There is one thing I feel very strongly about since becoming a parent, and that is making time weekly for each other as a couple to go out or stay in, but to just do something together for a "date night". Because this is a priority for us, we accomplish this goal most weeks and enjoy spending time together. I find it harder these days to always go out together with needing sitters or having a budget to allow for that in addition to our activity. I also sadly find it hard some weeks with being tired and busy to even find time to generally pursue the things I LOVE and my hobbies, but never tire of feeling it being something important for our well being, identity outside of being parents and general relationship, and am constantly in pursuit of getting this balance. I was therefore incredibly excited and grateful for the opportunity on Friday evening to not only go out solo for a bit, but to later meet up with Mr Smith too when I was asked by the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield to view their latest play "Flowers for Mrs Harris" and wardrobe department. It was brilliant!
Whilst not an ordinary date night for us, it was perfect for us because it not only enabled us to have a kid free night out together after weeks of an intense exam period, but it also meant that I had an opportunity to engage in an activity that ticks the boxes of one of my top 3 personal interests and loves – The Theatre!!
Mr Smith too enjoys the Theatre as a spectator, which is brilliant as its something we have always loved to do together, but I would say my love transcends beyond that of just watching and enjoying, as I used to love to study it at school and perform in every play going. SOOO the fact that our visit also meant I could arrive a couple of hours prior to performance to have time with some other ladies to tour the wardrobe department and meet the costume makers, made it all the more special.
Flowers For Mrs Harris is a musical based on the book by Paul Gallico "Mrs 'Arris Goes To Paris" and is set in London and Paris in 1947 through to the 50's. It follows "Ada Harris", a cleaner who embarks on a life changing journey to Paris after she stumbles upon a Dior dress whilst hard at work. The set was fantastic, and both the actors and story were both absolutely brilliant – It was funny, feel good, inspiring and heart warming, and we both thoroughly enjoyed it and the evening together.
I loved the message it sent out of hard work, pursuing dreams and the influence we can have in the lives of others. Messages I feel that are close to our hearts in this season of our lives, and I think this is why as things progressed and the story unfolded, I felt more and more able to identify with Ada and felt rather emotional at the closing scene.
Because the play features dresses from Dior, it was fantastic to see up close the costumes that had tirelessly been designed and made to capture the 1950's Dior collection. They had made 9 dresses, each taking about 40 – 60 hrs to make, and some using fabrics that were up to £200/mtr! Each one was made specific for the actress wearing it and from scratch. As a beginner sewer, I was blown away by the work that not only goes into costume for a performance, but that went into these spectacular dresses to reflect the exquisite designs of Christian Dior!
Moments like these take my breath away for a brief moment and I realise how much I am grateful for my blog and the opportunities it brings, and people I connect with through it. This night, whilst far from our ordinary date nights, was special to us because it was a brilliant date night doing something we try hard periodically to do together because of how much we love to see plays and shows. It was wonderful to spend time out together as a couple, being entertained by some incredibly talented singers and actors and just doing something WE wanted to, and I simply adored the opportunity to go behind the scenes and see and learn more about costume and the workings of theatre.
I love it when we can make time in life to take moments to do what we love and do especially fun things as a couple. Its so important for relationships and to keep our individuality, and I couldn't think of a more perfect activity than going to the theatre on a Friday night to see an inspiring performance to tick all of these boxes!
What do you thoroughly enjoy that you haven't done in a while?
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You had me at "Wardrobe department" – I love costume, I took Drama GCSE just so I could do a costume coursework and it was so much fun. It must have been amazing to see all those dresses up close and the amazing fabrics and then see them come to life in the play – what a very awesome date night indeed!
Date nights are sooo important and we had one two weeks in a row and I felt so guilty. I'm not even sure why. But it's so good to just get out together and reconnect a bit isn't it? That dress is just amazing! My mum sewed all her life and so I love a very well cut and sewn dress. There's just so much talent that goes into it!
Sometimes ordinary moments are so special that they become extraordinary for life. I really enjoyed reading this post and it brought a smile on my face.


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Contemplating Civilization: its rise, fall, rebuilding... and future
Go read one of the most important books in the past twenty years, Robert Wright's Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny: "...you can capture history's basic trajectory by reference to a core pattern: New technologies arise that permit or encourage new, richer forms of non-zero-sum interactions" and "social structures evolve that realize this rich potential -- that convert non-zero-sum situations into positive sums. Thus does social complexity grow in scope and depth."
Our entire Enlightenment Experiment has been about positive sum games. Open-competitive Economic Markets, Science, Democracy… these are all examples of systems set up to harness competition and produce positive sum results for all.
See my article, The Unlikeliness of a Zero Sum Society.
Alas, there are forces in human nature that always trend toward ruination of such systems. Winners tend not to want to compete as hard, next time, so they use their wealth and power to cheat! It is called oligarchy; the very thing that wrecked markets and democracy and science in all past cultures. Every single last one of them.
Except ours... but not without a struggle in every generation. Today, capitalism isn't the enemy; it is the #1 victim of an ongoing attempted coup by oligarchs - who are only doing what humans are programmed to do, when tempted by feudal privilege.
If liberals would only read the "First Liberal" -- Adam Smith -- and realize this, they might drop both the left and right and stand up for the balanced market that emphasizes small business, startups and brash-competitive creativity, instead of monopoly, corporatism, state-paternalism and aristocracy.
Heck, if our ancestors could stand up and save the Enlightenment during their crises… so can we.
Then take a look at Niall Ferguson's new book Civilization: The West and the Rest. Ferguson appraises some of the reasons that civilizations fail, a topic that Jared Diamond surveyed (with a bit too obsessive a focus only on environmental causes) in Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed... and that I take a Big Perspective on, in my next novel, Existence.
In his article, Western Civilization:Decline or Fall?, Ferguson describes how he sees our way out of a "decline of the west:"
"What we need to do is to delete the viruses that have crept into our system: the anti-competitive quasi monopolies that blight everything from banking to public education; the politically correct pseudosciences and soft subjects that deflect good students away from hard science; the lobbyists who subvert the rule of law for the sake of the special interests they represent—to say nothing of our crazily dysfunctional system of health care, our overleveraged personal finances, and our newfound unemployment ethic."
In other words, break free of the hobbling/crippling, oversimplifying metaphors like "left-vs-right" - a curse bequeathed on all thinking, by the French Revolution - and get back to acting like intrepid grownups again.
==Rebuilding Civilization==
Open Source Ecology: Following the DIY "maker" trend, one ad-hoc group is producing open source modular plans to the 50 different industrial machines necessary to build a civilization -- or at least provide a self-sustaining village with basic comforts. The basic fifty include: backhoe, bulldozer, baler, wind turbine, cement mixer, electric motor, steam engine, dairy milker, baker oven, aluminum extractor from clay, and bioplastic extruder, among others. The more complicated ones build upon the simpler ones. In northern Missouri, they have used their compressed brick press and tractor to build a manufacturing facility to construct more models.
The founder, Marchin Jabukowski (TED Senior Fellow) is a Physics Ph.D., who dropped out to work on this project. His orientation is post-scarcity society rather than disaster, but if one were wanting to create a generalized resiliency rather than prepare for specific movie scenario plots, it would be a good place to start. See his TED talk: Open Sourced Blueprints for Civilization.
See the WaterWheel, a stunningly simple innovation that could improve lives in the developing world -- particularly for rural women who may spend hours trekking and carrying water in jugs back to their villages. This is an invention that deserves funding to spread. See the website, Wello.
And now, Open Source Ecology is teaming with WikiSpeed to build an open source, modular, configurable electric car with high fuel efficiency that meets U.S. safety standards.
==Rebuild Everything==
Seems related to a TV series I was pitching for some years, to start with contestants wearing loin cloths in the desert, challenge them to make stone tools, then leather, and eventually smelt metal, etc. The show? REBUILD EVERYTHING! Picture "Survivor" meets "The 1900 House" meets "Junkyard Wars"... then throw in lots of fascinating Discovery Channel riffs... along with a dash of "The Flintstones". Include some tasty inter-tribal rivalry, and add a sensation that viewers are actually learning something of value, becoming a little more capable and knowing about their own culture.
In the ultimate challenge, competitive teams race each other, starting from scratch to rebuild civilization! Instead of just surviving, they must chip flint, make spears and arrows and traps, stitch clothing from hides (no animals will be killed directly by the show). Once the Stone Age has been conquered, contestants move on to re-invent pottery, weaving and agriculture -- then mining and smithing copper ore, then bronze, iron and so on. Each next step must be taken by using technologies achieved at the previous level.
Once they succeed at a task, it is assumed that their "civilization" (their team) has that technology from then on. They will be provided any tools they require from that level, in order to attempt the next.
Envision season four ending with them chugging up-river on a built-from scratch steamboat, prospecting for ores to make the first TV....
==Threats to Civilization==
In EXISTENCE I portray the rich buying up small island nations that are doomed by rising tides, then building stilt cities on those nations, who already have legal international sovereignty. Now see the beginnings: leaders of the Pacific archipelago Kiribati are considering moving the entire population to Fiji, as their islands are threatened by rising ocean levels. When you see stilts rising over there, know that I told you first.
We have overseen the largest wealth re-allocation in history: The US has transferred 7 TRILLION dollars to Middle Eastern nations in exchange for oil. Ponder that. And the bosom pals of middle-eastern potentates who ran the US for many years, undermining all efforts to get off of the oil teat.
Now T. Boone Pickens is back touting natural gas... of which North America apparently has a vast supply... as a way to break that habit. Sure it is still fossil/carbon fuel (though better and cleaner than oil). But it might serve as our "bridge" in order to both do better and keep some of our money, to invest in the true solution technologies of the future. Pickens will stand to make big bucks if we go along with his plan.
But at least we'd know what we are buying - a deal that makes sense, unlike the total sellout of our children that happened in the first decade of this century.
==See more articles on Enlightenment Civilization: Looking Forward not Back
Posted by David Brin at 5:44 PM
Labels: collapse, Enlightenment, nonzero, open source ecology, rebuilding civilization
(Interesting juxtaposition there ;-)
ZarPaulus said...
So, Rebuild Everything would be a more extreme version of The Colony?
I mean, they did kill animals on the show (rat farms, an alligator-skin vest in season two) but they had quite a few pre-made tools to scavenge.
David, if I may recommend two books to you:
Debt: the First 5000 Years (by David Graeber)
Liquidated (by Karen Ho)
I think you'll find both thought-provoking, whether or not you agree with them.
Not enough time to reply properly to the RandyB's I-Can't-Believe-It's-Not-Torture comments from the last thread.
Some links instead... (split into two because blogger's being dickish....)
Gamestar Mechanic: Computer game authoring for younger kids. Commercial, but free for basic access.
http://gamestarmechanic.com/
TSA is introducing a program to let you bypass the invasive security screenings for a $100 fee. The program previously existed as invitation-only, for first-class and other high value airline customers. And it doesn't make a mockery of whole idea, nosireebob.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303863404577281483630937016.html
Take a guided tour of the moon courtesy of LRO data. Sub-5 minutes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIKmSQqp8wY
And then see the history of the moon, as each element is added according to age. Sub-3 minutes.
Both via ITWorld, via Slashdot.
Stefan Jones said...
Anything as brainy as "Rebuild Everything" would likely have to be a Not Regular TV production.
Anything on cable or network TV is going to end up as dumbed-down, exploitative, over-dramatized pap.
The WONDERFUL, smart, beautifully produced "Make: TV" show, which mixed inspirational "look what these folks did!" with practical "here's how to do this yourself!" segments, only lasted a season on PBS . . . it didn't get a new sponsor.
So anything like Rebuild Everything would have to be funded by something like Kickstarter, or by someone with deep pockets who wants to be a friend of civilization.
RE bootstrapping, I bought today three copies of what I think was a failed experiment, The WikiReader (http://thewikireader.com). It's a little battery-powered calculator-sized gadget which stores the entire Wikipedia! (One language.) There's no wireless connection, or even a USB port. If you swap out the included SD card for a 16gb model, you can load the entire Project Gutenberg in addition.
The close-out price for the ones I got was $15.00.
The website hasn't been updated in a while. It has the look of a part-commercial, part aid-project like One Laptop Per Child. As clever an item as it is, I should note that the original price of $99 was about the same as some dirt-cheap Chinese Android tablets with Wifi and color screens.
"We have overseen the largest wealth re-allocation in history: The US has transferred 7 TRILLION dollars to Middle Eastern nations in exchange for oil. Ponder that. And the bosom pals of middle-eastern potentates who ran the US for many years, undermining all efforts to get off of the oil teat."
Have you really thought about how xenophobic you sound there? USA has bought oil and sold weapons. It has toppled democracies (Mossadeq) and supported dictators. It has invaded and bombed countries in the Middle East, yet in your world view they are running USA.
Cripes Thomas, (a) In large measure we did it to ourselves by being fightfully shortsighted and immature and (b) ever heard of Occam's razor? The outcomes all benefited one foreign aristocracy... and you can't grok the possibility that they would bend heaven and earth to keep the stuff flowing?
Rebuild everything would have a natural sponsor... the iPad like tablet the contestants use to get advice (e.g. on stone-chipping) from the "gods" (experts.)
Despite the 'Torture me for money' aspect of many of those reality TV shows, I'd like to think that I could do surprisingly well if I was selected for 'Civilization'. Librarians by default are storehouses of many bits of arcane knowledge. OTOH, they might not want a contestant who is capable of finding edible plants, trapping and dressing a rabbit, building a loom, or making a kiln, just for the LULZ of watching pretty people get grubby and argue.
fastro eatelp: guaranteed to produce indigestion
David, while it is true that US foreign policy have benefited a bunch of dictators around the world that does not mean that those dictators have been running USA. Look at Noriega, while he benefited USA he got his regular paycheck. Once he stopped being useful he was overthrown. Same with Saddam Hussein.
You talk about Occam's razor, but isn't it simpler then to assume that US oil companies and their owners had influence than that a medium sized theocracy had it? Consider the National City Lines conspiracy to close down streetcars and promote private cars, it was run by General Motors not by some shady Arab dictator.
The oil producers don't have to run any conspiracies to sell a product the world is screaming for. They do play a part in ruining climate negotiations, but the big consumers are the major players.
"that does not mean that those dictators have been running USA."
I'm wondering if you misunderstood David's comment...
"And the bosom pals of middle-eastern potentates who ran the US for many years, undermining all efforts to get off of the oil teat."
That's "pals of middle-eastern potentates" who ran the US, not the "middle-eastern potentates" themselves. Ie, Bush Sr. & Bush Jr. And the flock of neo-cons who cluster around the Bush family.
Paul, it's possible you are right, but phrases like "The US has transferred 7 TRILLION dollars to Middle Eastern nations in exchange for oil" or "The outcomes all benefited one foreign aristocracy" suggest that the Saudi rulers are in charge and Bush their puppet.
Rachel S said...
Great read!! Love reading your blog! Keep posting good stuff like this.
Moving to science for the moment (before I vanish once more to avoid the Sophomoric Season of politics) here's an article about research into a biplane design that may negate sonic booms. If this works (and they're moving to three-dimensional models next) then this would allow supersonic and hypersonic transport aircraft that can fly overland without disturbing people below.
While this would be the deathknell for high speed rail, the end result would be a fleet of aircraft that can travel across the country in just a couple of hours instead of much of the day. It would likely also reduce the number of airline jets required as airliners would have jets in the air for less time, allowing them to transport more customers.
Occam's razor is sharp, and cuts indiscriminately. You could argue that the current reluctance of the Administration to go forward with Keystone reflects a reluctance to damage the finances of certain sandy and warm nations on the other side of the world.
Information on who exactly is lobbying so hard against Keystone is not easy to find. You could settle for the obvious, that energy companies tend to fund Republicans over Democrats about 2:1. But no good conspiracy buff would settle for that easy to access info! And there have been those pesky allegations that the House of Saud has been in particular funding Canadian environmental groups opposed to oil sand development...*
Contrarily and Conspiratorially yours
*oooh, and the Soros funded Tides Foundation has kicked in to help too!
So, are you now subscribing to the McCain slogan of "Drill here, drill now??"
Using natural gas to back up wind turbines does absolutely nothing to solve our dependency on Middle East oil. In fact it is negative, as we could instead use the natural gas to make methanol or some such.
To end OPEC dependency we have an array of fairly old technology options. I leave it as an exercise to the reader which are acceptable:
1.Develop synthetic fuels a la Carter. (would require subsidy or number 2)
2. Slap a humongo tariff on OPEC oil and let the market find a solution (conservation or alternative fuels, or...)
3. Open up Alaska and outer continental shelf for exploration.
4. Allow the Keystone pipeline to go through.
5. Develop miniature portable nuclear power plants so we could use nuclear heat to extract oil from tar sands and shale. (Revive the Air Force's nuclear bomber engine, for example.)
The "conspiracy" to stop Keystone is Bill McKibben fighting global warming one source at a time. This is public knowledge.
When I was a pre-teen, I watched "Star Trek" and saw this dazzling future, though they hinted that Earth had a period of turmoil starting in the late 20th century. In 1973, I saw a telelvision movie, "Genesis II', that depicted a post-apocalyptic society rising up that was founded on science and reason. As an eleven year old, I loved it; this was a society I wanted to live in. Keep in mind I was raised in a family that had deep rural roots in the South, and we were damn near penniless. I figured that society would collapse before I entered my twenties, and perhaps I would be on hand to help rebuild. This was pretty heady stuff, especially considering I had health problems and the reality was that if collapse had occurred, my outcome would not have been so pleasant.
It was when I started reading science fiction that the apocalypse suddenly didn't appear so pleasant.
Being a child of the Space Age and an early member of Generation X (some say it started in 1962; just under the wire), I saw all this potential, all these great things that were being discussed. Even those gawd awful wardrobes many of the more hip wore in the 70's hinted at The Future, tacky though they were.
For me, civilization began to collapse in 1980.
It was like we've been rolling backwards since. True, there have been some great things (the Internet, for instance). But Big Ideas? Gone. Even many of the Medium Sized Ideas. They might be coming back, but damn; three decades squandered.
Just my opinion.
-Robert L (the Other Robert)
Owhorn Toaddi - forgotten Harry Potter character, custodian's assistant at Hogwarts.
guthrie said...
Humph, so Ferguson is continuing his rampage of wrongness? The best and brightest were sucked into the finance industry and management positions, not science and engineering. They were lured by the promise of large salaries compared to those available in normal science jobs. He also ignores the effects of outsourcing on employment prospects, i.e. there's no point doing a science degree if there are no jobs.
It seem to have escaped him that intelligent people might like to do social sciences because they are actually quite hard, or else they really like the topics in the first place.
Also which crazily disfunctional healthcare system? The one in the USA is the only one which springs to mind.
Frankly, our good hosts next novel will probably be more relevant and accurate than anything written by Ferguson. And more entertaining.
Thomas, that mid sized theocracy sent nearly all the 911 terrorists, dispatched by a 2nd cousin of the royals. Our President who said he was partly raised by "uncle Bandar" then arranged for every rich citizen of that country to be flown out of the US in luxury and away from possible FBI questioning, on the day that Americans could not fly. Every policy that might have led to reduction of our dependence was actively sabotaged. And another prince co-runs Fox. Jesus. Consider the possibility that with trillions at stake, they have motive, means and opportunity.
Rob H Supersonic will make sense, if it ever does, transoceanic. If it is efficient. It will never ever ever replace high speed rail. Especially maglev.
Keystone "conspiracy"? Feh! shift it away from the Ogalala Aquifer and find half the objectors vanish. The "conspiracy" is pur hokum.
'The "conspiracy" is pur hokum.'
A point I have made about your conspiracy theories with regularity!
In what manner would that help anything?
Trans-Canada ALREADY has pipelines to U.S. refineries. Here in Chicago, we use gasoline refined from TransCanada oil.
Your beloved Keystone Pipeline's stated purpose is to pipe their oil directly to refineries on the Gulf coast for easy EXPORT. Which is great for TransCanada, but doesn't do much to help the U.S.A.
According to both Paul Krugman and Thom Hartmann, domestic oil production is at an all-time high, while domestic consumption has dropped at the same time. If the drill-baby-drill arguments were valid, that increased North American drilling would cause prices to lower, then we should be seeing dropping gas prices RIGHT NOW. Instead, they're approaching record high.
You can argue that the price spike is the result of other causes, but you can't argue that AND simultaneously argue that the Keystone Pipeline would cause prices to drop.
Going off on my own tangent now: The Republicans state on day-1 of the Obama presidency that their strategy will be to block his efforts at economic recovery to hurt his re-election chances in 2012. According to polls, this strategy is largely a successful one, and may work. I'm astounded! Voters are really willing to punish the president for insufficient action by replacing him with the party who BLOCKED meaningful action?
Now again, the oil companies are mad that the president opposed the Keystone pipeline, and they promised "political consequences." Sure enough, gas prices are rising despite the law (now "suggestion") of supply and demand. And it's working! Voters are willing to punish the president for high gas prices, by electing someone more palatable to the ones raising those prices.
How is this not like if our response to Pearl Harbor had been "See what happens because Roosevelt foolishly opposes the Axis powers? If we were on THEIR side instead, then bad things wouldn't happen to us!" That response is exactly how the right-wingers PARODIED liberals as advocating after 9/11, but it's exactly how they want and expect us to respond to Republicans.
infanttyrone said...
LarryHart...
Voters are really willing to punish the president for insufficient action by replacing him with the party who BLOCKED meaningful action?
Voters are willing to punish the president for high gas prices, by electing someone more palatable to the ones raising those prices.
Reminds me of Mort Sahl's observation about the old House Committee on Un-American Activities: "Every time the Russians throw an American in jail, the Committee throws an American in jail to get even." :=)
Tacitus said: "A point I have made about your conspiracy theories with regularity!"
Sure and fair enough. Except for one thing.
My conspiracies are possibilities that (1) have no refutable implausibility and (2) are UNDER-discussed. The fact that nobody is willing to even consider the "it's deliberate" explanation for the decline and fall of Pax Americana is weird to a degree that seems psychotic.
On the other hand, The Keystone COnspiracy is vastly OVER-discussed, compared to its plausibility next to the simple explanation that people are genuinely concerned for the Ogalalla Aquifer... plus the fact that the Keystone consortium won't even consider using already existing pipeline rights ofway.
Hypnos said...
There is one much simpler reason, that does not involve any conspiracy, for America's inability to give up foreign oil.
Giving up oil is hard. Giving up oil is giving up things. Cars. Big houses. Air conditioning. Giving up oil equates to voluntary poverty. There was a moment in American history when that possibility was entertained, when the idea of living within the limits that the natural world imposes to growth was entertained. It was the '70s, the counterculture movement, the hippies communes.
What they found out was that it was hard.
And so they chose Reagan and denial of limits. Which worked fine with some arrangements - dumping the manufacturing class and killing the Midwest, creating the financial monster that recently came to a head against its own limits, abandoning Bretton Woods and so forth.
Now the limits are back with an extra push from China's astounding growth, and this time around they won't go away, despite fantasies on shale oil, oil shales, tar sands and ANWR (or nuclear). And they will all be exploited and whatever wilderness remains destroyed, make no mistake. Witness current exploration in the Arctic as it opens up thanks to Global Warming. Imagine an oil spill you can't plug for 6 months because it's winter and it's constantly dark, minus 40 and frozen.
As for Keystone, there is one simple reason why it won't go ahead and that's because Texas oilmen won't give up the nice fat profits they get from the price differential between WTI and Brent. The only thing that Keystone would achieve would be raising the price of gasoline for American consumers currently being supplied from Cushing and Canada directly (that's you LarryHart).
Not that it would make a difference to anything. Oil has been on a production plateau since 2004. The increases in reported numbers are all from the "all liquids" category, which includes all kind of stuff that aren't oil and don't have the same energy content as oi (and some, such as corn ethanol, actually take more energy to produce than they return when burnt).
The decline of industrial civilization will be an ugly thing to watch, and nowhere more so than in the United States, if the current political climate is any indication of the future.
What's sad is that it doesn't have to be like this. Energy decline is inevitable but we could have a prosperous way down. Perhaps what we need is less engineers and more philosophers. We don't lack technological ingenuity, we lack the wisdom to use it properly.
David:In his article, Western Civilization:Decline or Fall?, Ferguson describes how he sees our way out of a "decline of the west:"
I was unaware that "western civlization" was a synonym for the United states.
"Open Source Ecology: Following the DIY "maker" trend, one ad-hoc group is producing open source modular plans to the 50 different industrial machines necessary to build a civilization -- or at least provide a self-sustaining village with basic comforts. The basic fifty include: backhoe, bulldozer, baler, wind turbine, cement mixer, electric motor, steam engine, dairy milker, baker oven, aluminum extractor from clay, and bioplastic extruder, among others. The more complicated ones build upon the simpler ones. In northern Missouri, they have used their compressed brick press and tractor to build a manufacturing facility to construct more models."
1. Most of the agricultural machinery in that set woudl be totally useless to people anywhere except temperate North America or Europe.
Where's the rice planter, for example?
I'm also struck by the idea that a milking machine is essential but that a pasteurizer isn't.
A dozen metal buckets, some bails, a storage tank and a basic pasteruizer would be a much more practical alternative - and would probably prevent the otherwise almost inevitable epidemic of brucellosis or TB.
2. A desk-top machine for making Aluminium.
Yeah, I'll believe it when they have a working prototype.
I'm also curious what they're going to do with their Aluminium in the absence of a smelter or a rolling mill.
3. I would have thought an autoclave for sterlizing medical isntruments and some capacity to culture organisms and manufacture hyodermics for vaccinations amd injections.
C"ripes Thomas, (a) In large measure we did it to ourselves by being fightfully shortsighted and immature and (b) ever heard of Occam's razor? The outcomes all benefited one foreign aristocracy... and you can't grok the possibility that they would bend heaven and earth to keep the stuff flowing?"
Yeah, somehow I think the Iranian, Iraqi and Libyan royal families woudl see things soemwhat differently.
The US supports middle eastern dictatorships when it's expedient and that support does not guarantee their survival.
"Occam's razor is sharp, and cuts indiscriminately. You could argue that the current reluctance of the Administration to go forward with Keystone reflects a reluctance to damage the finances of certain sandy and warm nations on the other side of the world.'
How are Saudi interests beenfited by Canadian oil being sold to Japan and China rather than to the US?
Especially since China and Japan are both currently much lsrger consumers of Saudi oil than the US.
"1.Develop synthetic fuels a la Carter. (would require subsidy or number 2)
5. Develop miniature portable nuclear power plants so we could use nuclear heat to extract oil from tar sands and shale. (Revive the Air Force's nuclear bomber engine, for example.)"
How about USE LESS OIL?
BCRion said...
"How about USE LESS OIL?"
What is a pragmatic plan to actually make that happen here in the real world? Telling people what they ought do (or not do in the case) will not work, at least not without heavy-handed coercion. There needs to be a viable, and cost-effective alternative first.
The Economist had a series of articles concerning nuclear power recently (I wrote abstracts for the articles for my job at Ebsco). In it, there is a very apt quote by someone in the U.S. nuclear industry concerning the effect Fukushima had on future nuclear power in the U.S.
He said "It wasn't Fukushima that killed nuclear power. It was natural gas." The reason? It costs a boatload of money to build a nuclear power plant and there are numerous costs involved. The electricity is quite expensive when all these externalities are put together. Natural gas power plants can be built for a fraction of the cost and almost no government regulation compared to nuclear.
The only nuclear power plants being built in the U.S. are in areas where there are power monopolies. When competition exists and costs can't be directly forced on the customer before the power plant even is built, nuclear power cannot compete.
In essence, it's not the environmental movement or anything like that preventing nuclear power from coming about. It's capitalism.
David you are right...and wrong. Your Unified Conspiracy Theory does not get sufficient play in the world as a whole. But within the confines of Contrary Brin it has been considered at length.
Regards the Keystone pipeline it is unfortunate that it has become a political flash point. Much nonsense is being spoken.
The number of jobs created will not be huge, and from experience I can tell you that pipeline jobs move along with the project creating a brief "boom" in each area, then vanishing except for a few maint. workers and pumping stations. Good jobs, sure, local cash infusions, sure. But not the foundation of prosperity.
And if not the Oglalla aquifer it would probably be something else. Move it a couple hundred miles and you would find something. Sandhill cranes would be my bet.
I agree with using less oil. I really agree with using less oil from places that hate our guts.
More access to domestic (US/Canada) oil would give the sheiks less ability to twist our arms with embargo threats. Even if the current plans are for export oil is a mutable commodity. If Canadian oil goes to China it makes for less Chinese bidding on Mexican/Nigerian/? oil. And wouldn't it be nice to be the ones with the hand on the spigot, cautioning the Chinese if necessary in the future?
But I am also ok with leaving some in the ground for generations to come. (Just being Conservative) So long as those who oppose this particular project do not oppose ALL oil extraction. I think the advances that have opened up new sources have the potential to buy us some critical time as new technologies evolve.
Being in the market for wheels of late (don't ask) I test drove a Chevy Volt. Not ready for prime time. Ended up using the insurance check to buy domestic, 32mpg. No gadgets. Used. Very used.
"In essence, it's not the environmental movement or anything like that preventing nuclear power from coming about. It's capitalism."
Yes and no; the real story is more complex, of course. Much of the expense drives from very high capital costs from high interest rates. The rates are high because of high regulatory uncertainties in getting any of these built. See the Shoreham experience for reasons why lenders are uneasy about issuing loans. Can't say I blame them when any nuclear project can be halted by either courts or the whims of whoever is on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission at the time. Natural gas has no equivalent body, despite the fact that the energy source has killed more people from explosions in the US than nuclear has from radiation (zero).
Also, the regulations in the US are all geared toward large, pressurized water reactors. The cost for licensing a new design is largely the responsibility of the requestor of the license and are a flat rate independent of expected power productivity. This stifles much innovation, because any attempt to make a smaller and cheaper reactor would face the same (probably greater because the NRC would need to take the time to acquire new skills!) licensing costs as a 1000+ MW unit. I would not call this capitalism, but a failure of US energy policy.
The other big thing that distorts the picture is that coal and natural gas do not have to pay the costs of their externalities. If they had to dispose of all of their waste products to the same standards, nuclear would come out ahead by far. Even an appropriate carbon tax would change the equation. Now, you may call the failure to address externalities as a failure of capitalism, and you would be right, but it is the situation we have.
Using less oil has become more practical for my family because the roof on the house we bought last year was in such bad shape that we could install solar cells only after reroofing.
That's good news becuase now the credit union will finance the roof on the same loan as the cells! The CU isn't being charitable of course; the reason they don't normally finance roofs is the difficulty of repossession, whereas the solar units are relatively easy to move and resell should there be a default on the loan. So the upshot is that the CU has a secured loan that pays them well, and we will be generating most of our own electricity (here in cloudy Seattle!) and occasionally feeding a bit into the grid.
I had thought that the incentives and so forth were simply social engineering, and perhaps there is some of that, but what I have come to realize is that I am effectively capitalizing peak-load generating capacity for Seattle City Light! Electricity usage peaks (during the week) roughly the same time as peak solar energy production (10am-2pm) so my units are not competing against the cheap baseload generators, but against the expensive stuff that kicks in when everyone's running their work computers etc. City Light *could* invest in more capacity but instead *I* and other homeowners are taking the risk and borrowing the capital. My investment breaks even in 14 years (which may not sound fast, but remember, I'm not investing any labor time into this!), and after that it's pure profit. (And I needed the roof anyway so the actual payback is much faster.)
Yay micro-capitalism!
"Ian,
What is a pragmatic plan to actually make that happen here in the real world? Telling people what they ought do (or not do in the case) will not work, at least not without heavy-handed coercion. There needs to be a viable, and cost-effective alternative first."
Well, let's see, average US fuel economy plateauded for abotu 20 years before falling in the last few years in response to higher fuel prices.
That's because American consumers responded to more fuel efficient motors by buying larger and larger cars and trucks.
Legislating to require higher CAFE standards and raising fuel taxes would reverse that trend.
And is certinaly no more, and arguably less, coercive than mandating use of biofuels or banning oilimports from OPEC countries.
(An aside: Americans really should familiarize themselves with where their oil imports come from. hint: most of it doesn;t coem from the middle East.)
"Giving up oil is hard. Giving up oil is giving up things. Cars. Big houses. Air conditioning. Giving up oil equates to voluntary poverty."
Funny, virtually every otyhetr developed country consuems less oil per capita than the Unted States without plunging into poverty - including countries such as Australia with lower population densities.
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/ene_oil_con_percap-energy-oil-consumption-per-capita
"Yes and no; the real story is more complex, of course. Much of the expense drives from very high capital costs from high interest rates. The rates are high because of high regulatory uncertainties in getting any of these built. See the Shoreham experience for reasons why lenders are uneasy about issuing loans. Can't say I blame them when any nuclear project can be halted by either courts or the whims of whoever is on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission at the time. Natural gas has no equivalent body, despite the fact that the energy source has killed more people from explosions in the US than nuclear has from radiation (zero)."
Nulear energy is losing marekt share all over te worldm even in the countries that are still buildign reactors.
And no-one on the planet can build a fullscale pwoer reactor from scratch in less than 8-10 years.
I fail to see how any of that's the responsiblity of the NRC or the US environemntal movement.
Jane Shevtsov said...
As much as I love science (I'm about to finish a Ph.D. in ecology), I think the social sciences are more important right now than the natural ones. We have much of the technology we need to solve our environmental problems, but it's not being used anywhere near as much as it should. We know infinite growth (as opposed to qualitative development) is impossible in a finite system, but our economic system is predicated on it. Basic science literacy is important, as is curiosity, but I think the most important things a student can study right now are economics, sociology and psychology. Or, if they have a bent for the visual, study urban planning or architecture!
Jane you are welcome here! We have a lively and interesting community. One of the smartest on the web.
As one who "channeled" the great psychohistorian Hari Seldon, I can say that I would love to see the social sciences get better. Perhaps they will.
Rewinn, we are taking bids on both roof photovoltaic and pool solar right now. The deals for "prepaid lease" seem very good. The company takes the capital depreciation and the federal credit and uses both to drive down the total. At the end of 20 years will they come and take the cells away? I doubt it.
Apologies for all the typoes in my last few posts.
A quick question for the nuclear enthusiasts, I know a couple of people here have asserted that the only thing holding back fast breeder reactors is opposition from green groups and the technology is all set to roll.
So why aren't the Russians, French, Indians, Chinese or Koreans usign the technology?
Craig Comments said...
Your comment about transfer of wealth is great. Just saw a piece on the PBS "Making Sense" section about a new novel on stock trading. With the computers now the average time a stock is held today is 22 seconds. It's a different world.
"So why aren't the Russians, French, Indians, Chinese or Koreans usign the technology?"
Partially because light-water reactors work well enough. While I do think the technologies are viable, there is still a lot of hard-earned operating experience to be gained with them. It took a couple decades before we really understood how to operate the LWR.
But really to the bigger picture about all nuclear technology, the people who build reactors are multi-national companies, not nation states these days. No major global economy really assesses the externality cost of carbon emissions, but still requires management of radioactive waste (a good thing!). Since companies do not bare any of the cost for their emissions in every major market, it is cheaper to sell fossil fuels.
When it comes to licensing, the US NRC is the de facto regulator of the world. Equivalent bodies are largely patterned off the US agency, and this is mostly a good thing in terms of safety. The people in the industry state that the US NRC is the "gold standard" in regulation, and any design not having a license from them would be seriously challenged. That said, China might be a bit more flexible (for better or worse), and that is why Bill Gate's people are looking to build there first.
The real problem I see is a lack of diversity in the nuclear enterprise. Much like evolution, a lack of diversity means a difficulty in adaptation. Everything is so homogenous now, and new ideas beyond incremental changes are either discouraged or considered "pie in the sky" -- at least my impression when I attend those meetings. For any number of reasons, there is no political will to change that. As a result, there is no economic incentive to do that privately either: all companies (save AREVA, which is having its own problems right now) that deal in nuclear have larger fossil fuel interests, and they're not going to sabotage those considering they work quite well.
FlavorDav said...
You don't like--or, at any rate, respect--the humanities and/or the social sciences, Mr. Brin? Where do you think people like Ferguson and Wright come from? It's tempting to attempt, at least, to read your endorsement of Ferguson's comments as distantly related to the interdisciplinary rivalries/jeaousies/resentments which one might suspect lurk behind Gregory Benford's delusons of Faulknerhood (SF vs. "real," capital-L "Litrachure"),not to mnetion perhaps Ferguson's own semingly unintetonal self-deprecton(where does HE thinkpeople like him come from?), but ...
Flavorday you misconstrue. I spend a lot of my time immersed in "social science" stuff. In a sense, the thought experiments of science fiction might be considered laboratory Sco-Sci work.
But come on. Scoial science has yet to even have its Newton, let alone Darwin of Einstein. It is still where physical science was in the days of alchemy, collecting correlations and some interesting relationships... but all-too easily diverted down paths of group-think, platitudes and vagueness.
I have published papers in psychological and anthropological journals. I was managing editor of the journal of the laboratory for human cognition at UCSD. I have spent time in that world. We know a lot! But we do not know how to test and organize what we know and use it in systematic ways.
SF said...
Your TV show idea would get real interesting when new groups start to develop religions and drugs. The drugs would be pretty straightforward, alcohol is alcohol, but the potential religions could be really unique.
the Darwin of Einstein
Now *there's* a typo-inspired thought!
Carbon tax viabilities vs oil/coal (if i recall BZE stats)
Gas $30-40/tonne (benefit is dubious)
Solar $60-70?
Wind $80-100
Nuclear $200
Just installed a solar hot water system for $5000. Rough est. for 4kw panels was about 15000. May wait for a reliable income before revisiting that. Useful to know what could be done though.
Otherwise, it's amazing how far you can go on a bicycle!
Current nuclear overnight costs - which are already way too high to compete with much of anything - do not include the cost of decommissioning, because it is discounted away (at 10%/year).
I'm not sure how the UK calculated the costs of the decommissioning of its nascent nuclear fleet in 1952. If it had discounted it as it is doing now with the new build, such costs would have been equivalent to zero.
Current estimates place them at upwards of £100billion, and that's assuming they find a workable disposal strategy, which so far they haven't.
We are burdening the future with hundreds of tons of poison that neither we nor they will have any idea what to do with.
No new nuclear power plant should go ahead until the waste problem has been solved - with current technology, not with pipe dreams that haven't been viable for the past 50 years and probably never will.
With stock held 22 seconds, what is a company supposed to do to work in concordance with the shareholder's interests? There may be no answer to that question...
I wonder if one can make gasoline with coal and methane? That is, competitively. I suspect so. I think the oxygen crack (the old "water gas") is wasteful, so a direct, catalytic process would be needed.
I often ponder why Harley Davidson has not entered the mini-car business. They have the parts and supply chains. And I wonder if a standard Harley could be fitted with a catalytic converter that would A. not burn the bejeezus out of one's leg and B. still enable the bike to get good mileage while retaining decent power. It would be pretty much a theoretical experiment given the need to abandon CO2 producers.
Also I have been tracking down what exactly the (Pickens cheerled) proposals for "natural gas" vehicles are, and find they mean basically propane (some butane is mixed in, apparently, in hot weather.) A bit more carbon than I had hoped for.
Prakash said...
I think the best way to get more explanations from the humanities is to increase the data points - to have a large number of self selected communities try out various ways of living. Somewhat mentioned in your essay on seasteading.
Hypnos,
Not sure how the UK works, but here in the US, there is a fund paid for by the utilities to pay for decommissioning costs. It is currently sitting idle in the US treasury, because the US government has decided that it, not the utilities, will be responsible for spent nuclear fuel. Either way, it is a paid for cost in the US.
Let's shift a little bit to fossil fuel emissions. The environmental and health impacts of releasing various toxins (sulfur dioxides, mercury, etc.), only partially mitigated, into the atmosphere are well documented. The incremental environmental damage from atmospheric carbon alone is going to be catastrophic and well into the many trillions of USD. This number pales in comparison with any cost or hypothetical damage spent nuclear fuel could do, being a compact solid in vastly lower mass per unit energy than fossil emissions.
That said, with your stated position on nuclear, how do you rationalize any fossil fuel burning if we do not contain and safely dispose of all of our emissions?
Contemplating the fall of civilizations....
New trailer for Prometheus out today. Having been burned so many times by noble franchises screwing up on prequels/sequels and reboots I am pretty jaded.
But other than the apparent presence of a Plucky Gal Archeologist stock figure I gotta say.....looks very, very creepy.
Which is what you want.
Aliens is still the only movie that every had me scared in the opening credits!
Hypnos, the byproducts you call "waste" may be "golden treasure" to future generations. We should open Ycca Mountain and store it there like in bank vaults.
The buildup of spent nuclear fuel is like mildew in your bathroom, unpleasant and a long term problem. Unmitigated carbon emissions are like a grease fire in your kitchen. If we don't address carbon emissions within the next few decades, the house (our planet) will burn down. Spent nuclear fuel management needs to be dealt with, but we've got a very, very long time before it is a serious issue relative to the rest of the problems we have. All things being equal, we should not push the buck on, but we have far more serious problems right now. If generating more spent nuclear fuel is what it takes to avert imminent disaster, I'm all for it.
As Dr. Brin said, the stuff really is a treasure containing at about 50-100 times more energy than we had got from it. Right now, our access to cheap uranium (and thorium) removes the motivation to chemically separate the stuff -- it's not a pipe dream, as you claim. It's far more economical today to dig new uranium out of the ground and store the old stuff. When the supply curve changes, we'll be set for a very long time.
As far as no solution, I beg to differ. Carlsbad, New Mexico (a nice place if you've never been) in the US currently handles defense nuclear waste (WIPP), and is pushing very hard to be able to take care of the US commercial spent nuclear fuel as well. Right now, WIPP is hurting no one or the environment, but it is providing good jobs for a lot of people. When we chemically separate the stuff, we will have a place to put the remaining fission products -- the actual waste, which stabilize on the order of decades or centuries, as opposed to the useful actinide fuel, which requires tens of thousands of years to stabilize.
Not exactly the same subject, but the original "Raiders of the Lost Ark" was the only movie that ever had me literally on the edge of my seat with excitement from start to finish. I never before knew that watching a movie could require that much energy. And the experience has never been repeated since, more's the pity.
And in the the background, the infrastructure chugs on...
Synroc was first developed to store radioactive waste about thirty years ago. I note it is still being refined and tailored for various needs (Plutonium being the latest addition)
My Masters thesis provided a small contribution: using X-ray fluorescence to show that Cesium was retained in the structure.
Aliens: it was that eerie music blowing past extraterrestrial rock formations.
(Alien 3 I didn't actually mind... as a stand-alone movie.)
Alien 3 gets a thumbs-down for killing Newt off screen. Unforgivable.
There are problems with WIPP (improperly mapped aquifer, anyone) but you won't hear of the problems from the residents of Carlsbad, NM. As a graduate of Carlsbad High School I can guarantee that scientific curiosity is not valued in the area. But BC is right, Carlsbad is a nice place to live. And the residents really do want nuke waste. I always thought,"What the heck. Ship it to them." It's not like anyone would miss Artesia or Hobbs, either. Hopefully Texas will drain the Artesian aquifer before the waste migrates into it. On second thought, nuclear waste in the water would improve the quality of water in the Odessa-Perriman basin. Worst-tasting water in the US. ;P
Seriously, nuke is the only path forward that doesn't bake the planet within a hundred years. And C carlsbad wants to be the waste repository. Ship it, my friends. Ship it.
Matthew, Aliens3 was probably the worst betrayal of faith with the viewer in the history of cinema. For about 25 years, the 3rd movie in EVERY series always betrayed the wonderful 2nd movie in the series. Trek, Star Wars, Aliens, Terminator, you name it. A curse.
But Aliens3 deserves a special place in hell. I proposed Aliens 4 should have started with Ripley waking up! Because A3 is exactly the sort of nightmare she would have had.
"With stock held 22 seconds, what is a company supposed to do to work in concordance with the shareholder's interests? There may be no answer to that question..."
Micro-trading preys on slight variations in price, so if most "shareholders" are micro-trading algorhythms, then what's in their interest is extreme price volatility with no connection to the underlying value or performance of the company
"I often ponder why Harley Davidson has not entered the mini-car business."
In spite of appearances, motorcycle engines are not that efficient. They are optimised for power. Especially status symbols like Hogs.
Re:No nukes
"We are burdening the future with hundreds of tons of poison that neither we nor they will have any idea what to do with."
Of course all other forms of power generation produce much larger amounts of waste, and cost vastly more lives. (Even solar panels cost more lives of installers per-kWH than nuclear power.)
My problem with nuclear power is the industry itself, (and its advocates.) They seem to do such stupid things, then blink in surprise when it bites them in the ass.
For example, locally (Australia) the conservative party was in power for over a decade, during which their well-known climate-deniers floated the idea of nuclear power for Australia as a wedge issue against the greens whenever climate-change got political traction. But they never did anything to prepare Australia for the requirements of building a dozen reactors across the country; training a new generation of nuclear researchers, physicists, engineers, etc, funding scholarships with top foreign nuclear research institutions, etc. Even when a decision was forced onto them, replacing an existing open-pool research reactor, they chose the least option they could, to outsource design, construction and initial operation to an Argentinian company. (Similarly, in debates, they would invoke the theoretical safety of next-gen pebble-bed reactors, the waste-burning of next-next-gen Thorium reactors, then invoke the price of the cheapest third gen PWRs). How would anyone in Australia ever trust any nuclear advocate?
(Likewise, the whole, global industry playing games with nuclear weapons developers, sanction busting, dual-use enrichment technology, then playing hurt-innocent when greens equate nuclear power and nuclear weapons proliferation. And Sweden's the only nation I've ever seen treat nuclear waste properly, without creating a sense they were doing the minimum necessary to pretend they were doing enough.)
(Similar story with GM food industry.)
For about 25 years, the 3rd movie in EVERY series always betrayed the wonderful 2nd movie in the series. Trek, Star Wars, Aliens, Terminator, you name it.
The definitive example (and perhaps the first one) was Superman III.
Sounds like your idea about oligarchy. According to a new book by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson entitled "Why Nations Fail," they argue "the wealth of a country is most closely correlated with the degree to which the average person shares in the overall growth of its economy."
"In parts of modern sub-Saharan Africa, as was true in medieval Europe or the antebellum South, the people who work the fields lack any incentive to improve their yield because any surplus is taken by the wealthy elite. This mind-set changes only when farmers are given strong property rights and discover that they can profit from extra production. In 1978, China began allowing farmers to benefit from any surplus they produced. The decision, most economists agree, helped spark the country's astounding growth."
See http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/magazine/why-countries-go-bust.html?_r=2&ref=magazine
I think you can add this to your successful predictions log. :)
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Any news about the liquor store by baggage? Last summer it was still closed. How about the airport restaurant?
The liquor store has not reopened inside the terminal.
There is not a restaurant, there are 2 small kiosks selling wrapped sandwiches etc. and some limited hot foods.
Exit Zero wrote: The liquor store has not reopened inside the terminal.


Haha okay nuff said... not recently with me either because my man and I have been living together for almost 2 yrs now but something brought memories back, so I thought I would post that!
No, I once did it in the hospital parking lot... But, I never got caught as far as I knew of..
The car can be fun for a quickie, but a hotel is far much better a "retreat"!
The car can be fun for a quickie, but a hotel is far much better a "rereat"!


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Q: How to test your own Perl modules while not depending on other modules in production? First of all, I think somebody needs to rewrite my question, I know what I am asking, not how I should ask it precisely.
Assume I have some local module LOCAL::Commons and it has one subroutine called globalTrim. I am testing that subroutine below, and while LOCAL::Commons is installed under /usr/local/lib/perl, the module I am testing below is located in directory /home/me/perl/LOCAL/. See how I am using use lib ... to make sure I am not using LOCAL::Commons located in /usr/local/lib/perl (I have this directory on my path).
Now, if LOCAL::Commons is using another local module LOCAL::Cool (that is, not from cpan), and I have also made some changes to that module, how can I make sure my tests are using the correct modules? That is, I want LOCAL::Commons to use /home/me/perl/LOCAL/Cool and not /usr/local/lib/perl/LOCAL/Cool.
#!/usr/bin/perl
# test_local_commons.pl
# directory: /home/me/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Test::More 'no_plan';
use File::Temp qw( tempfile tempdir );

use Cwd qw();
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use LOCAL::Commons qw ( globalTrim );

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A: If you run this like so:
perl -I/home/me/perl test_local_commons.pl

It should ensure your /home/me/perl version is checked first

A: After you load the files you want, put this:
die 'Included PRODUCTION Module!!!'
    if grep { m{/usr/local/lib/perl/LOCAL/Cool} } values %INC
    ;

Of course you could die for any module you wanted.
For example, we've got this tool at work that works with Activestate's PerlEZ.dll. We don't want to deploy it with Perl installed. But we need to use some libraries, which we hide elsewhere. When I'm testing my code I include a module from our hidden path. It blows up anytime it sees a standard library path in %INC. We want to make sure it almost everything from the @INC hook and the special libraries.

A: I suggest using Perlbrew to make a completely separate Perl installation for testing.  That way you control the testing environment and don't really have to worry about it.

A: You could just add a BEGIN{ @INC = qw(directories you want to allow)} block. While using PERL5LIB, use lib etc. just appends to the include path, this will completely replace it, thus eliminating the danger that the module is picked up later in the search path, e.g. because you forgot to install it /home/me/perl/.
But the real TDD answer is probably to use mock modules for everything that's not the module under test.

A: use lib has process scope -- that is, it changes the value @main::INC with global visibility, just as a non-localized assignment to @INC would.  That means that any modules that you load after saying use lib will check the include path you've set.
As to what path use lib sets, it explicitly adds to the front of @INC so that later calls to use lib will be considered earlier when searching for modules.
The upshot of which is that it looks to me like your code sample will just work.  Note that I'm going to discourage you from checking that you're using the under-development version in your test.  That would cause your test to fail based on something unrelated to whether the function under test actually works correctly.  (But note also that you should also have written unit tests for LOCAL::Cool.)

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The Sangaldan Railway Tunnel  is a 7.1 km (4.4 mile) railway tunnel between Katra-Banihal section of Jammu–Baramulla line located to the north of Sangaldan town of middle Himalayas in Jammu and Kashmir, India near Ramban  district. The tunnel was completed on 4 December 2010.

Background and challenges
The tunnel has been constructed by Konkan Railway Corporation, a  subsidiary of the Indian Railways, as a part of its Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla rail link project.  The tunnel passes through strata of poor geology, consisting of Muree formation. The excavation was done using drill and blast method.  The construction phase was littered with tunnel collapses and slope failures.

See also
 Jammu–Baramulla line
 Pir Panjal Railway Tunnel

References

External links
 Sangaldhan Railway Tunnel  T80 By N.A.T.M at IRICEN

Railway tunnels in India
Buildings and structures in Jammu and Kashmir
Rail transport in Jammu and Kashmir

2011 establishments in Jammu and Kashmir
Ramban district
Tunnels completed in 2010

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If you love tuna fish sandwiches and you are a lover of egg salad, you cannot go wrong with this tuna and egg salad sandwich recipe. The combination of the two tastes great mixed together. Super delicious and then served on your favorite bread topped with a juicy sliced vine ripe tomato and crunchy crispy lettuce, definitely a sandwich that will be made time and time again.
I remember when I worked with some of my favorite people ever, we used to have potlucks at work all the time. On the night shift, it wasn't as busy as the day shift and on any special occasion, we had a potluck. And we had many potlucks over the years celebrating everyone's birthday and what not. Well, one night I told my dear friend, Ruben, that I was going to make these sandwiches and he needed to try them. Ruben was skeptical but agreed and he loved them. So not everyone knows about mixing egg salad and tuna together then adding dill relish and onions to make a delicious tasting sandwich. Seriously, as a kid, this was my favorite sandwich ever. Definitely a kid friendly sandwich.
And the good thing about making this sandwich is you can have more tuna fish or more egg salad depending on your likes. Just change the ingredients a bit like maybe 6 hard boiled eggs with 2 cans of tuna.
A super easy sandwich recipe that is perfect for picnics, potlucks and family gatherings. This is an easy recipe and is great to make ahead of time. Just store the tuna and egg salad in a container, keep it cold and then when everyone is ready to for lunch, stir it one more time, and make the sandwiches. No soggy bread and like I mentioned, these tuna and egg sandwiches are perfect for any get together.
I am seriously wanting this sandwich again. Just writing this post is making me crave a tuna and egg salad sandwich. We hope you enjoy this easy sandwich recipe as much as we have. As I've said before, this is a delicious family favorite recipe we grew up on and one of the best tuna and egg salad recipes.
Here are a few more delicious sandwiches on the blog: Fried Egg Grilled Cheese Sandwich, Chicken Cordon Bleu Grilled Cheese, Crispy Veggie Sandwich, Beefy Torpedoes, Meatloaf Panini, and this delicious Cheese Toast Bacon Grilled Cheese, plus many more delicious recipes.
Boil eggs. Once cooled, peel and chop. Place into a medium mixing bowl.
Drain tuna and add to mixing bowl along with the relish and onions.
Add mayonnaise until desired consistency is obtained.
Add to your favorite bread and garnish with lettuce and tomato. Enjoy!
Egg is the most healthiest and tasty food. I love the way you used egg salad. Definitely, I will this sandwich.
The sandwich looks good. What kind of bread was that in the picture?


This sounds like a great book that all parents should read. Im gonna look it up.
It really is! The info is really easy to follow along and put into action.
This is an awesome book! My parents did great teaching me about money and I hope to do the same for my son. This looks like a great way to teach him.
Definitely some great points in here!
The value of money is such an important one for kids to understand, especially at a young age. It helps make sense of the world and wants/needs for them.
I think it's important to understand it's OK to delay instant gratification for something bigger and better.
That book sounds really awesome. I really do think money issues are inherited. My parents were terrible with money and it's taken me years to figure out how to get my finances under control. This book sounds like a good read!
Great advice in there for parents/adults too!
I've seen this book around before online. It really looks like a great one! My oldest daughter needs all the money help she can get, because she doesn't want to listen to me. I did luck out with my youngest…she's a saver!
Funny the different money personality types, even siblings can be opposite.
I have been seeing this book talked about a lot and I am really interested in giving it a read! Such a great idea to get kids off on a good start!
This seems amazing. My oldest is only 4, but we are already teaching her about money and savings.
It's never to early to start!
I think it is essential to teach your kids about money and budgeting. It is a valuable skill to have later on when you are responsible for buying things you took for granted as just having at home.
Learning how a budget works an essential life skill!
I never appreciated all I learned as a kid until I became an adult. So grateful I had those skills when I needed them!
I agree that teaching children about the importance of money matters. This sounds like a useful strategy!
I agree that it's important for kids to understand the value of money, and that's not because I want my child to be materialistic but the exact opposite.
I just bought this book. I've been struggling with teaching my 4 year old the value of money. She doesn't earn any yet but once she hits Kindergarten later this year, I think it is nice time to begin teaching her these life skills. Thank you for sharing!
We didn't want to just hand our kids an allowance, but realized they couldn't learn to earn, budget and save if they never had money. So we pay for bigger labor chores so they can learn that earning comes from hard work. Then they have some cash to budget and make choices with.
Definitely important for kids to understand money 🙂 Our little guy doesn't get money for chores, but he definitely has to help out with putting away groceries, helping Dad shoveling snow, etc. Maybe .25 cents per chore is a good motivator too!
We have this Beth Kobliner book too. I found it so helpful to start my young children out early on with healthy money habits.
It is such a great read and geared toward folks without a background in finance!
This looks like a great book for our home! My oldest daughter is eight and I could really use some of these tips.
That's a really great age where it starts to click!
It's so important that children are able to understand the true value of money and how to be sensible with it to help them in adult life. That sounds like a great book!
I should get this for my son. We have started talking to him about money and how to use it wisely. This would be a good book to help us educate him on the topic.
This book sounds so interesting!! I think it's a great idea to include kids into weekly household financial discussions!


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Q: jQuery jerk issue with continuous hover on tabs I am facing the issue with jQuery tabs. However the slideUp() and slideDown() effect is working fine but if user continuously (switching) hover between tabs, the red section try to open and jerk with small red part. How do I fix this issue or make the section fully open or closed and do nothing if user continuously fast hover on tabs.
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Raka Bhattacharya is a popular Indian playback singer from Kolkata, West Bengal. She primarily sings Bengali songs.

She shot to fame in 2016, with her first single release, 'Brishti Pagol'. Brishti Pagol was a love song that she sung as a duet , with legendary Bengali musician Kabir Suman. The song was composed by Anindya Bhattacharya while Kabir Suman and poet Joyasish Ghosh penned down the lyrics. The song, initially released through YouTube, was well appreciated by the Bengali listeners.

Bhattacharya debuted as a playback singer in the Chiranjeet Chakraborty starred romantic drama Guhamanob (2017), directed by Paromita Munsi. The soundtrack of the film included two songs by Raka, one a solo rendition of Rabindranath Tagore's Sesh Ganeri Resh and Shedin Dujone, another Rabindrasangeet that she sung with Kabir Suman. Kabir Suman scored the music for the film. The movie received mixed reviews from critics, but the Soundtrack was uniformly appreciated.

References

Singers from Kolkata
Living people
Bengali playback singers
Indian women playback singers
1985 births


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If you stand outside the door of the house where Martin Luther was born in Eisleben, you can see above the rooftops the towers of St. Andreas Church. You can walk to it in 5 to 10 minutes.
St. Andreas is still in use today. It rises up on a hill in the center of the city, behind the late-Gothic old town hall and above the market square. It is the city's highest church tower.
After he breathed his last he was placed in a coffin to be returned to Wittenberg for burial, at the insistence of his Prince. Large crowds gathered at the city gates of the towns the funeral procession passed through. Finally, the procession arrived in Wittenberg and he was buried in the Castle Church, almost under the very pulpit where he had preached so many sermons.
Today, on the tower of the Castle Church appear the words "Ein feste Burge ist unser God" the title of Luther's hymn "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God." On the black bronze doors of the church are Luther's 95 Theses inscribed in Latin. When you walk in, you see them on the wall in German. Before the pulpit, you see Luther's coffin.
Perhaps Luther's most important and most enduring contribution was to place into the hands of the common man the Scriptures in the common language. Germans no longer needed an intermediary to understand the Bible, they could read it for themselves.
I wish to see all arts, principally music, in the service of Him who gave and created them. I would not for the world forgo my humble share of music. Singers are never sorrowful, but are merry, and smile through their troubles — in song. Music makes people kinder, gentler, more staid and reasonable. I am strongly persuaded that after theology there is no art that can be placed on a level with music; for besides theology, music is he only art capable of affording peace and joy of the heart… the devil flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the Word of God.
He taught girls and boys catechism. He said they could burn all his other books, but his children's catechism was one of his most important.
Luther maintained that marriage was just as important as monasticism and accorded greater honor to a woman's role in marriage. He toppled celibacy for the clergy, and for himself, though he didn't marry until he was 42.
Luther raised the status of women and broke new ground in "estate planning" by willing everything to his wife Katie, not to his oldest son, as was the custom.
Some 110 volumes of Luther's works have survived and hundreds of his letters. He preached thousands of sermons. He wrote scores of influential treatises using the newly popular medium of pamphlets, written in the common German tongue, not Latin.


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Price est une municipalité de village dans La Mitis, au Bas-Saint-Laurent, au Québec (Canada).

Toponymie
Le nom de la municipalité initialement prévu était « Priceville », mais étant donné qu'il existait une municipalité au nom presque identique de Princeville dans la MRC de l'Érable, on réduisit le nom à « Price » en 1945. Le toponyme de « Price » est en l'honneur de William Evan Price (1827-1880), un marchand qui s'est illustré dans le commerce du bois en établissant plusieurs scieries. La présence localement de la compagnie Price a contribué à l'adoption de cette appellation.

Les gentilés sont nommés Priçois et Priçoises.

Géographie

La municipalité de village de Price fait partie de la municipalité régionale de comté de La Mitis dans la région administrative du Bas-Saint-Laurent. Elle est située sur le versant sud du fleuve Saint-Laurent à  au nord-est de Québec et à  à l'ouest de Gaspé. Les villes importantes près de Price sont Mont-Joli à  à l'ouest, Rimouski à  au sud-ouest et Matane à  au nord-est. Price est situé sur la route 234 entre Grand-Métis au nord et l'intersection avec la route 132 au sud. Le territoire de Price couvre une superficie de .

Municipalités limitrophes

Histoire

C'est avec la venue de la Price Brothers and Company (de William Evan Price) que naît le village à la fin du . Alors faubourg de Saint-Octave-de-Métis, il est constitué d'une population essentiellement ouvrière, employés de la scierie qui donna son nom au village. Le bureau de poste de Price est ouvert en 1891. La paroisse de Saint-Rémi-de-Métis appelée Saint-Rémi-de-Price dans l'usage est détachée de Saint-Octave-de-Métis en 1909. En 1916, la paroisse est érigée canoniquement. Une centrale hydroélectrique, Mitis I, fut la première du Bas-Saint-Laurent lors de sa construction en 1923 et alimentait toute la Gaspésie. En 1926, la municipalité de village est créée sous le nom de Priceville. Le nom est modifié en Price en 1945 pour éviter toute confusion avec la municipalité de Princeville dans l'Arthabaska.

Démographie

Selon Statistique Canada, la population de Price est de  et l'âge médian est de .

Le nombre total de logements privés dans le village est de 770. La majorité des logements de Price sont des maisons individuelles.

Administration
Le conseil municipal est composé d'un maire et de six conseillers élus à tous les quatre ans.

De plus, Louise Furlong est la directrice-générale, la secrétaire-trésorière, la greffière et la coordonnatrice des mesures d'urgence de la municipalité.

Économie
La vie économique du village a toujours été portée par l'industrie du bois. Depuis 1888, les moulins se succèdent sur le territoire de Price. Aujourd'hui, 2 industries sont encore présentes malgré la crise forestière : Bois d'œuvre Cedrico et le Groupe Lebel.

Religion

La paroisse catholique Saint-Rémi-de-Métis, appelée communément Saint-Rémi-de-Price, couvre l'ensemble de la municipalité. Elle fait partie de l'Archidiocèse de Rimouski.

Personnalités connues
 Jean Lapointe (1935-2022), auteur-compositeur-interprète, acteur et sénateur canadien
 Samuel Côté (1985-), chasseur d'épaves

Notes et références

Annexes

Articles connexes
 Saint-Rémi-de-Métis
 La Mitis, municipalité régionale de comté

Liens externes

Municipalité au Bas-Saint-Laurent
Municipalité dans La Mitis


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The broken lines which define the bounds of the claimed design form no part thereof.
The ornamental design for a lampshade, as shown and described.


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Q: Using pywin32 DosDateTimeToTime to unpack DOS packed time Has anyone used pywin32 pywintypes.DosDateTimetoTime to convert a DOS packed date/time structure to a readable time format in Python?
I am unable find much documentation on how to use this function, what parameters are required and in what format.
I'm working on a script to extract files from an old DOS backup file, basically trying to replicate the old DOS restore command.  I'm working on extracting files based off the format of a backup file found http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/restore/brtecdoc.htm
Thanks,
Jay

A: It takes two parameters (16 bit integers) which are identical to the first two parameters of
DosDateTimeToFileTime
You can see that in the source code PyWinTypesmodule.cpp for pywin32:
static PyObject *PyWin_DosDateTimeToTime(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
{
    WORD wFatDate, wFatTime;
    if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "hh", (WORD *)&wFatDate, (WORD *)&wFatTime))
        return NULL;
    FILETIME fd;
    If (!DosDateTimeToFileTime(wFatDate, wFatTime, &fd))
      return PyWin_SetAPIError("DosDateTimeToFileTime");
}

Those have to be of the format described in this MSDN link with the relevant parts copied below for convenience:
wFatDate [in]
The MS-DOS date. The date is a packed value with the following format.
    Bits    Description
    0-4     Day of the month (1–31)
    5-8     Month (1 = January, 2 = February, and so on)
    9-15    Year offset from 1980 (add 1980 to get actual year)

wFatTime [in]
The MS-DOS time. The time is a packed value with the following format.
    Bits    Description
    0-4     Second divided by 2
    5-10    Minute (0–59)
   11-15    Hour (0–23 on a 24-hour clock)


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NASA National Grid of Smart Cameras will Monitor Meteors
By: Terrence Aym
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"NASA National Grid of Smart Cameras will Monitor Meteors"
For the first time a net of cameras will be thrown across the USA with their eyes on the skies. NASA has announced creating a national network to scan for and track meteors as they plunge earthwards.
For many thousands of years earthlings have watched falling stars flash across the sky. Only in the relatively recent past—a few hundred years ago—did people discover that the brilliant streaks of light seen on dark and starry nights were rocks from space burning from friction in our atmosphere.
During the past 50 years loose groups of amateur sky watchers have taken to comet hunting, deep space observation and meteor tracking. Now NASA would like to formalize and organize such efforts professionally. The first step towards that is the U.S. space agency's announcement of their intention to establish the "All-Sky Fireball Network."
According to NASA, approximately 100 tons of space rocks falls to earth annually. Most meteors that make landfall are never found, some fall into inaccessible places like oceans. NASA believes that if meteor trackers knew where the rocks struck the earth, researchers could retrieve them for study.
The head of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office (MEO), William Cooke, told NASA Science News, "If someone calls me and asks 'What was that?' I'll be able to tell them. We'll have a record of every big meteoroid that enters the atmosphere over the certain parts of the U.S. Nothing will burn up in those skies without me knowing about it!"
Establishing national night sky monitoring is no easy task. At the moment the project only has three working cameras. All record the night sky in monochrome with fish-eye lenses. NASA hopes to greatly expand the camera system by incorporating astronomy clubs, science facilities and even schools into the countrywide network.
Meteor enthusiasts have taken to the plan. The ability to have access to many more meteorites could expand the knowledge of the solar system, its origins and even of interstellar space.
"When we collect the meteorite chunks, we'll know their source," Cooke explained. "I could be holding a piece of Vesta in my hand." Vesta is the second largest asteroid in the belt between Mars and Jupiter. The asteroid makes up about nine percent of the mass of the entire belt and is named after the Roman goddess of home and hearth.
Besides helping to unlock more of the secrets of the origin of everything, the space rocks could help engineers design better spacecraft. For example, many meteors are no larger than a grain of sand and present a degree of danger to space ships on lengthy missions or ones traveling farther out, say to Mars. Studying the properties of many different meteors could shed light on their basic properties and give metallurgists an additional edge crafting materials to stand up against meteor impacts.
Currently, Cooke has the three existing cameras located in strategic areas. According to the MEO the cameras are stationed in Chickamauga, Georgia, the second Huntsville, Alabama, and the third Tullahoma, Tennessee. Al sites were chosen because of low light pollution.
New cameras are planned to cover parts of the night sky east of the Mississippi River. Cooke wants to expand those into Nevada.
Using the latest technology, the All-sky Fireball Network is plugged into ASGARD (All Sky and Guided Automatic Realtime Detection), a system that partly borrows on artificial intelligence technology first pioneered by NORAD. The science version was developed by University of Western Ontario. NASA and the Canadian government helped fund it.
The AI system processes the data stream (which is considerable) and also sends it on to the Internet. The data it collects and processes includes meteor detection, trajectory and calculated mass. The data is updated daily at eight a.m. Central Time. According to the MEO the last three weeks of data is available on the site here.
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Q: "must issue a starttls command first" when MSSQL emails via Microsoft Online I have written a stored procedure in MSSQL Server 2008 R2 which sends emails when my Application logs errors. It works fine on servers at our office but when I ran it on our remote servers I got
must issue a starttls command first

So maybe there is a setting somewhere which is different between the two servers, and that's why it's working on one and not the other. How do I set the server so that it issues a "starttls commaned first"?

A: I believe your "must issue a starttls command first" error message is coming from the mail server which you are transmitting your e-mail to. It may be set up to only accept encrypted connections for message transmissions. You could verify this by trying to telnet into the mail server and mimicking the SMTP protocol exchange which might look somewhat like this:
putty -telnet mail.example.com 25
> 220 mail.example.com Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service ready at Wed, 29 Jun 2011 11:57:31 +0200
< helo test
> 500 5.3.3 Unrecognized command
< helo test
> 250 mail.example.com Hello [123.45.67.89]
< mail from:<test@test.com>
> 250 2.1.0 Sender OK
< rcpt to:<testuser@example.com>
> 250 2.1.5 Recipient OK
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In this example, lines beginning with ">" are mail server replies and lines beginning with "<" are what you need to type to get the replies. Replace mail.example.com with the mail server you are using. If you will see "must issue starttls first" anywhere in the exchange, then this is it.
If you are using the Database Mail configuration wizard of SQL Server 2008 to define your mail server account settings along with the sp_send_dbmail stored procedure to send the mail, you simply will need to make sure that the "this server requires a secure connection (SSL)" checkbox is checked in the account's properties.


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Plant a Tree for Jack
Jack Tedrow
July 10, 1947 ~ January 6, 2022 (age 74)
John "Jack" Tedrow, Jr., 74 of New Harbor, passed away on the morning of January 6, 2022. Born on July 10, 1947 in Coudersport, PA, he was the son of Mary Jane and John Tedrow, Sr.
Jack grew up in New Jersey where he attended schools and graduated from high school. After graduation, he served with the U.S. Army, where he attained the rank of Sergeant. Upon his honorable discharge, he found his way to Bangor, Maine, and ultimately New Harbor.
Jack lobstered out of New Harbor for over 40 years, most recently aboard his boat "Jane the Pain" which was seen in the movie "Message in a Bottle". He retired about five years ago and spent those years traveling with his wife, Jane. They spent winters just outside of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
He was an avid golfer. He enjoyed puttering in his garage and wood working. He also would meet with fishing buddies at the co-op most mornings.
He is survived by his wife, Jane; her four children, 4 grandchildren, and 4 great-grandchildren.
He will be laid to rest privately in the New Harbor Cemetery in the spring.
Arrangements are under the direction and care of the Strong-Hancock Funeral Home, 612 Main Street, Damariscotta, ME 04543. Condolences, and messages for his family, may be expressed by visiting: www.StrongHancock.com.
To send flowers to the family or plant a tree in memory of Jack Tedrow, please visit our floral store.
You can still show your support by sending flowers directly to the family, or by planting a memorial tree in the memory of Jack Tedrow