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By Sue Yanagisawa
The Kingston Police officer who was in charge of the city's Major Case Unit in 2007 testified on Thursday that Richard Smith's apartment wasn't searched early in the investigation into cab driver David Krick's murder because he didn't have grounds for a search warrant.
Staff Sgt. William (Bill) Kennedy, who has since moved to head up a platoon of uniformed patrol officers, told jurors that he and other officers were prepared, in the early hours of June 18, 2007, to force their way into the 117 Carruthers Ave. apartment Smith then shared with his girlfriend. But, he said, "my intention was to stop the burning of the evidence that was going on there."
Under questioning by Smith's lawyer, Gregory Leslie, the staff sergeant said he believed "exigent circumstances" justified his entering the apartment without a warrant to collect what was left of fabric that was reportedly being burned in the bathroom. But he didn't have the authority to search the rest of the apartment for evidence, he said.
Kennedy also told Leslie he didn't attempt to get a telewarrant to authorize his entry that night because he feared the evidence would be completely destroyed in the one to five hours the process could take. Nor did he apply for a regular warrant the following day, because at that point, "I didn't believe we had the grounds to allege the offence that needed to be alleged."
Kennedy, who led the Kingston Police Major Case Unit for four years, was testifying at Smith's second-degree murder trial arising from the stabbing death of Amey's Taxi driver David Wayne Krick, who was 50 at the time of his death on June 17, 2007, Father's Day Sunday that year. Smith, 34, has pleaded not guilty to the crime.
Jurors were reminded again yesterday by Smith's defence lawyer, Leslie, that the 34-year-old wasn't charged with the murder until Oct. 11 that year, almost three months after it happened. Leslie also disclosed that his client was already in custody -- as a result of an arrest on Aug. 1 -- when the murder charge was laid.
Previous witnesses have alluded to a search warrant executed on 117 Carruthers, apartment No. 1, on Nov. 8, 2007 -- after Smith had been charged and almost four months after the murder. A plumber opened up traps on the drains at that time, but nothing linking Smith to Krick's fatal stabbing was recovered in the search.
A group of detectives and patrol officers led by Kennedy did enter Smith's apartment, approximately 18 hours after the murder, however. According to Kennedy, they went in around 12:30 a.m. on June 18, 2007, and remained there until 2:25 a.m.
Major Case Unit Det. Guy Forbes, who testified earlier in the trial, told jurors that he'd been trying to get a follow-up interview with Smith since late afternoon on the day of the murder.
Smith, jurors have heard, became a person of interest after a patrol officer found him walking on Palace Road at 7:43 a.m. not far from where the murdered taxi driver's cab had been discovered almost an hour earlier in a parking lot off MacPherson Avenue.
Police and taxis were still circulating in the area on the lookout for a six-foot man with short hair who'd been seen crouching between vehicles near the cab and then running from the parking lot in among the buildings of Queen's University's An Clachan apartment complex.
Smith, when he was stopped by Const. Edward Gaulton, was the right height and build and had short hair, but none of his clothes matched those of the runner, who'd been described as wearing a dark, long-sleeved jersey and light blue or faded jeans. Gaulton testified Smith was in beige pants, a red T-shirt and black ball hat and was carrying a green windbreaker.
Still, after failing to find Smith home at 4:20 p.m., Forbes returned to the Carruthers Avenue apartment around midnight. He told jurors he was unable to get a response from inside and was preparing to leave when a next-door neighbour told him a man had been burning what he and his wife believed was fabric in the bathroom of Smith's apartment.
Forbes relayed that information to Kennedy and Kennedy testified he arrived with other officers and "we were banging on the door, banging on the windows, yelling we were the police very loudly," but with no result.
Finally, he said he began kicking the door and other officers joined in until one of the triangular sections at the bottom cracked. He testified the door never budged on its hinges, but following the crack, "we heard a voice scream from inside and we could see a female running from the back telling us to stop."
He told jurors "we stopped," and the door was opened by Smith's girlfriend, wearing nothing but pyjama bottoms and crossing her arms over her chest.
Smith emerged from the back bedroom afterward wearing a housecoat and Kennedy said he didn't seem as upset as he would have expected.
Kennedy also said there was smoke hanging about a foot from the ceiling when they entered, which dissipated as officers came in and out over the two hours they were there. He recalled there were also a couple of small candles and some incense burning in the bathroom in the area of the sink and toilet, where jurors have already heard some fragments of charred fabric and fabric fibers, including small quantities of denim, were recovered.
Kennedy said the case against Smith didn't start to come together, however, until August, 2007, when the man with whom Smith had been staying on Joseph Street identified Holly Holland as the woman who'd spent several days in his apartment near the end of July, drug bingeing with him and Smith. Jurors were told that the man has since died.
Holland testified Wednesday that she and Smith were smoking crack cocaine together when he told her he'd stabbed the cab driver and she speculated that he was trying to impress her. She didn't care then, she admitted, because "once you do a hit of crack you'd sell your grandmother on the couch for another hit of crack." But after her drug of choice ran out and she'd returned home and slept off its residual affects, she told jurors her conscience couldn't handle knowing about a murder and doing nothing.
Consequently, she said she made an anonymous call to the Amey's Taxi stand on July 30, 2007, and supplied information to a dispatcher there that ultimately pointed investigators toward Smith.
Kennedy said "Holly was a dead end," when she'd been interviewed by detectives at Quinte Detention Centre earlier in July, before her drug binge with Smith. She was questioned originally, he said, on the suggestion of another potential informant and because she was a known crack addict.
Consequently, when the July 30 tip was relayed to the Major Case Unit, according to Kennedy, investigators thought the anonymous tipster might have been Smith's girlfriend.
Holland, meanwhile, had left Kingston with her uncle and cousins and returned to the East Coast.
Leslie asked if the staff sergeant was aware of Cape Breton Police withdrawing a probation violation against Holland on Nov. 19, 2007, more than a month after she gave a video-statement implicating Smith in Krick's murder.
"I wasn't," Kennedy told him. The case continues this morning at the Frontenac County Court House.
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Chris Brown To Donate Tour Proceeds To Domestic Violence Program
Chris Brown has just announced that he will donate partial proceeds of his upcoming "Fan Appreciation" tour to a domestic violence intervention program.
The singer's 19-city jaunt is designed to "acknowledge and thank his fans for their on-going support." The Virginia native looks to overcome his recent legal woes with a performance conceptualized "for and with 'fans only' in mind." The portion of the tour proceeds will be donated to The Jenesse Center. In 1980, the center was founded to deal with domestic violence issues that go on within American households.
Monies will also go to Anthony Kennedy Shriver's Best Buddies International, as well.
The "Fan Appreciation" tour kicks off its first performance at the House of Blues in Houston.
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November 14 Houston, TX House of Blues
November 15 Dallas, TX Palladium
November 18 Los Angeles, CA Avalon
November 19 San Francisco, CA The Fillmore
November 22 Richmond, VA Landmark
November 25 Detroit, MI Royal Oak
November 26 Chicago, IL House of Blues
November 29 Ft. Lauderdale, FL Revolution
December 1 Orlando, FL House of Blues
December 2 Atlanta, GA CenterStage
December 4 Washington, D.C Warner Theater
December 5 Providence, RI Lupo's
December 6 Boston, MA House of Blues
December 11 Baltimore, MD Sonar
December 12 Wallingford, CT Chevrolet Theater
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That is just what is available now, any day a new website could pop up changing the way we watch T.V. and movies over the internet all together. The world of technology is changing and with it the way we watch movies and television changes as well. The more time we spend on the internet looking for new ways to watch, the more likely we are to find more ways to watch.
This leaves many, especially those in the younger generation, asking, why pay for cable? When you can watch television and movies for free or close to it, why pay that much more for cable every month? It simply does not make sense. For some cable could be the things that makes or breaks a budget. Not getting cable is much more budget friendly and can help you to save money.
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We had the funnest time today! Mommis took us to the dog park near where the high school kids play baseball. I guess somebody hit it out of the park, or maybe it was into OUR park. Anyway Paunnie found two baseballs and he couldn't carry them both in his mouth so I got one.
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As is my custom, I now sit reclined in my armchair basking in the warmth of the rising morning sun and reading my newspaper. I methodically cast my gaze from article to article, page to page, taking brief interruptions to sip from my warm mug of tea. Gentle wisps of steam rise from it like flames. They engulf my face and playfully pull their arms around my glasses, so as to encourage me to return to sleep. The warmth and the prospect of more rest is tempting, but there is much to do.
I take my last sip of tea and tenderly place the paper on my desk. The crisp autumn air greets me with a brisk sharpness as I leave through the doors of my home. The lulling sound of the colourful autumn leaves dancing…
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10/09/1914- To 12th Battalion " G " Company Blackboy Hill as Private
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5/04/1916- Disembarked Marseilles France ex Alexandria Egypt
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15/11/1917- To No. 4 Command Depot Hurdcott England
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June, and springtime in general (the first official day of Summer isn't until June 21!), is such a crazy time for picking out what shoes to wear. No, not necessarily because designers are trying our new things or because stores are ready and waiting for high school-ers on vacation; it's all because of the weather. In June, anything can happen, at least in New York: downpours of rain, sunshine, ridiculous heat, a slight on/off drizzle, etc. This morning the forecast was partially cloudy, 60% chance of rain, temps 55-75. I took the subway and half the people were wearing full boots (rubber, suede, leather – all kinds), some were in canvas sneakers, some in closed toe heels, and the others were in exposed-toe sandals or flip-flops (commuters love to be comfy). So do you keep every single pair in your shoe collection out all this month for an overcrowded closet or just risk cold, wet feet (at least for part of the day) when the sky goes gray?
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Another shoe I love for spring are loafer styles. Loafers are so under appreciated but they can really be super cozy and yes, un-old lady like too ;). You can still go for suede even with temps slowly rising (now's the time to test out the year-round claim Uggs make), but I'd choose more of a moccasin style if you do, otherwise you'll look a little crazy wearing them whenever your city tops 80 degrees. Moccasins are "supposed" to be suede, at least in my mind, so they don't looks specifically like a winter shoe (like the moccasin sneakers by See by Chloe below) – just don't forget the water resistant protection spray. If suede isn't doing it for you, pick up a patent leather loafer in an off-white or bright color like the Prada scrunch version below; water'll just slide right off.
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another 2 wk appt. this time at our house, as the midwife had another appointment after ours not too far from here, so it would be quicker to just go from our place than from hers. that was fine for calum and me — it was a cold and yucky day, so we didn't mind not going out into it — but i did feel bad because our bathrooms were ATROCIOUS. well, what can you do?
no weight check this time since we don't own a scale. i'm sure i've gained a little. it's still shocking how it's only noticeable in my belly and a little in my face. i haven't even had any pregnancy swelling that i'm aware of. i preemptively took my rings off way at the beginning of the pregnancy, but so far it's not clear that i would even have needed to do so. still, 2 months to go yet, so there is still plenty of time for swelling up like a balloon.
the fundus is growing right on schedule and while it is still not easy to find the heartbeat with the fetoscope (the placenta is in the front as usual, and this time the baby is snuggled right up under it. all the blood pulsing through the placenta, making it difficult to hear the comparatively quiet baby heart), but everything comes through loud and clear with the doppler.
cal helped the midwife palpate the baby, who is head down and seems to be anteriorly presenting (very nice). i can feel pressure on my lower back and cervix from time to time. that's good — the baby's head is working on engaging the pelvis — but, ugh, not particularly comfortable!
i've had to start propping myself up a bit while i'm sleeping or i just have acid reflux all night long. it helps if i eat a slightly smaller dinner and if i drink lots of water, so i have been doing that too. apparently chocolate (!!!) can exacerbate heartburn, so i guess it's a good thing that we're all out for the moment. sheesh.
this baby continues not to be overly found of sweets — boring — but maybe that is why i haven't gained much extra weight besides the baby and all its gear. my energy seems to be back up, so the particularly gross prenatals must be doing good work. i will not miss never taking them again.
i washed the newborn clothes yesterday and put them in our new baby "dresser" on the landing. almost all the birth supplies are ordered or are in the room for the birth. i still have to wash the diapers and the wipes and put them out. there's no rush, but little by little we are getting ready. it's just as surreal and the clothes seem just as impossibly tiny as the first two times.


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All blaze stations—from celebrated brick barrio to modern, multiple-apparatus facilities—have one affair in common: a faculty of borough pride. But clashing best bartering structures, blaze stations are accessible for business 24/7, 365 canicule a year. They are a altered amalgam of accessible and residential space—they serve the community, yet board a home abroad from home for firefighters. So, how does a blaze base advance brotherhood while accumulation a faculty of privacy? By acclimation amusing spaces with private, gender-neutral sleeping quarters.
Traditionally, blaze stations accept featured a ample dormitory, one furnished with alone beds, applesauce beds, or wall (Murphy) beds. But as added women accompany the profession, gender-neutral spaces accept become a necessity. Addition account of clandestine sleeping quarters? They acquiesce firefighters to accept higher-quality sleep, as apartment can be customizable and climate-controlled. And while they do abate the bulk of time firefighters absorb together, they additionally action a faculty of respite and a abode to relax.
In 2016, the Carmel, IN, Blaze Department, opened a 16,200-square-foot station—Station 44. The new, two-story architecture replaced the old station, which the administering had outgrown. Indianapolis-based Axis Architecture Interiors advised the station, which appearance three drive-through accoutrement bays, a abstracted accessory room, and appointment amplitude for six firefighters. It additionally includes eight claimed dorms and bathrooms on the added floor, as able-bodied as a ample accessible kitchen, dining and active space.
"The accessible abstraction of the day allowance is article that the firefighters capital to see in the building," said Orbie Bowles, Carmel Blaze Department's arch of administration. "The old base bound access, size, and how abounding bodies could be in that room."
The active amplitude additionally circulates to the locker "vestibules," which board admission to both the clandestine abode apartment and gender-neutral bathrooms. The layout—and the admiration to absorb clandestine beddy-bye quarters—was heavily afflicted by the station's 18 firefighters, whom the artist surveyed.
"From day one, we were accustomed the befalling to be a actual big allotment of the architecture process," said Paramedic and Accessible Information Officer Michael McNeely. "All along, we had affairs with the altered crews about everything, from the blueprint of the architecture all the way bottomward to acrylic blush or the brick samples."
Thanks to the firefighters' input, Base 44 includes a large, accessible kitchen that connects to a dining breadth and television room. The amplitude is advised to board anniversary six-person shift, and Bowles acicular out that the amplitude lets firefighters absorb time together, watch TV, or bolt up on news. However, Base 44 does not force amusing interaction. For respite, firefighters can arch to one of the station's eight clandestine abode rooms. With privacy, though, comes the affair of isolation. A abandonment from amusing activities can be a assurance of depression, which affects abounding firefighters. The added use of amusing media has led to a abatement in contiguous communication, too. One way to animate aggregation architecture and board aloofness is by designing bunched abode apartment for sleeping, showering, and studying, and auspicious amusing alternation in the aggregate active space. Addition account to accumulation alone rooms? Firefighters of any sex, gender, and acclimatization can use them.
It wasn't until the 1970s that women accustomed paid firefighting positions. Today, the cardinal of women abutting blaze departments continues to increase. According to the International Association of Women in Blaze & Emergency Service (iWomen), about 11,000 women assignment as career firefighters in the United States, with an added 35,000 to 40,000 women confined as advance firefighters. A growing cardinal of individuals who analyze as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and/or transgender are additionally abutting departments, authoritative the charge for aloofness alike added pertinent.
A contempo analysis conducted by iWomen articular some of the barriers women firefighters face. Common problems board the abridgement of gender-neutral bunkrooms and bathrooms, and that alteration accessories are congenital to board either macho or changeable firefighters, but not both. It's unsurprising, then, that women accept encountered aggravation and shunning, and acquisition it difficult to change in advanced of the adverse sex.
In contempo years, some blaze stations have been retro-fitted to board added assorted crews. But the adjustments hardly serve as abiding solutions. For example, changeable bathrooms are sometimes amid abroad from the sleeping abode (in the captain's quarters, for example), and crave an alone to canyon through clandestine space. Added times, showers are installed in absolute unisex restrooms in adjustment to serve as the women's locker room. Some stations accept alike adapted their fettle apartment into women's dormitories. It's not an ideal situation, as several women can be awash into the dormitory, and the fettle accessories may accept been confused into the accoutrement bay. The charge for gender-neutral spaces has not been met.
To abstain renovations that may leave firefighters activity shortchanged, accede accepted and approaching demographics. Would separate, gender-specific locker apartment action well, or would clandestine bathrooms be appropriate?
There are several means to absorb quiet, claimed amplitude into a blaze station. One advantage is to architecture alone abode apartment with clandestine bathrooms, like those at Base 44. Jack-and-Jill bathrooms—which Base No. 43 in Carmel, IN, and Base No. 42 in Sugar Creek Township, IN, use—are addition option. For stations with beneath firefighters, two or three unisex battery accessories can be complete beyond the anteroom from clandestine sleeping quarters. And if aboveboard footage doesn't acquiesce for clandestine dorms, bank beds (such as Murphy beds) conserve space. In New Albany, IN, anniversary firefighter at Base 4 has their own Murphy bed. Like Base 44, anniversary firefighter on a about-face has a clandestine allowance in which to sleep. But because the beds bend up into the wall, the base is kept at a bashful 9,500 aboveboard feet. Bank beds do added than accord to a abate footprint, though—they additionally accord to bloom and cleanliness. As anniversary firefighter has their own bed and mattress, they don't accept to anguish about alteration the bedding afterwards a shift, or about the advance of germs.
Wall beds additionally arise in applesauce rooms, which can be adapted into training areas or multi-purpose rooms. Added stations use curtains or allotment walls to actualize a faculty a aloofness aural a aggregate area. But in general, applesauce apartment crave beyond footprints. For example, if a blaze administering employs both men and women firefighters, a new base may charge to board one applesauce allowance for the men and one applesauce allowance for the women. And if the base doesn't affection unisex bathrooms, it will charge abstracted alteration rooms, showers, and restrooms. Applesauce apartment additionally board challenges for approaching growth, and a blaze administering charge ask several questions, including: How abounding women does a blaze administering plan to appoint in the abutting bristles years? The abutting 10? Area would an alone who is transgender sleep, shower, and change? Will firefighters be alteration in advanced of associates of the adverse sex? Would the abridgement of a applesauce allowance abate the brotherhood amid firefighters?
Culturally and historically, firefighters absorb a lot of time together, and aggregate sleeping spaces aid with aggregation bonding. However, it can be difficult for a firefighter to get able sleep, abnormally in a applesauce room. A abstraction conducted in 2007 by the International Association of Blaze Chiefs, the United States Blaze Administration, and Oregon Bloom & Science University explored the furnishings beddy-bye denial has on firefighters. The abstraction acclaimed that abiding beddy-bye denial may not be recognized, but that "it is important for workers to accede their charge for, and aerate their adeptness to achieve, able alleviation sleep."
Here's area private, climate-controlled sleeping abode accept an advantage. A firefighter can change the temperature of a room, or about-face on a fan or babble machine. Snoring is no best an issue, and if lockers are amid alfresco of the sleeping quarters, a firefighter is beneath acceptable to deathwatch up due to noise. At Base 44, there are locker vestibules off the hallway. Anniversary antechamber has two doors—one for the clandestine abode room, and one for the clandestine restroom. This adjustment makes about-face changes easier, as firefighters can put things in their lockers afterwards entering the abode room. Flexible, configurable active systems additionally accord to affection sleep. Back installed in clandestine dorms, the arrangement alerts alone the individuals all-important for that run, appropriately attention the beddy-bye of others. So, if the EMS responders charge go out on a run, alone those individuals—and not anybody on the shift—would be alerted.
Private dorms additionally annihilate the charge for a accepted "quiet room," which saves on aboveboard footage. And because individual, Jack-and-Jill, or unisex bathrooms board any firefighter, added bathroom accessories aren't needed. The added amplitude can be allocated for added amenities—the day room, fettle room, office/watchroom, or kitchen and dining room. Some stations absorb assorted pantries and refrigerators—one for anniversary shift. At Base 4 in New Albany, the fettle allowance accounts for about one-third of the absolute "common area" aboveboard footage. And Carmel's Base 44 boasts a 660-square-foot kitchen—plenty of allowance for anybody to adhere out.
"The old base had a kitchen that was maybe 80 aboveboard feet," said McNeely, "and back six of us were awash in there to try and baker a meal, it was affectionate of a joke. So, we fabricated abiding to put a lot of time and accomplishment into the architecture of the new [station]. Aggregate from the asphalt bottomward to the countertops."
Firefighters baker together, exercise together, alternation together, and accident their lives together. Their alikeness is capital for the success of the community, and contributes to a station's borough presence. But as added women and individuals who analyze as gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender accompany the profession, active spaces should be advised with adaptability in mind. Gender-neutral sleeping abode acquiesce firefighters to accept higher-quality sleep, and clandestine bathrooms accomplish it easier to battery and change afterwards a run. While anniversary blaze administering has its own action on diversity, the able antithesis of clandestine and accessible amplitude promotes brotherhood and interaction.
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Well, earlier in the week, we gave each other a verse to be creative with.
I gave her
Zephaniah 3:17
"For the Lord your God is living among you. He is a mighty savior. He will take delight in you with gladness. With his love he will calm all your fears. He will rejoice over you with joyful songs."
When I saw what she did- I realized that it was Corynn. I believe this is a prophetic piece over my daughter's life. She sings for the Lord and she is on her way to the life of a missionary. Her favorite verse is "love never fails." Some of the words on the heart are "His love will endure…." I can't read it all…
Corynn's hair is long and curly and she has a heart for God. God's love never fails and I am so thankful that He sent this message to us through Maxine and her obedient heart. WOW!
God's timing is always perfect and always on time!
Proverbs 3:18
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happy are those who hold her tightly.
This is the piece I did to the verse she gave me.
Owls= wisdom. The person is clinging to the tree-which is always represents Jesus in my paintings. The tree is purple because we walk in royalty. Wisdom lies within the branches ( the Word) of our Savior and when we take in wisdom we produce fruit and we live and move and have our being in the Spirit. ( the Living Water.)
Quirky? Yep! Fun? Yep!
It was led by God, just as Maxine's was. It started out different and then changed to the owl and once I started- it just flowed. That's how God works. Go with the flow!
Two artist's called by God to reach the world for Him. What a blessing it is to come together and celebrate God's Word through creativity! Thank you Lord!!! d.
God has been speaking to me about wisdom this week too…go figure!
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I just installed a fresh copy of XPpro SP3 on my video computer. Its main use is to watch movies. The computer has a Intel D915GAV Motherboard. I also went to Intel Support and downloaded the two drivers. One is for the motherboard, the other is the audio. I also downloaded the Realtek AC97 audio drivers. That should have done it.
The Problem: No Audio. In the Device Manager there was the yellow question marks on the High Definition Audio. Ok so I clicked on the question marks, one at a time and let the driver update do its thing. Then the reboot. No Audio.
Solution #1 I checked on Microsoft's web site and they said download this KB888111 but you cant install it because it was designed for SP2. Oh well back to the web. I found a neat trick tell XP that you have SP2 not SP3. You can do that with regedit. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Windows and change CSDVersion to 200. Reboot. Install KB888111. Change back CSDVersion to 300. Reboot. STILL NO AUDIO.
Solution #2 Microsoft Fixit. I wont bore you I will just say: STILL NO AUDIO. (btw Fixit said everything was working!)
Solution #3 Just more of the same with no results. We are now into the 6th or 7th hour of a 1hour reload.
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Bitcoin hashes per block
I think this kind of index would be very useful to know, since it kind of establishes the base price for what a Bitcoin is worth.In practice, I believe at the minute it is estimated that bitcoin miners are using up as much as 500MW of energy as not everyone will be running the most power efficient hardware.The total number of blocks mined but ultimately not attached to the main Bitcoin blockchain.Bitcoin Mining Calculator. Current value is updated every 2 hours from Bitcoin Block.And yes, it is the total hash power of the entire bitcoin network, each pool will only commit a fraction of that hashing power which is why it will only win or mine a proportional fraction the blockchain blocks each day.
Bitcoin Mining Guide For Beginners - The Customize WindowsAnalog Bitcoin Mining with Pen, Paper and Math. At this rate, hashing a full Bitcoin block (128.Here Is Bitcoin Mining Guide For Beginners. More miners join the Bitcoin network, the higher the network Hash.OpenTimestamps Has Timestamped the Entire Internet Archive. of dollars per block.
Bitcoin Mining on Bitcoin. and Pay Per Last N Shares (PPLNS).The halving of the bitcoin block reward this. hashes of the blocks secure.Charts providing a snapshot of the Bitcoin ecosystem. Settings. Time Period. Transactions per Block Mining Hash Rate.The deeper a transaction is in the block chain, however, the more times in row the attacker would need to get lucky and mine a block before the rest of the network to extend his chain longer than the main chain.The nonce is simply a random number that is added to the block header for no other reason than to give us something to increment in an attempt to produce a valid hash.
One Bitcoin by the numbers: Is there still profit to be made.
Mechanics of Bitcoin - Texas A&M UniversityThe target value is adjusted by the protocol every two weeks to try to maintain an average block time of 10 minutes.The estimated number of tera hashes per second (trillions of hashes per second) the Bitcoin network is performing.
Bitcoin Cash: The New King of Cryptocurrency? | InvestopediaAny change to a single transaction will cause an avalanche up the hash tree that will ultimately cause the hash of the block to change.It started at 50 bitcoin per block in January of 2009 and halved to 25.
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Why Bitcoin Miners Should also Mine Dash, Litecoin, andBecause each miner is sending these 25 bitcoins to his own address, the first transaction in each block will differ from miner to miner.
Addresses were there already in the first version, despite of the fact that coinbase transactions paid directly to the pubkey.The funds already donated will be spent on some sort of advertising, as intended.About every 10 minutes, one lucky miner who has generated the next block is granted the 25-Bitcoin reward,. from 200 trillion to 5 quadrillion hashes per second.Which is not to say that all this flotsam and jetsam of human activity will vanish if we burn all the coal in the world to mine Bitcoin.Submissions that are mostly about some other cryptocurrency belong elsewhere.Unlike traditional currencies such as dollars, bitcoins are issued and managed without any central authority whatsoever: there is no government, company, or bank in charge of Bitcoin.
Now remember the properties of a cryptographic hash function.The thing is that when we will be at 1 million per BTC the block reward.
Bitcoin tutorial (EFF) - Google SlidesIt should be very easy to compute an output for any given input, however it should be impossible (given current knowledge of mathematics and the state of computers) to compute the input for a given output even while knowing the mathematical algorithm.Which should mean you should expect to find a collision after around 2 80 attempts.
For Bitcoin, the calculated hash must be lower than a. was initially set to 50 bitcoins per block. blocks). Bitcoin therefore has a decreasing supply.Total value of coinbase block rewards and transaction fees paid.
It should take a single attacker with, say, 10% of the processing power in the network 100 minutes to find a valid block (200 minutes at 5% etc), but those are just averages.In this case there are many possible inputs that could add up to 10 (55, 136, 7111, etc).They exchanged the pubkey directly, probably through that pay-to-IP thing.It currently runs at about 2 exahashes and hence on average more than 6 blocks are mined every hour.At present, the total hashing power in the network is about 700 terrahashs per second and closing in on one petahash per second.In the original white paper Satoshi Nakamoto calculated the probabilities that an attacker could get lucky and pull off a double spend.
Then I bruteforce (by varying the useless bytes) until the hash of my script matches the Bitcoin address I want to empty, and once that happened, I sign with my key and broadcast.If you have a fairly powerful computer that is almost always online, you can help the network by running Bitcoin Core.
In Part 1 we took a look at the incentives involved in Bitcoin mining and how they are used guarantee a single transaction history needed to prevent bitcoins from being double spent.Every 2016 blocks (approximately 14 days at roughly 10 min per block),.Bitcoin Could Consume as Much Electricity as Denmark by. per hash).
Mining in crypto currency and Bitcoin — SteemitThis is the reason why the Merkle tree is employed after all.
Promotion of client software which attempts to alter the Bitcoin protocol without overwhelming consensus is not permitted.It is able to generate orders of magnitude more hashes per watt of power.I still think that is out of range of quantum search algorithms.The hash at the very top of the tree is called the Merkle Root.Block Time: 600: Net Hashes Per Second: 6605221468.56: Total Coins Mined: 16562287:.That means the nonce that is needed to produce a valid block will also be different for each miner.


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The Actor best known for his role in the 1970s television series Kung-FU was discovered dead in a Bangkok hotel Thursday morning, apparently having hung himself.
BANGKOK (AP) — Actor David Carradine, star of the 1970s TV series "Kung Fu" who also had a wide-ranging career in the movies, has been found dead in the Thai capital, Bangkok. A news report said he was found hanged in his hotel room and was believed to have committed suicide.
A spokesman for the U.S. Embassy, Michael Turner, confirmed the death of the 72-year-old actor. He said the embassy was informed by Thai authorities that Carradine died either late Wednesday or early Thursday, but he could not provide further details out of consideration for his family.
The Web site of the Thai newspaper The Nation cited unidentified police sources as saying Carradine was found Thursday hanged in his luxury hotel room.
It said Carradine was in Bangkok to shoot a movie and had been staying at the hotel since Tuesday.
The newspaper said Carradine could not be contacted after he failed to appear for a meal with the rest of the film crew on Wednesday, and that his body was found by a hotel maid at 10 a.m. Thursday morning. The name of the movie was not immediately available.
I have heard that in the past he had an intense drinking habit and some drug use. But according to this,he abandoned that years ago and found some peace of mind. Its strange to have someone plucked from obscurity by way of a death notice.


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Holy Communion celebrated Saturday, 5:30 p.m. Sunday school, 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. Holy Communion celebrated the fourth Sunday in Lent, 10:15 a.m. Sermon title Light Blindness based on Ephesians 5:8-14 and John 9:1-41.
Other activities this week:
Monday, Worship and Music Committee meeting, 10 a.m. Tuesday, Women of the ELCA meeting, 2 p.m. Wednesday, midweek Lenten service, 9 a.m. in the rear chapel, midweek Lenten service, 7 p.m. in the nave.
Midweek Lenten services take us along Christ's journey to the cross. "Shadows of the Cross" features a particular object each week to help us reflect on our walk of discipleship with Jesus. This week, "The Shadow of Judgment," focuses on a gavel.


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From the first paragraph author Sinclair and narrator Dave Gillies took me on a fast-paced story of injustice and the cruelty of a man's desire for power and revenge. But it was so much more than that. Guilt runs rampant when Colin kicks himself for not anticipating future events. It's also about learning to love oneself with all ones imperfections and know that another can, too. And the ultimate takeaway—love-- the most important emotion and should not be ignored!
Two sisters, Kristine and Suzanne MacQueen, have been dealt cruelly by Blackburn MacCromar, a man so vicious with his treatment of these two women, he is very easy to hate. His viciousness leaves Lady Kristina blind. In this story he uses her as a tool to get Anna, Kristina's sister back into his clutches. But Blackburn has his hands full when it comes to Colin Cameron.
Colin is best friends to laird Neacal McDonald who has fallen in love with Anna. Anna's love to her sister has the laird ready to save Kristina and protect the woman he loves. Emotions run high, Colin is smitten with Kristina, even though she has a scar running down her cheek and blind. As a reader, I felt the over powering need of this Highlander in love. His need to protect. He came to worship the ground she walked on. But all comes crashing down!
Kristina also falls for Colin, but knows she's not good enough for him, the first son of a laird. She's imperfect. Then there is Colin's clan, will they accept her?
Evil lurks led by Blackburn, a man filled with the hatred of revenge --Red Holme. He's a danger to Kristina because he's always wanted to bed the wench. (his words, not mine) But it seems he's also a danger to Colin and his clan.
Sinclair knows how to ratchet up a good story, difficulties on an emotional level and danger on the physical kept me listening. In fact, it was so good, I listened to it twice.
Narrator Gillies is such a pleasure to listen to. His impersonation of women's voices is so feminine and life-like, I can see the women. The Highlander men are brawny with deep voices (big men) and sound of compassion. I love his impersonation of the men who are the villains in this story. I feel the evil oozing off them like slime!
If you're a fan of Highland stories, as I am, you'll surely enjoy listening to this series.
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I enjoyed this story very much. It was a good romance with some exciting action and good storyline. There were so many enjoyable characters and the villains were truly evil and certainly deserved their fate. Colin and Kristina were such a sweet couple. Colin was a wonderful and honorable man and treated Kristina with such care and understanding. Kristina was a strong woman and experienced horrible events at the hands of evil men and suffered life changing injuries because of them. She was certainly deserving of a good and compassionate man like Colin. I thoroughly enjoyed listening to Dave Gillies narrate this story in his wonderful Scottish brogue. I don't hesitate to recommend this audiobook.
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It's Teen Tech Week and time to announce the opening of The Maker Lab for teens at the Main Library, located in the Young Adults' Services department on the 2nd floor. The teen Maker Lab is an extension of the Studio D digital media program begun in 2012.
This Maker Lab is for people in grades 6 through 12 and includes:
*MakerBot Replicator 2 3-D printer
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For information on how to sign up call 421-1255 or stop by and check it out!
The ACPL will also be opening larger (even fancier) general use maker labs at Georgetown Library and at Main Library. Look for them to be opening by mid to late April.
If you're interested in 3-D printing, you might also want to attend the free RepRapFest happening March 14-16th in Goshen, Indiana.
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Hey guys. Happy Mother's Day. Another great week here in the Mamponse 1st ward. Highlight of the week was the 3 baptisms that we had. We baptized an older lady named Peace and her two grand sons, Francis and Sheriff. Peace's adopted daughter is a member in our ward and has been telling Peace to come to the church for a while. She decided it was finally time and now she's baptized a mere month later. She is the sweetest old lady ever. We have another baptism coming up this next Saturday too. It's for a man named Nana. He has been dealing with kidney failure for the last 7 years and through his trials he decided that what he needed was salvation, not money. And so here he is, ready to make this step in his life and perform this ordinance. We are super excited for him as well. We have some fantastic people we are working with right now. A lot of them are progressing very fast and will be ready for baptism soon. However, with the current baptisms, we are still looking out for more people to teach to keep us busy. Basically things are going great right now. Finishing off the last of my mission as strong as I can. That's about all, sorry this is so short. Also it was so awesome to talk to everyone yesterday. Again, happy Mother's Day to everyone
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I am in such a good mood right now. It's 7:40 in the morning, and as I'm writing this I'm sitting in an airplane, waiting for it to take off and bring me to New Orleans so I can see Dave again. Yay!
After they read my last blog post, in which I talked about my amazing week with Dave, two of my friends asked me if I was in a relationship with him. I guess it's because I used the term "long-distance relationship" in that post. Well, when I wrote that post, no, Dave and I were not in a relationship. Before he left we had decided we would just see where things went, no pressure.
But now Dave and I ARE in an "official" relationship. A few days after that post he asked me if I wanted to be exclusive, and I said yes, I did. It's crazy. Me with a boyfriend! I haven't had a boyfriend in 12 years, since before I got married.
My friends definitely have mixed feelings on the whole thing. Some are happy for me; some are skeptical.
When I told one of them that Dave had asked me to be his girlfriend, and that I had said yes, she said, "That's nice! How do you feel about it?" I said I felt good, even though I know the whole thing is kind of sudden and crazy. She said, "Well, it is really fast, but it's fine, call him your boyfriend. I mean, you're still open to meeting other guys, right? Like, if we were out and some guy tried talking to you, you would engage, right?" I gave it a few seconds of serious consideration and then said no, I didn't think I would. She said, "Oh, wow. Now THAT is crazy." I made a face and she said something along the lines of: "I don't know, I just don't think you should be limiting yourself and putting all of your eggs in one basket. Especially when that basket is so far away and has a kid."
She went on to talk about how hard long-distance relationships are (she was in one once), and about all of the sacrifices I will have to make, particularly because he has a kid. For example, if the time does come when Dave and I decide we want to really be together, it's not even an option for him to move up to New York. I am the one who is going to have to give up my life and move down to New Orleans, which could lead to bitterness and resentment on my part. She also talked about the general day-to-day sucky-ness of long-distance relationships, like when you want to get dinner or go to the movies or cuddle and you can't.
I understand all of the points she was trying to make. They were all very valid and logical. (Except for her saying that it's crazy for me to not talk to other guys. I mean, why would I agree to be exclusive if I'm going to act like I'm single? For that I would have just told Dave that we should wait a little while longer and see how things developed…ahhhh, maybe that was the point she was trying to make. Got it.)
Regardless, when it comes to matters of the heart, it's hard to be logical! I appreciate the fact that I have people around me who are trying to keep me grounded in reality (they just love me after all, and only want what's best for me), but I really like Dave, so all I can do at this point is continue on the path I'm on and see where it leads.


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Silverstone Best Of The Rest
Mark Webber and Fernando Alonso lie next to each other, eighth and ninth in the championship respectively, with just two points separating them. Whilst the season has been the most consistent in memory for the Australian, it has been one of frustration for the Spaniard. Regardless it is likely that these two Renault-powered drivers will be fighting for the same bit of tarmac in today's race.
My observations from qualifying would be that the two, whilst relatively closely matched, achieved their respective grid positions on different fuels loads. Once Mark Webber had placed third in Q2 and it was apparent that some of the principals were struggling, I believe that Red Bull identified the opportunity for a glory run. Knowing their driver's strength over a single flying lap and conscious that this was a home race, I think that they dropped the fuel out. With provisional pole and only one driver left out on the track it very nearly worked.
Reading between the lines in his post-race comments, I think that Webber is realistic about the situation:
"Five percent of the job is done, but we've got a long race ahead of us tomorrow and we're expecting to have some trouble keeping the Ferraris and McLarens behind us. But, we're happy for now – this has been coming for a while, we've shown good consistency this year and the team's done a good job."
Fernando Alonso is no stranger this season to the glory run, with attempts in his two "home" races in Spain and Renault's France. However following strong performances in the practice sessions and a solid sixth spot on the grid, I can't see any reason to believe that this his position here is artificial:
"It was a difficult qualifying session with changeable track conditions, wind and rain, but we have done our maximum and so overall it's a satisfying result for the team. If the race tomorrow takes place in normal conditions, we can hope to have a strong finish. If it rains, the race will be open and anything can happen. I must now prepare for that and will give my all once again to achieve a good result."
Despite all of the above, the two are significantly different prices to achieve their goals in the race. This makes me want to oppose Webber with Alonso in some way. The most obvious would be a head-to-head match bet but the only place I have seen this priced up is with AdmiralBet (if I don't drink enough milk…) where they make Webber a 1/2 shot and Alonso 6/4.
A better option would appear to be Bet365's best of the rest market: a straight race for the flag with the exclusion of Ferrari, McLaren and BMW. This market is headed by Webber:
2.25 Mark Webber
3.75 Fernando Alonso
9.00 Sebastian Vettel
11.0 David Coulthard
11.0 Nelsinho Piquet
Whilst the potential for changeable conditions makes any bet a calculated risk, it is my believe that Fernando Alonso is the driver best-equipped in the field to handle the rain and I have backed him in the above market. His record at Silverstone is top class, with a first and two seconds in recent years. Webber on the other hand, who is clearly his main rival, has scored just one world championship point in his career here in Northamptonshire.
I am quite happy with 11/4. Thanks to Jo for scouting out this value.
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July 6, 2008 at 11:21 am
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The racing is exciting, but imo somewhat overshadowed by the news about Silverstone losing the Grand Prix:
Donnington is a far nicer circuit than Silverstone. Only problem is that it's gonna need a hell of a lot of work done to it. Gonna need a load more grandstands, far better toilet facilities, not to mention a huge improvement for traffic getting in and out. Hopefully they don't completely lose the charm of it by covering it in concrete.
Anyway… Best lap EVER was Senna at Donnington in 1993!!!


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The Superfluous Adventures of Captain Redundancy and Tautology Boy
Flash Fiction Month 2014, Day 2
"Sorry," the robber adjusted the tights he had pulled over his head as a disguise, "who are you supposed to be?"
"I'm Captain Redundancy!" boomed the hero. "The vengeful masked avenger!"
"Okay then."
"And this is my sidekick, Tautology Boy!"
"We already know who you are," added Tautology Boy, pointing a gloved hand at the criminal.
"Y-you do?"
"Yes! You are a bank robber, because you are robbing a bank!"
The robber glanced nervously up at a security camera. "But you don't know my identity, right?"
"No," admitted Tautology Boy. "Your identity is disguised due to your disguise."
The robber breathed a provisional sigh of relief. There were two kinds of superheroes. Genuine superheroes, like The Astounding Welt and Captain Caulk, and joke superheroes like Broccoli Man and Ensign Here. For any criminal—be they a low-life street thug or the diabolical Doctor Baby—the former meant trouble, the latter generally no worse than minor inconvenience. The trouble was telling which was which.
"So uh," the robber scratched his head with the barrel of his pistol, "I notice you're wearing your underpants on the outside. I've always wondered why you superhero guys do that."
"Well, evildoer," Captain Redundancy stretched out his waistline, allowing it to snap back with a "smack!" that made the robber's eyes water, "I've never exactly asked anyone else, but I wear a pair inside my costume too. The outer ones are redunderpants."
"I see." The robber was now fairly positive that attempting to escape from Captain Redundancy and Tautology Boy would not have any ill effects. "Well, it was nice talking to you. I'm just going to take my bag with a dollar sign on it and head…off…"
That was strange. The robber was trying to walk away, but his feet just wouldn't move. He looked down. They both seemed to be encased in a large blob of hard foam material.
"What a putty," said Captain Caulk, blowing on the barrel of his sealant shooter. "It looks like you'll just have to stick around."
"You were unaware that Captain Caulk arrived without you knowing," explained Tautology Boy.
"Yes," added Captain Redundancy, "but naturally I would not have attempted to apprehend you unless my presence was completely redundant."
"My thanks to you, noble heroes." Captain Caulk flashed a smile. "I'll take it from here."
"To the car-mobile, Tautology Boy!" cried Captain Redundancy. "Onwards to somewhere else that is not here!"
"Nice guys," said Captain Caulk, heaving the robber over his shoulder and carrying him to the waiting police van. "Still, it's not hard to see why they were made redundant."
If you've enjoyed this story, you can find my work from Flash Fiction Month 2012 and 2013 collected in OCR is Not the Only Font and Red Herring respectively.


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It seems odd to me that there's only one page for developing world health. I'd expect that page to get long and confusing quickly!
Nice idea! The free health care in the UK helps make it low cost, though is there a probationary period for immigrants?
No, your free (edit: pre-paid for most immigrants) health care starts when you start working/studying and register with a GP. If you need to apply for a visa, you will likely pay an NHS surcharge as part of your visa application.
Hi Saulius. CZEA retreat organizer here.
Thank you for this report.
We did "concept explaining somewhat differently:
- a) people could fill out form w/ list of concepts they can/want explain several days earlier. They also had links to recommended articles for many of concepts offered.
- b) during activity we projected on a screen list of groups (~3 people learning, one teaching) and what is their concept for this session.
- c) after 15 minutes we hit the gong and projected list of new groups with new topics.
It seems to me that Circling and Hamming circles need the people to feel close and trusting each other. We thought about doing Hamming circles on Saturday evening but decided to do something else because the atmosphere was not right. How well it worked for you?
I didn't attend, but someone told me the circling thing was awkward.
vague idea of how things ought to be, rather than a conscious attempt to maximize success.
I would say it's a bit more than vague ;) I think it's important to have someone who really understands and shares the goals of the project. Someone who doesn't get EA is not likely to care about it much beyond seeing it as a means to get paid. It would then be largely up to part time volunteers (the other Trustees) to direct the project and keep it aligned with EA. This scenario seems more likely to lead to stagnation/failure to me.
less of the skills we tend to have (such as a flair for optimization)
I think a flair for optimisation is needed in any kind of ops role. The more you optimise, the greater your capacity (/free time).
and even more of the skills we tend not to have (consistency, hotel-related metis)
Conscientiousness would be required. But there are a fair amount of EAs with that trait, right?
optimizing for initial success seems more important than optimizing for future expansion.
In practice I think these are mostly the same thing. The more initial success there is, the more likely expansion is. The point I was making is that the manager will have a large stake in the course the project takes, so it will depend on what they make of it (hence meaning it should be seen as an exciting opportunity. I mean yeah, there will be some amount of "boring" (mindfulness promoting?) tasks - but it could be so much more fun than "Hotel Manager in Blackpool" initially sounds).
less external validation of managerial capability than a similarly qualified external candidate, who might be a hotel manager already!
In many ways this won't be a typical hotel (non-profit, longer term stays, self-service breakfast and lunch, simplified dinner menu, weekly linen/towel changes, EA evening events etc), so I'm not sure how much prior hotel experience is relevant. Really anyone who is a reasonably skilled generalist, passionate about the project, and friendly should be able to do it.
I expect you'd need to offer a higher salary to attract the same level of talent
Salary is open to negotiation (have amended ad).
require separating the hotel manager and the community mentor
I think that once everything is set up, the day-to-day management of the hotel itself won't require full time hours. Would prefer to have one full time employee rather than two part-time employees, but as I've said previously, I am open to splitting the role.
division of labor
As mentioned above, part of optimisation can be outsourcing tasks you are less good at (or don't like doing). e.g. hiring someone else to do the cooking or laundry (depending on how much you value your time/money).
"In many ways this won't be a typical hotel (non-profit, longer term stays, self-service breakfast and lunch, simplified dinner menu, weekly linen/towel changes, EA evening events etc), so I'm not sure how much prior hotel experience is relevant. Really anyone who is a reasonably skilled generalist, passionate about the project, and friendly should be able to do it."
I think this is where we disagree. It's taken me years to develop the (rather basic) domestic skills I have. I think it would be quite a challenge for someone like me, who can competently manage a household, to competently manage a hotel with 17 people. For example, when I organized EA London's weekend retreat and oversaw the housing, cooking and cleaning for 25 people, it was really hard and I made some significant mistakes.
This worries me because a large majority of the EAs I meet in London are worse at cooking/cleaning/household management than I am. If I'm not currently capable of the task, and most EAs are less capable than I am, then I wonder who CAN do the job.
There are a couple of things I might be wrong about: maybe people are better at domestic tasks outside of London, or maybe there are one or two exceptional candidates (and that's really all it takes!). But based on my experience, I really don't think "anyone who is a reasonably skilled generalist, passionate about the project, and friendly should be able to do it" - or at least, not to a high standard, not right away.
What are the forum norms around advertising?
Several of the reasons listed in that article don't matter for the hotel because the hotel manager will be the only full time member of staff. For example, the hotel manager won't be likely to switch into other roles/be promoted at the same organization and won't need to communicate with other staff about EA-specific things. Additionally, the article suggests that being involved in the EA community is a benefit, but not the only thing to consider when hiring. That sounds about right to me.
I would seriously consider splitting up the hotel manager role and the community mentory person. It's hard enough to find an awesome cook who can do 17 people's laundry, keep everything clean, pay all the bills, and keep everything legal. Requiring them to be one of a couple thousand EAs IN THE WORLD sounds really hard.
This is so interesting! I'd love more details about your methods. For example, for the different identifiers (black/white, Christian/atheist), how many of each group were surveyed? How was the survey group recruited? How significant were the results and what was the effect size? Any extra details would be helpful so I know how much to update.
I did factor in a £200 flight home once a year and mid-price phone contracts and laptops (just realised that the budget spreadsheet wasn't visible with the link before; it should be now). Netflix premium (£9.99/month) allows 4 simultaneous streams, so perhaps there could be one or two hotel accounts (I'm hoping to keep the hotel TV-free though, so there are no actual TVs). Doesn't look like Spotify has anything equivalent (but really, there is Soundcloud; and pretty much any music you can think of is on YouTube, and there are ways to play it ad free and in the background from a phone). But yes, I do expect that some people will want some over-budget luxuries, which they will hopefully be able to otherwise pay for.
Although of course it would be somewhat problematic if someone was spending a lot of their own money on extra luxuries (say they were spending an additional £5k/year. As mentioned in the OP with the digital nomad example, the cost-effectiveness of their funding would effectively be halved).
I've just looked over the budget (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bTwMRAD4TQjvHZ0eRCsN4uFdN5Se4zdcP1ikFOKj6-4/edit?usp=sharing). I really like how thorough and detailed it is. I am concerned that it may be overly optimistic, though - I'm sure other expenses will come up. For example, here are some things I use regularly that I don't see money set aside for:
-Medications (prescription or not)
-Contact lenses and solution
"We believe this program has potential to found 1-3 GiveWell incubation/ACE recommended equivalent charities a year." How many applicants are you expecting to mentor each year? Or put another way, what percentage of new charities you support do you expect to become top charities?
Hey Greg, this is a super interesting project - I really hope it takes off. Some thoughts on your essay:
1) Re the hotel name, I feel like this should primarily be made with the possibility of paying non-EAs in mind. EAs will - I hope - hear of the project by reputation rather than name, so the other guests are the ones you're most likely to need make a strong first impression on. 'Effective Altruism Hotel' definitely seems poor in that regard - 'Athena' seems ok (though maybe there's some benefits to renaming for the sake of renaming if the hotel was failing when you bought it)
2) > Another idea for empty rooms is offering outsiders the chance to purchase a kind of "catastrophic risk insurance"; paying, say, £1/day to reserve the right to live at the hotel in the event of a global (or regional) catastrophe.
This seems dubious to me (it's the only point of your essay I particularly disagreed with). It's a fairly small revenue stream for you, but means you're attracting people who're that little bit more willing to spend on their own self-interest (ie that little bit less altruistic), and penalises people who just hadn't heard of the project. Meanwhile, in the actual event, what practical effect would it have? Would you turn away people who showed up early when the sponsors arrived for their room?
If you want an explicit policy on using it as a GCR shelter, it seems like 'first come first served' would be at least as meritocratic, require less bureaucracy and offer a much more enforceable Schelling point.
3) As you say, I think this will be more appealing the more people it has involved from the beginning, so I would suggest aggressively marketing the idea in all EA circles which seem vaguely relevant, subject to the agreement of the relevant moderators - not that high a proportion of EAs read this forum, and of those who do, not that many will see this post. It's a really cool idea that I hope people will talk about, but again they'll do so a lot more if it's already seen as a success.
4) You describe it in the link, but maybe worth describing the Trustee role where you first mention it - or at least linking to it at that point.
I agree with all of these points, esp #2.
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