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John Deere 661R Commercial ZTR Mowers Maintenance Guide
Common sense goes a long ways when maintaining your machine. If you have extreme heat, dust, or terrain that you operate in you, service frequency will need to increase.
Service Schedule Parts for a John Deere 661R Commercial ZTR Mowers
While your John Deere machine is certainly built with quality parts, they have a limited life. Good news is you can easily service your machine yourself using a John Deere maintenance kit or service kits or by getting the specific John Deere part needed to keep your John Deere mower or tractor running for a long time. These are the parts on your John Deere 661R Commercial ZTR Mowers that need to be regularly serviced.
|Hour Interval
|3 – Eng. Oil Filter AM125424
|Every 10/100/200
|1 – Hyd. Oil Filter TCA23150
|Every 10
|7 – Turf-Gard TY22029
|Every 10/100/200
|3 – 15W40 Oil TY26674
|Every 10
|3 – Multi-Purpose SD Polyurea Grease (14 oz) TY6341
|As Needed
Commonly Used Parts for a John Deere 661R Commercial ZTR Mowers
Outside of the schedule service intervals, you may need a part for a quick repair. While this is not an inclusive list of all the parts for a John Deere 661R Commercial ZTR Mowers, these are the typical parts that we see purchased for your model.
|Bolt 03H1480
|Bolt- R.H. 03M7204
|Bolt- L.H. 03M7219
|Nut 14H1090
|Nut 14M7529
|Screw 19H1914
|Bolt 19H3583
|Washer 24M71080
|Washer 24M7180
|Fuel Filter AM116304
|PTO Clutch AUC11232
|Idler DMA210404
|Nut H137329
|Air Filter- Primary M131802
|Air Filter- Secondary M131803
|Muffler Gasket M136651
|Nut M158040
|Spark Plug M805853
|Air Filter - Outer MIU12457
|Air Filter - Inner MIU12458
|Idler TCA17524
|Caster Wheel TCA19309
|Hydraulic Oil Filter TCA21350
|PTO Clutch TCA23182
|Relay TCA23212
|Muffler TCA23223
|Spindle TCA23229
|Pulley TCA35498
|Gage Wheel TCU18744
|Dust Shield TCU22503
|Spacer TCU22505
|Spring TCU34094
|Key TCU34134
|Spring TCU34145
|Bushing TCU34169
|Hydraulic Pump Belt TCU34214
|R.H. Belt TCU34216
|L.H. Belt TCU34218
|Blade TCU34281
|Nut TCU34344
|Spacer TCU34389
|Washer TCU34411
|Blade- Mulch TCU35394
|Pulley TCU35498
|Pulley TCU35499
|Battery TY25221
|L.H. Belt UC11303
As Needed Parts for a John Deere 661R Commercial ZTR Mowers
Regardless of your John Deere model, these John Deere parts are used frequently in maintaining and your John Deere 661R Commercial ZTR Mowers and can be used around your garage.
|Ignition Key AM125504
|Mower Deck Leveling Gauge AM130907
|Filler Cap TCU34085
|Grease Gun (For 61 in. Deck) TY26183


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Corrupted Loops for Damaged Bots by DJ Orbique
Remember the days when the Internet had been occupied by thousands of robots and spiders which gathered all pieces of information resulting in a state of unlimeted music mining in large databases?
F#&? those days are over now and all that remains in the aether are 14 corrupted loops for damaged bots. There is no coherent information available, just corrupted structures in sound which the human listener has to explore and deconstruct himself – without using his beloved widgets and technologies! But with his auditive complex to transcribe DJ Orbique's codes and tunes.
With "Corrupted Loops for Damaged Bots" rec72 delivers a masterpiece of leftfield Electronica artist Marcin Mis aka. DJ Orbique; one of Poland's finest music producers and DJs besides longtime crew member lukeing forward. Marcin's eclectic work combines Illbient, Dub, Breaks and Intelligent Dance Music. Let your mind jump to those tracks and not your feet. The splendid cover art to Orbique's album has been created by graphic designer Daniel Green from UK based design group Devious Creations.
Excerpt Corrupted Loops for Damaged Bots
love is in 112kbps
everything goes wrong (VIP dirty remix)
gonitwa mysli
war of peace
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Like any other morning, I'm walking to my university campus in Handbridge. The sun is shining which instantly puts me in a good mood. As I walk through Grosvenor Park, I'm greeted by several squirrels playing in the grass nearby. Crossing the river via Queen's Park Bridge, I stop to take in the calm and peaceful surroundings thinking about how lucky I am to study here. The only noises I can hear are the tweeting of the birds and the quiet chatter of couples strolling along the groves. What a perfect start to motivate me for the day ahead.
As I come and go throughout the day, Chester Boat tours are rolling up and down the Dee every half an hour showcasing the most perfect views of the city. On a hot summer day, who wouldn't want to sit back with a cold beer or glass of wine whilst exploring all the reasons why Chester is perfect?
If you're a foodie like me, you will be thinking about the best place to eat after spending your afternoon on the river Dee. There are countless options but Hickory's Smokehouse is a personal favourite of mine where you can experience authentic American dining the right way. You certainly won't leave hungry with complimentary popcorn whilst you're choosing and a menu bursting with nachos, chicken wings, ribs, burgers and steak cooked to perfection. To wash it all down, Hickory's famous shakes, sodas and cocktails will not disappoint.
For those of you that are looking for something totally different, Chester Boat themed party nights are the perfect alternative to your typical Friday or Saturday night in a bar. Personally, I love nothing more than letting my hair down so find me with a Bacardi and coke dancing to Britney and the Spice Girls at Hits of the 90's. However, if this doesn't float your boat there are a range of themes from Mamma Mia to Motown; an opportunity to make perfect memories.
On the 9th September, Chester Boat will host their Race Day Prosecco Brunch with prosecco on arrival, music and a selection of classy nibbles from smoked salmon and cream cheese bagels to blinis. The boat departs at 11am and returns at 1pm in perfect time for all you ladies to totter over to Chester Racecourse in your finery.
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Our Credentials
Founded in 1989 by Kathryn Selvia, NEPM is certified as a "Woman-Owned Business" by SOWMBA (The State Office of Women and Minority Assistance) and the WBENC (Women's Business Enterprise National Council.) The Advertising Specialty Institute (ASI) lists NEPM in the top 3% of distributors in the industry, a distinction proudly held for over ten years. NEPM has also been recognized as one of America's Top Small Businesses in 2006 for promoting multicultural business opportunities. Kathryn Selvia, our President, is a current Nominee for the "Bess Cohn Humanitarian Award." for her repeated contributions to the senior centers, the veterans, the schools, and the less fortunate in her community.


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Omarion continues to impress with each new leak, and Know You Better (Remix) is no exception. It's strengthens Omarion's already impressive body of work, which has seen positive change over the years. We're most definitely anticipating Omarion's next offering.
Don't forget to visit our mixtape section to stream and/or download Care Package 2, a project released by Omarion on Tuesday, November 5th, 2013. Check out Omarion's profile page for the most recent info, news, songs, and mixtapes. Follow Omarion on Facebook and Twitter, if you aren't already.
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During the Socitm Annual Conference in October 2016, I spoke to UKA to record this video about Nesta's collaboration with the GLA and 14 London boroughs to pilot a London Office of Data Analytics.
Interested in how cities can use data to improve services?
I highly recommend The Responsive City by Stephen Goldsmith and Susan Crawford.
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Best Bifold Closet Doors IKEA
The instructions for installing bifold closet doors IKEA are easy to follow. This is good news for do-it-yourselfers who appreciate many folding doors. Folding doors can save space in a small room, provide greater visibility in a narrow closet and save time and money for materials and installation. Instructions for installing bifold closet doors IKEA. Remove the existing ports and then take very precise measurements of your closet opening. Take the height and width measurement. Remember the old adage, measure twice and cut once. Once you have the exact numbers, you can go to the store to buy the folding doors. According to your measurements for the number of folding doors you need for DIY store.
The next step to install bifold closet doors IKEA is to install the track along the top of the opening closet. This will secure the door in place and allow it to open and close easily. Also included in the package will be floor supports for the door. It must be fixed to the structure of the door against one of the side walls. Next, install the pins in the holes of the doors. Also in this case, the plugs will be with the package. A piece will come with a screw to adjust the height of the door.
Once the pieces are in place, you can install the folding doors in the guide and support. For best results, pop the top of the door into the guide and slide the bottom into brackets. You can use the studs as turning points to adjust the exact positioning of the ports, including the height. With all the rails, brackets and screws in place, install the door in groups of guides and brackets. It works best if you put the top of the door on the rail and slide the bottom of the door. Finally to install bifold closet doors IKEA, install the whole handles in the center of the door and tighten the knobs firmly in place.


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SANAA (Sputnik) – An airstrike by a Saudi-led coalition against the Shiite Houthis killed over 30 people in the northwestern Yemeni province of Saada, a local source told Sputnik on Sunday.
"Coalition fighter jets conducted a series of strikes in the Gafira area, resulting in the deaths of 31 people and dozens injuries. Ten houses were completely destroyed," the unnamed source said.
The Saudi-led coalition carried out airstrikes on the southwestern province of Taiz earlier, including on a hospital near the strategic port of Mocha.
The Saudi-led coalition of Sunni Arab countries launched its campaign against the Houthi insurgency, at the request of Yemen's President-in-exile Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, in March 2015.


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Fve Years In the Future
This too-prolix production has been made possible by a friend soliciting my input on the following article. That shit is long, so take a good thirty minutes out of your day if you plan to read it all, and then take another thirty to read this response, which I know you're going to do because you love me that much.
I'll save you some of the trouble by putting my thesis front and center so you can decide whether or not you want to continue reading or leave an angry comment: I think the linked piece is premised on some really flimsy assumptions and glosses over some serious problems, both empirical and logical, in its desire to attain its final destination. This is, sadly, par for the course in popular writing about AI; even very clever people often write very stupid things on this topic. There's a lot of magical thinking going on in this particular corner of the Internet; much of it, I think, can be accounted for by a desire to believe in a bright new future about to dawn, coupled with a complete lack of consequences for being wrong about your predictions. That said, let's get to the meat.
There are three basic problems with Tim Urban's piece, and I'll try and tackle all three of them. The first is that it relies throughout on entirely speculative and unjustified projections generated by noted "futurist" (here I would say, rather, charlatan, or perhaps huckster) Ray Kurzweil; these projections are the purest fantasy premised on selective interpretations of sparsely available data and once their validity is undermined, the rest of the thesis collapses pretty quickly. The second problem is that Urban repeatedly makes wild leaps of logic and inference to arrive at his favored result. Third, Urban repeatedly mischaracterizes or misunderstands the state of the science, and at one point even proposes a known mathematical and physical impossibility. There's a sequel to Urban's piece too, but I've only got it in me to tackle this one.
- Conjectures and Refutations
Let me start with what's easily the most objectionable part of Urban's piece: the charts. Now, I realize that the charts are meant to be illustrative rather than precise scientific depictions of reality, but for all that they are still misleading. Let's set aside for the moment the inherent difficulty of defining what exactly constitutes "human progress" and note that we don't really have a good way of determining where we stand on that little plot even granting that such a plot could be made. Urban hints at this problem with his second "chart" (I guess I should really refer to them as "graphics" since they are not really charts in any meaningful sense), but then the problem basically disappears in favor of a fairly absurd thought experiment involving a time traveler from the 1750s. My general stance is that in all but the most circumscribed of cases, thought experiments are thoroughly useless, and I'd say that holds here. We just don't know how a hypothetical time traveler retrieved from 250 years ago would react to modern society, and any extrapolation based on that idea should be suspect from the get-go. Yes, the technological changes from 1750 to today are quite extreme, perhaps more extreme than the changes from 1500 to 1750, to use Urban's timeline. But they're actually not so extreme that they'd be incomprehensible to an educated person from that time. For example, to boil our communication technology down to the basics, the Internet, cell phones, etc. are just uses of electrical signals to communicate information. Once you explain the encoding process at a high level to someone familiar with the basics of electricity (say, Ben Franklin), you're not that far off from explicating the principles on which the whole thing is based, the rest being details. Consider further that in 1750 we are a scant 75 years away from Michael Faraday, and 100 years away from James Clerk Maxwell, the latter of whom would understand immediately what you're talking about.
We can play this game with other advances of modern science, all of which had some precursors in the 1750s (combustion engines, the germ theory of disease, etc.). Our hypothetical educated time traveler might not be terribly shocked to learn that we've done a good job of reducing mortality through immunizations, or that we've achieved heavier-than-air flight. I doubt that however surprised they are it would be to the extent that they would die. The whole "Die Progress Unit" is, again, a tongue-in-cheek construct from Urban, meant to be illustrative, but rhetorically it functions to cloak all kinds of assumptions about how people would or would not react. It disguises a serious conceptual and empirical problem (just how do we define and measure things like "rates of progress") behind a very glib imaginary scenario that is both not meant to be taken seriously and function as justification for the line of thinking that Urban pursues later in the piece.
The idea that ties this first part together is Kurzweil's "Law of Accelerating Returns." Those who know me won't be surprised to learn that I don't think much of Kurzweil or his laws. I think Kurzweil is one part competent engineer and nine parts charlatan, and that most of his ideas are garbage amplified by money. The "Law" of accelerating returns isn't any such thing, certainly not in the simplistic way presented in Urban's piece, and relying on it as if it were some sort of proven theorem is a terrible mistake. A full explanation of the problems with the Kurzweilian thesis will have to wait for another time, but I'll sketch one of the biggest objections below. Arguendo I will grant an assumption that in my view is mostly unjustified, which is that the y-axis on those graphics can even be constructed in a meaningful way.
A very basic problem with accelerating returns is that it very much depends on what angle you look at it from. To give a concrete example, if you were a particle physicist in the 1950s, you could pretty much fall ass-backwards into a Nobel Prize if you managed to scrape together enough equipment to build yourself a modest accelerator capable of finding another meson. But then a funny thing happened, which is that ever incremental advance over the gathering of low-hanging fruit consumed disproportionately more energy. Unsurprisingly, the marginal returns on increased energy diminished greatly; the current most powerful accelerator in the world (the LHC at CERN) has beam energies that I believe will max out at somewhere around 7 TeV, give or take a few GeV. That's one order of magnitude more powerful than the second-most powerful accelerator (the RHIC at Brookhaven), and it's not unrealistic to believe that the discovery of any substantial new physics will require an accelerator another order of magnitude more powerful. In other words, the easy stuff is relatively easy and the hard stuff is disproportionately hard. Of course this doesn't mean that all technologies necessarily follow this pattern, but note that what we're running up against here is not a technological limit per se, but rather a fundamental physical limit: the increased energy scale just is where the good stuff lies. Likewise, there exist other real physical limits on the kind of stuff we can do. You can only make transistors so small until quantum effects kick in; you can only consume so much energy before thermodynamics dictates that you must cook yourself.
The astute reader will note that this pattern matches quite well (at least, phenomenologically speaking) the logistic S-curve that Urban draw in one of his graphics. But what's really happening there? What Urban has done is to simply connect a bunch of S-curves and overlaid them on an exponential, declaring (via Kurzweil) that this is how technology advances. But does technology really advance this way? I can't find any concrete argument that it does, just a lot of hand-waving about plateaus and explosions. What's more, the implicit assumption lurking in the construction of this plot is that when one technology plays itself out, we will somehow be able to jump ship to another method. There is historical precedent for this assumption, especially in the energy sector: we started off by burning wood, and now we're generating energy (at least potentially) from nuclear reactions and sunlight. All very nice, until you realize that the methods of energy generation that are practical to achieve on Earth are likely completely played out. We have fission, fusion, and solar, and that's about it for the new stuff. Not because we aren't sufficiently "clever" but because underlying energy generation is a series of real physical processes that we don't get to choose. There may not be another accessible S-curve that you we can jump to.
Maybe other areas of science behave in this way and maybe they don't; it's hard to know for sure. But admitting ignorance in the face of incomplete data is a virtue, not a sin; we can't be justified in assuming that we'll be able to go on indefinitely appending S-curves to each other. At best, even if the S-curve is "real," what we're actually dealing with is an entire landscape of such curves, arranged in ways we don't really understand. As such, predictions about the rate of technological increase are based on very little beyond extrapolating various conveniently-arranged plots; it's just that instead of extrapolating linearly, Kurzweil (and Urban following after him) does so exponentially. Well, you can draw lines through any set of data that you like, but it doesn't mean you actually understand anything about that data unless you understand the nature of the processes that give rise to it.
You can look at the just-so story of the S-curve and the exponential (also the title of a children's book I'm working on) as a story about strategy and metastrategy. In other words, each S-curve technology is a strategy, and the metastrategy is that when one strategy fails we develop another to take its place. But of course this itself assumes that the metastrategy will remain valid indefinitely; what if it doesn't? Hitting an upper or lower physical limit is an example of a real barrier that is likely not circumventable through "paradigm shifts" because there's a real universe that dictates what is and isn't possible. Kurzweil prefers to ignore things like this because they throw his very confident pronouncements into doubt, but if we're actually trying to formulate at least a toy scientific theory of progress, we can't discount these scenarios.
- p → q; 2. r; 3. therefore, q
Since Kurzweil's conjectures (I won't dignify them with the word "theory") don't actually generate any useful predictions, it's impossible to test them in any real sense of the word. I hope I've done enough work above to persuade the reader that these projections are nothing more than fantasy predicated on the fallacious notion that the metastrategy of moving to new technologies is going to work forever. As though it weren't already bad enough to rely on these projections as if they were proven facts, Urban repeatedly mangles logic in his desire to get where he's going. For example, at one point, he writes:
So while nahhhhh might feel right as you read this post, it's probably actually [sic] wrong. The fact is, if we're being truly logical and expecting historical patterns to continue, we should conclude that much, much, much more should change in the coming decades than we intuitively expect.
It's hard to see why the skeptics are the ones who are "probably actually wrong" and not Urban and Kurzweil. If we're being "truly logical" then, I'd argue, we aren't making unjustified assumptions about what the future will look like based on extrapolating current non-linear trends, especially when we know that some of those extrapolations run up against basic thermodynamics.
That self-assured gem comes just after Urban commits an even grosser offense against reason. This:
And yes, no one in the past has not died. But no one flew airplanes before airplanes were invented either.
is not an argument. In the words of Wolfgang Pauli, it isn't even wrong. This is a sequence of words that means literally nothing and no sensible conclusion can be drawn from it. To write this and to reason from such premises is to do violence to the very notion of logic that you're trying to defend.
The entire series contains these kinds of logical gaps that are basically filled in by wishful thinking. Scales, trends, and entities are repeatedly postulated, then without any particular justification or reasoning various attributes are assigned to them. We don't have the faintest idea of what an artificial general intelligence or super-intelligence might look like, but Urban (via Kurzweil) repeatedly gives it whatever form will make his article most sensational. If for some reason the argument requires an entity capable of things incomprehensible to human thought, that capability is magicked in wherever necessary.
- The State of the Art
Urban's taxonomy of "AI" is likewise flawed. There are not, actually, three kinds of AI; depending on how you define it, there may not even be one kind of AI. What we really have at the moment are a number of specialized algorithms that operate on relatively narrowly specified domains. Whether or not that represents any kind of "intelligence" is a debatable question; pace John McCarthy, it's not clear that any system thus far realized in computational algorithms has any intelligence whatsoever. AGI is, of course, the ostensible goal of AI research generally speaking, but beyond general characteristics such as those outlined by Allen Newell, it's hard to say what an AGI would actually look like. Personally, I suspect that it's the sort of thing we'd recognize when we saw it, Turing-test-like, but pinning down any formal criteria for what AGI might be has so far been effectively impossible. Whether something like the ASI that Urban describes can even plausibly exist is of course the very thing in doubt; it will not surprise you, if you have not read all the way through part 2, that having postulated ASI in part 1, Urban immediately goes on to attribute various characteristics to it as though he, or anyone else, could possibly know what those characteristics might be.
I want to jump ahead for a moment and highlight one spectacularly dumb thing that Urban says at the end of his piece that I think really puts the whole thing in perspective:
If our meager brains were able to invent wifi, then something 100 or 1,000 or 1 billion times smarter than we are should have no problem controlling the positioning of each and every atom in the world in any way it likes, at any time—everything we consider magic, every power we imagine a supreme God to have will be as mundane an activity for the ASI as flipping on a light switch is for us.
This scenario impossible. Not only does it violate everything we know about uncertainty principles, but it also effectively implies a being with infinite computational power; this is because even if atoms were classical particles, controlling the position of every atom logically entails running forward in time a simulation of the trajectories of those atoms to infinite precision, a feat that is impossible in a finite universe. Not only that, but the slightest error in initial conditions will accumulate exponentially (here, the exponential stuff is actually mathematically valid), so that e.g. improving your forecast horizon by a factor of 10 requires a factor of 100 increase in computational power and so on.
This might seem like an awfully serious takedown of an exaggerated rhetorical point, but it's important because it demonstrates how little Urban knows, or worries, about the actual science at stake. For example, he routinely conflates raw computational power with the capabilities of actual mammalian brains:
So the world's $1,000 computers are now beating the mouse brain and they're at about a thousandth of human level.
But of course this is nonsense. We are not "beating" the mouse brain in any substantive sense, we merely have machines that do a number of calculations per second that is comparable to a number that we imagine the mouse brain is also doing. About the best we've been able to do is to mock up a network of virtual point neurons that kind of resembles a slice of the mouse brain, maybe, if you squint from far away, and run it for a few seconds. Which is a pretty impressive technical achievement, but saying that we've "beaten the mouse brain" is wildly misleading. "Affordable, widespread AGI-caliber hardware in ten years," is positively fantastical even under the most favorable Moore's Law assumptions.
Of course, even with that kind of hardware, AGI is not guaranteed; it takes architecture as much as computational power to get to intelligence. Urban recognizes this, but his proposed "solutions" to this problem again betray as misunderstanding of both the state of science and our capabilities. For example, his "emulate the brain" solution is basically bog-standard connectionism. Not that connectionism is bad or hasn't produced some pretty interesting results, but neuroscientists have known for a long time now that the integrate-and-fire point neuron of connectionist models is a very, very, very loose abstraction that doesn't come close to capturing all the complexities of what happens in the brain. As this paper on "the neuron doctrine" (PDF) makes clear, the actual biology of neural interaction is fiendishly complicated, and the simple "fire together-wire together" formalism is a grossly inadequate (if also usefully tractable) simplification. Likewise, the "whole brain simulation" story fails to take into account real biological complexities of faithfully simulating neuronal interactions. Urban links to an article which claims that whole-brain emulation of C. elegans has been achieved, but while the work done by the OpenWorm folks is certainly impressive, it's still a deeply simplified model. It's hard from the video to gauge how closely the robot-worm's behavior matches the real worm's behavior; it's likely that, at least, it exhibits some types of behaviors that the worm also exhibits, but I doubt that even its creators would claim ecological validity for their mode. At the very best, it's a proof of principle regarding how one might go about doing something like this in the future, and, keep in mind, that this is a 300-neuron creature whose connectome is entirely known.
Nor are genetic algorithms likely to do the trick. Overall, the track record of genetic algorithms in actually producing useful results is decidedly mixed. In a recent talk I went to, Christos Papadimitriou, a pretty smart guy, flat out claimed that "genetic algorithms don't work." (PDF, page 18). I do not possess sufficient expertise to judge the truth of this statement, but I think the probability that genetic algorithms will provide the solution is low. It does not help that we "know" what we're aiming for; in truth we have no idea what we're optimizing for, and our end-goal is something of the "we know it when we see it" variety, which isn't something that lends itself terribly well to a targeted search. Evolution, unlike humans, optimized for certain sorts of local fitness maxima (to put it very, very simply), and wound up producing something that couldn't possibly have been targeted for in such an explicit way.
All of this is to say that knowing the connectome and having some computing power at your disposal is a necessary but not sufficient condition for replicating even simple organismic functionality. Understanding how to go from even a complete map of the human brain to a model of how that brain produces intelligence is not a simple mapping, nor is it just a matter of how many gigaflops you can execute. You have to have the right theory or your computational power isn't worth that much. A huge problem that one hits on when speaking with actual neuroscientists is that there's really a dearth of theoretical machinery out there that even begins to accurately represent intelligence as a whole, and it isn't for lack of trying.
The concluding discussion of what an AI might look like in relation to humans is hopelessly muddled. We barely have any coherent notion of how to quantify existing human intelligence, much less a possible artificial one. There's no particular reason to think that intelligence follows some kind of linear scale, or that "170,000 more intelligent than a human," is any sort of meaningful statement, rather than a number thrown out into the conversation without any context.
The problem with the entire conversation surrounding AI is that it's almost entirely divorced from the realities of both neuroscience and computer science. The boosterism that emanates from places like the Singularity Institute and from people like Kurzweil and his epigones is hardly anything more than science fiction. Their projections are mostly obtained by drawing straight lines through some judiciously-selected data, and their conjectures about what may or may not be possible are mostly based on wishful thinking. It's disappointing that Urban's three weeks of research have produced a piece that reads like an SI press release, rather than any sort of sophisticated discussion of either the current state of the AI field or the tendencious and faulty logic driving the hype.
- Conclusion
None of this is to say that we should be pessimists about the possibility of artificial intelligence. As a materialist, I don't believe that humans are somehow imbued with any special metaphysical status that is barred to machines. I hold out hope that some day we will, through diligent research into the structure of existing brains, human and otherwise, unravel the mystery of intelligence. But holding out hope is one thing; selling it as a foregone conclusion is quite another. Concocting bizarre stories about superintelligent machines capable of manipulating individual atoms through, apparently, the sheer power of will, is just fabulism. Perhaps no more succinct and accurate summary of this attitude has ever been formulated than that written by John Campbell of Pictures for Sad Children fame:
it's flying car bullshit: surely the world will conform to our speculative fiction, surely we're the ones who will get to live in the future. it gives spiritual significance to technology developed primarily for entertainment or warfare, and gives nerds something to obsess over that isn't the crushing vacuousness of their lives
Maybe that's a bit ungenerous, but I find that it's largely true. Obsession about AI futures is not even a first world problem as much as a problem for a world that has never existed and might never exist. It's like worrying about how you'll interact with the aliens that you're going to find on the other side of the wormhole before you even know how to get out of the solar system without it taking decades.


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The B.C. Teachers Federation and the Public School Employers Association reached a last-minute deal on the evening of Friday, June 30, avoiding a potential September job action while ensuring that teachers were still eligible for a $4,000 one-time signing bonus. The deadline to sign was the end of the day.
The provinces 38,000 public school teachers still have to vote this fall to accept the five-year contract, which includes a 16 per cent pay hike over five years and other concessions, but the BCTF is confident that the negotiations were a success.
"Congratulations to members for their commitment, unity, and tremendous support for their bargaining team," said BCTF president Jinny Sims. "Together we have achieved significant gains for our profession."
This is the unions first negotiated settlement with the province in the more than 10 years since the NDP government imposed one contract on all public school teachers across the province. Previous contracts have had to be imposed by governments and the teachers legislated back to work.
The teachers were originally asking for a 24 per cent raise over three years, and later reduced it to 19 per cent. The PSEA countered with an offer for eight per cent over four years, which was later increased to 10 per cent.
In May, 85 per cent of teachers voted to strike if contract talks failed.
In addition to the pay hike, teachers also received other concessions from the province through the PSEA, including up to 90 minutes of prep time per week for elementary school teachers, higher rates for teachers on call, and enhanced portability of sick days and seniority between school districts.


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- Homeworld: Ryloth
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Economics of Happiness
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Greater CPH Post had the pleasure to talk with the Associate Programmes Director, Local Futures. International Alliance for Localisation (IAL), Kristen Steele at the New Social Economy Innovation conference recently held at Malaga, Spain.
Localizing the economy, Globalizing human connection
Local Futures is a platform that believes, "modern societies have taken a fundamentally wrong turn". As current economics dictates us as human beings to optimize monetary profits over anything else, while not prioritizing the people and planet.
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• An ongoing series of international Economics of Happiness conferences. In each of these conferences, internationally-recognized leaders from the localization movement come together with local thinkers and activists for several days of plenary talks, panel discussions and workshops on the global-to-local theme.


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My favourite design at first was the card with the Trees - lots of Gold Glimmer paper and you know how I love some bling :-)
This was my first attempt at it - so the colouring got better and I was more generous with the length of twine bow on future versions :-)
And yes - I also used some dimensionals to give a bit of added depth as per usual :-)
The white, woodgrain layer is raised as is the second tree and the "happy" oh and the Christmas banner.
For the "christmas" I used the Good Greetings stamp set. I do love the layer of gold glimmer behind the trees and that the "happy" is in so many languages. I used the 5 English versions on my cards so I have plenty of other language versions left to use on other things :-)
But my favourite card turned out to be the one I least suspected: with the coloured Sled! I love the colours and the beautiful snowflake and sequins even though Christmas in Australia is in Summer and Icy Poles are as close as we get to anything cold LOL! (Especially if todays weather is anything to go by!)
The Crumb Cake card comes pre-printed with the snow dots and so is quick and easy to complete just by accessorising :-)
For the greeting I used a vintage set "Many Merry Messages."
And to create the rich colour of the sled I used a mixture of Cherry cobbler ink mixed with water as per instructions and on a separate palate used a drop of Cherry cobbler ink that I picked up with the paint brush after the first inking of the sled with the watered mixture. I found this gave a more red sled as otherwise the Cherry mixture can tend towards being a little pink rather than red. I adhered the snowflake and sled with some Tom bow glue and then the Bermuda Bay piece using dimensionals.
Next, the simplest card to make is possibly the most elegant and effective I think:
For this card the "Merry" is water coloured using Old Olive (and a couple of drops of Mossy Meadow) re-inker in a small amount of water. This is the same mixture that I used for the Trees. To get the colour variations, simply colour the whole word first and then go back and add as much colour to the top 2/3 letters as you want - remembering that the dried colour is always lighter too :-)
For the greeting here I used another stamp from the vintage "Many Merry Messages" stamp set. And again, the white, woodgrain layer is on a layer of dimensionals as is the Christmas banner.
For the vellum leaves, a few drops of Tombow multi- purpose glue comes in handy, just apply where the glue will be hidden by the dots.
And last and in my opinion, least is the last card style. I changed the colours to water colour the greeting to Cherry Cobbler or Old Olive.
There is something about the draped greeting over the pretty snowflake that seems not quite as lovely as the the other cards. Maybe it's my poorly drawn lines using Smoky slate ink added to some water. Or simply that it is a one layer card - no dimensionals able to be used here! The words are coloured and then when dry the twine is adhered to the back using a find line of tombow and then the banner is able to be attached to the card quite easily.
But overall, I am really pleased with the Winter Watercolor pack - 20 cards at about $2 each and yet you can still make them individual - and now I have 20 Christmas cards done already and it is only the first week in November!! Wow!! As usually I am still struggling to get them all done before Christmas Eve - so is really good to have a head start this year!
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48 hours in Central Catalonia
The heart of Catalonia beats strongly and steadily
Now's your chance to discover, in the heart of Catalonia, places and things to do that are off the beaten path or not well-known in the region. Beyond the big capital cities, Vic, Manresa and Igualada, which are undoubtedly worth a visit when you have the time if you haven't already, the regions of Osona, Bages and Anoia are keeping dozens of charming secrets, little gems in the form of museums, and, in short, to plenty of memorable moments to take back with you.
Start your journey with a bit of sport, but with a little help from an electric bicycle. In Perafita, which is near Lluçà and within the subregion of Lluçanès, you'll find one of the Burricleta centers, where you can rent an electric bike and set off on one of the many paths in the area. The same company can help choose the route for you based on the level of difficulty you want to take on. You'll be grateful for the electric part of the bike when your legs grow weary, and the built-in GPS will keep you from losing your way. If it's your first time at the handlebars of an electric bike, you might want to stick with a simple circuit, like the one that goes from Puigmajor to the pretty village of Alpens. It's an easy route, but not a short one, so give yourself about two hours.
Once you're rested, head for Sant Boi de Lluçanès, which is quite close to where you already are. The church has some eight altarpieces with important artistic value, some Baroque and others Neoclassical. If you want you can book in advance with the priest (93 857 80 53), who will explain the altarpieces, which are truly magnificent, in detail, and show you the exhibitions of precious metals and ancient liturgical clothing in the same church.
It's a day for ups and downs. The central regions are vast with so much that's worth the effort to see and do. So get up early and head to the north of Osona, near Ripollès, to visit the Montesquiu castle, in the park of the same name. You'll be greeted by an audiovisual welcome message narrated by the ghosts of four people who were involved with the castle; after that you can visit the rooms of this fortified building, which dates back to the 13th century. Be sure to stroll around the park before or afterwards.
Not too distant as far as the timeline of construction goes and within the same region of Osona but heading east, to visit the monastery of Sant Pere de Casserres, a delightful Romanesque building located on a bend of the Ter river, which lends it even more elegance. The church, the charming cloister, the museum atmosphere of areas like the kitchen and the bedroom, or the surprise of coming across anthropomorphic tombs, are all worth the effort. And since it's nearby and if you have a little time, don't miss a stop in Rupit, via its frail bridge, and a wander through its medieval cobblestone streets.
Make your way to the town of Moiá, which is in the region of Bages, but is the capital of the 'natural region' of Moianès. There's a lot to take in here, too, but as you may be limited on time, what's the best way to spend a short time and see it all? For the last three decades, the company Vol Sherpa has been dedicated to the world of ultralight aviation, and has a school and a runway at the edge of Moiá. You can hire a plane to fly around the area for a half hour, and that of course also includes an experienced instructor to go with you. We'll leave you to come up with your own adjectives to describe the experience... Many say that the adjectives become even stronger when you go by helicopter.
And as you can practically taste the coming commemoration marking 300 years after the 1714 siege of Barcelona, take advantage of being in Moiá to visit the birthplace of Rafael Casanova, who was one of the highest-ranking political and military figures and remains an icon of Catalanism. The house/museum shows off antique furniture, and features a telling of the outbreak of the War of Succession, how it developed, and the role played by Casanova, who was wounded on 11 September, the last day of battle.
This is the land of farms and animals. But the livestock breeding you'll discover this morning is quite original, far from the traditional chickens or cows. Start out in Castellnou de Bages, near Serrat, where you'll find the ostrich farm Estruç Granja, with more than 200 specimens. There are also emus and other birds, but the ostriches definitely reign, and in fact are the base of the guided tour (make an appointment by calling 93 832 12 77 or 626 995 533). It lasts about two hours, and after meeting the flightless birds, you have the chance to delight in tasting them!
You might be a bit more accustomed to finding the star of the next tour on the table: the snail. In Castellfollit del Boix you'll find Cal Jep, a company that has dedicated many years to research and development in the field of the snail, and the production and marketing of snails. Book a tour in advance to see the farm, which includes maternity wards and incubation areas, and you'll learn more than you ever thought you would about this shelled creature that has the bad luck to be a delicacy to many palates.
Take advantage of the final hours of the excursion to stop by Anoia. In August you can even go to the Capellades Prehistoric Park for excavations, as the opening hours to the public are extended and admission is free. They don't do guided tours, though. What makes this park special is there are up to 20 archaeological sites from different periods, from the Middle Paleolithic to the Middle Ages. Those in the know say that the find of the most scientific significance is Abric Romaní, a shelter from the Paleolithic Neanderthal period. As rich as it is in archaeological sites, so it is in natural beauty, with the Cinglera del Capelló formation as the highlight.
Very near Capellades is La Pobla de Claramunt, which is crowned by its majestic castle. It's a great place to wind up your time in Central Catalonia. The various facelifts to the building, which dates from the 10th century, were done in the 1990s and helped make it one of the best castles in Catalonia for getting a feel for how these medieval fortresses really were. Taking in the magnificent views from the hilltop where the castle sits puts a nice finishing touch on the trip.By public transport: Start the trip in the sub-region of Lluçanès. You can't get there by train, but the Sagalés coach company makes stops in Sant Feliu Sasserra, Prats de Lluçanès, Sant Agustí de Lluçanès and Alpens (902 13 00 14 / www.sagales.com).
By car: Take the C-17, heading toward Lluçanès via Vic, or the C-31 motorway, via Manresa, which will take you to local motorways of the sub-region.
Where to eat
Fonda Sala
Boasting a Michelin star for years, Fonda Sala doesn't want to leave any prospective clientele wanting, so they started doing a resonably priced lunch menu. If your wallet permits and your palate demands it, try the best dishes from a creative and mouth-watering menu.
Plaza Mayor, 17, Olost de Lluçanès. 93 881 01 06 / www.fondasala.com.
Full set lunch daily: €12. Menu: €60.
Closed Sunday and Monday night, and all day Tuesday.
Cal Baumer
'A taste of Lluçanès served on a plate,' their menu boasts. You'd better book a table in advance if you want to go to Cal Baumer because the family-owned business doesn't always stick to set hours and, especially for dinner during the week, if there are no customers waiting, they might not open at all. Most products are from the region: beef, pork, sausages, Oristà chickpeas ...
C/ Sant Pere, 22, Prats de Lluçanès. 93 850 80 26 / www.calmusic.net.
Full set lunch weekdays: €12 (weekends €18.50 & €25). Menu: €30. Open daily with advance booking.
Ca la Cinta
If you like stews, this is your restaurant. A home-grown atmosphere with home-made food in the small town of Alou, the goose or boar with pears will surprise you.
C/ de l'Alou, 16, Sant Agustí de Lluçanès. 93 857 81 61. Full set lunch: €12. Menu: €25. Closed Mon-Wed.
Can Xarina
That you can taste olive oils from Catalonia's five designations of origin (DO) when you arrive is already a point in this restaurant's favour. The site is lovely as well – a Gothic-Renaissance mansion with a warm and well-preserved dining room. The menu explains that out of the guesthouse here, the village of Collsuspina was born. Today the kitchen serves seasonal dishes with local produce and a touch of daring and innovation.
C/ Major, 30, Collsuspina. 93 830 05 77 / www.canxarina.com.
Menu: €30-€50. Dinner served Thu-Sat, lunch served Tue-Sun.
El Colom
A great place to sample rice-based soups and crunchy prawns in the interior of Catalonia. The DO Girona steak also plays a starring role. The space itself is not that big, so it's a good idea to book a table in advance.
Plaça Colom, 10, Moià. 93 830 05 56 / www.elcolom.com.
Full set lunch: €12 (weekends and holidays: €25). Carta: 30€. Dinner served Thu-Sat, lunch served Tue-Sun.
Where to stay
It's a four-star establishment with a friendly vibe, and working in their kitchen is the prestigious chef Nando Jubany. So you get all the comforts of a good hotel (spa included), proximity and good food.
Manresa motorway to Vic (N-141c), km 20. 93 830 91 53 / www.hotelurbisol.com. From €230 for two people, half board.
Santa Maria
This is one of those hostels that is a landmark of its town, in this case, in Santa Maria d'Oló. The locals go to the hostel's café to have breakfast or a drink and a chat as visitors come and go with their luggage in and out of the 17 simple but decent rooms.
Avinguda de Manel López, 6-8, Santa Maria d'Oló. 93 838 50 01 /www.hostalsantamaria.com.
€35 per person, breakfast included.
This is a very functional place, geared toward people who are from out of town and it's a bit different from what you might normally find in the area. Hotelet gives you a room to sleep in, with the basics, and not much else. Double room €45.
C/ Sant Jordi, 2, Prats de Lluçanès. 93 856 03 23 / www.hotelet.cat.
In La Pobla de Claramunt you'll find this family hotel with a long history and tradition, situated in a great place for taking day trips, right at the foot of the castle. They have a good outdoor swimming pool, very decent rooms and a restaurant that cooks up home-made food.
Avinguda de Catalunya, 1, La Pobla de Claramunt. 93 808 60 00 / www.hotel-robert.com.
Double room from €70.
For those looking for a touch of romance, elegance and quiet. Spend your down time relaxing in the charming village of Rupit with all the amenities you might need. Double room €110.
Plaça del Bisbe Font, 1, Rupit. 93 852 20 05 / www.hostalestrella.com.


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The day came when darkness erupted,
The weak were weakened,
The strong were strengthened,
The tenets of morality became inequality and depravity,
Molestation was the norm,
And every child unshielded from the inhumanity,
Grew scrawny and pale at the necrotizing parasite,
Insanity reigned, and blood buckets poured,
Africans were dirt, women were mute,
Most sold into captivity,
That of a wife or that of a slave,
The hour was dark, dark as night,
But it was not night, merely a colored day,
Painted with the tar of evil,
But the day came and the day passed,
Passed on in the twilight,
In the darkest of the dusk,
Restored to white in the dawn,
Light was light and the sun rose,
The female was a foe no more,
And the change was cultivated in the law,
The saw of demons,
Was blunted and soon stunted,
The power that was lost was regained,
And from the red that poured
Sprouted a flowery rainbow of beauty that reigned,
The days were once again white,
And light was the day,
The pigment in my skin,
Was celebrated and respected,
The ban on it was lifted, upended and away it drifted,
Humans were humans, beasts were beasts
Forever buried and forgotten was the humanly beast,
No more of that beastly human,
Not in the south, north, west or even in the east
"But the day came and the day passed." This I tried to recite and mouth as loudly as I could in the courtroom benches, hoping and praying that at some unknown point in time I too would believe it. Nudity had an almost perverse ability of unveiling parts unknown, unknown even to the wearer of the hide. It could reveal a hope within burning low but burning nonetheless or in my case unmask the hideous visage of a buried fear, grotesque and grim in appearance demanding an audience at last.
It had been my first excursion out since the incident, every step outside of the comfort of my home was now forever marred. I breathed the alcohol of fear evaporating from my skin, and was almost always immediately crucified with all the unending stares and detailed scrutiny that society had now accorded me. I did not want to be the victim but the world had already callously cast me for the role and all I could do now was retreat into my cave and hide, an action that would have simply perturbed a previous version of self. After all I had always preached the sermon of strength, a Samsonian kind of strength, the kind that removes you from the darkest recesses of the abyss.
But this trip I had to make ,it was the only way my tormentors were to ever face the full brunt of the law .I remembered that day so meticulously, the memory was psychedelic and once I recalled it my body was transported. I could feel the tarmac that I trekked on my soles and even hear the noisy backdrop as I made my way to the bus station. The town was in pandemonium as was the rule, hawkers escaping from the police while simultaneously selling their knick knacks, endless knockings from the shoulders of the 'bees' buzzing about their apparent errands.
My mind was so caught up in all the excitement of a big city life I did not even notice the crowd of men approaching me and howling chants. Before I knew it I was pinned on the ground and the demonic ritual of disrobing me commenced. Despite the horrific din of my cries and shouts no one even tried to stop them and the irony was that it all happened in plain day light.
On receiving the summons to appear in court, a violent lurch in my stomach erupted and immediately I vomited. Just the thought of facing those beasts a second time tore at my sanity. Paranoia levels in my body were elevated but I knew that I had to do this, so as to at least save even one other woman from the wretchedness I had survived.
"And we call Julia Onyango to the stand as the second witness."
On hearing my name, the selective quivers of my legs, lips and arms were immediately reinstated I then glanced at the accused hesitantly wondering if their gaze would persuade me to retreat and cower once again. To my surprise I immediately recognised their appearance, it was the symbol of shame plastered all over their faces, and they could barely look at me for a second without turning their heads. I had encountered that very expression in my reflection every day since the attack; I blamed myself for provoking them, forcing their hand. I had been serving their sentence of shame for them and now it was time to pass on the baton.
Hitherto, I had never once looked at their faces, their naked faces without the makeup of power and tyranny. All I could see now was the profound ignorance, men cloaked in ignorance, an ignorance that was relentless in its punishment. The punishing scorn of shame was more than enough punishment for a lifetime. Not only had they violated me by brutally accosting, stripping and beating me to a pulp but they had also assaulted themselves and their conscience. But I was now glad that my scars were only superimposed on my skin, a skin that would heal and soon enough become my weapon against all the ignorance of such misogyny.
The time had come for me to bare myself to the court, tell the tale and marvel at my own nudity. Nakedness definitely did have a potent power to reveal parts unknown; to my utter surprise it had once again revealed to me that I had outgrown the dress of fear and pain. I brazenly walked up to the stand shining in all the glory of my pain, and I finally believed my own poetry indeed the day had come and passed and no more remained of that beastly human.


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1. Re: JBPM process instnace migrationrhn-support-rangupta Dec 25, 2017 11:45 PM (in response to nandakishorabc)
You can use "ProcessInstanceMigrationService" to migrate process instances from one deployment to another.
The ProcessInstanceMigrationService service enables you to change the process definition for the process engine.
Recommendation is that you should let active process instance finish and than start new process instances in the new deployment.
public interface ProcessInstanceMigrationService {
/** Migrates given process instance that belongs to source deployment, into target process id that belongs to target deployment. **/
List migrate(String sourceDeploymentId, List processInstanceIds, String targetDeploymentId, String targetProcessId);
List migrate(String sourceDeploymentId, List processInstanceIds, String targetDeploymentId, String targetProcessId, Map nodeMapping);
You can migrate a single process instance, or multiple process instances at once. If you migrate multiple process instances, each instance will be migrated in a separate transaction to ensure that the migrations do not affect each other. Once migration is done, the migrate method returns MigrationReport.


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Artistic Talent:
Some people have it…some people don't.
I am unfortunately one of the latter…however I am lucky to know some incredibly talented artists and I wanted to highlight some work of a friend of mine who amazes me with her concept ideas and raw artistic talent.
Her name is Sarah Gasparetto and she is the owner of TreMura Photography, which is a client based business focused on photographing individuals for headshots, boudoir shoots and also capturing special events such as weddings. You may have seen our new pics on our "About Us" page, and those are all thanks to Sarah!
Although she was incredibly successful with this type of photography, she is now transitioning to more fine art, and I wanted to share her new project concept as well as some of her past art pieces.
Here are a couple of her latest exhibits: (I was lucky enough to actually be the model for her "Breakfast at Tiffany's" show piece :))
The new concept!
Sarah's new concept is so interesting to me. To have the ability to come up with something so unique and powerful truly amazes me.
Her new project will be a collection of portraits (head shots) of artists from around Calgary who make visual fine art and relate their photos to their artwork and concepts. i.e. the below photo is an image of Ashley Huff (a local Calgary painter) of her own art depicted on herself.
Ashley Huff is a local Calgary artist that focuses her art on internal reflection and the escape from one's self from the outside in. It is a hauntingly beautiful image that reflects the paintings that she has created and ties it directly to herself. Ashley made paintings of a woman who ate herself from the outside in. Therefore she was photographed with the image of a place setting and a large scar/cut on her cheek to mimic the cuts that she painted.
"My goal for this project is to create awareness that art is directly tied to artists and their concepts and experiences. I find this connection can often be lost" says Sarah.
I am so honored to know Sarah and be able to watch her career as an artist bloom. She is a fantastic lady, and I invite you to keep an eye out for her new exhibit coming to a gallery in Calgary soon. For those interested in participating in this project, or who would like to be notified (via mailing list) of its formal release and exhibition they may contact Sarah directly at www.sarahgasparetto.com or phone at 403-807-5079.


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Denny Hamlin wins Xfinity Series ToyotaCare 250 at Richmond
Pole-sitter and hometown favorite Denny Hamlin led all but two laps Friday at Richmond International Raceway in notching his 12th Xfinity Series win and grabbing the 100th Xfinity win for his Toyota manufacturer. That made the race sponsor very happy.
Hamlin took the checkered flag by 3.719 seconds in the ToyotaCare 250. He fell behind Brian Scott on Lap 154 and Elliott Sadler on Lap 226 but quickly regained control each time.
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Joey Logano, who led every lap in last weekend's Xfinity race at Bristol, finished second. Regan Smith placed third.
"(Hamlin) was just so fast. We had nothing for him," Logano told reporters. "We had a second-place (car) and that is right where we finished. We knew he was fast in practice and it transferred right over. I know what it is like to be on the other end of the butt whooping and it isn't as much fun from this side. Congrats to that team, we just didn't have a shot tonight."
While Hamlin dominated, the race was not without excitement. Three members of Brendan Gaughan's team were sent to a local hospital after a fire engulfed their pit stall during a pit stop.
A spark and a malfunction in the gas head ignited the fireball, Gaughan's crew chief Shane Wilson told Fox Sports. Gaughan finished 11th.
Erik Jones, who held off Brad Keselowski and Dale Earnhardt Jr. two weeks ago for his first Xfinity Series win, took home a fourth-place finish, while Chase Elliott rounded out the top five.
Xfinity Series points leaders Ty Dillon and Chris Buescher finished ninth and 20th, respectfully. Dillon now leads Elliott by eight points.
Kevin Harvick, who was trying to tie Kyle Busch for the most top five finishes all time in the Xfinity Series, was 18th.


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Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction
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Dopey128: Copping Drugs from a Cop, Jackie "The Joke Man" Martling, Howard Stern Show, Rodney Dangerfield
We play a voicememo from "IG" about buying drugs from a police officer. Dave talks about going to a waterpark; Chris wonders what it would be like for Dave to shoot cocaine before going down the "big slide." Jackie "The Joke Man" Martling from the Howard Stern Show calls in and gives us an update about his life. Jackie talks about his rise in show business, his time on the Stern Show, and his eventual decision to stop drinking. Jackie also shares stories about Rodney Dangerfield (he used to travel around with his own special eating bowl). Jackie concludes with a song for us and some information about his upcoming books.
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Wireless Router Outages
If you use a wireless access point or wireless router to access the Internet with a laptop, then the wireless connection might be the cause of your problem. You may have to use a wired connection to your network until the wireless problem is solved. You'll also want to have a copy of your wireless access point or router's user manual nearby.
There are two main potential issues with wireless connections: configuration problems and security problems. Consult the user manual to see how to access the wireless device -- this is usually done by typing the device's IP address into a Web browser. From there, you'll need to check the manual to find the proper settings. You'll probably have to call your Internet service provider (ISP) for assistance, because the necessary configuration will vary tremendously depending on the type of network you have and the type of connection provided by your ISP.
The wireless device's security settings could also be causing problems. You can access these settings the same way you accessed the configuration. If you have a wireless security protocol enabled, you won't be able to access the wireless device without using the proper password. You can set and reset the password the same way you can change the other settings.
If none of these steps have solved your connection problem, there are still a few last-ditch efforts you can attempt.


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We are delighted to announce the dates for our 'Dance Extravaganza' in the Civic Theatre Tallaght next year!Dates: Tuesday 2nd - Saturday 6th April 2019 Performance times: 7.30pm. Saturday Matinee 6th April: 2.30pm Venue: Civic Theatre, Tallaght, Dublin 24 Tickets available from the Civic Theatre. www.civictheatre.ie Box office: 01 462 7477
Zoe Ashe-Browne will be performing with The Royal Ballet of Flanders. She has had various projects in Dublin and has been performing in Germany. She completed her training at the English National Ballet School and has performed with the English National Ballet and Ballet Ireland.
Kate Haughton has had various projects dancing and choreographing (including the summer school!) She is now based in Dublin and London. She completed her training at the Royal Conservatoire Scotland, gaining a BA in Modern Ballet. She performed with Scottish Ballet and Ballet Ireland, see video below. She then performed with 'Transitions' Dance Company and gained an MA in Dance Performance.
Julian Capolei is now performing in the West End, London, taking the part of 'Omar' in the musical Aladdin. He completed his training at the Royal Conservatoire Scotland, gaining a BA in Muscial Theatre.
Jamie Haughton gained a BA in Modern Ballet from the Royal Scottish Conservatoire in 2014. He has toured the UK with the JSLN Dance Company, which is based in Germany. We have been delighted to welcome him back to teach at our summer school.
Aoibh Ní Riain Broin has completed her training at Central Ballet School, gaining a BA (Hons) in Classical Ballet and will be performing with the Cinevox Dance Company in Switzerland.
Emer Haughton has completed her training at London Studios Centre, gaining a BA (Hons) in Theatre Dance will be dancing with Costa Cruises.
Anna Duggan, Katie Pender and Laoise O'Neill are continuing their full-time training at theatre schools in the UK.
A special mention to Ariane Tighe, who is still a student in the school but gained a part during the summer in 'Gangster Granny' which was performed at the Olympia Theatre, Dublin.
Meagan Hoare finished her training at the Northern Ballet School, Manchester and is now dancing on Cruise Lines touring around the world.


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Tom Odell wins Brits Critics' Choice Award
A 22-year-old British singer-songwriter, whose career took off after he was championed by Lily Allen, has become the first man to win the Brits Critics' Choice Award.
Chichester-born Tom Odell has been tipped to break out in the coming year, with the critics' award following a nomination for the BBC's Sound of 2013 earlier this month.
The Brits first awarded the critics' choice for an up and coming British musician in 2008 when it went to Adele. Since then artists including Jessie J, Florence and the Machine and Emili Sande have been honoured. Runners up for this year's award were electro pop duo AlunaGeorge and Laura Mvula.
Odell said he was "thrilled and honoured" to win the award. "Looking at the list of amazing female artists who have won the award already, I just hope I don't let the boys down."
Odell, who has been writing songs for the best part of a decade, wrote and recorded his debut album over the summer.
His style has been compared to American singer Jeff Buckley, who died in 1997. After his nomination for the Sound of 2013, the BBC described his style as: "Vulnerability married to memorable melody."
Lily Allen, now Lily Rose Cooper, was alerted to Odell by a friend and she signed him to her label. It came after just four gigs.
Odell's energy onstage "reminded me of David Bowie," Cooper said. She told the NME: "His voice is fragile yet powerful and he sings mainly love songs," adding: "It's not soppy and moany at all, it's energetic and insightful. And he's totally gorgeous as well."
This year the Brits will introduce its first global success award, aimed at honouring British acts that have achieved huge success overseas. Adele, Mumford & Sons and One Direction are likely to be front runners for the inaugural award.
This year, James Corden will return to present the awards ceremony on 20 February, handing the winning acts statuettes designed by Damien Hirst.
The charity War Child will receive a Special Recognition award on its 20th anniversary, after helping 800,000 children in war-torn countries. The Outstanding Contribution prize, which went to Blur last year, has been dropped.
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An Insider's View
In picturesque Greenwich, South-East London, cars of the future are being tested in plain sight - yet the public has little idea that they are facilitating the evolution of how we get around our towns and cities.
Since August 2016, the MOVE_UK project has studied Automated Driving Systems (ADS) in real-life conditions, with the aim of accelerating the development, production and deployment of driverless systems through connected validation and big data analysis.
According to Simon, the problem with the current method is the huge volume of information picked up by car sensors, which is set to grow as automated driving systems develop.
"In the future, the amount of data generated by ADS systems will be greater than 8GBs a second – that equates to streaming over two Netflix films per second."
Headed by Bosch, the three-year MOVE_UK project is a joint effort
with TRL, Jaguar Land Rover, telematics experts The Floow,
insurance provider Direct Line and the Royal Borough of
Greenwich, with part funding provided by the UK government.
"It is not often that you get such a diverse group of companies working together, but Automated Driving is set to have such a wide effect outside the car manufacturing space."
"Councils, for example, will need to plan how their infrastructure is going to cope with driverless cars and insurers will have to figure out how they are going to insure them," he says.
"The greatest success of all is to see that this new method, and the "real world" data we are collecting, will be used to develop systems that will go into our cars in the next few years,"
Simon concludes.
August 2019


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AceShowbiz - A good three minutes sneak peek to FX Network's new series, "Lawman", is given during TV Critics Association press tour and the footage has gone online. The series starring Timothy Olyphant will only premiere in Spring 2010 but the buzz has been made in recent weeks following a 13-episode order from FX.
In "Lawman", Olyphant is modern day U.S. marshal named Ryalan Givens, a character based on Elomore Leonard's short story "Fire in the Hole". Givens enforces his brand of justice in a way that puts him as a target of criminals and places him at odds with his bosses in the marshal service. As a result, he's reassigned to the rural Kentucky town where he grew up.
"Boomtown" creator Graham Yost wrote the pilot episode and will executive produce along with Leonard and others. "Graham began with a memorable character from one of America's foremost crime novelists, Elmore Leonard, and we scored the hat trick signing Tim Olyphant," FX President and General Manager John Landgraf said during the press conference.
Other stars in the series include Nick Searcy, Jacob Pitts and Erica Tazel.


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I received my first Illumicrate box this month! I had been thinking of trying this bookish box company out for a while and with the announcement of May's box containing a special edition of Aurora Rising I couldn't resist and I'm so pleased to have finally been able to do so. I'm also planning to carry on my subscription for the June box as well. I did film an unboxing video which you can check out here or at the end of this blog post. This will be an unboxing post with closer pictures of each item so obviously spoilers ahead!
First up is a Lunar Chronicles Cooler Bag designed by Jo Painter (@Po_Jainter) featuring the women from the Lunar Chronicles series. I'm yet to read the books myself yet (I do have Cinder ready and waiting though!) but I thought this was a great item and super useful, especially as its London MCM this weekend so this was perfect timing.
Next up is one of my favourite items and that is the Squad 312 Pouch by Meghan (@IParwing). I wear reading glasses so I don't get headaches and when I forget to wear them I often have to wear sunglasses when the headaches happen, I lost my glasses case last week but now I can fit my of my glasses inside this pouch. Not to mention it's adorable, look at Fin taking the group selfie!!
Loving these adorable little Space Sticky Notes by Fable and Black (@Fableandblack) the design is super cute and I love the colours!
I have been informed that since lasts months box there will be a Magnetic Collectable Coin in each box which attaches to a magnetic necklace and you can change which coin you wear. I liked this idea and have managed to find myself a necklace from the April box so I can wear this beautiful, bright Kady coin. This Illuminae files inspired item was designed by Monolime (@Monolimeart) and although it makes Kady look a little older than I imagined, but I think that's just the art style.
I haven't got around to reading Red Rising yet but I really like this Howler Luggage Tag designed by Fable and Black (@fableandblack), it has a nice metallic finish and is nice and bright.
This next item is my joint favourite item (not including the book itself) this gorgeous Illuminae Pillowcase with illustration by Alice Duke (@Alice_Duke) and quote design by Chatty Nora (@chattynora). The material is super soft and I've actually brought a second one as my husband has been trying to steal mine!
Then last but absolutely no means least is the book itself! The book that would feature in the May box was announced not long after the Goldsboro books drama (a LOT more than 500 people tried to buy 500 special editions of Aurora Rising with purple sprayed edges – the site crashed, drama ensued) which I think was a pretty smart move and was certainly the reason I decided to purchase the May box with the theme "The Final Frontier" which would feature a special limited edition copy of Aurora Rising.
Unable to have nabbed one of the Goldsboro editions I decided to go in for the Illumicrate special instead and although purple IS my favourite colour I'm actually glad I ended up with the Illumicrate version instead. Not only does this special limited edition copy have HOT PINK sprayed edges but the colouring on the cover is also different and matches the hot pink pages and I'm so very in love with it.
If you've seen my unboxing video then you'll already know that in all of my fawning over the pages etc I hadn't given a thought to whether or not it was signed. I think I assumed there would be a signed bookplate like in many of the Fairy Loot books was happily surprised to see that this edition had actually been hand signed by both Jay and Amie instead which really made my day as my GC Reading edition arriving in the next few weeks is only signed by Jay (but is absolutely worth it as it also comes with the Momento novella!)
I was very pleased with my first Illumicrate! Each item was useful and won't just end up stuck in a box and forgotten about like I've found with some items from other boxes in the past. It obviously helps that I love the theme for this month too but I have also decided to stay subscribed for the June box as well!
Thank you for checking out my unboxing! If you got this box too what did you think? What was your favourite item? If you didn't get the box which would have been your favourite?


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This past weekend I ran in Disney's Dumbo Double Dare. The race consists of a 10k on Saturday followed by a half marathon on Sunday. They are intense. For running the two races you receive an extra medal, the Dumbo Double dare medal.
The 10k
The 10k started bright and dark. I was in my corral before 5 am. The race starts at 5:30 am. The theme of the race was Villians. Of course Cruel and Maleficent stopped by to kick off the race. I dressed up as Snow White rather than a Villian.
Once the race began you got to run through part of the streets of Anehiem, California Adventure, Disneyland, Downtown Disney, and finishing by Disneyland hotel.
Finishing was the best part and I really liked the medal. It was a replica of the Magic Mirror.
It was a great race, but I had to rest up for the half the next day.
The half marathon
Not only was Disneyland celebrating their 60th but the Disneyland half was celebrating their 10th anniversary.
I was a feeling good after the 10k so I felt confident running the half. I dressed as Minnie Mouse for the half and taped up my knees. I have previous knee injuries so I find that KT tape helps a girl with two bad knees continue running all these races.
I didn't stop for pictures on the race. I did take this at mile 5. It is wonderful running in Disneyland. The whole city of Anaheim is there to support all the runners. From marching bands, to different culture organizations everyone is cheering you on. It's amazing.
The half marathon medal was special this year. It spun around in the center. It was awesome
Well that's another race in the books. So happy I had my friends and my mom to cheer me on. Thanks to all the people that volunteered, strangers that passed out wet sponges, all the organizations and classic car owners that were out cheering us on. No race compares to RunDisney. I've been running them for several years and I plan on running them for as long as I live. I hope this inspires you to run or volunteer for a race. Thanks for reading. Have a magical day.


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Capital Leases vs. Operating Leases
Many companies at some point lease an asset as an alternative to purchasing the asset out right, sounds straightforward right. Well...lease accounting can get a bit more complicated and the two alternatives for accounting treatment are substantially different. The accounting treatment for capital and operating leases is as follows: Capital Lease: The company is required to book the asset they are leasing as a capital asset and also recognize a liability on their financial statements for the lease obligation.
So how do you know what kind of lease you have?There are four criteria set out in FAS 13 and if any of the four tests are met you are required to book the lease as a capital lease and show the asset and liability. The four criteria are:
- Does the leased property transfer to you at the end of the lease?
- Does the lease have a bargain purchase option at the end of it, whereby you can purchase the asset at a price significantly less than what the asset will be worth?
- Is the life of the lease more than 75% of the expected useful life of the asset?
- Is the present value of the lease payments stipulated more than 90% of the fair value of the asset right now?
Accounting for a Capital LeaseOperating leases are straightforward in that you simply expense the payment, but if you have a capital lease and now need to book an asset, a liability, and an expense it gets a bit more complicated. The asset and liability that need to be booked are booked at the present value of the lease payments, though a caveat is that this cannot exceed the fair market value of the actual asset. Each year, or period accounted for, an interest expense will be recognized by multiplying the interest rate by the lease obligation outstanding. This will be considered the interest portion of the payments made, with the remaining amount of the payment being applied as a reduction in the lease obligation liability that was booked. The asset will be reduced each period by amortizing it as you would any other asset the company has recorded.
So what does this mean to me?For companies looking at leasing assets you need to consider how it will impact your financial statements and the impact that will have on your different financial metrics. Companies that have loan covenants on their debt to equity ratio may need to ensure leases are structured to be classified as operating, in order to avoid taking on the extra balance sheet debt. Knowing that before hand is important, as going offside of a loan covenant simply because you didn't fully understand your lease accounting could be a disaster.
Lease Accounting ChangesIn order to bring US GAAP more in line with IFRS the accounting for leases will be changing, with a target date for implementation of 2016. The changes will effectively eliminate operating lease accounting and going forward all leases will be accounted for under the capital lease format discussed above.
Lease Accounting for the LessorFor the lessor the capital lease vs. operating lease distinction is also important. Under an operating lease the lessor will retain the asset on its balance sheet and simply book the lease payments received as revenues. Under a capital lease the lessor will remove the asset from its balance sheet and replace it with a receivable for the present value of the minimum lease payments. Payments received would reduce the receivable and the only revenue booked would be the interest component (similar as discussed above).
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GSOC 2017 Ideas
These ideas were contributed by our developers and users for [Google Summer of Code 2017](https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com). Some of them may be in a rough state, but they can certainly be refined. If you wish to submit a proposal based on these ideas, you may wish to contact the developers and find out more about the particular suggestion you're looking at. Students are welcome to provide their own ideas for projects in collaboration with the SatNOGS developer community.
The major communication and coordination systems of the SatNOGS project are its [forum](http://community.satnogs.org) and its [github repositories](http://github.com/satnogs).
Students wishing to participate in Summer of Code must realise this is more than a mere formality. You will be required to produce code for Libre Space Foundation projects in 3 months.
You don't have to be a proven developer, in fact, this whole program is meant to facilitate joining Open Source communities. However, experience in coding and/or experience with Python libraries and applications is welcome.
You should start familiarizing yourself with the components that you plan on working on before the start date. LSF developers are available on the community site and on IRC for help.
Recommended steps
* Read Google's instructions for participating * Take a look at the list of ideas * Come up with project that you're interested in * Write a first draft proposal and get someone to review it for you * Submit it using Google's web interface
Check the KDE's [Student Proposal Guidelines](https://community.kde.org/GSoC#Student_proposal_guidelines) for more hints on what your application should look like.
Coming up with an interesting idea is probably the most difficult part of all. It should be something interesting for **LSF**, for **Open Source in Space** and particularly for **you**.
Finding out what the most pressing issues are in the projects you're interested in is a good start. Learning the codebase and even submitting issues and identifying bugs is also a good way to start. We recommend strongly doing that and we will look favorably on applications from students who have started to act like Open Source developers.
- Software Projects
- [SatNOGS DB](https://github.com/satnogs/satnogs-db)
- Enhance frontend suggestions and moderation capabilities
- [SatNOGS DB](https://github.com/satnogs/satnogs-db)
- **Description**: Supply the ability for users to suggest new satellites. Supply the ability to moderators to approve or amend satellite and transmitters suggestions.
- **Skills needed**: Django/Python , HTML, CSS3, Javascript
- **Expected results**: All satellite and transmitters data should be crowdsourced and moderated through a simple UI.
- **Mentor**: @comzeradd
- [SatNOGS Client](https://github.com/satnogs/satnogs-client)
- Build a web based controller able to control the SatNOGS client
- [SatNOGS Client](https://github.com/satnogs/satnogs-client)
- **Description**: Expand the current web interface of satnogs-client with a web based controller to allow users to connect to their rotator using a browser without the need to connect to the internet.
- **Skills needed**: Python, Flask
- **Expected results**: An embeddable web application able to control SatNOGS client via a web browser
- **Mentor**: @jinxcat
- Package SatNOGS client for different distributions
- **Description**: SatNOGS client must be available in a binary package form for several distributions to further it's ease of modularity.
- **Skills needed**: Packaging on major distributions.
- **Expected results**: Released and submitted upstream packages on major distributions.
- **Mentor**: @axilleas
- SatNOGS Infrastructure
- Improve logging and monitoring
- SatNOGS Infrastructure
- **Description**: Improve SatNOGS logging and monitoring capabilities to allow SatNOGS Network to monitor which ground station are operating properly
- **Skills needed**: DevOps, DB and Sysadmin skills, open to technology suggestions
- **Expected results**: Logs and Monitoring capabilities for the Network administrators
- **Mentor**: @axilleas
- Improve distributed storage of observation data
- **Description**: SatNOGS observation data must be able to be stored in a distributed manner
- **Skills needed**: DevOps, DB and Sysadmin skills, open to technology suggestions
- **Expected results**: A distributed storage option for observation data
- **Mentor**: @jinxcat
- Add error rate and karma policies for SatNOGS clients
- **Description**: SatNOGS clients should be able to use error rate and karma policies in order to prioritize observation jobs.
- **Skills needed**: DevOps, DB and Sysadmin skills, open to technology suggestions
- **Expected results**: Error and karma policies applied to observation job prioritization
- **Mentor**: @jinxcat
- [SatNOGS Hardware](https://github.com/satnogs/satnogs-hardware)
- [SatNOGS Arduino](https://github.com/satnogs/satnogs-arduino)
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- [SatNOGS Arduino](https://github.com/satnogs/satnogs-arduino)
- **Description**:
- **Skills needed**:
- **Expected results**:
- **Mentor**:
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Yom Kippur and the Jewish Athlete
We are proud when a Jewish athlete succeeds, but a few have gained even more respect for refusing to play ball on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar.
Baseball Hall of Famer Hank Greenberg recalled his 1934 decision:
Both Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur came in September… and since we were in the thick of the pennant race, the first for Detroit in many years, it became a national issue whether or not I should play….The question was put before Detroit's leading rabbi, Rabbi Leo Franklin. He consulted the Talmud… and announced that I could play on Rosh Hashanah… because that was a happy occasion on which Jews used to play ball in the streets long ago. However, I could not play on Yom Kippur… . So I played on Rosh Hashanah and, believe it or not, I hit two home runs.1
In 1965 Sandy Koufax was scheduled to pitch the first game of the World Series for the Los Angeles Dodgers. But the game fell on Yom Kippur. Koufax refused to play, but, as he pointed out, "There was never any decision to make… because there was never any possibility that I would pitch…. The club knows that I don't work that day."2
In 2004 another Dodger superstar, Shawn Green, faced a key weekend series in the September pennant race. Yom Kippur began at sundown on Friday, September 24. On Thursday, Green announced that he would play the Friday night game but sit out on Saturday. Although some rabbis accused Green of trying to have it both ways, Koufax was more understanding.
"That kind of call is totally up to Shawn," he said. "There's no way anyone can advise you on something like this." 3
To play or not to play—what would you do if you were in their place? And is it "your call" to make or, like Hebrew National, do we answer to a higher authority?