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On March 7, 2005 Brian Greene, a string theorist and author of "The Elegant Universe" and "The Fabric of The Cosmos", gave an interview at a Barnes & Noble in Austin. He was interviewed by Jeff Salomon from Austin-American Statesman and took questions from the audience.
The topics involved: What kind of experiments can possibly verify string theory? How and why would you look for astronomical evidence of strings? Would it make sense to look for confirmation of string theory in the possible violations of the Second Law of Thermodynamics? What is Brian Greene's own interpretation of quantum entanglement? What does it mean that space and time are not fundamental? In what sense is space-time analogous to temperature? What's next for physics after TOE? Will there be anything left to do, or will science come to an end? And, umm... does Brian Greene feel a need to reconcile psychic phenomena with the unified physical theory?
The talk also revealed some things you would not immediately think of Brian Greene. By his own admission, he finds physics hard and visualisation helps him enormously to understand physics concepts. That's one reason why he never condescends to his audience. (Another may be that he is simply a nice person.) Also, did you know that Brian Greene's books can cause people to quit drinking and start reading?
Note: I could not hear everything that was said or write it down verbatim, so I paraphrased some places the best I could. Most of them are in angle brackets.
Manda, Brea, P. Z. Myers and me (not in the picture) were having a discussion about science fiction books. Since I read and write science fiction, this was my highlight of the cruise. It turns out P. Z. Myers goes to science fiction conventions! (Well, at least the local one in Minnesota.) And Brea's taste in books is remarkably similar to mine.
Mel White (who has a Ph.D. in information sciences), Rachael Acks (a geologist), Paige Roberts (data scientist), and Sigrid Close (a professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University and ArmadilloCon 2014 science Guest of Honor) at the Women In Science panel
Mel White (who has a Ph.D. in information sciences), Rachael Acks (a geologist), Paige Roberts (data scientist), and Sigrid Close (a professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University and ArmadilloCon 2014 science Guest of Honor) at the Women In Science panel.
Fannish Feud, the pro team, left to right: Thomas (Martin) Wagner (filmmaker and science fiction reviewer), Sigrid Close (a professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University and ArmadilloCon 2014 science Guest of Honor), Ted Chiang (SF/F author and writer Guest of Honor), Stephanie Pui-Mun Law (artist GoH), Jacob Weisman (editor GoH).
Sigrid Close (a professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University and ArmadilloCon 2014 science Guest of Honor), Patrice Sarath (SF/F author), Ada Palmer (historian and SF/F author), and Ted Chiang (SF/F author) at the Remembering The Future panel panel. The panel explored the question, is time real or an illusion?
Wil McCarthy, a scientist and science fiction author, was the Guest of Honor at ApolloCon 2009. He gave a talk on the work he's been doing in programmable matter. He started off by showing the audience a piece of clear glass. Then he heated the glass with a hair dryer. An irregularly shaped reflective blob grew on the glass -- the heat turned the glass reflective. This was McCarthy's demonstration of materials he's working on in his startup.
Definitions and discussion of programmable matter can be found elsewhere on the web, and McCarthy did not dwell on the theory, but talked about his work in this area. His practical work in programmable matter developed from his nonfiction book "Hacking Matter", which it turn was born from his fiction. He talked about the events that lead to writing of "Hacking Matter", and how it attracted investors' interest, leading to creation of programmable matter startup. McCarthy talked about his company's journey to discovery of viable commercial applications for these materials, and why he avoids the word "nanotechnology" for marketing this technology to investors. He briefly discussed weapon potential and security issues of programmable matter with the audience. Finally, he talked about balancing his science and writing careers, or rather, impossibility thereof.
Pictures from ApolloCon 2009 are available in my photo gallery.
Read more about ApolloCon 2009 in my blog
Science fiction writer and physics professor Gregory Benford was the Guest of Honor at Fencon 2008. On several occasions during convention he shared his thoughts on topics such as American dominance in the world and its role to play in the technological future. Having been in science fiction fandom for four decades, Benford is proud of American science fiction and fandom influence on the world, which he puts in such blunt terms as "We own the future". At the same time he acknowledges that the future is not all rosy, and that science fiction may be the proverbial canary in the coal mine, signaling of darker times to come. Benford's keynote speech on Saturday was the problems facing the world and what can be done about them. Of those, global climate change was the most significant issue. He assured us that whatever is being done to counter it isn't working, because global warming is typically viewed as a moral problem (excessive consumption), when it needs to be seen as an engineering problem. To that end he proposed an unconventional -- or perhaps little known -- approach. At the end of his speech he spent some time on space travel and overpopulation.
Gregory Benford also appeared in the "Science -- fact or crap?" game at Fencon, where two teams of players competed regarding their knowledge of science facts. Read more about it in my blog.


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Get a little more organized in taking on your day's appointments with the latest update to Any.DO. Our first fresh app's update lets you turn your to-do lists into agendas with its new features. We've also got some big games today: Year Walk developed by Simogo, which is something of a horror-based puzzle-filled adventure; and […]
Get a little more organized in taking on your day's appointments with the latest update to Any.DO. Our first fresh app's update lets you turn your to-do lists into agendas with its new features. We've also got some big games today: Year Walk developed by Simogo, which is something of a horror-based puzzle-filled adventure; and Gun Bros 2, the sequel to the popular multiplayer twin-stick shooter.
Any.DO To-Do List update (Free)
What's it about? Any.DO is a simple, elegant to-do list app with a number of features that make it easy to use and highly responsive.
What's cool? A slick interface and a number of intuitive features make Any.DO a solid choice for maintaining your agenda. As with other agenda apps, it's easy to add items to your list, and Any.DO will sync with your online profile to help you keep track of everything you add to your lists, whether on your mobile or your computer, and you can also speak your agenda items rather than type them in. Any.DO's latest update adds Any.DO Moment, which allows you to transition your to-do list into a day planner.
Who's it for? If you could use additional organization, try Any.DO.
What's it like? Both To Do and Evernote also offer useful alternatives for staying organized.
Year Walk ($3.99)
What's it about? A strange, even horrific first-person adventure title from the makers of Bumpy Road, Year Walk includes a beautiful art style and some clever puzzle.
What's cool? Year Walk concerns a vision quest taken on by a character in 19th-century Sweden. Players adventure through a snowy landscape by swiping left and right to move laterally and swiping up and down to go forward at certain points. Advancing through the game requires solving various strange puzzles. You'll also unlock the game's story, which includes some horrific elements presented with somewhat cartoon graphics. Year Walk isn't really for kids, but it's a trippy and interesting adventure game.
Who's it for? Horror fans and players who enjoy puzzling adventure titles should check out Year Walk.
What's it like? Players should also check out Simogo's other amazing and inventive games, Bumpy Road and Beat Sneak Bandit.
Gun Bros 2 (Free)
What's it about? Glu Games' follow-up to the popular twin-stick shooter, Gun Bros 2 brings players to new areas to fight new enemies, including giant bosses.
What's cool? The general gist of Gun Bros 2 is the same as in the franchise's last outing. Players take on the role of one of two gun-toting brothers, fighting off hordes of enemies. This time out, players can pilot tanks and fight off huge bosses through the course of the game's story. There are also new enemies and new weapons to unlock along the way. Gun Bros 2 features cooperative multiplayer, like last time, as well as new game modes.
Who's it for? If you liked the first Gun Bros, twin-stick shooters and fierce multiplayer, you'll like Gun Bros 2.
What's it like? The previous Gun Bros is worth checking out, as is the tilt-based top-down shooter, Tilt to Live.

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baxter library Electronic reserves
Please look for reserve materials in the list below. Click each title to open the file. Password is required; please ask at Reference Desk or Circulation Desk.
Note: If necessary, you can rotate the documents clockwise in Adobe Acrobat Reader. Look for the "rotate clockwise" button, or right-click on the page itself.
Department of Biology
"Learning to Be a Critical Thinker." Human Biology, Science , and Society.
World of Art
"Allocation of Consumable Goods over Time: Speculation"
Math 123
Communication Studies
Interpersonal Communication, Ch. 1
Philosophy 20
Anthro 101
Syllabus & Reading Guide Schedule
Extra Credit Reading List Resources
Molecular Structure & Function of Genetic Material
Evolutionary Scale & Speciation
Geologic Time & Primate Evolution
Skeletal Features of Bipedalism
Dawkins, Richard. "Missing Persons? Missing No Longer."
Shipman, Pat. "We Are All Africans."
Van Schaik, Carel. "Why Are Some Animals So Smart?"
Wrangham, Richard. "The Cook's Body."
Anthro 102
Extra Credit Reading List Resources
Welcome to Cultural Anthropology
Spirituality, Religion, & the Supernatural
Industrialism, Colonialism, & the Modern World System
Annual Editions Websites for Cultural Anthropology
"1959D," from Art Since 1900: Modernism, Anti-modernism, Postmodernism.
"1968a" from Art Since 1900: Modernism, Anti-modernism, Postmodernism.
Benjamin, Walter. "The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility."
Bolton, Richard. "In the America East: Richard Avedon Incorporated," from The Contest of Meaning.
Cotton, Charlotte. "Once Upon a Time." The Photograph as Contemporary Art.
Crimp, Douglas. "The Photographic Activity of Postmodernism," from On the Museum's Ruins.
Crow, Thomas. "Profane Illuminations: The Social History of Jeff Wall." from Modern Art in the Common Culture.
Greenberg, Clement. "Modern Painting."
Hamilton, Peter. "Representing the Social: France and Frenchness in Post-WarHumanist Photography," in Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices.
Hariman, Robert, and John Louis Lucaites. "The Border of the Genre, Migrant Mother and the Times Square Kiss," in No Caption Needed.
Kwon, Miwon. "Experience vs. Interpretation: Traces of Ethnography in the Works of Lan Tuazon and Nikki S. Lee," from Site-Specificity: the Ethnographic Turn.
Read, Herbert. "A Concise History of Modern Painting."
Sontag, Susan. "America, Seen Through Photographs, Darkly," from On Photography.
History 11
Week 1 - Native Americans ppt pdf
History 19. Readings
Carpenter, Ted Galen. "Drug Gangs Winning the War for Mexico."
Cevallos, Diego. "Wal-Mart's Plans for Indigenous Areas Under Fire."
Dillon, Sam. "Kidnappings in Mexico Send Shivers Across Border."
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. Black in Latin America.
Lacey, Marc. "Drug Violence Alters the Flow of Life in Mexico."
McKinley, Jr., James C. "No, the Conquistadors Are Not Back. It's Just Wal-Mart."
McNamara, Thomas E. "Déja Vu in Mexico."
"Mexico Legalizes Drug Possession." "In Mexico, Ambivalence on a Drug Law."
"Mexico's Fox Creates Stir by Flying Virgin Banner."
Smith, James F., and Mary Beth Sheridan. "An End to the PRI Era -- and a Way of Life."
Uchitelle, Louis. "Nafta Should Have Stopped Illegal Immigration, Right?"
History 43
Chapter II: Rain in a Sheepfold
Chapter IX: Race War in Los Angeles, 1850-1856, & Cow County Banditos
Chapter XV: The Second Generation, 1865-1890
from Pitt, Leonard. Decline of the Californios: A Social History of the Spanish-Speaking Californians, 1846-1890. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966.
Nader, Helen. "The Spain that Encountered Mexico."
Schroeder, Susan. "The Mexico that Spain Encountered."
from The Oxford History of Mexico, ed. by Michael Meyer and William Beezley.
"Junípero Serra: Saint or Emissary of Empire"?
"The Fantasy Image of the Southwest"
from Mexican American Voices
"Anglo-Mexican Relations in Texas"
"The Texas Revolution: A Conflict of Culture?"
from Mexican American Voices
Castañeda, Antonia I. "Anglo American Stereotypes of Californianas."
Gonzalez. "La Tules of Image and Reality"
Otero, "Otero Remembers New Mexico, 1880"
Thompson, Jerry D. Vaqueros in Blue and Gray
Vallejo, Guadalupe, et. al. "Life in California Before the Gold Discovery."
Vargas, Zaragosa. Crucible of Struggle. "Mexican Americans in the Era of War and American Westward Expansion."
Vargas, Z. "Mexican Americans from the 1850s to the End of the Civil War."
Mesoamerica ppt pdf
Olmecs to Mayans ppt pdf
Rubric for Primary Source Analysis Paper
Extra Credit - Family History Assignment
Extra Credit - Film Assignment
History 44
Cosgrove, Stuart. "An Interpretation of the Causes of the Zoot Suit Wars."
Iber, Jorge. Latinos in U.S. Sports: A History of Isolation, Cultural Identity, and Acceptance.
Paz, Octavio. "The Pachuco and Other Extremes."
Ramírez, José A. To the Line of Fire: Mexican Texans and World War I.
Ruiz, Vicki I. "The Acculturation of Young Mexican American Women."
Gutiérrez, David G. "Chicano/a Historians and the Revision of Western History."
Saragoza, Alex M. "Recent Approaches to Chicano History."
Vargas, Z. "Mexican Americans in the Southwest: 1870 to the Early Twentieth Century."
Vargas, Z. "Mexican Immigration, Work, Urbanization, and Americanization."
Vargas, Z. "Mexican Mutualism and Fraternalism."
Study Questions: The Pachuco and Other Extremes
English 101
Biology 101
Connell, Joseph. "The Influence of Interspecific Competition and Other Factors on the Distribution of the Barnacle Chthamalus Stellatus."
Diamond, Jared. "The Island Dilemma: Lessons of Modern Biogeographic Studies for the Design of Natural Reserves."
Hutchinson, G.E. "Homage to Santa Rosalia, or Why Are There So Many Kinds of Animals"?
Kettlewell, H.B.D. "Selection Experiments on Industrial Melanism in the Lepidoptera."
Likens, Gene E. "Effects of Forest Cutting and Herbicide Treatment ..."
MacArthur, Robert H. "Population Ecology of Some Warblers of Northeastern Coniferous Forests."
Paine, Robert T. "Food Web Complexity and Species Diversity."
Pianka, Eric R. "Latitudinal Gradients in Species Diversity: A Review of Concepts."
Simberloff, Daniel S., and Edward O. Wilson. "Experimental Zoogeography of Islands: The Colonization of Empty Islands."


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Outlook 2015: UK corporate bonds
In the past five years, the world's major central banks have been in uncharted waters, and markets have been led into strange new territory.
UK corporate bonds offer a sound investment opportunity due to relative value, structural supports and technical drivers. Investors just need to know where to look.
The extraordinary experiments in monetary policy have led to historically low levels of volatility, markets awash with liquidity, and bond yields which are close to - or even below - zero. With sweeping changes to the policy environment looming in 2015, we still believe that UK corporate bonds offer a sound investment opportunity due to relative value, structural supports and technical drivers. Investors just need to know where to look.
The Federal Reserve (Fed) has now stopped quantitative easing, and the Bank of England (BoE) stopped some time ago. The next natural step in our view – as the environment normalises for these central banks – is for rates to begin to increase. We expect that in both the US and the UK, rates will rise in 2015. However, while the UK economy has been performing very well, there are a number of economic and political headwinds which mean the outlook for UK economic growth is less clear going forward. This is likely to limit the scale and speed of tightening that the BoE can implement, and provides the first of the three key points that we believe will support UK corporate bonds for the coming year.
Duration risk vs. credit risk
Going into 2014 many investors were optimistic about economic growth and worried about rising interest rates. This meant a lot of assets continuing to flow in to short-duration, high yield and strategic bond funds, as well as equity and multi-asset income funds. In the hunt for yield driven by government intervention in financial markets, investors have become comfortable taking on additional corporate credit risk, but less sanguine about interest rate exposure or 'duration'. This is because default rates (the number of companies defaulting on their debt repayments) have been suppressed by low volatility, whereas interest rate risk has appeared to be more pertinent as the UK economy has continued to improve.
As we have described above, while we believe that the UK's economic growth will continue in 2015, there are a number of headwinds. These include a General Election, possible "Brexit" risk and slow growth in the eurozone; the UK's largest trading partner. This is also occurring in an environment where global inflation remains very subdued. This has diminished the relative risk posed to longer-dated bonds, where duration risk is higher but there are fewer 'tourists' in the asset class. Therefore, some longer-dated assets are, in our view, underappreciated by investors.
Long-term demand
The positive thesis for long-dated UK credit goes beyond the economic drivers. UK pension funds have a lengthy history of buying long-dated corporate bonds. In the past, this demand has been sufficient to significantly compress long-term corporate spreads versus the equivalent medium term assets. The aversion to duration risk over the past 18 months, as well as the UK government's announced changes to compulsory annuity purchases, has significantly reversed this trend. Yet the technical support offered by pension funds remains intact. From a regulatory perspective, pension funds are still incentivised to use fixed income assets to match liabilities.
Further, both in the US and in Europe, pension funds are underexposed to long-dated credit assets when compared to the UK, and we anticipate similarly sustained long-end demand in these regions. This is important, as there is a usually a strong correlation between fixed income markets when significant events occur. The recent departure of Bill Gross from bond investor PIMCO emphasised how fears over large capital outflows can have a market impact beyond domestic borders. In October, we again saw fears over US corporate duration damage UK valuations; fears which we believe are overblown.
Relative value, and a good hunting ground
This means that the sterling credit market, on a relative basis, looks cheap compared to other regions and Europe in particular. With GDP growth in the eurozone almost entirely absent and dangerously low inflation, highly accommodative monetary policy will remain in place for a very long time. Low growth and low inflation are therefore supportive characteristics for investment grade bonds from a policy perspective. While this latter point has been priced into valuations by the euro market, sterling credit looks better value. Setbacks in fixed income markets in October have only enhanced this relative value.
On a historic basis, yields on corporate bonds remain low, and investors have correctly highlighted that this makes 'beta' returns - those generated by broad market participation - challenging to come by. However, by using an innovative theme-based approach to analysing companies and markets, we believe a number of interesting opportunities can be found. As economic and political uncertainties remain into the coming year, we see good opportunities within sterling credit, while the increase in volatility which we are expecting provides a richer environment for generating outperformance through credit selection.
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Because the number of influenza cases has significantly increased throughout the region, children age 12 and under may not visit patients effective Wednesday, January 8. This applies to all Wake Forest Baptist inpatient locations and will remain in effect until the number of flu cases decreases significantly.Learn More.
A blood culture is a test to detect germs such as bacteria or fungi in the blood. One may be ordered when a child has symptoms of an infection — such as a high fever or chills — and the doctor suspects germs have spread into the blood. The culture can show what type of germ is causing the infection, which will determine how it is treated.
To do the test, the doctor will take a blood sample and send it to a lab for testing. Results are ready in a few days.
If a child is severely ill, the doctor may start treatment before the results are complete, basing treatment on the most likely cause of the infection. This can be changed to be specific for the microbe found when the culture is completed and the antibiotic sensitivity of the bacteria or fungi has been determined.
During some illnesses, certain infection-causing bacteria and fungi can invade the bloodstream and spread into other parts of the body, away from the original infection site. Their presence in the blood usually means that a child has a serious infection. Such infections usually cause a more rapid heart rate, high fever, and an increase in the white blood cell count.
A blood culture can reveal a number of infections or problems, such as endocarditis, a severe and potentially life-threatening problem that occurs when bacteria in the bloodstream stick to the heart valves.
A blood culture might also detect the organism causing other infections like osteomyelitis, a bone infection often caused by Staphylococcus aureus, and cellulitis, a skin infection that involves areas of tissue just below the skin's surface.
The blood culture is done with a simple blood draw performed after the skin is cleansed with an alcohol pad and a special antibacterial solution. This careful skin sterilization is important because it prevents contamination of the blood that's being drawn. It kills bacteria that may be on the surface of the skin so that they don't appear in the blood culture and interfere with identification of the germ causing the infection.
Sometimes it seems like a lot of blood is drawn for the test, but it's important that enough be drawn for the culture to be accurate. This may be less than a teaspoon (5 milliliters) in babies and 1-2 teaspoons (5-10 milliliters) in older children, depending on their size. The amount of blood drawn is tiny compared with the amount of blood in the body, and it's quickly replenished (within 24-48 hours).
After the blood is sent to the lab, results usually are available in 1-2 days. If you have any questions about the test, be sure to speak with your doctor.
Reviewed by: Yamini Durani, MD
Date reviewed: May 2012
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Rainforest Alliance Certified™
The Rainforest Alliance helps to ensure that millions of acres of forests and farms are sustainably managed. Farmers are guided on practices for both social and environmental stability, and the farms that meet the criteria of the Sustainable Agriculture Network are awarded the Rainforest Alliance Certified™ seal of approval.
You'll find many Rainforest Alliance Certified™ items in-store, from Private Selection™ Coffee and Roses to Home Sense® Tissues.
Seafood Sustainability
Why is Kroger family of stores committed to advancing seafood sustainability?
Oceans cover over two-thirds of the planet's surface and are home to a world where at least a million known species of plants and animals depend on each other for survival.
People around the world depend on the bounty of the oceans. Globally, 3 billion people depend on fish as a primary protein source, and over 4 billion more rely on it to supplement other protein sources.
By 2050, the United Nations estimates our global population will reach 9 billion people, placing increased pressure on the world's fisheries.
More than 85 percent of the world's fisheries have been pushed to or beyond their biological limits.
What is sustainably caught seafood?
Sustainable seafood practices help to ensure that fresh, delicious seafood will be available for years to come. These sustainable practices include both wild-caught and farm-raised seafood.
Wild-caught is marine life that is fished from the wild. These wild fisheries exist primarily in oceans, but they can also exist in lakes and rivers.
Farm-raised involves raising freshwater and saltwater seafood in tanks or enclosures. This practice is frequently referred to as "aquaculture."
Making strides toward a sustainable future
Our goal is to source 100% of our top 20 wild-caught species from fisheries that are Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certified, in MSC full assessment, or engaged in a fishery improvement project by the year 2015.
We are also working with the Global Aquaculture Alliance's Best Aquaculture Practices program to ensure that our farmed seafood items meet strict standards for sustainability.
We will continue these efforts because our goal is to ensure that the seafood you and your family enjoy today is available for generations to come.
To learn more about how we support sustainable seafood, visit our seafood sustainability site.


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Murray Hill and New Providence, New Jersey, U.S., October 14, 2013 – Biotech and pharmaceutical firms looking for ways to improve the quality and safety of their operations are invited to meet with cryogenic gases experts from Linde Gas North America LLC., at the North Carolina Bioscience conference to be held at the North Carolina Biotechnology Center in Research Triangle Park. Linde representatives will be available during the networking dinner on October 17, as well at the annual conference on October 18.
Peter Stuber, program manager-Chemistry for Linde Gas North America LLC, said, "The Bioscience conference gives Linde an opportunity to outline its capabilities for biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry processes. As a preferred BIO Business Solutions Partner with the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO), Linde offers member companies technical know-how, special pricing and rebates on gases such as oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, and specialty gas mixtures. With more than 50 production facilities and 220 active distributor locations throughout the U.S., Linde offers exceptional service and cost-saving benefits to members companies."
Linde will also highlight the advantages of two of its cryogenic systems:
· Linde Cryoservices™ which is specially designed to serve all the requirements of biotech organizations that need to cryogenically store irreplaceable specimens, such as cord blood, bone marrow, cell lines, blood and organs for transfusion and transplantation.
· VERISEQ® Nucleation, a proprietary technology for nucleation control during lyophilization (freeze drying) of pharmaceuticals and biologics.
Linde Gas North America LLC. is a member of the Linde Group, a world-leading gases and engineering company with around 62,000 employees in more than 100 countries worldwide. In the 2012 financial year, Linde generated revenue of EUR 15.280 bn (USD 19.9 bn). The strategy of the Group is geared towards long-term profitable growth and focuses on the expansion of its international business with forward-looking products and services. Linde acts responsibly towards its shareholders, business partners, employees, society and the environment – in every one of its business areas, regions and locations across the globe. The company is committed to technologies and products that unite the goals of customer value and sustainable development.
For more information, see The Linde Group online at www.linde.com
Amy Ficon
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Machine Shops
The machine shop industry is one of the most important material removal and modification methods. It is a collection of material-working processes in which power-driven machine tools, such as saws, lathes, milling machines, and drill presses, are used with a sharp cutting tool to mechanically cut the material to achieve the desired geometry.
Advantages of plastics
The advantages of plastics for Machine Shops are numerous. Plastics are much lighter than metal, which equate into better fuel economy and cheaper to manufacture parts. Additionally, the lighter weight aids in safer material handling. Plastics can be designed to be impact and dent resistant, and modified for improved strength. Corrosion resistance, color and texture flexibility, the economical components and aesthetics are other advantages of plastics.
Materials Utilized Within Industry
Materials used by machine shops to create parts with characteristics outside of the range of non-plastic materials include Nylon, UHMW, ULTEM, Acetal/Delrin, PVC, PEEK, PET and PTFE (rod, tube and plate).
Adhesives Used with Dibond® Material
One of the display features in great demand is the ability to attach Dibond® material to a substrate without having exposed fasteners. The vast majority of this type connection is done using adhesives.
Tuffak® Optical Grade High-Impact Polycarbonate Sheet
When you need a clear, rugged sheet for the toughest applications. Excellent for uses including transit shelters, protective laminations, window glazing and more.
TECAFORM™ AH ID (Metal Detectable Acetal)
TECAFORM™ AH ID is the first commercially available thermoplastic that can be detected by the standard metal detection equipment typically used in food quality inspection.
Tecaform™ Acetal Copolymer
TECAFORM™ is commonly used as bushings, rollers, wear strips and other applications requiring a combination of strength, low moisture absorption, chemical resistance and dimensional stability.
Delrin (Acetal Homopolymer), Delrin Sheet, Delrin Rods
DELRIN® is a crystalline plastic which offers an excellent balance of properties that bridge the gap between metals and plastics.
Rochling Sustaplast Sustarin H
Material Properties and Machining Guidelines for Sustarin H, Sustarin H AF and Sustarin AF - DE588.
Rochling Sustaplast Sustarin C
Material Properties and Machining Guidelines for Sustarin C, Sustarin C ESD 60, Sustarin ESD 90 and Sustarin C TF.
OPTIX Non-Glare
OPTIX continuously processed non-glare acrylic is ideal for framing applications, signage, silkscreening and POP (point of purchase) displays.
Roll Stock
SG OPTIX, SG05 & SG10 DURAPLEX acrylic sheet products are available in Roll Stock.
OPTIX LD light diffusing acrylic sheet is offered in SG and SG05 in a wide variety of stock sizes with custom sheet sizes also available.


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"I'm been diagnosed with MS… I've got a job; now what?"
That was the question with which I opened our latest video in the series, MS At Home.
The difficulties of getting and keeping a job without a chronic, oft debilitating, disease are well known in a difficult economy. With healthcare costs skyrocketing, competition for jobs a high and some of us wondering just how we'll make it through another work week, we thought it was time to talk about working and MS.
Some of us have been able to modify our working schedules, others have been afraid to even ask. Many of us don't completely understand the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and some of us have been out of the workforce for longer than we'd like to remember. Multiple Sclerosis treats each of us differently and we each respond to the disease's affects in different manners.
One thing that many who are trying to stay employed but feel it increasingly difficult to do have voiced in the past is "what would I do?" if not working. Richelle, the woman we interview in this piece, speaks to just that point as she tries to volunteer when her former employer – a local fire brigade – needs and she "can".
Living with MS is difficult, working with MS can be difficult… nothing is going to change that. There are, however, ways to cope, ways to accommodate and ways to change what you do (and how you do it) which can make it a bit easier.
Have a look at our latest (and last) in the series and let us know what you think. Also, as this is the final of this lot, let us know if they've been helpful. Let us know if you'd like to see more and if so, on what topics. This and many more MS videos now live on their own home page. Bookmark the page and have a look now and again.
Wishing you and your family the best of health.
You can also follow me via our Life With MS Facebook page, on Twitter, and in our group on MS Connection.org. Also, check out our bi-monthly MS blog for the United Kingdom, and don't forget to check out TrevisLGleason.com.


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Inotify Example: Introduction to Inotify with a C Program Example:
inotify utility is an effective tool to monitor and notify filesystem changes. You can specify a list of files and directories that needs to be monitored by inotify. This library is used by various other programs. For example, CPAN module Linux::Inotify is developed based on this library.
iNotify Execution Flow
On a high-level, you do the following with inotify utility.
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Hey Guys! F/V Huntress just checking in, I don't get to the forum as much as I would like to in the summer so here our just a few pics to keep you pumped up!!! There our some great fishing trips being delivered out of Homer, and far as I can tell threw out south and south central AK!! Get up and get out and join us!! Summer is here!! Don't blink or you will miss it! Good luck and safe boating 😎👍
Threw a nice quick batch together for our new friends/clients all the way from New York !! Took our 5 in the 1 fish zone, "2 were over 40 inch" and traveled to the other side of the bay and grabbed a quick 5 more in 2 fish zone , and finished with a bad ass whale show!!! All this before noon.. sight seeing the rest of the day!! Pretty amazing aboard the F/V Huntress 5/18/17... cheers
Hey Guys!! Just checking in from the F/V Huntress!! Had a great Wild Salmon Wednesday trip! 5/24/17... Hooked 11 big fish in less then 2 hrs!! Was able to drive away with 6 beauty's for my party of 3 in no time !! Massive take downs! Exsplosive hits and realy jumpy fish made for some world class and memorable trolling... Don't let huge tides scare you!! There are favorite 😎 Halibut next 4 days.. will see ya on the water..
Realy good fast line burning action for team Huntress on the flat ones today, was able to stay 75 and up on the any size fish and did it fast, 17 feet of water was depth when we finished at mean low water ... it was one hell of a ride, smokin drags and smoking barrels the whole time👍👍.. see ya tomorrow
Hey guys, checking in from the deck of the Huntress!! Wish I had hot salmon report and pics for you guys , as salmon trolling is our fav..... But!! Our bottom fishing clients are here and having a blast!! Not much has changed ! Better halibut fishing then we have seen in years!!! Hope your all having a great summer!! Safe boating to all! This was our load today 6/24/17.. cheers😎
Just a couple pics from last two days, big king at 51.6 lbs for my client yesterday, and only the second!!!!!! Spawner of the year we have retained!! Great battle and a great story for another time, then back to halibut today... and obviously not much has changed there👍.. things should slow down soon and will keep in better touch .. Fishing out of Homer AK is proving to be productive, and entertaining day by day ... cheers and see you on the bay...
7/21/17 Lots of chAtter on here about poor halibut fishing out of Homer AK? 🤔... Just not sure what or ware your fishing or what your fishing with? Aboard the Huntress were fishing the same spots I fished as a kid 35 years ago , and having some fantastic results .. Halibut fishing from the port of Homer is as good if not better then its ever been... stay 40-60lbs and up and it doesn't take very long👍 Can't realy tell you ware to fish.... but I can show ya😇... see ya on the bay...


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The great British Cunard ocean liner Queen Mary was originally to be called Queen Victoria. The head of the Cunard company explained to King George V (1865 1936) that he wanted to name the ship after "the greatest of all English queens." Upon hearing this explanation the king replied, "Oh, my wife will be pleased." As a result, the great ship was christened after Mary of Teck.
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Today the English tabloid The Mirror answers a plea for advice from a woman whose boyfriend is still good friends with his ex. The ex-girlfriend insists on coming out to the pub with the happy couple and "referring to private jokes and going on about what great friends they are." The Mirror's advice columnist, whose name is Flic (?!?!) Everett, tells the woman that the omnipresent ex "never really got over the split." No shit, Flic! As we've stated before, people who stay bff with their exes are either a) still smitten and trying to get back together, b) totally masochistic, or c) reasonably narcissistic and fluffing their egos with the idea that their exes are still in love with them. It sounds like the letter writer is dealing with a lot of "a", and maybe a little "c".
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for my dearest hum-hum :)) " Tiger, tiger, burning bright / In the forests of the night..." - William Blake ... ref from: [Link]
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Alma residents vote on sales tax
A one cent sales tax has Alma residents walking into the voting booths. The decision being made is whether to keep the tax or make it permanent.
Officials said they are hoping to buy new trucks and beautify downtown Alma.
If voters decide to get rid of the one cent sales tax, Alma Police Chief Russell White told 40/29, cuts will be made.
"Would there be cuts? Yes there would be it is a sizable amount of money, so if you take that out of the city budget it will affect things" said White.
Alma residents had mixed feelings about the vote on the sales tax.
Rhonda Hoover, Alma resident, said "I think it'll be a good thing, it means everyone would now know it is permanent and be implemented."
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This application is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 09/506,728, filed on Feb. 18, 2000, which is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 09/010,446, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,028,967, which claims the benefit of a foreign priority application filed in KOREA on Jul. 30, 1997, as Ser. No. 36231/1997. This application claims priority to all of these applications, and all of these applications are incorporated by reference.
The present invention relates to a moving picture process, and in particular to a method for processing blocks of a moving picture to increase a compression ratio and to improve coding efficiency.
To efficiently compress a time variable video sequence, redundancy in the temporal domain as well as in the two dimensional spatial domain must be reduced. MPEG uses a discrete cosine transform (DCT) to reduce the redundancy in the two dimensional spatial domain and a motion compensation method to reduce the redundancy in the temporal domain.
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Pictures, which are consecutive in the temporal domain, form motions of a human being or an object at the center of the frame. This property is used to reduce the redundancy of the temporal domain in the motion compensation method. A volume of data to be transmitted can be minimized by taking out a similar region from the preceding picture to fill a corresponding region, which has not been changed (or has very little change), in the present picture. The operation of finding the most similar blocks between pictures is called a motion estimation. The displacement representing a degree of motion is called a motion vector. MPEG uses a motion compensation—DCT method so that the two methods combine.
When a compression technique is combined with a DCT algorithm, the DCT transform is usually performed after input data is sampled in a unit size of 8×8, and the transform coefficients are quantized with respect to a visual property using quantization values from a quantization table. Then, the data is compressed through a run length coding (RLC). The data processed with the DCT is converted from a spatial domain to a frequency domain and compressed through the quantization with respect to the visual property of human beings, not to be visually recognized. For example, since eyes of human beings are insensitive to a high frequency, a high frequency coefficient is quantized in a large step size. Thus, a quantization table is made according to external parameters, such as a display characteristic, watching distance, and noise, to perform an appropriate quantization.
For the quantized data, the data having a relatively high frequency is coded with a short code word. The quantized data having a low frequency is coded with a long code word. Thus, the data is finally compressed.
In processing a moving picture as discussed above, blocks are individually processed to maximize the compression ratio and coding efficiency. However, the individual process causes blocking artifacts that disturb the eyes of human beings at boundaries between blocks.
Accordingly, various methods for reducing a blocking artifact in a coding system, which individually processes blocks, are presented. For example, attempts to reduce the blocking artifact by changing processes of coding and decoding have been implemented. However, this method of changing the processes of coding and decoding increases the amount of bits to be transmitted.
Another method for reducing the blocking artifact is based on the theory of projection onto convex sets (POCS). However, this method is applied to only a still picture because of an iteration structure and convergence time.
The blocking artifact is a serious problem in a low transmit rate moving picture compression. Since a real-time operation is necessary in coding and decoding a moving picture, it is difficult to reduce the blocking artifact with a small operation capacity.
Consequently, the related art methods involve various problems and disadvantages when reducing a blocking artifact created in coding a moving picture. A calculation for performing an algorithm is complicated, and the calculation amount and time become correspondingly large. Further, the blocking artifacts are not reduced in either complex regions or smooth regions in a picture. In addition, the amount of bits to be transmitted increases.
The above references are incorporated by reference herein where appropriate for appropriate teachings of additional or alternative details, features and/or technical background.
An object of the present invention is to provide a method for reducing a blocking artifact appearing when coding a moving picture that substantially obviates one or more of the limitations and disadvantages of the related art.
Another object of the present invention is to provide an MPEG-4 video coding method that reduces a blocking artifact in a real-time moving picture using a frequency property around boundaries between blocks.
A further object of the present invention is to provide a method for reducing a blocking artifact that increases a compression ration and increases a coding efficiency.
To achieve these and other advantages in whole or in parts, and in accordance with the purpose of the present invention as embodied and broadly described, a blocking artifact reduction method includes defining pixels centered around a block boundary and setting a default mode. Frequency information of the surroundings of the block boundary is obtained for each pixel using a 4-point kernel. A magnitude of a discontinuous component that belongs to the block boundary is adjusted in a frequency domain to a minimum value of a magnitude of a discontinuous component that belongs to the surrounding of the block boundary. The adjusting operation is then applied to a spatial domain. In addition, a DC offset mode is established, and in the DC offset mode the blocking artifact is also reduced, for example, in a smooth region where there is little motion.
Additional advantages, objects, and features of the invention will be set forth in part in the description which follows and in part will become apparent to those having ordinary skill in the art upon examination of the following or may be learned from practice of the invention. The objects and advantages of the invention may be realized and attained as particularly pointed out in the appended claims.
The invention will be described in detail with reference to the following drawings in which like reference numerals refer to like elements wherein:
FIG. 1 is a diagram that illustrates horizontal and vertical block boundaries;
FIG. 2 is a diagram that illustrates a 4-point DCT kernel; and,
FIG. 3 is a flow chart that illustrates a preferred embodiment of a method that reduces a blocking artifact when coding a moving picture according to the present invention.
Reference will now be made to preferred embodiments of the present invention, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings. FIG. 1 illustrates typical horizontal and vertical block boundaries.
As shown in FIG. 1, in the dimensional image formed with respective four points of S0, S1, and S2 located around the block boundary, S1 and S2 are individually processed with a block-unit compression method. Thus, S1 and S2 are not influenced by the blocking artifact. However, S0 is located across a block boundary. Thus, S0 is directly influenced by the blocking artifact. The blocking artifact appears at the boundary between fixed block patterns in the form of a line of discontinuity.
Preferred embodiments of the present invention use, for example, a frequency property to preserve complex regions at block boundaries. The frequency property around the boundary is preferably obtained by using a 4-point DCT kernel, which can be easily calculated. However, the present invention is not intended to be limited to this. In this case, the complex region at a block boundary can be effectively processed by extending the smoothness of a picture from a frequency domain to a spatial domain.
As shown in FIG. 1, S0 is located across the block boundary. Thus, S0 is directly influenced by the blocking artifact. To reduce the blocking artifact from S0, a first preferred embodiment of the present invention uses frequency information in S1 and S2. The blocking artifact can be removed from S0 by replacing the frequency component in S0, which is influenced by the blocking artifact, with the frequency components of S1 and S2. In other words, S0 contains a discontinuity. However, S1 and S2, which are completely included inside respective blocks, are not related to the discontinuity. Since S1 and S2 are not involved with the discontinuity at a block boundary, S1 and S2 can accurately represent features of the respective neighboring blocks.
When images change smoothly, image features of S0, S1 and S2 are similar. This means that frequency domains of S0, S1 and S2 have similar features. The preferred embodiments use a DCT, or the like as a frequency analysis tool. DCT is widely used in an image compression technique.
FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a 4-point DCT basis. As shown in FIG. 2, the 4-point DCT kernel basis has symmetric and anti-symmetric properties around the center of 4 points. In FIG. 2, a0,0, a1,0, a2,0, and a3,0 are defined as the 4-point DCT coefficients of S0. Although both a2,0, and a3,0 are high frequency components, a2,0 is symmetric, and a3,0 is anti-symmetric around the center.
The center of S0 is located at a block boundary as shown in FIG. 1. Thus, a factor directly affecting the block discontinuity is not the symmetric component but the anti-symmetric component. The magnitude of a3,0 in a frequency domain is thus adjusted based on the anti-symmetric component being a major factor affecting the discontinuity. Accordingly, the proper adjustment of a3,0 is directly related to the reduction of block discontinuity in the spatial domain. Reduction of the block discontinuity will now be described.
In a first preferred embodiment, the magnitude of a3,0 is replaced with the minimum value of the magnitudes of a3,1 and a3,2, which are contained in a single block in an area surrounding a block boundary. By doing this, a large blocking artifact that appears when one side of the block boundary to be processed is smooth can be reduced. For a complex image where both S1 and S2 are the objects of motion (i.e., all the values of the magnitudes of a3,0, a3,1 and a3,2 are large), there is little influence on the block boundary.
A method for reducing a blocking artifact in a default mode is as follows:
v4′=v4+d; and
d=CLIP(c2(a3,0′−a3,0)//c3,0, (v3−v4)/2)*δ(|a3,0|<QP).
In the method, a3,0′=SIGN(a3,0)*MIN(|a3,0|, |a3,1|, |a3,2|), and q is the component of DCT kernel. The condition |a3,0|<QP is used to count the influence of the quantization parameter on the blocking artifact. The |a3,0|<QP condition also prevents over-smoothing when the blocking artifact is not very serious. The clipping operation on the compensated value prevents the direction of the gradient at the boundary from being large or changed in an opposite direction. The boundary pixel values, v3 and v4, are replaced with v3′ and v4′. QP is the quantization parameter of the macroblock where v4 belongs. Values, c1, c2, and c3 are kernel constants used in the 4-point DCT. To simplify an equation according to a first preferred embodiment of the present invention, the values of c1, and c2 are approximated to an integer, and the value of c3 is approximated to a multiple of 2. The values of a1, a2, and a3 are evaluated from the simple inner product of the DCT kernel and pixels, S0, S1, and S3.
Such processes are performed in both horizontal and vertical block boundaries. In this manner, the blocking artifacts in the whole frame can be reduced.
The first embodiment reduces a blocking artifact in the default mode. However, in the default mode, only the boundary pixel values, v3 and a4, are compensated. Thus, the default mode is not sufficient to reduce the blocking artifact in a very smooth region, such as a setting in a picture.
To reduce the blocking artifact in the smooth region, a second preferred embodiment of a method for reducing blocking artifacts in a moving picture according to the present invention includes a DC offset mode. The method in the DC offset mode is as follows:
v1′=v1−d3; and
In the second preferred embodiment,
d2=(3(v3−v4)/16)*δ(|a3,0|<QP), and
The blocking artifact in the region where there is little motion, or which is a very small setting, is reduced through the above-described method or the like in the DC offset mode. An appropriate mode between the DC offset mode and default mode can be determined using the following conditional expression:
If (v0==v1&&v1==v2&&v2==v3&&v4==v5&&v5==v6&&v6==v7)
DC offset mode is applied; Else Default mode is applied.
When the DC offset mode or the default mode is selected according to the above conditional expression, the blocking artifacts are reduced in each mode. After determining the proper mode between the DC offset mode and the default mode, the block discontinuity at the boundary is compensated to form a consecutive line, which reduces the blocking artifact. In the second preferred embodiment, the DC offset mode and the default mode are set using S0, S1 and S2. However, the present invention is not intended to be limited to this. Alternative sets of points or the like can be used.
An exemplary method for reducing a blocking artifact when coding a moving picture, according to the second preferred embodiment of the present invention, is described with reference to the flow chart shown in FIG. 3.
After beginning in FIG. 3, control continues to step 101. In step 101, a plurality of pixels, S0, S1, and S2 are defined centering around a block boundary. From step 101, control continues to step 102. In step 102, if a mode is selected, a default mode is set, and control continues to step 103.
In step 103, frequency information of the surroundings of the block boundary for each pixel is obtained using, for example, the 4-point DCT kernel. From step 103, control continues to step 104. In step 104, the magnitude of discontinuous component belonging to the block boundary is replaced with the minimum magnitude of the discontinuous components belonging to the surroundings of the block boundary in the frequency domain. From step 104, control continues to step 105, where the adjusting operation is applied to the spatial domain. The default mode is effective in reducing the blocking artifact in a complex region of a picture. However, the default mode is less successful in a smooth region such as a setting in a picture.
Therefore, in a smooth region it is necessary to reduce the blocking artifact in another mode, the DC offset mode. In step 106, the DC offset mode is established. From step 106, control continues to step 107. In step 107, the blocking artifact in the region where there is little motion, such as a setting, is reduced. From step 107, the process ends. Thus, the overall blocking artifacts can be reduced according to the preferred embodiments.
As described above, the blocking artifact reduction methods according to the preferred embodiments of the present invention have various advantages and effects. The blocking artifact is more easily and effectively reduced using features of the frequency domain. The preferred embodiments provide a visually finer quality of a picture by reducing the blocking artifacts in both the complex and smooth regions. Further, calculations are simple. Accordingly, the amount of bits does not increase.
The foregoing embodiments are merely exemplary and are not to be construed as limiting the present invention. The present teaching can be readily applied to other types of apparatuses. The description of the present invention is intended to be illustrative, and not to limit the scope of the claims. Many alternatives, modifications, and variations will be apparent to those skilled in the art.


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1st Gear: GM Wants To Go All Electric All Over You
General Motors was a bit of a pioneer into the extended range electric vehicle market with the Volt. And, to put it politely, the car hasn't exactly lived up to sales expectations. But sometimes that's what you get for being a pioneer.
What they haven't exactly led in recently is a pure electric car, probably because they're still stinging over EV1 from years ago. The Chevy Spark EV is now for sale, but they don't have a larger electric sedan to take on Tesla. That's reportedly about to change.
According to The Wall Street Journal, GM is working on an electric car with 200 miles of range in order to directly take on Tesla's upcoming entry level car. The problem is that batteries are currently too expensive, and GM is looking for ways to bring that cost down.
And if GM is now considering a car to rival Tesla, I think that kind of means that Tesla is no longer a thought in the background of these automakers. Tesla is now a threat. Impressive.
2nd: Tesla Goes Autonomous
It's not enough that they already have the corner on the premium electric car segment. Tesla now wants to get the autonomous car crowd as well.
Tesla is looking for an engineer to help develop autonomous driving capabilities for its future cars, as well as ways to make it work on the current Model S. However, this could also be a ploy to not make a fully autonomous car, but to bring the Model S up to snuff with other cars in its class. The Model S lacks adaptive cruise control, lane departure warnings, and other features that are now standard on its competitors.
The drivetrain is awesome, now it's time to catch up in other areas.
3rd Gear: The Silverado Is The Best Around
In Consumer Reports' latest line of pickup truck testing, the brandidly new Chevy Silverado beat the competition to become the finest pickup you can purchase in all the land.
That beats out their previous benchmark, the Ram, but three Consumer Reports points. Basically, the Chevy can tow more and hold more things. That's what pickups are for, so it makes sense that one that is better would do better in a test.
It's science.
4th Gear: Chevy Gains As Euro Sales Go Down The Drain
European car sales in August were 686,957 units, putting them on track to do 8.14 million cars this year. That sounds like a lot, but it's actually the least since 1990. Wow.
The good news in this is that Chevrolet gained 18 percent and GM gained one percent overall due to a decrease in sales from Opel and Vauxhall.
The true cause of the slide were major sales losses at Volkswagen, with an 11 percent drop from year to year. VW the brand actually dropped 17 percent, which won't help them become the largest automaker in the world.
5th Gear: RIP Eiji Toyoda
Eiji Toyoda, a founding member of Toyota, has passed away. He was 100. He was one of the masterminds behind the efficient, low cost, "Toyota Way" production method.
To give you an idea of how influential Toyota has been in Japan, Eiji Toyoda died at Toyota Memorial Hospital in Toyota City. That's how you know you're important.
On September 17, 1965, four adventurous Englishmen arrive at the Frankfurt Motor Show in Germany after crossing the English Channel by Amphicar, the world's only mass-produced amphibious passenger car. Despite choppy waters, stiff winds, and one flooded engine, the two vehicles made it across the water in about seven hours.
So, GM wants to make an electric car to fight Tesla. Thoughts? Good? Bad? Can they win?


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