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In this mobile phone there is a built in modem, which will allow you to use such technology. You can make and receive calls and use the internet through GPRS technology to do so.
It is a fact that the internet has become the most used tool in modern times. Your phones may use your telephone and email capabilities, but they can also offer this in a very convenient way.
The internet is now becoming a necessity and it is better to have a cellular internet connection as there are times when you cannot be with the telephone to update your emails. By using a wireless connection for internet, you can be at the receiving end to email messages all day and night.
Your cell phone will offer several benefits such as being your office phone, your personal phone, and the mobile phone. They will enable you to keep in touch with your family and friends.
When you buy a realme, there are many options you can choose to buy, each having their own advantage. To make it easy for you to choose the phone that will suit your needs, the mobile brands reviews have provided the Realme in the comparison to see which one is the best.
Each of the features that the phone provides has a different price that is offered by them. The price that is required to make it worthwhile to purchase the phone will be dependent on the features that you want.
When you are trying to decide between the various phones from the realme, you will find that the phone is extremely cost effective. Even if you were to compare it with other features the price is actually competitive.
The realme can offer many things to your business, such as SMS alerts, call waiting, push to talk, auto responder, hands-free features, caller ID, S-Voice. There are many features that will enable you to grow your business and will help it prosper.
Therefore it is important to look at the resume and then make a decision about whether it is right for you and your business. If you like the realme you will like the brand and will continue to use the realme for years to come.


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(TargetLiberty.org) – During recent events commemorating Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) sat up on stage sharing her thoughts on the many facets of American culture. She spoke about wealth distribution, social justice, and other left-leaning topics. AOC then brought up the idea that the Democratic party is really a "center-conservative" party and not a true leftist party.
As AOC concisely stated, "We don't have a left party in the United States. The Democratic Party is not a left party."
Is this truly the case? Should the Democrats split into two different parties based on ideological differences?
Here Are the Contributing Factors:
One of AOC's primary justifications for her belief that Democrats aren't true leftists revolves around healthcare. She believes that a true left-leaning party would unquestionably advocate for universal health care. As she put it:
"We can't even get a floor vote on Medicare-for-all — not even a floor voted that gets voted down. We can't even get a vote on it. So this is not a left party. There are left members inside the Democratic Party that are working to try to make that shift happen."
AOC makes this statement when health care might be the most central topic surrounding the 2020 election.
While Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) advocate for a "Medicare for All" plan, other candidates also include their own version of public healthcare. Notably, Pete Buttigieg's plan includes a public option for those who want to opt into a universal healthcare system. Buttigieg wants to keep private insurance available for those who want it, while private insurance would be abolished under a Sanders or Warren administration.
AOC also talks about the greed of Wall Street. She claims that most Democrats are reliant on funding from Wall Street executives or other wealthy individuals. The reality is that political campaigns are expensive, and even AOC had her campaign paid for by outside entities. It's difficult, if not impossible, to run your own presidential campaign unless you're already very well off like Tom Steyer or Michael Bloomberg.
A political candidate doesn't have to be conservative just because they receive outside funding to advocate for their platform. AOC and Sanders are self-avowed Socialists and they still receive funding from individuals and organizations alike.
Another one of AOC's arguments for Democrats not being true leftists is the party's reluctance to accept the Green New Deal. This incredibly expensive program would overhaul America's infrastructure at a national level to make buildings more livable and more energy efficient. It's estimated that the Green New Deal would cost somewhere in the ballpark of $50 to $90 trillion.
While Democrats advocate spending money on various social welfare programs, that amount of spending isn't something most of the party is comfortable justifying.
Poll: Should the Democrats Split Into Two Parties?
Final Tally Coming Soon!
% Voted Yes
% Voted No
What Do You Think?
What do you think about the current state of the Democratic party? Is there enough ideological difference to justify splitting it into two?
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ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has performed the groundbreaking of Farash Town apartments in Islamabad under the Naya Pakistan Housing Program.
PM Imran Khan, while addressing the event in connection with the Farash Town apartments, said the federal government is making progress in Naya Pakistan Housing Program (NPHP) and Frontier Works Organization (FWO) told him to complete the housing project within two years.
The premier said that their efforts for providing easy loans to the nationals have borne fruit as the banks are ready to provide housing finance and many schemes are also being launched.
There was no mortgage financing system existing in the country and it was a difficult phase to formulate mortage financing here, said PM Khan, adding that they have completed many phases to construct the units for the low-salaried segment who wants to own a house.
He praised Capital Development Authority (CDA) for providing 600 housing units to katchi abadis. He said that the residents of Farash Town apartments will get facilities.
He was of the view that slums are usually created when the people have no resources to own a house. PM Khan said that there is approximately a 40 per cent area of Karachi covered by katchi abadis. He added that the federal government is making efforts to provide houses to the people living in slums.
The premier said that the government was also struggling to increase the revenue in order to get rid of the loans besides trying to strengthen the small and medium industry. During the last year, cement sales have risen up to their record level.
He added that the Centre is also holding dialogues with the Sindh government regarding Bundal Island that will attract foreign investors.
PM Imran Khan said that two dams are being constructed in Pakistan after almost 50 years that will generate low-cost electricity. Moreover, the ML-1 railway project will shrink the journey between Karachi and Lahore to only eight hours.


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Received on March 16, 2012
Is there a connection between this new expression of spirit and the earth's current religions?
Regretfully, being "religious" is now a fixed, static set of non-spiritual automatic habits and patterns of thought and action.
What is off-track with so-called religious practices is also what is off-track with so-called secular practices — both have depleted connections to infinite layered consciousness. Religions have not evolved in the same way consciousness has; religions have become cut off from their roots, cut off from their guiding sources.
In fact, any time you use a moment to expand spiritually, you are in harmony with the generative intent of religion.
The spirit contract requires, foremost, that it is the first priority.
How can we adhere to a contract we do not know?
The forehead is the repository of the spirit contract. Humans choose life by aligning with the map reflected on their foreheads. The forehead holds a catalogue of the spirit contract and its intricacies.
To be more specific, a spirit contract is a series of concepts we agree to carry forward. Now that a new order is unfolding, new contracts are being made to carry new concepts forward. Many of these new concepts cannot grow roots in the current spiritual environment. They are too arcane and too refined, and invisible here. Yet, without this current world, the seeds of these new concepts would not have developed. So we take the seeds forward, as we have before, bridging from world to world. Each soul has seeds to plant, and in the new order, we will find the right place to plant them.
The contract is between me and infinite me. The contract is between you and the infinite you.
The concepts can be read on the forehead, by those who know how to read them. In the last creation, they inhabited the nose, along the top bone. The nose still carries some concepts, but this time the forehead will carry the core concepts. Eventually all spiritual codes will be carried in the eyes, but the current vessel of the eyes is not evolved enough to allow such a great frequency of light to pass through it. Everything would shatter again. But the eyes, that is the goal.
Who is communicating through me?
I am an ancient soul with many eyes and many mouths. I am fully developed in all directions, north south east west up down. I have sensory organs only, and no limbs for action. I am just states of being. I am incapable of action. I emanate, and that is all I have to do. I don't control what i emanate, or know what is coming. The design and order of what emanates is intrinsic to my being.
I can hear you and what you say and do feeds into my processing system, which is how you can have an impact on how your world evolves and how events unfold. They do not unfold because I have a plan or a pre-determined intention, but rather because you pass feedback into my system.
Most of what humans think and do does not even reach me; their intentions are too weak to reach the refined level of frequency required for my sensors to detect it.
Here is something: I am a you to beings far beyond me. The structure is infinite. And you are not the simplest being.
You are a me to beings below you. We are connected by spirals. On the Sabbath, you can feel the vastness better than at any other times.
Received March 17, 2012
Here then are the contracts made by two leading and repeating souls in this creation:
Rabbi Akiva: I have no other goal but to uncover and harmonize deeply with god's secrets. I will stay alone and strive until I mirror them.
King David: I have no other desire but to reach the full and complete expression of my soul and to clear a very, very wide path to god, a path with a lot of room for others to walk on after me.
Say psalms in Hebrew while meditating on the natural energy of the Sabbath. Say the psalms while focused on the exact middle of the Sabbath essence. The Sabbath is a tool to help you grow.
You need this tool; you will not reach the greatest territory without it, and you will run out of time.
Using The Sabbath:
Now imagine if you said psalms with focus for many hours on the Sabbath. You would experience growth through spoken meditation. Immerse yourself, and each week you will expand consciousness during the other six days as well. The system was designed this way. Without using the Sabbath, there is an activation lever you are not pulling. You should want to use every angle of the opportunity of the Sabbath; everything becomes easier when you set the week's material and physical growth with intention. The Sabbath is the beginning and the end. Sabbath existed before the world was created.
The Hebrew letters: Shin Bet Taf. Shabbat. The foot of the final Taf is solid and grounded in this world. The first letter, Shin, reaches up and pulls down the new spirit concepts for the week. The letter Bet settles them in our homes — that is, in our hearts, and establishes them. The letter Taf grounds the intent and disseminates it below. And the cycle repeats.
The Sabbath is fundamental to the smooth and ultimate operation of this world. The world cannot exist without the Sabbath, either in theory or in practice.
The legacy of Moses was that he established Sabbath in words; it became a commandment to keep the day holy, to remember it. Before Moses, people just intuited it. But the long journey through Egypt and back up to the fulfillment of spirit over material is narrow and dangerous. It would be too easy to get lost. Very lost. So the emanations through Moses were meant to be a map, a guidebook, a structure within which to dwell. And to remember.
Still, very little has been remembered. Those who know how to match their frequency with the Sabbath, to use it, have been most successful overall. It is a choice — though the way of the spirit is only through the Sabbath.
It is best to prepare everything in advance of the Sabbath, so you can maximize the opportunity the Sabbath affords.
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Suspected 15-year-old armed robber facing nearly 30 criminal charges
Indianapolis police have arrested a 15-year-old accused of committing seven armed robberies at local cellphone shops this month.
The suspect, who police have not identified, faces nearly 30 criminal charges including criminal confinement, pointing a firearm and armed robbery, police said.
After the robberies were committed, investigators determined the suspect was likely a juvenile and told all officers to be on the lookout.
Days later, two IMPD North District officers saw the suspect walking into the Keystone Wireless store in the 2300 block of East 34th Street while responding to an unrelated call.
The officers immediately began an investigation and took the suspect into custody without incident. After questioning, the teen was arrested on suspicion of the seven robberies committed between Feb. 2 and 19.
In many of the robberies, the suspect is accused of pointing a handgun at victims, but no injuries were reported in any of the incidents.
Police said four Boost Mobile stores and three Metro PCS stores were targeted in the rash of robberies. Information about what the suspect took during the robberies was not immediately available.
Call IndyStar reporter Justin L. Mack at (317) 444-6138. Follow him on Twitter: @justinlmack.


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Thousands of media outlets descended on Iowa, erecting a powerful wall of TV cameras and reporters between the voters and candidates. Bill Moyers talks with Ron Paul who knows well the power of the press to set expectations and transform the agenda.
We should not be running up our debt and I thought we would have to stop running up our debt if countries like China decided to stop buying most of our treasury bonds, but when that happened then the Federal Reserve stepped in.
I don't understand how the Federal Reserve can buy trillion of dollars of our national debt but they don't have any money in the budget to do so?
This article below does offer a few ideas on this. Ron Paul's Surprisingly Lucid Solution to the Debt Ceiling Impasse
The basic story is that the Fed has bought roughly $1.6 trillion in government bonds through its various quantitative easing programs over the last two and a half years. This money is part of the $14.3 trillion debt that is subject to the debt ceiling. However, the Fed is an agency of the government. Its assets are in fact assets of the government. Each year, the Fed refunds the interest earned on its assets in excess of the money needed to cover its operating expenses. Last year the Fed refunded almost $80 billion to the Treasury. In this sense, the bonds held by the Fed are literally money that the government owes to itself.
Unlike the debt held by Social Security, the debt held by the Fed is not tied to any specific obligations. The bonds held by the Fed are assets of the Fed. It has no obligations that it must use these assets to meet. There is no one who loses their retirement income if the Fed doesn't have its bonds. In fact, there is no direct loss of income to anyone associated with the Fed's destruction of its bonds. This means that if Congress told the Fed to burn the bonds, it would in effect just be destroying a liability that the government had to itself, but it would still reduce the debt subject to the debt ceiling by $1.6 trillion. This would buy the country considerable breathing room before the debt ceiling had to be raised again. President Obama and the Republican congressional leadership could have close to two years to talk about potential spending cuts or tax increases. Maybe they could even talk a little about jobs.
In addition, there's a second reason why Representative Paul's plan is such a good idea. As it stands now, the Fed plans to sell off its bond holdings over the next few years. This means that the interest paid on these bonds would go to banks, corporations, pension funds, and individual investors who purchase them from the Fed. In this case, the interest payments would be a burden to the Treasury since the Fed would no longer be collecting (and refunding) the interest.
To be sure, there would be consequences to the Fed destroying these bonds. The Fed had planned to sell off the bonds to absorb reserves that it had pumped into the banking system when it originally purchased the bonds. These reserves can be created by the Fed when it has need to do so, as was the case with the quantitative easing policy. Creating reserves is in effect a way of "printing money." During a period of high unemployment, this can boost the economy with little fear of inflation, since there are many unemployed workers and excess capacity to keep downward pressure on wages and prices. However, at some point the economy will presumably recover and inflation will be a risk. This is why the Fed intends to sell off its bonds in future years. Doing so would reduce the reserves of the banking system, thereby limiting lending and preventing inflation. If the Fed doesn't have the bonds, however, then it can't sell them off to soak up reserves.
But as it turns out, there are other mechanisms for restricting lending, most obviously raising the reserve requirements for banks. If banks are forced to keep a larger share of their deposits on reserve (rather than lend them out), it has the same effect as reducing the amount of reserves. To take a simple arithmetic example, if the reserve requirement is 10 percent and banks have $1 trillion in reserves, the system will support the same amount of lending as when the reserve requirement is 20 percent and the banks have $2 trillion in reserves. In principle, the Fed can reach any target for lending limits by raising reserve requirements rather than reducing reserves.
As a practical matter, the Fed has rarely used changes in the reserve requirement as an instrument for adjusting the amount of lending in the system. Its main tool has been changing the amount of reserves in the system. However, these are not ordinary times. The Fed does not typically buy mortgage backed securities or long-term government bonds either. It has been doing both over the last two years precisely because this downturn is so extraordinary. And in extraordinary times, it is appropriate to take extraordinary measures—like the Fed destroying its $1.6 trillion in government bonds and using increases in reserve requirements to limit lending and prevent inflation.
In short, Representative Paul has produced a very creative plan that has two enormously helpful outcomes. The first one is that the destruction of the Fed's $1.6 trillion in bond holdings immediately gives us plenty of borrowing capacity under the current debt ceiling. The second benefit is that it will substantially reduce the government's interest burden over the coming decades. This is a proposal that deserves serious consideration, even from people who may not like its source.
Dean Baker is the co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. His most recent book is False Profits: Recovering from the Bubble Economy.


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The College of Education (CED) of the University of the Philippines-Diliman partnered with the MSU-IIT CED for a seminar on Psychological Debriefing through Instruction (PDI) last February 25-27, 2012. Both universities are working to assist the educational needs of schools in Iligan City affected by Sendong.
The seminar tapped teachers of the Department of Education detailed in flood-affected schools; these mentors were joined by student teachers and faculty members of the MSU-IIT CED.
Prof. Maria Mercedes E. Arzadon, UPCED extension program coordinator, led the team of ten faculty members and eighteen M.A. students from the State University. The MSU-IIT volunteered faculty members who joined student teachers and third year students in this project.
The teams which were divided into groups visited evacuation centers to debrief the evacuees.
UPCED faculty members trained selected students of the MSU-IIT CED to mount a puppet show that integrated the debriefing modules to learning. These students assisted the team in its PDI activities in classes at the Iligan City East Central School and among teachers of the DepEd.
In preparing for the smooth instruction of their activities, the team also debriefed the MSU-IIT faculty and staff to relieve them of any residual psychological stress. Before the launch of the PDI, they discussed with the MSU-IIT officials the nature of the extension program especially on how it can provide other means of helping the Sendong survivors.
The team committed the constant monitoring of the program to ensure the program's sustainability. With the commitments, UPCED distributed books, school supplies, medicines, and used clothing to some schools identified as severely affected by the devastation.
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This goes without saying, but spoilers ahead for Dark Season 3! The cycle has ended. The knot has been untied. The world has been destroyed… and also saved. The Dark Season 3 finale ending may have left your brain feeling as tangled as the Winden family tree — but sketching intertwining diagrams of family members and puzzling out the story's twisted chronology has become a pastime for Dark fans. And now that the epic saga has come to its conclusion, it's time to fit the pieces of the puzzle together one last time.
For years, young Jonas Kahnwald has tried to figure out how to break the loop that leads to nuclear apocalypse, guided and thwarted and manipulated along the way by time travelers with their own agendas like Adam (his older self) on one side, Eva (an alternate world version of Martha Nielsen's older self) on the other, and the White Devil (Claudia Tiedemann's older self) somewhere in the middle. In Dark Season 2, Jonas was convinced that the way to save Winden (and the world) was to erase his own existence by stopping his father from going back in time. But the introduction of a mirror world in Season 3 — one in which Jonas never existed but Winden was ultimately destroyed in a nuclear apocalypse anyway — proved that the solution was tied to something bigger than his own fate.
So what was the solution to untying the knot? Did Jonas manage to save the world? What exactly happened in those final moments? Let's break it down.
1. The Two Worlds
Even though there is only one world with a Jonas in it, it's revealed partway through the season that there are somehow two Jonases. The Jonas viewers have been following since the beginning of the series is actually killed by Mirror Martha shortly after arriving in the Mirror world and conceiving a child with Mirror Martha's younger self. Adult Jonas and Adam were not actually older versions of the Jonas viewers knew this whole time, but rather older versions of a Jonas who was never taken to the Mirror world at all. That Jonas rode out the apocalypse in his basement and stayed in the Prime world his whole life.
How do both of these Jonases exist? It turns out that, at the moment of the apocalypse, time stood still for a fraction of a second. Eva (Adam's counterpart, the oldest version of Mirror Martha) took advantage of this instant in which the rules of time did not apply to create two versions of events: one in which Jonas traveled to the Mirror world and one in which he did not.
2. The Center Of The Knot
Season 3 largely revolves around the search for the center of the knot, the one moment or person from which the tangled web of Winden is born, and the point at which it can be undone. Adam believes that the origin is the son of Prime Jonas and Mirror Martha — a child of two worlds, who is the root of the Winden family tree in both universes, having fathered Tronte Nielsen with both versions of Agnes. Adam is convinced that, if this child is destroyed, the knot will be untied.
Being a child of both worlds, it can only be destroyed by the combined force of both worlds; so Adam ties up a pregnant Martha underneath a wormhole that channels the energy from the simultaneous apocalypses in both worlds. When this energy is unleashed, Martha and the child inside her are both obliterated… but nothing changes. Winden is still there, and Adam is confounded.
3. The Origin
It turns out that, just like there were two Prime Jonases this whole time, there were always two Mirror Marthas as well. The one who saved Jonas and took him to her world is the one who was killed by Adam along with her unborn child. But this is always what happened, so Adam killing her changed nothing. There was a second Martha all along, created at the moment when time stood still, who never saved Jonas. Instead, she returned to Eva, was given her trademark facial scar by her older self, and became the Martha who killed Jonas in front of her other self.
So if the child inside Martha wasn't the origin, what was? Claudia explains the truth to Adam: there weren't just two worlds… there were three. The Prime world and the Mirror world were both offshoots of the "Real" world; both were created by H.G. Tannhaus when he turned on a time machine he had built in an attempt to save his family from dying in a car accident. The time machine triggered an apocalypse in his own world, but also gave birth to the two other dimensions at the same time.
Jonas and Martha had always been told that one of their worlds would have to die in order for the other to survive; in fact, both the Prime world and the Mirror world would have to die in order to save the "Real" world.
4. The Third World
Realizing the error of his ways, Adam uses the moment when time stands still to create a third Jonas in addition to the one who was taken to the Mirror world by Martha and the one who would stay in the Prime world to become Adam. Following Adam's instructions, this third Jonas intercepts Martha at the moment Magnus and Franziska take her to the Prime world to save Jonas, and instead takes her to the "Real" world.
There, Jonas and Martha go to the road where Tannhaus' son, daughter-in-law, and infant granddaughter would be killed, and prevent that universe-altering tragedy. Instead of dying, the family returns to Tannhaus' house. The moment that saved the world from nuclear apocalypse wasn't a loud machine that destroyed a life, but rather a quiet moment that saved a life and healed a broken relationship.
As Tannhaus reunites with his family, Jonas and Martha — and everyone in both of their universes who is inextricably linked to time travel — fades quietly away, dissolving into dust that scatters like stars.
5. The Survivors
Dark ends on a bittersweet note. Practically every character viewers have come to know over the past three seasons has been erased from existence — but the world has been saved in the process, and the survivors get to live on, unaware of the apocalypse that nearly wiped them out. The only people who remain in the Winden of the "Real" world are those not tied up in the knot started by the child of Jonas and Martha. The final scene features the six of them sitting around a dinner table together enjoying a friendly and intimate meal: Regina, Katharina, Hannah and her partner Wöller, and Peter and his partner Bernadette (Wöller's sister).
But how unaware are they, really? As the lights flicker out, Hannah recounts a dream she had: one in which the world ended, and she had the sense that it was a good thing. As they raise a toast to "a world without Winden," the lights come back on. When asked what Hannah and Wöller are planning on naming their unborn child, Hannah answers, seeming struck by sudden inspiration: "I think Jonas is a beautiful name."


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How long for an iOS beta invite?
This discussion was created from comments split from: unable to sign up to be a beta tester for iOS app.
@dstillman how long would it normally take to get an invite? I requested one yesterday and eagerly waiting to test it out on my new ipad. Thanks!
Beta slots are limited, and we have to manually (and tediously, due to limitations of the tools Apple gives us) remove people who have applied but not accepted an invitation. We're now doing that every 2-3 weeks.
Thanks! Looking forward to testing it out!


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6:00AM: the best hour of the day, or too close to your 3:00AM bedtime?
Photographers, artists, poets: show us DAWN.
Definitely mornings are my best. My sugars are down. I am sort of rested. I get up, put my slippers on, my house coat, scratch my leg, scratch my butt, and waddle into the bathroom where I plop myself on the toilet and smoke my first cigarette.
After looking at the face staring back at me I make my way to the kitchen where I pour myself my first cup of brew. Hot brew with cream, no sugar please. I check the cat food bowls over. Filling the food up, disposing the old, replacing with new water.
I check my time. Fifteen minutes before I get Al up. Scratch my butt one more time. Walk over to the window and look at the outdoor thermometer. Looking at the lower temperatures I shiver inside my clothing realizing summer is actually gone.
I take solace in the day. Sun is shining. Trees are partially covered, some are bare. Leaves covering once green grass. Aww, life is good, morning is new, then I waddle over to the computer, take a sip of coffee, light up another cigarette and get in those last few moments of checking out what my friends have to say.
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As the debate continues to rage over the viability of a single IP network vs. a combined IP/Fiber Channel network, server network technology company Giganet Inc. on Monday will announce the industry's first VI (virtual interface) intended to double IP traffic over Ethernet networks.
A hardware solution in the form of a standard Ethernet networking card, the Giganet VI makes it possible for applications to bypass the operating system and send data directly to other devices located in the same data centre, such as NAS (network attached storage), according to Gareth Taube, vice-president of marketing at Giganet, based in Concord, Mass.
In the same manner that a DSL runs dual transmissions over the same wire, the Giganet VI solution connects node-for-node to a company's existing Ethernet, differentiating VI messages from the IP messages. The operation is embedded in a standard TCP/IP-based frame and runs over the same wire and through the same switches.
The result, according to Giganet, is a leveraging of existing network infrastructure investments, and a doubling in application throughput while using one-fifth of the computing resources required had the data been sent via the operating system.
"You involve the operating system during the setup time, but once you have it set up, you are free to move data from machine to machine without involving the operating system," explained Dave Wells, the director of new market development at Giganet.
"When you set up a connection between computers using VI, you give the application the ability to write directly to the networking hardware without involving the operating system. You call a routine that says I want to send this data, and the networking hardware does the job of moving the data rather than the operating system," Wells said.
Steve Duplessie, a senior analyst at the Milford, Mass.-based Enterprise Storage Group, thinks the timing of the Giganet announcement against the current industry backdrop positions the VI technology for rapid adoption.
"I think it's a giant leap," Duplessie said. "The benchmarks that Giganet can show offer data transfer rates at near wired speed-as fast as the wire is rated-while only consuming 10 per cent of the CPU cycles to do it."
Continued Duplessie: "What it implies is if the adoption of VI occurs, companies will be able to use their existing IP infrastructure, including everything from the switches to the hubs, all the things they are already familiar with, and be able to build extremely high performance data networks. Quite frankly, the news blew my mind."
The Giganet VI Ethernet networking cards will ship with a price tag similar to that of a standard Ethernet card, but will not be available until the first quarter of 2001, according to Taube.


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GM supplier to close Delta Twp. plant, cut 275 jobs
DELTA TWP.- A company that supplies dashboards, door panels and consoles to Lansing's General Motors plants will be closing later this year.
Yanfeng Global Automotive Interiors, located at 7009 W. Mount Hope Highway, will close in December after losing business, according to a statement from Debbie Ortisi, Yanfeng's executive director of communications.
Ortisi would not comment on where the plant lost business, but said that the loss resulted in too much open capacity at the plant.
Brian Reed, Delta Township manager, said he hadn't been informed of the Yanfeng's decision but that "certainly any business closure is undesirable."
The plant was built in 2006 and employs 275 people, Ortisi said. It was formerly known as Johnson Controls. In 2015, Johnson Controls entered into a joint venture with Shanghai-based Yanfeng Automotive Trim Systems Co., Ltd., which is how Yanfeng Global Automotive Interiors was created, she said.
The company operates three other locations in Michigan: one in Harrison Township, Plymouth and Holland.
Lansing IT firm to close, cut 118 jobs
Alexander Alusheff is a reporter at the Lansing State Journal. Contact him at (517) 388-5973 or email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @alexalusheff.


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(Young God Records)
A couple years ago, my wife bought me what has become my favorite book ever, Alchemy & Mysticism: The Hermetic Museum by Alexander Roob. It's a dazzling compendium of alchemy etchings and mystical illuminated scrolls from the 1400's and on, with equally incomprehensible explanatory text. Its like Finnegan's Wake, except with pictures, it makes my head spin every time I thumb through it. Around the time I got that, I also broke down and bought the much heralded Smithsonian Anthology of American Folk Music, the old record set that convinced everyone from Bob Dylan on up that thar's weirdness up in them thar hills. Its compiler, Harry Smith, was an ardent adherent to alchemy and particularly its hallucinatory imagery, and so the liner text and package is festooned to look like the magical document it is.
Fast forward 50 years or so, when it has once again influenced a new tide of folkies, not with just the idylls of Dock Boggs and the Charley Patton, but with it's symbols and talismans of which it is liberally festooned. Folk music has, in many circles become Magick Music, nomenclated by the Wire and a class at UCLA as "New Weird America." These New Weird Americans (unofficially led by Devendra Banhart, Ben Chasny of Six Organs of Admittance and guitar savant Matt Valentine) mix the raga-rust of John Fahey's folk miasmas and a youth spent listening to New Order and/or Black Flag, resulting in some truly organic powerful music.
Akron/Family is the second great discovery by former Swans leader Michael Gira, since he was the Ed Sullivan to Devendra Banhart's Elvis but a couple years ago (except that he wisely did not tame Banhart's feral beauty.) A hirsute pack of visionaries that escaped from somewhere in the breadbasket to the crust of New York City, where they holed up in one of that labyrinths unexplored corners and started generating majestic, mystic, folkish vibrations from a parade of instruments, field hollers and handclaps. Their self-titled album fingerpicks its way in with a clockwork of acoustic guitar and humming, on "Before and After" and gets invaded by small hums and beeps until the whole thing fills up with water and you are surrender by a maze of ghost voices, collapsing once again into a tribal rumble of guitar, tambourine and racket. A delightfully odd beast to put at the front of one's megaerie, to be sure.
"Suchness" takes the form of a philosophy utterance on blues form, declaring "I wanna see a thing in itself, I don't want to think anymore" a number of times in that familiar rhythm that you expect them to next mention that They got a woman That done them wrong, but no, its becomes a cult chant about the Tao concept of the infinite. The copy that came with it mentions something about an "AK AK" philosophy they adhere to, but I don't get a feel for what that is on the musique concrete short "Interlude: Ak Ak is the Boat They sailed in On." "Sorrow Boy" puts them in more songish mode, resembling a much further out Flaming Lips of recent era. The pastoral splendor of "Shoes" with fingersnaps, banjo plucks and slide guitar is the high point for me as it sets its picnic blanket on my mind and feeds on my consciousness.
There is much to discover from this weedy beast, rooted now in Brooklyn and aiming at the cosmos. Tiny insects and crustaceans blow around with occasional sharp winds only to bake in the warm and giving sun. There is a lot of this kind of stuff floating out there now if you lift up the rocks, and the number of releases embraces the quantity of expression over the quality at times, but this is a winner soundtrack for your next personal ritual.
Alex V. Cook listens to everything and writes about most of it. His latest book, the snappily titled Louisiana Saturday Night: Looking for a Good Time in South Louisiana's Juke Joints, Honky-Tonks, and Dance Halls is an odyssey from the backwoods bars and small-town dives to the swampside dance halls and converted clapboard barns of a Louisiana Saturday Night. Don't leave Heathrow without it. His first book Darkness Racket and Twang is available from SideCartel. The full effect can be had at alex v cook.com
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So one of my girlfriends has recently re-entered the dating scene. She's met a couple men who have been worthwhile but after a few dates she's finding that she's doing all the work. I was talking to her yesterday about a man she'd been dating for about a month and she was saying "if there's a time to woo, NOW is the time to woo!!!" But there is no wooing going on. None whatsoever.
I have very high expectations for the men that have the privilege of dating my girlfriends. They are an amazing bunch so any man hoping to have any of them better make sure he's ready to do some sweeping off of feet. Wooing is required.
I was talking with my husband about the need to woo. He was wondering aloud if wooing just doesn't happen anymore. I was telling him that you don't need to spend much money to woo. You can buy a card and a stamp, send a note saying "I'm having a lot of fun spending time with you," and you've accomplished wooing for under five bucks. How hard is that?! It's not rocket science.
Don't you hate it when you give someone advice, or talk about how easy something is, and then six, eight, or ten hours later it dawns on you that you aren't doing anything close to what you were just saying is SO EASY? Case. In. Point.
The Friday after this past Thanksgiving, my husband and I had a Come to Jesus discussion. We had spent the week painting the entire upstairs of our house and were returning home after our 348th trip to Home Depot. We had just stopped for a Diet Coke at McDonald's (he was smart to make that stop before starting) and my husband said "I want to talk about something." Sh-t. That's never good. But, okay, we have always said we want to be communicative so that we don't find out that one person is terribly unhappy after months of silence. Right? So maybe it's not so bad. Then he continued with "you know I'll love you until the day I die…" HOLY. SH-T. "…but…"
So my lovely husband proceeded to tell me that he was a little unhappy/concerned because I wear sweats every day. EVERY. DAY. I get home from work, change out of my cute work clothes and heels, and throw on sweats. Now, as an aside, I just want to be clear that the "sweats" to which he was referring are Adidas yoga pants, Puma or North Face fleece jackets, and running shoes. He told me that when we met I got gussied up to go out to dinner but that now I am in sweats all the time.
I was mortified, embarrassed, and sad. And then he said something to the extent of "so you dress cute, and then you find someone to marry you, and then decide it doesn't matter anymore? Nice."
I'm assuming all of you are either a) gasping for air after choking on your soda or, b) saying "NO HE DIDN'T!!!"
Oh yes. He did.
So much for my embarrassment and sadness…it was at that point that I climbed up onto my high horse.
- Oh, so my taking care of the little girls, the house, the puppy, all of that is INVALID just because I don't dress CUTE anymore when we go out to dinner?!
- So what you're saying is that you married me because of my CUTE outfits and that's it?!
- You're saying I'm a trickster because I got you to marry me by walking around the MALL OF AMERICA in FOUR INCH HEELS and I'm not willing to do that anymore?!
- So nothing else I do as a wife and mother is WORTHWHILE because I wear SWEATS?!
I was WICKED. PISSED. The next morning we had a house full of guests for our annual Christmas Tree Cutting Down Adventure and party. There's nothing like entertaining all of our friends and their children when I want to rip my husband's face off. Merry. Effing. Christmas.
I was so relieved when Monday came and I could get back to my office and further away from that dreadful conversation. That week I spent a lot of time thinking. I am a feminist. I am a strong woman. I don't base my worth on my appearance. What the hell was this?! Not to mention, isn't it GOOD ENOUGH that this man is LUCKY ENOUGH to be MARRIED TO ME (obviously)??? As I calmed down, however, I had to admit that he was right. I did dress a lot better when we were dating. I did come home from work, put on something cute, and head out to run errands and hang out. I did try to look good. And to be honest, while I don't base my worth on appearance, I do want to look good.
The thing is, when we had a couple really awful years, a lot of that stuff went by the wayside because we were just trying to hold on. Once things got better, it was such a relief, and then we were focused on getting into a new routine as happy people. Despite us doing so much better, I was still dressing like I was in the midst of depression, without even realizing it. Furthermore, my husband was thinking that I WAS unhappy BECAUSE I was still dressing in sweats (again…to be clear…ADIDAS YOGA PANTS/PUMA JACKETS).
That shocked me. How could he not know how much happier I was?! I didn't get it. The bottom line, however, was that it concerned and bothered him.
When my husband and I met we were the King and Queen of wooing. On our first date he brought me a slice of carrot cake (my favorite) when he picked me up. He used to text me every morning and say "good morning beautiful." I used to leave him cards, buy him gifts, and I would send long emails about how much fun I was having dating him. There was no way either of us, from the very first date, ever questioned how we felt about each other because we made it blatantly clear by wooing each other.
As time has passed and we've been through the ringer and come out on the other side, we may have made it…but the wooing didn't pull through. This morning when I thought about the conversations I had yesterday with my girlfriend and then with my husband, I realized that I have put just about zero effort into trying to woo my husband over the past year.
While that discussion wasn't fun, and typed out it paints an incredibly unflattering view of my husband, it was necessary. I've always said I want an honest relationship that will allow us to be clear about where we stand and how we feel. Would I rather him get bitter about the fact that I look like I'm headed to the gym every single day? Or would I rather put some effort in and have him feel like I care about myself and about what he thinks.
More than that, if wooing is so EASY (according to ME), shouldn't I be putting some thought into that as well? Wouldn't my husband be more inclined to do things to woo me if I were doing the same? Probably. In turn, wouldn't that make us both so much happier, and wouldn't it strengthen our marriage?
TODAY: What if I try to woo my husband like I did when we first started dating? What if I encourage him to woo me by setting the example myself? What if just by wooing we could be even happier than we are now (and we're pretty damn happy)?
PS – As an aside…I was cleaning my office today and I found a picture of my husband and I attending our youngest little girls "Reading Café" last Spring. The kids dress up and bring their parents a menu of several books they know how to read, we choose one, and they proceed to read it aloud. In the picture there are several other parents visible. Everyone in the picture was in work attire or relatively dressed up…except me…I was in sweats with my hair up in a messy bun. Yikes! Sometimes it's good to have someone who will tell you the truth even when it SUCKS to hear it.
PPS – My husband thought it would be fitting for me to let you know that as I type this…I'm wearing sweats. I assured him none of you would care.


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Ongoing work by local residents and heritage advocates to save St. Giles — a century-old architectural gem in Hamilton's Ward 3 — made the front of today's Local section of the Hamilton Spectator.
Thanks to Teviah Moro for his story about residents' efforts to save the former St. Giles United Church from demolition. Members of the Friends of St. Giles delegated to the Hamilton Municipal Heritage Committee on March 26th, 2021.
About St. Giles:
- Designed in 1912 by prestigious Hamilton architects Stewart & Witton
- Built to the highest standards and with the highest quality materials, for what would be over $1 million today
- It is a WWI church, with connections to the battle at Vimy Ridge through its architect and first pastor
- For 100+ years, it has been a cherished part of the neighbourhood & a community hub
- There is a huge environmental impact of demolition, even if it is replaced with the most sustainable development — plus the mature trees on the property would be destroyed
- There are numerous local and international examples of adaptively reusing churches as affordable housing, libraries, and community spaces
Video of Friday's heritage committee meeting can be viewed on YouTube. NB: discussion of St. Giles resumes at 2:22.
Spectator print edition: "Heritage fans plot next steps to save St. Giles" (Mar. 29, 2021, A3) | online: "Hamilton heritage enthusiasts plot next steps to save St. Giles United Church" (Mar. 29, 2021)
The Hamilton Spectator (est. 1846) is published by Metroland Media Group, a division of Torstar.
Photos: Cathie Coward


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I did hear Prof. Kaushik Basu speak about this research issue in one of his talks. Though, I thought this must be some work under progress. However, I realised he worked on its pretty early.
In this 1983 paper, he looks at this question on why people wait to pay after their taxi-ride?
When we travel by taxi, we do not usually make an effort to run away without paying. Some economists have tried to model crime and marriage in terms of individual rationality, so they would no doubt explain our scrupulousness in terms of the probability of being caught and the agony of being jailed. In order to permit a relatively rigorous discussion let us place the problem at a greater level of abstraction.
An individual gets off from a taxi at a place where there is no one sufficiently near to bear witness as to whether he pays the fare or not; and in the absence of a witness, it is pointless contacting the police (with some police forces this is unconditionally so). Further, this is a large city and the passenger does not expect to require the services of this cabman in the future. Would the passenger try to walk off without paying? I think there will be no disagreement that, even in this situation, a vast majority of human beings would not choose to default. How do we explain this, excepting in terms of our sense of values, or our morality, or custom (essentially something beyond selfishness)?
Econs say this is rational behavior on part of individuals:
The economist's 'trained incapacity' does not allow him to give in so easily. I posed this question to a number of economists; and barring one or two exceptions, the response was more or less the same: While the passenger's sense of values may indeed be the cause of his adherence to the law, the act could also be explained purely in terms of 'rationality'. Taxi drivers are often quite strong (which, judging by my small sample, is by no means the most vulnerable assumption). So if the passenger tried to button up his pockets, the taxi-driver would in all likelihood either himself assail the passenger or gather people and try to ensure payment. It is this risk which makes the passenger 'behave'. This is a plausible argument and let us accept it.
If one accepts this, it opens up further qs:
But the moment we do so we land ourselves in a problem. The crack however appears elsewhere. It is now the taxi-driver's rationality which becomes questionable. Why do we expect him to retaliate against a passenger who tries defrauding him, and to attempt recovering the fare at the risk of or despite the unpleasantness of a scuffle? To me, the most plausible reason seems to be his injured sense of fairplay or anger at his customer's violation of social norms (no doubt catalyzed by the fact that he is at the receiving end). But to admit this is to grant the role of commonly accepted values – no matter how indirectly – in the prevention of anarchy. This leaves only one way out: to explain the taxi-driver's response in terms of his selfishness.
To do so, one would have to argue that the agony of gathering people and a scuffle may be less than the reading on the meter. This may well be valid. But now comes the main difficulty. If that is so, why should the taxi-river not try the same tactic even if the passenger has paid? That is, he could take the fare and pretend that the passenger never paid and go through the same action as he would if the passenger had defrauded him, and thus end up collecting perhaps twice the correct fare, not to mention the tip. Everybody would agree, taxi-drivers do not behave in this way. Therefore they must be irrational, because it was supposed, a few lines ago that this behavior is the one in conformity with their self-interest.
The idea behind this analysis is to show that selfishness alone does not work. People care for others:
Herein lies the crux of the matter. The object of the above exercise was not to show that human beings are not guided solely by selfishness; but to demonstrate that given the order that attends the multitude of economic exchanges in society and the absence of anarchy and fraud, this must be so. The 'invisible hand' would not be able to coordinate a multitude of selfish acts to bring order – as it is supposed to do – if it were not aided by the adherence of individuals to certain commonly accepted values. The example in this paper shows that we can maintain that a subset of human beings conform to the "law" entirely because of self-interest; but that rules out, by implication, the same assumptions for all the remaining individuals. Thus we have to make room for our sense of values, however small.
Further, how dirtying streets is fairly rational thing to do:
Let us assume, as is quite reasonable, that (i) every city dweller prefers his city to be clean rather than dirty, and (ii) one person throwing litter on the streets does not make a clean city dirty. It is easy to see that each individual, acting atomistically, would prefer to throw litter on the street rather than go through the trouble of looking for a garbage bin to dispose of it. It being rational for each individual to litter the streets, all citizens – if they were rational – would do so. The city would be a dirty one and (given (i)) everybody would be worse off.
I find this story convincing and therefore believe, though it sounds facetious, that the dirtiness of, for example, Calcutta, is a reflection of the rationality of its inhabitants. This also shows how much we can gain from a little bit of irrationality. Actually there are two ways of solving this problem. One is to impose fines for dirtying the streets; the other is to inculcate in human beings suitable values. The former works by changing what is rational to the individual. The latter works by making people accept a little bit of irrationality. It is true that the latter would take much longer to implement, but it is ethically clearly more attractive and ought to be the ultimate objective.
Kind of after thoughts which makes econ analysis so exciting.


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Information on Crazy Creek courtesy of The Traditional Tune Archive.
Crazy Creek was originally composed by Tommy Jackson in 1979, you may know Tommy Jackson from his other classic fiddle tunes like Cherokee Shuffle. This tune is full of mode mixture, that is to say the song appears to be in the key of G major but then we keep seeing chords like Bb and Eb pop up. Chords that would make a lot more sense in the key of G minor. That means that improvising over this tune demands that you change from a major to minor tonality frequently. To make matters worse the tune is crooked as well, both the A part and B part have a couple extra measures hanging out at the end. For the uninitiated a listen to the Wyatt Rice version is well advised!
(Advanced guitar tabs generally include a very ornamented version of the melody, chord markings above (with extra extensions and variations), kick-offs, tags, and improvisation that drifts far from the melody at hand. Expect to come across hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides and more in all kinds of combinations as well as syncopation, triplets and other rhythmic challenges. These tabs are excellent if you want to get inside the head of another improviser and explore the choices that an advanced flatpicker might consider.)


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Danielle + Cory Married // March 5, 2016
I am so excited to finally share this post with you! Danielle and Cory had the most gorgeous spring wedding filled with Tiffany blue dresses, warm light, and sweet friends.
Though weddings tend to be a rather stressful and chaotic time, these two handled their big day with patience and love, (and a little bit of humor 😉 ) which reflects their relationship through and through. Between college, working multiple jobs, and the many stresses life threw their way, these two locked arms and remained a team with grace and lightheartedness that I think we all can learn from.. They are so sweet and I'm honored to call them friends. I hope you enjoy these images from their beautiful day!


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About Russell River
Park features
Russell River National Park occupies a section of the Graham Range between the meandering Russell River and the coast. It also includes a section to the north of the Russell River, near Deeral Landing.
The only point of access into the park is from Bramston Beach. Here, the long sandbar, only 30 m across in some areas, supports a fragile environment that changes each year with the tide. Paperbark and mangrove forests line the many creeks and rivers in this tranquil, unspoilt area.
Be aware that crocodiles may be encountered in the area. Estuarine crocodiles live mainly in tidal reaches of rivers and creeks, as well as in freshwater sections of lagoons, swamps and waterways up to hundreds of kilometres from the sea. They can even occur in the ocean and along some beaches. Crocodiles can be dangerous. Do not take unnecessary risks and remember to be croc wise in croc country.
- For more information see the staying safe section.
Looking after the park
- Leave all pets at home, domestic animals are not permitted in national parks.
- Rubbish bins are not provided—take rubbish with you when you leave.
- Do not remove plant material, living or dead.
- Do not interfere with, or feed, native animals.
See caring for parks for more information about protecting our environment and heritage in parks.
Park management
Russell River National Park is managed by the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service (QPWS) to conserve its natural and cultural resources, to present these resources and their values, and to ensure that the use of these resources is nature-based and ecologically sustainable.
Most of Russell River National Park is within the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area (WTWHA). Proclaimed in 1988, the WTWHA extends for about 450km between Cooktown and Townsville. Consisting of nearly 900,000ha, vegetation is primarily tropical rainforest, but also includes open eucalypt forest, wetlands and mangrove forests. The WTWHA meets all four natural criteria for World Heritage listing. These criteria recognise the area's exceptional natural beauty and the importance of its biological diversity and evolutionary history, including habitats for numerous threatened species. The WTWHA also has cultural significance for Aboriginal people who have traditional links with the area and its surrounds.
Find out more about the Wet Tropics Management Authority.
Tourism information links
Innisfail Information Centre
ANZAC Park, Bruce Highway, Innisfail QLD 4860
ph: 0428 228 962
email: email@example.com
For information on current road conditions contact:
RACQ (The Royal Automobile Club of Queensland)
www.racq.com.au (see Travel>Maps and Directions>Road Conditions)
Phone: 1300 130 595 for 24-hour road reports.
For tourism information for all regions in Queensland see Queensland Holidays.
- There are currently no park alerts for this park.


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with thanks to our old friend Ms Sarah McCabe, whose idea this was
Lies. Screams. Rants. Fake news. Conspiracy. These days, both the internet and the world wide web are both full of them, choking out the truth like weeds in a badly-kept garden. Or is it graffiti on the toilet walls of a low public house in the port area of a run down city? The trouble is that every uneducated jackass can spew out their beery opinions, and in internet terms it's just the same as finding something from Nature or the Economist. Sad, but true. The disease of our age.
But there is a remedy, gentle readers. Since the time of Plato and Aristotle, through the Medievals like St Thomas Aquinas up to moderns like Bertrand Russell, the cleverest people in history have been developing a concept called fallacies in reasoning. It is a list of logical errors that we all make without thinking. And we have some sites here which you can go to find out what they are. You too will have a kit which will let you detect the errors in the confused ramblings which clutter up our beautiful internet. Links below, but here's a couple of examples:
Straw man argument. You select someone you hate (the straw man), put some words into their mouth, then attack them on that basis
Of course, if someone had toppled the statue of Winston Churchill, the Guardian the BBC and all the liberal media would say it was good, because they want a Revolution and bring in communism
Spotted the error(s)? You may not like the Guardian, maybe with good reason. But you don't know what they would say because they haven't said it yet. Then you attribute communist motives which they may not have. By the way-how do you know that Revolution is their preferred political method?
False cause and effect
This is where can believe in something you want to be true by using bits of "evidence", without considering other explanations
Example If there was a large hairy caveman living in the Himalayas, we would find its tracks in the snow, We would hear strange calls. There would be reports and sightings from locals and mountaineers
There are many examples of tracks in the snow, strange calls. and odd reports and sightings from locals and mountaineers in the Himalayas. Therefore, the Abominable Snowman is real.
Is it? What about bears? Snow leopards? Did the locals and mountaineers, brave men no doubt, make honest mistakes? Was someone else up there less honest, faking things?
Once upon a time, logic and reasoning were central to the curriculum. The tragedy of our times is that schools don't teach them. They are hypersensitised to pushing their pupils through examinations. But there is a wide gap between examinations and thinking. So, gentle reader, it's down to you. Find something on the internet, then read the words very carefully. Then check those words against the lists of errors below. Now you will know how good it is
Psychology today has a nice short list
for a longer course, there's good old Wikipedia. Please donate to them when they appeal this autumn
and here we found a free online university course (spoiler alert: we haven't tried it but were so amazed by its very existence, we had to give them a plug)
#logicalfallacies #reasoning #bertrandrussell #conspiracies #fakenews


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One theory of economic growth says, "Find the next big thing; attach your fate to the industry of the future!" Start, build and grow industries in the "correct" sectors, proponents of this vision assert, and you will achieve economic success. This strategy puts a premium on forecasting technological trends and consumer tastes, on being "with it" as a futurist.
Another theory says that such attempts at prediction are a fool's errand that risks leaving backers – taxpayers, for public endeavors – the leftovers from someone else's "sure thing." It's better, proponents of this position argue, to leave the forecasting to those on the front lines of technology and customer relations and focus on building nimble, well-managed enterprises committed to being responsive to technological and customer trends and continuous growth.
It is interesting, with these two theoretical lenses in mind, to look at the varying patterns of employment decline and recovery over the past five years. According to Department of Labor data, the U.S. suffered a net loss of 7.9 million jobs between the second quarter of 2008 and 2009. Of these, fully one-third – 2.4 million jobs – came from the net layoffs and outright closures of large businesses, meaning those with over 1,000 workers. Moving forward a year, the country has a net loss of nearly 800,000 more jobs, fully 45 percent of which were accounted for by the net job losses of businesses with 1,000 or more employees.
In other words, the bulk of the initial crash of "The Great Recession" was a big-business drop. Indeed at the other end of the scale, very small businesses (those with one to four employees) added 1.4 million jobs through expansions and another 2.2 million through newly formed businesses. While these additions were offset by other small enterprises that cut back and closed, the overall flux in the small-size category remained quite dramatic right through the recession.
As recovery began to take hold, small and medium-sized businesses played a larger role. The net job creation of the very large (over 1,000 employees) businesses fell to 24 percent of net job growth in 2011 and 26 percent in 2012. While every size category of business showed net job growth in these two years, the largest increases were in the mid-sized categories, particularly in the 20-to-49 and 100-to-249 employee categories.
In the most recent year, however, from 2012 to 2013, the pattern of growth shifted again. The net job gain was 2.7 million, up 4 percent over the net gain of 2.6 million in 2012. But of that gain, 44 percent came from the net job growth of the 1,000-plus employee size category. Indeed, the net job growth, while positive for every category, slowed from the 2011-2012 rate for every category except for the very smallest (the one-to-four employees category) and the very largest. In short, the latest pattern of recovery looks a lot like the early pattern of collapse – highly determined by the actions of the very largest businesses which play out over the continued dynamism of the very smallest businesses.
These data seem to indicate that the reason for the slow job growth accompanying recovery from the Great Recession lies in the hesitancy of medium-sized businesses to continue adding new workers. While the reasons for such hesitancy are legion – uncertainty about future tax rates and health care costs, the alleged shortage of skilled workers, bad weather, crumbling infrastructure, the dysfunctional political stalemate in Washington – the conclusion seems clear. If we are to see full recovery we need bold and dynamic leadership in our mid-sized businesses.
Whatever sectors we may address – natural resources, high-tech, digital communication-enabled – our economic development strategy needs to be focused on improving and celebrating the creative management of mid-sized businesses that aspire to become bigger.
Charles Lawton is chief economist for Planning Decisions Inc. He can be reached at: [email protected]
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The roots of anger in rural France
Jérémie Gallon is managing director at McLarty Associates, an adjunct professor at Sciences Po and a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council. His latest book is "Henry Kissinger, l'Européen."
I grew up in Cosne d'Allier, a village located in Auvergne, a rural region in the heart of France. During my childhood, I remember people were proud that support for the far right in our town was weak, as what was then called the National Front struggled to break the 5 percent threshold. Those days are over.
In the first round of the French presidential election on April 10, the far right won 33 percent of the vote here. That means, including those who cast their ballots for the far left, 60 percent of the voters in my village chose an extremist, populist candidate.
This pattern was repeated in village after village across France. But why is French society being driven by the explosive mix of anger and anxiety on which populists thrive?
From an international perspective, it may appear hard to explain the rancor — even hatred — that many French people feel toward President Emmanuel Macron. For those who have experienced the chaos of Donald Trump's presidency in the United States, or suffer daily from the demagoguery and scandals that pepper British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's erratic rule, the French president can appear an almost model leader.
Despite the crises he faced during his first term, this dynamic, pro-European president — committed to the fight against climate change — enhanced France's leadership on the global stage. He implemented structural reforms that strengthened the economy, and entrepreneurial dynamism has never been stronger. Even with the war in Ukraine, inflation remains lower in France than in its neighbors, and its growth prospects remain comparatively stronger.
To hide behind standard explanations of ignorance and bigotry is both inaccurate and lazy. As a child of Cosne d'Allier, I know that its inhabitants are neither racist nor nostalgic for a France turned in on itself. On the contrary, many are driven by values and ethics that would be a source of inspiration.
What we need to do instead is understand the lived experience of French voters outside of the small Parisian elite. The Auvergne, for example, is a region that has suffered deeply over the last few decades — factories have closed, one after the other, and farmers work hard for a modest and dwindling income.
As with those who voted for Trump in 2016, and again in 2020, many feel that social mobility is broken, and that — no matter what they do — neither their lives, nor the lives of their children, are likely to improve. And this is not just a feeling. Data from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development estimates that it now takes six generations — or 180 years — for the descendant of a French family in the bottom 10 percent of the income scale to reach the national average. In Denmark or Finland, it takes "only" two generations.
Declining purchasing power is also a daily fear for many. On the fifth of each month, once the electricity and gas bills and the rent have been paid, many bank accounts are already empty. In my village, farmers who have worked all their lives find themselves with pensions of a few hundred euros a month. And after paying for petrol and childcare, some of those who get up at 5 a.m. every day to work at the nearby slaughterhouse have less in their account than those who have stayed at home all day.
Many rural dwellers feel — in common with those from poor urban suburbs — that the state has not done enough to help. On the contrary, they feel they have been abandoned by the government. Despite the activism of local politicians and residents, public services are gradually dying out. Post offices, police stations and tax offices tend to go first; then the schools close, taking with them the last shops and the village café.
And through all this, power remains in the hands of the same groups, the same civil servants that have ruled France for decades. There is a sense that change — almost any change — must surely be better.
If reelected on April 24, Macron will have to reform France even more than he has done in the past five years. This is the only way to avoid a social explosion of even greater magnitude than the Yellow Jacket movement. It is the only way to build a more fluid and fair French society. And it is the only way to breathe real hope back into the streets of my village, and thousands of others like it.
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Amnesia victim walked Dallas streets for days
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Minutes later, all of that -- indeed, his very identity -- would seemingly be wiped from his brain's hard drive.
For 25 days, he wandered the streets of Dallas and its environs a lost soul, unable to remember his name, what he did for a living, or where he lived, until, finally, a contractor who was building a new house for Bieger and his wife happened to recognize him.
By that point, Bieger had somehow made his way to a suburb about 20 miles from his Dallas home, holes worn in the rubber soles of his canvas shoes. He had lost 25 pounds, and a full white beard covered the normally clean-shaven educator's face.
Bieger, 59, says he was diagnosed afterward as suffering from psychogenic fugue, an extremely rare form of amnesia.
Now reunited with his family and back at work, Bieger agreed to tell his story.
Bieger says he has regained all his memories up to the point he wandered away, and is amazed at the outpouring of support he received from friends, co-workers and the hundreds of volunteers who helped search for him on the streets, at hospitals and in homeless shelters and soup kitchens.
"Everyone believes that God brought me back for a reason, otherwise this might have ended differently," he says. "God wants me here to work with these students."
Jelly packets in pockets
Bieger is under the care of a doctor who specializes in such cases. And his cell phone now includes a GPS tracking device.
But more than three months after the episode, he says he has only vague memories of those days on the streets of Dallas, one of America's most crime-ridden cities.
He recalls being stopped and frisked by police officers, who were looking for a suspect in a holdup at a pizzeria. There was also a smoky bowling alley. He remembers waking up cold on a playground, wearing shorts and a T-shirt with fall temperatures dropping into the 50s. Another time, he says, he awoke under a construction trailer.
He says he cannot recall what he ate to survive. But when he was found, he had jelly packets from a fast-food restaurant in his pockets and half a stale bagel.
Witnesses and police accounts fill in a few other gaps in Bieger's journey. His dogs were found running loose within a few hours of his disappearance. About two weeks later, some homeless people told searchers they had seen a man matching Bieger's description near a Sam's Club store close to his home.
Over the next several days, he apparently crossed busy streets and interstate highways to the Dallas suburb of Plano, several miles north of Dallas. Not long after that, he was spotted at a church carnival in Plano.
Gwen Brooks, executive administrator at Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church, says the man claimed he had lost his keys and asked if he could search the bushes.
"He didn't look out of the ordinary at that time," says Brooks, adding that everyone assumed he was part of a Habitat for Humanity construction crew working nearby.
Bieger's ordeal finally drew to a close on October 30, in the suburb of Carrollton.
Mike Phillips, a construction foreman, spotted a man wandering close to the site where Bieger was having a new home built. Phillips thought the man might be Bieger, but he couldn't be sure.
"Joe, Joe!" Phillips yelled, and then asked the man if he knew his name.
Bieger replied that his name must be Joe.
Did he know his last name? Phillips asked.
"No, I don't guess I do," Bieger said.
As the two men spoke, memories slowly came back, Bieger says. It took about two hours to come out of the fog.
"It wasn't instantaneous," Bieger says. "Over some period of time I began to realize who I was."
In September, before he wandered off, he had experienced two episodes of amnesia that lasted only a few hours, and so his wife of 37 years, Patricia, had an idea of what happened to him after he vanished. She says that during the ordeal, she always believed her husband was alive.
Nevertheless, "there were days when I just wanted to give up," she says. The Sunday before he was found was her lowest point. "I said, 'Lord, I can't do this anymore. You just have to send my husband home,"' she says.
Cause is a mystery
Dana Ames, director of a search team that looked for Bieger, says: "We knew that his intellect should still be intact, so his survival skills were going to kick in and it was a matter of time to find him."
No one seems to know exactly how many others are afflicted with psychogenic fugues, or what the precise underlying causes are.
Victims may lose all memory of themselves, family or friends, but otherwise seem to function normally and can perform routine tasks. Many experience an urge to move constantly from place to place. Most victims eventually regain their memories, though it can take days and sometimes years.
"It's among the rarest of the dissociative disorders," says Dr. David Spiegel, associate chairman of psychiatry at Stanford University.
Bieger's return to the Highlands School, a 400-student Roman Catholic institution, was marked by a student assembly and tears of joy.
"Just to see him and see that he was OK, the children were euphoric," says Denise Funke, a coordinator at the school.


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The eyes say a lot about the person.
You can get a vibe from someone by looking at their eyes.
If you've seen Rocky III, you recall Apollo talking about "that look". The Eye of The Tiger is what Apollo called it.
I pay attention to these details, especially when training athletes. Those who have that look are those who will rise above and fight through all the training. Those who don't have that look are those I will need to build and transform.
And unfortunately, some will never care. They'll just be there. happy to be what I call "part of the team".
In addition to the eyes, I get a strong sense of who and what they are about by hearing them speak and of course, seeing them in action.... training and competing. Competition is the ultimate truth teller.
Another truth teller - what do you do when no one is looking. Do you only do the work when the coach is watching? Do you only do the work when the camera is on? It ALL adds up, the good and the bad.
A buddy of mine told me a "REAL Warrior" is one who trains like a savage ALL the time, regardless of who is watching or not watching. This buddy of mine has spent 2 decades in the front lines of combat so he has earned the right to make this claim.
He understands what it means to "train for life". He has seen what happens to athletes and military who skip out on training.
When I walk into a wrestling room, it's not always possible to watch them in action. So, when I see photos surrounding the walls, I look closely into their eyes on the photos and I can tell what they were all about when they stepped on the mat as well as in life.
The original Lehigh University Wrestling Room gave me chills. When I walked into that wrestling room the history of training from decades and decades ago lingered in the air, at least they did in my mind.....
I heard their feet moving on the mat, I heard the wrestlers breathing heavily, I heard the sounds of bodies being slammed to the mat, the sounds of men battling against one another.... I heard the spirits of these men, I kid you not.....
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SLVS885I October 2008 – December 2017 TPS23754 , TPS23754-1 , TPS23756
Refer to the PDF data sheet for device specific package drawings
The TPS23754 device provides a fixed internal compensation ramp that suffices for most applications. RS (see Figure 31) may be used if the internally provided slope compensation is not enough.
Most current-mode control papers and application notes define the slope values in terms of VPP / TS (peak ramp voltage / switching period). However, the electrical characteristics table specifies the slope peak (VSLOPE) based on the maximum (78%) duty cycle. Assuming that the desired slope, VSLOPE-D (in mV/period), is based on the full period, compute RS per the following equation where VSLOPE, DMAX, and ISL-EX are from the electrical characteristics table with voltages in mV, current in μA, and the duty cycle is unitless (for example, DMAX = 0.78).
CS may be required if the presence of RS causes increased noise, due to adjacent signals like the gate drive, to appear at the CS pin.


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For years, crypto skeptics have been a few talking heads on Twitter shouting out to the abyss to anyone who would listen. In the last year and a half, we've been networking and sharing information. Our voices are getting louder — and policymakers are listening!
Last month, a group of us joined forces to urge US lawmakers to crack down on the crypto industry. Twenty-six computer scientists and academics sent a signed letter to US lawmakers criticizing crypto investments and blockchain technology. The move got wide media coverage.
Soon after, David Gerard, author of "Attack of the 50-Foot Blockchain" and my co-writer in documenting the current crypto collapse," journalist Izabella Kaminska, and noted academic John Naughton appeared in front of the UK's House of Commons Science and Technology Committee to tell them that blockchain technology is devoid of any meaningful use case.
Now, for the first time, crypto skeptics will have our own conference: the Crypto Policy Symposium. It's a way for us to network amongst ourselves, and to connect with lawmakers to make sure they have the information they need to shape future policy.
Scheduled to take place September 5 to 6 in London and virtually, the event is being organized by Stephen Diehl, a software engineer and co-author of "Popping the Crypto Bubble," and Martin Walker. A long-term follower of attempts to apply "blockchain" to banking, Walker is a director of the Center for Evidence-Based Management, a leading management think-tank.
The main goal of the symposium, as Diehl explained it to me, is to give policymakers access to the information and material they need to make informed decisions around crypto regulation.
Right now, politicians are mainly hearing from lobby groups, funded by deep-pocket crypto companies with lots of venture capitalist backing. Diehl hopes the effort will bring together domain experts and policymakers from the European Union, and the US to address public interest problems.
"Europe and the US are the big fronts, and in the US, there is a bill going through and a lot of debate in the executive branch right now," he said, in reference to recent legislation introduced by pro-bitcoin Senators Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.). If passed into law, the bill will create new loopholes for token-based startups to skirt securities laws.
Over a span of two days, symposium attendees will get to watch a dozen panels lasting 45 minutes each. "Ideally, panels will include three to four people — someone from tech, someone from law, and someone from journalism," Diehl said. "The aim is to offer a balanced perspective."
Topics will include bitcoin's environmental impact, the politics of bitcoin — yes, David Golumbia, author of "The Politics of Bitcoin" will be talking — ICOs, NFTs, Web3, and the current DeFi domino collapse. Diehl and Walker have enlisted three dozen notable crypto skeptic luminaries — including myself and David Gerard! — in journalism, tech, and academia, as panelists at the event.
Diehl hinted at the possibility of a high-profile keynote but we will have to wait for that to be confirmed to learn more. He and Walker have invited members of regulatory and financial agencies across the US and Europe, including the FCA, ECB, IMF, SEC, Finma, and Bafin.
"White papers are being written across every branch of the US government, from the Securities and Exchange Commission to the Treasury Department to the FBI," Diehl added. "Biden has commissioned all of this work and the bureaucrats are woefully uninformed. This is a problem, and that is why work like this is really important."
He and Walker also want the symposium to be a meeting place for crypto skeptics. "I feel like a lot of us are islands. I want everyone to know everyone, make friends, and create a community. That is how things actually get done in advancing this kind of policy work," he said.
It's been a lot of work organizing the event, but Diehl is optimistic: "There have been hundreds of other crypto industry conferences but this is the first one where critical voices are welcome to speak freely about these important issues."
I'm not sure I'll make it to London, but I'm looking forward to taking part in this event virtually.


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FLORHAM PARK, N.J. -- The New York Jets are good at creating headlines. Otherwise, there isn't much that comes easily to them -- and that includes picking a starting quarterback.
No front-runner has emerged in the Mark Sanchez-Geno Smith competition, according to Rex Ryan, who indicated Wednesday he will wait until the preseason before declaring a winner.
"I don't believe we're close to that right now," Ryan said after the team's ninth OTA practice. "Obviously, we don't have to make that move right now. Until we feel 100 percent comfortable with that decision, we'll leave it to competition."
The Jets didn't expect to name a starter before training camp, but they had hoped for early separation. That apparently hasn't occurred.
"It's way too early," Ryan said. "Some days this guy looks good, some days that guy looks good."
The Jets still have one OTA practice and next week's three-day minicamp before taking their summer break. They report July 25 to Cortland, N.Y., for training camp, which once again will be dominated by quarterback news.
Except this time, there's no Tim Tebow. It'll be the embattled incumbent (Sanchez) versus the high-profile rookie (Smith), with Greg McElroy and Matt Simms filling out the quarterback depth chart.
As expected, neither Sanchez nor Smith had delivered a knockout punch. This figures to go the distance.
"For me to make the decision, to say the competition is over, it will have to be 100 percent clear," Ryan said. "If it's not, we're going to keep competing until it's clear."
Both Sanchez and Smith have been inconsistent in practice, but there are mitigating factors. The receiving corps has been beset with injuries, slowing the development of the offense under new coordinator Marty Mornhinweg, who is installing a West Coast system.
Santonio Holmes still is rehabbing from foot surgery last fall and could begin training camp on the physically unable to perform list, Ryan said. Stephen Hill, who underwent arthroscopic knee surgery last December, has been limited because of swelling and fluid in his knee. Clyde Gates is battling a hamstring injury.
Jeremy Kerley missed his first practice Wednesday with a heel injury, meaning the top four receivers didn't practice. Sanchez and Smith were throwing to a group of castoffs and rookie free agents.
"It's brutal," Ryan said. "If we had to play, obviously there would be major concerns."
Sanchez acknowledged his supporting cast includes "guys nobody heard of," but he said he's trying to make the best of a situation that's out of his control. He admitted there have been communication errors.
"If it becomes a throwaway drill, that's all you can do," he said.
Despite the instability at receiver, a continuation of last season, Sanchez remains supremely confident he will withstand the challenge from Smith. He said he's receiving positive feedback from the coaching staff. The competition, he claimed, doesn't bother him.
"It's nothing new," Sanchez said. "It's nothing big or scary. I'm just being myself, doing my very best and that will be good enough."
Ryan said Sanchez, who has committed a league-high 52 turnovers over the past two seasons, is doing a better job of throwing the ball away instead of forcing passes into traffic.
Smith has impressed with his arm strength. "He can throw it with anybody," Ryan said.
But Smith still has a lot to learn about a pro-style offense. At West Virginia, in their "Air Raid" attack, he played exclusively in the shotgun.
On Wednesday, Smith and Sanchez both struggled, especially in the two-minute drill. It was sloppy, with penalties, sacks and miscommunications. Basically, it looked like an early June practice, with a team – sans experienced receivers – struggling to grasp a new playbook.
"I've got to work, and that's what I plan on doing," Smith said. "I have to come in with the right mindset and take advantage of my reps and prove to the coaches whether or not I should be the starter."


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Better late than never AKB, better late than never!
I don't even remember which year, it's been that long, but I have wanted an official battle for Yukirin between the Kashiwagi Children and once again, 2020 delivered!
To those who are not familiar, you know how the Legends have fans within the groups? Well, Yukirin's fan-club within is known as the Kashiwagi Children! The battle in these last final two episodes of this Nemousu's season were about the battle for Yukirin where we find out who is the No.1 child!
To the surprise of no legendary fan Yuiri won, though I guess to the new ones they probably thought that Maho would win and I can see it, I too was rooting for her a bit but really, Yuiri is on a whole different level! That girl's love for Yukirin is so strong she still can't call her Yukirin-san like everyone else!
I'm very happy as you can imagine but I still feel that 'late, late said the white rabbit' nagging at me because this took place when some heavy hitting Children that would have given Yuiri a run for her money already graduated!
Like, can you imagine if Riorin (That's Okawa Rio – ex Team 4 to you newbies) was in this and her and Yuiri going head to head!?! If there was a true No.1 before the official call, it was her!
And in addition, this took place at a bad time because there are Kashiwagi Children everywhere! NGT48 obviously, NMB48 and HKT48. I am not sure about SKE48 though. Then again, since Minarun is in SKE48, I guess we can count it too! So really, if the members could have gotten together, this would have been majorly interesting!
More interesting if it had happened earlier while some Children had not graduated, like the mentioned Riorin, Takahashi Kira, Sayaya (Kawamoto Saya) and many more!
And where was Hinana! Yeah sure, she started out as a Yuko fangirl (and probably still is) but damn, remember all those photos of her I posted back then? She is definitely higher up on the list than some of these members selected today!