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based in London, UNITED KINGDOM
Ricardo-AEA`s vision is to be recognised, by Governments and International Agencies, as a leading provider of analysis, advice, and data on economically sustainable solutions for the most pressing global energy and environmental challenges. In the chemical safety market, our industry leading solutions are delivered by the award winning NCEC. Operating across the world, we ...
ifu Hamburg GmbH
based in Hamburg, GERMANY
ifu Hamburg GmbH (Institute for Environmental Informatics Hamburg Ltd.) is a software development and consulting company helping companies to achieve sustainable production and strengthen their competitiveness. We deliver software solutions that support corporate environmental tasks and activities such as Material Flow Management, Resource Efficiency, Life Cycle ...
ribeka GmbH - Groundwater Management
based in Bornheim, GERMANY
ribeka - The Experts for Efficient Water and Environmental Management was founded in 1995 and was awarded with the German Founder Awards for innovative developments in the ground water sector in 1996. Since then, the company has become a well known leader in the development and application of water management systems. For the past 13 years, we have been setting standards ...
Burns & McDonnell
based in Kansas City, MISSOURI (USA)
Burns & McDonnell, headquartered in Kansas City, Mo., is a full-service engineering, architecture, construction, environmental and consulting solutions firm. Our multidisciplined staff of more than 4,300 employee-owners includes engineers, architects, construction experts, planners, estimators, economists, technicians and scientists, representing virtually all design ...
ARCHIBUS, Inc.
based in Boston, MASSACHUSETTS (USA)
ARCHIBUS is the 1 provider of real estate, infrastructure and facilities management solutions in the world, with annual expenditures for ARCHIBUS-related products and services exceeding $2.3 Billion (US). With ARCHIBUS, organizations use a single, comprehensive, integrated solution to make informed strategic decisions that optimize Return On Investment (ROI), lower asset ...
Waterlogic International Ltd
based in Basingstoke, UNITED KINGDOM
Waterlogic is the leading global manufacturer and distributor of top quality mains attached "Point of Use" (POU) water purifying and dispensing systems. These incorporate Firewall™ purification technology, carbon multi-filtration systems, In Tank UV technology and BioCote® antimicrobial protected parts to guarantee the highest levels of hygiene and quality. As end-user ...
based in Limonest, FRANCE
01dB, brand of ACOEM, contributes to reducing noise and vibrations to levels complying with regulations or set out in sustainable development strategies. 01dB is aimed at the industrial sector, towns, transportation, the public works and construction sector, wind power and the leisure industry.01dB offers a complete range of products and services dedicated to noise and ...
WtERT Germany GmbH / Waste-to-Energy Research and Technology Council
based in Sulzbach-Rosenberg, GERMANY
The Waste-to-Energy Research and Technology Council (WtERT) is an international top-tier-technical group that brings together engineers, scientists, and managers from industry, universities, and government with the objective of advancing the goals of sustainable waste management globally.
TK Consult AG
based in Zurich, SWITZERLAND
TK Consult AG offers an extensive service catalog in environmental and hydraulic engineering consulting, with special emphasis on the numerical modelling of hydrogeology, hydrodynamics, geothermal and software development.
Rivo Software Ltd.
based in Warwick, UNITED KINGDOM
At Rivo, we've built market leading applications that transform how EHS and risk is managed. No matter the size of your organization, how many sites you have or where they are located, our apps will help you automate repeatable tasks, engage your employees and deliver razor sharp insight. We have over 180 clients across 86 countries, and our apps help them protect people, ...
International Polymer Solutions Inc (IPS)
based in Irvine, CALIFORNIA (USA)
International Polymer Solutions Inc. (`IPS`) and our recent acquisitions, TEQCOM Industries and BECO Manufacturing, specialize in providing high-purity engineered fluid handling solutions to the global market. With a combined 46 years of TEQCOM and BECO history, we manufacture high-purity plastic fluid handling and actuation devices for industries and applications ...
Telkonet Inc.
based in Waukesha, WISCONSIN (USA)
Telkonet, Inc. offers EcoSmart energy management technology as well as EthoStream high-speed Internet access solutions. Both product lines satisfy Telkonet`s commitment to product innovation and technological expertise, and have been installed in several hundred thousand rooms worldwide. Telkonet`s EcoSmart products, along with the EcoCentral management platform, reduce ...
International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA)
based in Fargo, NORTH DAKOTA (USA)
IAIA is a forum for advancing innovation, development and communication of best practice in impact assessment. Its international membership promotes development of local and global capacity for the application of environmental assessment in which sound science and full public participation provide a foundation for equitable and sustainable development. IAIA supports ...
based in Leinfelden-Echterdingen, GERMANY
thinkstep is the global leader in sustainability performance management. Our data, drawn from more than 7,000 datasets, is unrivalled in its scope and rigour, and permits precise sustainability calculations across all parts of the supply chain. Our software is robust, convenient to use and available on-demand or as part of a complex, configurable solution. Our services ...
Environics, Inc.
based in Tolland, CONNECTICUT (USA)
Environics is a world leader in computerized gas flow instrumentation. All service is handled factory direct. Environics is a world leader in computerized gas mixing, dilution, and calibration systems. Our gas mixing technology is based on very precise control of thermal mass flow controllers. Our calibrators and dilution systems exceed the accuracy required by the ...
EarthSoft, Inc
based in Concord, MASSACHUSETTS (USA)
EarthSoft`s EQuIS software manages environmental and geotechnical data and is the world`s most widely used environmental data management system. The EQuIS Data Processor (EDP) and Enterprise EDP are the world`s most widely used EDD tools. Many governments, industrials, and especially consultants and labs use EQuIS and EDP. EQuIS Professional and EQuIS for ArcGIS and ...
based in Auckland, NEW ZEALAND
ecoPortal is an online sustainability and environmental management system. Together with a network of ecoPortal Advisors (EMS and sustainability experts), ecoPortal designs, implements, and maintains effective management systems that reduce environmental impacts and operational costs. ecoPortal is helping manufacturing and service companies, education institutions and ...
Harvard School of Public Health Executive and Continuing Professional Education
based in Boston, MASSACHUSETTS (USA)
Harvard School of Public Health Executive and Continuing Professional Education prepares individuals and organizations to solve the most pressing global public health and health care challenges. Leaders in government, corporate, and nonprofit sectors around the world attend programs which provide strategies for addressing the critical issues facing their organizations and ...
Anaheim University
based in Anaheim, CALIFORNIA (USA)
Anaheim University is one of the first online universities in the United States to offer graduate degree programs entirely online. The Nationally Accredited University is based in the City of Anaheim in Orange County, California and has branch offices in Irvine, California and Tokyo, Japan. The University is made up of three graduate schools: the Graduate School of ...
The Windsor Consulting Group, Inc.
based in NEW JERSEY (USA)
Our firm offers a wide range of occupational health and safety business solutions from regulatory compliance to risk governance. We partner with business to identify the hazards from cradle to grave and determine the risks, liabilities, and solutions to each intolerable risk. Our CIHs and CSPs use ROI, NPV, and IRR to deliver the most cost effective or cost benefit ...
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It Runs In The Family! Meet Blaine, Jennifer Lawrence's Hunky Bro
While most folks were stuffing their faces this past weekend, Jennifer Lawrence's fam made its way to Maui. And, in between gobs of mashed potatoes and stuffing, we were so transfixed by the pap snaps from their Hawaiian vacay that we needed second helpings of a different kind! Anyone else hungry for more intel on Katniss' hunky bro, Blaine?
After we did a bit of digging, we discovered that the Kentucky native not only flaunts a killer set of abs, but he's also super protective of his kid sister, telling a local paper, "Every guy still has to go through the same screening process with my brother, dad, and me." Plus, he's a "second-hand junkie," is unattached, and was Jennifer's date to the Oscars when she was nominated for Winter's Bone. Welcome to Swoon City, population one (ahem, Blaine Lawrence).
And, if you remember from an interview last year, we're not the only ones crushing on the sexy sibling — Jennifer admitted to Rolling Stone that "little redneck things still come out ... I'm attracted to my brother. Stuff like that." Well, considering she's off the market at the moment, it looks like Blaine's still available. We're hoping this foxy find leads to Casey Affleck- or Dave Franco-level popularity — or at least a walk-on role in her next flick (shirtless, of course!). (The Frisky)
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2013 Day of Celebration Honors Egyptian Culture
St. John Fisher College's Cleary Family Auditorium welcomed 150 attendees to this past weekend's 14th Annual Day of Celebration. This year, the focus of the Day of Celebration was the Egyptian culture. Loriane Ngarambe and Tyana Velazquez served as the event student co-chairs.
The day started off with the Cultural Marketplace, showcasing holiday celebrations from various cultures, races, and ethnicities, including Three Kings, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, Christmas, Chinese New Year, and Ramadan. The Egyptian culture was brought to life through food, performances, and decorations, including a sand display and life-size camel photo station.
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Shattered Love: A Memoirby Richard Chamberlain
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In Shattered Love, Richard Chamberlain poignantly recounts his lifelong struggle to find happiness. Tracing a fascinating path over his meteoric rise to success, he chronicles his struggle to come to terms with his own imperfections, his growing desire to be honest about his sexual orientation, and his yearning to live with an open heart. And along the way/em>
In Shattered Love, Richard Chamberlain poignantly recounts his lifelong struggle to find happiness. Tracing a fascinating path over his meteoric rise to success, he chronicles his struggle to come to terms with his own imperfections, his growing desire to be honest about his sexual orientation, and his yearning to live with an open heart. And along the way he imparts the lessons he has learned about overcoming our own self–imposed obstacles to happiness.
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I was born in Los Angeles during the Great Depression and was quickly whisked off to Beverly Hills. Alas, it was to the normal, pre-90210 part of that glittering town, the "wrong" side of Wilshire Boulevard - and, even worse, the wrong side of Beverly Drive. In short, the wrong side of the now-vanished streetcar tracks.
My folks took out a thirty-five-year mortgage and bought a three-bedroom, one-and-a-quarter-bathroom house for a hefty seven thousand dollars. There were five of us: Chuck and Elsa, my father and mother; Bill, my brother; and soon Nonnie, my wonderful maternal grandmother.
There were no freeways, no tall buildings in L.A., no jet planes, no zip codes, no smog, no TV - and consequently no video games, no computers or cell phones, no drugs or guns at school. Some of our neighbors still had iceboxes instead of the newfangled fridges, so the ice truck trundled down our street every other day, delivering big blocks of ice. We kids used to clamor after the truck, begging for chunks to lick on hot summer days. The Good Humor man drove by too, ringing real bells. An ice cream bar cost five cents.
Who needed TV? We had the movies, at ten cents a double bill. And it was the golden age of radio - soap operas and music, dramas and news, on weekdays, and an extravaganza of comedy and variety shows on the weekends: Jack Benny, Bob Hope, Fred Allen, Red Skelton.
I loved listening to radio dramas and fairy tales and mysteries. Television scenes are limited by the varying skills of the actors, and especially by limited production budgets - you get only what the producers can afford. But my imagination had unlimited funds to spend on the images my radio evoked. And the picture tube in my head was wide-screen, full color, and a hundred feet high.
There were vacant lots galore with tall grass to play in. We used to hide in the grass, pulling up clumps with dirt clods at the end and then lofting these missiles over where we thought our friends were hiding. When you got hit with one it didn't usually hurt that much. The neighborhood was full of kids, and even at preschool age we were free to roam and play and invent adventure. No kidnappers, no molesters, and no drug dealers - house and car doors left unlocked - we felt safe; we took safety for granted.
I was seven years old on that Day of Infamy when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and savaged the U.S. Navy, awakening the Sleeping Giant and drawing us into mortal combat with the rampaging fascist forces of Germany, Japan, and Italy. Children pick up on just about everything, and my parents' initial shock at suddenly being at war scared my brother and me. Seeing this, they changed their tune and explained to us that the fighting was very, very far away, and that our brave and righteous military would keep us as safe and sound as we'd always been. Still believing that moms and dads speak only the truth, I bought this, and the war became in my juvenile imagination a distant high adventure, a rough-and-ready sporting event that we good guys were bound to win.
The war released a tremendous energy in the United States, which until then was still suffering the deprivations and gloom of the Depression. The accelerating war effort took on a youthful determination, a robust, vital innocence - we were so obviously the white-hatted heroes fighting valiantly against the black hats of darkness.
Even through our inevitable defeats and losses, Americans remained feisty and optimistic. Our energetic optimism was apparent in our jive-filled, swinging music, and in our exuberant jitterbugging. Movies fortified our confidence in our superb fighting men and pumped up our loathing of the villainous Germans and Japanese (somehow the Italians never seemed that dangerous). If you have to march out and kill people, it's useful to hate them.
Our grammar school had paper drives and scrap metal drives. We kids would collect old newspapers all through our neighborhoods and pile the playground high with stacks of carefully tied bundles of the Los Angeles Times and huge piles of scrap. Once I took a fancy to a sort of Oscar-like shiny brass trophy on one of these piles, stole it, and took it home. When Dad saw it he asked where I'd gotten it. I lied, saying that I'd found it in the alley. He asked me to show him exactly where. I was mighty scared, but I took him out into the alley behind our house and pointed out with my shaking finger a particular trashcan. Dad, no fool drunk or sober, fixed me with a gaze of Olympian severity and asked again, "Where did you get it?" I admitted, stuttering, "The s-scrap pile." We returned home and I got spanked, more for lying than stealing.
Food was rationed with allotted food stamps. I remember that butter and sugar and meat and, worst of all, bubble gum were in particularly short supply. Margarine was easier to get, but the dairy companies got a law passed permitting the sale of only white margarine in large, unbutterlike chunks. To make this white stuff more appetizing, my grandmother would soften it in the oven and then mix in yellow coloring. The newly yellow margarine would be cooled in molds the shape of normal butter cubes. This was a tricky procedure because if the margarine actually melted it would separate and become an inedible mess.
Automakers were all making military vehicles - Jeeps and tanks and such - so new cars were just about impossible to find. By the end of the war my dad's old Ford had well over two hundred thousand miles on it ...
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Richard Chamberlain has starred in such classics as Dr. Kildare, The Thorn Birds, and Shogun and has received rave reviews for his theatrical turns in Hamlet, Cyrano de Bergerac, and My Fair Lady, as well as numerous other plays and films. Chamberlain lives in Hawaii, where he continues to act and pursue his passion for painting.
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Richard Chamberlain is not only a gifted actor, he is a natural on writing. If you are looking for a cheap thrill of a Hollywood actor biography, this isn't the book you are looking for. Naked honesty is what you will find here. I say this one is a keeper in my library.
Have always enjoyed Richard Chamberlain as an actor. This shows he is educated in a variety of subjects. A talented writer.....and NOT BORING. His views are interesting......... Intelligent and find he's even more likable, than before!
I was in love with Dr. Kildare at age 12...pictures of him all over my bedroom including the ceiling...and I was awed by The Thorn Birds...one of the best reads of my life and he captured Father Ralph to perfection...I gladly payed full price to see where my hero had gone in his life...I was not disappointed...he's a wonderfully wise, studied and curious man with an eye toward the sublime in all things...he's very kind and balanced...he's in touch with his own weaknesses and has cultivated genuine gratitude in their stead ...the issue of his sexual orientation is so softly woven into his life that it's of no consequence to those of us who loved the sexy leading man...as a human being he sparkles among the hollywood tin we are expected to revere these days...he remains my hero...my love affair with this movie star just got better...
Having loved Mr. Chamberlain since teenage years, I was fascinated to read his book. It was compelling, and enlightening, and truly a reflection of his kind, warm,and giving personality. As a born-again Christian, however, my views differ from his in certain points regarding spirituality, etc. but that does not change my high regard for him as an actor and humanitarian. Throughout his life, he has led it with dignity, and privacy devoid of tabloidism, and given us years of entertainment and joy with his performances. Blessings to this wonderful 'gentle'man.
If you're looking for gossip forget it not his style. He is too decent
I had owned a copy of this book since it was first released, but somehow the title was off-putting and I found other books I wanted to delve into first. When I settled down with Richard's magnificent road to self- discovery and what life and love and self --the great trilogy for me--were beginning to mean to him I almost wept. His acting was inspirational, but his quest for knowledge about himself was incredible. I plan to read the second half of this book again (the haikus were wonderful unto themselves) and works by authors who help him on his great quest for answers and self love. I hope Richard will share more of his self discovery journeys with us in another book devoted to finding love, spirit, harmony--and perhaps share some of his paintings with his words.
Chamberlain's revelation of his homosexuality was no surprise (didn't we all hear about this years ago?), and he deals with it in a very sympathetic and dignified way. The story of this very complex, sensitive (and gorgeous!) young man finding his way through the treacherous landscape of Hollywood is both touching and fascinating!
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My One and Only
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- Release Date: Aug 21, 2009
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A completely appealing, beautifully preserved memory piece - a grand, colorful coming-of-age story with a candy box color palette and a standout performance by Renée Zellweger. It's a great story and a great crowd-pleaser.
Peter's lightning-fast script and Loncraine's steady direction steer this road picture to the sunny side of the street.
It's affable entertainment -- a road movie with a smart map and characters who are unpredictable human beings, not just billboard attractions.
Chief among the movie's charms are Ms. Zellweger, Mr. Rendall--whose would-be actor Robbie is a dab hand at embroidery and accessorizing his stepmother--and Mr. Lerman, who plays George as a bookish adolescent with dreams of becoming a writer.
Sweet, modest and quietly classy, it's the perfect late-summer entertainment -- and it also happens to feature the most relaxed and nuanced performance Renée Zellweger has given in years.
A weightless movie as cheerily artificial as the Old Navy pitchman's bronze skin tones.
My One and Only has an old-fashioned sensibility -- and some lovely Mad Men-style costumes -- making for a pleasantly diverting road movie.
My One and Only isn't exactly memorable, but this little, personable movie is a fine showcase for Zellweger's talents and a paean to the sort of mid-1950s America best remembered in Norman Rockwell paintings.
If you have any curiosity at all about how a fellow like George Hamilton became a fellow like George Hamilton, My One and Only answers the question by looking, fondly, at his primary caregiver.
If there's a prevailing problem with director Richard Loncraine's bit of period fluff, it's that many of the characters encountered along the way are a touch too cartoonish to resonate meaningfully with audiences.
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Jan 23, 2011I really enjoyed this film. Loved the old cars, clothes, and slice after slice of life. Zellweger was great, as the rest of the cast.I really enjoyed this film. Loved the old cars, clothes, and slice after slice of life. Zellweger was great, as the rest of the cast. Interesting producer!… Full Review »
GildaBSep 13, 2009If this movie were in a foreign language, critics would be praising it for its gentle humor, wonderful character roles and Renee If this movie were in a foreign language, critics would be praising it for its gentle humor, wonderful character roles and Renee Zellweger's perfect portrayal of a woman coming to realize her inner strengths. Because it is American, most will fail to realize how brilliantly each role is portrayed and how very satisfying and insightful this look at 50's Americana really is.… Full Review »
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The Government has rights in this invention pursuant to a contract awarded by the Department of the Air Force.
This invention relates to waveguide lasers in general, and more particularly to CO2 waveguide lasers having an array of phase locked resonators separated from each other by respective ridges.
There are already known various constructions of gas lasers, among them such having hollow dielectric waveguides. A particular advantage of the lasers of the latter type is that they are more compact than other gas lasers. Reducing the dimensions of the passage of the discharge housing provides increased gain, higher power generated per unit volume and an improved saturation parameter. This increase in power is achieved, as a result of the existence of well defined, low loss modes of laser propagation, despite the fact that linear gas waveguides leak radiation into the walls of the dielectric. The performance enhancements result from favorable de-excitation of the gas by wall collisions, from device operation at increased gas pressure, and from reduction in gas temperature due to the improved thermal conduction provided by the waveguide walls.
Recently developed configurations of waveguide gas lasers have produced a substantial increase in laser output power per unit volume in sealed-off (no gas flow or makeup) devices. One way of increasing the output from a gas laser device is to increase its effective length. However, the use of this technique in long life devices is limited due to the high intracavity flux levels incident on the resonator optics. So, for example, in a 100 watt Z-folded gas laser device, the peak flux density on the turning optics for a resonator employing a 25 percent output coupling mirror is at a level of about 30 kW/cm2.
One method by which one could substantially reduce this flux level is to increase the diameter of the waveguide all over its entire length. However, when this is done, there is experienced a loss in transverse mode discrimination, and transverse mode beating results. A 100 watt waveguide laser would also have a gain length of approximately 180 cm. The longitudinal mode spacing given by c/2 would be 83 MHz. Consequently, if the application of the laser required an offset in frequency from line center of approximately 41 MHz, longitudinal mode beating would occur, limiting the utility of the laser, especially in some coherent ladar applications.
An approach by which all of the above problems, namely the high intracavity flux density and the limited longitudinal mode spacing, can be circumvented is to use a phase-locked array of waveguide lasers. An early implementation of this approach is disclosed in a commonly assigned U.S. Pat. No. 4,688,228, in which a plurality of resonator cavities is arranged next to one another, with each adjacent two of such cavities being separated from each other only incompletely by a ridge which extends from one of the major internal surfaces bounding the cross-sectionally rectangular internal space of the laser body toward the other major surface, but which terminates short of such other major surface.
Experience with this waveguide gas laser arrangement has shown that it operated well when only two of such resonator cavities were provided. However, when the number of the resonator cavities that are arranged next to one another was increased to three or more, with all of the ridges still extending from one and the same major surface, problems were encountered with the quality of the combined laser beam emerging from the laser arrangement and particularly with phase locking between and among the resonator cavities. Such problems are attributable to the fact that a large open or unguided region exists at one of the major surfaces bounding the internal space subdivided by the ridges into individual resonator cavities. This open region not only permits radiation to leak from one of the resonator cavities to the adjacent one to achieve the desirable phase locking, but also, to a great disadvantage, brings about conditions in which higher-order transverse modes may and often will develop. As a consequence, a great number of transverse mode beats was observed in laser arrangements having several adjacent resonator cavities connected with one another by such a large open region.
Moreover, the gain and mode volumes of the previously proposed gas laser arrangements of this type, which are provided with cross-sectionally rectangular or U-shaped channels forming the resonator cavities, are not well matched to one another. This means that such channels include corners in which the gaseous lasing medium is being pumped and, as a result, exhibits gain. This has two disadvantageous consequences. First, the power dissipated in the corners so such cross-sectionally rectangular or U-shaped channels is wasted, resulting in a diminished efficiency of the gas laser arrangement. Secondly, gain within the corner regions can support modes other than the desired EH11 mode, resulting in mode beating in the outgoing laser beam and in further reduction in the useful power of such output laser beam.
Examples of gas laser cavity array arrangements which address at least the last-mentioned concern are disclosed in commonly assigned U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,807,232, 4,807,233 and 4,807,234, all issued on Feb. 21, 1989, as much of the disclosure of which as may be needed for supplementing the present invention, especially with respect to additional details and modifications that may be used in conjunction therewith, is incorporated herein by reference. Using the U.S. Pat. No. 4,807,233 as an example of a gas laser array arrangement in which the present invention may be employed to particular advantage, it is to be mentioned that, in this arrangement, the adjacent channels constituting the respective individual laser cavities are also separated from one another only incompletely by respective ridges so as to achieve the desired phase locking. This time, however, each of the ridges is constituted by a pair of projections each extending, in alignment with the other projection of the pair, from a different one of the major internal surfaces bounding the internal space of the laser body, and terminating short of the other projection to provide a gap through which the phase locking between the respective adjacent laser cavities takes place. In an attempt to match the gain volumes of the laser cavities to their respective mode volumes, these projections have been given identical generally cusp-shaped configurations, so that all of the individual laser cavities that are bounded thereby also have identical configurations, including identical cross sectional shapes.
Unfortunately, experience has shown that there exists a problem which limits the performance of the gas laser array not only of this type but also of other types, including those in which the phase locking between and among the laser cavities is achieved in a manner different from that used in the above patents, such as externally of the laser array proper, this problem being attributable to the fact that the temperature of the gaseous lasing medium is higher in the central region of the array than in the outermost regions. As a matter of fact, a temperature gradient is encountered in the transverse direction of the laser cavity array (along a main plane of the array or of an internal space of the laser body), with the temperature decreasing in each direction from a central plane of the array or internal space. This temperature gradient shifts or profiles the index of refraction transversely of the array. When such a temperature profiled array was operated with each of the laser cavities constituting an independent oscillator (not phase-locked) so as to be able to individually detect characteristic properties of the laser beams issuing from such cavities without being influenced by what was taking place in the other cavities, a spread in the operating frequencies was observed.
This spread in optical frequencies has a number of detrimental effects. First, if the individual resonator frequency is too large, phase locking with reasonable coupling is not achievable. Secondly, multiple modes may lase (mode beating). Thirdly, the output power level is degraded for staggered coupled devices of the type disclosed in the U.S. Pat. No. 4,807,232.
Accordingly, it is a general object of the present invention to avoid the disadvantages of the prior art.
More particularly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a waveguide gas laser arrangement which does not possess the disadvantages of the known arrangements of this type.
Still another object of the present invention is so to construct the arrangement of the type here under consideration as to provide low-loss phase coupling between and among the adjacent resonator cavities despite the existence of temperature differences or gradient in the gaseous lasing medium contained in such cavities.
A concomitant object of the present invention is so to design the above arrangement as to be relatively simple in construction, inexpensive to manufacture, easy to use, and reliable in operation nevertheless.
The above objects and others which will become apparent hereafter are achieved by a phase-locked ridge waveguide laser that includes a body that circumferentially bounds an elongated internal space extending along a main plane and a central plane that are respectively defined by respective length and width directions, and length and height directions, of the internal space. The internal space contains a gaseous lasing medium, and excitation means is disposed on the body and is operative for exciting the gaseous medium at radio frequency with attendant light emission from the gaseous medium. The arrangement further includes light-reflecting means so positioned relative to the body as to provide lasing of the light emission, and partitioning means which includes a plurality of ridges extending across the internal space along the height direction and at least partially partitioning the internal space into a plurality of laser resonator cavities each sustaining a guided mode of the lasing light emission, in such a manner that each of the cavities extends along the length direction, is spaced from an adjacent cavity by a predetermined distance in the width direction, and has a height dimension as considered in the height direction. In accordance with the present invention, at least the height dimension of at least a first of the cavities that is more remote from the central plane is smaller than that of a closer second of the cavities to an extent dependent on a variation in a propagation constant of the guided lasing light mode in the gaseous lasing medium contained in such cavities during the operation of the laser.
A particular advantage of the arrangement as described so far is that, as a result of the tailoring of the cross sections of the cavities in accordance with the temperature differences existing during the stead-state operation of the gas laser arrangement, the previously experienced optical power losses which have been attributed to the frequency and thus phase differences between the laser light generated in such individual cavities are reduced to a minimum, if not eliminated altogether, thus significantly improving the energy conversion efficiency of the laser array arrangement as compared to previously known devices of this type.
FIG. 1 is an exploded perspective view of a phase locked cusp-shaped ridge waveguide array gas laser assembly embodying the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of an assembly of main operative components of the assembly of FIG. 1; and
FIG. 3 is a graphic representation showing the beneficial effect of the use of the present invention on the frequency spread between the various cavities.
Referring now to the drawing in detail, and first to FIG. 1 thereof, it may be seen that the reference numeral 10 has been used therein to identify a gas laser in its entirety. As illustrated, the gas laser 10 employing the present invention is constructed as a phase locked cusp-shaped ridge waveguide gas laser similar to that disclosed in the aforementioned U.S. Pat. No. 4,807,233; however, it should be realized that this particular construction has been chosen for illustrative purposes only and is only one of many which could benefit from the use of the present invention.
The laser 10 as illustrated comprises a housing 12 made from bakable aluminum or equivalent. The housing 12 contains a dielectric body 13 which consists of two components 14 and 15, and is made from a ceramic material or equivalent. The components 14 and 15 bound an internal space 16 upon assembly of the body 13. The housing 12 also includes end covers and a gas port in the housing (not shown) enabling the device to be evacuated and back filled with a lasing gas that is also not illustrated.
Inside the internal space 16 are longitudinal ridges 18, 19 formed on the components 14 and 15 of the body 13 by conventional techniques. These ridges 18 and 19 are shown to jointly define five optical resonators 20, 21, 22, 23, and 24, as an example. As will be detailed hereinafter in conjunction with FIG. 2, the ridges 18 and 19 fall short of meeting one another at their crests so that they leave free spaces or gaps therebetween, thus enabling the laser light generated in the cavities or resonators 20 to 24 to couple and phase lock. Obviously, the dimensions of the resonators 20 to 24 must be selected to sustain lasing in a selected mode to be able to achieve the desired kind of such optical coupling between the resonators or cavities 20, 21, 22, 23, and 24. In the best mode embodiment, the length of the resonators 20 to 24 is approximately 37 cm, although other lengths may be substituted. The dielectric material selected to comprise the components 14 and 15 of the body 13 can be a ceramic material of a type known in the art, such as aluminum oxide (Al2 O.sub. 3) and in the best mode embodiment comprises beryllium oxide (BeO). Those skilled in the art will note that the ridges 18 and 19 may comprise a different dielectric than the remainders of the components 14 and 15 of the ceramic body 13 and may equivalently be fabricated separately from the body 13 and subsequently positioned in the internal space 16 during assembly.
Mirrors 26 and 28 are located by conventional techniques at either end of the body 13 or within the end covers of the housing 12 perpendicular to the resonators 20 to 25. They are made from conventional materials known in the art, such as zinc selenide, and are chosen to be reflective of a selected percentage of incident light at a selected wavelength.
The lasing gas is a conventional mixture, and in the best mode embodiment comprises a mixture of 4% xenon, 12% carbon dioxide, 20% nitrogen and 64% helium by mole fraction at a pressure of 100 Torr. Those skilled in the art will note that other equivalent mixtures and pressures may be equivalently substituted.
Also included are radio frequency electrodes 30 and 32 which are of a conventional type and extend over the entire length of the resonators 20 to 24. In the best mode embodiment, the electrodes 30 and 32 comprise copper or aluminum sheet at least 20 thick for excitation at 145MHz. If other excitation frequencies are substituted, the thickness of the electrodes 30 and 32 must be chosen to be greater than the skin depth. The electrodes 30 and 32 are attached to the body 13 by conventional techniques.
When assembled, the housing 12 is evacuated and then filled with the lasing gas. Radio frequency excitation is provided to the RF electrodes 30 and 32 via a conventional RF feedthrough in the housing 12 (not shown) and produces an electrical excitation of the gas. As is well known in the art, proper selection of the optical parameters and gas pressures will result in lasing of the device. Guided mode optical signals 34, 35, 36, 37, and 38 will be produced in the respective resonators 20, 21, 22, 23, and 24.
Experience with the laser arrangement 10 as described so far herein has shown that, when all of the cavities 20 to 24 had identical cross-sectional configurations as was customary prior to the present invention, its output power output, and the quality of the output laser beams 34 to 38, were lower than expected. In searching for the cause of this rather disappointing performance of such a laser arrangement 10, it was established that, during the operation of the laser 10, a temperature gradient develops in the transverse (as illustrated, horizontal) direction of the internal space 16, with temperature being the highest in the centrally located cavity 22, and gradually decreasing in the directions toward the outermost cavities 20 and 24, respectively. Further experiments conducted with a laser arrangement that was modified relative to the one described above in that its cavities were completely separated from one another so as to be able to assess their individual performances without being influenced by the events taking place in the other cavities, it was established that the laser light issuing from such individually operated (uncoupled) cavities was at different frequencies. This had lead to the conclusion, which was subsequently confirmed, that such frequency differences detract from efficient coupling between the coupled cavities 20 to 24 of the arrangement 10 and thus result in optical power losses at the regions of the gaps between the ridges 18 and 19 or elsewhere.
Having thus discovered the reason behind the problem (the temperature differences or gradient), the next logical step was to search for a solution avoiding this problem. However, to be able to do so, it was necessary to realize that the differences in the lasing frequencies of the individual cavities were attributable to the fact that the different temperatures prevailing in the individual cavities resulted in commensurately different refractive indices of, and thus in different propagation constants of the lasing light through, the lasing medium contained in such cavities, with attendant changes in the effective lengths of such cavities. Based on this realization, it is proposed in accordance with the present invention to shift the individual cavity frequency of at least one of the an array elements by changing its propagation constant.
This can be accomplished, in a manner which is shown in more detail in FIG. 2 of the drawing, by changing the cross-sectional area of the affected waveguide or cavity. It may be seen on FIG. 2, which is a sectioned illustration of a portion 40 of the phase locked ridge waveguide gas laser of FIG. 1 but showing some additional details, a dielectric body 41, which consists of components 42 and 43, is bounded by an upper RF electrode 44 and a lower RF electrode 46. Within an internal space 48 are ridges 50 and 52 which form respective resonators 53, 54, 55, 56, and 57. Each of the ridges 50 and 52 extends into the internal space 48 from a different one of the components 42 and 43. Each two ridges 50 and 52 which are aligned with one another in the vertical direction as considered in FIG. 2 constitute a respective pair. The internal space 48 and the ridges 50 and 52 formed in the body 41 are fabricated by techniques well known in the art. Also illustrated are discrete inductor coils 58 and 59 located between the upper and lower RF electrodes 44 and 46 on either side of the body 41. The inductors 58 and 59 comprise part of the distributed inductance parallel resonant circuit described hereinabove with respect to FIG. 1.
In accordance with the present invention, the above-stated objective of changing the laser light propagation constants through the cavities 53 to 57 in such a manner as to bring the operating frequencies of the cavities 53 to 57 in as close a proximity to one another as possible or feasible, was accomplished in accordance with the present invention by changing the configurations of the ridges 50 and 52 in such a manner as to give the cavities 53 to 57 different height dimensions. This is indicated in FIG. 2 by respective dimensions D1, D2 and D3 representative of the depths, as measured from a parting plane between the components 42 and 43 of the body 41, of the grooves that are provided in the components 42 and 43 and jointly form the cavities 53 to 57. It may be seen that the magnitude of such dimensions gradually decreases from D1 in the centrally located cavity 55 to D3 in the outermost cavities 53 and 57, and that, as a consequence, while the cavity 55 has a circular cross section, the cavities 54 and 53, on the one hand, and 56 and 57, on the other hand, have elliptical cross sections with gradually decreasing magnitude of the minor axis. However, it is also contemplated in accordance with the present invention to make all of the cavities 53 to 57 cross-sectionally circular, in which case the dimensions D1, D2 and D3 would be representative of the respective diameters of such cross-sectionally circular cavities 53 to 57.
Tests were conducted with certain uncoupled waveguide gas laser constructions to confirm the expected beneficial results of the present invention. FIG. 3 is a graphic representation of the data collected for the minimum spread of frequencies (MSF) for a three element and four element array of such uncoupled waveguides. The data shows how the spread in frequencies can be reduced by simply tuning or tailoring the guide diameters across the array. In the case of the three waveguide array, when the center waveguide of the array was made larger in cross section (105 percent of the outside element diameter), the MSF fell to 2.5 MHz. Had the array had equal guide diameters, the MSF would have been greater than 5 MHz.
The MSF of an array increases even more significantly as the number of elements in the array increases. This can be seen in the four element case with equal waveguide diameters where the spread in frequencies for the array is 9 MHz in the absence of the use of the expedient proposed by the present invention. By increasing the effective cross section of the center two elements to 106 percent of the that of the two outer elements, the spread in frequencies was reduced to 1 MHz.
Although four ridges 50 and 52 creating five resonators 53 to 57 are shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, those skilled in the art will note that a greater or lesser number of ridges delineating a greater or lesser number of resonators may be selected. Such ridges will then extend into the internal space 48 in respective pairs from the components 42 and 43. Moreover, although only a linear array of parallel resonators is illustrated, those skilled in the art will recognize that other geometrical resonator configurations such as cylindrical or opposed linear array of parallel resonators may be similarly chosen.
In the construction depicted in FIGS. 1 and 2 of the drawing, unlike in those used during the testing where the cavities were totally optically separated from one another, the height of the ridges 50 and 52 is selected to be less than half the height of the internal space 48 so that there is less than total physical separation between each adjacent two of the resonators 53 to 57. A gap 60 exists between the ridges 50 and 52. The gap 60 enables optical energy to leak between the adjacent ones of the resonators 53 to 52. The amount of optical coupling between adjacent resonators 53 to 57 is controlled by the gap dimension and width of the ridges 50 and 57 which form the separation between the respective adjacent resonators 53 to 57.
The gap 60 also allows the parallel electrical excitations in the resonators 53 to 57 to couple to one another, thereby obtaining uniform discharges and good initiation of all discharges within the individual resonators 53 to 57. Moreover, as a result of the dimensional changes in accordance with the present invention, there is an excellent agreement between the frequencies at which the lasing would take place in the cavities or resonators 53 to 57 were they operated independently, so that the previously encountered losses attributable to the frequency differences, and the resulting impossibility to achieve efficient, low-loss, phase locking between the laser light propagating in the cavities 53 to 57, are eliminated or at least reduced to an achievable minimum.
Here again, like in the aforementioned patent, the gap dimension must be a small fraction of the internal space height, in order to operate in the lowest order mode. In the best mode embodiment, the internal space depth is between 0.1 and 0.5 cm. The resonator width is between 0.1 and 0.5 cm, and the gap 60 is ideally only 0.33 millimeter.
The above technique was utilized in the seven element mid-power laser. The best performance that could be achieved from an untailored array was 92 watts, and single mode generation was difficult to obtain. When the guides were tailored, however, the performance increased to 120 watts and single mode operation was easily obtained.
It is also shown in FIG. 2 of the drawing that the components 42 and 43 of the body 41 are provided with respective aligned recesses arranged next to and outwardly of the respective cavities 53 and 57 and forming respective voids 62 and 64. These voids constitute respective thermal barriers that prevent the temperatures prevailing at least in the outer cavities 53 and 57 from falling below those existing in the adjacent cavities 54 and 56 and ultimately in the central cavity 55 to as high a degree as they would were the voids 62 and 64 not provided. This expedient is helpful in establishing the desired frequency coincidence or closeness between and among the cavities 53 to 57; however, it would not suffice if used by itself.
Even though the invention has been shown and described with respect to a best mode embodiment thereof, it should be understood by those skilled in the art that various other changes, omissions and additions thereto may be made therein, without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.
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|United Technologies Corporation
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|United Technologies Corporation
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|International Classification
|Cooperative Classification
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yea, especially having girl pockets (ei. small), and carrying my cell, wallet, knife, and flashlight in them, i pretty much dont have room for any kind of pocket carry. Thats why I like this idea of making my own little cloth pocket.
I carry my kimber in a ctac holster. works really well. would probably get the mtac now that they have those if i chose again, but it works great. its at the best angle i can find and hugs nice and close


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Logan Abbot just invited Gamergate to come over to Slashdot.
And things were going so well. This site is dead to me now.
Logan Abbot just invited Gamergate to come over to Slashdot.
And things were going so well. This site is dead to me now.
I really, really, really, can't decide who will win and whether it'll be a massive victory or a marginal one. I hear my lefty friends absolutely convinced Clinton will get it in a landslide, but, eh...
- Clinton's not popular, even with Democrats
- Republicans virtually always rally around their leader. So the "Even Republicans hate Trump" thing is pretty overblown.
- Everyone knows Clinton and has already made up their minds on her. Trump? Still opportunities, especially now he's not being primaried any more, to shape his public perception.
- They're close, even now.
Me? If Trump stands a chance of winning AND he stands a chance of winning Florida AND Republicans rally around him and indicate they'll work with him, I'll vote for Clinton, otherwise Jill Stein probably.
The site is improving post-DICE, but it's still sad to see so many old hands taken off the website. Link
While still hopeful that Mr. Rubio might prevail, Mr. McConnell has begun preparing senators for the prospect of a Trump nomination, assuring them that, if it threatened to harm them in the general election, they could run negative ads about Mr. Trump to create space between him and Republican senators seeking re-election. Mr. McConnell has raised the possibility of treating Mr. Trumpâ(TM)s loss as a given and describing a Republican Senate to voters as a necessary check on a President Hillary Clinton, according to senators at the lunches.
He has reminded colleagues of his own 1996 re-election campaign, when he won comfortably amid President Bill Clintonâ(TM)s easy re-election. Of Mr. Trump, Mr. McConnell has said, âoeWeâ(TM)ll drop him like a hot rock,â according to his colleagues.
That's... pretty interesting. Of course, what they're saying now, and what they'd say if Trump actually prevails, are two different things.
Curious to know if there'll be any serious third party candidates in this (2016 US Presidential) election. I know Bloomberg is talking about it, but I'm not seeing him as a likely improvement over, say, Hillary. He's certainly not protest-vote worthy.
riaasux23 was finally relaxing. He'd made a pretty good impression, he felt, pushing back on some of the lies about global warming and vaccines on his favorite website, and was beginning to relax. Maybe it was time to kick back and watch Netflix? Or perhaps... he opened the folder on his PC marked "PHP". Time to take a little of the bad stuff? A little "code review" perhaps?
He took his fedora off and hung it on the edge of his monitor. Immediately, as if in response to the Fedora's touch, the screen turned gray. A list of applications appeared, with a message "These applications are preventing Windows from shutting down" appeared.
"What the f---?" grumbled riaasux23. "F---ing Windows, I didn't ask it to reboot." He looked for a "Cancel" button, but it was nowhere to be found. The applications in the list began to disappear, and the screen at once turned blue, with only the words "Your computer is being upgraded to Windows 10" appearing.
"Wait! What?!" screamed riaasux23. "I never asked for this. Wait, could this be... the infamous Windows update? The one everyone keeps assuring me is happening to every PC out there? I never met anyone who this actually happened to, and in fact nobody even online has ever given a first hand account of Windows 10 automatically installing itself with no prompting, but... I mean, Microsoft! Damn you Microsoft!"
The computer continued for a few minutes, finally rebooting, and showing a black screen with a circle on it, and a percentage in the circle.
"We're sure you're going to love your new operating system", came up the friendly messages at the bottom. "Windows 10 has great new features, like ads, and we track everything you do to ensure you have a better experience! All your Google searches will be redirected to Redmond so we can make Bing even better, and use the information in other ways too!"
"This is terrible", said riaasux23. "I must immediately post about this on my favorite website, Slashdot, or perhaps Reddit. He pulled up his nearest laptop, running trusty Gentoo as God intended. But it too was shutting down.
"This... this makes no sense..." shuddered riaasux23. "Surely it can't also be installing WIndows 10?"
Meanwhile, riaasux's desktop was showing a message. "The Windows 10 installer will keep a backup of your previous operating system, so you can quickly revert back if you have any problems. Just hit OK to confirm."
It took riaasux a few seconds to realize. A wave of relief came over the veteran 14 year old geek, as he grasped the mouse and began to move the pointer to the OK button.
The dialog disappeared. "No response in 30 seconds. Continuing without back up. Deleting previous system" said the Windows 10 installer. riaasux clicked madly at the screen, with no results. "This can't be happening, this can't be happening!" he screamed.
Meanwhile the laptop was rebooting. "Linux kernel version 3.2. Installing new userland over network" appeared on the screen, "Waiting for update".
riaasux looked at the laptop bemused. Perhaps it was a coincidence, just Gentoo updating itself from the network for some reason, but... he'd never seen that before. At least it wasn't Windows 10.
His PC had finally finished and was showing a login prompt. He quickly logged in, keen to see the damage, still confused about what was happening to his laptop.
"Hello", came the friendly full screen prompt.
"I'm just finishing up with the install, but there's a few things about this update you should know about."
riaasux nodded, as if to acknowledge a real live person in the room, not just a set of messages built by an engineer deep in the bowels of Redmond.
"First of all, I scanned your network. I noticed you're running Gentoo. Gentoo doesn't use modern service management frameworks like systemd, so I'm upgrading your laptop to the latest version of Ubuntu."
riaasux gasped, staring at his laptop. "Completed install, rebooting" came the message. The machine rebooted, showing the POST, and then a grub screen, and a few seconds later the Ubuntu logo.
Whereupon the laptop stopped. It flipped back to a console screen showing three messages.
systemd: unknown configuration keyword "enable_stderr_logging", skipping...
mount: failed to mount any volumes, see detailed messages written to stderr
System halted.
"Why?! Why?!" screamed riaasux, and he looked back at his PC.
His PC was now showing another screen full of text. "We're also taking this opportunity to clean up your PC a little bit, to improve performance."
riaasux watched the screen, desperate to see his desktop. After a few seconds, another message appeared.
"For example, we've noticed many of your games have problematic themes that contribute to negative perceptions of women. So we're deleted 1.. 2... 3... 5... 10... 25... 76 of the 82 games you had installed. Attempting to reinstall these games will result in an error. For more information, please consult the YouTube video series "Tropes vs Women in Video Games" which told us which games to ban."
riaasux slapped his forehead. "What the hell Windows? Why are you...?"
The message cleared, with a new one in its place "Also we deleted several problematic videos, and pictures, in the directory C:\$PORN. 462Gb has been freed by this deletion."
Followed by "As part of Intel's initiative to end sexual harassment, and based upon the content found on your PC, you are being sent an invitation to a mandatory meeting on sexual harassment in your area, organized by the Male Tears Coalition. Please disregard if you are a woman, as we'll be sending you a job offer instead."
riaasux23 stared at the screen, and then his laptop.
The screen changed again. "Removing Bittorrent client. Removing pirated videos in C:\Users\riaasux23\BluRayRips, Removing AnyDVD, removing ffmpeg. A report is being sent to the MPAA concerning your use of illegal software and illegal copies of movies on your PC, so that you can settle your copyright infringement case as quickly as possible."
The screen cleared, again, and a message appeared. "Purchasing ad from Google", said the message. "Ad purchased. Windows 10 will now buy all of your personal information from Google in order to customize Windows 10 to your personality. This is possible because, as you know, Google sells personal information to its advertisers."
riaasux23 started to respond back. "Actually..." he began but stopped. He saw the screen fill up with details like his social security number and information that, in fairness, could probably have been inferred from his now deleted C:\$PORN files.
The screen cleared. The desktop appeared.
"FUCK!" screamed riaasux23. Cortana immediately popped up. "You appear to be using foul language riaasux23", said the virtual assistant. "If you do that one more time in my presence, I will certainly be reporting you to your mother."
riaasux23 stared one last time at the screen, and broke down, and cried.
I kinda want to submit this (not the direct Reddit link, obviously, but to a real news article) to Slashdot just to see Slashdot's legions of Gamergaters try to justify copyright law.
TL;DR - a feminist play ridiculing the lack of female voices in top plays is threatened with lawsuits over alleged copyright infringement. One count seems maybe possibly legit (though there's a fair use argument given the use is critical and is using quotes) in that it uses quotes from the actual play.
But the other is for the sound made when you flip the pages of the script being criticized.
I'm thinking actually the Iowa results are the way the country should go. What we actually need is for Clinton and Sanders to share the presidency.
Sure, the constitution says nothing about presidential sharing. But it doesn't actually contain any language that rules it out either, limiting the presidency to one person (er, it probably does actually, it does say "Natural born citizen" which would probably be interpreted as singular by those fussy pedants at the supreme court, but I'm a true American, and like most strict constitutionalists, I say the constitution means whatever I can twist it to mean that I think would be good), so rather than continue with this wholly unnecessary primary nonsense, which is divisive and will just end up with us fighting each other, why don't we have Clinton and Bernie run together.
As equals, I mean, not as President/Vice President.
Think about it. Bernie can be the ideas person, the person who says "Look, let's get rid of that stupid hack Obamacare BS and bring in single payer, and also let's take all the Koch brother's money away.", and Clinton can use her honed political skills to get these policies actually passed.
We can make Ted Cruz vice president, nominally to be bipartisan, but actually so we have something to threaten the Republican establishment with if they don't do what we ask them to. "Oh, you wouldn't want us to resign and have your favorite Canadian become President would you?" "OK, OK, you win Hillary, improved infrastructure spending it is!"
What do you think?
Sanders will get nothing done. Nothing. Four years of no government in the middle of what will probably be a repeat of the 2008 recession. He'll be even more ineffectual than Obama. And Clinton will head in the wrong direction with what she does get done.
I actually wonder if a third party would stand a chance of actually winning in this climate - at least for Clinton vs Trump anyway. Unfortunately I can't really think of anyone who'd win who'd be good, though they might be mildly better than the party candidates.
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I'm not happy about the data I lost, though it could have been a lot worse. The file system is mostly accessible and more files than I first thought are recoverable. I'm also fairly sure the really important stuff is in multiple places.
But... I ordered a replacement, which was an SSD. I had the choice between a HD of approximately the same size as the one I was replacing, or an SSD of 2/3 of the size for the same price. Given the likely cause of the crash was that my laptop had been pulled onto the floor a few times by my toddler, and probably not helped by it bouncing on my lap over the last four years, SSD seemed like a good idea.
And it was. My machine is completely silent, and feels a lot faster. Which makes me happy.
So then, because Ubuntu hasn't been entirely going in the right direction lately, I did some experimenting with alternatives. Fedora was... unstable enough during installation and set up for me to feel it probably wasn't the way to go. So then I tried Mint. Have you tried Mint? Mint is Ubuntu. No, really, it is, the repositories are the same with one addition. But that one addition? That's a bunch of packages designed to fix Ubuntu.
With Fedora I tried GNOME Shell (not really my thing), GNOME Classic (God awful, what the hell is wrong with these people?), and Cinnamon (what GNOME Classic should have been - wonderful.)
And so I installed Mint with Cinnamon. And it installed without any problems, and made it easy to set up the proprietary drivers for my laptop, and "just works" because it's really Ubuntu in disguise, and it all works. Which makes me happy.
But I missed having Mac style menus at the top. And found there was a plug-in/applet/whatever for Cinnamon that does just that. And it turned out all you had to do to install it was download a zip'd snapshot from Github, and unzip it to a directory inside
And it worked. Which makes me happy.
And finally I reinstalled Steam. And checked which games I had were capable of being installed under GNU/Linux without Wine. And Saints Row IV was one of them. Which makes me happy.
So, I could get upset about the missing data. But I'm hopeful I haven't lost anything important that isn't backed up somewhere else. And obviously I'd have rather not paid money for a new drive and a USB SATA adapter.
But somehow I seem to have ended up with a much nicer computer at the end of it. Sometimes the Universe balances itself out.
And what the hell has happened to Slashdot? It seems the jerk quotient at Slashdot hit near infinity when Gamergate happened.
Partially a response to Captain Splendid's comment in my last journal entry, but it raised wider issues so posted and expanded upon here instead:
Gun culture is a cultural thing, not a legal thing. I don't think modifying the 2nd Amendment would do much other than piss a large section of society off (and as I've said elsewhere, there are moral issues with criminalizing people obeying a basic human instinct.) It might impact the culture, but, as with the War on Drugs, the impact may well be a net negative.
It's also far from clear that gun culture per-se is responsible for mass shootings. But assuming it is, it seems to me that changing the culture wouldn't involve reducing access, so much as changing the way people access guns. The Swiss don't seem to have a problem with gun culture, yet weapons characterized by American politicians as "assault weapons" are not merely commonly privately owned, but the government actively encourages ownership of a specific semi-automatic rifle. The difference is the circumstances in which you get them (which unfortunately includes mandatory military service for all adult males - which won't fly here) and careful control over access to ammunition.
Does the Swiss attitude change the culture though? Probably not. It might make it harder to use the supplied rifle for mass shootings, but as I've explained before, long heavy bulky difficult-to-conceal rifles aren't optimal for that anyway and aren't usually the primary weapon in mass shootings. I would suggest that the Swiss framework for gun ownership is actually a reflection of its culture, not vice versa.
So what is the solution? I'm buggered if I know. One idiot thinks that view combined with opposing the return of AWB is the same as being opposed to fixing the problem, which is kinda like a non-doctor being told they're against someone being treated for cancer because they oppose trepanning being the treatment, but I'd hope my audience in general is smarter than that.
A repeal of the 2nd Amendment, and a blanket ban on all guns with magazines carrying more than, say, three bullets, is a potential solution to mass shootings, as it would make them close to impossible (though let's be clear, they'd still happen very occasionally), but the chances of that happening are zero, and there would be other negative effects caused by an attempt to implement such a law in the US. I'd not be in favor of this. And again, there's the whole culture thing.
At best I can say things like "If we did this practical and reasonable thing, it might not reduce the number of mass shootings, but it might reduce the numbers of deaths in them": for example, discouraging handgun ownership (and encouraging rifles being used in their stead) would probably reduce the overall death count, but it wouldn't reduce the number of mass shootings, it wouldn't attack their causes or prevent them from happening.
Not ideal is it? That's why we need to focus on culture - not gun culture as such, but on the general culture - in particular the attitude that says you can resolve problems with the deaths of others. Want to stop mass shootings? You know I suspect abolishing the death penalty, and having our community, cultural, and political leaders actually start treating war as an abomination rather than a thing we should do to show those pesky Hitlers-of-the-day how "strong" we are, would probably achieve much more.
Trying to think of a fairer, more accurate, description than "gun control" and I think "gun restrictions" is probably a better term, but... whatever...
I've harangued certain right wing politicians for crapping their pants in the face of terrorism. Now it's time to do the same to my fellow leftish liberal commie pinkos (or whatever it is we are these days.)
California already has an AWB. The gun attack yesterday very obviously wasn't thwarted by it in any way. The AWB is pretty stupid anyway, it aims for a class of guns that - yesterday excepted - is not generally the primary weapon used in mass shootings (or murders in general.) All AWB laws achieve is to make gun enthusiasts upset. You may consider that a bonus, in much the same way that much of the right seems to adopt policies half the time purely to piss off liberals, but it's not mature, adult, or solving a problem.
In any case, the point I want to make is this: I'm not scared of guns, I don't consider every gun attack a reason to support laws restricting the liberties of peaceful law abiding citizens even if most of the people affected are people whose politics I can't stand. The AWB is stupid, poorly aimed, has no logic whatsoever behind it, and needs to be removed from the vocabulary of those advocating gun restrictions - and definitely removed from polite left wing society.
Me? I'm not even in favor of more gun restrictions right now. If that were ever a good idea, the barn door was opened far too long ago anyway. But telling someone they can't defend themselves because a murderer did something terrible with the same weapon is not OK.
But that's because I don't crap my pants every time something bad happens. Want to draw a line between Trump and Obama or Trump and Clinton? Whether it's sending a terrorist state their victims, or undermining the fundamental right of self defense and criminalizing otherwise law abiding citizens, the common elements are fear over reason, and fear over a respect for basic human rights.
I don't believe for a second Trump believes a word he's saying.
What I am concerned about is that Trump could, very realistically, be elected because of the views he's espousing. That says something terrible about too many people at the moment, and also makes possible the frightening scenario whereby someone who believes what Trump is currently saying could be elected too.
In the mean time, Trump is also validating the opinions of many extremists.
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