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With its bold claims of Asian representation, the Hollywood film extravaganza Crazy Rich Asians was destined for intense scrutiny, coming as it does after bitter debates about whitewashing and "yellowface" casting – where white actors attempt to make themselves look Asian.
But like the proverbial "tiger mum", many Asians have huge expectations for the film – might the weight of it all prove too much?
A wealthy elite, backstabbing intrigue, and a grand romance set in a gilded world of opulence.
Last weekend, a record-breaking half a billion people in China tuned in online to watch their very own crazy rich Asian drama, The Story of Yanxi Palace.
It's not just Chinese soap operas that are doing well these days. From Bollywood films to Korean dramas to Thai cinema, entertainment made by Asians and starring Asians is thriving like never before.
So when Crazy Rich Asians opens in Asia next week, its claims as a flag bearer for Asian representation may baffle some.
The film, whose cast is entirely Asian, tells a Cinderella-like story: an ordinary Asian-American woman gets swept up in the glamorous world of the uber-elite Chinese when she travels to Singapore to meet her boyfriend's family.
For Asian-Americans, who up till now only had the 1993 movie Joy Luck Club as their cultural touchstone, Crazy Rich Asians is understandably a huge deal. The New York Times has hailed it a "cinematic Halley's comet", one carrying a whole community's hopes for greater representation in mainstream US culture.
The movie doesn't just affirm Asian-Americans' experience as a minority in the US. It's also a direct repudiation of Hollywood's long tradition of sidelining Asians, whether it's casting them in stereotypical roles of the inscrutable sidekick or femme fatale, or doing yellowface.
But across the Pacific, in a rising and confident Asia, these concerns may hardly resonate, if at all.
Asians here have long had their own representation in Asian entertainment, which is growing increasingly successful and accessible across the region thanks to the internet. This is a world where Hollywood tends to play second fiddle.
It may be why whitewashing, which is when white actors take Asian roles, appears to be less of a concern, with Asian press and social media often slower to pick up the debate compared to the West. The furore that erupted in the US when Scarlett Johansson was cast as the lead in the Hollywood live-action remake of Japanese anime Ghost in the Shell was largely met with a shrug in Japan, for instance.
"Hollywood whitewashing is not an issue that most Japanese people in Japan care about. Why? They see themselves represented in Japanese media all the time," said one viewer quoted in a Screen Daily report.
It's not that Asians in Asia don't care at all about being authentically represented in Hollywood. Tellingly, another Japanese viewer told The Hollywood Reporter that it was "better" to have made Johansson's character white as it "would be worse [if it had been] someone from another Asian country pretending to be Japanese".
This is exactly what happened with the 2005 film Memoirs of a Geisha, which was met with a monumental backlash when it cast Chinese actresses as Japanese characters – an unforgivable sin to some, given the two countries' bitter history.
Movies like Eat Pray Love and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel have been slammed by Indian reviewers for "brimming over with clichés" about India, while fantasy action flick The Great Wall also had some Chinese rolling their eyes – not so much for its casting of Matt Damon in a controversial "white saviour" role, but more for its tokenistic representation of China.
"The Chinese element has basically been reduced to sky lanterns, Chinese military armour, the Great Wall, and other symbols of Eastern culture," complained one critic.
Many of these controversies, of course, could be attributed to specific historical sensitivities and cultural issues. And which country in the world wouldn't feel protective of its depiction by outsiders, let alone Hollywood with its unsurpassed global reach?
But perhaps authenticity in such instances means more than just an Asian cast and story. It's also about paying respect to the particular complexities, complicated intertwined histories, and the values a country or region holds dear. In other words, if Hollywood treads on our turf and "does Asia", it better do it right.
Set in Singapore with a story about a Chinese family, Crazy Rich Asians and its bold – some say overreaching – claims of representations has inevitably ended up as something of a lightning rod for such expectations.
Its focus on East Asian faces immediately provoked complaints of its lack of diversity from Americans of South and South East Asian heritage, and the Twitter hashtag #BrownAsiansExist was created.
It's a sentiment shared by some in Singapore, where race is a particularly pointed issue.
The Chinese-majority country, which has significant Malay, Indian and Eurasian communities, has a history of race riots and strictly enforces multiculturalism through race-based policies. But some minority-race Singaporeans say casual racism is still an issue.
Then there is the film's unabashed celebration of wealth, which comes at a time where Singapore faces a large inequality gap. "This movie is opening smack in the middle of our ongoing conversations about privilege, poverty and social mobility. It's a stark juxtaposition and may come as a rude shock for some," political scientist Dr Ian Chong told the BBC.
Given that this is the most prominent Hollywood outing yet for the country, many are also scrutinising the film for its Singaporean authenticity.
The cast of the movie is dominated by Asian-Americans and British East Asians, with Singaporean actors mostly in supporting roles. Singaporean cast members have also said they were told to use less Singlish, Singapore's unique brand of English and a central marker of identity; and the movie trailer featured almost no Singaporean accents.
Some have taken these as worrying signs that Crazy Rich Asians, in its eagerness to further its representation goals, is misrepresenting Singapore and using it as a mere "backdrop" for Asian-American fantasies.
"What grates on me the most is that many Asian-Americans I've encountered online are championing this as a triumph for representation, but also dispensing with the need to accurately draw from the setting and history of the place the film's set in," magazine editor Ruby Thiagarajan told the BBC.
Part of it has to do with an overall anxiety over 53-year-old Singapore's national identity, or its perceived lack of it.
"We are a young country, and many narratives of national identity – Singapore is not Malaysia nor China, we are no longer a fishing village – involve being defined in the negative. This begs the question: what then makes a Singaporean in the positive sense?" said Dr Chong.
For a society of only six million people, the country has a remarkably diverse mix of races, cultures, languages and religions. "Singapore has many worlds," said film critic John Lui. "We are forging our own pop culture that is a melting pot, but it is happening very slowly."
But is it fair to saddle Crazy Rich Asians with all of these "crazy" Asian expectations?
Some say yes. Activist Kirsten Han has pointed out that since the film "markets itself as a representation win" for Asians, "it shouldn't be surprising that Singaporeans, too, expect thoughtfulness and authenticity and representation".
Recently, some involved in the movie have tried to address such concerns. Director Jon M Chu said it would be "ridiculous" for one movie to represent all Asians, while lead actress Constance Wu acknowledged that the film "won't represent every Asian-American".
It's an approach which some may feel is disingenuous.
"The movie does want to have it both ways. They say they are winning a victory for Asian-Americans, but they're also saying they don't want to have that burden of South Asian representation, for instance. So it's a bit hypocritical of them," Mr Lui told the BBC.
But others believe that to expect so much from the film is, in a way, practising double standards. "What does it mean that Crazy Rich Asians must accommodate simultaneous, conflicting demands… when other movies, starring white leads, are asked only to tell a single story convincingly?" said Asian-American writer Jiayang Fan.
If a film strives for representation, how far down the rabbit hole of authenticity should it go? And how much of it can a viewer reasonably demand from a Hollywood movie, a product of artifice whose main business is to peddle fantasy?
These were just some of the questions I found myself struggling with at a recent advance screening, anxiously dreading this portrayal of my country on screen.
Without giving anything away, I'll just say these may be questions simply too big and exhausting to ask of a fluffy romantic comedy. And let's face it, they probably won't be foremost in the minds of many cinema-goers in Asia when the film opens here next week.
So for two hours I allowed myself to be swept up in the Hollywood spectacle. Like everyone else, I just wanted a good time at the movies.


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For the past two weeks the Syrian conflict has put the Jewish state on an emotional roller coaster. It began with the massive chemical attack which occurred four hours' drive from Tel Aviv and continued with the debate over military intervention which prompted Bashar al-Assad and his allies to threaten retaliation against Israel.
The Assad regime, Hezbollah and their loyalists in Gaza have tens of thousands of rockets pointed at Israel, with the trigger for much of that arsenal located in Tehran. Combine that with Assad's apparent willingness to gas his own capital and you've got enough of a threat to send Israelis scrambling to grab gas masks and ready their bomb shelters.
The tensions in Israel culminated in one of the Israel Defense Force's largest antimissile battery deployments and a reserve call-up. Those tensions dropped almost immediately — along with the jaws of many Israelis — when President Obama announced on Aug. 31 that he would refer the decision to strike Syria to Congress.
Obama's decision has given Israel a window to contemplate the risks and benefits of foreign intervention. But the frenzy that plucked people off the beach, out of coffee shops and into gas-mask lines shouldn't fool anyone.
Israelis understand the risks of even limited intervention more than most, and are willing to brave those dangers to achieve the greater goal of smashing the Iranian axis and recalibrating stability in the region.
As Washington debates ground troops, time frames and end-games, Israel has found creative ways to get the message across to its enemies that even a minor provocation could result in their outright destruction.
On Aug. 22, anti-Assad jihadists in Lebanon fired four rockets into northern Israel, causing minor damage and no casualties. The Israeli army responded the following day with an airstrike against a secular, pro-Assad Palestinian militant group a few kilometers from the bunker of Hezbollah's chief, Hassan Nasrallah, in southern Beirut.
This peculiar choice of targets wasn't a mistake. It was a message to the Assad regime that any provocations-by-proxy would be met with a heavy-handed response.
For Israel there is no such thing as a "limited strike" or "punishment" when it comes to deterrence, and Israeli leaders have openly threatened to topple the Assad regime or destroy Hezbollah's infrastructure in Lebanon.
These aren't empty threats. Israeli fighter-bombers are as trained in carrying out multiple strikes as they are in evading Syria's sophisticated air defense systems. Adding to the punch are Israel's unparalleled intelligence capabilities in Syria — which allowed it to insert a Jewish spy named Eli Cohen to become chief adviser to Syria's minister of defense in the 1960s; to uncover its alleged ultra-secret nuclear reactor in 2007; and to intercept initial communications apparently depicting Assad regime involvement in the Aug. 21 chemical attacks in Damascus.
For now, this deterrence is all that is stopping Assad and Hezbollah from drawing Israel into the conflict. Both parties failed to retaliate against reported Israeli airstrikes against Hezbollah-destined weapons convoys in Syria since January, or the testing of a dummy ballistic missile in the Mediterranean on Sept. 3.
That test set off Russian alarms over a possible cruise missile strike, but the silence in Beirut, Damascus and Tehran could be heard all the way from Jerusalem.
The prevalent assessment in the Israeli government is that Hezbollah and the Assad regime will not draw Israel into the conflict in response to limited foreign intervention. Iran needs Hezbollah's arsenal intact to respond to a possible Israeli assault against its nuclear program, while Assad needs his military for the civil war.
But there is still plenty of room for miscalculations that could flip a limited U.S. strike into a regional conflagration. Assad's proxies in Lebanon and Gaza have threatened to fire rockets at Israel in response to any strike, while Hezbollah is reportedly weighing the opening of its own front if it appears that intervention will threaten the Syrian regime's survival.
Such a move could complicate any American military campaign and possibly save the Assad regime — Hezbollah's main arms supplier and political guarantor — from imminent destruction.
Putting aside the cold calculations of warfare and strategy, the gassing of innocent families has evoked sympathies in Israel that surpass a decades-long rivalry with their Syrian neighbors. Bitter memories of the Holocaust still dominate Israel's national psyche and continue to fuel the country's efforts to maintain its powerful military.
As the fate of the region hangs in the balance of the U.S. Congress debate, Israelis will be watching, fully aware of the risks, and hoping for an American strike.
Daniel Nisman is the Middle East intelligence manager at Max Security Solutions, a geopolitical and security risk consulting firm.

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Strange strike on Idlib school: massive explosion, undamaged furniture and no blood (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
Overnight into October 27 2016 news feed of all world editions were full with tragedy in Hass, Idlib province.
As a result of explosion in one of Hass schools at least 28 people died, 22 children among them.
All the officials including UN besides condolescence and condemnation are extremely carefully-worded about sources of that explosion, the do rush inro bringing any official accusations. But the so called semi-official anti-Rusian media and various «couch-based experts» are already interrupting each other and accusing Russian Air Forces for Hass tragedy.
Those accusations are baked with photos and even videos of dubious origin, with no evidence that the vides were filmed in Hass province at some particular time.
Let's look closer at thoe "evidences" being spread through social media by Syrian opposition now.
The video of anti-governmental edition RFS Media really shows an airstrike but there are no evidence that it is Hass and that is Oct 27, 2016.
Now let's try to match the video and character of damages caused by explosion on one of the most popular videos from alleged place of tragedy.
That red piece of clothing is very strange looking, it really loks like it was deliberately left there. If a director meant it was soaked with blood then why the copybook is white? If there is a place of massive explosion then why that clothing isn' covered with dust? It looks extremelydoubtful that there are no traces of any injured on the photo.
These photographs demonstrate obvious mismatch of classroom damages and force of alleged explosion which was shown on the video. All he damages as we may see here are limited to demolished wall from one side and holes in the opposite wall.
Force of explosion shown on the video outmatches the damages on these photos (after such explosion the building would be demolished to rock bottom).
Then the scenery of that classroom: pay attention that furniture remains almost intact and there are no traces of injured and wounded people. As there no traces of them on the other photos.
Even the footage itself raises certain doubts. The video looks like deliberately folmed, the camera is directed straight to explosion site.
As for Russian Air Force action Russian Ministry of Defence announced there were no operational flights of RUAF over Hass and its outskirts.
As reported by «Russian Spring» official spokesman of Russian Defence Ministry, General Major Igor Konashenkov commnted the information on Hass school bombardment and called it false.
«Today in the morning Russian unmanned aerial vihecle was directed in that region for detailed aerial survey of Hass. As may be seen on the photographs (see below) there are neither dmanages of the school roof nor shell craters in the surrounding area», he told at a briefing.
To sum up we wuld like to remind that any contradictory or doubtful photos or videos cannot be ground for accusations against RUAF or Syrian governmental aviation.
Besides all these photos and videos look very much like fake. A staged and directed one but fake made by Jabgat an-Nusra* terrorirsts controlling that region.
* terror organization banned in Russian Federation


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Craft Bash: Meet There There Collective
Craft Bash: Meet There There Collective
We're counting down the days until our holiday Craft Bash on December 1 and its preview party on November 30. Both events feature more than 70 talented Minnesota makers. We asked our co-curators, There There Collective, to give us some insight into who they are, the artists they curated, and what they're looking forward to about the event.
Tell us about There There Collective.
We are a collective of women who are all about supporting one another. Our work is tied together through collaborative efforts, a shared aesthetic, and a drive to create objects that inspire one another. Our collective is rooted in friendship and began as the post-college project of Lucy Voller and Molly Martancik to keep each other motivated to make art. It gradually evolved to include Lauren Traver and Katie Woodling, who were both makers in the same community. We have loved being able to work alongside each other and share the burden of what it takes to run a small creative business. With each other's support and the support of our community, we hope to be able to continue to grow There There into a thriving collective.
What are you most looking forward to about Craft Bash?
We love having opportunities to connect face-to-face with other creatives and our customers. It's always fun to see work that you admire online in real life. We are excited about all the artists that we are featuring – particularly women artists whose work is truly original and forward-thinking.
Tell us about your curatorial process and some of the artists you're excited about.
Choosing vendors for the event was extremely fun. The four of us got together one weekend morning at Modern Times Cafe to think about whose work inspires us. It wasn't too hard, since we all know and admire many artists. There was a lot of overlap with our choices, but in many ways the vendors we chose represent each of our personalities. We're excited to see what everyone brings to the event. It's always great to see what Ben Fiess is working on. We especially enjoy how his forms combine sculpture and functionality. The pieces are beautiful on their own, but also serve a purpose in the home. We also love the creative expression that comes through with Rachel Corradi and Hannah Brown's work. Plus, we're always into female collaboration. Element Ayurvedic Apothecary is another maker we're looking forward to having at the event, with their full range of goodies to take your self-care to the next level. We think the Craft Bash will be a great representation of the fun and exciting things happening in the Twin Cities handmade world.
Check out the artist directory and details for Craft Bash and get preview party tickets.


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This temple, dedicated to Lord Krishna, was built in the 8th century AD under the patronage of the Pallavas, housing the idols of the five avataras of Sri Vishnu. It has a small temple shrine dedicated to Vishnu's consort called Vedavalli Ammai in this part of the country. While dedicated to Vishnu in his incarnation as Krishna, the Parthasarathy Temple at Triplicane enshrines images of the five incarnations of Vishnu including that of a wounded Krishna.
Parthasarathy literally means the 'charioteer of Arjuna'. Partha is another name for Arjuna and Sarathy means charioteer. Lord Krishna served as the charioteer of the Pandava Arjuna in the Great War of Mahabharatha. It's one of the oldest surviving temples in Chennai. It was built by the Pallavas and later renovated by the Vijayanagar rulers.
The Pandyas and Cholas contributed some changes. Traces of the architectural signs of the Vijayanagar kings, who ruled as late as the 16th century, are also evident in the temple structure. The main shrine is for Venkatakrishnan with Rukmini, Balaraman, Satyaki, Anirudha, Pradyumna - in a standing posture facing east. There are shrines for Ranganathar in a reclining posture with a separate sanctum for his consort Vedavalli.
There are shrines facing the east for Rama along with Sita, Lakshmana, Bharata, Shatrugna and Hanuman, Varadarajan seated on the Garuda, and Narasimhar in a seated posture. Apart from these, there is a separate shrine for Andal.
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Cellular mobile in West Babylon is an electronic device used to make mobile telephone calls across a wide geographic area, served by many public cells, allowing the user to be mobile. By contrast, a wireless telephone in West Babylon is used only within the range of a single, private base station, for example within a home or an office. Cellular phones can make and receive telephone calls to and from the public telephone network which includes other mobiles and fixed-line phones. It does this by connecting to a cellular network provided by a mobile network operator. They also support a wide variety of other services like text messaging, MMS, e-mail, internet access, short-range wireless communications, business applications, gaming and photography.
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- Design and Direct Your Job Search Strategy
Thursday, October 18, 2018
2:00 pm - 4:30 pm
A plan is a great place to start or refocus your job search. We'll start with an overview of the elements of a job search and work together on the planning and organizing skills you need to maintain momentum and land your next position.
By the end of this workshop, you will:
- create or refine your job search planning calendar
- discuss three tools or skills to plan your job search
- generate a plan for the next 24 to 48 hours to kickstart your search
- learn more about other JVS workshops you can sign up for
Venue: JVS Headquarters
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Structure is a necessary tool for change.
It has taken me a long time (longer than I care to admit) to accept this truth. I've understood it as a concept, but resisted taking it to heart. But where I have struggled to make change in my work and life, I have also resisted or rejected structure. I can point to situations when I have achieved temporary results by following structure. But then I threw out the structure -- and lost the discipline it helped create. It's not a coincidence that where I have resisted or rejected structure, I have had mixed or unsustainable results.
I see it in organizations all the time. Last week, in fact.
The sales manager started a metrics dashboard for the sales team in 2016. The board hangs on the wall to this day, but the information on it has not changed in months. He used to have a weekly stand-up meeting with the sales team, filling in the data and sharing information. He used the board and the meeting as an intervention -- a way to create internal competition, highlight desired behavior, and celebrate wins. The first months the new process was a success. Sales activity and results went up. But over time the meetings felt repetitive and the sales people complained about taking time to meet. They did not meet unless the manager was present to run the meeting. Thinking the meeting had served its purpose, the manager ended the practice. The board now serves only as a reminder of a "flavor of the month" process.
Unfortunately, the "success" attained was temporary, too. Activity and results have steadily declined despite each sales person receiving those same stats via email each morning.
When we introduce structure as an intervention -- a way to improve focus (and hopefully, results) -- we tend to assume it will be temporary -- and thus, the structure is easier to sell and to accept. We can do anything for 90 days -- even a year. And then afterward we can go back to "normal."
But what was "normal" is what created the problem in the first place. The intervention would be unnecessary if there wasn't a problem to solve. Some situations may call for a temporary fix; others need a more permanent change in approach. It depends on the habits you want to change and how ingrained old habits are.
Quality management programs like ISO9000, Lean and Six Sigma are all interventions. Each brings a variation on structure into the workplace, whether it be through process definition or improvement. Each also requires a forever commitment if an organization is to fully reap the financial benefits from investments in such programs. Any sign of wavering will slow progress -- and can even stop it in its tracks. The checklists and tools offer the structure. In utilizing them consistently, you provide the discipline. In organizations, leadership is cause and all else is effect. Does your organization lack discipline in utilizing tools? Do you struggle to complete activities on time? If you've scrambled to shore up before an audit, then you know what I mean. Look to the leaders to understand why. Something about the structure has not been fully embraced.
That said, it may not be intentional.
At some point in my career, I started using a day timer to track meeting notes and tasks, as well as how I was using my time. It wasn't my idea; my supervisor required it. I had a nice one -- full size pages, leather case -- and I carried it everywhere. I used my day timer, my electronic calendar, and sticky notes to stay on top of my to-do's. When I left the corporate world, I left my day timer behind. I purchased a pad folio -- much cheaper and lighter to carry, and kept a to-do list at my desk. As my business grew, I found it more difficult to get tasks done on time and to stay on track. Something was missing.
On a routine trip to the office supply store, I wandered through the calendar aisle. I found a planner with a week view and enough room to write and started tracking how I used my time. I use this method still today. As a "structure" working in partnership with my to-do list and online calendar, it helps me be more productive and to keep my commitments. There have been periods of time when I have not used it and I've noticed the difference. With it, I'm more productive, proactive, and organized.
A structure is more difficult to adhere to long term when you don't experience tangible results -- or when results take longer to see or feel. Diet and exercise is an easy example, given the statistics on failed attempts to lose weight. It helps to determine up front whether the intervention you're planning is short term or long term. If short term, plan the ending. If long term, plan for challenging times -- for struggle and resistance. Either way, leave the possibility open that you may need that structure forever to say on track. It can take months for a new meeting structure to produce a change in how a team works and solves problems together. Or years for a culture of continuous improvement to take hold.
Whatever the change you seek, surrender to the necessity of structure as tool for change.


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Effects of Dianabol
Dianabol is unmatched in its ability to enhance virtually any physique making it one of the best steroids for pure power and massive size. Not surprisingly, any powerful drug will come with issues: negative effects do exist. However, they can be mitigated or eliminated with a little moderation and responsibility. But that's not why we're writing this article today. Today, we want to concentrate on the positive effects of Dianabol, and let athletes know what you should expect.
The positive effects of Dianabol on mass building is nothing short of amazing. No other steroid out there compares to the use of Dianabol when it comes to building mass quickly. Many athletes misunderstand dosing protocols, and claim other orals like Anadrol or Testoviron are more powerful drug for building mass. However, when you compare the two on a milligram basis Dbol is clearly more powerful. It is common to see gains of twenty pounds or more in only five weeks. Now, most of this weight gain can be water, if you don't manage it. If you are able to manage the water retention, you will still build a massive amount of lean tissue. It's impossible to say how much, but Dianabol will help you gain more mass at a faster pace than any other anabolic steroid on the market.
The effects of Dianabol on strength can be outstanding. Because of its hepatoxic (liver damaging) characteristics it can only be used for shorter cycle periods. Nevertheless, it will not take long to see an increase in strength. Athletes who consume a higher-than-normal calorie diet may see their strength noticeably increase in just a couple of weeks. Even those on maintenance-calorie diets have reported dramatic strength increase as an effect of Dianabol. This effect of Dianabol comes from its ability to improve glycogenolysis and provide more energy via carbohydrate consumption. Improved protein assimilation also plays an important part but bottom line, it's all about increased strength.
There are some surprising effects Dianabol can have on athleticism. Even though it is considered primarily as a bodybuilding steroid, D bol is actually a terrific steroid for enhancing athleticism. Whether or not it is the right choice depends greatly on your specific goals. After all if you remember, Dianabol was originally created to enhance athleticism in Olympic athletes. Many athletes worry about the mass gain associated with Dianabol, but that can be successfully managed through diet. When it comes to power and strength, the use of Dianabol for any athlete can mean explosive speed and increased endurance that can be the difference between a first place or last place.
What to Expect:
First and foremost, the number one effect of Dianabol is muscle growth. However, Dianabol is not a magic pill you still have to put in time at the gym and maintain proper nutrition. The results you achieve are largely dependent on carbohydrate and protein consumption. If you don't provide adequate calories to feed the growth that Dianabol facilitates, that growth will fail to occur. Of course, one of the main side effects of Dianabol being water retention, some of this growth will be water weight. This water retention is a side effect caused by aromatization, and can be mitigated by supplementing with an aromatase inhibitor such as Arimidex.
Another positive effects of Dianabol include an increase in lean tissue and physical power. It is such a effective steroid it can still provide dramatic increases in power, even when calorie consumption is cut to a maintenance or even deficit-level.


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Romania supports Macedonia's bids to join NATO, EU May 30, 2010Posted by Yilan in EU, European Union, Macedonia, NATO.
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Romanian President Traian Basescu said on Thursday that his country would give its unconditional support to Macedonia's bids to join NATO and the European Union.
Basescu, who is paying an official visit to Macedonia, made the announcement at a joint press conference with his Macedonian counterpart Gjorge Ivanov, news reaching here from Skopje said.
"I am glad that President Basescu expressed Romania's readiness to be Macedonia's voice in the EU and NATO. They can present our positions where we are unable to take part," Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov said.
On the issue of the name row between Macedonia and Greece, Basescu said his country wouldn't give exclusive support to either Macedonia or Greece, but to a reasonable compromise between the two countries.
"We do not give exclusive support to any of the parties. We support reasonable compromise, a mutual settlement that satisfies both sides," he stressed.
Greece has been opposed to its northern neighbor using the name of Macedonia, arguing that the name implies territorial claims against its own northern province of Macedonia.
Macedonia's efforts to join NATO and the EU have been blocked over the issue, which has dogged the two neighbors for the past 19 years.
Basescu also reiterated that his country will not recognize the independence of Kosovo, a southern Serbian province which declared unilateral independence from Serbia in early 2008.
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- Tannin : No
- Sweetness : Dry
- Body : Light
- Aromas : Fruity
- Length : Average
Ce vin s'accordera parfaitement avec :
- Saumon fumé
- rillettes
- homard grillé
- Quiche au saumon fumé
- tartare de poisson
- Pâtes aux fruits de mer
- Escalopes de dinde à la crème
- Truite Meunière
- makis
- Moules gratinées
Domaine Vincent Pinard - Sancerre - Florès - 2017
Composition and terroir:
The appellation Sancerre is produced on the hills of Sancerrois, in the Loire Valley . The Domaine Vincent Pinard produces its wines in a traditional way, including the Sancerre which comes from the limestone and clay-limestone terroirs, on vines aged 27 years. Vincent Pinard favors few interventions in order to harvest only the best grapes of the Loire .
Grape variety:
100% Sauvignon blanc for this Sancerre Florès .
Visual aspect :
Loire wine with a light yellow color
Olfactory characteristics:
The nose of this wine of the domaine Vincent Pinard is full of fruity aromas but also woody notes.
Taste attributes:
Beautiful floral freshness and sweetness in the flavors of fresh fruits for this white vintage 2015 .
The palate is light and bright, with aromas of ripe white fruits, William Pear, tangerine flesh.
The after taste is salty with aromas of lemon zest and minerality / acidity stronger than previous vintages.


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Toller's Neighbor: A Play Based on a Danish Folktale
Readers' Theater: Plays from Around the World
Folktales often tell stories that seek to explain why certain things are the way that they are. This play, based on a Danish folktale, offers one such idea on where some precious stones may get their coloring. Along the way, readers will meet an array of characters, including a troll and a king. Colorful illustrations correlate closely with accessible, concise text and dialogue. Readers of all ages and levels will love this illuminating take on an old tale.


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Nadine White Co-ordinator
Update - 15 June 2015
Hi All - Well I think the whole of New Zealand has seen enough rain to last us a couple of months!
TVET ( Taranaki Vehicle Events Trust) is working away on securing the funding for Americarna 2016. They are hopeful of giving us an answer very soon. We have looked at making a few changes all be it only minor, however these will enhance the event making your time at Americarna even more enjoyable.
As soon as we can announce the event the better from our point of view.
All we can say for now is keep 24 - 27 February 2016 free.
Finally, its Flu season, so stay healthy and well. This round of Flu sucks, take it from me!
Cheers for now!
John & Toni


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What's wrong with this picture?
Seen this the other day when I stopped by Lowes.
Oven mitt's to keep pipes from bursting when it's cold?
You bet! Check out what a local did here in Sacramento! Picture taken by Pumpkin. Thanks honey.
Home theater
The home theater is finally cleaned and ready to go.
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Miko Approved space heater
Picked up a space heater for the house and Miko approves.
Cookie Crisp
Look at the cookie my Pumpkin bought me. 🙂
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Hi Pumpkin!
That's my Pumpkin. 🙂
What the hell is this? What has happened to the old neighborhood?!
Here's a praying mantis that my wife seen. She doesn't like them very much. One day when we were leaving for work, she freaked out because one got on her and was attached to her clothes. LOL.


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Saturday, July 29, 2017
Revisions Are Always Necessary
Yes indeed, a big ol' plate of crow for Annie the Pessimist!
I'm not literally eating crow. This is just the crow that The Morrigan sent to tell me off for being so snide to the Girl Scouts. If you didn't read my self-pitying diatribe (below), don't bother. It's not a good demonstration of the big, broad, flexible outlook.
My faith in the power of womanhood is restored, or at least greatly improved!
We Americans just witnessed the most despicable and sniveling performance by half of our nation's senators, and we were saved from the worst by two women.
The "repeal and replace Obamacare" bill was so bad that the only people made happy by it were ultra-wealthy donors to the Republican party and media outlets run by the same. By all accounts it would have raised premiums and tossed folks off the rolls. It also would have ditched the supremely sensible mandate that everyone, no matter how healthy, have health insurance.
Never mind how ridiculous this legislation was. The old, ugly beast in the photo wanted it done, and so did the many Republicans who have loudly promised to repeal and replace for years while it was super safe for them to do so. Now, with their feet to the fire, they needed to make good on their spurious promises. They needed a WIN!
But on either side of the beast, there are two women who just said no. They were under crushing pressure to adhere to the party line, and they said no. They were warned. They were given an explanation. Nevertheless, they persisted.
It's all well and good to give props to John McCain, who is actually dying, to come in and vote his conscience at the last minute, basically side-stepping that pressure. The ladies, Senators Murkowski and Collins, withstood the pressure. Thereby giving our nation's Girl Scouts a little whiff of what a powerful, brave, and principled woman can do.
The Morrigan approves of these women. No more nonsense, America! We need strong women in positions of power! And, ironically, we are at a place in history where two Republican women stood up for what was right. The Morrigan likes women who don't cave under pressure. She doesn't care what color they wear, or whether they have pins shaped like donkeys or elephants.
This week is Lughnasadh. On Sunday I travel to the Sacred Grove to celebrate first harvest. I will petition the bored gods to reward and lift up two Republican senators who showed that they cared about their people. Our tribe is not a complete mess. Hope still resides in the compassionate heart.
6 comments:
- mshatch said...
I need to write to Susan Collins and thank her. She'll like getting a nice letter from me. I wish more republicans were like her. Maybe they could all actually do something constructive.
- July 29, 2017
- anne marie in philly said...
more shit would get done around here if women lead the way!
- July 30, 2017
- JACKIESUE said...
now if they would just quit the republican party.
- July 30, 2017
- Debi said...
The republicans resist women , they FEAR them! Besides, republican & a women, that is quite a conflict in my mind
These two stude strong, stude alone. Make know mistake, McCain has just started with the 3D chess game he is playing!
- July 31, 2017
- e said...
May the Goddesses shine on these Women of Honor!
And, in the meantime, I'm going to write and thank them. I'm sure they are getting plenty of hate mail, I will tip the balance the other way.
- August 01, 2017
- Jono said...
If we can get more women in the government things will get better. They couldn't possibly do worse than the dickheads that have been running the show. It is difficult watching the country get flushed down the toilet, but what else can you do with a shitstorm?
- August 01, 2017


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Lessons Learned from MothsBy Amy Barone
November 16, 2018
I learned the art of detachment
from a destructive pest
romanticized by poets
whose origins go back millions of years.
Celestial nomads that feast on
leather, wool, silk, felt
and thrive on night
taught me to let go of longing—
animals stuffed with memories,
dolls from a distant dad,
an embroidered coat from Gimbels.
When I returned to my late mother's home,
white larvae covered elegant outfits.
Soles fell from Ferragamo pumps.
Moths cunningly coached me to occupy now,
not dwell in closets lined with past lives
nor focus on nostalgia
tarnished by death and deceit.


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12 Things Nigerian Girls Say And What They Really Mean (Photos)
According to the gospel of Nigerian Twitter:
1. "Hey, big head"
Translation: I miss you.
2. "I've never done this before…"
Translation: I've never done this before… with you.
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Aaaahhh, one of my favorite subjects: Mommy Break Time.
Mommy Break Time has evolved as my kids have aged. The Helpful Kid naps once in a blue moon, but is pretty good at entertaining herself these days. The Wiggly Toddler naps 3 to 5 days a week.
The Wiggly Toddler does this thing that the Helpful Kid never did:
She puts herself down for a nap.
Whaaaaaaaaaaat? I know–it's miraculous. But despite the miraculous nature of a Toddler possessing such a trait, I find there's still a bit of dread and frustration involved. First of all, I can't help but wonder when that karma bill will come due because, dude, that will be one expensive invoice…
***Please note that the self-directed napping does NOT mean she goes to sleep willingly at bedtime.***
Secondly, she pretty much never naps at a time that is convenient for me. We're going to leave for an appointment in 20 minutes? Out like a light. I really really really need her to stay awake until bedtime in a couple hours so she's actually tired enough to go to sleep on time? Sawing logs. Time for lunch? Too late–already off to dreamland. That last scenario usually leads to whiny demands for snacks mid-afternoon.
Don't get me wrong– I'm fully aware of how awful the alternate possibility is. An overtired toddler is fearsome to behold.
All the same, the most frustrating aspect of the self-directed napping is that she's kinda sneaky about it. I'll be working on something or cleaning something or cooking something and slowly realize how quiet it is. A quick interrogation of the Helpful Kid usually results in the indifferent answer, "She's sleeping in her bed."
Gaaaaaaaah! I've been wasting precious Mommy Break Time minutes!!!
Why does this elicit such a strong response that it must be bolded and italicized? The simple answer is that this often means that when I am finished with my work and in desperate need of a break, I will have to contend with a well-rested Wiggly Toddler.
Another way in which the Toddler differs from the kid is her
clingy cuddly personality. This trait means that, when I sit or lie down for that desperately needed break, she's attached to me like a sticky on a toddler's hand (and, also, her hands are usually sticky). And she WIGGLES. SO. FREAKING. MUCH.
And so it happened today. I had a lot of work to do today. She napped through lunch. She awoke with a wail because the Kid and I had the audacity not to sit next to her bed, watchfully, and wait reverantly for her tiniest whim to fulfill upon awakening. After
agreeing to anything to make the wailing stop placating her, I sent her out into the fenced back yard to play with the Kid.
I am exhausted today. I practically army crawled through the work I had to do today. And, somehow, I managed to get some work done.
I had finally reached that golden moment: Mommy Break Time. I have a solid hour until I have to get back up to start making dinner, so I decide to veg out with hulu for a while.
The moment my head hit pillow was the moment the Toddler decided she was all done playing outside.
So here she comes down the hallway. She crawls onto my bed with shoes on (did I mention the rain earlier in the day?). Post-shoe-removal, she snuggles in against my chest, flips over a dozen times for good measure, and ends by digging her knees into my belly. She then moves on to the natural followup of using her dirty little hands to mess with my face.
This point is where the Helpful Kid decides she's kind of lonely outside by herself and, fortunately, had found a long fallen branch. So while I'm trying to get the Wiggly Toddler to be less, well, wiggly before the next knee to the belly makes me throwup, the Kid starts banging on the bedroom window with her new prize…
Finding the outdoors boring after the proscription of her fun, the Kid proceeds to come in and attempt to engage the Toddler in some kind of indoor play. This course of action would have been preferable but for the lamentable unwillingness of the Toddler to detach herself from me.
Once I finally got them off of me and out of my room so that I could get back to my break, I glanced at the clock.
I had 5 minutes left.
(Saaaaave meeeeeee.)


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And, just like that, the moment I had been dreading for hours finally became a reality... The sun sank down behind the horizon, taking with it the last few rays of daylight. I watched in horror as the sky darkened and shivered as the air grew chilly. Little by torturous little, I was being plunged into darkness, and I was powerless to do anything to prevent it.
I teach a creative writing class to a group of high school students on Tuesdays after school. We were doing an exercise where I had each student say one word and everyone had to write whatever their first thought was concerning said word. One kid said, "Music." This is what I came up with. It surprised me... Music makes me incredibly happy. It was interesting that my mind went here that afternoon.
Music provided the background to all the parts of my life that I don't wanna remember
making me recall the one time in danced with him and
even though it felt so real and
so right and
so much like reality
chose her, my best friend with the pretty eyes, instead
Memories of that time when, right after our son was born
I saw him walking close to her
whispering words to her
sharing private jokes with her
and I watched wordlessly, tears streaming down my face, while that song played on the radio and
for years
every time I heard that song, I saw her blushing, him laughing
and felt that same emptiness in the pit of my stomach
Or that one song that reminded me of that one guy I used to love...
I remember how those lyrics made me cry until I was empty
until I physically ached
until there were no tears left
because I understood that heartache she sang about
and had no idea how to fix it, how to make the pain go away
Music makes me remember the times, places, people I wish I could forget
Makes me remember
The tears, the angst, the rejection, the regret
Music plays my sadness
Heartache over dope beats
The soundtrack of my pain
Alisa Renee
I write because a lot of what I have to say is too crass and inappropriate for me to say out loud.
October 2018


text: My sister in law Becky wanted a canvas for her daughters Jordan and Julia. I have been wanting to use an Autumn color palette recently so I picked up these colors in a pearlescent paint today. I have had the big butterfly for awhile, I drew my colors from it. We found the quote on Pinterest and thought it was so beautiful. I had Becky write it instead of me or stamping it. I wanted the girls to look at it years from now and know how their mom felt about them. The small frame you can see at the top will house a picture of both girls and will be added later.


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I looked at a model jonnyflowers was working on and wrote some suggestions that may be helpful. The model has one body, a silicon chip, inside a large rubber block.
First Observation is to set Topology to Shared in SpaceClaim, and delete the Contact in Mechanical. That creates the bond between the silicon chip and the rubber by having them share nodes instead of adding contact elements. However, contact elements can be useful if you want to get the pressure at the interface. If you need the contact, then create a New Component and put the silicon chip in that new component, leaving the other component to hold all the sliced parts of the block.
Second observation is you can have a better mesh within the Student limit if you slice the block up around the silicon chip, so that hex meshing can be used instead of tet meshing. The section view below show the silicon chip in the center of the block.
Third observation, you can reduced the number of equations in the model if you slice off the end where you are applying the remote displacement on four side faces, and just apply the remote displacement on the cut end face.
Last observation is to change Automatic Time Stepping to On instead of Program Controlled, then set initial substeps of 40, and limit the maximum substeps to 20. That will allow the solver to have more successful converged substeps and spend less time bisecting to smaller substeps after taking too large of a substep.
I incorporated these suggestions in the attached ANSYS 18.2 archive. It will solve in 394 iterations, which took 10.8 minutes on 16 cores, but 40.6 minutes on 2 cores.


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Astana's hot run in VTB continues
Kalev/Cramo played their tenth game of the season in VTB as they visited Astana and unfortunately left with a big 78:105 (34:50) loss.
The game between the fifth and seventh spot teams was over in halftime as the hosts managed to get a comfortable lead led by the six american players. Astana dominated everywhere – they were faster, more aggressive and more precise. From the 105 points Astana scored, 91 were from the six american players – J.J. O'Brien finished with 23 points 8 rebounds and 6 assists. Moultire had 23 for Kalev, while Mirkovic who scored most of the teams first half points had 17, Lewis finished with 14, Kitsing 9, Kangur 8, Jõesaar 3 and Kurbas and Dorbek with 2 points.
Moscow CSKA and Moscow Khimki continue undefeated and a super season so far for Astana who are in fourth place with 6 wins and 3 losses. Kalev stands on the eight spot with 4 wins and 6 losses.


text: Fairfield Energy submitted plans for decommissioning parts of the North Sea Dunlin area to the UK Government today. The decommissioning of the Greater Dunlin Area represents an opportunity for our teams of onshore professionals and the offshore workforce to tackle new and fresh challenges as the industry moves into a new era. SCDI awards for STEM Mearns Primary & Monifieth High School both scoop top Science & Engineering Prizes at SCDI YESC Celebration of STEM 2017! Libya and Nigeria increase OPEC's production OPEC boosted its oil production in May as output recovered in Libya and Nigeria, two countries exempt from the group's recent deal to curb global supplies, new data shows. Scottish Govt Backs Harbour Project For Shetland Alex Salmond has announced a £10 million funding package to support plans for a deep-water quay facility in Shetland to secure decommissioning work on major offshore structures from the Northern North Sea. Shetland The Highlands and Islands has a significant early foothold in the emergent oil and gas decommissioning sector – a multi-billion pound market poised for large-scale growth in the next few years. Ineos INEOS has today announced it is set to buy the entire Oil & Gas Business from DONG Energy A/S for a headline price of $1.05 billion plus $250m contingent. The the deal positions INEOS as a Top 10 company in the North Sea and the biggest private enterprise operating in the region. On completion, the Business will bring a full complement of highly experienced Oil & Gas personnel, with 440 staff transferring to INEOS. FrontRow Energy acquires ClearWELL Oilfield Solutions FrontRow Energy Technology Group Limited has announced the acquisition of ClearWELL Oilfield Solutions, an oil and gas technology company focused on flow assurance and production optimization OGTC funding £2M available Technology centre seeks robotics ideas that enhance inspection, and concepts which help unlock marginal discoveries New £12m harbour on Shetland Isles aims to catch share of N. Sea decommissioning bonanza The two year development of a new quay in the Shetland isles – aimed at exploiting the multi-million pound potential of N. Sea decommissioning contracts – has been completed. Bibby Offshore Secures Significant Contract with TAQA Bibby Offshore, a leading subsea services provider to the oil and gas industry, has been awarded a significant contract with TAQA for subsea construction works in Eider field, located 184 km north-east of Shetland.


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Softball club Radotín SK was established in 1979 and it is one of the oldest and the most successful softball club in Czech republic. It is also the most significant unit in sports association of Radotín SK and it ranks among the most successful sports clubs in Prague 16. Radotín SK softball is a participant of the first men legue for a long time and recent years achieves regularly medailist positions.There are many representants,exrepresentants and coaches. During years 2004-2006 the club was developing rapidly-formed a womens team,which qualified succesfully and played in second women legue and in 2007 the team will struggle to get to the first legue.In 2006 men won the first legue, Czech softball cup and international tournament in british Guernsey.Young juniors and cadets teams became stronger.Radotín SK organised also successfully European cup winners cup and devotes a great care to sports promotion and events for the public.Softball ranks among successful czech sports-women´s and men´s teams are ones of the best in Europe and about sixth place in the world.
In 2007 Radotín SK will defend championship title,win in Czech softball cup and representate Czech republic on European cup.Radotín SK would like to organise this tournament too.Women will struggle to get to the first legue. B-teams will defend first places in prague championships. We devote a great care to youth.In 2006 we established a specialized sports class with local basic school.Our object is focused on ensuring of clubs growth and giving also possibility to our children to make the best of free time.
Softball is a collective game and comes from America.It is the most popular batting sport for women and men possibly for mixed teams in the world.This game combinates individual and collective sport and develops physical and psychic personality of sportsman.In CR softball appeared after war,but like ,,American" sport started to be successful after 1989.Since the time czech softball is placed on the top of european softball and in the first world´s ten.Lot of our players play professional softball all over the world,e.g.: Italy, Netherlands, USA, Canada, New Zealand etc.The best softball in the world you can find in men´s category-New Zealand, Canada, Venezuela (Europe-CR, Netherlands, Denmark) and in women´s category-USA, Japan, China, (Europe-Italy, Netherlands, CR).


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Let's first clarify that "Moore's law" is not a physical law in the sense of Newton's 2nd law of motion, e.g.
F = m (dv/dt)
But rather a law that appears to govern the miniaturization and speed of microprocessors, applicable at least for the past 44 years. It can be traced to Gordon Moore, who became one of the founders of Intel and in 1965 wrote a paper in which he claimed that the number of electronic components that could be crammed into an integrated circuit was doubling every year. This exponential increase became known as Moore's law.
By 1970 the rate of doubling was reduced to once every two years and this has pretty well held for the past 44 years. Effectively we're looking at a 22 times doubling (starting with Intel's 4004 chip in 1971) and hence something 4 million times improved. This is just about what's happened. Whereas the 4004 had roughly 2,300 transistors (tiny electrical switches representing the 1s and 0s as the binary language of computers), the Intel's new Xeon Haskell E-5 (launched in 2014) has 5 billion - just 22 nm apart.
But that may be about to end in what some might term "the limit of small". That is, the components are now approaching the fundamental limit of smallness: the atom. For example, the Intel Skylake transistor is only 100 atoms across. The fewer atoms in scale, the more difficult it is to store and manipulate the electronics and especially those 1s and 0s.
Of course, according to one wag, "There's a law about Moore's law: The number of people predicting the death of Moore's law doubles every two years."
But I am predicting it, based on the limits not only of size but of energy to continue to manufacture any scale of chips. This limit of energy I already wrote about at length in terms of its impact on economics in general, e.g.
Energy limits and especially efficiency are important because once the EROEI (energy returned on energy invested) goes below a given threshold all bets are off and production is limited - and more costly - across a wide spectrum of products, not just computer chips. Wonder why NASA's space exploration budget has been pared by nearly one -third (according to the most recent Physics Today)? It's because of the much higher cost of energy to drive those rockets, space craft across vast distances. Wonder why thousands of oil shale wells across the U.S. have shut down and workers sent home? It's because it is no longer cost effective to take the stuff out of the ground because the price per barrel is too low to support the expenditure of energy needed for extraction, storage, transport.
At root of many of these issues is the standard problem of entropy, or ever smaller amounts of useful energy available for a closed system with each energy conversion. That is, more waste energy is generally given off, e,g, as heat in the process of transport, than used in the actual chips for computing. The more energy wasted or lost this way the less available for computing. Modern chips are so "power hungry" as the Economist piece notes, that up to 80 percent of the total input energy is expended in the course of transport leaving only a few to get energy in and out.
One possible solution is "spintronic transistors" given the voltage needed to drive them is only 10- 20 millivolts (1 mV = 1/1000 of a volt). This is hundreds of times lower than for a conventional transistor which means the latter's energy needs are hundreds of time greater. Thus, the spintronic device would solve the heat problem at a stroke but the problem is research has been ongoing for 15 years with nothing to show for it. This implies design problems of its own given with such minute voltages distinguishing between a 1 and a 0 from electrical background noise becomes tricky.
To push Moore's law further along a number of key changes would have to occur beyond merely resorting to a few more different designs and materials i.e. that may make transistors amenable to a bit more shrinkage. (One of these 'tweaks' is to diffuse computing power rather than concentrating it, i.e. spreading the ability to calculate and communicate across an ever larger range of everyday objects.)
Higher energy efficiency will be essential to even keep Moore's law going for a decade. That includes dispensing with energy-intense lithium batteries (unsustainable in a lower energy environment) and instead harvesting energy from surroundings including from the vibrations of E-M waves - using tiny amounts of power amidst an intensely crowded radio spectrum.
Even Lindley Gwennap, who runs the Lindley Group of Silicon Valley analysts has admitted in the March 12th Economist: "From an economic standpoint, Moore's law is over." In other words, the cost to continue the Moore's law doubling (for miniaturization and chip power) is no longer sustainable in the current degraded energy environment operating on lower EROEI fuel. (Intel's boss, Brian Krzanich, has also publicly admitted the firm's rate of progress has slowed.)
As The Economist observes:
"The twilight of Moore's law then will begin change, disorder and plenty of creative destruction. An industry that used to rely on a handful of devices will splinter."
According to Bob Colwell who helped design Intel's Pentium chip:
"Most of the people who buy computers don't even know what a transistor does. They simply want the products they buy to keep getting better and more useful than in the past."
That route is getting more difficult but hopefully there will be other ways to make better computers and computing devices even without the full benefit of Gordon's Moore's "law".
We just have to be patient and see what they are.


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New Start
Some of you have been asking how to start blogging and some of you haven't, but you should—you have valuable information/great stories to pass on. Here are some tips I just gave to someone I hope soon joins the blogging community.
1.Move to Wordpress:
(they allow you to import everything you've already written easily—within an hour you can be posting at Wordpress.) Notice Eric -SoHum Parlance-an already successful blog just made the move and imported his old content.
On Wordpress, you can control the comments easier and, most importantly for a new blog, it will be easier for other Wordpress bloggers to stay up with what you do and start a conversation on your blog, thereby upping the traffic. Also you get better access to who is reading you, and what they are reading the most—the stats page is fun. Wordpress, however, does not allow advertisements so if you are hoping to make money from your blog, go elsewhere. (Though starting at Wordpress and then moving when you have built a following might be smart if you want to make money. I don't know anyone who has gone this route though.) Here are some other reasons for both beginner and expert.
2. It takes forever to write a good post. Hours. Can you squeeze out the time? The rewards are immense. Your creativity will improve with constant practice. Your self-esteem improves both by the support of the online community and by seeing your work get better. But it takes energy and time that not everyone is willing to spare. (You will get faster with time though.)
3.As far as possible put informative links in your posts. Link to other bloggers (they'll appreciate it and link back). Link to other websites with info appropriate to your post. This gives your readers more info if they need it and Google (as well asother search engines) is set up to route traffic to posts with links—there are a lot of reasons for that including how their "spiders"crawl the internet looking for information.
4. Use your blogroll to link to a community of bloggers. They will usually link back. But link to specific posts when appropriate because that helps build readership for both yours and their specific posts.
5. Most of your first comments will come from other bloggers. They know and appreciate the value of conversation on their blog. If you comment on theirs, generally they'll comment back. Avatars tend to make you memorable.
You don't need to use a pic of yourself though if you want to maintain anonymity. Rose for instance uses a white rose. Links from them will draw readers to your writing.
6. Try to get in a routine of daily or weekly blogging. Otherwise, it will be easy to avoid the work involved and never post. The more often you update your blog, the more people will check on it and become faithful readers—which in turn motivates you to write.
7.Tell your friends and family—unless you want to stay anonymous. They help get you started with feedback and readers.
8. Use one image at the top of each post, at least. This adds visual interest. You can use many images free online, Remember though, you don't want anybody stealing your words. Photographers don't want you stealing their images. At the very least, link to their photo and give credit for it.
9. Consider taking your own photos. You're writing about your world; take pictures of it. They don't have to be professional and, who knows, like me you may become passionate about photography, too.
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Supreme Court of Vermont
January 18, 2018
State of Vermontv.Russell Hulst*
Court, Rutland Unit, Criminal Division DOCKET NOS. 771-6-17
Rdcr, 890-7-17 Rdcr, 891-7-17 Rdcr, 1400-10-17 Rdcr,
1406-10-17 Rdcr, 1532-11-17 Rdcr, and 1533-11-17 Rdcr
Marilyn S. Skoglund, Associate Justice.
In the
above-entitled cause, the Clerk will enter:
13 V.S.A. § 7556(b), Defendant appeals the trial
court's order increasing bail to $100, 000, arguing that
the amount was excessive and that there were less restrictive
alternatives to ensure defendant's appearance. We affirm.
In June
2017, defendant was arraigned on two felonies-first-degree
aggravated domestic assault under 13 V.S.A. § 1043(a)(1)
and second-degree aggravated assault under 13 V.S.A. §
1044(a)(2)(b) (Docket No. 771-6-17 Rdcr). The State sought to
hold him without bail under 13 V.S.A. § 7553a, which
allows a court to hold an individual without bail "when
the evidence of guilt is great and the court finds . . . that
the person's release poses a substantial threat of
physical violence to any person and that no condition or
combination of conditions of release will reasonably prevent
the physical violence." After the weight-of-the-evidence
hearings held on July 3 and 17, 2017, the trial court found
that the evidence of guilt was not great for the first-degree
aggravated domestic assault charge. For the second-degree
aggravated assault charge, the trial court determined that
the evidence of guilt was great, but that defendant did not
pose a substantial threat of physical violence to any person.
The trial court concluded that $10, 000 bail was appropriate
together with conditions of release. The court based its
decision, in part, on defendant's flight risk due to his
flight from the courthouse during his arraignment in Addison
County, which resulted in an escape charge under 13 V.S.A.
§ 1501(a)(2) (Docket No. 890-7-17 Rdcr).
was charged with the following additional crimes: one count
of disorderly conduct under 13 V.S.A. § 1026(a)(1)
(Docket No. 891-7-17 Rdcr); two counts of violating
conditions of release for contacting the complaining witness
under 13 V.S.A. § 7559(e) and one count of obstruction
of justice under 13 V.S.A. § 3015 (Docket No. 1400-10-17
Rdcr); DUI#2 under 23 V.S.A. § 1201(a)(3) (Docket No.
1406-10-17 Rdcr); twelve counts of violating conditions of
release under 13 V.S.A. § 7559(e) (Docket No. 1532-11-17
Rdcr); and sixteen counts of violating conditions of release
under 13 V.S.A. § 7559(e) (Docket No. 1533-11-17 Rdcr).
At the arraignment for the latter two dockets, the court
considered the factors outlined by 13 V.S.A. § 7554(b)
and set bail at $25, 000 to assure defendant's
December 4, 2017, the State filed a motion to increase bail
in all pending dockets to $100, 000, pursuant to the
court's authority to amend bail orders under 13 V.S.A.
§ 7554(e). The State attached an affidavit from an
intelligence officer for the Department of Corrections
describing two different phone calls, from which, the State
argued, one could infer that defendant was planning to post
bail and leave the state. Based on this affidavit, the State
argued that defendant posed a significant risk of
nonappearance at future proceedings and thus, an imposition
of greater bail was required.
At a
hearing the following day, the trial court considered various
13 V.S.A. § 7554(b) factors, including the
"seriousness of the charges, number of offenses, nature
and circumstance, record of convictions, prior failure to
appear, the fact that defendant fled from the courthouse,
[and] the character and mental condition as far as the
violence in the case, " all of which had remained
unchanged since the court order to set bail at $25, 000.
However, the court also considered the new information about
defendant's alleged plan to leave the state after posting
bail and held that the unchanged factors considered in light
of the new information weighed heavily in favor of a
determination that defendant would flee and would not be
present. While noting that "defendant's length of
residence in the community and his family ties are such that
they indicate he may well appear, " the trial court
concluded that $100, 000 "is an appropriate amount of
bail to reasonably assure [] defendant's appearance at
this time."
Court reviews a decision setting conditions of release,
including the amount and type of bail, for abuse of
discretion and will affirm "if it is supported by the
proceedings below." 13 V.S.A. § 7556(b); see also
State v. Pratt, 2006 VT 97, ¶ 6, 180 Vt. 357.
Here, the trial court's consideration of and findings
regarding the 13 V.S.A. § 7554(b) factors, along with
the new information regarding defendant's phone calls,
are sufficient to support the increased bail and thus we
A court
may "only impose bail to assure the defendant's
appearance at future court proceedings-in other words, the
purpose of bail is solely to reduce the defendant's risk
of flight." State v. Bailey, 2017 VT 18, ¶
8. Further, the court must "impose the least restrictive
. . . conditions . . . which will reasonably assure
appearance of the person." 13 V.S.A. § 7554(a)(1).
The court acted within its discretion when it concluded that
the new evidence of defendant's alleged plan to flee
after posting bail weighed overwhelmingly in favor of
increasing defendant's bail. Further, the court
considered other less restrictive means, such as having bail
be one part cash and surety and another part an appearance
bond, and concluded that those alternatives were insufficient
to ensure defendant's appearance. It was well within the
trial court's discretion to infer from the circumstances
of this case-which included one successful flight-and
defendant's recent statements regarding potential intent
to flee that a higher bail was required to ensure appearance.
argues that, based on this Court's recent decision in
Pratt, defendant's bail is excessive because
"bail requirements at a level a defendant cannot afford
should be rare." 2017 VT 9, ¶ 9. However, as noted
above, the bail in this case was not excessive because it was
not set at " 'a figure higher than an amount
reasonably calculated to fulfill' the purpose of
'giving adequate assurance that [the defendant] will
stand trial and submit to sentence if found guilty.'
" Id. ¶ 15 (quoting Stack v.
Boyle, 342 U.S. 1, 4-5 (1951)). Here, the new
information of defendant's alleged plan to flee in
combination with his past flight led the trial court to
reasonably calculate that the increased bail was the least
restrictive means to ensure defendant would appear.
defendant argues that the court's reliance on the
affidavit was improper under 28 V.S.A. § 107(b)(3).
Because defendant did not object to the admission of the
affidavit in the trial court, he has not preserved the issue
for appeal. State v. Cate, 165 Vt. 404, 410 (1996).
the Court must correct an erroneous comment made at the bail
appeal hearing held on January 16, 2018. The Court was
relying on an inaccurate Department of Corrections interim
memo-counsel was correct in asserting that the definition of
"Offender Local Records" includes only seven
subcategories. The Court misspoke in suggesting that the
parties can appeal this decision to a three-Justice panel.
Section 7556(b) of Title 13 states that "[n]o ...
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