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Kelly is highly optimistic about technology, its meaning and impacts. For that reason he is often categorized as a technoutopian. While this might be true, he is certainly not your average one dimensional techno-utopist but something more much more interesting than that. Part of that is because he is also a born again Christian, which gives another more theological angle to his writing. Another thing which makes his views even more intricate is that he has spent years of his life back-packing in
I originally did this interview with Kelly for the Israeli site Nana, and at the same time also for the Israeli spirituality and alternative culture magazine, Chaim Acherim, So parts of our conversation already appeared in Hebrew both on the nana website, and on the article which I wrote for Chaim Acherim.
The truth is however that most of what we talked about couldn't find its place in both places. Part of the reason was that during the interview I became so involved and interested in what Kelly had to say. His answers were just too meaningful to me on different intellectual and personal levels, so that I did the thing that a professional journalist should never do. I just threw away all my other questions and concentrated on the questions that I had buzzing in my mind in that time, and all through reading Kelly's books – questions that might not always fit journalistic articles, but to my mind held great importance.
So without anymore introductions, here is the Interview:* One last important comment. English is not my mother tongue. I transcribed the interview to the best of my abilities. However, it is possible that I made some errors in the process. Any grammar mistakes which might be part of the article should be attributed to me and not to Kelly, which, I assure you, speaks perfectly good English
Hartogsohn: Fred Turner's book From Counterculture to Cyberculture describes your move from involvement in the countercultural movement in the spirit of the 1960's into the idea of technology as a tool for liberation, or anyway that's how Turner put that. In one of the interviews with you I heard you say that the vision of simple life in nature simply wasn't enough. What made you turn away from that vision? What was unsatisfactory in this kind of new communal project?
Kelly: Personally, I never lived on a commune, so I haven't turned from it because I was never there. The kind of 1960's counterculture was a very broad movement that included many kinds of countercultures, ranging from many that were very political to many that were very apolitical. From people who were experimenting with communal living to those who were like myself kind of nomadic, not really drifting but hitchhiking around the world. I had dropped out, but not necessarily dropped into anything.
Part of that counterculture was also this idea of trying to remake civilization. So there were people who had moved from the cities to the country, who weren't living on communes but who lived solar green style, growing their own fruit and that was close to what I was doing, and the idea there was that you would try to empower individuals rather than organizations, that's the solution. Secondly, there was a sense of trying to make an alternative, to reboot civilization and start from the grind up and see if we could start up with something different. I think that experiment did not work very well.
I think once you started living on a farm growing your own food, digging a well by hand, grinding your wheat into flour - you can do that for a couple of years and then you rediscover electricity and the marvels of modern life and nobody really sustained that because they decided that actually civilization was pretty good.
But some of the other lessons from that counter culture say the drug aspect, the sense of expanding human consciousness, and the idea of empowering individuals. Those two aspects were brought into the emerging computer revolution. I mean, I think the whole counterculture would have completely died off if it hadn't been for personal computers.
I think what the aging hippies like myself discovered in the personal computer and the communication of the internet revolution - was that it kind of tipped the balance of power back to individuals in a way that was really hard to imagine in the 1950's. and secondly, it gave another opportunity to make another kind of alternative civilization. So you have virtual reality, second life. All these things brought again the sense that we can go back to the primitives, and we can construct some sort of civilization, see if we can do it better.
Then the third thing which didn't come up until recently was this sort of rediscovery of communalism, the web 2.0, the idea of sharing, the gift economy, the what I would call dot.communism, Wikipedia - the whole sense of the collective being very powerful. That by a group exercise you have the highest mind.
All these kinds of things that you had a in the counterculture, like open source, all these things have a new life in this new media and so they are basically being embraced by former hippies and it becomes it's own kind of counterculture although unlike the first counterculture this is being backed by venture capitalists, so it's kind of weird blend of open source revolutionaries getting billions of dollars of ventures capital.
Hartogsohn: Regarding second life and virtual reality which you've mentioned. These are no doubt very exciting technologies, but both are still experiencing some rather troubling difficulties. Virtual reality is a technology that's been promised for a very long time and doesn't seem to ever arrive, and even second life seems to experience a sort of backlash these days, even if only temporary.
There is this feeling that these virtual worlds don't find their place in the fabric of existence yet, that maybe virtual lives are something that fits only certain parts of society, that somehow ubiquitous computing seems to be the more successful trend. Maybe people don't really know what to do inside 3D virtual spaces or even totally immersive virtual spaces that are very interesting to think about, but the question is: are we really built for that? Where do you think this is going? Will virtual reality happen and will virtual worlds become prominent as it is sometimes promised?
Kelly: A virtual reality platform will absolutely, as it continues to be developed, as multiple dimensions of reality continue to be added, as it improves in resolution, at speed, in depth - yes it will certainly be a place that will do things.
There are tons of tons of reasons why now in this current evolution it won't go very far. But to me those arguments have always been there and it's much more impressive to me is how many people are already spending as much time as they are right now [in virtual worlds], because as these ideas was first broached say 1988, let's say 20 years ago, no one believed that people would spend any amount of time in it.
Basically 20 years ago if you showed them second life now people would be dumbfounded, because they were projecting that nobody's going to spend any time [in virtual worlds], it's so flat, it's so artificial, it's a toy. So here we have millions of people spending millions of hours.
So even though it has a long way to go, it has gone much further than a lot of people would have believed to begin with. So there is still a tremendous amount of problems and the reason why we don't spend all our time there, and I don't believe that we'll ever spend all our time there - there is no reason to spend all out time because we have this world which does things very well – is that it's an auxiliary not a substitute, it's a supplement. And all media become supplements. It's another choice, it's another avenue.
And what second life is trying to do right now is trying to figure out the exact talents that kind of world has. What can it do that we can't do in this real life. There is no real reason to replicate the things that we already do, because we can use real life for that.
It's trying to find it's place, trying to figure out really the good things that we can do in there but we can't do anywhere else. And that will take time but it's also a changing destiny, because as technology improves the answer also changes.
Hartogsohn: You write a lot about biology, but does nature still play an important role in your thinking? Do you think that technology and nature can be integrated and if so, then how?
Kelly: My first book, Out of Control, was a book documenting the seemingly opposing faces of one system and those opposing faces were the biological and the technological which many people see as antagonistic: that Technology expands at the price of harming biology, and that biology is everything that technology is not. I suggested that in fact the two are really different facets of the same thing and that as technology increases in sophistication and complexity that it will become virtually indistinguishable from biology and that at the same time, in our efforts to engineer biological things, the biological world will become indistinguishable from technology and naturally I think that the biological world as it is right now has tons and tons of lessons for us as designers of technology.
How biology does things has tremendous importance and can be transferred to the technological world and has to be transferred in order for us to manage these complex systems. Sometimes we will invent ways that nature hasn't, that's fine. But many times we'd find that nature has already discovered things, because it already had 4 billion years of evolution to try almost every possible solution. In the biological world as a whole there is 4 billion years of learning, there is so much that nature has learned. It will take centuries to unravel it.
Hartogsohn: There is also a different aspect about the relations between biology and technology which I wish you could address, though. Mankind has evolved through millions of years in nature, we are built into the fabric of nature. We view nature as something beautiful and relaxing. Just being in nature can have positive impacts on us as biological beings. On the other side, this sort of technological living has its costs and living apart from nature can result in stress or alienation. Do you see what I mean, and if you do, do you see any kind of solution or integration to those two factors of nature and technology?
Kelly: I understand what your are saying that as animals, as mammals with a couple of billion years of recent evolution, that our migration towards being more technological beings is stressful and I acknowledge that. I think that's the way things are. I think technology, in the sense of cultural technologies, things that we build around us: tools and remedies, medicines, all these things are one way that we compensate for that.
And eventually in the long term we will begin to genetically program, genetically engineer our own species, our own selves, in different ways to again deal with the fact that we humans are not just only biological animals, but we also have a mind. Our mind will play a greater and greater role in determining our future so that we will actually modify our bodies to facilitate the extension of our minds.
And the human nature has changed over time. Human nature has always changed and it always will continue to change, so it not a fixed entity, it's something that we are making up that we are checking and they may be more than one human nature, there may be human natures in plural. Certain people may decide that they actually do not believe that we should change our selves from this point on and they may have their own past, and other people are very eager to change themselves as much as possible.
Hartogsohn: I'm researching the idea of de Chardin's Omega Point on an academic basis and I think I've identified 3 key thinkers in the development of this idea. These 3 thinkers are for me Teilhard de Chardin, Marshall Mcluhan and yourself, which is also very interesting because Teilhard de Chardin and Marshall Mcluhan were both devout Christians, which I understand you are too. So I'm very interested in knowing what do you think about the idea of the Omega Point, and about those 2 thinkers, and how does this all relate to Christianity?
Kelly: What's interesting about de Chardin and Mcluhan is that I find both of them are really hard to read. I have trouble getting through any of their books. I was the one that made Marshall Mcluhan the patron saint of wired. I think that's how Marshall Mcluhan is best used. I think you don't want to read it in full length. Just as quotes. Just to read his little quotes. I think if you're reading him this really is a long media for him. He needs to be on TV. Marshall Mcluhan is made for YouTube.
Also when I read de Chardin I kind of plow and trouble and stumble through some of his writings. There's a lot of powerful signals that I'm just not understanding. My understanding of what they mean by these things is very corrupted or in some ways polluted. It's almost secondary, in the sense of what I know about them is really things that I read other people say about them. So I just really wanted to let you know that I don't really feel as if I have a very good first hand knowledge of what they mean.
So that being said, I would add a third person to that trinity. It's de Chardin and Marshall Mcluhan and then the third one is Freeman Dyson. And Freeman Dyson, although he personally claims to be a some sort of Christian, also claims to be a Christian without theology.
And in the vein of Dyson there is Frank Tipler. His book is called The Physics of Christianity. He goes even further as an astrophysicist and talks about an omega point which is where the mind takes over the entire universe and collapses or converges in the sense of de Chardin convergence into a smaller and smaller space and that in this movement towards a compressed universal computer, that all previous mind is basically simulated so he imagines this as a sort of resurrection.
Basically the whole thing becomes a simulation on the other side which he equates with the heaven and other people would say is kind of like an ultimate second life. So I think that vision colors mine although I don't think I go as far as Frank Tipler imagining that our world is like second life on the other side but I'm closer to Freeman Dyson's in that I think my expectation of an omega point is an information based, its couched in information vocabulary, in the grammar of computation and information and so I don't think I have an articulation but I don't think Mcluhan did either, it's just more of a hunch.
Hartogsohn: So how does your technological thinking relate to your Christianity?
Kelly: I think a traditional question or issue for theologians in the past was wrestling with the relationship between biological life and God. Initially it was trying to understand humans and god. And then
My conclusion has been that in order for us to answer the question does the universe have a purpose, the only way to answer that question is through technology. And that technology actually will turn out to be the way that we come to understand ourselves and our identity and our purpose in the universe. And that of course at the same time technology will constantly shift what that purpose is. So it's sort of co-evolutionary in that sense. But it's necessary for us to make technology in order for us to understand our role in the universe.
As an example of that, to go back to Freeman Dyson talking about the mind, I don't think that it's possible for us as humans to have any kind of grasp of the infinite and what God might be, when we have only one type of thinking and that in fact what our assignment so to speak is, is to create as many varieties of minds as possible, that it will take an infinite number of different kinds of thinking and kinds of minds, artificial and alien to begin to grasp what the universe is and how that works.
What that means it that through technology which is either through the creation of artificial minds, or the discovery of other intelligences, or the creation of biological intelligences through breeding, what we're trying to do is to increase the ways of understanding that collectively. Millions and millions of different ways of thinking and viewing the world. Only through that way can we grasp the nature of our purpose.
Hartogsohn: In that vein, I heard you mention a new book you are working on with the title 'What does Technology Want'.
Kelly: Yeah and what's interesting is that the alternative working title of the book is called 'Holy Technology'. And my belief is that the roots of technology actually begin in the big bang, that it's an extropic system. Extropy, the opposite of entropy, is where you have increasing order over time, and so life is an extropic system. The mind and some of our technological systems also often exhibit extrophic properties.
If you go back to the beginning of the big bang, the origins of extropy and extropic systems begin even in the very beginning, as the expansion of the universe allowed galaxies, some of these self sustaining non-equilibrium states which are also necessary for extropic systems.
So the roots of technology reach all the way to the big bang. And what technology brings in the greater sense is increasing opportunities, increasing freedom, increasing possibility space and increasing ways to explore and inhabit and evolve basically through the evolution of evolution. And so those things I'm defining as divine. As not just neutral, As good, as a reflection of the divine spirit. And so I'm saying the meaning of technology is that it increases good overall in the world.
Hartogsohn: When should we expect the book.
Kelly: I haven't written it yet. What I just told you is very poetic but I'm trying to have it grounded it in some way numerically quantifiable. I'm trying to make it as falsifiable as possible which is much harder.


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Did Nikki Bella retire? Fans have been following Nikki's journey on her hit E! TV shows Total Divas and Total Bellas after she underwent surgery for her nearly career-ending neck injury last January, and it was a long road to recovery. She had a brief comeback in 2016, but she had her last match at Wrestlemania 33 earlier this year — after which her longtime love John Cena got down on one knee and proposed! Both Nikki and her twin sister Brie Bella — also known as the Bella Twins — are currently in retirement, and they exclusively revealed to Life & Style that watching the WWE women's matches from the sidelines has given them serious FOMO. Watch the video below to find out what the Bella Twins miss the most about wrestling after retiring from the WWE!
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From time immemorial, by word of mouth the humanity has been passing words of legendary seers about the advent of the last times, the End of the World, the Judgement Day, when people will forget the sense of their existence and face the final choice. Looking at what is happening around it can be assumed almost with certainly that such times are indeed setting in. Even today's official science admits the human civilization has reached a deadlock and stands on the brink of ruin. In our studies, to the extent possible we shall endeavour to remain religiously impartial, although the assumption that Messiah is already among us on the earth will run through our entire project. Actually, we are searching for a confirmation or disproof of this unprecedented fact.
Searching for references to enigmatic Rigden Djappo, we have found information on the internet regarding famous artist and mystic Nicholas Roerich. So, who is Rigden Djappo? This mysterious and powerful character is not fully disclosed until today, whereas stories about the Red Horseman are available as legends and myths of ancient peoples. Publicly accessible information is given below.
After the search for the sake of gaining a general understanding, we have run against a strange, but irrefutable fact: there are very few records of Rigden Djappo remaining. Understanding of the available records without a relevant spiritual basis provokes well-grounded doubts, whereas people who are totally unfamiliar with the subject regard such records as fantastic and illusive at all. We have established that the most direct and unmasked references are present in literary works and paintings by Nikolai Konstantinovich (Nicholas) Roerich (09.10.1874 – 13.12.1947), Russian artist, philosopher, writer, traveller, archaeologist, public figure, and founder of international cultural movements such as "Peace through Culture" and "The Banner of Peace".
Ancient prophecies of many peoples tell about the Golden Age advent, which is connected with the coming of Messiah, the Saviour who, possessing the Knowledge of Divine Laws, will educate people and restore lost justice on the Earth. The world knows the future Saviour by various names: he is called Kalki Avatar in India, Milèin China, Miroku in Japan, Maydar in Lamaist myths, but most often the name Maitreya is mentioned.
In this article we suggest to supplement the integrated and versatile outline of the Essence of the image of Messiah, Rigden Djappo, Archangel Gabriel, Imam Mahdi, Kalki Avatar, Maitreya, etc. who is mentioned in nearly all religions, traditions, and legends. We still persist in our daring opinion that all the aforesaid names belong to the Single One – the Holy Spirit. Who is he? What is his role in humanity's destiny? And at which times does he come? Here we will speak about epos and legends of Turkic peoples: Buryats, Mongols, Kazakhs, Altaians, and Tibetans, and about the grains of knowledge those peoples managed to preserve over ages. We will speak of Geser Khan, Abai Geser, or Burkhan Bator. And the major source of information about this mysterious personality is the heroic Epic of King Geser (Gesar).
Let's recur to the Doomsday signs again. The deeper we delve into the subject the more large-scale this puzzle appears. For a sensible person it is obvious that so numerous facts, signs and events cannot be mere coincidences. The topic involves different times, different religions, different prophets and different continents, but the gist is single: there will come a point when humanity will approach "the last, judgement days". These will be the times of particularly formidable trials, and for this very reason the idea of unification of all people is so important today as mentioned in the recent Unity program where Igor Danilov was interviewed. As for this outstanding personality, every day we get further more evidences that he is exactly Imam Mahdi long-awaited by the entire Muslim world.
Once on the web we found a book Shambhala: Oasis of Light by Andrew Tomas, containing very interesting lines regarding the advent of Messiah Maitreya. Who is Andrew Tomas? This man (1906-2001) was initially named Andrey Tomashevskiy. Before the age of 20 he lived in Manchuria where his parents had emigrated due to the revolution in Russia. Later on, for many years he stayed in China, Japan and India, learning from Taoists, Buddhists and Brahmans. Moreover, he could safely be called a disciple of Nicholas Roerich and had first-hand knowledge of Europe, America and Australia. During the last decades of his life Andrew Tomas was formally an Australian citizen, but he said his home was the entire globe.
Once again we've discovered that Vanga, one of the most authoritative visionaries of our times, directly indicated the advent of some Anointed Sovereign and an ancient Teaching to the earth. Circumstances emerge in an amazing way, and every day new facts appear as if out of thin air, for us to collect them into a general set of evidence necessary for those who need a well-reasoned confirmation of our seemingly improbable hypothesis. We should admit the website creation was associated with a bright emotional impulse, while today such impulse is replaced with a sober exploratory consideration. We continue looking for and analysing information and welcome you, our dear not indifferent reader, to join our captivating search.
Today we can observe a cheerless picture of the chaos taking place in the world. All signs indicate the time has come which is mentioned in all prophecies and predictions. However, even such circumstance was so widely promoted for turning masses into zombies that people already refuse to believe in all this, regarding predictions as invented intimidating stories.
Even the general information available on this website is an incontrovertible evidence of the presence of Mahdi (Islam), the Comforter (Christianity), Maitreya (Buddhism), etc. in the world. But, unfortunately, contemporary people have forgotten how to perform systematic and analytical work. If they seriously reflected, they would sift through this website and verified the entire material contained on it, right after reading one article. However, the point is that most people are mere consumers. They have been trained to clip thinking. You can find out for yourselves what clip thinking is, while I would only like to emphasize an aspect of all this, which is the most important, in my opinion.
Persistently threading our way through the thickets of various historical archives and records in search of mentions of Jesus Christ's Beloved Disciple Mary Magdalene, we could not disregard a stunning resemblance between the Mother of God as a figure most worshiped by contemporary Christians and most often depicted on icons with a baby in her arms, and very similar pre-Christian prototypes of her. Despite the obvious malicious intent of certain invisible forces that obliterated historical records, extant artefacts do exist and can be an eloquent evidence of the outright plagiarism and striking manipulation of mass consciousness, which manipulation is unprecedented by its scale and timeframe.
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Shambala is an alluring word that is covered with myths, legends and obscure ideas. It's a mysterious place where the teachers of humanity dwell and where it's extremely difficult to get. Some spiritual seekers dedicated their whole lives to searching it, whereas in the today's age of active transmission and spread of information (judging by internet publications) we have failed to find even a slight intelligible evidence of it. The respected search engine Google offers only bracelets, necklaces or amusements with such name, leading away to material stuff and clearing up no essence at all. Evaluating the level of consumer priorities of the contemporary world community, one comes to conclusion that people take the Shambala myth sceptically, as a fairy tale or legend. Yet, why? As a matter of fact, people who dedicated effort, years and even lives to the search of Shambala were not stupid or worst in their times, quite the contrary. An impression arises that a certain influential earthly force has put an impenetrable information wall in this field as well. In order to bring down the wall at least a little bit and clarify the situation with the "myth", in this article we shall try to collect and refresh information about the mysterious abode of Bodhisattvas. Hopefully, the information will be useful for many people.
An extraordinary New Year's appeal from the Point of View analyst team, on the eve of 2016:
- to Presidents and political leaders of all countries of the globe;
- to religious and public figures;
- to those who believe in God, regardless of religions or confessions;
- to all ordinary people of all nationalities, without any exception…
Dear friends, we hurry to wish you a happy New Year. The year 2016 has arrived, and this is the right time to make the following statement.
The article is composed of Nicholas Roerich's quotes, and the article compilers added no word of their own, so everything stated below may be put in quotation marks. Only illustrations are inserted for more vivid perception.
"Verily, the old prophecies are being fulfilled. The time of Shambhala has come. For centuries and centuries, it has been predicted that before the time of Shambhala, many wonderful events would occur, many terrible wars would take place, and Panchen Rinpoche would leave his abode in Tashi-Lhunpo in Tibet. Verily, the time of Shambhala has come. The Great War has devastated countries, many thrones have perished, earthquakes have destroyed the old temples of Japan and now our revered Ruler has left his country.
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Julie's Life Celebration Information
As most of you have heard, Julie passed away last Wednesday evening. Her services are being held this coming Wednesday. Please see the info below Because the service is at 3:00pm we will be CANCELLING THE 4PM CLASS ON WEDNESDAY.
Please join our family to celebrate the life of Julie Kennedy, Wednesday October 2, 2013, at The Chateaux at Fox Meadows, 13600 Xavier Lane, Broomfield, CO 80023, beginning at 2:00 pm.
The family will receive guests from 2:00-3:00 pm. The memorial service will begin at 3:00 pm and will be immediately followed by light refreshments and a toast to our beautiful daughter, sister, aunt, cousin, and friend. We would like to extend our gratitude for your continued prayers, love and kind words.
In lieu of flowers, the family is requesting that donations be made in Julie's name to the following organizations:
Colorado Cancer Fund with a restriction to melanoma-
online at www.ColoradoCancerCoalition.or
Address: PO Box 632194, Littleton, CO 80163
The goal of the Colorado Cancer Fund is to help reduce mortality from cancer by improving early detection and expanding existing education, screening and quality of life services throughout Colorado for populations who are currently underserved.
Doreen Katz Memorial Cancer Foundation
Online at http://doreenkatzmemorial.org/
Address for donation: 18985 E Mercer Drive, Aurora, CO 80013-3672
The Doreen Katz Memorial Cancer Foundation was established to look after children whose parents are battling cancer by making sure that they have access to the best possible education. In today's world, school districts are being forced to charge additional fees for items such as Advanced Placement Classes, Art Classes, Playing Sports after school, and many other fees that were once part of a regular education. Children of cancer patients are missing out on these opportunities due to the high cost of cancer treatments and prescriptions, but the Foundation is there to make sure that Cancer doesn't cancel futures. All proceeds are used to provide grants to families to make sure the children can get the best education possible.


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Children can be a little complicated when it comes to food, they can enjoy a tasty dish, but it has to appeal to their senses. The snacks are their favorite food during the day because they can get the sweets that they like; for them, snacks are all the food they will need. However, many of those snacks are not healthy for kids.
Obesity and diabetes are starting to gain ground among children; this is because bad eating habits, which include tons of sweets and unhealthy food. Today we show you seven healthy and nutritious snacks that will make your children happy and will provide the nutrients, vitamins, and minerals to their diets.
With the little ones, we have to be creative in every aspect, especially the food. As parents, you can trick them into eating healthy food, without telling or force them to eat food that they don't like. Vegetables and fruits can be disguised as a sweet dish that they will enjoy. Check these snacks as a way to teach them to eat healthily.
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Alaska Native Heritage Center
The Alaska Native Heritage Center is an educational and cultural institution for all visitors located in the heart of Anchorage. Alaskan knowledge, heritage, and tradition are all the focus in this facility, and the native traditions and customs of the past and present are shown through workshops, demonstrations, and guided tours of exhibits and village sites. Take a tour of the Welcome House which consists of exhibits that come together as a celebration of contemporary Alaskan cultures, or step outside for a tour of the village sites to get a glimpse at ancient tradition and hear stories of the past.
The whole facility serves as a sense of pride for native Alaskans, highlighting their contributions to the state of Alaska, the United States, and the north in general. Explore the native language of the Athabaskan and Tlingit tribes or view ancient tribal masks and artifacts to learn more about the materials they were able to gather and use in past, brutal Alaskan winters. Walking through the Alaska Native Heritage Center will allow your group to engage and interact with the local culture, the entire collection showing a span of 10,000 years of native history and culture. Through art, dance, native game demos, exhibits, dwellings, and movies, you and your group will feel like you yourselves are natives to this proud state. Visit the on-site Heritage Cafe for brunch, lunch, or maybe just a coffee or smoothie while you're taking in all that Alaskan information!


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Holland, September 1944. The small village of Nederweert is one of the strongpoints of the hastily improvised German line of defence.
The 116. Panzer Division occupy Weert, Nederweert and the surrounding areas. Reformed, re-equipped and reinforced with new recruits, "Der Windhund"
is still a formidable and dangerous opponent for the Allies.
Leutnant Reinhard Klubertz, a battle hardened veteran, is given the task of holding Nederweert at all costs.
Gerd Mayer is seen here on the right, enjoying a brief moment of rest. He is the commanding Feldwebel of a 'Zug' of Panzergrenadiere, defending the south entrance to the village.
The western area of the region is attacked by American Thunderbolt fighter-bombers.
For the Germans, it is just a daily occurrence. Since early 1944, the Allies have gained total air supremacy over Europe.
But as common as air raids are, many innocent people are about to die. This young boy is hit by a bullet that travelled for probably
miles before ricocheting off a barn roof, killing him instantly. Desperatly, onlookers try to bring the young victim to a hospital but all efforts are in vain.
The tension is rising.
Feldwebel Gerd Mayer orders his men to check local citizens and refugees passing through the restricted area. Unteroffizier Neuner and Schreyer check out some suspicious civilians.
According to rumours, the Dutch resistance are likely to increase their activity in the coming days.
This is the sad result of resistance in occupied territory.
The face of a worried but alert Panzergrenadier.
A group of civilians are put to work on roadblocks. In 2 days, the whole village is transformed into a strong fortification.
MG-Schütze Friedrich Zuckerbauch, on the first picture, cleans and prepares his MG42, together with Grenadier Hugo Dörn. His unit had been scattered all over the Nederweert region.
He lost his own company but was taken in by another. Two men with a machine gun and experience are always a welcome addition to a Gruppe. Quickly some ammunition from the riflemen
is organised into belts for the MG.
Alarm! The Dutch resistance open fire on the troops and command post. Grenadier Löwe is wounded. A volunteer is needed to get him out of danger.
The Dutch resistance attack in worrying numbers. They shoot with stolen or allied weapons and throw Molotov cocktails. But there's our MG gunner! He would deal with these terrorists once and for all. The attemp to overrun fails. The MG42 pins everybody down with its high rate-of-fire.
When the guns fall silent, the frightening sound of tracked vehicles is heard nearby.
The soldiers take up their positions. The main Allied attack is about to begin.
Artillery then begins to shell the area, but it is badly coordinated because all projectiles impact over 200m behind the lines. This rare picture shows the Germans in a counterattack, just before artillery drives them back.
Suddenly, shots are fired from barns and hedgerows in front of the roadblocks. Recognising their typical helmets, Unteroffizier Schreyer shouts to his men that the British are coming.
After bitter street-fighting, the first British strike is held off. Obergefreiter Voss and Leutnant Klubertz try to locate the enemy positions.
Grenadier Rawe, Dörn and Unteroffizier Neuner try to hold their positions and push the enemy back. Fate, however, decides otherwise.
Gefreiter Voss is smashed to the ground by a heavy explosion. The air pressure throws him to the other side of the road.
Pull back! Retreat! The British now attack together with Americans from both flanks.
Now the Allies bring up more heavy weapons, more men and armoured vehicles into the battlefield.
The battle rages for an hour...
Surrounded and outnumbered, the bulk of the German company is forced to surrender.
Some can't face defeat and fight to the bitter end.
A few individuals break out of the encirclement and manage to reach other remnants of the 116th Division, who are fighting north of the village. The battle is over.
The area is riddled with the bodies of dead Grenadiere... at least for them, the war is over.
Battle for Nederweert
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Battle for Nederweert
CDB taking it way too serious!
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Fantastic story! Excellent pictures! Bravo!
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Excellent gentlemen! as Herr Ulrich mentioned, Bravo!
die Wille Gottes wird nie nehmen Sie, wo die Gnade Gottes wird Sie nicht schützen.
Put a German soldier into a box. Close it as tight as you can.
Write on it´s top the warning: " DO NOT OPEN! ONLY IN CASE OF WAR!"
Put a German soldier into a box. Close it as tight as you can.
Write on it´s top the warning: " DO NOT OPEN! ONLY IN CASE OF WAR!"
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Excellent story , with some fantastic pictures - one of my favourite formations , I presume this was based on actual events in the history of the 116th ?
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AURORA — Before 20,000 supporters who braved long lines and cold temperatures and stayed late into the night Sunday, President Barack Obama made the case for a second term at his final Colorado campaign rally ever.
"After four years, Colorado, you know me," Obama said late Sunday night, in his 13th visit to Colorado this year. "You know what I believe, you know where I stand, you know I'll tell the truth. You know I will fight for you every single day."
This critical swing state, which played such an important role in his historic journey to the presidency four years ago, remains one of the closest electoral battlegrounds.
As they criss-crossed the swing states Sunday, both presidential candidates, in their final stump speeches, continued to wrestle over the mantra of "real change."
"I know what real change is because I've fought for it, because I've delivered it," Obama said. "I've got the scars to prove it.
"So after all we've been through together, we can't give up now."
As he did during a rally in Boulder Thursday, Obama ran through a laundry list of first-term accomplishments: rescuing the auto industry, saving the country from a second Great Depression, Wall Street reform, the killing of Osama bin Laden, the end of the Iraq War and the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
The latest polls show the candidates tied or with leads well within the margin of error in Colorado, which the president carried by nine points over Sen. John McCain in 2008.
Sunday night, Obama campaign members were confident about getting to 270 electoral votes, based largely on their small but significant lead in Ohio; but the campaign still views Colorado as one of four states — Virginia, Florida and New Hampshire are the others — that are still too close to call.
The large crowd gathered Sunday afternoon, as lines of supporters several-thousand people long snaked all across the Lowry campus.
Roughly an hour before Obama took the stage, the singer Dave Matthews took the stage and played a short acoustic set.
With temperatures dipping into the thirties, Obama took the stage just before 11 p.m. clad in a fleece jacket.
As he's done at every rally since returning to the campaign trail Wednesday, Obama began his remarks with a unifying message about the country coming together after Hurricane Sandy devastated the New Jersey coast.
But here, in the city he last visited following this summer's deadly theater shooting that left 12 dead, Obama fine-tuned his lines.
"Unfortunately, the people of this town understand what it is to grieve more than most because of that horrible shooting," Obama said. "Just as you begin to heal as a community, we're going to help our friends on the East Coast heal as well. We're going to walk with the people whose lives have been upended, those who have lost loved ones; we're going to walk with them every step of the way on the hard road ahead because that's what we do as Americans.
"We will carry on with a spirit that says, 'No matter how bad a storm is, we come back. No matter how tough times are, we will thrive'."
Obama also framed his economic plan, which calls on the wealthiest Americans to pay higher taxes, as a carbon copy of President Bill Clinton's, reminding the crowd of the economic growth of the 1990s.
And, as he wrapped up his remarks, an increasingly raspy president encouraged supporters to work hard for him in the last two days of the campaign, to protect the change he's fought for and secure him a second term.
After Mitt Romney rallied 17,000 supporters Saturday night at Comfort Dental Amphitheater in Englewood, the GOP ticket maintained a presence in Colorado on Sunday, with vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan rallying a crowd of 1,100 supporters in Douglas County.
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Working on any theatrical production is an incredibly demanding endeavor. The end of a run, though sad, brings a little bit of relief. It is a return to normalcy and catching up on schoolwork and sleep. However, it is around this time of the year that I miss working on a show. Fortunately, Arts First was here to bring back light opera to my life.
HRG&SP was delighted to have the opportunity to play in the Science Center Plaza yesterday afternoon. We performed pieces from earlier year, such as "From the sunny spanish shore" from The Gondoliers (performed by Camille Crossot '16, Rahul Kulka G1, Asia Stewart '17, and Jack Weyen '16). Of course, we could not fail to include songs from our most recent production of Iolanthe, including our beautiful fairies' rendition of "Tripping hither, tripping thither" and the much beloved Lord Chancellor's (Aaron Slipper '18) "Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest." It is even rumored that John Lithgow '67 attended the performance due to his appreciation of the role of Lord Chancellor.
Finally, we finished with songs from our upcoming season. Our president Laura A. Peterson '16 sang H.M.S. Pinafore's "Sorry her lot who loves too well," and we closed with a rapid patter "My eyes are fully open" from Ruddigore. It was all in all a wonderful show, and one that made me quite excited for our next two shows. We hope you had a chance to catch the performance yesterday! If not, see you in the fall for Ruddigore!


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Looking for ways to make your house smell great? This homemade Stovetop Potpourri smells amazing. It also makes a great handmade gift idea!
I absolutely love Fall: pumpkins, cooler weather, football, and festivals. And because my house always smells amazing in the fall. All those yummy spices!
One of my favorite things to make is spiced cider because it makes the house smell oh-so-good. But we never end up drinking it all and it goes to waste. So last fall I started whipping up some stovetop potpourri. It makes your house smell great and you don't have to drink a ton of cider afterwards!
This recipe is one of my favorites. You don't have to use a mason jar. You can put the mixture in any container you have. However, I love to put it in mason jars and gift it to the teachers. It's such a simple little gift and a great way to bring a smile to teacher's face. Here's the tutorial:
- 5 large Mason Jars
- 1 Large Orange
- 10 cinnamon sticks
- 10 cloves
- 1 large apple
- 2-3 lemons
- 2-3 limes
- Slice all of your fruit,
- Place 2 cinnamon sticks and cloves in each jar.
- Add in slices of fruit in each jar.
- Fill with water and place lid on Jar.
- You can store these in the fridge for up to 10 days.
- When you are ready to use pour jar into a small sauce pan and place on low heat.
- Refill the water when it runs out.
I reuse one jar a few times. You can also place a floating candle on top of one of the jars. They make a very nice center piece. Also, remember that it can be a great teacher or hostess gift as well.
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The International Society for Chinese Law and History (ISCLH) was formed on January 1, 2014, after several years of consultation and careful preparation. The Society has been established to promote more regular exchanges of ideas and fruitful collaboration among all scholars across the world who are interested in better understanding Chinese law and society from historical and comparative perspectives. We plan to organize a series of workshops, international conferences, and publication projects on a regular basis. Our Society has grown rapidly and our registered members now include almost 140 researchers from more than ten different countries in multiple continents.
If you are interested in joining the ISCLH, please visit the Membership page or contact the ISCLH Secretary or President (listed on the Governance page). We look forward to your participation and support!
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So finally, you have found your soulmate and your wedding day is around the corner. All the wishes and blessings have started pouring in and suddenly you realize you do not fit into your wedding dress, what will you? Obviously, you will look for the possible ways to reduce weight and look attractive on your D-Day. Here we can help you to achieve the desired weight and look best on your special day. Read more, to lose 20 pounds in 2 weeks.
Ways to Lose 20 Pounds in 2 Weeks:
- Ways to Lose 20 Pounds in 2 Weeks:
- 1.) Switch to Drinking Water to Lose 20 Pounds in 2 Weeks
- 2.) Cut off Junk Food from Your Diet
- 3.) Strictly Avoid White Carbohydrates
- 4.) Follow Negative Calorie Diet
- 5.) Go for Lean Protein with Vegetables to Lose 20 Pounds in 2 Weeks
- 6.) You Can Consider Fad Diet to Lose 20 Pounds in 2 weeks
- 7.) Change in your Eating Pattern to Lose 20 Pounds in 2 Weeks
- 8.) Make a Diet Plan to Lose 20 Pounds in 2 Weeks
- 9.) Exercise Vigorously to Lose 20 Pounds in 2 Weeks
- 10.) Sleep on Time
1.) Switch to Drinking Water to Lose 20 Pounds in 2 Weeks
In order to lose 2 pound in 2 weeks it is best to switch to drinking water only. Water help to flush out the toxins and cleans the system completely. Moreover, water, does not have calories so it is a better substitute of the sugary drinks. If you will restrict yourself to water, then there are more chances to decrease weight that too at the fast rate. If you sometimes get craving for any of the flavored drink, then you can have green tea or coconut water or flavored drinks without sweet. This should be done regularly for 14 days. This should be accompanied with regular sessions of workout. This will also help you to increase metabolism.
2.) Cut off Junk Food from Your Diet
Apart from sticking to drinking water you should dilute the amount of junk food in your diet. Junk food is packed with the bad fat. Completely avoid the greasy and fatty foods. These are also packed with the sugar contents that raises the sugar in the blood cells. In addition to this, try to keep away from fries, chocolates and packaged foods. Moreover, there are many foods available in the market that has sugar, you might not know which food contains sugar so it is always good idea to check the package before buying it.
3.) Strictly Avoid White Carbohydrates
Whether it is pasts, pizza or cookies everything count under white carbs that is actually not good for your health especially if you want to lose weight that to 20 pounds in 2 weeks. These foods can raise the insulin level. It will also store tonnes of calories in your body. Therefore, you should cut down the intake of processed carbohydrates completely and have carb low fruits and vegetables instead. In addition to this you should completely give a miss to white bread, pretzels, cakes and donuts as well. Moreover, eat the correct quantity of every food, do not over eat. To conclude, in order to lose 20 pounds in 2 weeks you have to strictly avoid all the foods that have white carbs.
4.) Follow Negative Calorie Diet
In order to reduce 20 pounds in 2 weeks you should follow negative calorie diet. This will make things easy for you. In the beginning, you might find things little difficult but trust us you will definitely achieve your goal of losing 20 pounds in 2 weeks. Coming back to the negative calorie diet. There is an easy theory behind this and according to the theory there are some foods that take time to digest and on the same hand there are some foods that do not take time to digest. So, you should go for the foods that are easy to digest since these foods keep bloating and indigestion at the bay. Moreover, they do not have much calories to offer.
- Some of the zero calorie vegetables are: are green leafy vegetables, asparagus, broccoli, beetroot, celery, cucumber, lettuce, spinach, zucchini and turnip.
- Fruits with negative calorie are: cranberries, blueberries, cantaloupe, grapefruit, lemons, mangoes, raspberries, tangerines, tomatoes, lime and watermelon.
5.) Go for Lean Protein with Vegetables to Lose 20 Pounds in 2 Weeks
One should include foods high in protein especially the lean proteins as they help to reduce the weight at the faster rate and thus you will be able to shed the desired number of weight quickly. One must avoid pork and beef and have fish or chicken instead since these are good sources of the lean protein. In addition to this, fish is very nutritious and good to eat because it carries amino acids and can also help to subdue the craving to eat greasy food.
As far as vegetables are concerned you should all vegetable especially ones with negative calories. Moreover, try to include lean protein in your all the possible meals that are breakfast, lunch and dinner. Vegetables are packed with essential nutrients and do not have much calories so they are best option to look for in order to lose 20 pounds in 2 weeks.
6.) You Can Consider Fad Diet to Lose 20 Pounds in 2 weeks
If you strictly want to reduce 20 pounds in 2 weeks, then you can consider fad diet. A fad diet is diet through which you quickly lose weight. This diet is good for the people who want to burn fat without exercising. During the fad diet, it is water weight that you lose. However, this diet is not healthy and balanced since it tends to deplete all the nutrients from your body. Moreover, you tend to gain weigh faster after. Having said that it is a good option for the people who want to reduce weight for now and do not care if they gain later. One of the popular fad diet is detoxifying drinks and juicing. Or you can also consider master cleanse diet. Both of them are liquid based diets and give you quick result. But they are hard to follow and it's not good to stick to this dirt for long.
7.) Change in your Eating Pattern to Lose 20 Pounds in 2 Weeks
Most of the weight loss is dependent on your diet, this include what you eat, avoid and how you eat, especially you're eating pattern. Fasting for long is definitely not healthy for you and tend to deplete the nutrients stored in your body. Moreover, after fast whatever you eat is converted into the fat. In initial days, you might reduce weight by going on fast but gradually you will gain some kilos because of fasting. Therefore, it is not wise to fast for longer periods.
It is very important to consume you're all the meals specially breakfast. Breakfast works as a fuel that give you energy for the entire day. Many people believe that the key to reduce weight is stop eating. Well it does not mean you should give up eating completely. It only means one should avoid meals that are not good. In fact, one should have 6 short meals. So, it is important to have your all meals but at the same you should have close eye on the number of calories you are consuming so that you can burn them.
8.) Make a Diet Plan to Lose 20 Pounds in 2 Weeks
We cannot emphasis much on how much important diet is in order to lose weight. To make the things on your side it is best to make a diet plan. Make a 7 days' diet plan first. See whether it works for your or not. The diet plan should have 6 small meals and no junk food.
An important thing that is often overlooked while losing weight is time. One should not eat after the specific time. For example, you should have your dinner by 7-8 pm and after that do not eat anything. Moreover, do not sleep immediately after having the dinner. This is because your body needs enough time to digest the food. Moreover, night time eating is considered bad. So, you need to prepare a diet plan according to the time and foods that you can have accordingly and avoid food after the dinner. However, if you have to go on a dinner or a party with friends then you can simply have glass of wine with a few bites of snack here and there.
9.) Exercise Vigorously to Lose 20 Pounds in 2 Weeks
Apart from diet, exercise and workout sessions play an important role in shaping your body. If you want to lose 20 pounds in 2 weeks, then you should go for vigorous workout sessions. This will help you to burn calories and shed extra kilos. If your body is familiar to moderate exercise, then you should push yourself a notch higher and look for the vigorous activities that will actually help you to shed weight easily as compared to moderate exercises. However, if you do not find vigorous exercise your cup of tea then you can simply stick to the moderate exercise it will help you but at the slower rate. But it is good for the long run since it will keep you fit and healthy for your entire life.
As far as exercises are concerned you can go for cardio, weight lifting, squirts, swimming, jogging, running, jumping, aerobics or could simply join a dance class. Performing yoga will also help to reduce the desired weight.
10.) Sleep on Time
This is the golden rule that one should follow in order to keep all the health problems and stress at the bay. A sound sleep of 8 hours is very important for the health. According to the recent studies a proper sleep give you energy. Moreover, while we are sleeping our body functions the most, this is the major time when the fat is burnt. Moreover, it regulates the hormones that may prevent hunger. In addition to this, it keeps you at the bay from the stress.


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Choosing Colors for Your Garden
The Flower, Garden & Nature Society of Northwest Arkansas will meet Saturday, October 15, to hear "Pink Hates Chartreuse: Thoughts on Color in the Garden". Speaker will be Tom Dillard, an avid gardener, retired head of Special Collections at the University of Arkansas Libraries in Fayetteville, and a historian and specialist on Arkansas history, about which he writes a weekly column for Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
The meeting will be held in the Student Center of Northwest Technical Institute at 709 S. Old Missouri Road in Springdale, AR. It is free and open to the public. The meeting will begin at10:00 a.m. Info: 479-361-2198 and onfacebook.com/fgnsofnwa.
An article (link) about Dillard when he retired says that "Dillard is best known as a creator of the Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture, which he still serves as founding editor-in-chief, and as creator of the Richard C. Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, more commonly known as the Butler Center, in Little Rock. He's literally a "know-it-all," when it comes to facts, tidbits and lore about the Natural State."
His history columns can be found on the website for the Arkansas Democrat Gazette.


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You can boost your quiz performance by unleashing the crowd within, a new study shows. The next time you're asked to estimate a historical date, for example, try doing the following: make your first estimate; then pause and assume your first guess was off the mark. Consider why, then use this new perspective to make a second estimate. Average your two estimates and, chances are, this newly calculated date will be more accurate than your original answer. The new approach is called "dialectical boot-strapping" and according to Stefan Herzog and Ralph Hertwig, it really works.
We've known since at least the time of Francis Galton that the averaged judgement of a group of independent individuals will nearly always outperform the judgement of a lone individual, no matter how expert he or she is. Galton, who was Darwin's cousin, showed this by averaging the guesses of 787 people as to the weight of an ox on show at a cattle exhibition in Plymouth in 1906. Remarkably, the crowd's averaged estimate was off by just one pound.
The wisdom of a crowd of independent-minded individuals emerges because the error in contrasting judgements is cancelled out. Imagine a jar of 100 beans. I estimate that there are 110 beans in the jar and you estimate their are 90. The errors in our judgements cancel out and together we are more accurate. Of course, real life isn't that neat, but the general principle holds, so long as our judgements are independent. If a group of individuals are not independently minded, perhaps because they're relying on the same faulty information, then collective wisdom will not emerge, because everyone's errors will all fall in the same direction.
Back to dialectical boot-strapping: Herzog and Hertwig asked 101 participants to estimate historical dates, such as the discovery of electricity. Crucially, half the participants used the dialectical boot-strapping technique. They made their first estimate, considered how it might be wrong, and then used this new perspective to make a new estimate. The other control participants simply made two best estimates.
The average of each dialectical boot-strapper's two guesses was, on average, 4.1 per cent more accurate than their initial estimate (72 per cent of them benefited by using this technique). By contrast, the average of each control participant's two estimates was, on average, just 0.3 per cent more accurate than their initial estimate.
"Part of the wisdom of the many resides in an individual mind," the researchers said. "Dialectical bootstrapping is a simple mental tool that fosters accuracy by leveraging people's capacity to construct conflicting realities."
Herzog, S., & Hertwig, R. (2009). The Wisdom of Many in One Mind: Improving Individual Judgments With Dialectical Bootstrapping. Psychological Science, 20 (2), 231-237 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02271.x
Useful related links grabbed from the wisdom of the comments section (thanks people):
*Condorcet's jury theorem
*Two averaged guesses, without deliberate dialectical boot-strapping, can also be beneficial
Post written by Christian Jarrett (@psych_writer) for the BPS Research Digest.
Thursday, 25 June 2009
Unleash the crowd within
Posted by Unknown at 9:08 am
Psychology categories: Decision making, Occupational
4 comments:
- Anony Mouse said...
Interesting stuff. (Nitpick: it should be principle, not principal).
The Condorcet's Jury Theorem is closely related: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet%27s_jury_theorem
- 9:51 am
- Unknown said...
Principal / principle corrected - thanks Michael! I'll also check out that link on the Jury Theorem.
- 10:07 am
- Neuroskeptic said...
Ed Vul, of "voodoo fMRI correlations" fame, has also done some work on this.
- 10:15 am
So when was electricity discovered?
- 11:43 am


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Magret de Canard with Walnut Oregano Dressing
1/4 cup toasted walnuts
2 scallions, chopped
2 cloves garlic
Juice of 1/2 lemon
1 tsp cumin
1 tbsp fresh oregano
1/4 cup olive oil
Salt and pepper to taste
2 duck breasts, fat scored and seasoned with salt and pepper.
Pulse the walnuts, scallions, garlic, lemon juice, cumin, oregano, olive oil, salt and pepper in a blender until smooth. Refrigerate until ready to use.
Sear the duck breasts on the fat side for 8 minutes, turn and continue to cook for 6 minutes. Allow to rest, slice and serve with the dressing.


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Named in honor of the late Dan Wheldon who conducted its initial development, the Dallara DW12 is the spec chassis utilized by the Verizon IndyCar Series. Dallara was selected to supply chassis to the IndyCar Series by a blue ribbon panel of drivers, designers, promoters and administrators as part of the ICONIC Plan (Innovative, Competitive, Open-wheel, New, Industry-relevant, Cost-effective).
In keeping with the ICONIC principles, the DW12 incorporates a host of features designed to enhance both the competition and safety of IndyCar racing including partially-enclosed rear wheels, a bumper/nerf bar and robust nose wing construction. Chevrolet and Honda supply 2.2 liter, turbocharged V6 engines for the DW12. The engines produce up to 700 bhp and are equipped with push-to-pass functions on selected road and street courses.


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Titans new uniforms: NFL investigating apparent leaked photo
The NFL is investigating the source of a photograph making the rounds on social media that purports to show the Titans' new home jersey, a league source told The Tennessean on Tuesday.
An NFL spokesperson declined to comment on the photo, on whether leaks like this are to be expected once the product is shipped to retail outlets, or what can be done to prevent leaks from happening. The Titans did not respond to a request for comment.
The Titans are set to reveal their long-awaited new uniforms Wednesday night, complete with an announcement show and a performance from Florida Georgia Line on Lower Broadway.
More: Titans new uniforms: What we know, schedule of events, parking info, prohibited items
But did Titans fans get a glimpse of the new jersey a few days early?
A photo began circulating online Monday of a potentially leaked navy blue Marcus Mariota jersey, with gray tones on the shoulders and light blue on the sides.
People had plenty of opinions.
Whether these are the real jerseys or just a master Photoshop effort, everyone will know what the new uniforms will look like come Wednesday night.
Here's more information about the unveiling.
What: The Titans will unveil their new uniforms during a special show on Lower Broadway. Florida Georgia Line will perform after the uniform unveiling.
When: Wednesday
6 p.m.: Pre-program
7:30 p.m.: Uniform unveiling
8 p.m.: Florida Georgia Line concert
Reach Jason Wolf at email@example.com and follow him on Twitter @JasonWolf and on Instagram and Snapchat at TitansBeat. Reach Colton Pouncy at email@example.com or on Twitter @CTPSports.


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The AECB Hampshire Group has been dormant for some years and relaunched in 2018. Our aim is to bring together local expertise to allow exchange of ideas and a growth in understanding to ensure the delivery of the most sustainable built solutions whether refurbishments, new build or simply the addition of renewable technologies to help people achieve their carbon reduction targets.
Hampshire has a rich seam of experience and expertise and a wide range of projects and investment expected over the immediate future across the spectrum of residential through to industrial clients with very large development investments.
Ideas and suggestions for the group are very welcome, contact the group leader below.
Meet the group leader:
Hi, my name is Martin Evans, I'm a Civil Engineer by training and have spent the majority of my working life within the building industry. I started my interest in low energy within the housing market back in the 90's. We moved into the hotel sector having identified it as very high energy users where client satisfaction is everything, so compromise on standards isn't an option, real energy savings must be achieved without downgrading the customer experience. This work led to us designing the first green hotel for Whitbread and a range of subsequent new build hotels. We have also carried out extensive work for a small 5 star hotel chain producing a detailed matrix of measures that guided the development over the next 5-10 years moving them steadily to lower energy use and greater efficiency. A key part of this strategy has been to identify key performance indicators, for hotels this is mainly aimed at addressing client dissatisfaction and we have made the addressing of these issues a central part of the strategy. Read more about our work here.
I have become very interested in the work of the AECB and after attending an annual conference have been considering ways I can get involved. The Hampshire group needed reviving and with the support now available centrally from the AECB, this is a good time to kick start this busy part of the country and I hope we will get lots of support to create a matrix of competence. Individually we can make a difference but as a group we can achieve much more!
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RF chip developer Lime Microsystems wants to make its configurable RF hardware as ubiquitous as the Raspberry Pi low cost computer by making it open source.
The company, based in Fleet, has provided all the schematics and documentation for the board for an open source project called Myriad-RF, and is looking for partners to make more boards to bring the cost down. The board is currently made by Taiwanese distribution partner Azio but costs $300.
By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk