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TurboCAD 2021 Platinum, English
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Product information "TurboCAD 2021 Platinum, English"
Premium, Professional 2D/3D CAD Software
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Complete 2D/3D design tools
Easy to learn and use
3D printing features
Excellent file sharing
Architectural design tools
Photorealistic rendering, materials and lighting
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NEW! Direct Editing of Blocks and Drawing
NEW! 3D Solid and surface mapping tools
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Introduction to TurboCAD Pro Platinum
TurboCAD Platinum 2021 is a brilliant collection of professional 2D/3D CAD tools to design, modify, present, and document in an integrated fashion. An optional AutoCAD® 2020-like 2D drafting interface with command line and dynamic input cursor helps professionals already familiar with AutoCAD easily get up to speed.
Advanced technology
A powerful drafting palette,
D-Cube constraints
ACIS® engine
Enhance productivity.
Advanced architectural and mechanical design tools add even greater flexibility and control, while superior rendering controls produce powerful presentations. Plus TurboCAD Pro-Platinum is programmable and supports over 40 file formats including .DWG, .DXF, .SKP, 3D .PDF, 3MF, FBX and .STL for 3D printing.
Powerful UI & Performance
If you're new to TurboCAD Pro Platinum, features like the fully customizable interface, including an optional AutoCAD®-like 2D drafting interface, can help you get started. Save more time with handle based editing and a GPU accelerated drawing engine. Even collecting and assembling all external resources and entities attached to a drawing for distribution is simple with ePack. Plus, TurboCAD is 64-bit compatible to manage even the largest CAD files.
Design Director
Organize, access, and explore design alternatives. The Design Director Palette provides advanced controls for Layers, Layer Filters, creating Layer Sets, setting and saving Work Planes, controlling Named Views, and more to streamline work and enhance productivity.
2D Design and Editing
TurboCAD is rich in professional 2D/3D design tools and drawing aids that speed design. Create views and viewports of any size and shape. Access extensive paper space and printing options. Multi-select drawing tool, dimension tools, and more.
3D Surface Modeling
TurboCAD includes a complete set of 3D surface modeling and editing tools making it ideal for both single part and small assembly mechanical designs.
ACIS® Solid Modeling / Advanced Mechanical Design
TurboCAD Pro Platinum provides advanced 3D surface and ACIS solid modeling tools. The thread tool, twisted extrude, extrude to face, imprint tool, parametric holes, imprint and more enable the easy creation of your more complicated professional designs. Access advanced modification tools like bend, unbend, and facet offset make it easier to modify existing geometry. Smooth surface mesh / sub-D modeling tools are also available allowing for the creation of more organic shapes.
Architectural & GIS
TurboCAD includes an integrated suite of architectural tools that accelerate productivity in design and drafting, or in the documentation of existing compatible architectural models. The architectural objects are AutoCAD® Architecture (ACA) compatible so that .DWG models with ACA extensions may be read, modified, and documented as needed.
Photorealistic Rendering & Visualization
TurboCAD Pro Platinum includes lighworks to speed design work and create stunning presentations. Render management of materials, luminances, environments, advanced render styles and more help users create truly photorealistic presentations of their design.
Parametric Parts Manager
Create parts that remain parametrically controlled, even after insertion into your drawing. Also draw variably constrained parts and convert them to parametric parts. Parts can be saved individually, and libraries of .PPM objects can be created, shared, and reused from project to project.
External References (Xrefs)
All of the file formats that may be opened and imported, except bitmap images, may be used as an external reference (Xref). TurboCAD offers Xref clipping for dozens of file formats and binding of Xrefs, which can then be exploded and edited. Xref layers are also easy to manage, including with layer filters.
Programmable (SDK & Ruby Scripting)
Extend the functionality of TurboCAD Pro Platinum by develop new tools, functions, and behaviors. Custom routines that are performed on a regular basis can be automated. Specific tools for vertical applications can be created and added. Even commercial plug-in applications may be developed and sold. Updated documentation and samples are provided and there is a wiki and forum-based support online.
What's New in TurboCAD Platinum 2021?
1. Find Control in Custom Ribbon Page
The Find feature allows users to search or find Command/Group/Pop-ups/Tabs in the Ribbon tree.
2. Interactive Startup Splash Screen
Splash Screen has been added as a Startup Screen when Launching TurboCAD for a better interactive user interface. The interactive screen displays recently created files and ability to open/create new file via Create tab, allows user to learn about TurboCAD basics, including new feature videos, via Learn tab, and get access to the latest information about TurboCAD, via News tab.
3. Snap Improvement: Highlight Hit Graphic
This feature highlights edges for snaps when you move a 3D object or connect two, 3D objects together. This option has been added to both the Drawing Aids window and the related settings have been added to the Program Setup/Preferences dialog box as Visual Effect Settings, selected – Visual Effect Settings.
4. Resize Previews in Blocks Palette
A new slider has been added to the Blocks Palette which allows the user to resize previews of blocks within the Blocks Palette.
5. Mouse Wheel Support within the Blocks Palette
Using the mouse wheel, the user can now scroll through block previews within the Blocks Palette.
6. Currently Available On
A new feature has been added to the Commands section in the Customize menu, which allows the user to see the position of a particular command available in the menu, UIs and toolbars.
7. Find Block in Blocks Palette
A new search bar has been added to the Blocks Palette which allows user to find a block by its name in the Blocks Palette.
8. Viewport Hidden Line Performance Improvement
A new option "Use Hidden Line Cache" has been added to the cache section of the Viewport properties window. If this is turned on, Paper Space viewport processing (redraw, move, zoom) becomes significant faster for large drawings.
2D Drafting and Editing
1. Automatic Updating of Xrefs
When using a file with Xrefs, if any of those external files are updated, then TurboCAD now asks if you want to regenerate the file with the updated Xref.
2. Leader Dimension Improvements
Leader dimensions in DWG files are now displayed correctly with TC2021.
3. Load/Unload Xrefs
A New option "Status", with two values: "Loaded" and "Unloaded" has been added to the Edit Xrefs dialog box. When a referenced drawing (Xref) is Unloaded from the current drawing, the drawing opens much faster and uses less memory.
When the Xref definition is unloaded from the drawing file, the internal pointer to the referenced drawing remains. You can therefore restore all the information by Loading the Xref. In order to maximize the performance of TurboCAD, it is recommended that you Unload any referenced files if they are not needed in the current drawing session but may be used later for printing/plotting.
4. Edit Selected Block command
Now user can edit the selected block directly within the TurboCAD drawing without having to select the Edit Content option from the Blocks Palette. This can be done by simply selecting the block and clicking "Edit Selected Block", now added to the menu.
5. Select by Block command
A new entry "Block" has been added to the "Select by" commands which displays the list of blocks in the drawing and allows user to select block(s) via one click.
1. Railing improvement
"Railing by Path" now works for arc segment created by a 2D polyline.
2. Architectural Grid
The Architectural Grid is a new tool that makes it easy to align other architectural objects in the drawing, such as walls and columns. Users can also import rectangular grids from DWG drawings and can change the properties of the grid and bubble representation, via the Selection Info palette.
3D Design and Modeling
1. Apply to Pattern
A new local menu option "Apply to Pattern" has been added to the Pattern tools. User can now apply solid operations for all pattern elements simultaneously. New option is available for the following operations which can be applied on the pattern objects simultaneously: Fillet Edges, Chamfer Edges, Face offset, Shell Solid.
2. 3D Mapping Tools
Two, 3D mapping tools: Face UV Representation and Surface on Face have been added to TurboCAD. Face UV Representation is used to get a UV representation of the selected ACIS® face as a separate object. Surface on Face is used to get a 3D surface from a selected UV representation, and 2D contour, which lies on the UV representation.
3. Imprint improvement
The Imprint tool has been improved such that it can use a block insertion that contains set of 2D contours, as a profile for performing the imprint. This can be useful for creating holes in Sheet Metal designs. Association between the block insertion and the hole is also supported.
Rendering and Visualization
1. Multi-threaded faceting for rendering
A new option has been added to the ACIS® section in Drawing Setup. In this mode, rendering is done faster for drawings containing ACIS solid bodies.
2. Visualize Render Mode
A new render mode "Visualize" has been added to the TurboCAD 2021. Visualize supports several device modes: OpenGLES2, OpenGL and GDI, out of which OpenGLES2 is the most advanced and the most productive device mode.
a. Visualize Hidden Line and Draft Render Mode
'Visualize' Rendering Type with both Hidden Line and Draft Render (including 'Gouraud Shaded' and 'Flat Shaded') modes has been added to 'Camera PropertiesRendering' page.
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b. Visualize Import LightWorks® and RedSDK materials
The Visualize rendering technology includes the ability to import materials contained in TurboCAD files that have been rendered either by LightWorks or RedSDK. The Visualize renderer does not currently include its own native materials for TurboCAD. Currently, Visualize rendering supports color, texture, transparency map and bump maps, these parameters can be imported from LightWorks or RedSDK materials.
c. Visualize Anti-Aliasing
The Visualize renderer supports two types of Anti-Aliasing: Line Smoothing and Fast Approximation Anti-Aliasing (FXAA).
d. Visualize Ambient Occlusion
An Ambient Occlusion option is included in Visualize. Options for these are set in the Drawing Setup dialog box, and include the following parameters: Loops, Focus, Power, Blur Radius, Blur Power.
e. Visualize Lighting
Lighting options are included in Visualize. Options for this are set in Drawing Setup dialog box, and include the following parameters: Default Presets, Intensity. This could get enabled with OpenGLES2 device type.
f. Visualize Support images with alpha transparency
Support of images with alpha transparency is included in Visualize. When the Opaque Background option is disabled (it is enabled by default), it makes all pixels of a certain color transparent (100% transparency). In Visualize mode, the transparency of each pixel corresponds to the alpha transparency value for the given pixel, specified in the alpha channel.
g. Visualize Settings
Visualize Settings have been added to the Program Setup window.
1. Progress meter for Interop Filters
A new progress meter has been added to read/write STEP and VDA files.
2. Updated DWG and DXF support
Updated Read and Write support of DWG and DXF files.
3. Part Names from Interop
A new option to select Object Name in the Selection Info Palette Options dialog has been added.
4. Export Support of Professional Mechanical CAD Formats
Support of Export file filters from the leading, professional mechanical CAD products, including: CATIA and VDA-FS.
5. Publish to PDF
Publish to PDF Combine functionality of 2D and 3D PDF filters have been integrated into a single tool "Publish to PDF", which has been added to the File menu.
6. STL Import Performance Boost
STL file import performance has been boosted up to 10 times.
7. SKP filter updated
TurboCAD now supports Import and Export of the SketchUp 2021 file format.
8. New Export 3DXML
TurboCAD now supports Export of the 3DXML file format.
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System Requirements
Version 2021
Size 880Mb
Platform Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10
CPU Type
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64-bit System Requirements
Microsoft Windows 10, Windows 8* 64-bit, Windows 7 (64-bit), Vista (64-bit)
32-bit System Requirements:
Microsoft Windows 10, Windows 8*, Windows 7
*TurboCAD is designed for desktops or laptops that meet the indicated system requirements. Windows RT technology used on some tablets is not supported.
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They have been rallying almost daily for the past month. Anti-government protesters led by students are attracting different sectors of Thai society.
Their main demand is a change of the entire political system.
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As well as changes to the constitution and an end to the intimidation of political activists, some are calling for what has long been unthinkable: reform of the monarchy.
Any criticism of the royal family is an offence that can lead to a long prison sentence.
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Presenter: Hashem Ahelbarra
Pravit Rojanaphruk – Political reporter and columnist for Kaosod English news website
David Streckfuss – Thai historian and author of Truth on Trial in Thailand; Defamation, Treason, and Lese- Majeste
Jade Donavanik – Dean of the Graduate School of Law at Siam University and a former adviser to the Constitution Drafting Committee in Thailand
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Treatments for brain fog are available, but it might take some time for you and your doctor to find one that will work for you. Not all treatments work the same way on each patient with lupus.
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MilitaryKidsConnect.org, a Department of Defense-sponsored website, features content for children, tweens, and teens of military families. The site provides an online community that allows these young people to support one another while learning coping and resilience-building skills
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New Delhi/Gurugram, 16March 2020: As per new research from CyberMedia Research (CMR), shipments of eSIM-capable smartphones will double in 2020 to top 3.5 million units, on the back of recent Apple iPhone shipments.
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The shipments of eSIM phones quadrupled from quarter of a million in 2018 to 1.5 million in 2019, with Apple contributing the most. Apple accounted nearly 98% of the eSIM phones shipped in India, with three out of its five phones supporting eSIM.
While Google was the first to launch eSIM capable smartphones, such as the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2XL in late 2017, the eSIM ecosystem got a significant boost with Apple's embrace of eSIMs in its premium smartphones in 2018, including the iPhone XR, XS and XS Max. The phones feature dual SIM technology with both a Nano SIM and an eSIM. With new players, such as Samsung, also embracing eSIM in its uber-premium Galaxy Fold, and its other flagship smartphones, including the Samsung S20, the eSIM capable smartphone shipments is set to grow.
In 2019, shipments of eSIM-capable phones accounted for a mere 1%. As per insights from CMR, Apple had a 97.7% market share, while Google accounted for close to 1.8% market share, with Samsung having a 0.5% share of the eSIM phones shipped in 2019.
According to Prabhu Ram, Head – Industry Intelligence Group, "With Samsung embracing eSIM technology, and introducing it in the Galaxy Fold, and other smartphones, and Apple building on its recent momentum in India, we foresee a dramatic spike in eSIM-enabled phone shipments in 2020. On the back of Apple and Samsung's support for eSIM-capable phones, other Android OEMs will also aim to launch phones with eSIM capabilities. This, should in fact, be on top of OEM agenda alongside 5G phones."
The eSIM technology is present not just in phones, but in other consumer electronics products, including tablets and smartwatches. As millennials and the always-on professionals continue to choose more connected devices, there will potentially a greater operator support to build on the support and momentum that eSIMs have got from OEMs, leading to mainstream adoption.
"While eSIM phones are here to stay, it would not replace traditional replaceable SIMs. The new wave of eSIM-enabled phones will continue to have dual SIM functionality for the foreseeable future, until such time the market readiness is sufficient. Over the long term, the eSIM ecosystem will potentially grow, basis the realignments and refinements on the Supply side, including on manufacturing, logistics and supply chain, and, on the Demand side, focused on creating consumer awareness," added Prabhu.


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The UK engineering company has released a new internet-enabled home air purifier, along with the app to remotely monitor air temperature in the house.
Dyson has entered the IoT industry with the launch of its first internet connected device. The technology company has introduced the Pure Cool Link, the new version of its air purifier that was initially launched last year in China.
The company has also launched the Dyson Link app that will allow users of the Pure Cool Link fan to check the air temperature, quality and humidity at home, see the history of air quality and install air quality limits. The app can be used on both Android and iOS platforms.
The fan uses a 360-degree glass HEPA filter, which traps 99.95% of pollutants, including chemicals, dust, spores, cookers, fires and tobacco smokes.
"We think it is polluted outside of our homes, but the air inside can be far worse. Dyson engineers focused on developing a purifier that automatically removes ultrafine allergens, odours and pollutants from the indoor air, feeding real time air quality data back to you," said Dyson's founder, James Dyson.
The users can also use the fan at night by switching it to a Night Mode, what makes it work quieter. They will also be able to launch the device remotely and set the time for starting the cleaner. If the cleaner's filter needs to be changed the Link app will send a notification to a user's smartphone. If running the fan 12 hours a day, the filter will last for about a year.
"Modern homes have been built to be more sealed against noise and trap heat, which means the pollutants we create inside the home are also trapped and build up to levels up to five times more polluted indoors than out," said Hugo Wilson, Dyson's design lead.
The Pure Cool Link purifier will be available in desk and tower modes. The desk variant will cost £350, while the tower version will be priced at £450. Both models will have the same filter performance. The only distinction is the air distribution, as the desk variant can be adjusted for more targeted airflow.
Dyson is planning to produce more IoT devices to allow people control their home appliances when they are outside. The Link app, however, doesn't work with other IoT systems, including Samsung's SmartThings kit and Apple's HomeKit.
Nowadays, the IoT is one of the fastest growing sectors in the IT industry. IoT developers dominated the stage during this year's CES, which the largest consumer electronics tradeshow in the world.
The research company IDC predicts that the industry will be estimated at 1.7 trillion by 2020. The startups, developing internet-connected products, are attracting the world's leading investors. Last year, the Virgin Group's chairman Richard Branson became a lead investor into the connected door bell company Ring, thus showing his interest in the technology.


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Do you remember when you were a child and you'd jump rope? Just for fun? I certainly do! I loved it! Still love it. I could never do those awesome double Dutch songs, but that never deterred me from jumping the good old rope! This holiday season my jump rope is the first thing I'll pack for my east coast holiday journey. Why am I bringing it? Is this okay since I'm definitely not a child? Of course it is and I'm going to tell you why!
First things first; did you know jumping rope is an awesome cardio workout? Oh Snap! A ton of you've been missing out. It's been estimated that just ten measly minutes of jumping rope (at least 120 jumps per minute) has the same benefits as jogging for upwards of thirty minutes. No way! That is awesome news. I just saved you a bunch of time. If you're on a limited workout schedule you can totally get a great workout in like me!
We all love the holiday season, but too many of us let our workouts go along with the year. We get busy with wonderful holiday parties filled with delicious cheese and crackers, shrimp and cocktail sauce, and let's not forget chocolate truffles. Wow, we are busy little eaters! But here's the kicker, you're never too busy to workout. Trust me! Bring your jump rope with you wherever you travel this holiday. It will be your best-kept secret and your best friend, that secret lover that you hide from mom and dad.
Jump ropes are perfectly sneaky. They're compact and portable. You only need limited space to use them. You can jump inside or outside. You can bring them to the gym with you and add them into circuit training. They're cheap, like five dollars cheap! You can jump them with your family and friends. My guy and I always jump rope together. It's fun!
Now that you're on board with this whole jump rope thang, you're going to need a few workouts to keep it interesting. I always keep a circuit based jump rope workout in my back pocket. Here it goes: Do 100-200 consecutive jumps, 50-100 jumping jacks, 10 jump squats (some people call these burpees – I do not!), and 30 slow crunches. Then REPEAT. I do anywhere from 3-5 of these. The more the merrier!
Okay, you want one more workout? I did this one when I was home for Thanksgiving. Set a timer for five minutes and then start jumping. Jump five minutes straight without stopping. It's intense, especially when you're still getting good at jumping rope. Break for two minutes then set the clock again and do this at least twice more. You'll get a killer workout from both exercises!
Did you buy a jump rope yet? Well go now! Trust me, it will be hard at first but you will get better very quickly. There are definitely a ton of excuses why not to workout this holiday season, so get yourself a jump rope and crush them!


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Berlin-based Booka Shade (Walter Merziger and Arno Kammermeier) leapt to the forefront of contemporary dance music in 2005 with their classic singles "Body Language" (with M.A.N.D.Y.) and "Mandarine Girl", and their debut full-length ..Memento… Since then they've released a string of hit singles, become one of the world's most sought-after electronic live acts and developed their unique sound on the acclaimed albums ..Movements.. and ..The Sun & The Neon Light…
2008 was one of the duo's most successful and madly busy years yet. As well as releasing ..The Sun & The Neon Light.., their most ambitious and full-realized album to date, they embarked on another exhaustive world tour. Performing at festivals like Glastonbury, Rock Am Ring and Creamfields in Argentina, they cemented their reputation as one of the most formidable live acts around (Resident Advisor voted them the 5th best live act in the world). Their single "Charlotte" was one of the top three selling underground tracks on Beatport in 2008 and Booka Shade was voted ..Best Tech House Act 2008…
Having released a Movements tour edition, a live DVD called ..We Came To Dance.. (which found them performing to 12,000 fans at the Pukkelpop festival) and ..Cinematic Shades.., a compilation of more reflective tracks from the Booka Shade back catalogue, the guys are now back in their Berlin studio working on a new album. They will play selected shows in Spring and over the summer festival season. Their eagerly-anticipated US tour starts in March 2009.
It's been a long and winding road that's got Booka Shade to where they are now. Following their formative synth-pop outings in the 90s and releases on labels like R&S, Music Man and Tommy Boy – including a huge hit in 1993, "Una musica senza ritmo", as Degeneration – Arno and Walter sought a new, more personal outlet for their creative energies. They found this through Get Physical Music, which they co-founded in 2002. Since then they've been at the production helm of countless releases by M.A.N.D.Y, DJ T., Sunsetpeople and Chelonis R. Jones, and the label has quickly grown to become one of the most respected and popular underground dance music labels around, releasing hits from a variety of artists from the aforementioned to Samim, Lopazz, Raz Ohara, Elektrochemie and Jona.
In 2004 Booka Shade released their highly acclaimed debut album ..Memento.., but it was their seminal collaboration with M.A.N.D.Y, "Body Language", that launched them into the stratosphere. An immediate underground hit, the track also broke into commercial realms and was awarded 'Ibiza Track of the Season 2005'. Booka Shade's solo offering "Mandarine Girl" became a club smash and subsequent live performances at the 2005 Sónar festival and a warm-up set for Depeche Mode. Garnering massive props for both their studio work and live performances, Booka Shade have become in-demand remixers, lending their production magic to respected artists including Moby, Yello, Hot Chip, Depeche Mode, Roxy Music, Dubfire, Tiga, Dave Gahan and The Knife.
In 2006 the UK's electronic music website, Resident Advisor, crowned Booka Shade 'Best Live Act' and awarded them the title of 'Best Album' for their second long-player, ..Movements… Released in May 2006, it featured "Mandarine Girl" and "Body Language" alongside new club anthems "Night Falls", "In White Rooms" and "Darko". These tracks were among 2006's biggest dance tunes, and "In White Rooms" and "Night Falls" were the two top-selling EPs for worldwide vinyl distributor Intergroove. The accolades stacked up: Pitchfork listed "In White Rooms" amongst the best songs of the year, while Germany's ME Sounds listed 2004's "Vertigo" amongst the "most important songs of all time". A Groove Magazine poll voted them second best producers of the 2006, and ..Movements.. was one of its top 10 albums for that year. US magazine XLR8R championed the album as one of the top 100 of all time!
During their Movements world tour – which saw them perform a staggering 150 shows over the course of 20 months – Booka Shade released the 12"s "Tickle / Karma Car" and "Numbers", both international radio and club hits, as well as a mix CD for the DJ-Kicks series which was chosen as DJ Magazine's 1 compilation of the year and Mixmag's 2. Soon after they brought out ..The Sun & The Neon Light.., their most diverse and ambitious album to date. Since then they've toured as hard as ever, bringing their sound live and direct to audiences all over the globe; meanwhile Get Physical is as healthy as ever, and recently celebrated its landmark 100th release.
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Temo, unique electric propulsion with ancient design roots
The Temo electric outboard is wildly different from any other design, but it makes sense on first sight, and more so when you dig into the details. It's small boat propulsion in the simple format of a single sculling oar, a modern brushless electric prop drive in some ways as rudimentary as a third-world long tail. So while the boaters above are enjoying quiet and highly maneuverable thrust similar to what a Torqeedo 1003 has pleasantly provided me for years, they've got it in a significantly more compact and portable package.
I have not personally tested Temo electric propulsion, or even hefted the unusual 11-pound tubular form that's somewhat hard to call an outboard. But the specifications look good, so do the demo videos, and you too may enjoy exploring the design influences.
The Temo 450 all-in-one design claims 26.5 pounds (12 KG) of maximum thrust from its 450W motor, which the company describes as "3 times more powerful than a single person rowing." While I'm guessing that benchmark is based on hard-to-row inflatables, I'm also confident that 26.5 pounds of thrust will push a dinghy pretty well, even in chop and headwinds. That confidence is partially based on the latest Temo demo video, but mostly because my beloved Torqeedo Travel 1003's 70-pound thrust has easily pushed various small boats up to displacement speed with power to spare.
The ePropulsion Spirit Plus I tried last summer claims 71 pounds of maximum thrust, with the newer Torqeedo 1103C at 70, and all three of these "conventional" electric dinghy motors are described as equivalent to 3 hp gas outboards. So the Temo could be called about 1.25 hp ICE (internal combustion engine) equivalent, though electric power is always different from ICE in terms of torque (good explainer here). Delivering more power at low RPMs is why the 3hp electrics can propel larger small boats like full keel daysailers better than "equivalent" gas outboards, and also why e-outboards are great for slow speed maneuvering (besides for having reverse thrust).
The 42 minute full power runtime that Temo claims for its 290W lithium-ion battery pack — and 80 minutes at half speed — also rings true in my experience. In fact, my 540W Torqeedo battery still provides many minutes and miles of use per charge even though it's over 8 years old. And a more specific comparison is with the range/speed/boat size estimates for the interesting EP Carry electric outboard, which uses a 246W battery to provide similar thrust (I think, as it's not specified).
What's obviously different about the Temo is how the electric power gets to the water, and how you control it. But the details seem well thought out. The included oarlock type fitting connects the prop thrust to the boat while providing a pivot point for steering, and the telescoping mechanism lets you adjust the steering balance and also twist the control handle with its speed trigger and forward/reverse button to your preferred position. The design also secures the motor — note that it won't float without an optional buoyancy kit — and makes Temo even more compact once it's time to take it home or stow it on the mother ship.
I also noticed that early versions of Temo did not include the pivot mount and, while that improvement makes sense for typical use, it seems quite possible to jump into any small boat and use a Temo handheld to push or pull it around as you please, even in shallow water. That's Temo inventor Alexandre Seux showing what I mean in the November 2019 demo video screen captured above.
While Seux sailed in Southeast Asia and acknowledges the Thai long tail as one inspiration for Temo, it's easy to understand why he thought that gentle electric dinghy propulsion could be managed without the long tail's critical pivot point. It's more about combining propulsion and steering with minimal extra mechanics, and also in a compact simple form like a sculling oar.
Well developed stern sculling goes back at least to ancient China and is still alive today, famously in Venice but also here in Maine. I sometimes see Ben Fuller making it look easy in the skiff he beautifully profiled in Small Boat Journal, and I miss Sam Manning's almost daily Camden dory ventures, though glad that some of Sam's sculling expertise is documented.
Meanwhile, modernized Thai long tails are being wildly raced today (back story here), and the concept has also been adopted in the U.S. and elsewhere for what's called mud boating. You can even purchase long tail mud motors on Amazon and the exciting/terrifying videos are many.
Actually it turns out that the wide, wide world of boating already included electric long tail propulsion, and even the $60 Drill Paddle already seems to have cheaper knockoff competition. It's a goofy looking and low power concept for sure, but thanks to the growing cordless tool families, many of us already have fairly powerful drills and enough compatible lithium batteries (like my many 70W Ryobi One+ High Caps) to get somewhere.
Which reminds me that the Temo 450 battery apparently can't be easily swapped out and
there's no state of charge indicator (unlike the ePropulsion 3hp electric outboard, and especially the Torqeedos, which also show realtime range) {Correction 1/12/21: Temo does have a 5 LED state of charge indicator}. On the other hand, there is a Temo 12v charger, so something like a Weego jump pack could be carried along for backup, and it's easy to carry a Temo to a home or boat charging source.
Also, I certainly may have missed a design flaw in this Temo look from afar, plus there could be reliably issues that have not yet surfaced in such a new product. And the cost discourages experimentation. While the listed €1,450/$1,766 retail price is actually $1,471 when shipped (VAT-less) to the U.S., Temo does not yet have service/demo/sales representation on this continent (though they hope to).
I'm hoping that Temo can establish themselves in the U.S. and also that we'll hear about hand's-on experience from Temo owners wherever they are. But let's celebrate the bigger picture of a small start-up company developing a smart green marine accessory in a difficult time. I can add that the DAME Jury virtually reviewed many worthy new products before giving Temo the R&D in Adversity Award. Do you think we made a good choice?


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OpenSea.com : Upgrading the .IO #domain would cost a pretty penny
Rolling out a new blockchain project such as the OpenSea marketplace for NFT can be rewarding. The company is the primary magnet for NFT projects and it has created a brand for itself in a short period of time.
That being said, OpenSea operates from the lesser .io domain, making the destination OpenSea.io prone to losing traffic to its big brother, the matching .com. The .io domain was registered in 2017.
Indeed, the domain OpenSea.com is a traffic magnet, commanding no less than 16,441 uniques at Sedo so far this month. Its seller appears to be in Japan, and the OpenSea.com profile has 98 views of the offer along with 34 bids.
Registered in 2002, OpenSea.com was sold on Afternic in August 2015, as a former asset of Marchex that moved to NameFind/GoDaddy. It might or might have not changed hands and into privacy WHOIS in 2018.
How much would it cost to upgrade OpenSea.io to the matching .com domain name? Quite a bit of Ehereum "fast gas."
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Foreword, by Sasha Alyson
Government corruption in the global South is lamented by all – including those who partake of it.
Far less attention is given to how Western money fuels this corruption. In part, that's because it feels better to complain about somebody else's dirty face than your own. Also, individual incidents that come to light are often quickly dismissed. The company issues a statement that "Those responsible are no longer with us, and we have taken steps to ensure that we maintain our high standards in the future."
For a decade, Airbus, a giant European business, systematically bribed officials in 16 countries including China, Nepal, India, Turkey, Mexico, Thailand, Brazil, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Ghana and Mexico. In bringing action, the U.S., U.K. and France focused on harm done to Airbus competitors in the West, and on possible security risks. But these bribes also undermined the countries where they were paid. That's just seen as collateral damage.
This story previously appeared on The Conversation.
Airbus: Flying high on the wings of corruption
by Bertrand Venard
On January 31, 2020, the European aerospace manufacturer Airbus agreed to pay nearly 3.7 billion euros in fines to settle bribery charges stemming from a four-year investigation by French, British, and US authorities. The investigations found that for more than a decade the firm bribed officials in 16 countries through intermediaries to buy its aircraft and satellites. France will receive the largest settlement, 2.1 billion euros, while the UK will receive nearly 1 billion, and the United States more than 500 million.
The case shows that European authorities have finally decided to make credible justice decisions against firms that use bribery and other forms of corruption to maintain and develop their business. It is also a learning opportunity for anyone interested in white-collar crime, and a number of theories developed by criminology researchers allow us to better understand how Airbus was able to operate so long with such impunity.
Globe-spanning corruption
Headquarters in Netherlands, Airbus has key operations in France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom. It's one of the world's largest manufacturers of commercial aircraft, helicopters and other high-tech products in the defence and space sectors. According to documents from the US Department of Justice, from 2008 to 2015 Airbus used its Strategy and Marketing Organization (SMO) branch to funnel millions of bribes to decision-makers and influencers to obtain business deals. Countries involved included the United Arab Emirates, China, South Korea, Nepal, India, Taiwan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, Japan, Turkey, Mexico, Thailand, Brazil, Kuwait, Colombia, South Korea, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Taiwan, Ghana and Mexico.
Indeed, Donald Sutherland's theory of differential association shows that certain crimes are not innate at all, but learned through contact with experienced criminals. The individuals involved in white-collar crimes are nominally respectable, or at least respected, making the crimes themselves ones that are committed by elites. That was the case with the Airbus case: the documents involve behaviour by senior executives, government and foreign officials, a board of directors, businessmen, an international-compliance officer and a general counsel.
A particularity of economic crime is its technical difficulty. Criminals in organisations are experts in developing systems to conceal their frauds. The techniques used by SMO could be easily included in a manual for how to pay bribes:
- Acquisition of a company belonging to an airlines executive at inflated price.
- Acquisition of luxury estate properties for the use of an influential individual.
- Purchase by a subsidiary based in a foreign country of shares in an entity belonging to the son of a commercial intermediary through money transferred via another country.
- Sponsoring a sport team belonging to an airline executive.
- Recruitment of the spouse of a key executive as a business partner using a straw company (despite the fact that the spouse had no relevant expertise).
To cite a specific example, Chinese officials were invited to a business trip to Hawaii in 2013 with a 30-minute daily briefing about business information followed by "more important" activities such as golf, scuba diving, horseback riding, and surfing lessons.
SMO: the corruption machine
In addition, the criminologist Donald Cressey explained the emergence of of organisational crime by the existence of an opportunity. A typical opportunity was further described by Cohen and Felton as the insufficient surveillance system. Thus, SMO produced fake documents and invented stories to fit international compliance requirements. SMO executives developed different techniques to look like following the best due-diligence practices without actually doing them. In a Russian case, SMO instructed an external company to conduct due diligence to evaluate the quality of a potential business partner, which in fact was in charge of paying approximately 9 million euros of bribes. To prepare the audit, the SMO International manager wrote to the commercial intermediary in charge of paying bribes:
"Compliance is buying the story, we now only need to 'justify' your past experience", to which the commercial intermediary replied: "Sir, Yes Sir! […] I am going to try to find something to write for you )"
The external audit raised red flags about the Russian business partner: no registered office, no financial account, no ability to provide the services offered to SMO. Still, a contract was signed and money transferred.
In his "anomie" theory, French sociologist Emile Durkheim explained the importance of punishment in fixing norms of behaviour for a society. The fines Airbus paid are a "stick" that will teach the aircraft manufacturer that compliance must be respected, and they will follow now the best compliance practices.
In a press release, Guillaume Faury, chief executive officer of Airbus, stated:
"The agreements approved… with the French, UK, and US authorities represent a very important milestone for us, allowing Airbus to move forward and further grow in a sustainable and responsible way. The lessons learned enable Airbus to position itself as the trusted and reliable partner we want to be."
At the same time, Durkheim explained that a penalty is particularly important for all members of a society, who become aware of what is admissible or not. In the case of the competitors of Airbus, they too are aware that engaging in corrupt practices can have extremely painful consequences.
Afterword, by Sasha Alyson
This wasn't a few rogue actors. It was business as usual. The U.S., U.K., and France finally took action and Airbus will forego some profit to pay fines. I can find no evidence that anyone at Airbus personally paid a fine or went to prison. Given the lack of personal risk, it seems inevitable that Western businesses will continue to bribe their way into developing countries wherever they calculate that the potential profit outweighs the risk. It is one more way that colonial relationships persist.
Notes and Sources
The author: Bertrand Venard, a professor at Audencia (France) and the University of Oxford (UK), is conducting several research projects about fraud and corruption. This story originally appeared on The Conversation, June 18, 2020. It is published under their CC-BY-ND license.
Top illustration: Cockpit of Airbus380 by Naddsy (Creative Commons license CC-BY-2.0)


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She descended to the spring, filled her jug and ascended. The servant ran towards her and said, "Let me sip please, a little, from your water jug." She said, "Drink my lord" and she hurried, and lowered her jug to her hands and gave him drink. When she finished giving him drink, she said, "I will draw (water) even for your camels until they have finished drinking." So she hurried and she emptied her jug into the trough and kept running to the well to draw (water) and she drew for all his camels. (Breishis 24:16- 20)
Rivka may not have known but she was auditioning for the position of Matriarch of the Jewish People. What was her test and how did she display her worthiness? Does she get the job because of her extra sensitivity and concern for animals?
The Mishne in Pirke Avos. There it is recorded there that Shimon HaTzadik was from the remnant of the Men of the Great Assembly and he used to say: "On three things the world stands on Torah, Service (Avodah), and Acts of Kindliness (Gemilas Chassadim)." What is "Gemilas Chassadim"? How is it different from just plain "Chessed"? Why not one word like the other pillars?
The Rambam says the main display of Gemilas Chessed is Levaya – escorting the guest. Giving food and drink feeds the animal soul while escorting a person affords dignity to the human being.
The Name of the letter GIMEL spells "Gamal"- a camel. What is the specialty of a camel? We all know that a camel is best suited to travel across arid lands because he can drink and store large amounts of water and remain for long periods of time removed from his source. He fuels up and is then able to be cut or dislocated from his source.
What is the first time that Gamal is mentioned in the Torah? Not by Eliezer and his 10 camels. The verse reads, "And the child (Yitzchok) grew and was (vayigmal) weaned, and Abraham made a great feast on the day that Yizchok was (higamel) weaned. (Breishis 21:8)
Why did Avraham make such a great celebration to honor the day that Yitzchok did not need to nurse from his mother Sara? Why does the Holy Torah bother to record it? Why did Avraham not make a party or a feast upon any other occasion? Gemilas Chassadim is a complete program to bring a person to maturity, giving him the ability to give. That escorts, builds, and dignifies a man in his life.
Rivka "emptied her jug into the trough" before running to fetch more water for the camels. Of all the matters in the universe why is it that this detail is included? Why did she first announce her intention to feed the animals before spilling the water into the trough and getting into high gear? What does this add? In a similar way Rivka preserved the inherent honor of the man Eliezer. He had requested a drink. She could have poured into another vessel or into his mouth but rather she gave him to drink from the jug directly in the most dignified fashion.
After this stranger drinks from her jug a new dilemma is born. Can she deliver home a jug out of which a stranger has just partaken?! It's PAGAM! Rivka was alert to the fact that to spill out the water in front of him is insulting. Therefore Rivka cleverly announced her intentions first before emptying the jug into the water trough to spare him even a moment of personal discomfort.
Only then did she launch into her heroic activity to care for his ten camels, fueling them like ten Mack Trucks and all by hand. The whole giant effort may have included a desire to be economical as well as to quench some creaturely thirsts but it may have been mostly motivated by a desire to maintain to the dignity of the stranger. She was not tested on Chessed alone but rather Gemilas Chassadim which is the same numerical value as Torah, 611, because Torah is Real Gemilas Chassadim.


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I have noticed that I have got lots of hits from mobile phones. I wonder if anyone has got advice for using these types of devices. There are different types of mobile devices and some are much bigger than the others. Should I redirect to another website just for mobile devices.
What sort of scripts should I use to detect mobile devices?
Should I create a menu just for mobile devices?


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PlanIT Impact unveils new energy-saving features to enhance customer value and building health
planitimpact / December 16, 2020
Software platform now includes data to reduce carbon footprint of highly consumptive data centers
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (Dec. 16, 2020) — A building analytics software platform geared toward enabling carbon neutrality is unveiling new features to help architects, engineers, developers and property managers design and build greener structures.
PlanIT Impact's artificial intelligence-driven technology delivers cost-benefit insights on how to maximize energy, stormwater, water and transportation savings. Its new and forthcoming software enhancements make the platform smarter and faster, which allows designers and builders quick access to more valuable sustainability metrics.
The PlanIT Impact development team began rolling out updates this month and will continue to do so through the first quarter of 2021:
- PI Regenerate :: This feature provides operational carbon footprint data for customer projects and energy scenarios. Customers can now include operational carbon metrics as another project goal to complement the existing energy savings and simple payback goals. PI Regenerate launched as part of a platform update earlier this month.
- PI Adapt :: This feature allows customers to uploadtheir own cost data into the platform for exclusive use on their projects. Customers can take advantage of proprietary rich cost data and expertise within the context of the platform's performance data. PI Adapt will be available through the platform beginning Dec. 19.
- PI Recapture :: This feature represents the culmination of a research partnership with the National Science Foundation's Center for Big Learning (CBL). PI Recapture will enhance the current discovery engine through integration of a deep neural network into the prediction process. Customers will immediately benefit from aggregated, yet anonymized, performance predictions based upon historical data. PI Recapture will be available in Q1.
- PI Blocks :: This feature provides customers with the data center building type as an option for projects. Customers can now easily identify building system strategies to reach performance goals for data centers, much like they can for occupant-driven building types. Following completion of a pilot program, PI Blocks is expected to roll out to all users in Q1.
PI Blocks represents an added area of focus for PlanIT Impact, which sees great potential to increase sustainability at data centers through its platform. In 2018, data centers consumed about 1 percent of all electricity worldwide; predictions show that could grow to 10 percent of global electricity usage by 2030.
"Environmental sustainability should be at the forefront of every business's vision for the future. By incorporating our technology, data centers can simplify their path to net-zero, and potentially net-positive, energy design," said PlanIT Impact CEO Dominique Davison.
PlanIT Impact's goal is to help data centers reduce energy and water use by 30 percent, which would reduce carbon emissions and ease the amount of offset required by renewable energy to meet net-zero impact goals. Reducing energy usage by 40 megawatts per facility would equate to reduced greenhouse gas emissions of 28 metric tons at each site, Davison said.
Compass Datacenters is part of the PlanIT Impact pilot program. Its lessees have seen benefits of cost savings as well as the opportunity to take a visible step toward sustainability goals.
"By incorporating PlanIT Impact's technology into our datacenter builds, we are pleased to provide all of our tenants with the ability to maximize energy and water savings — and deliver a competitive advantage for hyperscalers in particular," said Nancy Novak, Chief Innovation Officer at Compass Datacenters.
Data centers interested in participating in the pilot program and firms interested in a free demo of PlanIT Impact's platform should contact Dominique Davison, email@example.com.


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Rebuilding House of the LORD
There is a wonderful, if somewhat obscure, story in the first chapter of the book of Haggai that speaks a strong warning to
the Church today.
In this historical account, Judah had been conquered and many of the people taken into captivity to Babylon.
In the course of time, God called on the remnant to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the temple and the wall around it. In the second year of King Darius' reign, God spoke to the people through the prophet Haggai with this message: "The people are saying the time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the Lord… Why are you living in luxurious houses while My house lies in ruins?"
Look Around…
He went on to say, "Look around at what's happening to you." The people were experiencing all sorts of hardships in their everyday lives. And God pointed out that it was because they were disobedient to His command to rebuild the temple. When the people heard the warning, they listened. Zerubbabel, Joshua and the whole remnant began to obey the Lord's message because they feared the Lord. Once God had their attention, He immediately told them that He was with them. He also gave them a spirit of enthusiasm. And once-united, the people turned their eyes back to the task at hand—the rebuilding of God's house in Jerusalem.
Even though this is an Old Testament story about the temple in Jerusalem, it has great application for the Church today. Could it be that we are more concerned with our own comforts and desires than about obeying the call to share the gospel with others? Could the hardships we experience in life be a result of our not building up the Church as Jesus commanded? Today is the perfect time for us to prayerfully seek to understand the parallels between Haggai's story and life today. We are the remnant. We too fear God. And we have received from Him a spirt of enthusiasm to rebuild His Church!


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The Treasure Coast was one of Florida's hottest housing markets in April. Led by a huge increase in Indian River County, sales by Realtors of existing single-family homes in April surged by more than 21 percent over the previous year. That outpaced statewide sales, which were up about 18 percent from a year ago. Generating for the first time a report on price-to-value ratios in counties with Continue Reading about Realtors: Home prices surging
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Steve Rennick on TV
Recently our Indian River Mall located here in Vero Beach went up for auction. Simon malls owned it and owed Wells Fargo Servicing in excess of 70 million dollars. The Mall site was listed online auction sites, but they did not receive any bids, so the Wells Fargo bought the mall at auction for $100. Of course, that's not the whole story, and I made an effort to explain the entire Continue Reading about Steve Rennick on TV


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Saying the two words 'carbon' and 'wheel' would send your credit card running to hide under the couch, with brands like Reynolds, ENVE doing wheels around and above the $3K mark, yikes! Sure, there is carbon, and there is 'carbon', and there is also a myriad of lesser-known or even imitation brands selling wheels for under $1500.
The Line 30 are a $1698 pair of wheels for the trail/all-mountain/enduro segment, available in 27.5″ and 29″ in Boost hub spacing only.
Bontrager's name is a very reputable one; they only do quality stuff, found primarily on Trek bikes. Though over the last few years we've seen products like their tyres, saddles, shoes, helmets and wheels become some of the best, and worthy to fit on any brand of bike. We doubt we'd have the same confidence with many other bike brand's in-house componentry lines.
Cool, so they aren't over the top expensive, and we dig Bontrager's stuff. How did the wheels ride?
Stiff, very stiff. We fitted the Line 30s to our Norco Sight after an excellent term riding the Wheelworks Flite Wide Alloy wheels; a 35mm wide aluminium wheelset handbuilt in Wellington, NZ. The Wheelworks wheels felt great, they had a huge air volume and we relished in running lower tyre pressures for traction and feel. Swapping to the narrower profile Bontrager wheels which measure 29mm internally, the bike instantly felt less supple, but definitely more direct and laterally stiff.
The freehub in the rear wheel feels nice and solid with great engagement and a sophisticated sound of quality. We only serviced it once, and give the sealing and ease of serviceability two thumbs up. And after five months of hammering, they are straight and true, never requiring any attention with a spoke key to tension or straighten.
Stiff is good, right?
Well, yes, and no, the best wheels achieve a balance. We've ridden wheels that are too stiff that lack feel and compliance, and on the other hand, we've found plenty of wheels with underwhelming performance due to their lateral rigidity.
We'd say they the Bontragers are on the stiffer end of stiff-o-meter providing a very direct feeling when you move the bike around and jump hard on the cranks. Holding a straight line through a rock-strewn trail or sliding the wheels sideways with the rear brake on displayed a wheel with good feel and a nice balance of stiffness and compliance.
Rolling along the 1700g set of wheels feels light and fast, a worthy upgrade to add some speed to your steed, for sure.
Arrgh, the terror of the tubeless rim strips!
In our first impressions piece on the wheels, we praised the hard plastic tubeless rim strips. We expected them to be robust, removable without the need for sticking tape, and to provide a firm connection between the bead of the tyre for a strong bond between tyre and rim. But my-oh-my was that last part true. The tyre and rim strip practically glued together after three months of use, the Schwalbe Performance Nobby Nic and Magic Mary with a standard dose of Orange Seal tubeless sealant were stuck on the wheels, no matter how hard we tried.
We did find the thick plastic strips to make tyre installation a little tight, but it was the removal that had us swearing and bringing out unconventional techniques in an attempt to release the tyre's bead from the inside of the rim strip. It broke us. We eventually (many failed attempts) broke the tyre away using a thin tyre lever, and have since removed the supplied strips and installed plain old tubeless rim tape, and we've not encountered any issue since. No rolling tyres off at low pressures, leaking air or anything. Maybe it was an unfortunate combination of Orange Seal sealant and Schwalbe tyres? We don't know, but that's just what happened.
Yay, or nay?
Our great experience with the Bontrager Line 30 wheels on the trail was a little marred by the tubeless strip saga; we can't say the same for everybody experiencing what we did.
We like their understated appearance, stiff and precise feeling on the trail, the easy to service and well-sealed freehub and of course the impressive pricing, under $1700.
Want more specs, pricing and compatibility options?
Wander over to Bontrager's wheel lineup page on their site for more: https://www.trekbikes.com/au/en_AU/equipment/cycling-components/bike-wheels/mountain-bike-wheels-wheelsets/c/E418/


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In shocking developments in the past week, Josh Duggar was found guilty in court Thursday for the third time for possessing child pornography.
The TLC star, who served five months in a Christian rehabilitation center, pleaded guilty to possessing pornography, though his case is not the one for perusing images of child pornography he was charged with last week. Earlier this year, after a resurfaced police report revealed that he molested girls as young as 5 when he was 15, Duggar apologized and sought treatment.
To help write the emotional apology he issued to fans on Instagram, a former TLC network staffer penned a tweet, describing her heartbreak at the news that Duggar had resigned from the network when he initially faced the molestation charges, but was later hired again after he left rehab. "It is with a heavy heart that I have learned Josh was hired by TLC the same day that he resigned his position at their company," wrote Bonnie Rochman, a former senior vice president at the network, who didn't make the tweet public, but later confirmed its authenticity in an interview with People.
"They knew he had resigned, but did not announce it," Rochman added, according to People.
Josh Duggar: His wrongful conviction should be expunged
Rochman confirmed that TLC is looking into expunging Duggar's wrongful conviction.
"His sexual deviancy is extremely troubling and that he is now functioning in society the way he is… is both a danger and a risk to the children, families and the community that surrounds him," Rochman said. "He needs to be removed from that environment."
The issue is at the heart of an old settlement agreement between Duggar's family and his victims. A 2010 agreement stipulated that the victims "need not disclose the identity" of their abusers (the Duggars did not attend the courthouse Thursday but testified in private), "regardless of their choice to speak publicly about this issue."
The Duggars set aside $7,500 in fines and lost wages, and were committed to "vigorously pursuing" restitution from Josh and the owners of the home where he molested them.
Rochman and others believe Josh's case shouldn't be considered private any longer.
"To be clear, it is the police's job to investigate crimes, not the executive staff of the TV channel on which they work," she said. "The victims, not the Duggars, have the legal obligation to report sexual abuse of minors to the police."
As for whether or not Duggar should still be a household name, Rochman cautioned fans and viewers against entertainment and non-profit groups showing up with their camera crews "to interact with the victims in court," though a Duggar family representative said the family has not yet decided if the parents and sons will report TLC to the police.
In an exclusive interview with PEOPLE, Jeremy Duggar, Josh's younger brother, said he doesn't know if his family will publicly comment on the sentencing, but says that he is interested in learning more about it. "I'm curious to know the specific reasons," Jeremy said. "For me it's more about trying to understand that piece."
Read the full story at PEOPLE.
Josh Duggar, brother of Jill, Ashley and Jessa, agrees to repay millions in restitution
Sarah Michelle Gellar slams Josh Duggar and family for gender-reveal party that was 'inexcusable'
Remember when Josh Duggar's older sisters put Jim Bob on blast and called him a 'monster'?


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The readiness to deconstruct is all
To be or not to be a philosopher did not concern Shakespeare, so far as we know. And we know very little.
By A.D. Nuttall
Yale University Press. 428 pp. $30
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nolead ends nolead begins By Colin McGinn
HarperCollins. 230 pp. $24.95
nolead ends To be or not to be a philosopher did not concern Shakespeare, so far as we know. And we know very little.
Indeed, it might be said that the endless interpretations of scholars who claim Shakespeare meant this or that, or wrote from a familiar ideological position - "closet Catholic" keeps rising as a trendy view in recent bios - die many times before their deaths (savaged by rival scholars), while modest approaches taste of deconstruction but once, when the books in which they appear get pulped.
And there's the nub - the paradox of Shakespeare scholarship that continues nearly 400 years after his death.
On the one hand - a phrase Shakespeare may have invented, along with a higher percentage of English truisms than anyone else - the Bard endures as the supreme writer in the history of the English language and, to many, the most profound ever across all cultures.
When we refuse to "budge an inch," excoriate "rotten apples," or admonish slackers to "sink or swim," we speak in his voice. Although the arts sections of newspapers teem with products from self-anointed "artists" who will not survive their publicity budgets, Shakespeare after roughly four centuries still pleases general audiences, challenges intellectuals, and provokes academics. How can we not presume that such a stupendous orchestrator of character and insight operated with a coherent, multifaceted theory of human nature?
On the other hand, our ignorance of Shakespeare the man - he left no diaries or letters in his short life of some 52 years - and the clashing multiple versions of some of his texts, have always dovetailed with a contrary belief that his greatness arises precisely from utter openness to the varieties of human behavior, emotion and thought, his ability to render in concrete scenes and daring metaphors more non-reductionist nuances of the heart and mind than an army of writers centuries later.
This Shakespeare soars as the universal artist because his plays and poetry offer a kaleidoscope of the human condition while speculative bios, short on fact and long on inference, end up too dull an instrument to cut him down to size. He's a channeler rather than a source of wisdom.
The genius of Shakespeare the Thinker by A.D. Nuttall, the foremost Shakespeare scholar of his Oxford generation (he died in January at age 69), lies in merging these two traditions enough to bring the magisterial wizard of diction into focus as a bearer of beliefs without losing the reportorial poet open to all experience.
In contrast, Shakespeare's Philosophy, by the analytic philosopher and popularizer Colin McGinn, insists on a pinched approach to Shakespeare's corpus that sinks his readings.
Why does Nuttall succeed better in mulling philosophy, described by Shakespeare as "Adversity's sweet milk"? Because Nuttall accompanies Shakespeare as a common reader on "the fiery track of his thinking," finding not a "systematic philosopher" but a pragmatic one, a man of the theater unfolding weakness of the will as he hovers about Hamlet, confronting the difficulties of self-identity in bringing Richard II to life, posing Brutus as the anti-Stoic in Julius Caesar. Accessibly and entertainingly, this erudite classicist cites Martin Scorsese, Tony Blair or Star Trek as casually as he mentions Apollonius of Tyre or Quintilian (one admires his segue from Vulcan Mr. Spock to Prospero querying Ariel in The Tempest).
In chapters with titles such as "Learning Not to Run," "Stoics and Skeptics," "Strong Women, Weaker Men," Nuttall, who began his lifelong wedding of literature to philosophy by doing his graduate thesis under Iris Murdoch, shows how Shakespeare revisits themes from play to play, saying something about almost all of them, while analyzing with particular brilliance how literary preciousness can block engagement with reality in Love's Labour's Lost, and how the fantastic can deliver harsh truths in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
McGinn suffers by comparison almost as a matter of species (and we say this more in sorrow than in anger). Nuttall, trained in classics and literature as well as philosophy, radiates Shakespeare's own humanism. McGinn, instead, comes across as the know-it-all Shakespeare often mocked. He's out of spirit with his Elizabethan hero, who, long before he fell for Gwyneth Paltrow in Shakespeare in Love, recognized that the heart, in almost every human endeavor, matters more than the mind.
McGinn's concentration on a "close reading" of just six "major" plays thus ends up a skimpy choice beside his subject's cornucopia of plot and theme. McGinn boxes Shakespeare into categories of a now passé era of analytic philosophy. He seeks "a systematic treatment of the underlying philosophical themes of the plays," which include "skepticism and the possibility of human knowledge; the nature of the self and personal identity; the understanding of causation. . . . " He flatly says he'd like to supplement previous readings of Shakespeare with "something more abstract."
Imagine a music critic trying to explain Springsteen or Ray Charles by getting beyond the beat, the tempo. The result turns out as dry and stuffy as McGinn's semicolons, replete with banalities such as "Shakespeare was clearly fascinated by the workings of the human mind" and "questions of right and wrong could hardly be more paramount in Shakespeare's works." As a certain playwright instructed us, "Unbidden guests are often welcomest when they are gone."
Nuttall, having shaken off his mortal coil, might take pleasure that he made the case emblazoned in his title. If the notion persists that Shakespeare operated like the stage's great sponge, absorbing life and emotion in all its wet, perspiring madness, then squeezing his "fluid antinomies" (in Nuttall's phrase) onto page and stage, it's because we misconceive what it means to be a thinker, and miss "the brilliantly centrifugal movement of Shakespeare's mind."
A thinker intuits, comprehends, shapes, articulates - he does not merely argue and declare. Shakespeare did not always nail truth in an immortal phrase or image. We don't speak today of a "wilderness of monkeys" or a "man of my kidney." Yet Nuttall's proto-pragmatist Shakespeare is surely a "thinker" (even if Shakespeare by any other tag would be as neat), one of "immense, intelligent charity," in the author's apt nutshell, because he's always trying for that immortal phrase.
Rejecting dogmatism in the face of realities that cascade over him, Shakespeare triumphs as the English language's first great general of generalization, a marcher and maker of rules of thumb, embedded in aphorism and incident - "brevity is the soul of wit," or "the quality of mercy is not strained" - whose contraries he's happy to startle us with as soon as the next character appears.
Close up his eyes, then, and draw the curtain close. And let us all to meditation.


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Oliver Hardy Festival
Saturday, October 05, 2019 •
Downtown Harlem
The 31st Annual Oliver Hardy Festival will be held on Saturday, October 5, 2019. Admission is FREE so bring the whole family and make plans to join us for a hometown parade, live entertainment, vendors, and food! You may access The Vendor Guidelines & Application packet below. Additional information will be posted as it becomes available. For more information, please call (706) 556-0043 or email email@example.com.