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Search for Benzene on Space Station to Resume in July – Source
The search for a source of toxic benzene in the atmosphere of the International Space Station will resume at the end of July after the delivery of the new US air quality monitor on board the Russian cargo spacecraft Progress, a source in the rocket and space industry said.
Earlier reports said the blastoff of the Progress MS-15 cargo spacecraft to the ISS by the Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle from the Baikonur space centre was scheduled for 23 July.
Read more at: Sputnik news
Lucas Praises NASA Decision to Rename Headquarters after Hidden Figure Mary W. Jackson
House Science, Space, and Technology Committee Ranking Member Frank Lucas released a statement today praising NASA's decision to name its headquarters after Mary W. Jackson, the first African American female engineer at the Agency.
"I applaud the decision to name the NASA headquarters building after Mary Jackson. During her career, she faced tremendous obstacles to success. She became the first female African American engineer at NASA, but to do so, she had to request special permission to attend classes at a segregated school. Along with the other Hidden Figures, Mary Jackson was not only a key part of America's achievements in the space race, but she also paved the way for future women and people of color at NASA."
Read more at: house.gov
Astronauts Complete Opening Spacewalk To Complete Final ISS Battery Replacements
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have conducted the first in a series of four spacewalks to begin the process of replacing the final set of the station's batteries – an effort which first began over three years ago. EV-1 Chris Cassidy and EV-2 Bob Behnken kicked off EVA-65 on Friday.
The ISS features expansive solar arrays that use sunlight to power the station's many systems. However, since the ISS spends about half of every orbit in darkness, it also needs batteries to store that solar energy, which can then be used to power the ISS during periods of orbital darkness.
Read more at: NASA spaceflight
NASA Studying Practice Rendezvous Options For Artemis 2 Orion
NASA is studying the addition of an Orion rendezvous demonstration to the Artemis 2 test flight to reduce overall mission risks to the subsequent Artemis 3 lunar landing from first-time operations. The Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate (HEOMD) is working with its Artemis Programs to evaluate some of the trade-offs from a range of options for an early rendezvous test for the spacecraft on its first crewed mission, such as what the rendezvous target would be and where in the mission the demonstration would take place.
Read more at: NASA Spaceflight
NASA Inspector General Looking Into Boeing Moon Lander Bid After Input From Agency Official: Report
NASA's inspector general is investigating Boeing, one of the two companies supplying commercial crew vehicles for astronaut flights to the International Space Station, in relation to a recent contract competition to land astronauts on the moon, according to a Washington Post report.
According to the June 20 report, a senior official at NASA spoke with a senior Boeing executive about the company's bid for a commercial moon lander contract, and Boeing subsequently attempted to change its proposal after the deadline for submission had passed.
Read more at: Space.com
Man Who Forged Inspections For NASA Mission Parts Gets Probation
A Yates County man who admitted that he forged inspection reports for aerospace parts used by NASA has been sentenced to probation.
James Smalley, 43, of Penn Yan, in February pleaded guilty to the 2017 falsification of inspection reports. U.S. District Judge Elizabeth Wolford last week sentenced him to three years of probation.
While working as a quality assurance engineer at the former PMI Industries in Gates, Smalley forged the signature of an inspector on reports for products that were sold to California-based SpaceX.
Read more at: democratandchronicle
IAU Approves Name of Target of First NASA and ESA Planetary Defence Missions
The International Astronomical Union has just approved an official name for a tiny asteroid satellite set to become the first-ever target of an asteroid deflection mission. The satellite is the smaller of two bodies in the near-Earth asteroid system Didymos, and will now be distinguished from its primary object by the name Dimorphos.
In July 2021, just over a year from now, NASA will launch the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission. This first full-scale demonstration of asteroid deflection technology will target the smaller body in the binary asteroid system known as Didymos, and will be followed in 2024 by the ESA space probe Hera. In recognition of the asteroid moon's significance in these pioneering missions, it has been given an official name: Dimorphos.
Read more at: IAU
The Looming Threats Posed By Space Junk
The threat posed by space junk is growing — and the window for mitigating it is closing. Experts say the U.S. hasn't done enough to combat the growing problem.
Why it matters: Companies like SpaceX are working to launch hundreds of small satellites to already crowded orbits. Even if just a small percentage of them fail, it could put other satellites in danger, costing companies and governments millions of dollars and making parts of space unusable.
Read more at: Axios
NASA Moving Forward to Enable a Low-Earth Orbit Economy
One year ago, NASA announced the agency is opening the space station for business, enabling commercial and marketing opportunities on the station, and the agency has moved forward toward its ultimate goal in low-Earth orbit to partner with industry to achieve a strong ecosystem in which NASA is one of many customers purchasing services and capabilities at lower cost. Providing expanded opportunities at the International Space Station to manufacture, market and promote commercial products and services will help catalyze and expand space exploration markets for many businesses.
The new policy includes activities that can be as simple as a product pictured in space for use in marketing materials or a company flying and returning commemorative or other items to be sold after having been in space. NASA crew members on the station also can support these activities behind the scenes. The key is that the activity must require the unique microgravity environment, have a nexus to the NASA mission, or support the development of a sustainable low-Earth orbit economy.
Read more at: NASA
Virgin Galactic And NASA Make A Deal On Services For Private Orbital Astronauts
Virgin Galactic says it has signed an agreement with NASA's Johnson Space Center in Texas to develop a new readiness program for private-sector astronauts heading to the International Space Station.
Theoretically, such astronauts could include the likes of Tom Cruise, who is looking into making a movie at the space station, according to NASA. "I'm all for that," NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said last month. "We're going to do what we can to make that happen."
Read more at: Geekwire
Enthusiasm For Point-To-Point Travel May Be Premature, Space Official Says
Last October, the space tourism company Virgin Galactic, founded by Sir Richard Branson, became publicly traded. After opening at $11.75 a share, the SPCE stock value generally declined, briefly reaching a low just under $7 a share late in 2019.
At around the same time, the company's chairman, venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya, began to talk about developing point-to-point suborbital travel. This advance, he said, would come after Virgin Galactic developed its space tourism business based upon a small rocket-powered spacecraft launched from a large airplane.
Read more at: Arstechnica
Kodiak Launch Site Hopes For Its First Space Tourism Launch
Human spaceflights are coming to Kodiak.
On Thursday the Alaska Aerospace Corporation, which runs the Pacific Spaceport Complex in Kodiak, announced that a Florida-based space tourism company called Space Perspective is planning to bring human spaceflight operations to Kodiak Island.
These flights will take up to eight passengers and crew in a vehicle called the Neptune Spaceship.
Read more at: Alaskapublic
Commercial Human Spaceflight Making Strides
Commercial human spaceflight, often called space tourism, is making more strides with help from NASA. The agency has announced plans to fly its own astronauts and other personnel on commercial suborbital space missions launched by Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin. At the same time, Virgin Galactic signed a deal with the agency to train tourists who want to fly to the International Space Station (ISS) and make arrangements for the trip.
NASA's embrace of public-private partnerships for human spaceflight began in the Obama Administration and is blossoming in the Trump Administration.
Read more at: Spacepolicy online
NASA Developing a Plan to Fly Personnel on Suborbital Spacecraft
For the first time in the agency's history, NASA has initiated a new effort to enable NASA personnel to fly on future commercial suborbital spaceflights. NASA's Flight Opportunities program has successfully worked with emerging commercial suborbital transportation systems to fly research payloads to space for short periods of microgravity time. In addition, the Flight Opportunities program recently released a call that allows those non-NASA researchers to propose accompanying their payloads in suborbital space.
Now the Suborbital Crew (SubC) office within NASA's Commercial Crew Program will lay the groundwork for flying NASA personnel on commercial suborbital space transportation systems.
Read more at: NASA
Dream Chaser Receives Thermal Protection System, On Track For 2021 Debut
The Sierra Nevada Corporation has announced its Louisville, Colorado production center has received the Thermal Protection System tiles for Tenacity, the first space-worthy Dream Chaser, and has started bonding them to the vehicle.
This is another major milestone Tenacity has reached as she walks down the path to her first launch to the International Space Station — which is right now slated to occur in 2021 with a launch on ULA's Vulcan rocket.
Read more at: NASA spaceflight
As The Price Of Space Flight Falls, More Runners Enter The Race
A new space race has begun; but this time, it's not superpower-led. This one is led by industry, government bodies and research groups who have gained access to space thanks to the availability of far cheaper, smaller rocket launchers.
Think of a space rocket. Many might automatically think of "traditional rockets" like the giant Saturn V; almost twice as tall as Liberty Hall, spitting smoke and flames as it breaks free of the launchpad, carrying US astronauts to the moon. But, big, powerful rockets are expensive, even for the US federal government.
Read more at: Irish times
How Will Private Space Travel Change The Way We Explore The Solar System?
Gary Martin is the Vice President for North American operations for the International Space University, but before that he was a senior advisor to the Luxembourg Space Agency and spent more than 30 years at NASA, advising on space science missions, advanced technology development, and human spaceflight.
He explains the significance of the recent SpaceX launch, what private space travel can do that governments can't, and why we need sci-fi to inspire our engineers.
Read more at: science focus
Russia, Space Adventures To Fly 2 Tourists To Space Station In 2023. (Spacewalk Included!)
Space Adventures, a U.S. space tourism company, has booked two passenger seats on a Russian Soyuz capsule headed to the International Space Station in 2023, and one of those tourists will take part in a spacewalk.
The flight will launch on a Russian Soyuz rocket in a deal with the Russian space agency, Roscosmos. It is the second upcoming Soyuz flight for Space Adventures — the company has booked two Soyuz seats for passengers on a launch in 2021, also to the International Space Station (ISS).
Read more at: Space.com
Axiom Space Picks Thales Alenia To Build Commercial Space Station Modules
Axiom Space, a company that aims to launch a private space station, has selected a builder for two critical modules for the commercial orbital platform.
The new commercial agreement marks a step forward in Axiom Space's quest to add a new module to the International Space Station (ISS) — one that will become an independent station of its own once the ISS is deorbited.
Read more at: Space.com
The Rocket Motor of the Future Breathes Air Like a Jet Engine
There's a small airfield about a two-hour drive north of Los Angeles that sits on the edge of a vast expanse of desert and attracts aerospace mavericks like moths to a flame. The Mojave Air & Space Port is home to companies like Scaled Composites, the first to send a private astronaut to space, and Masten Space Systems, which is in the business of building lunar landers. It's the proving ground for America's most audacious space projects, and when Aaron Davis and Scott Stegman arrived at the hallowed tarmac last July, they knew they were in the right place.
Read more at: Wired
Gilmour Space Achieves 45-Second Hybrid Rocket Engine Test Fire
Australia's leading rocket company has reached another milestone in its mission to launch small satellites to space by 2022.
Rocket engineers at Gilmour Space Technologies in Queensland, Australia, have completed the first in a series of major technology demonstrations this year: a successful 45-second 'hot fire' of their upper-stage hybrid rocket engine.
"This was our longest and most efficient test fire to date," said Gilmour Space CEO and co-founder, Adam Gilmour. "It's a key demonstration of our ability to produce repeatable, stable, and high-performance combustion over a long duration burn; and a significant achievement in hybrid rocket development," he added.
Read more at: gspacetech
Scientists Provide New Explanation For The Far Side Of The Moon's Strange Asymmetry
Earth's Moon has a 'near side' that is perpetually Earth-facing and a 'far side', which always faces away from Earth. The composition of the Moon's near side is oddly different from its far side, and scientists think they finally understand why.
The Earth-Moon system's history remains mysterious. Scientists believe the two formed when a Mars-sized body collided with the proto-Earth. Earth ended up being the larger daughter of this collision and retained enough heat to become tectonically active. The Moon, being smaller, likely cooled down faster and geologically 'froze'. The apparent early dynamism of the Moon challenges this idea.
Read more at: ELSI
NASA Wants To Hear Your Ideas For Engineering The Best Toilet To Use On The Moon
When NASA sends astronauts back to the Moon, they'll need a place to go to the bathroom when they reach the lunar surface. And in order to create the best Moon toilet the Solar System has to offer, NASA wants to hear from members of the public who might have ideas on the best way to manufacture an easy-to-use lunar restroom.
Today, NASA is announcing the "Lunar Loo Challenge," a competition in partnership with HeroX to come up with the best space toilet for the agency's future human lunar lander.
Read more at: Verge
Nonpartisan But Political
"There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet. Its hazards are hostile to us all."
I won't dispute these words, uttered by President Kennedy in 1962. There is still no national conflict in space as of yet; while the militarization of space has been a concern since before the USSR launched the first successful satellite into space, international conflict in space is a discussion for another day—or, as it may be, another column.
Read more at: Politic
Dan Daren't. Britain To Take Back Control In Space – By Not Building Its Own Satnav System
In another Brexit triumph it has emerged that the UK government is to spend upwards of half a billion pounds on taking a 20 per cent part share in the semi-defunct US-founded, London-headquartered low-earth-orbit satellite firm OneWeb, a company that filed for bankruptcy just three months ago. Having been included-out of participation in the EU's Galileo satnav system, to which UK taxpayers have contributed £1.2 billion in what can best be described as "chump change" (within the literal meaning of the word "chump").
Read more at: telecomtv
Scottish Spaceport Gets Go-Ahead
The first orbital spaceflight from the United Kingdom has come a step closer following the Highland Council's decision to give the go-ahead for the Space Hub Sutherland spaceport.
Orbex, the UK-based space launch company, has said that Orbex Prime will be the first vertical launch vehicle to fly into orbit from the Space Hub, which will be constructed near Melness on the northern coast of Scotland.
The decision will now be referred to Scottish Government ministers for review.
Read more at: Herald Scotland
ESA Starts Search For Next Director General
The European Space Agency formally started the search for its next leader June 25, with the current head of the agency recommending it select a "dynamic young successor."
ESA formally posted the job opening for director general a day after the conclusion of a meeting of the ESA Council, featuring representatives of its 22 member states. The agency will accept applications for the position through the end of August.
Read more at: Spacenews
HASC Chairman Adds $150 Million In NDAA For Space Launch Technology Development
The House Armed Services Committee next week will mark up the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act. Chairman Adam Smith (D-Wash.) in the draft bill known as the chairman's mark directs the Air Force to create a $150 million program for the development of space launch technologies.
In other space related provisions, the chairman's mark cuts funding for the Space Development Agency by $12 million and directs the establishment of an assistant secretary of defense for space and strategic deterrence policy to oversee DoD space, nuclear deterrence and missile defense.
Read more at: Spacenews
Prospects for Future US-Russia Space Cooperation
After nine years of the United States relying entirely on Russian Soyuz rockets to deliver astronauts into orbit, this dependency finally ended on May 30, 2020, with the successful launch of the private US company SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft, bound for the International Space Station (ISS) (TASS, May 31). Combined with the looming termination of Moscow's RD-180 rocket engine supply contract as well as ongoing negotiations on Russia's role in the US's planned orbital station "Lunar Gateway," the commercial SpaceX manned launch symbolizes the ongoing uncoupling of the US-Russian partnership in outer space.
Read more at: jamestown
Trump Invokes Defense Production Act For Hypersonic Missile Production
US President Donald Trump has invoked a wartime executive power giving him the authority to mobilize US industry, saying that without presidential direction, US industry "cannot reasonably be expected" to provide the materials necessary for hypersonic weapons development "adequately and in a timely manner."
On Wednesday, Trump invoked the Defense Production Act of 1950, using the measure to direct civilian industry's production of hypersonic weapons components.
Read more at: Spacewar
China Threatens U.S. Space Power by Completing Satellite Network
A Long March-3B rocket took off from a launchpad in Sichuan province Tuesday to put a satellite in orbit, giving China a win in its intensifying rivalry with the U.S. and boosting its ability to be self-reliant in new technologies. The five-ton satellite is the final piece of the Beidou network, a collection of several dozen satellites that is China's alternative to the U.S.-run Global Position System.
Read more at: Bloomberg Quint
USSF Commercial SATCOM Office Announces Development Of New Security Program
The U.S. Space Force Commercial Satellite Communications Office recently announced the development of its Infrastructure Asset Pre-Assessment Program.
The objective of the IA-PRE Program is to advance the security posture of current and future commercial satellite communications procurements for the Department of Defense. As the sole authority for procurement of COMSATCOM services for all of the DoD, the USSF must ensure the most secure space systems are available to support the U.S., its allies, and the joint warfighters.
"Cybersecurity is critical to the DoD and its missions," said Jared Reece, COMSATCOM IA Policy and Compliance Lead, CSCO.
Read more at: Spaceforce
Space Force More Receptive To Reusable Rockets As It Continues To Review SpaceX Missions
SpaceX's Falcon 9 to date has performed 86 launches, in 47 of which the rocket's first stage landed back on earth.
While rocket landings have become the norm for SpaceX launches, none has been done yet in a national security mission.
SpaceX is about to make its first attempt to recover the booster after launching a military satellite. The company on June 30 is scheduled to launch a Global Positioning System satellite from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Read more at: Spacenews
FCC Cracks Under Hill Pressure On Ligado 5G Network
As opposition mounts from Capitol Hill — as well as a wider swath of civil GPS users — to the FCC's approval of Ligado's controversial 5G network, at least one of the five commissioners now says she'd be willing to consider reversing the decision.
During a Senate oversight hearing today, Democratic Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel said she would support a stay of the Federal Communications Commission's decision — that would then allow reconsideration of the approval.
Read more at: Breaking defense
Griffin's Departure Stirs Questions About The Future Of The Space Development Agency
Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Mike Griffin and his deputy Lisa Porter submitted letters of resignation to Defense Secretary Mark Esper on June 23 and plan to leave their posts by July 10.
Esper in a June 24 statement praised Griffin and Porter for advancing "critical work on the department's modernization priorities" and for leaving behind a "legacy of excellence in the research and development of technology that ensures American military advantage on land, at sea, in the air and in space."
Read more at: Spacenews
Missile Warning Satellite Completes Space Environment Testing
The Space Force's next missile warning satellite has successfully completed two months of testing to ensure it will survive in the harsh environment of space, according to the program's prime contractor Lockheed Martin.
The company said that the fifth geosynchronous Space Based Infrared System satellite completed its thermal vacuum (TVAC) testing June 9, bringing it one step closer to launch. During testing, the satellite was exposed to heat and cold in a depressurized atmosphere that mimics the environmental effects of space.
Read more at: c4isrnet
Head Of NASA International Space Station Program To Retire
The sun had yet to rise in Kazakhstan when Kirk Shireman laced up his running shoes on July 12, 2000. In a few hours, Russia would launch a module to house the International Space Station's first crew.
But as he ran, Shireman's feet led him toward a different launchpad, where Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human sent into space in 1961. He watched the sun rise over the historic place.
"I very distinctly remember that morning," Shireman said, "and thinking these great thoughts about our future."
Read more at: Houston chronicle
We Have Capture: Remembering STS-71 and Shuttle-Mir, 25 Years On
Twenty-five years ago, this summer, six U.S. astronauts and four Russian cosmonauts circled the Earth together in a remarkable exercise of co-operation between two former superpowers and ideological foes. In June 1995, Space Shuttle Atlantis and her crew of seven performed the first docking between an American spacecraft and a Russian space station, linking up smoothly with the sprawling Mir orbital outpost and its own three-man crew. And when the two ships parted company, each had different crew members, as Atlantis returned to Earth with an outgoing Mir crew and the most flight-experienced U.S. astronaut and the station continued its journey with fresh two-man crew. In many ways, STS-71 laid the cornerstone for the International Space Station (ISS).
Read more at: Americaspace
Space Station Stitch
This panorama of the International Space Station is a wider view of what ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano was capturing on camera during the first of a series of historic spacewalks that took place in November 2019.
Author, journalist and researcher Lee Brandon-Cremer created this photo by stitching together three images taken by Luca as he made his way to the worksite during the first Extravehicular Activity or EVA to service the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS), the Station's dark matter detector.
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It has been a long 25 years since the first Star Ocean game was released, and following seven other entries of mainline titles, spinoffs, and even a mobile debut, we finally have something new to look forward to. At October's PlayStation State of Play presentation, Star Ocean The Divine Force was officially revealed.
Developed by Square Enix and tri-Ace, the RPG series' latest game will arrive on both PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 in 2022. If you were looking for your sci-fi slash fantasy fix with all the fixings of the series, then Star Ocean The Divine Force will make you really excited.
The PlayStation blog post revealed that the game will feature:
- A story that changes based on the choices made, where heroes intersect between the two worlds of sci-fi and fantasy
- A rich lineup of playable characters
- Freedom to fly around the environment
- Three-dimensional traversal and exploration where everything in-sight is a field for adventure
- The Star Ocean game with the fastest and mightiest action in the series
Similar to what we saw from Bandai Namco's Tales of Arise, Star Ocean The Divine Force will have dual protagonists, each from a different civilisation. However, depending on who you choose, your allies will change. Expect to see plenty of other characters that will join your party and are playable as well.
With a big open world, players will be able to "fly in the sky and traverse three-dimensionally through one of the largest fields ever in the series." Action is also instantaneous, going from movement into combat at incredibly high speeds, which should bump up the pace quite a bit.
With the fate of the universe is in your hands, what will you do to save the present you know? We will all find out when Star Ocean The Divine Force launches sometime in 2022.


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This Week's Clue: The Forgotten Principles of Permission Marketing
SSP (Shameless Self Promotion)
SP (Shameless Promotion)
Criminalizing Political (and Market) Differences
More Unenforceable Law
Time for .Kids?
Clued-in, Clueless
The Internet has entered an era of pop-up, pop-under, and pop-over ads, of increasing intrusions into your browsing sessions by sites desperate for cash and advertisers who see repetition as the key to sales.
A key principle is lost and ignored in these campaigns. That principle is permission.
Permission Marketing does not and never meant permission to spam, which is how e-mail marketing companies defined it (and how "direct marketing" companies still define it). The permission to make a pitch is the lowest form of permission in any case, bought in the past by the Fuller Brush man with a free sample.
Your goal as a marketer is to increase permission, and eventually to make it automatic. You move from permission to pitch to permission to sell, and then seek to automate the purchase with frequent-purchase premiums (that must be redeemed), with on-approval deliveries (that might be returned), and finally with a subscription.
The permission I have with you is of a very high level, but it's also very limited. You subscribe to a-clue.com, giving me permission to address you every week. It's a permission you can take away at any time and (most important) it's permission with no financial strings attached.
Would you give me annual permission to take money from you (if you bought a subscription) and would you give me regular permission to take money from you (through a monthly fee)? I'm not asking, but you should be. Moving toward automatic subscription, to "intravenous permission," should be the ultimate goal of the permission marketer.
This is what AOL Time Warner has achieved, and "intravenous permission" is at the heart of its business model. All of AOL's 30 million "members" deliver some form of this permission (regardless of their pricing plan), because the "switching costs" of losing contacts and data they've put into the system always exceed its price (and hassles). Permission marketing doesn't have to be a perfect relationship - you may hate the cable company (and Time Warner is the cable company) or get mad at the magazine (Time Warner is, at heart, a magazine company). The fact that you continue to give your permission to them (in the form of money) is all that really matters.
AOL Time Warner's business plan is to use whatever permission it has as a lever to gain more. Its magazines don't pay for those "pop-ups" selling subscriptions on CNN.Com, and AOL doesn't pay (much) for the diskettes that are poly-bagged inside each issue of "Sports Illustrated." The extra cable ad spaces on Time Warner Cable are given over to other AOL Time Warner properties - movies, TV networks, cable programming, AOL, magazines - the advertising is free and self-reinforcing. The idea is to break you down and gain permission for AOL Time Warner to supply all your entertainment and information needs, in all media, and (most important) for you to pay for the privilege. The idea is to leverage one subscription into two or three or more.
Microsoft is now aiming at the same thing . It wants you to subscribe to its software, to its ISP, to music offerings, and to more. If it's getting into your wallet automatically, it's not nearly as hard to get in deeper than it was to get in there in the first place.
This should be the road we all head down -- not the road of interruption. Ask yourself some hard questions. What permissions do you have with your prospects and customers? What incentives can you provide for increasing them? How can you make the extraction of money from their wallets automatic and self-reinforcing? If you have such permission, how can you increase the permission by offering enhancements?
The leaders haven't forgotten the Principle of Permission Marketing. Nor should you.
SSP (Shameless Self-Promotion)
"Living on the Internet: How to Make Money, Live Right, and Fight For the 21st Century" is still on course. I have a draft complete, it's a few weeks from being completely edited, and I've signed a contract with an agent for electronic distribution. I'm hoping to add a monthly newsletter as an up-sell, available free to all buyers of the book. Drop me a note to get on the mailing list for more information.
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Shameless Promotion
You have a little list, but how do you make the most of it? You turn it into a database, you query the database, you audit the results and you deliver market research to yourself and to others.
Permission is just the first step. An audit is the second step. Building interactive relationships with every name in your database is the greatest business asset you can have.
You can take the first step toward making your little list truly valuable with help from my friends at Whitehat Interactive - click here to begin that journey.
Takes on the News
Criminalizing Political (and Market) Differences
U.S. policymakers have used the magic word (porn) as they prepare to sic the criminal law on users of file-sharing systems like Gnutella .
Unlike Napster, which was designed solely to share MP3 files, systems like Gnutella or Bearshare allow the sharing of any file under any keyword. Many of these files are pornographic images and video clips.
The "warning" from the House Government Reform Committee is that censorware doesn't work on Bearshare and thus "kids" will see "hard core porn."
First of all, we're talking about teenagers, not children. Eight-year olds aren't going to download and install an application of dubious legality, then enter a keyword targeting dirty pictures, download those pictures, and decode them. We're talking about 15 year-old boys with raging hormones turning to Bearshare because dad let his subscription to Penthouse lapse.
The idea will be that since Bearshare can't prevent "kids" from being "protected" from "porn" it must be banned. But the underlying idea of Bearshare (and Freenet, which encrypts its transfers) is illegal under the DMCA. Porn, thus, is just an excuse to enforce the unenforceable, and drive a larger share of the U.S. Internet underground.
This is a warning to all censors, no matter their cause or political affiliation. An underground economy can't grow the real economy. Driving the Internet economy underground guarantees that the current recession becomes a true Depression, combining the worst of that era's economic horrors with the worst of the Prohibition that preceded it.
The solution is to find ways in which to make file-sharing legal, to create economic models that pull 99.9% of this traffic aboveground, and only then to turn on law enforcement for the rest.
But if you think anyone in any party is listening to reality, think again.
More Unenforceable Law
While we're on the subject of legal over-reaching, let's hear it for Democrat John LaFalce . He has introduced a bill that claims to halt Internet gambling by forbidding the delivery of checks, credit card receipts, or other bank instruments aimed at paying losses run up on Internet casino sites.
Earth to Congress: Internet casinos take money up-front. You don't play until you pay. At best you're talking of passing U.S. law that takes foreign companies (operating legally in their home countries) outside the banking system, a job that should be done by treaty. At worst you're talking about closing the barn door after the horse has run away.
The gambling industry has given up trying to reason with this kind of stupidity. The MGM Grand has filed for a gaming license on the Isle of Man, which plans to license three Internet casinos with easy access to the European market. Nevada has passed enabling legislation for Internet gambling, and some are already predicting the whole industry is inevitable . The train has left the station, Mr. LaFalce. You can find a way to get on board or you can get run over - your choice.
Time for .Kids?
Not all the ideas coming out Washington these days are ridiculous.
Republican John Shimkus of Illinois and Democrat Ed Markey of Massachusetts have offered a bill that would require ICANN to create a domain called .kids. Instead of trying to keep out online pornography through the use of censorware, they ask, why not create a safe domain where kids can play?
To those who argue that ICANN should not be in the business of policing who owns domains, that train has already left the station. The .museum and .aero domains both require that registrars police content to some degree. While it might seem impossible to isolate pornography in a .sex domain (because you can't define sex that explicitly - is Planned Parenthood .sex) there is no reason why a registrar couldn't create a .kids domain, and enforce any requirements they want through a contract.
Kidsdomain.com was one of many companies that sought permission from ICANN to create and run a .kids domain last year . But ICANN's staff rejected the proposals. The Shimkus-Markey bill seems designed to press ICANN to reconsider.
Such a domain would have many advantages. The COPPA law (controlling how information obtained from kids is used by online companies) could be applied to all .kids domain holders. There are lots of companies that are very active online who would flock to such a domain. Censorware in elementary schools could be set to block everything outside that domain. The most interesting argument I've heard against it, in fact, came at the bottom of a German review of the question . The story called the proposal a "visible voucher for U.S. dominance over the root system of the Internet."
But the more I think about it the more I like it.
Clued-in, Clueless
Clued-in is Judge James M. Rosenbaum, chief judge of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota, in Minneapolis . His brief article questioning the untrammeled "right" of employers to snoop on employees' computer use is brilliant and long overdue. Productivity is being trampled in the name of legalistic "safety," and it's past time someone in the law came to the defense of the economy.
Clueless is the U.S. government , which seems intent on treating the precious .US national domain with all the responsibility of Tuvulu. The idiocy of this Administration (even as the domain name market collapses) reminds me of Celine Dion's song from the movie "Titanic." It just goes on-and-on.
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What the … Whataburger?
A north Texas franchise of the Southern fast-food chain Whataburger is the latest hot spot for restaurant employees with an anti-cop attitude — and social media users are both angry and disappointed.
According to Fox 4, KDFW in Dallas, two off-duty cops working security at a construction site in Lewisville were confronted Tuesday night by a man who identified himself as the Whataburger manager who told them, "We don't serve police officers."
The officers told Fox 4 they thought the man was joking at first, but when he remained silent, they left and went to a Dairy Queen instead.
It was the latest in a series of incidents that have drawn national publicity to cop haters discriminating against law enforcement in public eateries: the top executives of Arby's were forced to apologize after a police officer was refused service in Pembroke Pines, Florida; Starbucks got splashed with bad publicity when a clerk refused to let a police officer use the coffee shop's restroom in Philadelphia.
Still, with its Texas lineage and Southern customer base, Whataburger isn't the place anyone would expect to find an anti-cop attitude. No one would mistake a Whataburger for a Starbucks.
Officer Michael Magovern was astonished at the Whataburger manager's attitude.
"We've seen it on social media. We heard it on the news," he said. "You know, 17 years as a firefighter and now 13 years as a police officer this is the first time this has ever happened to me," he said.
Whataburger executives vowed to get to the bottom of the incident – working overnight on social media to try do control the public relations damage.
"This is 100 percent not what we stand for at Whataburger and it would never be acceptable to refuse service to a police officer," the company said in a statement. "We want to address this as soon as possible with any parties involved so we can reach out and make this right."
Still, the company's going to have its work cut out for it, if the social media reaction is a judge:
I love @whataburger but shame on them if they do not deal swiftly & decisively w/ the Lewisville store that refuses to serve police
— O S Hawkins (@OSHawkins) September 16, 2015
@OSHawkins @yewkalaylee @Whataburger They appear to be on top of it. This is about a shithead employee, not the company.
— Dog Commander (@DogDynastyLLC) September 16, 201
@FOX4 Why don't we just piss off those who protect us? Sick of ppl who think it's ok to treat them this way #BackTheBlue
— Traci Francisco (@TraciGirl11) September 16, 2015
@FOX4 @Mike_USPatriot Whataburger is better than that I hope. They have " In God we trust" on every window.
— Becky (@nanabec2) September 16, 2015
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I had the pleasure of being at the presentation of "Protogenesis" book here in Greece. I've arrived early at the place and as it was very cold outside I ordered a drink to warm up. Most of the guests were dressed in dull winter colors, including me, when suddenly a girl with a red dress entered the room and light it up. She was smiling and looked stunning and very happy. Of course she was the author, Alysia Helming and immediately I was intrigued to read the book that came from such an interesting person. I've heard about the story and not only I'd love to read it but I want to see it in the big screen! I was very happy when Alysia accepted my invitation for an interview.
How where you like as a child? When did you decided to become a Novelist?
From my earliest memories as a child, I had an overactive imagination and often would take over the story telling from my parents at bedtime. Around fourth grade, I organized the kids at school or in my neighborhood to reenact Broadway musicals like "Annie" and "Sound of Music". By the seventh grade, I adapted Judy Blume and Mark Twain books into screenplays; and then, in high school, I was the student director and starred in many plays. One was a soap opera episode that I wrote in French.
Upon graduating from high school, I was a professional ballerina for a year before my career ended over a dance injury. At this point, I moved to Los Angeles to try my luck at screenwriting, but ended up taking the 'safe' route, opting to major in Economics instead. I went on to hold a successful career as a Finance Officer for several companies while I co-created a TV series that was similar to "Silicon Valley" in 2000 in my spare time.
In 2009, I finally had the opportunity to return to my writing passion when I wrote my first full length screenplay as part of UCLA's extension program; and then in 2010, I attended screenwriting classes as part of the professional program in screenwriting. This is where I met Protogenesis' story editor, renowned young adult TV writer and lecturer at UCLA, Kelly Fullerton.
It wasn't until 2014 that I decided to write a novel, when my love of mythology gave rise to the ideas that over time became Protogenesis, the first book in the seven-book series called the Protogena Chronicles.
Where do you get your inspiration from?
Inspiration for my writing comes from all sorts of places and experiences, including even the most mundane activities.
For my novel, Protogenesis, my original inspiration was ancient Greek mythology, for which started out as a short story which I wrote with my seventeen-year-old niece, Hannah. You can read all about this and other sources of my inspiration through my blogs on www.alysiahelming.com/reallifestory.
Beyond mythology, much of the inspiration for Protogenesis came about in a very random and amazing way, like 'serendipity'. This was how Greek music star, Kostas Martakis, first inspired me. I discovered him in a very random way when I conducted a basic Google search for the physical characteristics of one of the main male characters in the book, Ever Sarantos. I performed a similar search for all the characters in Protogenesis before I started writing and put their pictures up on the wall of my office. In most cases, I did not know anything else about these people in real life (unless they were well known in the US).
Upon my first research trip to Athens, we were driving from the airport when I was shocked to see Kostas up on a banner. During this trip, I discovered that similar to Ever Sarantos, Kostas is Greek, lives in Athens, his mother was from Australia and he is an incredible singer. I also ran into him by chance twice that trip, which I took as a sign that this book was meant to be. I take 'signs' like this very seriously, as they have led to my previous success in business as well.
Tell us about your book (general information, what inspired you, what does it mean to you etc.)?
One American girl, one love triangle, one loss, one quest, bridging modern Greece with ancient mythology, all with a fresh and exciting sci fi twist…
The story is completely unique, never been done before. It offers a completely new understanding of ancient mythology as we know it, as well as an alternative view of how modern civilization may have originated. Hence, the title Protogenesis means "Before the Beginning".
This is a story of the perseverance & metamorphosis of the human spirit, as told through the eyes of a 17-year-old American girl, Helene, as it explores and interweaves political, cultural and economic issues in modern and ancient Greece, which she discovers through a quest in Athens to find her mother and through a dramatic love triangle where she finds herself in embroiled in the highs and lows of young love with two Greek boys.
Throughout the book, Helene follows a series of clues, which she slowly fits together like a puzzle as she travels from the world we know through a portal to another place where she makes a startling discovery. The gods of the myths are alive and well, but exist in another reality.
By the end of the book, the reader will experience a sense of euphoria as the final clues unlock the mystery of it all and Helene discovers the beautiful, powerful woman that she has become, and is meant to be.
This book has a lot do to with Greece, why? What is your relationship with Greece?
When I researched other young adult books about mythology, I realized that none of them were set in modern Greece. As Greece is the origination of Greek mythology and also, the birthplace of many concepts in mathematics and science, as well as the birthplace of democracy, it seems the perfect place to set the story.
Also, the economic issues and status of Greece is a very hot topic that we see in the news a lot in the United States.
But I had been to Greece once, and only for a few days. I tried to research on the Internet, but it's not enough. The authors of many books in the young adult genre do not thoroughly research their settings, which can leave readers who know the culture and the place frustrated. This is why I've visited Athens nine times in the past 18 months and hired a local Cultural Editor, Denia Metaxa. Through this experience, I have met all kinds of people from all different types of circumstances, from drivers to super celebrities, such as Greek music star, Kostas Martakis. It really enriches the story and gives the reader a real sense of Athens.
Although my ancestry has a Mediterranean component, I do not know specifically which country in the region this is from.
Do you have any Personalities that you admire?
As I read the entire Harry Potter series out loud to my young son when he was first learning to read, I greatly admire JK Rowling. It is one thing to read a book and enjoy it; but when you read it out loud, this really determines whether the book is exceptional.
Other young adult writers that I admire are Stephanie Meyer and Suzanne Collins. Both presented young adults with cutting edge stories and served as trail blazers for their genres. I seek to emulate this with Protogenesis for Greek mythology.
As I was a former ballerina, my writing is greatly influenced by music. I regularly listen to Taylor Swift and Christina Perri to get me in the mood for writing young adult fiction. For music in Greek, I listen mostly to Kostas Martakis and Demy, whose music allows my mind to travel back to Greece when I'm writing from the United States.
Actors that I admire are versatile in their craft like Tom Hanks, whom I have heard also has a passion for Greece.
What are your future plans?
For the next year, I have hired a team at my company Protogena Chronicles Inc. to market and promote my novel worldwide. The e-book with a new cover art designed by renowned artist Philip Tsiaras is now available for sale on Amazon Kindle worldwide, while the hard copy and paperback versions are also coming soon. My team and I won't stop until "Protogenesis" is a #1 Bestseller.
Additionally, I have worked closely with my core editing team to outline the next six books in the Protogena Chronicles series and I have written almost half of the next book in the series, "First Cure".
Early in 2017, I am excited that we will roll out an interactive website for the book at www.protogenesis.com, which among many amazing features, will allow visitors to follow Helene's footsteps through various sites in Athens through a series of short movies narrated by Greek actor and musician, Kostas Martakis. We also intend to publish the book in Greek and launch the theme song, "Forever and Tonight", during the first half of 2017.
As my background is in screenwriting and many of my advisors are successful producers, writers and actors in Hollywood, naturally, I am in the process of exploring adaptation of the book series to the big screen, as well as merchandising and other such collaborations for the franchise.
Alysia Helming, Kostas Martakis
Which part of your life makes you proud?
I am most proud of balancing my overly ambitious plans for this book series with the needs of my family. It has been an amazing experience for me to write and create sections of these books with the help of my son, Xander, and also with my niece, Hannah.
What is like a typical day of your life?
As I must juggle being a mom with my writing, discipline is really important. When I am at home in San Francisco, I rise at the crack of dawn, take my son to school, work out, write at least four hours per day, touch base with my Protogena team, participate in marketing calls and meetings…and then, shift gears back to pick up my son from school, help him with homework and cook dinner.
When I really need to focus with uninterrupted writing or other projects, I go to my parents' cabin in the Teton mountains or to Athens, Greece. In this case, I will sometimes work nonstop for 12 or more hours, working crazy hours. For this reason, I sometimes travel without my family.
What are the characteristics that you are looking for from your friends?
Over the past year, my best friends are those that have watched my writing journey and understand that my time is limited. As a result, I only have a small number of really close friends. The time we spend together is cherished and fun. Like me, most of my friends are going through some sort of metamorphosis or have a strong power of purpose in some area of their lives. It is really exciting to enrich and inspire each other on our life journeys.
Are you a person that takes risks or do you prefer to do well thought moves in your life?
Early in my life, I was less likely to take risks; yet, later in life, I have become much more of a risk taker. Starting in 2002, I co-founded four start-up companies from scratch with my husband, two of which have grown into multi-million enterprises in wind and solar energy. Additionally, I am an avid mountaineer and climber, which is a risky endeavor. In 2005, I climbed Mount Kilimanjaro where I had to be evacuated from the mountain top when the blood vessels burst in my lungs with altitude induced pulmonary edema. I barely survived it and still suffer from reduced lung function from this incident.
When my life was at stake, it changed me. Now, I live every day as if it may be my last, living life to the fullest. This attitude is a big reason how I have been able to accomplish so much and relentlessly pursue my dreams, no matter how large they may be.
Thank you Alysia Helming
Terry Paganopoulou, Alysia Helming


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If you're planning to go somewhere in Asia in 2020, then Nepal is the perfect place. After achieving a grand success on Visit Nepal 1998 as well as Nepal Tourism year 2011, the government of Nepal introduced the Visit Nepal 2020. With the slogan "lifetime experience", the experiences that occur in your life and consider it to be one of the most memorable parts of your life is a fulfilling definition of a lifetime experience. However, it is impossible to describe this word in a single word or sentence because the possibilities are endless. A lifetime experience for you could be different from the person sitting right beside you.
With many beautiful adventurous places and welcoming cultures, Nepal offers you a wide variety of activities and services whether you come alone or with your family and friends. From luxury hotels to comfy homestays, you'll have a wide array of places to stay. The hospitality warms you up and never makes you feel homesick.
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Also called the country of mountains, Nepal is blessed with the largest mountain in the world, Mount Everest. Apart from this, there are other noticeable mountains that you can climb and conquer. The mountains have always been a source of attraction for many people from around the world. Apart from this, you can also learn about the people living high altitudes and their medium of survival. So if you're into mountain climbing or simply love to experience the mountains you have come to the perfect place.
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Nepal is not only about diversity in culture but also diversity in birds and animals. There are around 118 different identified ecosystems in Nepal. It is also ranked in 25th and 11th position in biodiversity richness in the world and all over Asia. The country's unique geography also contributes to the remarkable habitat, environment, and species. Nepal is also a home to different endangered species such as Bengal Tiger, Red panda, one-horned Rhinoceros, and Snow Leopard.
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EPA Revises Guidance to Ensure Effectiveness of Antimicrobial Pesticides Against Candida auris
This original announcement was published by the EPA on October 15, 2021. Click here for more information.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has revised its guidance for evaluating the efficacy of antimicrobial pesticides against Candida auris (C. auris). Pesticide manufacturers seeking to register their products with a C. auris claim should use this updated guidance to test the effectiveness of the products against a drug-resistant strain of C. auris.
C. auris is an emerging, multidrug-resistant yeast (a type of fungus). It can cause serious infections and spreads easily among hospitalized patients and nursing home residents. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than one in three patients with an invasive (e.g., affecting the blood, heart, or brain) C. auris infection die.
In 2017, in consultation with the CDC, EPA issued interim guidance for testing the effectiveness of hospital disinfectants against C. auris. Subsequently, based on input from the CDC on their tracking of clinical cases of multi-drug resistant C. auris isolates in the United States, the laboratory data were generated to ensure antimicrobial efficacy against a more relevant strain of the pathogen.
Working closely with experts from the CDC, EPA conducted a comparative evaluation of isolates and found that the drug-resistant isolates were more tolerant to some disinfectant treatments. Since a drug-resistant isolate (AR Bank #0385) is highly relevant to current outbreaks in the United States, it is considered a suitable test microbe for regulatory purposes.
Under the updated guidance issued today, all new products seeking registration with claims against C. auris should test for efficacy using the more relevant strain (AR Bank #0385). Efficacy testing using AR Bank #0381 is acceptable in cases where the study initiation date is between Oct. 15, 2020, and Oct. 15, 2021. Existing antimicrobial products with C. auris claims based on the previous strain (AR Bank #0381) will be allowed to retain their claim of effectiveness against C. auris. To claim effectiveness against drug-resistant C. auris, the Agency recommends retesting with the more relevant strain (AR Bank #0385) identified in the updated guidance.
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Mister Rogers' wife says he "would have really loved" the new Tom Hanks movie about him.
Joanne Rogers was the life and soul of the party at an American Express-sponsored screening of "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood." "I think he would have really loved it, don't you?" she told Page Six of the film, which is already getting awards buzz. Rogers passed away in 2003.
Co-stars Matthew Rhys — with partner Keri Russell — Susan Kelechi Watson and Chris Cooper all attended the film and a bash at Le District, alongside director Marielle Heller.
They were joined by Alexander Skarsgård, Sarah Silverman, Sofia Coppola, Katie Couric, Grace Coddington, Jennifer Esposito and Amy Ryan. Mrs. Rogers was among the last to leave.


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My Social Security number is incorrect on my credit report. How can I get this fixed?
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While an incorrect Social Security number (SSN) on your report could be a sign of fraud, usually it is simply the result of a typographical error or a misread credit application form.
To help protect you from identity theft, Experian does not list your actual SSN on your personal credit report. Experian does, however, list all incorrect SSNs reported as belonging to you.
Unrecognized Social Security Number Could Indicate Fraud
The variations are listed because they alert you to take action if they are the result of an attempt at credit fraud. And, if they are a typographical error, seeing them listed lets you know that you may need to contact your lenders to have the number corrected in their records. This is one example of why it's beneficial to check your credit report regularly.
Review your credit report carefully to see if there are other indicators of fraud in addition to any unrecognized SSNs—such as unfamiliar names or addresses or accounts you never opened.
How to Resolve Social Security Number Variations
If, after reviewing the report, you believe the variations are due to credit fraud, you should contact Experian to notify us and to dispute the information. You can also visit our Fraud Center to learn how to respond to fraud and protect your credit information.
If the variation does not seem to be the result of fraud, simply contact the creditor that reported the variation and ask them to correct their records. After the creditor updates its records, the new information will be reported to Experian and your credit report will be updated.
If you are unsure as to which of your creditors reported the variation, you can call the toll-free telephone number provided on your credit report for additional assistance. If the variation is not associated with one of your accounts, Experian can delete it upon your request.
Protecting Yourself Against Fraud
Although SSN variations are not typically the result of identity theft or fraud, it's always good to be aware of any changes in your credit report. Checking your credit report frequently or signing up for Experian's free credit monitoring service can help you catch signs of fraud earlier so you can act quickly to minimize any damage. Here are some other tips for preventing credit fraud:
- Don't keep your Social Security card or number in your wallet or car.
- If your wallet is lost or stolen, contact your credit card issuers immediately to let them know your cards are missing.
- Shred any documents containing your personal information.
- Always use a secure connection when shopping online. Check for "https" in the URL. The "s" means the website is secure.
- Don't check your bank account using public Wi-Fi.
- Create strong, unique passwords for every account. A secure password manager can help you keep track of them.
- Beware of scammers and take steps to avoid them. For example, if a business calls you and requests personal information, let them know you will hang up and call them back. By initiating the call using their publicly listed phone number or the customer service number on your billing statement, you can be sure you're talking to the real deal.
- Be mindful of shoulder surfers. Don't let anyone look over your shoulder while entering passwords or PINs.
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But We Haven't Listened
Often in life, we glorified leaders. However, we don't always follow that person's lead. We talk the talk but don't always walk the walk. This is certainly true with Confucius. He was one of the greatest thinkers and leader in human history.
In Chinese, this is his name 孔夫子. However, we, in the West, have anglicized his name K'ung-fu-tzu into Confucius. He was born during a period of social unrest in China, which lasted several centuries after his death. Not everyone liked Confucius or agreed with him. Nonetheless, he attempted to lead people based upon his philosophy. His disciples put together the Analects, which means Edited Conversations many years after his death.
The times in which Confucius lived, are reflected in the Analects. He is attempting to bring some sort of order to a disordered society. There are two Analects that I want to discuss with you to bring to our disordered society some sort of order.
The first is based upon a conversation with one of his disciples who asked, "Is there any one word that could guide a person throughout life?" Confucius' response was, "How about 'reciprocity'! Never impose on others what you would not choose for yourself."
Confucius' insight was that if his followers lived a reciprocal life, others would follow by example. The problem was that many of his followers in the East and followers in the West haven't followed suit.
The other quote from the Analects is related to the first quote, "To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it." Confucius infers that life won't always be a proverbial bowl of cherries. Twenty-five centuries later, Randy Pausch said a similar statement. "We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand."
Things happen to all of us during our walk down the yellow brick roads of our lives. Often we will experience hurts, which were meant to cause us hurt by some lesser people. Essentially, Confucius is saying, you will feel the pain. Indeed, sometimes the pain will be great. Nonetheless, move on.
However, our temptation is to respond to the insult, lie, hurt, etc. Nevertheless, Confucius pushes us not to return evil for evil. That will do two things that we don't want to occur. The first is to up the ante by lashing out at the person who hurt us. Then that person will merely continue the battle by saying or doing something hurtful.
Additionally, whether the person does or doesn't continue the fight, you will remember the insult. Every time you mentally play over the first statement, you get hurt again and again.
Let it go, and move on. There is more in your life than merely playing tit for tat. Also, you are being observed by your family and friends. Either they will follow your example, which isn't good, or they won't be impressed by your behavior even if they don't say anything to you.
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| The TRUTH about wind chimes IS…
The Chinese were the first people to make and use wind chimes. They were created after the metal bell, sometime around 1000 BC.
According to this culture, wind chimes bring GOOD LUCK. Thus, you will often see them hanging near religious temples and shrines, and even inside Asian homes.
Today, the only school of Feng Shui that encourages the use of wind chimes inside a home is Black Hat Feng Shui. This school of Feng Shui is steeped heavily in the "beliefs and traditions" of the Chinese culture.
Wind chimes are used, by other schools of Feng Shu, to move and circulate CHI – outside a property. The goal is to slow down the winds of SHA CHI (fast moving or destructive) energy, so that good energy can gather and accumulate.
It's believed that wind chimes on a North, West and Northwest eve should be made of METAL and on an East, South and SE eve – a bamboo or WOOD wind chime is the most beneficial.
Quite honestly, I don't give much merit to which type of wind chime should or shouldn't be used. The most important consideration is to add one (or more) if your home is near electrical wires, cable wires, electric transformers, eves of other structures, gets a lot of wind and/or abuts vacant land. If extreme wind is a factor where you live, a wind sock, flag or whirly gig is actually a better placement.
In the world of modern day Feng Shui, the goal is to align ourselves with our physical surroundings to create an environment that is conducive to health, happiness, prosperity, and protection.
Personally speaking, unless it is part of your culture or religious belief, a wind chime inside a home in the 21st century – is not only useless and tasteless, but it is also the antithesis of good Feng Shui..!
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Siesta Key Beach (Siesta Beach)
Frequently cited as the USA's best beach on account of its brilliant white sand, turquoise waters and laid back feel, Siesta Key is a worthy contender for the title.
Located on the eight mile long Gulf Coast barrier island of Siesta Key the beach here is made from some of the finest sand on the planet; 99% quartz, the white sand is apparently unusually cool and soft - good enough in fact to have been named "the whitest and finest sand in the world" at one point.
Like many of the other barrier islands wildlife abounds on Siesta Key. The mangrove shores are home to many wading birds, the beaches backed by low sand dunes and the clear water alive with 100s of types of fish.
Siesta Key beach is also renown for its annual Sand Sculpture Contest held every November, and if that wasn't enough every Sunday evening the Siesta Beach Drum Circle meet to bang out rhythms to the setting sun.
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Interview of Sal Bosman, CEO of Delft Circuits to Het Financieele Dagblad
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With research and a relatively large number of start-ups, the Netherlands is at the forefront of the development of quantum technology. Seven young companies now, there should soon be a hundred. Three start-ups talk about making products for something that is still in its infancy.
- The Netherlands is at the forefront of the world in the development of quantum technology
Sal Bosman, Delft Circuits
Before he started Delft Circuits, Sal Bosman had taken a good look at the "normal" computer industry. The way he was working on the construction of a quantum computer, for example at TU Delft where he was working on his PhD, was nothing like that hyper-fragmented and also hyper-efficient industry, he noticed. "During my PhD, quantum boomed in Delft and all the major American tech companies jumped on top. But at the same time it was also very amateurish. Everyone is trying to build a whole computer from scratch, scientists are welding things together themselves. "
It didn't make sense to Bosman, who worked as an industrial designer before studying physics. "So I believe in specializing. I went looking for something that everyone needs and that no one thinks is sexy, because then you have the market on your own. "One day Bosman saw his professor order a very expensive refrigerator with cables that he had already put together himself – "only much better" – and knew: this is my business model.
Most quantum computers work with qubits that only function at temperatures close to absolute zero of -273 degrees Celsius. Ordinary cables cannot cope with such conditions. Moreover, the cables for quantum computers must be able to do an extra trick: they do transmit a signal, but not the heat.


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Progress on the Hastings Farmhouse Restoration Project
The plan by Dúchas na Sionna to restore Hastings Farmhouse is once again moving forward. Over the past year and a half due to the Covid pandemic, there was very little progress, however in the past few months, the project is moving forward again.
Plans and Reports
A conservation plan has been commissioned by Clare County Council and is due to be completed very soon. A feasibility report is also under way and is also due to be published. A soil analysis has been carried out to verify where the clay used in the original came from, and as had been anticipated, it was confirmed that the samples taken from the cutaway edge of the hill contained clay with identical properties.
Repairs and Consolidation
Sections of the building which was conserved in 2012 were showing signs of damage due to water ingress in the past few years, and had been covered with plastic sheeting on a wooden frame to prevent further deterioration. This year funding was secured to carry out repair work, and this consolidation work is now being carried out by Vernacular Conservation Ltd.
Community Involvement
From the outset, the vision for the restoration project was that it would incorporate a training element and community involvement. Even though the major restoration project is still some way off, the repair and consolidation project now under way has benefited from two days of community involvement already. On October 4th, the clay to be used in the job was excavated adjacent to the site and the process of making mud bricks was undertaken with the help of fifteen volunteers. They mixed the clay, sand and water ingredients in the traditional way by stamping on it, similar to the traditional wine making technique! Then they participated in the brick making process and the first batch of cob or mud bricks were produced and left to dry.
Transition Year Students
Two weeks later, transition students from St Patrick's Comprehensive School took part in a similar exercise, under the tutelage of Eoin Madigan, who explained about the properties of cob, the sustainability aspects, the durability of the material and the process of building a house with mud, highlighting that the original house had stood for at least one hundred and thirty years before it was vandalized.The students were hugely enthusiastic, produced a great quantity of high quality bricks and had a thoroughly enjoyable time. Dúchas na Sionna are very grateful to the students, their teacher Siobhán Hickey and to the principal of the school Mary Costello. It is intended to invite other schools to participate in the project in due course.
Dúchas na Sionna would like to acknowledge the financial support received from The Heritage Council, Clare County Council and Shannon Municipal District to enable the consolidation repairs to be undertaken.
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Fantastic to get this update on the Hastings Farmhouse Restoration and to see how you are involving the community and utilising traditional materials and methods- the brick-making looks like a lot of fun!


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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14682737.2018.1511281
This article builds on the developing interest in the growth in number and influence of the Spanish community at Rome through the course of the sixteenth century: this research has so far focused particularly on the role of the national churches. My article will now deepen and broaden this research through enhancing our understanding of the significant role of a unified Spanish cultural identity, as expressed through works of material culture, in establishing their position and status within a complex web of transcultural relationships at Rome. Through the course of the sixteenth century, a Spanish cultural presence at Rome manifested itself in both permanent constructions such as churches and chapels and also ephemera such as festivities. While, in turn, works that were commissioned from Roman artists are still found scattered through the Iberian Peninsula. These phenomena all shed light on the nuances of the ambivalent relationship that existed between Spain and Rome in these years, as Rome was both a part of wider Spanish imperium and yet not so.
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