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Business, Investment and Economics
Electric cars?
Thread starter tothemax6
Start date 22 January 2011
car electric car
Would you buy an electric car?
Already own one
Yes - would definitely buy
Yes - preferred over petrol car if price/power/convenience similar
Maybe - preference for neither, only concerned with costs etc
No - prefer petrol car even if electric car has same price, power and convenience
No - would never buy one
moXJO
menace to society
Value Collector said:
The Tesla model 3 which is Australia's leading EV, gets over 400kms range, that's pretty decent in my opinion, it's pretty much equal to most people fuel tank.
The added benefit though is you don't have to go to a petrol station, if you arrive home with 5% charge you just plug in and it's back to 400km range again in the morning.
Also, let's say you did have to drive 500km in one day, so you need to charge some where through out that day, you don't have to charge up to 100%, you just plug in for 5 or 6 minutes to get that extra 15% of so to get you home and then top up at home.
This happened to me the other day, (for the first time in 2 years), I was driving round the city all day running errands, and by the time I was ready to head home it calculated that I would arrive home with 6% charge, that was a bit close for me so I stopped at a charger for literally only 3 mins, in which I took on about 15% charge then I drove home and plugged in.
Almost no one is going to be driving more than 400km without Stopping for a few minutes, And you won't be driving 400km without passing a charger some where along the way.
Sorry meant range of cars at different price points
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JohnDe
Hi all. Interesting reading and some outdated information
Tesla battery technology is at least 8 yeas ahead of everyone else, and battery technology includes the software side.
There are a lot of 10 year old Tesla's driving around with the original battery pack, capacity does drop but it is not a lot. Do some research and you'll find a lot of examples. Yes batteries have been known to fail, but so have internal combustion engines and transmissions; how many of those come with an 8 year warranty?
Recycling technology has been developed and there are companies bringing it on line now, like LIT Australia - "Lithium Australia is joining international efforts to achieve zero-carbon status. How? By working towards a circular battery economy that enhances not only sustainability but also resource security worldwide."
Yes the cost to purchase an EV is higher than an ICE, but the price parity is getting closer every day. The price of a Tesla has dropped over the past few years, and if you compare it to a similar ICE model there is not too much in it. Add in the cost of servicing over the warranty period and the Tesla may end up cheaper. No engine oil and filter changes, no spark plugs and drive belts to replace, brakes that last over 250,000km.
Yesterday my partner & I drove our Tesla M3 LR from Adelaide to Wallaroo, we had lunch and then bit of sightseeing and a drive around, before driving straight home. No range anxiety.
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Value Collector
Have courage, and be kind.
moXJO said:
Yep, I agree there, as I said the thing that raises the price of EV's is the battery, that's why I say the luxury car tax is a battery tax when it comes to EV's, and should be either abolished, or have the threshold raised by $20K for EV's and other zero emission cars.
rederob
JohnDe said:
Tesla is shifting to LFP for its "standard" models as Musk says he likes the idea of being able to charge to 100%.
BYD's blade battery is ahead of other LFP battery types and apart from Tesla's deal with CATL for LFP it's also rumoured they have a 10GWh deal with BYD.
rederob said:
Yes, the M3 standard range has had the LFP battery for several months. The advantage is 100% charge capability at all times. The disadvantage is weight.
When I took delivery of my M3 LR the recommended charging procedure was - charge to 80% capacity at all times, unless preparing for a road trip, then can be charged to 100%.
However, with Tesla's continual development of software, there has been a few 'over the air' software updates (think of iPhone updates) and one of those changed the recommended charge rate for my M3 to 90%, and at the same time my mileage range increased. With 100% charge still recommended for road trips.
Tesla are currently selling over 500,000 cars a year, that is a lot of proven battery technology and collected data.
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SirRumpole
The chart below, produced by VW, shows why Europe will get all the EVs they can lay their hands on:
The obvious downside by way of comparisons, is range. However, as noted previously, battery pack upgrades are available and the additional cost is in a fashion recoverable by way of energy storage capacity after the life of the vehicle.
Despite the present high cost of the very few EVs available in Australia, purchasing one now or sooner rather than later is likely to pay off. That's because you will be able to offset the higher price today against the retained resale value (assuming a holding period of at about 3 years).
Would be interesting to see towing capacity and how towing a load affects range.
Apart from Audi the EV's seem short of torque.
I still need a Ute. I don't want that dicky looking one Tesla came up with though. I feel like I'm going to be waiting around for a long time.
Does the tesla autopilot feature work in Australia?
Yep, I use autopilot all the time.
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SirRumpole said:
If you tow a boat or a van on a regular basis you buy a vehicle fit for purpose.
Presently not many large EVs are in production, and none will come to Australia for some years as neither Rivian nor Ford 150 nor GM's Hummer nor the Cybertruck look destined for here until late 2023 at earliest given preorders. I believe about 19000 Atlis XT pickups will be coming to Qld for configuration to our standards from 2023. Otherwise we wait to see when Great Wall (Haval) and BYD bring out their pick ups, although 2023 again looks most likely. No doubt I have missed some from the smaller players.
As to torque, comparable EVs knock ICE vehicles out of the water (eg Ford's ICE F-150 has twice the horsepower and torque of its EV equivalent) , while the range issue will depend on available battery options, as both Rivian and Cybertruck have up to 800km range.
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The easiest way to incentivise EV ownership is for the government to include an interest free loan with any purchase, scaled to a capped price for any qualifying EV. I would envisage such a policy being similar to a HEX debt, except that any outstanding amount would be expunged on sale of the vehicle. This article shows why such a policy would make sense:
The article notes a Tesla 3 costs over $20k more than the average car. However, after 3 years you are better off because the resale value of the EV is considerably higher ( a point I made in an earlier post).
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I'll never sell my Ute, a Holden VF SS-V. Valuation has gone crazy, I could sell it for the same price I paid for it new in 2014. Last of an icon :-(
Our Tesla is amazing, I compare it to a spaceship. The Auto Pilot is very handy for assisting in relaxed driving. I'd love to have Full Self Driving, but not at the price they are asking.
My parents could use the feature after driving behind them. How much is the full self driving? (If it's available yet)
Full self driving is about $10k I think now.
But, even if you don't buy the full self driving package you still get basic auto pilot, where the car will drive itself along the free way,
But the full self driving feature will over take slower cars, and change lanes to navigate and merge off the freeway etc.
the full self driving is what Tesla intends to eventually be a full robo taxi experience, and you will get regular updates as more features are unlocked.
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mullokintyre
Paris Marx, as good as an example of Nominative Determinism as I have seen in a while, writes in Business Insider that EV's won't save the planet, we need to get rid of ALL cars.
Transportation accounts for 29% of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, and more than half of that comes from passenger vehicles. Since taking office in January, the Biden administration has taken steps toward electrification, but also failed to sign onto a pledge announced at COP26 to phase out fossil-fuel vehicles by 2040.
Electric vehicles are one piece of a strategy to slash transport emissions, but they tend to receive far more attention than proposals to cut car use. The electrification of transportation is essential — there is no doubt about that — but just replacing every personal vehicle with a battery-powered equivalent will produce an environmental disaster of its own. Such a strategy also denies us the opportunity to rethink a near-century of misguided auto-oriented city planning.
The focus on tailpipe emissions misses the bigger picture, and at a moment when we can see the complex, global nature of supply chains in our everyday lives, we need to think beyond such a limited framing of electric vehicles' environmental impact.
For example, particulate matter created from tire, brake, and road wear, as well as the dust kicked up by cars on the road, does not fuel climate change, but it does create air pollution that's harmful to human health. In the United States, these pollutants are responsible for about 53,000 premature deaths each year, and heavier electric vehicles like SUVs and trucks could actually generate more particulate matter than lighter, non-electric cars.
Yet while health effects are important, the biggest concern is the minerals that are required to make the batteries that power electric vehicles and the mining that has to happen to extract them. It's a reality that seriously dirties their green image, and shows the "zero emissions" branding simply isn't accurate.
Ahead of COP26, the International Energy Agency released its latest World Energy Outlook that estimated achieving net-zero emissions by 2050 will require six times more minerals by mid-century than is necessary today. Yet the majority of those minerals are required for electric vehicles and storage, whose mineral demand is projected to increase by "well over 50 times by 2050" as the demand for batteries to power them grows substantially. As a result, the United States is assessing its own mineral supply chains and working with Canada to expand mining activities to supply battery makers. But all that mining comes with consequences.
Think of the money saved if there are no cars, trucks and buses at all.
All that money spent on roads, service stations, bridges, tunnels, freeway overpasses etc would be spent on public transport (as long as it doe not require a road). No need for fuel refineries, the savings would be enormous.
I have an old horse drawn buggy on the farm.
Needs a bit of work, but I am sure it can be restored.
Will probably have to resort to horse drawn ploughs, and scythes.
it will be great.
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mullokintyre said:
Paris Marx, as good as an example of Nominative Determinism as I have seen
Another example of reluctance to change with the times. Introducing EV's is not all about 'saving the environment', it is also about improving transport and bringing it out of the 20th century, creating new opportunities, weening us off of imported oil.
Enjoy the cave Mick ;-)
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Smurf1976
Thing is, the article doesn't say that's required in order to save the planet.
It just points out that some minerals need to be moved around and refined and that there's some impacts on urban air quality but that's vastly different from any threat to the planet.
In the absence of a return to a mid-20th Century industrial economy where most people worked for a few big companies at the one location and work was the only real reason they travelled anywhere then cars are very much here to stay, no other method effectively gets people and objects not from A to B but from M to Q to C then down to Z effectively.
It's much the same as other technologies. Public transport is to moving people what broadcast TV and printed newspapers are to media. One size fits all - it works so long as everyone actually wants the same thing, they're going to the same place, but becomes hugely cumbersome when they're all going to somewhere different as is increasingly the case. Private vehicles are the equivalent of any on-demand service there, it gives the individual the thing they want without anyone else needing to want it at the same time.
There's still a place for public transport of course but the car is here to stay as well.
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Does this mean I should sell my Nickel stocks?
Agreed, Even if Climate Change didn't exist I still would want my EV, it's just such a more convenient form of motoring.
But also even if Climate change wasn't a thing, we would still need to move towards Tech that doesn't rely on oil, because whether it is 20, 40 or 60 years away we will hit peak oil before the babies being born today have finished living, whether that's when they turn 18 or when the hit retirement, we need to have moved away from oil just because of the fact it's not infinite.
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Sean K said:
Maybe just keep some as part of a diversified group of miners.
The way I look at it is this. By investing in Nickel you are investing in one aspect of the technology associated with the trend towards Ev's, and even if the trend to Ev's continues, the battery tech might change and leave you behind.
Take the film industry as an example, it's grown steadily for over 100 years, Disney made Snow White in 1938 and are still making millions from it each year, over the years Disney has used many different Techs to distribute Snow White, eg physical rolls of film, VHS cassettes, free to air broadcast towers, DVD's, Blue ray, satellite TV, Cable, digital downloads, streaming subscriptions and probably others.
If you had invested in Disney itself you would make money over the years regardless of the tech used, how ever if you saw what Disney was doing and decided to invest in VHS cassettes, it would have been good for a while, but then competition and new tech would have destroyed you.
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The Embassy Theatre is a glamorous historic building that might not seem like the perfect place for tots. But for decades the staff has put together this event that is tailored for children and yes, even teens and adults.
Santa and his better half, Mrs. Claus, are the stars as children, often dressed in holiday attire, arrive early to have photos in the lobby. When Mrs. Claus leads the little ones into the theater and onto the stage, they sit at decorated tables with name tags so families are assured of sitting together.
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The Dog-Friendly Prince Hall Hotel
Europe England
By Ferne Arfin
For Dog-Lovers Only
© Ferne Arfin
Prince Hall, on the dramatic high moors of Dartmoor, is a dog-friendly restaurant with rooms. In fact, in the seven or eight years that Wallace the Westie and I have been visiting dog-friendly hotels together, this is probably the dog-friendliest place we have ever stayed.
Dartmoor is made up of high granite hills, covered with rough grass, gorse and boggy patches of sphagnum moss. It's an empty landscape to the untrained eye, its character subtle, easy to get lost in and occasionally dangerous.
Driving over it on a blustery October day, with heavy clouds scudding across blue skies, we were thinking of The Hound of the Baskervilles, set on Dartmoor, and feeling slightly intimidated by the featureless landscape when we turned right at the Prince Hall sign. (It turns out, by the way, the Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes mystery about the curse of the hound from hell may have been inspired by a visit to this very house.)
Immediately, the scene changed. The hotel's mile-long, beech-lined drive led to a green and sheltered dell, surrounded by trees with views across neighboring farmland and meadows to an old stone bridge. The pale yellow house looked more like a substantial 18th-century farmhouse than a luxury inn with a restaurant rated by Michelin.
Relaxed, Doggy Welcome
If you don't like dogs and your idea of a luxury country house includes punctilious service, immaculate surroundings and a high gloss on everything, you'll probably want to ignore the rest of this.
Arriving at Prince Hall, across an ancient flagstone porch, past rows of wellies and walking boots, bins of brollies and walking sticks, is a bit like arriving at a friend's back door. You almost feel that you should knock instead of just walking in.
Through a window, we saw people having tea in a sunny, informal looking sitting room. A huge golden retriever was curled up in the middle of the room and an overwrought looking little black schnauzer was running circles around her. The appropriate thing to do seemed to be to let Wallace off his leash to mingle with the others while we checked in.
Only a big old desk - with a bowl of dog treats on it - and an office beyond, gives a clue that you are in a hotel. Otherwise, you might be joining a house party at the family home of a school friend. We settled in the parlour for tea - a gigantic scone, jam and real Devon clotted cream for me, a bowl of water, a dog biscuit and a good sniff around for Wallace.
The Definition of Shabby Chic
This is a house with history. Some of the original 1443 building remains in the castellated courtyard and paddock as well as the foundations and cellars. Most of what you see today dates from the 18th and early 19th centuries. Prince Hall has passed through the hands of a variety of owners. In the 1930s, the Prince of Wales (later, briefly Edward VIII before he abdicated to marry Wallis Simpson), stabled horses here while staying elsewhere on the moor. In 1945 Lord and Lady Astor bought it as a summer residence. Its lands are part of the Duchy of Cornwall, and the current Prince of Wales is the Landlord. The hotel's current owners (leaseholders actually, but that is a quirk of British land ownership) are Chris and Fi Daly. Fi, a serious dog lover herself, mingles sociably with guests - many of whom return again and again. Chris who I've been told is the shyer of the two, presides over the kitchen (of which more later).
Despite its many illustrious occupants, today Prince Hall is the very epitome of English country farmhouse style - not the immaculately styled imitations in house and home magazines but the real shabby chic.
The parlour, where tea is served, newspapers are shared and, in cold weather, a fire blazes, is furnished with an eclectic assortment of tables, large, overstuffed sofas and chairs that have an easy to sink into, well lived look and feel and. The bar, next door, is a similar sized room with more sofas for relaxing and enjoying the view.
The inn's eight guest rooms, up a sweeping flight of stairs, are furnished with a mixture of antiques, hand-me-downs and reproductions. Mine was clean and comfortable with four-poster bed and fresh, white linens. Some of the rooms overlook sweeping stretches of Dartmoor. Sadly mine, on the side of the house, overlooked only the parking and, from the bathroom, part of the courtyard.
The bathroom, recently done in a blue and white color scheme and, again, in a homely rather than "hotel-ly" style, was small but more than adequate with a large bath and a ledge under the window to spread out all my supplies.
Quirky touches were everywhere - a strange chandelier in my room that looked like someone's aunt made it in a crafts class; a distressed, black and white harlequin patterned cabinet in the hall that concealed a tiny fridge with fresh milk for my tea; a Ball jar filled with homemade jammy dodgers, a biscuit for Wallace balanced on the top.
The only thing missing was bedding and bowls for Wallace. Luckily, we always carry his own in the boot of the car. But in a hotel with such solid,dog-friendly credentials, it was a curious oversight.
Dining at Prince Hall
Guests at Prince Hall can opt to stay on a bed and breakfast or dinner bed and breakfast (db&b) basis. The restaurant is open to the public so if you are planning on dining and have not reserved a db&b stay, it's important to book for dinner. Make sure you do because the food, under the supervision of Chris Daly, is superb.
Menus are seasonal with a focus is on modern British and European food. An October 3-course dinner in 2013 included starters of roasted pumpkin and herb soup; pork, apple and apricot terrine with purple basil jam and pistachios, gravadlax or mushroom tortellini. Mains included fillet of West Country beef with fondant potatoes, wild mushrooms, roasted baby figs, and savoy cabbage; confit of duck, Brixham-landed brill and a vegetarian dish of grilled and roasted vegetables with a sun-dried tomato and Devon blue cheese tian.
The choice of desserts is short and interesting - orange and cranberry crumble tart; chocolate, raspberry and mint mousse with pistachio cream, red wine poached pear and my selection, local cheeses with baby figs, apple cider chutney and walnuts.
Everything was beautifully prepared and served in restrained modern portions, leaving room to consume all three courses, plus wine and coffee, without feeling guilty.
The restaurant also serves light lunches, afternoon teas and Sunday lunch to the public - a handy place to stop for a meal if you are out for a walk on Dartmoor.
Eat, Walk, Sleep is the motto on the Prince Hall brochure and you could be quite happy doing little more. But if you are keen to be a bit more active, the staff can recommend and organize fly fishing on the River Dart, golf, clay pigeon shooting, riding and guided walks.
We often recommend country house hotels so that visitors can get a sense of the English country house weekends they read about or see in films. But really, unless you live in Britain or have British friends with country houses, experiencing a real country house party is rare. We are pleased to say that Prince Hall is the closest we have ever come to it at a hotel. The accommodations are comfortable and unpretentious, the food is glorious and the company very agreeable indeed.
Wallace, an old hand at reviewing hotels, was so at home that he thought he was at a friend's house. Throughout our stay, he remained free to wander wherever he wanted indoors - except of course the kitchen, the dining room and other guest's rooms. Visitors' well-behaved pets mingle happily and peacefully with the owner's three resident dogs. We've never run across such a relaxed attitude toward pets.
Out of doors was somewhat different. Except for a fenced and walled area around the house (more than sufficient for Wallace but maybe not for bigger, younger dogs), Wallace had to be leashed for our walks to avoid bothering the local sheep and cattle. We also worried that he might wander onto a boggy mire from which we would not be able to rescue him - a good reason inexperienced Dartmoor visitors should walk with a guide.
And the dog-friendly rating? Wallace awards Prince Hall Five Paws +
Where: Prince Hall Hotel, Two Bridges, Dartmoor, Devon PL20 6SA
Contact: Telephone +44 (0)1822 890 403
Getting There: There are very few roads on Dartmoor and the two main routes criss cross in the center of the national park at a village known as Princetown. Prince Hall is in Two Bridges, about two miles from Princetown. There are very good directions on the hotel website and the owners warn visitors to use those directions since GPS devices and SatNave can be unreliable on Dartmoor.
Check guest reviews and prices for Prince Hall on TripAdvisor
As is common in the travel industry, the writer was provided with complimentary services for review purposes. While it has not influenced this review, About.com believes in full disclosure of all potential conflicts of interest. For more information, see our Ethics Policy.
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Why an India-Canada partnership building program?
We recognize Indian civil society's involvement in South Asian regional cooperation, the country's strategic importance in the region, and the tremendous growth and dynamism displayed by Indian civil society in the last decade. We believe that the sector's cutting edge work in the sphere of human development needs wider exposure in Canada; and that Canadian civil society can gain in many ways from cooperation and exchange with Indian civil society. Similarly, Indian civil society can also benefit from the innovation and knowledge of Canadian civil society.
ILP is not a funding program. It is based in Ottawa, Canada. ILP does not have an exclusive relationship with South Asia Partnership (SAP) India. Rather, it connects and works with relevant organizations in India and Canada as needed. The India Program Manager visits India roughly twice a year to work directly with Indian CSOs and is in touch with them year round via e-mail and phone.
In Canada, besides CSOs, ILP is reaching out to the South Asian-Canadian community, the Canadian government, the academic community and Canadian media and public. In India, the target is CSOs and academics working on local governance and human rights issues.
Program activities are developed in consultation with Canadian and Indian CSOs. Activities in Canada encompass documenting information and showcasing resources on education and communication, and conducting campaigns that link Canadian and Indian civil society organizations working on the two issues. ILP plans to facilitate skills building workshops for enhanced North-South partnership and cooperation, in the future.
Good governance is an issue of great importance in South Asia. An essential feature of good governance is promoting people's participation in decision-making, including the participation of women in governance at all levels. Many countries worldwide are using various means to enhance women's participation in governance. ILP has chosen to focus it's initial efforts on promoting greater participation of women in local governance, in India and Canada.
The 73rd Constitutional Amendment that was passed in India in 1992 gave formal constitutional recognition to local self-governance units at the village and town level. Most significantly, it reserved 33 per cent of seats for women. Today, an estimated one million Indian women hold political office at that level.
In September 2001, ILP brought Dr. Bidyut Mohanty of the Institute for Social Sciences (ISS), New Delhi, on a four-city tour of Canada. ISS is a leading Delhi-based research and advocacy organization that works on local governance and democracy, among other issues. Dr Mohanty spoke of the wide-ranging impact of the reservation policy for women to a cross section of Canadian civil society as well as government representatives. She met with key organizations in Canada during her visit and returned a year later to speak at the Global Governance Conference held in Montreal in October 2002. Read Dr. Mohanty's report.
In May 2002, ILP and ISS co-hosted an information sharing and networking meeting of Delhi-based CSOs variously working on the issue of women's participation in local governance. Based on the learning from this exchange, ILP and ISS are currently developing a new project.
ILP participated in the Knowledge Sharing Workshop on Gender Equality and Local Governance organized by the International Centre for Municipal Development (ICMD) of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) in September 26- 27, 2002 at Gatineau, Quebec. The program brought Patricia Pinto, an elected, municipal, woman representative from Panjim, Goa, India, to speak at the workshop. She is a leading environmental activist and community leader working with the People's Movement for Civic Action (PMCA) and the Goa Environment Federation (GEF).
Land Rights and the Right to Livelihood: In Fall 2001, ILP ran a web-based campaign on the struggle for land rights in India. Here we highlighted the work of the North India-based Ekta Parishad (United Forum) which uses Gandhian advocacy methods to mobilize tribals, low castes dalits, the rural poor and women to work together to fight for land, water and forest rights. Their aim is to make access to land a national priority. The majority of India lives in villages; hence land is a key issue here.
In July 2002, we hosted a presentation on this topic by Jill Carr-Harris of Ekta Parishad. She is a Canadian who lives and works in India. Her talk has initiated a process of Canada-based organizations and individuals interested in this issue coming together to form a Canadian support network for Ekta Parishad.
Other human rights issues in India: In March and April 2002, ILP hosted a presentation-discussion, Human Rights of Marginal Communities: The "low caste" Dalits of India, in two Canadian cities, Ottawa and Waterloo. The speaker, Arpita Anant, was an Indian Commonwealth Visiting Research Scholar spending a year at Queen's University in Canada. In December 2002, SAP Canada brought Toronto-based, Indo-Canadian journalist, Sidharth Bhatia, to Ottawa to speak about Indian secularism under trial: The emergence of militant Hinduism and the future of Indian democracy. Both events received good media coverage. Read Sidharth Bhatia's report. These context-setting presentations are aimed at Canadian CSOs, government, public and the media. The aim is to provide essential background information for doing effective development work in India and promoting an understanding of social issues there, thus creating a knowledge base for the Canadian constituency.
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Binance Coin: Could this move by Binance clear FUD and help BNB rally?
Binance recently announced becoming a member of the ACSS.
This move came after the FUD surrounding BNB due to the FTX collapse and SEC inquisitions.
In recent weeks, there has been a lot of fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) surrounding Binance Coin [BNB] after FTX's [FTT] collapse and the downward trend of its native cryptocurrency. The collapse caused exchange tokens to be looked at with distrust.
Read Binance Coin's [BNB] Price Prediction 2023-24
Also, the situation with Binance was made even worse because the exchange came under scrutiny from the SEC. Binance has taken an innovative approach as of late to deal with the issue of compliance punishments.
Binance to work on regulatory compliance
Per a statement on 6 January, Binance made history by being the first cryptocurrency exchange to join the Association of Certified Sanctions Specialists (ACSS). According to an official statement, the company's team will train at ACSS as part of the process.
#Binance joins the Association of Certified Sanctions Specialists (ACSS).
As the first crypto exchange to join the association, we aim to leverage ACSS training materials, databases, and networks to further compliance standards within the crypto industry.https://t.co/uEOw147gke
— Binance (@binance) January 6, 2023
The purpose of the ACSS training is to educate the staff working for the exchange on the guidelines provided by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) within the United States Treasury and to alert them of the potential dangers associated with violating those criteria.
BNB in compliance?
The daily timeframe chart of BNB's price action revealed that the token saw a surge in late October 2022. It saw a climb into the $350 range during October. The price range tool revealed that BNB lost nearly 26% of its value from when the token's slump began in November until the observed timeframe.
As of this writing, the token's value hovered around $260. Its price rose by almost 2% in the last 48 hours, suggesting that the latest news has positively affected its movement.
According to the chart, a new support level might form if the token sustains or continues its advance. The range for the current support level was between $235 and $217.
The Relative Strength Index line, visible above the neutral line, showed that the token was in a bullish trend. Additionally, the Bollinger Band displayed a sign of contraction, indicating that volatility, most likely to the upside, is about to occur.
Are your holdings flashing green? Check the BNB Profit Calculator
The tale of profit and loss
The Market Value to Realized Value Ratio showed that BNB has had difficulty being profitable over the past 30 days. As of the time of writing, the MVRV ratio was about 7.7%, and holders had been switching between profits and losses. The observed returns may be considered respectable, given the recent FUD engulfing the token.
A peek into the active address metric revealed that the activity level was largely constant. This indicates that fewer investors are trading the tokens at the present time.
The most recent action taken by Binance is designed to increase user confidence in the exchange's activities. This might also increase the value of the exchange's tokens.
As people become more confident in the exchange, there may be an increase in the number of active addresses. Also, a sizeable increase in the volume of transactions might be witnessed.
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package org.locationtech.geowave.mapreduce;

import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.SortedSet;
import org.locationtech.geowave.core.index.ByteArray;
import org.locationtech.geowave.core.index.ByteArrayRange;
import org.locationtech.geowave.core.index.QueryRanges;
import org.locationtech.geowave.core.index.SinglePartitionQueryRanges;
import org.locationtech.geowave.core.store.entities.GeoWaveRow;
import org.locationtech.geowave.core.store.entities.GeoWaveRowIteratorTransformer;
import org.locationtech.geowave.core.store.memory.MemoryDataStoreOperations;
import org.locationtech.geowave.core.store.operations.ReaderParams;
import org.locationtech.geowave.core.store.operations.RowReader;
import org.locationtech.geowave.mapreduce.splits.RecordReaderParams;

public class MapReduceMemoryOperations extends MemoryDataStoreOperations implements
    MapReduceDataStoreOperations {

  private final Map<ByteArray, SortedSet<MemoryStoreEntry>> storeData =
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    final byte[] partitionKey =
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            readerParams.getInternalAdapterStore(),
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            GeoWaveRowIteratorTransformer.NO_OP_TRANSFORMER,
            readerParams.getAdditionalAuthorizations()));
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}

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Liam McArthur MSP Scottish Liberal Democrat MSP for Orkney
About Orkney
About Liam
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McArthur speaks up for Orkney's women in sport
Posted by Daniel Coleman | Updated 2018-10-05
Orkney's MSP Liam McArthur used a debate in the Scottish Parliament this afternoon to highlight the achievements of Orkney's sportswomen.
The debate coincided with 'Scottish Women and Girls in Sport Week', an initiative aimed at recognising both the achievements of women and girls in sport, but also to identify some of the challenges that they still face.
Speaking ahead of the debate, Mr McArthur said:
"Orkney is a community that takes its sport seriously. As well as the many hours put in by paid staff and volunteers to provide opportunities across a wide range of sports, we have also seen important investment in facilities over recent years.
"There is always more we can do, of course, to increase involvement and participation but in order to be able to achieve this, we need to understand what the barriers are at present.
"Having spoken to some of Orkney's most successful sportswomen and athletes, it is clear that there are a number of areas where we need to focus attention. Travel costs to attend training or to compete on the Scottish mainland are high and can be prohibitive. Grants and sponsorship are available and invaluable, but finding ways to reduce costs remains a challenge.
"I was also told that for some girls and women, the macho image associated with certain sports can be a disincentive to get involved. In that respect, having good female role models is important and in Orkney we are fortunate to have a great many. The success of Anna Tait and Rachael Sutherland at the last two Orkney Sportsperson of the Year Awards illustrates this perfectly, with Anna winning from an all-female shortlist that also included Sarah MacPhail and Hannah Beavan, and Amy Golder taking the top junior award. Meanwhile, Orkney Dragons go from strength to strength, attracting more girls and women into playing rugby.
"When you see those inspirational people within your own community, it's so much easier to say 'well why not me?'
"Increasing participation is something that we should all be able to support. Role models are part of that, but we need to look at ways of removing obstacles, whether that be to do with funding, facilities or even, as Anna Tait suggested, making the image of a sportswoman more acceptable to young girls."
Published and promoted by Liam McArthur on behalf of Liam McArthur at 14 Palace Road, Kirkwall, KW15 1PA.
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Large families' finances may be affected in a number of ways, including the introduction of a benefit 'cap' and cuts to the Sure Start maternity grant. Increased demand for affordable childcare is likely as more parents are pushed into work, including lone parents with children aged five or over.
Many organisations are concerned that homelessness may increase, particularly among young people.
There is a potential for an increase in people moving in and out of neighbourhoods as they adapt to their new circumstances, affecting community cohesion. If people are facing financial hardship, eviction and debt and cannot cover their living expenses they may approach illegal money lenders for assistance, and there could also be an increase in crime and theft.
If people are worried about benefit cuts and don't know how to make ends meet they may become concerned and anxious, affecting mental health. People's health and well-being may also be affected if they cannot afford basic necessities.
The payment of universal credit to only one member in each household may facilitate abusers who use financial controls and threaten the economic stability of entire households, including dependents such as children and older people.
The demand for advice services will increase significantly. People will not only need assistance with changes to their benefits in the short term, but also in some cases ongoing help to budget effectively as they move to a system of monthly benefit payments.


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Across the Desert
by RW Spisak
I'd like to ask you to join me for a few minutes on a walk, across a desert to the citadel where humanity's future lives. It is defended by our colleagues; The Electronic Freedom Foundation, the Bill of Right Coalition, People for the American Way, Move-On, UUs and a few others.
We few march across a perilous, dangerous and hostile desert. Beset on every side, by well-armed and well financed enemies. A Right Wing establishment of think tanks and opinion-meisters, financed by right-wing corporate and media interests with friends in very high places.
I don't need to remind you, of a major right-wing religious figure who blamed us, the ACLU for the disaster of Katrina in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. In a world where the leader of millions of Catholics reaches back to the fourteen century when the Holy Roman Catholic Empire confronted the Muslim Empire for a quote, to insult todays faithful Muslims.
Nor need I remind you of the out-going governor of this state, who when faced with a successful citizen initiative on class size, confided to his cronies, nearly off-mike, that he had a devious plan to circumvent the people's will. In the same state which contracted a right-wing computer company to purge legitimate voters from the state rolls, who might otherwise have the temerity to vote while black. In a state where a "would-be" senator, expresses her belief, that "the separation of church and state is a lie". And the where the states, largest school district, continues it's legal battle to ban a book for kindergarteners, for not being sufficiently politically correct.
In a nation whose protectors of the public airwaves the FCC, pounce on nudity and documentary language as reprehensible, while winking at violence and burying reports on the truly damaging effect of the consolidation of corporate media voices.
In a nation where the commander in chief only yesterday issued a challenge "that unless he can dispense with the Bill of Rights and rule outside and above the rule of law", he will be unable to defend the country against it's enemies. Not only denying habeus corpus, but access to attorneys, and for some the special secret prison, without charges, without and beyond the rule of any law but whim. A government that has turned so completely away from civilized values, taking this great experiment in democracy to a place where justice is sought from the dunking chair and amidst the tortuous screams of the dungeon. He proclaimed these changes indispensable. And our constitution too readily dispensable.
I ask you this faced with these dangers what is our course?
If Leonidas of Sparta on his way to Thermopylae was asked to stop his march and instead give a reckoning of expenditures on weapons and sandals over the last five years in triplicate... Where would Xerxes have been stopped.
If on his way to Gettysburg, Grant was ordered to give a complete inventory of his weapons, horses, and heart, and only then, could he continue on to his appointment with Lee, would they still meet at Appomattox?
While we could stop and do an inventory of the hearts and minds, and investigate the optimum trajectory of our desires, on our way to support the beleaguered defenders, where Liberty's future huddles nearly friendless.
I say... March on, our leaders are fallible men and women, yes, but the danger is stark, March on defend humanity against those who call for a return to the dark ages. March on, my friends, for Liberty's sake for humanity's sake. For the sake of civilization.
"Liberals use all their tools to attack God and the family"
A RESPONSE TO A LETTER TO THE EDITOR ENTITLED:
Mr. Babuji
Let's think just for a second, about the "work" of the liberals
through history. If you are a student of "Judeo-Christian" thought,
you are doubtless aware that the Bible was thought to be strictly
for the elite, the rich and the nobles.
It was a "LIBERAL" opinion, that the Bible should be available
to everyone. You may also be aware that it was a "LIBERAL" idea
to translate the Bible into language other than the "original"
Latin. It was eventually even translated into the modern language
of English, several different times, with a "LIBERAL" range of
interpretations and metaphors.
It was a "LIBERAL" idea that suggested that mere human beings
could govern themselves. It was a "LIBERAL" idea that we could
live without KINGS and nobles. This "LIBERAL" idea allowed for
the founding of a country where people who had suffered under
"CONSERVATIVE" religious wars in Europe could live as an
alternative in this "LIBERAL" country where people would be
free to practice, or not, the religion of their choice.
I have been a progressive and "Liberal" my entire adult life -
I have never heard a "Liberal" denounce prayer, or suggest that
those who worship, and fear god, are destroying this country.
I have however read the teachings of Jesus, which urge those who
attempt to follow his teaching, "should not, judge others harshly,
lest their intolerance fall upon themselves."
Yours "LIBERALLY"
Richard W. Spisak Jr.
Discourse about the place of Political Cartoons on an Environmental Listerve
Political Cartoons on an Environmental Forum
(Pam to Rick)
This is really inappropriate for the forum.
(Rick to Pam)
I thought that many in the environmental movement, would be
quite concerned with the "Environmental Stewardship" of the Bush Administration.
Afterall, it is true that concrete and chainsaws are part
of the natural process, heck even pesticides, and petroleum
executives are part of the great chain of life.
I just hoped to share some political insights with my collegues
on the greenside.
http://www.sierraclub.org/planet/200404/bushadmin.asp
I hope if you find these cartoonscapes, utterly offensive you
can find your delete button. If your keyboard has already been
clearcut, through the "Healthy Forests Initiative",
you might find it under a "Clean Air Act" smog bank.
I don't find them utterly offensive. I find some of it quite
funny. I just don't think that the forum is the right place
to forward this stuff. The club is supposed to be non-partisan.
The slant of your messages are not.
These messages are more appropriate between friends not for
general consumption. In other parts of the country on various
club listservs your privileges to use the forum would be removed.
If, god willing one of the other parties does finally get in power
and has the power to make the kind of hideous, murderous and
repulsive mistakes as the current junta...
I will, I have and do... lance them with my fascist piercing
purple pen (mouse)
deep meaningful bow to brother woody (guthrie) that is;
And I'm sure, if I rub enough republican sierra clubbers wrong -
I'm sure my posting rights will be terminated. I do not fear.
My heart is my censor.
I appreciate your comments and thank goodness I may still
yet wield my mouse in defense of the defenseless, and in
favor of true conservation...
like the teddy roosevelt kind.
Who was a steward of our natural world... albeit,
one not without some imperial dreams of his own.
You seem a thoughtful person, and I hope my modest rejoinder
was heard in the spirit (giggles) it was offered and -
since you do admit - at least one made you smile
That's what I take to the bank... the smog bank, because -
I write to catalyze people toward thinking and laughing,
about tremendously serious matters
long may the republic wave
solidarnosc
It might be your intent to catalyze people but I think
the danger is that you will more likely alienate people
before they get your underlying message.
We need all the help we can get to raise people's consciousness
and be able to make positive changes. If you turn them off
before you give them the message what have you accomplished?
Pam, thanks again for writing.
And while I long to please, and coax a gentle guffax, so as to
move my good colleagues into action. I think time is short and
action must be taken.
I have been a passionate crusader for the environment since the
early sixties, when my family was given a copy and we each read
Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring", blessings on her name.
"Silent Spring" alerted a few to the tragic consequences of
apathy and trust of big gov't & big coroporation and the casual
poisoning of the environment.
I have stood for women's rights, african american rights,
hispanic rights, a women's right to choose, and in opposition
to many STUPID wars, (albeit REAL MONEY MAKERS) and in opposition to the trashing of the only planet
we can afford to mess up... (can we???)
But while I would like to pen thoughtful dispassionate
paragraphs and pages to move the sleeping masses... (
and I do, I can send you some of my essays), I understand that
a cartoon's POKE in the FRONTAL LOBES & Werniche's Area,
does not require expensive minutes of time, it requires
mere seconds.
And since "my fellow americans" all too often choose distraction
over thoughtful discourse, I must draw pungent (hopefully humourous)
or at least thought provoking
cartoons. - They require virtually no TIME CONSUMING minutes,
only seconds to achieve communication - that some will find these
heavy handed or unbalanced; I ask them to SEEK OUT
- FOX NEWS... if they want "fair and balanced"
Will I lose some audiences, am I preaching to the choir?
Well if they get up off their collective
(and often delightful asses) and VOTE?
Well then I leave them to the equitable voting machinations
of ESS & DIEBOLD with the likes of "Katherine Harris" to
count their votes.
Peace Activists with a Blindspot
tyranny is tyranny is tyranny
while to a certain extent, the "enemy of my enemy is my friend"
thinking, drives a great deal of "real politik" posturing. But...
Thoughtful people must carefully examine positions, and should
understand the nuance of espousing positions in complex multilateral,
multinational, or transnational conflicts.
I suspect that since (Peace Activists) many find the Israeli treatment
of their neighbors, with walls and gates and humiliation regrettable
they are far too quick to assume that any opposition to Israel is constructive
and should be supported.
That I'm afraid, is an ill considered and unsophisticated position.
Likewise many, who are concerned about the mistreatment of Palestinians,
maybe too forgiving of lawless attacks on Israelis. As many who are concerned
about the cultural and political stability of Israel are often quick to
excuse Israeli excesses.
True PEACE ACTIVISTS are concerned about all violence and all brutality
against... "humanity" and cannot honestly be blind, when even "monsters" are mistreated.
Whether soldiers of tyranny A or tyranny B...
Finally whether a prisoner is tortured by the Egyptians for Egyptian politician purposes, by the Egyptians for American purposes, by American soldiers for American purposes or by Iraqis for any purpose, you are still the victim of torture.
Oh, if only the moneies going toward arming the region, were going to developing the farming, infrastructure and water resources rather than EXPLOSIONS and Bullets there might be far more wealth for the people of that region to share.
miamiforpeace.net
I heard the return to the dark ages last night, sitting in a full house, in the auditorium of a local high school. "POOF" once there was science, "POOF", now there was TRUE BELIEF, "POOF" Now and then you heard references to science and even scientists. Then, "POOF" - then we were led away, away from science that has taken us, from the darkened nave of the medieval church, to today's world of computers, and space travel and the technology of today, to face the inscrutable face of the INTELLIGENT DESIGNER's first cause JE-HO-VAH.
The problem with TRUE BELIEF is that it suffers no test, requires no confirming data appropriate to scientific inquiry. In fact denies any appeal to mere facts. Ah, the appeal of antique certainty and the refuge of unquestioned simplicity in a complex world.
If you listened, which is more than the churchmen did, for Galileo, Newton and Copernicus, you could hear actual scientists mentioned. You heard again and again how well traveled, and literate our presenter was, and you also heard a refrain that especially grated on my ear. "We all have the same information" He said it again and again. Which was and is patently false. The scientific literate, and the scientific illiterate, demonstrably do not have the same information.
Our presenter would seem to quote his favorite scientists. Men, with it was reported scientific credentials who he said agreed with him. Again and again he turned to the covers of pop-science magazines to further his argument. That must be science. It's in print!
The difference, which our presenter never did mention, although he clung to his scraps, his well gnawed bits of the tattered cloak of pseudo-science, to mask his appeal to anti-intellectualism, the difference is that his conclusions, come not from rigorous scientific inquiry, but they arise in complete contradiction of science, from no verifiable facts but instead, arise full born and with prophetic certitude.
These religious views, which are inferred arise spontaneous, fully formed and unassailable, from his own mystical vision, and his personal interpretation of selected religious tracts and ULTIMATELY the unquestionable source of all INTELLIGENT DESIGN REVELATION
(personal and direct) DIVINE INTERVENTION.
While he dismissed evolution, because as he explained it, evolution was dependent on a "POOF" moment. He never contrasted that "POOF" moment with the GRANDEST POOF of all, "THE GREAT POOF" of the almighty. "POOF" there is The Universe. And "POOF" GOD, made the original boy-Adam, in the image of euro - centric man.
Pity poor "set upon" Christendom
A historic essay by RW Spisak Jr.
While secular humanists and liberals at the dawn of the millennium, attempted to uphold the constitutional guarantees supporting freedom of religion, many Christian advocates of the time, misunderstood the concept of freedom of religion, confusing it with freedom to suppress other religions. While they might have understood the position of the Secular Humanists that in protecting all religions this would allow them to continue to practice their cunning and baroque rituals. They instead demanded a religious oriented civic government.
The Secular Humanists would have guaranteed their right to freely practice their curious folk ways, with its morbid statuary, it's elaborate costumes and ritual sacrifices, free from fear or coercion. They were largely unable to grasp the fact that had their rights been thus protected, they would retain the ability to continue to practice free of governmental interference.
While we are today accustomed to Houses of Science and Planetariums, and Cosmology Exhibits on every corner, very few remember these were once "Christer-Castles" called "churches", (how quaint that lost word sounds on the tongue) only to become today's modern busy Wiccan-ariums, Houses of Chemistry and Cosmology Viewing Centers. Since more and more of their former temples and churches were transformed into Houses of Science, Yoga temples,
and Covens, the actual number of practicing "Christers" has shrunken to a point where only a few states actually have statistically significant percentages. Out numbered now by Humanists and Reformed Fundamentalist Evolutionaries, their last hurrah, during the turn of the century when scores of "Christers" or Christians as they called themselves then, tried to force civil society to adopt their curious religious tenets as a "higher morality" just as those in the near east had turned to Sharia law, (religious dogma) as an antidote to modernity's challenges.
Yet once mandatory church attendance laws were enacted, it was just a matter of time before the Second Enlightenments' great scientific awakening became the fashion. Fossil parties
and Home Physics gatherings were held across the land and Home Do-it-yourself "Genetic Kits" allowed Mom and Dad and the kids, to practice simple geneto-experiments on themselves and their friends. It was at that point, as folks who might have joined their neighbors last week
in a witch hunt or a spontaneous yet mandatory baptism-riot, now were using home genetic kits to change hair color and IQ of their friends and neighbors.
The freedoms that the Secular Humanists sought to maintain for these ancient folk ways, have allowed these practices to continue (although not flourish) along side today's modern Houses of Science and Cosmology Halls, as a "quaint" backward glance at a nearly forgotten primitive past. Back at the turn of the millennium, they seemed not to understand that when the humanists attempted to protect their right to practice any old superstitious rite, no matter how antiquarian. The laws they insisted on enacting, have given us the Genet-o Chant and the Patriotic Recitation of the Fossil Record, beloved today by every school child.
I call on the Great Good Heart of America
I call on the great good heart of America. The heart that made common cause with native Americans in this great land that has become refuge to so many. The great heart that had seen hundreds of bloody years of despair, theological wars, and priestly abuses and turning from those hatefilled days together they founded a nation that turned toward a better future. Turned from a mix of religion and statecraft, that had poisoned the soils of Europe and the East for tens of centuries, and embarked on an experiment to build a land that trusted men and women to govern themselves guided by laws not by priests or royal blood.
A nation of equals, where men and eventually, men and women of all races and all creeds would be treated equally under law. I call on that spirit of America that turned away from the crimes and excesses of the past, whether horrid slavery, or grinding child labor or twin evils of penury and usury. Battles not yet wholly won.
Aiming our new nation and our faces toward humanity, law and the future, turning away from chains, slavery and torture. A long slow climb. A climb with fits and starts and setbacks.We who live in a world of moral clarity, not confused by expediency and confounded by nightmares of a horrendous enemy whose very existence, lures us away from the values that have made this country great.
When we fought the great states of Germany and Japanese in World War two, and later when the whole world was threatened by world powers like the Thermonuclear Armed Soviet and Chinese communist nations holding huge slave armies with stockpiles of awful unthinkable weapons. The exact kind of weapons that only hirelings and paid informers suggested Sadam Hussein held. Then even then, we did not reach back with blood dripping from our hands to the barbarous past. For the fire and the tong.
Are we to turn away from civilization and humane values when faced with a few thousand stateless fanatics? Do we dare grant such unimaginable world changing power, to these few, and scrap the great dream of this marvel of the civilizing centuries? Because a few thousand died on a morning in new York?
How many thousand died, in Pearl Harbor, how many when Atlanta burned? How many in Srebrenica ? in Dafur? How great were the stakes when we faced a nation-breaking civil war?
When we stood against the massive power of the axis powers, or when General Lee's army threatened Washington, or even when the British sacked and burned the White House, we could weather those but now... thats it? game over? Time Now? for barbarism again?
NO! I say No! It is not time for barbarism. It is time to turn from liars, and schemers and war profiteers.If the US Congress contemplated and brought charges of impeachment for the crime of lying about a personal liaison, what is the scale of the crimes of these bloody war criminals who lied about national security threats? Who led young ill-prepared Americans into a needless war? Who engineered and profited from the deaths of those tens of thousands? Men who led this great country into toppling a former client dictator with a campaign they described as SHOCK AND AWE.
It is with SHOCK AND AWE that we American people face these crimes. It is in the good American Heart, to shrink in revulsion and turn from such as these war criminals. These bloody oil merchants who ill used our soldiers and mislead our army. Whose orders were to secure the oil ministry and leave the discarded and abandoned weapons unguarded, only to be used later to kill again and again in roadside improvised weapons.
The kind of International War criminals who seek again and again to justify torture, and ghost prisoners, lying, secrecy and holding prisoners outside any protections of law. Who claim royal unassailable powers for themselves unrestrained and uncontrollable by congress or the courts.
I call upon the great good heart of America and I ask you how much damage must this cabal reek on this land, on these fine people, and armed with the fearsome power of the greatest republic on the planet how much longer can we leave these bloody hands and these lying hearts at the controls.
I fear for America and I fear for this world, these men who spurn law, who defy and subvert elections, manipulate and manufacture their own brand of TRUTH(c) and while lying and spying and destroy each ally and friend our country has made in nearly 300 years.
Clinton was impeached for a lie. How can these merchants of death and war profiteers, and bloody torturers not be driven from these sweet shores. Send them to the Hague and purify this great land of their lies.
R.W. Spisak
I CRY IMPEACH
Brother Dean
I believe I can address you thus familiarly, because from all I have heard you say, you understand humanity as one family.
I ask you, as leader of the democratic party, if the house rose and impeached former president Clinton, how could any democrat who voted that bill of impeachment, not support charges against the current white house resident. I would call him, by a more honorable title, had he won that fairly.
IMPEACH - For lying about weapons of mass destruction,
IMPEACH - for lying about the nigerian uranium sale which he knew to be false,
IMPEACH -for leading an unprepared, undermanned and ill-equipped invasion
against a nation whose dictator was odious, but no true threat, to this great country.
IMPEACH - for subverting the BILL of RIGHTS with spying on our financial and electronic communications, suspending habeus corpus and violating International Laws of War.
IMPEACH - for ignoring WAR PROFITEERS
This man again and again reminds America, that he is, in his words a "war president".
I ask, if we are to hold foot soldiers responsible for acting criminally outside the rules of war,
how can we not impeach this " commander" who would redefine torture as a legitimate tool
of the world's leading democracy, and yet hypocritically condemning the barbarous acts of others.
This man whose regime speaks so easily against attacks on civilized values, but wages war, with tactics his press agents label "shock and awe". Ask the uncounted Iraqi civilian dead about the victory , of shock and awe.
Why is not every democrat calling for impeachment?
Why are they not demanding from republicans, those few with remaining shreds of integrity still tenuously clinging. Join US! - in in the call for IMPEACHMENT NOW?
Remember those who so decried our former presidents equivocation, and tremulous puzzling over "what is, is". When this, so called "commander-in-chief" looked for new innovative definitions of "WHAT TORTURE IS", hardly can these be called comparable crimes.
So if you wish to regain, the moral authority the true democrats need to defeat this cabal of war criminals. Call for a bill of impeachment now. And again, and again until the Senate confirms the judgement. And until Bush and Cheney are deposed and sent to the Hague to answer for their murderous and inhumane policies.
The impeachment of a democrat who fought for people, who sought health care for all Americans, will forever shame you and all democrats; if you do not seize the moment and bring democrats together and any republican who understands honor. And IMPEACH these war criminals.
Who cared more about the Petroleum Ministry of Bhagdad, that the lives of young Americans on Ill-armored patrol duty.
NO right for a prisoner to know the charges under which they are held, IMPEACH, Held incommunicado, held indefinitely without charge - I SAY IMPEACH!
Tortured while in U.S. Custody, by a cancellation of basic humane geneva conventions, IMPEACH, Charge soldiers for food and care after near mortal wounds, IMPEACH.
Send young American soldiers to die unnecessarily unprepared, ill armored - this so called commander in thief, MUST BE IMPEACHED!
If democrats care about the honor of this great land. For god's sake, for your great grandchildren's sake, IMPEACH both of these men.
RE: "... antiwar crowd..."
There is so much misunderstanding in this letter, let's start at the title; "Selfish Anti War Crowd". Selfish is the type who couldn't be bothered to go to war for their country but are thrilled to send the children of the working class to war. SEE BUSHES RECORD,
CHENEY'S RECORD, RUMSFELD"S RECORD.
It is not "selfish" to participate in changing the country's direction. It is selfish to profit from this war, that we were lied into, by those who knew better, when they proclaimed WMDs and bouquets awaited us.
When certain British subjects got tired of being ordered around and decided to "DO THEIR OWN THING" by starting this country They started a trend. We don't appreciate rulers who have special rules for themselves and their partners see ENRON / HALIBURTON.
About the ACLU, the American Civil Liberties isn't against anything; its' for the Constitution. It's for, Civil Rights. It's for Rush Limbaugh's rights, it's in favor of your Constitutional Rights. The ACLU passes out copies of the Bill of Rights. Like Johnny Appleseed, they are trying to start a forest of understanding. I know, I'm a member.
About religion in America, our founders understood history. They knew three hundred years of religious wars in Europe. They hoped to avoid it by creating a government that respected
all religions, yet claimed no affiliation. They wanted to prevent the use of civil government to punish religious beliefs.
After President Clinton we had a surplus, and after the 9/11 attack we were supported not by a coalition of the bribed, but by EVERY NATION. If stopping a bad policy is cutting? Then yes, let's cutout bigotry and pointless wars. And let's run from liars, who listen only to yes-men while ignoring the rising toxic water.
RW Spisak
A Report on Representative John Murtha's Appearance in Miami Saturday
The Question:
"What can an ordinary citizen do?"
was answered... at Florida International University's Biscayne Bay Campus.
Saturday, June 24th Rep. Carey & Kendrick Meek and Acting Provost Dr. Ronald Berkman
welcome featured speaker Rep. John Murtha of PA former chair and ranking member on the House Appropriations Committee and subcommittee on defense.
Starting an hour late due to powerful south Florida thunderstorms, a Townhall Meeting was held entitled: THE WAR ON IRAQ. The meeting started with a round of introductions. A welcoming speech by Acting Provost Dr. Berkman was followed with an introduction of Congressperson Kendrick Meeks.
Congressman Meeks then explained, that he received his call to service as a young man,
hearing from so many of his mothers supporters, how much she had accomplished.
The he introduced his mother, retired Congressperson Carrie Meeks. She made a few comments and introduced Congressman Murtha.
Rep Murtha and Meek agreed, that getting the word out, writing senators and representatives; ink and paper, voice, fax, and email is the best way for citizens to have a solid impact on policy. There is a way to actually make a difference and help end the bloodshed and get the WAR PROFITEERS off the back of the American taxpayers.
He said while public opinion may have been bouncing off the TIN EAR of this administration,
Congress listens closer. Make them HEAR YOU! - WRITE/CALL/FAX Congress.
Copies of a Congressman Murtha's House Resolution 73
[To: redeploy US Forces from Iraq] - were available.
This resolution urges that the American Troops be redeployed from Iraq and this international and regional problem be undertaken not by one nation standing alone, facing all the losses and all the costs. The IRAQ problem is not an "AMERICA ONLY" PROBLEM.
When asked what can be done to change the current war plan - Rep. Murtha said simply;
Tell somebody, tell everybody, tell your Representatives, the Senators, and the White House;
what you think about REDEPLOYMENT. The problem of IRAQ, the costs, the rebuilding,
the development of governmental and economic infrastructure should be internationalized.
These costs should not be the burden of the American people alone.
Some of the administration's missteps were discussed, such as, the shortchanging of the troops,
the lower troop counts, the lack of preparation, the missing body armor among others.
Congressman Murtha discussed the reasoning of Bush 1, explaining why he had chosen not to invade and conquer Iraq. He also explained that when the current President Bush asked for authorization to get international sanctions and complete the inspections, while promising diplomacy, he substituted WAR. What had been unanimous international support after 9-11 has become a situation where even our allies have said we are more dangerous than IRAN or North Korea.
He removed support for the Afghanistan invasion, only to redirect American resources
toward the unnecessary War on Iraq. The president dismissed the international inspectors,
turned away International support, only to reduce American foreign policy to a bullies' taunts and jeers. The fact is that the majority of the worlds' nations now view our government as more dangerous than Iran or N. Korea. We have created more terrorists, in Iraq than we have killed.
Retired Congressperson Carrie Meek lamented the fact that, since America has not been
supportive of the U.N., We have with our insults and slights blunted the effectiveness of the UN.
It is regularly attacked in Congress. Some in Congress have worked to avoid and postpone
paying our UN dues.
We spend over $8 billion borrowed dollars per month in Iraq.
Questions were taken from the audiences, and several were discussed.
Here are three of the questions asked:
1. We didn't abandon or ignore the Bill of Rights when we fought Russia or the Axis powers
during the cold war, nor World War II. Why when fighting a few thousand medieval fanatics
must we jettison The Bill of Rights, The Constitution and International Law?
2. How can the Presidents "War Party" continue to keep the costs of the Iraq War -
"OFF THE BOOKS"? Who is tallying the full costs the equipment, the veterans costs, the recruitment costs, and the cost in lives as well as taxes from the American people? And why no prosecutions of the Known War Profiteers?
3. What do we say to our Veterans and our POWs about Guantanamo, Abu Gharib, Bhaghram and RENDITION? The question of the recent arrests of terrorist suspects in Liberty City, was also raised. This very very televised bust followed closely by a series of Talk Show appearances by Administration Mouthpieces, sounded more than suspicious to many of those in attendance. Comments from the panel reflected doubts about misguided young men, with no weapons, no explosives and the only suspicious photos they had, had been taken with the help of a federal agents camera and vehicle.
Congressman Meek described his thoughts this way, as he reported a conversation with a Justice Department Official:
"I said, " if what we've heard, is all there is, then congratulations. You have taken dangerous men off the street, and I offer you, my congratulations, But if they are not who, we are told they are; then we all better be watchful, because they will be pulling some serious tricks between now and election time."
Shuddering looks were passed around.
One more quote from Congressman Murtha is illuminating, regarding a discussion
he had with George Tenant former director of the CIA, who lost a turf battle to the Rumsfeld-Cheney gang, but was presented with a medal of freedom, by the president for his "SLAM DUNK" at the CIA.
Congressman Murtha reports this exchange... He described sitting in George Tenant's office at the CIA and asking, "George what do you have on the president, that he gave you, the Medal of Freedom?"
Tenant's reply was to glance around at his office, and say, "let's step outside to talk."
An Essay on Planned Parenthood
Planned Parenthood has a simple goal to help people "PLAN" parenthood, by being informed about and having control of their own bodies and bodily processes.
Part of informing people about planning parenthood, is informing the ill educated about their own bodily processes. If people had the scientific information and understood, how human reproduction worked, this alone would give them significant control over reproduction.
The same people who oppose abortion also oppose scientific education about sexual biology, and often all birth control.
A knowledge of history, shows that the scientific study of the human body was opposed by contemporary church leaders. The mere study of the structures of the human body was considered by some an affront to religion. Some religious people still oppose dissemination of information about the human body.
Providing information about human biology is part of the work of Planned Parenthood, but it also exists as a bulwark in opposition to those who would limit birth control techniques. Some would limit not only birth control but any choices after impregnation.
Is any limitation on the processes of reproduction acceptable? Nature is certain, she has always provided a range of solutions to over-population. The question remains, how can we accommodate both human sexual behavior and the natural limitations of resource systems.
Ready access to birth control and sex education, acts as a deterrent to the less than ideal choice, of abortion.
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Alexa 100,000 domains are reserved. This removes the most valuable names from the pool.
Trademark claim process prior to mainnet launch further reduces the number of names that squatters want to buy.
The 15 day auction process incurs a significant cost for all participants when you consider the time-value of money.
In combination with 3), masked bids make it harder for squatters to accurately assess their operating costs.
These four features mitigate squatters' abilities to acquire names, but they do little to address the near-zero marginal cost of owning a name.
How can we increase the marginal cost of domain ownership without economically burdening the average user?
We want the marginal cost to be high for squatters to prevent them from squatting 10,000 names for a very long time. At the same time, we want the marginal cost to be low for the average user so that Handshake is widely accessible.
Re-open the auction yearly. In order for the incumbent owner to keep their name, they need to win their auction again.
For the first-time owner of a name, re-open the auction after X months. If they become a two-time owner of that name, re-open it for 2X months. Then 3X, and so on. Make it easier for them to keep their name as time goes on.
Artificially inflate the incumbent owner's bids by 10x. If they bid 10 HNS and someone else bids 95 HNS, their virtual bid is treated as 100 HNS and they will win their name, paying 95/10 = 9.5 hns.
Requiring more auctions to renew a name means squatters increase their exposure to market forces, requiring them to pay market-value for the names that they acquired early below-cost.
Squatters don't want to hold on to their names forever. They decrease risk by selling. Only people that truly want to use a name will want to hold onto it for many years (i.e. you and your favoriate username).
This gives us a tunable parameter that controls how much Handshake favors incumbents. This feature reduces the cost for the average user while still exposing squatters to market prices.
I previously asked "how can we [deal with this potential problem]?", but it's also worth discussing, is this a problem worth dealing with?
Are there any stupid simple changes to Handshake's renewal process that noticeably improve its resilience to squatting?
Another idea for how to trigger a subsequent auction on a name that has already been purchased: required some amount of HNS lockup to trigger a new auction. If a user buys a name for 10 HNS, and the deposit amount required to trigger a new auction on that name is 1000x that initial purchase price, then a new auction could be triggered if the aggregate deposit amount reaches 10,000 HNS. Assuming that happened, a new auction would commence & the users who deposited the HNS in order to start a new auction would be refunded their coins and could bid on the name.
One simple change to combat squatting would be to slow down the emission schedule of names. Instead of releasing all the names in the first year, release them over the first two years.
Another idea would be to release the shortest names last, because they're the most valuable ones.


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Iranian Navy Receives Over 100 Missile Boats
By Orkhan Jalilov May 30, 2020
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps' (IRGC) Navy took delivery of 112 missile boats in a ceremony in the southern Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas on May 28, 2020. / Tasnim News Agency
The naval forces of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) in southern Iran have received 112 missile-launching speed boats this week.
"112 new-generation speed boats of different classes, joined the fleet defending the security of the Persian Gulf in a ceremony held in Bandar Abbas [Hormozgan Province]," Iran's Tasnim news agency reported on May 28.
Top Iranian military officials, including Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami, IRGC Chief Major General Hossein Salami, and IRGC Navy Commander Rear Admiral Alireza Tangsiri attended the ceremony of the delivery of missile boats designed and manufactured by Iran's Defense Ministry's Marine Industries Organization and the IRGC's Naval Force.
The vessels are small-sized, fast vessels armed with anti-ship missiles that support high hydrodynamic and maneuver capabilities in different conditions. The newly introduced fast attack craft of different types include Zolfaqar, Ashura, Tareq speedboats, as well as Heidar-class and Miyad-class boats.
They are expected to enhance the offensive capabilities of the naval forces ensuring the security of the Persian Gulf waters. It happened in line with the plans to boost the Iranian offensive power in the strategic Persian Gulf waters.
"We will not bow to enemies and will not retreat. The defense is our logic in war but not in the sense of passivity against the enemy," IRGC Commander Major-General Hossein Salami said during the ceremony in Bandar Abbas on Thursday. "Our operations and tactics are offensive and we have shown it in the battlefield."
The United States accuses the Iranian vessels of "harassing" the U.S. Navy vessels, describes the Iranian boats approaching the American vessels in the Persian Gulf and international waters in the region, as "dangerous and provocative".
"I have instructed the United States Navy to shoot down and destroy any and all Iranian gunboats if they harass our ships at sea," President Donald Trump said in a tweet posted on April 22.
On May 28, Iran's Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami paid a visit to the industrial shops manufacturing two military vessels, a destroyer and a minesweeper in Bandar Abbas. During the visit, Hatami said the homegrown 'Dena' destroyer is a Mowj Class vessel that will be equipped with advanced systems and will soon join the Iranian Navy's fleet. Mowj is a class of Iran's domestically produced light frigates, which are also known as destroyer escorts.
He stressed that the Defense Ministry will fully support the naval industries to enable them to protect the country's territorial waters in the international waters, the Sea of Oman, and the coasts of Makran, a coastal region of Baluchistan in southeastern Iran and southwestern Pakistan.
The Iranian defense minister has also warned the Persian Gulf countries not to make the "strategic mistake" of allowing the U.S. entry into the region, and said that "when the Persian Gulf region is safe, all regional countries will benefit from such security, but if the Persian Gulf becomes insecure, it will be insecure for all countries in the region."
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Q: Cannot import local files in python debugger (vs code) I am doing the following:

*

*mkdir folder_structure

*mkdir folder_structure/utils

*touch folder_structure/utils/tools.py

*touch folder_structure/main.py

*Write in main.py:

from folder_structure.utils.tools import dummy

if __name__ == '__main__':
    dummy()

*Write in tools.py:

def dummy():
    print("Dummy")

*touch folder_structure/__init__.py

*touch folder_structure/utils/__init__.py

*Run the vs code debugger
I'm getting:
Exception has occurred: ModuleNotFoundError
No module named 'folder_structure'
  File "/Users/davidmasip/Documents/Others/python-scripts/folder_structure/main.py", line 1, in <module>
    from folder_structure.utils.tools import dummy

I have the following in my launch.json:
{
    "version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [
        {
            "name": "Python: Current File",
            "type": "python",
            "request": "launch",
            "program": "${file}",
            "console": "integratedTerminal",
            "env": {
                "PYTHONPATH": "${workspaceRoot}"
            }
        }
    ]
}

How can I import a local module when using the debugger?
This works for me:
python -m folder_structure.main

A: You need replace
from folder_structure.utils.tools import dummy

With
from utils.tools import dummy

A: Changing the launch.json to this:
{
    "version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [
        {
            "name": "Python: Module",
            "type": "python",
            "request": "launch",
            "module": "folder_structure.main",
            "justMyCode": true
        },
        {
            "name": "Python: Current File",
            "type": "python",
            "request": "launch",
            "program": "${file}",
            "console": "integratedTerminal",
            "env": {
                "PYTHONPATH": "${workspaceRoot}"
            },
            "cwd": "${workspaceRoot}",
        }
    ]
}

and debugging the module works.

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