands of rescues in life and death circumstances,
and with a very high rate of success compared to prior years. This indicates a trend of both better safety
and better recovery efforts, which we can confidently attribute to better technology
and better training all around. More knowledge allows us to better utilize
what we have, as well as enabling us to develop new and better equipment, and is the penultimate
tool of both your survival while you wait for rescue as well as search & rescue efforts. The ultimate tool of course is courage. In dangerous situations, the will to survive
is the most important part of making it through a crisis, and on the opposite side, the will
of rescuers to jump onto a sinking ship or into a burning building represents extraordinary
bravery and puts the lie to the cynical notion that humanity is cowardly or selfish. Every year, countless first responders put
their lives and health on the line to rescue folks. That's something to keep in mind for later
this month, as the US Senate recently passed a resolution naming October 28th First Responders
Day. I doubt I'm alone in feeling this is well-merited
and long overdue, and I wanted to dedicate this episode to those first responders and
every Good Samaritan who has stopped to help when they could have just walked or driven
by. I often get asked about how I always manage
to be so upbeat and optimistic about the future, and folks like that are a big portion of it. Through willpower, courage, and curiosity
we can overcome just about any situation. Of course it is also our curiosity which so
often gets us in trouble, and which will doubtless put us in even more perilous places and give
us even more dangerous activities we'll need to be rescued from as we venture into
ever more inhospitable parts of our world and beyond. But we are who we are, and our habit of sticking
our necks out has benefited humanity as a whole, if often not the folks who did it. You wouldn't need a smart drone that can
dive deep into oceans and worm its way into fissures to bring a hapless diver an emergency
air tank; nor would you need one to deliver thermal protection and food and water to a
mountain climber stranded on an icy mountain peak, unless enough people found themselves
in these dangerous life and death situations. I wanted to start with the topic of safety
gear first, those garments and gadgets that give someone in a dangerous situation better
odds of survival, or even removes the need to be rescued. As we noted a couple weeks back in our Space
Suits episode, improvements to those in terms of increased comfort and versatility might
become as commonplace as firefighting gear, or even become a staple of day to day clothing
and accessories. Knowing what and where something has happened
is critical to a fast response, and I'd not be surprised if in the next decade or
two it becomes customary to wear health monitors and personal GPS tags whenever doing anything
dangerous or in a remote area, or even at all times. If we can open up a log, hopefully secured
and encrypted to ensure privacy of course, to see where someone has been, we'll be
in a much better position to organize a rescue party, even if the monitoring equipment has
been broken or removed. Time is often critical to search and rescue,
we want to do everything we can to minimize how long it takes to find a person in danger
and maximize how long they can hold out or even enable them to find their way to safety
on their own. Just as we have smartphones replacing cellphones,
we might find the ubiquitous first aid kit itself being replaced by something smarter
too. But all equipment, smart or not, is useless
if you don't know what to do with it. Survival and first aid kits need instructions
and the less familiar with their use someone is, and the more stressed out and panicked
they are, the more detailed and clear those instructions need to be. We would benefit from training with smart
first aid kits, which is really all about repetition, so we'll be able to remember
how to use the new tech properly, even when panicked and distracted. Now the ideal scenario is a phone that can
be stuck into crisis mode and brings up a doctor or survival expert who can see what's
going on and tell you what to do till helps arrives, but in the absence of that you need
something that can respond to voice commands and has the relevant data on hand, especially
in remote locations where coverage may be spotty. Improvements in voice recognition and command,
in image analysis, and in general improvements in processing and memory, might mean everybody
would be carrying around not only a library of medical data in their pocket but a useful
capacity for diagnosis and treatment. And indeed we do have some decent forerunners,
the Red Cross for instance makes a first aid app and if you haven't got that or something
similar on your phone, you'd be wise to schedule in grabbing one of those and taking
at least a few minutes to familiarize yourself with it. Doubtless those mobile apps will improve with
time but I think it very likely that normal first aid kits and survival kits will start
including more electronics and machinery in them in years to come. With better robotics and AI we might have
first aid kits that could tell if someone was injured and go into action to treat them
properly. So too, there are limits as to how fast humans
can be moved to a place to rescue someone and they are far slower than what a local
machine might achieve. As an example, we could hypothetically get
rapid response teams anywhere on the planet by dropping them right from orbit, but re-entry
is a process of around 20 minutes even once you're over the right spot to start your
descent. Even dropping from a stationary orbital ring
isn't much faster. However, we wouldn't want our drop pods
carrying emergency teams to simply fall, that's slow. No, we would do better to accelerate them
and then decelerate them as fast as we could, same for an aircraft or ground vehicle heading
to the destination. If you're curious, a plunge at 5 gees, about
what most folks can handle without passing out, followed by a hard braking using fuel
or a very good parachute at the same acceleration, would let you cover the distance from the
International Space Station to ground – 250 miles or 400 kilometers – in just 3 minutes. We talk a lot on this channel about things
like spaceplanes, mass drivers, launch loops, and orbital rings as a way to get folks and
cargo into space cheaply, but that same technology used groundside could potentially let a single
station in any region, be it on the ground or in orbit, send a team to an emergency at
rapid speed. Incidentally with constant acceleration your
travel time rises with the square root of distance, so quadruple the distance, double
the time to get there, a hundred times the distance, ten times longer to get there. 400 kilometers in 3 minutes, 1600 kilometers,
or a thousand miles, in just 6 minutes. Of course our atmosphere gets in the way of
things like that, as would water or rock for folks underwater or in a cavern or mineshaft,
but explorers or colonists on some airless planet can realistically expect aid pretty
darn quick from any base on that planet or ship in orbit. However, that aid might not necessarily be
from people there in the flesh. A major principle of first aid is not to turn
one victim into two, so if you can avoid putting the rescuer in dire risk that's always a
good thing, and doubly so if you can get a robot there faster anyway. It might make more sense to fire a pod out
of a rail gun that can handle way higher accelerations. If you can pack a robot and supplies into
a pod that can handle 500 gees, not 5, you can keep that cannon loaded all the time and
fire it in mere seconds, and potentially fire it at speeds well in excess of even orbital
velocities. On arrival it unpacks and an expert runs the
robots by telepresence, though not by on-site AI. I put that caveat on there because if your
artificial intelligence is that good that you can make robot doctors then you don't
need to be firing anything to a rescue site. If you've got robot doctors you've robot
factory workers who can build robot doctors and that means they might be so dirt cheap
that any person is likely to have their own posse of drones and gear hanging around them. Same applies for any technology that would
let us simply download skills right into someone's head so they could act as a surgeon or survival
expert for someone nearby or themselves. If you've got that technology, odds are
everyone has already downloaded it as part of their normal childhood. Whoever coined the phrase "search and rescue"
clearly wanted us to understand how much of rescuers' time and effort go into just trying,
and sometimes failing, to find the people they intend to rescue. If the rescue-ees aren't wearing trackers,
it sure would be nice if the rescuers had one of those "life-sign detectors" that
always seem to be on spaceships in science fiction, but the writers tend to be rather
vague about how those work. Such a device doesn't have to only detect
humans, especially on some barren moon or planet where you don't have to worry that
you're getting a false positive on a cow or something. But what do we emit that would identify us
as human, or at least as something alive, and can be detected from a distance? It might vary a lot on circumstances. We all give off infrared energy, generally
around 100 watts of it at a wavelength of about 10 microns. Lots of things can spread that frequency out,
everything from clothing – or a thermal blanket – to simple foliage being in the
way or the atmosphere blurring or distorting it, but in many cases you could find someone
by their infrared heat if you've got the resolution and processing power for it. If you're search zone is a square ten kilometers
wide, taking a photo where each pixel is just a meter wide is a hundred million pixels you
need to analyze for a possible infrared heat signature, flag all your hits and then check
each out in more detail. This method works great in space when dealing
with a moon or asteroid or airless world, alternatively you couldn't use something
that worked on sound in such environments, but that might work very well on Earth. But there's a lot of ambient noise and trying
to pick up a heartbeat from that is a very dubious proposition. You've probably heard about new Search and
Rescue drones that can pick out a heartbeat from a person even if they're buried under
meters of rubble, but this is actually done with microwaves, and is a good example of
space technology finding a use back here at home. NASA and DHS worked to put the concept together
and it is very similar to ground penetrating radar. There's a pretty distinctive motion and
pattern to a beating heart or breathing whereas rubble does not move, and the radar can go
through the stone fairly well and give you reflections from which you can build a 3D
image. A second later if that image has altered,
that's motion, and again fairly specific motion for breathing and heart beats. This is light speed so if you ramp up the
power and receivers you could potentially be doing this detecting from orbit. And since it is using low-powered microwaves,
it's possible it's the sort of thing we could patch cellphones to do not too far down
the road so that a ton of volunteers in a remote area or in a city that had a building
collapsed could potentially help rapidly scan that zone. I also would not rule out major improvements
in microphones on smart phones allowing everybody to network in to pick out noises. With enough processing power and enough microphones
you can potentially pick out all sorts of stuff. Same if you've got access to those phone
cameras and very good image processing. We might call this notion Crowd-Sourced Search
& Rescue, but there's a long precedent already of crowd-sourcing our search, rescue, and
relief efforts, however this might be something we could setup to be near-instantly activated
and automated, which would be kinda handy. Kinda creepy too but the bad news about technology
like this is that it's kind of inevitable you'd be able to generate ridiculously accurate
and invasive data on folks, awesome for search and rescue and detecting crimes but definitely
raises the scary specter of Big Brother watching everything you do. And I hate to say there's no way around
that capacity existing, you deal with that either by controlling how such data is collected,
stored, sorted, and accessed, or by counter-technology like having a microwave reflective coating
in your clothes or walls. That is obviously a double-edged sword if
you find yourself buried under those walls or kidnapped and locked in a shielded dungeon. As always with technology, it solves a lot
of problems but often gives us some new ones too. That same sort of awesome detection and data-sorting
capacity, while great for S&R, also helps on the prevention end and the best emergency
is the one that never happens. You're a lot less likely to be buried in
an avalanche while skiing or mountain climbing if some radar system is scanning the slopes
and compiling and processing that to detect one ready for collapse and knows exactly where
to whack it with a drone or sound blast to cause a fairly controlled and minor avalanche
instead so it's safe for people to walk on. Same, if someone falls down a well or shaft,
we can excavate a lot faster if the digging tool is wired into a ground radar and computer
that's constantly picking out the next safe scoop. On the rescue end, while St Bernards are cute,
some bullet drones that can slam through snow and ice to right next to you and blow a bunch
of air bags open to cocoon you is a lot better, and that potentially works well down in shafts. As is a tiny drone that can worm its way through
rubble pulling a small air hose or compressed oxygen tanks to a victim before they suffocate
or get them food and water and a microphone and speaker so they can talk and hear and
not go insane with panic while we get them out. A drone carrying a skinny but ultra-strong
tether of Kevlar or graphene might be great for looping around someone in a flood or sinking
undersea or drifting away in space, so we can grapple them and winch them in. Or even in the air. Right now if a plane starts going down in
a crash we can't do anything from outside but offer advice, if you could get tethers
or nets latched onto one very quickly, you might be able to safely bring it down. Speed being everything, there are occasions
where some bullet or missile might be just what we need for a rescue. If a plane is dropping, it's still usually
going subsonic and has some kilometers to cover before the crash, the same technology
that might protect us from missiles, point defense systems, might also be employed to
rapidly and automatically fire pods full of parachutes or airbags or solid rocket boosters
at a plane within seconds of the pilot or onboard computers slapping the panic button
or air traffic control detecting a terminal trajectory. That might work on cars on a freeway too,
as an alternative if people don't warm up to self-driving cars. You can't automate the vehicles but you
sure can automate that highway so that the guard rails and asphalt and ditches all blow
airbags or have cannons along the median machine gun a car with compressed gas air bag bullets
and presumably do the same on buildings or bridges for if folks fell or jumped off. You'd want really precise automation on
that though to avoid blowing kilometers worth of traffic into cocoons if someone just swerved
off the road, but I like the self-driving car option better. Personally I trust a computer more than my
own driving but more importantly I trust it more than the driving of someone drunk or
busy texting, but I'm generally of the opinion that technology is more about giving us what
we want than what is necessarily best for us. That's important in this context because
a lot of search and rescue happens because someone was being rather reckless and telling
someone they ought not climb a mountain with minimal safety gear or take a submersible
down to look at a deep ocean trench is often not going to stop them from doing it. Humanity's curiosity and courage are two
of our most admirable traits in my opinion but stupidity and foolhardiness often masquerade
as them and can be difficult to tell apart even for a wise man, who are darn rare and
usually acquired that wisdom by sticking their nose in a bear trap and lucking out a few
times. I'm usually considered a pretty cautious
individual and I know in my own case, and in the case of most other cautious folks I
know, that we acquired that trait after sticking in pennies in a wall plug a few times. Most of us have done something that would
nominate us for a Darwin Award and that's why we rush out to save folks even when they've
brought it on themselves. That will be a lot more challenging as we
move away from Earth, a very dangerous place but still the safest one in the Universe for
people. How do you rush out and rescue some asteroid
miners a million kilometers or more from the nearest help where they might all have asphyxiated
before their emergency signal even reaches you? How do you run off to help some colony on
a planet orbiting an alien sun a century of travel away? A lot like hunting for survivors of a shipwreck
a century ago you're relying on them staying alive for a long while on their wits and improvised
solutions, but while we tend to write off cases like that as impossible to help, I think
you'd still try, just manage your expectations and plan with reason in mind. A little imagination helps too. I had a bet going before I wrote this episode
if I could come up with a legitimate reason to use an atomic weapon, death ray, or relativistic
kill missile for search or rescue and we did come up with all of the above. Setting off nukes to save people might seem
a bit crazy and over the top, although I'm pretty sure SFIA regulars have a rather high
threshold for that after enough episodes, but there's actually a ton of occasions
where it does make sense. Tsunami, hurricanes, or earthquakes can potentially
be dealt with by precision application of huge amounts of energy as can asteroids on
a collision course with Earth. So too, firing off nukes in a diamond around
some ship or escape pod wandering through debris can potentially vaporize that debris
without hurting the vessel. But on the search end of things, often passive
detection of looking around isn't enough and you need active detection, the difference
between a flashlight and radar versus a low-light camera for instance. At the scales involved in space, blowing a
nuke off in an area is a very good way to get a large flash to illuminate your search
in whatever spectrum you are looking in, and you can pack substances around the warhead
that will absorb the radiation and re-emit it in particular detectable frequencies. Good way to make an impromptu lighthouse or
serve as the deep space equivalent of a flare gun. We also have ship designs that use atomic
bombs as their propellant, see the Nuclear Option or Spaceship Propulsion Compendium
for details, and a good way to rescue a ship that's plowing through space at high speeds
is to basically send them a warhead with a pusher plate attached to it, and a relativistic
kill missile carrying one as it's payload could be fired out after even interstellar
ships moving at a high fraction of light who had their fuel tanks rupture light years from
home. Needless to say, a laser built to serve as
an anti-asteroid vaporizer or a death ray for leveling cities also makes a very handy
deep space flashlight or radar for hunting after lost ships. Very powerful lasers are also handy for cutting
and vaporizing your way through rubble to get to someone too. The key on all these things, especially the
high powered or ultra-fast ones is precision of course, since a miscalculation could end
up burying, burning, or crushing the person you're trying to rescue. Another key thing is that with good automation
you can use a quantity over quality approach, by flooding an area with search drones or
having them stationed at high density so some medical rescue robot is attached to every
telephone pole. There are of course far more options for things
to go wrong in space than we could cover today, and we'll explore options like what to do
to handle a dome on Mars cracking open or someone blowing a giant hole in the side of
space habitat in future episodes on catastrophe-proofing civilizations and high-tech doomsday preppers,
and we'll look at some more of the far future disaster options and how we can avoid them
and react to them if they do happen. Daring survival stories are pretty common
in all genres of fiction, and doubtless long predate even ancient tales like Homer's
Odyssey, and certainly are popular in science fiction, with many great classics, but great
stories about the folks looking to find and rescue folks are a lot less common outside
of detective mystery novels where the person being sought fell afoul of a criminal rather
than a natural disaster or ill luck. One of the things I especially like about
the novel "The Martian" by Andy Weir and its film adaptation is it not only gave us
a pretty realistic story of a man surviving against the odds, but the folks back home
at mission control working against the odds to find and rescue him and folks risking and
sacrificing a lot to try it. No crazy villains or aliens or handwaves or
contrivances, just realism and determination, so it's an easy pick for our book of the
month. If you've seen the film, the book is even
better, and the narrator of the audiobook does an excellent job with the performance
too, a good narrator can make a good book even better, and it's a great book to begin
with. You can get a free copy of The Martian at
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on any of your devices and seamlessly pick up where you left off, whether you're listening
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a vast collection of amazing stories on any device. Of course one day such a device might be even
easier to access as we develop seamless and intuitive mind-machine interfaces, and as
mentioned, we'll be looking at those next week, both the advantages and challenges ahead
of us for developing and safely using such technology. A point we'll make next week is that such
technologies are almost inevitable for us at this point, it's just a matter of when
and which methods we can most easily develop and feel comfortable using, but advances in
technology might not be inevitable even when possible, and in two weeks we'll be going
back to our Fermi Paradox Great Filters Series to examine the idea that advanced civilizations
in our Universe might be rare not just because the planetary conditions and evolutionary
pathway to intelligence might be rare, but because many civilizations might not pursue
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When you think of climbing in China, limestone sport routes probably come to mind. This spring, Irene Yee and her crew of offwidth aficionados took on some of China's lesser known terrain…offwidths. Donning a rack of Big Bros and tape gloves, these climbers went on an offwidth rampage through the cliffs of Liming, China.
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The Truth Revealed
One morning in September of 2012, Debby logged on to chat online with Eric just as she always did. But this time, Eric had something specific he wanted to talk about. "How do you feel about forgiveness?" he asked. Having had many conversations with Eric about the gospel, before, Debby says, "I put on my scriptural hat; I got all my books; I got out The Miracle of Forgiveness. . . . For hours, we spent writing about forgiveness."
As the conversation continued, however, Debby started to sense that something was wrong. "Did I do something wrong?" she typed. "Why are we going into this conversation so deep?" Eric responded, "I have a confession to make, and it's going to hurt you."
This sent a jolt through Debby that brought back a flood of memories and emotions. "The reason for that is because at one point in my marriage, my husband confessed that he had an affair," Debby shares. "It was just something that I hid forever because I didn't want to disparage anything." Now that Eric was saying this, she braced herself for the worst.
"This has all been a scam," Eric typed. The confession was so unexpected that Debby had trouble believing it at first. "I'm saying, 'Huh? You're lying. You're sick. Something's wrong,'" Debby remembers. "And then I said, 'If that's really true, Eric, now you have to prove to me that this is a lie and a scam.'"
Over instant messages, he walked Debby through how to use the live video call feature that had been on Yahoo Chat all along so she could see his face. As the camera came up on Debby's computer screen, the man staring back at her was not the handsome Eric that had been on her screensaver for months. Instead, she saw him for who he really was—a Nigerian man who had taken over a million dollars from her.
It was only after this reality hit that the banker and intelligence officer inside Debby kicked into action. "I don't know how I did it, but I had my cell phone right beside me, and I took a picture of my computer screen," she says.
Bouncing Back
Debby brought the picture, a record of her bank transactions, and her 4,000 journal pages of instant messages to the FBI immediately. "They listened to my story and they were just very kind," Debby remembers. But because the scammer was out of the country, there was nothing they could do.
Debby remembers thinking, "Oh my gosh, if the FBI can't do anything, then nobody can. And I shut down. I put up that mask, I put up my smile, and I became fine. I did not let anybody know how I was really doing. And I hid it for years. . . . The whole shame, guilt, beat up, you name it. The whole heartache, the financial fiasco. . . . I mean, my heart was ripped out from underneath me again."
But Debby kept this heartache hidden for the next two years. It wasn't until online dating was brought up in a conversation with a friend over lunch that she finally opened up. "I must've rolled my eyes at her and she was like, 'What is that about?' And so I told her the story. And she said, 'Deb, you have got to tell this story.' I said, 'No. I'm not ever telling anybody what I did.' She goes, 'You have to tell this story because my mother was taken for $80,000 and she never told anybody.'"
As Debby began to share her story more, she was shocked at how many other people were suffering silently. Recalling their encouragement, Debby says, "They said, 'You have to tell this story because so many people are being hurt by particularly online scam or scammers in general, but nobody wants to talk about it, and until we do, we can't protect other people.'"
"The more I started talking about it, the better I felt about me," Debby says. Though she couldn't stop the scammer, she felt empowered to be able to prevent it from happening to other people. Finding her voice again brought hope and healing not only to her, but to hundreds of other scam victims.
Sharing Her Story
Debby has now shared her story over radio, television, and at public speaking events. She even wrote a book documenting her experience titled The Woman Behind the Smile: Triumph Over the Ultimate Online Dating Betrayal.
"We all have a story," Debby says. "And if we don't share the stories, that person sitting beside you might be going through the same thing thinking that he or she is alone, and they'll never talk. But if they find out that you've had something happen to you, they're willing to open up. And that's such a healing thing, to be able to open up and share in a positive way."
Debby shares that since sharing her story, she's been able to help scam victims who were contemplating suicide. Of one woman who got in touch with her, Debby shares, "She says I saved her life because she really considered suicide. [She] mortgaged her home; she was scammed twice by the same man for over $600,000. . . . [But now] she's just a completely different person—you know, not financially, she's working her way out of it. But because she knew that she wasn't alone, she's been strong enough to be able to speak up and try to heal."
As Debby looks back on the experience, she can see in retrospect the red flags that she never paid attention to. But even still, she realizes that out of all of the things that should have kept her from being a victim, "it just proves that these guys are extraordinarily well-trained and manipulative. And they know what to say and how to say it."
"I went to the temple and I prayed about every time I was going to send him money," Debby says. "I kept getting the feeling like, 'It's okay. It's okay.' And I look back and you could really question your faith when you're having that realization." But having a more eternal perspective has helped Debby come to peace with this.
"I had a woman who was a minister in Indiana on a radio show one time say, 'Deb, this had to happen to you because God knew that you would talk about it. And you'll be okay. You'll get through it, but this had to happen to you and you had to open your mouth and tell people about it.'"
And Debby is okay. Though her business isn't quite where she'd like it to be, she has recovered enough to be somewhat financially stable, and she is happily remarried. "I look back, and I'm not sorry that it happened, period. I mean, I could definitely use the money," she admits. "But the experience was something that I know I'm supposed to use to help others going forward."
If you choose to use online dating sites, here are some tips to protect yourself from scammers:
- Remember that just because it's a Latter-day Saint or Christian site doesn't mean it's safe. While faith-based sites can help you find compatible people with common beliefs, keep in mind that scammers can take advantage of your trusting nature if you aren't careful.
- Avoid disclosing whether you have been divorced or widowed on your profile. New profiles with these indications are targets for scammers who are looking for individuals who are more vulnerable to emotional manipulation.
- Run an online search about the individual you are chatting with. A quick Google search can help you know quickly if someone really is who they say they are.
- Never send money to someone you are corresponding with from an online dating site, even if the reason and amount seems reasonable. Always run the situation by a friend or family member who is less emotionally invested.
- Avoid moving the conversation off the dating site too early. Because online dating sites are trying to catch scammers, scammers will try to move your conversation off the site as early as they can. This allows them to have more information about you (like your email or phone number), plus it makes it less likely for them to get caught.
- Keep in mind that working overseas is a common storyline scammers use. Whether it's for work or military service, making repeated excuses not to meet you in person are definitely a red flag.
- Beware of profiles with military uniforms. Military pictures are used heavily for scam profiles because of the trustworthy connotation associated with them. Typically, military members aren't allowed to use their military pictures for profiles anyway, so this is always something to watch out for.


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Meet Austin
A few days ago Simon was talking about having dolls in his dolls house, on his excellent Miniature Enthusiast blog. I decided early on that I wasn't going to have dolls in my Georgian house, but as I filled the house, I felt it needed something to bring a little life into it. I went along to Kensington last year, thinking I would get a dog for the library, or maybe a mouse for the pantry. Cats had crossed my mind, but I hadn't seen any I really liked before. When I saw this cat I fell for him immediately, he has a cheeky expression and looks like he's about to jump up for some tasty morsel on the kitchen table! For a while he was just called Cat, like Holly's in Breakfast at Tiffany's, but I felt he did deserve a name, and he is now called Austin, in honour of Jane of course!
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Being a cat person, I'm very impressed with Austen and thanks for the link - there's not much chance of me getting there in person.ReplyDelete
Austin is adorable! I have two 'rl' dogs & one cat, but no pets in Merriman Park, (yet)!ReplyDelete
It is always sad news to me, seeing a doll house without inhabitants. Given that I do to dress dolls, that is very encouraging ... But your cat Austen is a true marvel! Congratulations, is a great buy!!ReplyDelete
Thaks Irene, he's certainly a perky little fellow isn't he! I hope the Dolls House website gets going fully soon too, it's not an unrealistic drive from here, but would still take a good couple of hours.ReplyDelete
Thanks John, I might still geta dog for the house too, but we shall see, got to get on with filling all those book shelves yet! Hope work on Merriman Park is going well!ReplyDelete
Gracias Pedrete. Creo que cuando comencé en mi casa de muñecas que se deje intimidar por los muñecos que estaban disponibles. Que los disponibles comercialmente simplemente no cortar la mostaza, pero al haber visto algunas de las muñecas creadas en las exposiciones de la casa de muñecas, he pensado más de tener algo para mi nuevo proyecto casa de muñecas que estoy trabajando enReplyDelete
Thanks Pedrete. I think when I started on my dolls house I was put off by the dolls that were available. They ones available comercially just don't cut the mustard, but having seen some of the dolls created at the dolls house exhibitions, I have thought more about having some for my new dolls house project I am working on
Hi Andy! I haven't been working on Merriman Park too much --it's been like a second Summer here in Minnesota. (You have to enjoy it while you can, because the Winters are unbearably long)!ReplyDelete
I was looking online for dolls, last night...let us know if you discover an exceptional resource for them!
Will do John, enjoy the sunshine whilst it lasts!ReplyDelete
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Just spend an hour at your blog,very interesting and your house is really amazing. You are now in the room,I like mostly,the kitchen.The cat looks cute,like being hungry. So add some more food,I think it's the important part in the kitchen;-)! But I agree with Pedrete ,with kitchen staff it will come alive.JeannetteReplyDelete
Hello Jeannette, welcome to my blog, and thank you for taking time to read it! I am pleased you have enjoyed my pictures. I'll be sure to feed Austin tonight!! ;)ReplyDelete


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text: I'm absolutely amazed at the number of bright young folk who happily working in restaurants and bars when I go travelling – most of them are students or post graduants, who having completed their university degree courses, are decidiing how best to use that knowledge and qualification. But never quite getting the job of their original dreams. It's very easy to get into the travelling and itinerant habit if you don't set targets for achieving this milestone or that. having got to know a young chap who knew even at school what he did not want to do – work for a large company as just a small cog in a bit wheel. He definitely wanted to run his own business and has taken training for all the things he wants to achieve. In a very short time he has done some marvellous things and it is simply because he focused his ideas fully when at school. Imagination, planning, sorting out what training is needed and how to get on the first ladder of a chosen career or business venture is all it takes….. and gritty determination.


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How do you achieve a rejuvenated face through acupuncture?
1. The face represents the inner and outer healthy balance of the body conditions.
2. Chinese medicine for face lifting treatment will help making your face looks slimmer and more beautiful
3.Rejuvenating the skin to look years younger and erasing wrinkles on your face to make it look fresher and younger.
4. Using rejuvenated acupuncture to create a V line for your face.
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"For the GOP, politics is not a zero-sum game — and I don't mean this in a good way. It is entirely possible for Obama to lose on a variety of issues and for Republicans to lose as well, in ways that make future victories less likely." Michael Gerson (Washington Post) decries those in the … Continue reading Negative-sum Politics
Month: April 2013
Freedom and Migration: More Numbers
In Freedom in the 50 States, we present some statistical results on the association between the three dimensions of freedom -- fiscal, regulatory, and personal -- and "net interstate migration," that is, the number of movers into a state from other states minus the number of movers from a state to other states, divided by … Continue reading Freedom and Migration: More Numbers
Cato on Subsidizing Wealthy Allies
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Monday Morning Reading
Grading time is here, but these pieces/stories might provide some helpful between-papers distraction: 1. More violence in Iraq. According to CNN, "At least 25 people were killed and 69 others were wounded in five car bombings in Iraq on Monday." 2. Friend of Pileus Damon Linker finds a Christian message in Terrence Malick's "To the Wonder." Apparently everyone else … Continue reading Monday Morning Reading
Sunday Morning Quotation – Impartiality in Foreign Policy (pre-John Quincy Adams)
Columbian Centinel editorial, January 4, 1794: It is unworthy of the dignity, as well as equity, of Americans, to become partizans of either of the belligerent nations. We are bound to wish liberty and good government to every people under heaven—Having professed an impartial neutrality, public exultation shewn on one side, and goading the other … Continue reading Sunday Morning Quotation – Impartiality in Foreign Policy (pre-John Quincy Adams)
Affirmative Action: Unequal Protection?
The Economist has come out against race-based affirmative action in the United States, a surprising (to me) move given the magazine's socially left-of-center outlook (e.g., for legalizing drugs and banning handguns). Indeed, the way in which affirmative action as currently practiced discriminates against Asians even more than against whites is difficult to justify. (I argued … Continue reading Affirmative Action: Unequal Protection?
Congress and the Affordable Care Act: File under Revealed Preferences
John Bresnahan and Jake Sherman (Politico) report (unsurprisingly) that those who brought us the Affordable Care Act are scurrying to create exemptions for Capitol Hill. The big concern: the costs of insurance on the exchanges will lead to the rapid exodus of legislative aides—a policy-induced brain drain. The talks — which involve Senate Majority Leader … Continue reading Congress and the Affordable Care Act: File under Revealed Preferences


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With the intention to present these advanced programs to a large audience, participants will solely need a beginning background in C++ programming and elementary use of the Microsoft Home windows operating system. This can be achieved by taking ITS 101C Pc Info Techniques for ETET and CPET 107C Introduction to Programming with C++ at NHTI. As a Corequisite, the ability to understand and use algebraic equations is key to the success of programming. MATH 124C School Algebra is beneficial for this purpose. This program is accessible days and evenings. This program is monetary aid eligible. To be eligible for federal financial assist, students must submit an official, closing highschool transcript, or the equal documentation that demonstrates high school completion, to the NHTI Admissions Office.
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The result is a consensus amongst Silicon Valley's specialists that Moore's legislation is close to its finish. From an financial standpoint, Moore's regulation is lifeless,†says Linley Gwennap, who runs a Silicon Valley analysis agency. Dario Gil, IBM's head of analysis and improvement, is similarly frank: I might say categorically that the way forward for computing can't just be Moore's law any extra.†Bob Colwell, a former chip designer at Intel, thinks the business may be able to get all the way down to chips whose elements are just 5 nanometres aside by the early 2020s – but you'll wrestle to persuade me that they'll get a lot additional than thatâ€.
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Latitude: 51.1351 / 51°8'6"N
Longitude: -1.7193 / 1°43'9"W
OS Eastings: 419737
OS Northings: 137346
OS Grid: SU197373
Mapcode National: GBR 50K.Q5F
Mapcode Global: VHC31.4QYQ
Entry Name: Two Bowle Monuments in Churchyard, 2 Metres South of Chancel, Church of All Saints
Listing Date: 29 May 1987
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1023957
English Heritage Legacy ID: 319962
Location: Idmiston, Wiltshire, SP4
County: Wiltshire
Civil Parish: Idmiston
Traditional County: Wiltshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Wiltshire
Church of England Parish: Idmiston with Porton Gomeldon St Nicholas
Church of England Diocese: Salisbury
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3/69 Two Bowle monuments in churchyard,
2m south of chancel, Church
of All Saints
Pair of chest tombs. C18 or early C19. Limestone. Low tables
with rounded edges and fielded panels to sides and ends.
Inscriptions on tables, the north tomb to Edward Bowles, date not
clear, the south illegible.
Listing NGR: SU1973737346
This text is from the original listing, and may not necessarily reflect the current setting of the building.
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BP, Transocean Accused of Negligence in Spill
The owner and operator of the Gulf of Mexico oil rig at the center of a massive oil spill that threatens to become the worst U.S. environmental disaster in decades are being accused of negligence in a class action lawsuit.
The suit, filed by Acy J. Cooper Jr., and Ronnie Louis Anderson - two commercial shrimpers - on behalf of Louisiana residents affected by the spill, seeks at least $5 million from British Petroleum PLC, which operated the rig, and Transocean Ltd., the rig's owner.
According to the suit, the defendants failed to properly operate the rig, the Deepwater Horizon, failed to hire or train qualified personnel and didn't respond to the accident effectively enough.
In an interview with Reuters, BP CEO Tony Hayward said the company would compensate those affected by the spill.
"We are taking full responsibility for the spill and we will clean it up and where people can present legitimate claims for damages we will honor them. We are going to be very, very aggressive in all of that."
Louisiana fishing industry may sustain $2.5 billion in losses and Florida may lose $3 billion in lost tourism, Neil McMahon, an analyst at investment firm Bernstein said Friday, according to Reuters.
About 210,000 gallons of oil are spewing out daily from an underwater well drilled by the rig, which exploded in flames April 20 and sank two days later.
The leak from the ocean floor proved to be far bigger than initially reported and may eclipse the Exxon Valdez disaster, which poured 11 million gallons of oil into Alaska's Prince William Sound in 1989.
The Coast Guard has been working with BP to deploy floating booms, skimmers and chemical dispersants, and set controlled fires to burn the oil off the water's surface.
Halliburton Energy Services Inc., and Cameron International Corp. are also named as co-defendants in the complaint. The suit claims Halliburton improperly cemented the well and well cap, which contributed to the explosion and subsequent spill. Cameron allegedly supplied the blow-out preventers which should have kicked into operation and prevented the oil spill.
A Cameron spokesman declined to comment on the suit, citing company policy. Attempts to reach the other co-defendants have been unsuccessful.
Kennedy & Madonna LLP, the law firm of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., is one of the firms involved in bringing the suit.
More on the Gulf rig disaster:
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Gulf Oil Spill, by the Numbers
Oil Spill: What Went Wrong?
Oil Spill Creeping Toward U.S. Coast
Pentagon's "Full-Blown Effort" to Halt Spill
Obama on Oil Rig Cleanup
White House: Oil Spill Could Impact Offshore Drilling Plans
Oil Leak May be 5 Times Worse than Initial Claim
10 Animals Most in Danger from Oil Spill
Gulf Oil Spill Containment
BP Exec: Size of Leak Won't Change our Response
Crews Start Burning Gulf Oil Slick
Fighting Oil with Fire
Man-Made Disaster in the Gulf
New Oil-Rig Safety Rules Eyed Before Blast
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A little note of apology for being MIA, and saying I probably will continue to be gone until summer slows down. G and I are working like crazy on the exterior of our house so my nights have been busy and weekends are packed with other social obligations. Copper continues to be the most precious pup in the world, work is moving along swimmingly, our diet, fitness, and overall health have been great, and Life in general has never been better. Unfortunately this means the blog post ideas are currently at a standstill. Thankfully in a month's time we will be taking our big road trip to the Northeast (I CANNOT WAIT!) and I am sure I'll have a multitude of things to share following. Please stick with me and I will talk to you all following Labor Day — or sooner if time allows and discussions arise.
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Side Note: Sorry For Being MIA
Hey friends,
I just wanted to send out a quick note to apologize in advance for my lack of posting over the next week or two. With being under 10 days to the Big Day, I am on crunch-mode and that means all my evenings are taken with wedding preparation. I have a to-do list that is three pages long with new bullet points being added on an hourly basis — don't want to forget anything!
Overall, I am not too stressed though. The day most likely will not go off 100% perfectly, but by this time in 9 days I'll be the new Mrs. G and that's all I truly care about. If you do wish to pray for sunny weather that Saturday, then I won't stop you. 😉
Following June 16th, G and I will be heading down to Tennessee for our honeymoon. While in Gatlinburg, we have an amazing cabin overlooking Pigeon Forge (complete with bear accents, full kitchen, and a hot tub on the back porch) and plan to enjoy our first week as newlyweds exploring the beautiful scenery in Tennessee. Then we will continue Nashville for the weekend and celebrate down Broadway and with a show at the Grand Ole Opry.
I cannot believe I'll be marrying this amazing man in less than ten days; I am truly one blessed girl.
So with that, I say adieu for a few weeks. I'll be back to posting as soon as I return home and catch my breath. Promise!


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Fashion Television is responding to viewers request to learn how to bleach jeans. First, you need a spray bottle. Any bottle will do, and you want to fill more than half the bottle with bleach, and the rest of the bottle with bleach. If you use only bleach, you will ruin your clothing. Go outside to bleach jeans because it is dangerous to use it in the home. You must bleach items in a well ventilated areas. All you have to do is just spray the jeans. Wait for it to dry, and if you do not like the result, just bleach it again. You can use this technique to bleach other kinds of clothing as well.
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October 2014
UAE tops billionaire wealth growth
BILLIONAIRE wealth in the UAE surged to $132 billion this year from $45 billion in 2013, marking a worldwide record increase of 193 per cent, a report said.
The number of billionaires in the UAE also increased to 46 from 37 in 2013, added the Wealth-X and UBS Billionaire Census 2014 released by Wealth-X, the definitive source of intelligence on the ultra-wealthy.
Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia saw a decline of 18.6 per cent in its billionaire wealth, down to $166 billion in 2014, as against $204 billion last year, according to the report, which noted that the kingdom claimed the 10th spot globally for its count of 57 billionaires.
The Middle East experienced a decline in its billionaire population over the past year.
Africa is the only other region that saw a decrease in its number of billionaires.
Nonetheless, the remaining billionaires, as well as some of the region's new billionaires, have seen their total wealth increase. Only 6 per cent of the Middle East's billionaires are female, the smallest share of any other region.
Only 10 per cent of the region's billionaires fully inherited their wealth. Work, entrepreneurialism and family businesses are the most significant factors behind the growth of the region's billionaire wealth, the report said.
Asia, however, boasted the largest billionaire wealth increase, with the region's billionaires' fortunes growing by 18.7 per cent over the past year. The region is responsible for 30 per cent of the net increase in global billionaire wealth in 2014. Asia's billionaire population grew by 10 per cent in 2014, with 52 new entrants into the billionaire club – 33 are from China.
The US maintains its position as the world's top billionaire country with a population of 571 billionaires in 2014, followed by China (190) and the UK (130), which took the third spot from Germany (123) on the Top 40 Billionaire Countries/Territories list.
Europe is home to more than a third of the world's billionaire population.
The billionaire population in the Middle East shrank by 1.9 per cent, but total billionaire wealth in the region rose by 16.7 per cent.
There are 2,039 male billionaires in 2014, accounting for 87.7 per cent of the world's total billionaire wealth of $7.3 trillion.
There are 286 female billionaires in 2014, accounting for a 12.3 per cent share of global billionaire wealth.
Gulf banks show solid growth
GULF banks have shown healthy earnings growth over the last year and a half despite historically low interest rates, according to a new Standard & Poor's (S&P) Ratings Services report.
The report titled 'Economic Recovery Spurs Solid Growth for Gulf Banks,' said banks in the GCC countries have experienced lower net interest margins, but improving asset quality and falling credit losses have generally offset this.
The declining credit losses will continue to support GCC banks' earnings throughout 2014, although this effect is expected to be less visible than in the last year, it said.
Timucin Engin, S&P's analyst, said: "Prospects for economic growth in the Gulf region remain healthy for the next few years. We expect most Gulf banks to continue to benefit from robust corporate activity and consumer consumption over the next 18 to 24 months. The many infrastructure projects planned in the Gulf should translate into sustained streams of corporate lending."
Over the past three years, strong liquidity flows into the Gulf's deposit markets have supported the region's banks, which traditionally rely on local deposits for the bulk of their funding, said the report.
Petchem firms boost corporate earnings
THE combined net profits of Saudi Arabia's leading companies are expected to rise 17 per cent this year and a further 11 per cent in 2015, largely on the back of petrochemical producers and banks, although a number of companies in other sectors also promise strong growth.
The figures are based on average forecasts from analysts surveyed by Reuters for 81 companies which accounted for 99 per cent of the total profits of constituent companies in Saudi Arabia's main equities index last year.
The outlook puts Saudi Arabia roughly on a par with Qatar, where profit growth is set to average 13 per cent this year and next, and Abu Dhabi, which is expected to average 17 per cent.
It's a big improvement from Saudi Arabia's zero profit growth in 2012 and a six per cent increase last year. That poor performance was almost entirely due to weak profits at petrochemical firms, which saw product prices sag because of the economic slump in Europe.
Strong earnings will not necessarily translate into further fast rises for Saudi stock prices, which are already up 28 per cent year-to-date, having surged since the market opening plan was announced in July; many fund managers think the market is no longer cheaply valued.
But the earnings picture does ensure that the market opening is likely to attract heavy investor activity.
UAE residents 'save outside the country'
NEARLY half of UAE residents choose to save their money in bank accounts outside their country of residence, a report said.
More than 48 per cent of respondents of an annual survey conducted by compareit4me.com, a UAE-based finance comparison website, said they are more confident with banking systems in their home countries.
Jon Richards, CEO of compareit4me.com, said the results indicate that UAE financial institutions may be missing out on an opportunity and need to do more to keep residents' savings onshore.
"When you look at the results, a significant number or 65.5 per cent of the survey respondents claimed to be saving between 10 per cent and over 50 per cent of their salary every month. With millions of dirhams leaving the country every year, there appears to be huge potential for UAE banks to attract regular savers," Richards added.
The banks need to work with the UAE Central Bank to look at initiatives that will incentivise expat workers to keep money earned here in the country. At present, many expats feel more comfortable saving with banks in their home country as they understand the system and feel comfortable with banking regulations. Accounts in the Isle of Man are protected by the Compensation of Depositor Regulations.
Despite the large number of residents sending money abroad, renewed economic confidence in recent years has seen UAE banks flush with liquidity. According to the UAE Central Bank, total bank deposits of UAE banks climbed by 1.4 per cent year-on-year in June to Dh1.4 trillion ($381 billion).


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Robotic Surgery
Robotic surgery is a type of minimally invasive surgery that uses a computer-assisted technology to aid in surgical procedures. Rather than operating on patients through large incisions, surgeons use miniaturized surgical instruments that fit through a series of small incisions to reduce scarring and recovery time.
Medical technology has come a long way—so far that we may now use robotic "hands" to assist surgeons during complex and delicate procedures. Robotic surgery includes three arms that allow the surgeon to hold and manipulate high-precision instruments, plus one more arm to hold and position the high-resolution stereo endoscope.
Advanced visualization to help the surgeon
The surgeon is seated at a separate console and controls the high precision instruments by viewing the operative site through high resolution, 3-D imaging. This provides excellent visualization to better control the instruments in the abdominal cavity and a broader range of motion at the instrument tip than is possible with traditional laparoscopy. Robotic-assisted surgery allows a surgeon to perform the same quality of operation as traditional, open surgery through smaller incisions, typically with less pain, less bleeding and a faster recovery.
- Through tiny, 1-2 cm incisions, Easton surgeons can operate with greater precision and control, minimizing the pain and risk associated with large incisions while increasing the likelihood of a fast recovery and excellent clinical outcomes.
- Hysterectomy (uterus removal)
- Oopherectomy (ovary removal)
- Myomectomy (uterine fibroids removal)
- Surgery around the male reproductive organs and urinary tract requires surgical precision. Conditions like prostate cancer, trouble with urination and bladder and kidney cancer require special care to not damage complicated tissues and nerves surrounding these areas.
- Partial Nephrectomy
- Radical Nephrectomy
- Prostatectomy
General Surgery
- Cholecystectomy (Gall bladder removal)
- Single-site Option: Able to remove a diseased gallbladder through a tiny incision in the belly button that leaves the patient virtually scarless and it only takes about an hour.
- Colectomy (colon or rectum removal)
- Robotic-assisted laparascopic surgery is also being used to perform colectomies in challenging areas, including the lower pelvis.
- Gastric Bypass (surgical weight loss)
- Lymph Node Dissection
- Paraesophageal Hernia Repair
- Sleeve Gastrectomy
- Ventral Hernia Repair


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Decorating a small bedroom is very crucial because of the smaller space you have to squeeze out your ideas in smaller horizons. Having a small bedroom might seem a problem because space isn't enough to add all what you want, and you have lots of stuff to store. It could be great opportunity also for you to show your talent in the smaller space.
Since the bed already occupies a large space of the room, but you can never get rid of it, then the best solution is to get the best out of it. Get beds with underneath drawers, these drawers are usually big in size and thus can store lots of stuff. Some people also store a lot of stuff under the mattress of the bed where this big space usually goes wasted. Decorative Items
Having a closet with lots of drawers and shelves really helps you store all your clothes, shoes, accessories, and more in a small, organized space. You can also buy nightstands with drawers to give you more space.
Rather then putting stuff on the floor and ended-up killing the floor space, better go for wall and door hanging options, it always saves up a lot of space in your already small home.
1. Decide the look the room before hands
On the off chance that you need your home to be a peaceful desert spring in an occupied world, are your hues mitigating or do they yell? On the off chance that you need a fun place for companions to accumulate, do you have a lot of seating?
2 . Depending on your interests
What do you requirement for these exercises? Case in point in the event that you have a gathering that you deal with regularly, get capacity compartments for it that can be effectively opened or set away. In the event that it's a considerable measure of inconvenience to get at your gathering, you either won't invest the energy in it, or else may be enticed to forget it and danger losing or breaking certain pieces.
3. Utilize the space to maximum capacity
What number of individuals will be living there? What ages? It's vital for each individual to have a space that is their own. Whether it's an extraordinary seat, love seat, work area or a segment of a room, everybody needs "their space". In case you want to do feature heart-stimulating exercise, you will need space to move around before the TV!
Your room is the most personal area of your life; you must always pay extra attention while decorating it. Your room says allot about you and your interests, it may reflect the kind of person you are. You can consider many available decor ideas available in the market and decide upon the whole decor of your room.
Always ask yourself this question what would you like to see when you are first stroll in the room? In the event that you have pleasant windows with incredible lighting, would you say you are stressing it? Everybody feels brighter in daylight.