Its the easily missed truisms on display in any article of note, that are Oh-So important.
Consider this single paragraph for a moment.
The governor has Raised taxes on some, went behind the legislature's back on the NITC, pushed hard for Obamacare in Michigan, pushes Common Core, hired several Democrats to key positions, bails out Detroit, pushes rail subsidies, and will likely sign on the dotted line when the Elliot Larsen Civil Rights act is presented for modification. Modified so that dangerous behavior is blessed not only with the ongoing media push, but with the unforgiving and 'intolerant' hammer of law on those who disagree with that behavior.
I imagine you are a swell guy. All your friends, and even more recently your wife will say as much. You might even feel as if you are a conservative Mr. Calley, even with that crazy thing you did forcing insurers to model their underwriting to suit YOUR particular needs.
And as for the "routine" claim that you are "the conservative voice" in the administration?
How bad does Rick Snyder have to get before you speak up? What liberal things must he do? How great a progressive stride does he have to take in order to activate your spidey senses?
Or worse yet, if you are acting on behalf of conservatism Mr. Lt. Governor, what devastating things have you headed off to qualify such a "routinely" made claim of your conservatism? Is there anything so great that you could perhaps point it out to those of us who have watched patiently; waiting for something that we can bear witness to?
C'mon! Throw us a bone. Give us some red meat. tell us what it is that you do, have done, where your 'conservatism' matters. Something substantial; possibly meaningful.
And if there is something so bad that it bears no repeating, then shouldn't that make us fear even more? What horrific acts have you stopped within the administration with the power of conservatism? What kind of monster must the governor be that you cannot at least marginally face him on some out-in-the-open issues, (as a bona-fide conservative) yet imply that you perform some great service to conservatives behind the scenes as the moderating 'voice' within.
Do you firmly grasp his chains? Hold him back? Sing songs of liberty to him? Temper his madness in some way?
For someone who has "never publicly opposed the governor on major policy decisions" yet feels he has earned the trust of platform republicans, there MUST be something of import that we are not yet privy. To call yourself the 'conservative voice in the administration does indeed imply that the governor is NOT, correct?
The convention is drawing near, and folks are on the edge of their seats. The quote at the beginning begs these questions be answered.
Misdirection from the Snyder Administration isn't limited to onlyLil guv.
How long do these two (and their handlers) expect real Conservatives to believe what they are shoveling?
Well, I certainly would like to learn what "valuable and Conservative asset" this tool could possibly be thinking of.
Been thinking about this can of worms for a while this morning, and identified one glaring oversight that cannot go without being addressed.
That is factually incorrect. The Governor, and Brian Calley by deciding vote - raised taxes on all.


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Q: "tail -f | grep -q" as a trigger without worrying about the previous found Currently, the only way to see if my Tomcat has fully started up is to check apache-tomcat log:
tail -f ./catalina.out
and look for this pattern to show up before I do any job.
org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start Server startup in [0-9]* ms
I wanted to automate the process and wrote the script below, which did work.
tail -f ./catalina.out | egrep -q '*.Catalina.start Server startup in [0-9]* ms$'
touch done

But the problem is that it sometimes reads the previous Startup and finishes right off.

The desired process:
Tomcat stops -> Tomcat restarts -> The tail shell runs -> Tomcat full starts up -> The shell tells me it's done

What my script might do:
Tomcat stops -> Tomcat restarts -> The tail shell runs -> It immediately tells me Tomcat is fully booted because of the previous log.
How do I achieve this?

A: By default tail -f reads the 10 last lines, and then starts with following up.
You can use -n to override that number, so tail -n0 -f  starts at the current end, ignoring any earlier content, and then follows new changes.
Note that if you run:
start tomcat in some way
tail -n0 -f logfile | grep -q

you're relying on tomcat being slow enough that the tail has time to start before tomcat has written the line telling it started. Usually, it might be so, but it's possible for the script to be scheduled so that there's an arbitrarily-long delay before tail runs. So, really, you should somehow arrange for tail to start first.
I could imagine something like this, but I'm not sure:
tail -n0 -f logfile | grep -q &
pid=$!
start tomcat in some way
wait "$pid"

Also, there's a slight problem in that while grep -q exits the moment it sees a matching line, this doesn't cause tail to exit yet. The tail will only exit when it sees the pipe closed, and that only happens when it tries to write to the pipe again, the next time new stuff appears in the file.
Of course if the file constantly fills with new entries, this will happen soon enough.

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Broadband infrastructure Improving in India
The telecom industry in India has grown remarkably in the recent years. But have the Internet, which is considered as the most efficient and faster means of communication, able to keep pace with the growth? Even though India has been making speedy tramps in Internet marketing but, it is still far behind many nations in the World in terms of broadband. When we talk about Internet connectivity, it is still not good enough. India talks about the Digital dream, but the average broadband speed in the entire country is lesser than the half of average global Internet speed. As per a report by State of the Internet, which has been released by cloud computing services and content delivery network Akamai; the average broadband speed in the country is 2 Mbps, while the global average is 4.6 Mbps. Although, the speed is much faster than dial-up, still as compared to the rest of the world, it is much slower.
Broadband in India
India is a vast country with a population of over 1 billion and today, with the growing popularity of Internet; the number of users in the country has increased. However, they have to bear with the slothful speed of the Internet. There are 12.5 million people uses broadband out of 100 million Internet users as compared to 450 million users in China. Unless, India implements high-speed optic fiber network, making Digital India is like a distant dream. However, Government has taken a number of steps to expand the user base in the country. The Broadband Policy of India has set forceful targets for broadband connections. But, is the government successful in achieving its set target?
Broadband infrastructure in India
It is important to understand that the broadband network is a combination of several technologies at various levels. The country lacks in broadband infrastructure as well as accessibility, which has created a hurdle. The government has laid a plan to construct a national optical fiber network, which will be able to connect the entire nation. According to the minister of communications and IT, Ravi Shankar Prasad, said, "The entire country will be covered by broadband within three years, and the Internet will reach the remotest villages." This program will be able to drive internet usage in the country and improve the economy. The government plans to employ at least 10 CIOs to supervise the Digital India program, and produce four other senior positions for manage adoption of standards and security aspects. With better infrastructure, the country can attain its goal of making the country digital. Recently, inaugurated Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL's) next generation network (NGN) technology for fixed-line telephones, which is sure to enhance the proposed National Broadband Infrastructure.
The relation between improved broadband infrastructure and GDP
There is no doubt that the IT sector of India has witnessed a great boom and has remarkably contributed to the economic growth of the country. The implementation of broadband network leads to a multifactor efficiency gain, which sequentially contributes to the growth of GDP. Be it residential uses or corporate use, improving the broadband infrastructure will help in economic development of the country. Studies have shown that it is a contributor to economic growth at numerous levels. First is that the enhancement and development of it will improve the productivity of business organizations by aiding the implementation of a more efficient business process. Secondly, extensive use of broadband will hasten innovation by establishing new consumer applications, as well as services. Thirdly, it will lead to a more efficient functional use of enterprises by expanding their reach to the skilled workforce, access to raw materials, as well as consumers. Hence, it is essential for a developing country like India to improve the broadband infrastructure for economic growth.
The future of broadband in India
With improvement in its infrastructure, broadband in India can grow rapidly. Today, as compared to other nations in the World, broadband in India is still very expensive. BSNL, Tata, Reliance, Airtel are the giants in this field and dominates the entire sector. Today, to widen the reach of its service, they have introduced and implemented technologies such as 4G, 3G, Wi-Fi, and WiMAX. It is also essential for the government to mull over the release of the necessary bands to roll out these services. In 2010, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India had proposed the National Broadband Plan (NBP), which aimed to bring high-speed broadband connectivity to 160 million homes in the country. By 2015 end, BBNL is expected to deliver high-speed and reliable internet connection across the country and by 2020; it is expected to have 600 million subscribers with a minimum speed of 2Mbps and a maximum speed of 100Mbps. The initiative has been taken by the Government to improve the broadband infrastructure in the country and make high-speed Internet connectivity available to maximum household at a reasonable price. visit : http://www.Proud2bindian.com
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Home News Feed Powered by DMLNewsApp.com VIDEO: Investigative Reporter Reveals Bombshell CLAIM On Hillary Clinton's Server
VIDEO: Investigative Reporter Reveals Bombshell CLAIM On Hillary Clinton's Server
As the most reliable and balanced news aggregation service on the internet, DML News offers the following information published by DAILYCALLER.COM:
The Daily Caller News Foundation's Richard Pollock sat down with the Daily Caller's Stephanie Hamill and Vince Coglianese to discuss his bombshell report on the Chinese hacking of Hillary Clinton's server.
"A Chinese-owned company operating in the Washington, D.C., area hacked Hillary Clinton's private server throughout her term as secretary of state and obtained nearly all her emails," two sources briefed on the matter told The Daily Caller News Foundation.
Late Monday night, the Daily Caller reported the following:
The Chinese firm obtained Clinton's emails in real time as she sent and received communications and documents through her personal server, according to the sources, who said the hacking was conducted as part of an intelligence operation.
The Chinese wrote code that was embedded in the server, which was kept in Clinton's residence in upstate New York. The code generated an instant "courtesy copy" for nearly all of her emails and forwarded them to the Chinese company, according to the sources.
The Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG) found that virtually all of Clinton's emails were sent to a "foreign entity," Rep. Louie Gohmert, a Texas Republican, said at a July 12 House Committee on the Judiciary hearing. He did not reveal the entity's identity, but said it was unrelated to Russia.
Two officials with the ICIG, investigator Frank Rucker and attorney Janette McMillan, met repeatedly with FBI officials to warn them of the Chinese intrusion, according to a former intelligence officer with expertise in cybersecurity issues, who was briefed on the matter. He spoke anonymously, as he was not authorized to publicly address the Chinese's role with Clinton's server.
Among those FBI officials was Peter Strzok, who was then the bureau's top counterintelligence official. Strzok was fired this month following the discovery he sent anti-Trump texts to his mistress and co-worker, Lisa Page. Strzok didn't act on the information the ICIG provided him, according to Gohmert.
Gohmert mentioned in the Judiciary Committee hearing that ICIG officials told Strzok and three other top FBI officials that they found an "anomaly" on Clinton's server.
The former intelligence officer TheDCNF spoke with said the ICIG "discovered the anomaly pretty early in 2015."
"When [the ICIG] did a very deep dive, they found in the actual metadata — the data which is at the header and footer of all the emails — that a copy, a 'courtesy copy,' was being sent to a third party and that third party was a known Chinese public company that was involved in collecting intelligence for China," the former intelligence officer told TheDCNF.
"The [the ICIG] believe that there was some level of phishing.But once they got into the server something was embedded," he said. "The Chinese are notorious for embedding little surprises like this."
The intelligence officer declined to name the Chinese company.
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julia wilson August 29, 2018 at 10:05 am
Oh well, since it has to do with Clinton, it is not a problem!! We all know that our laws do not apply to her . She has the authority to do what ever she wants an no one can touch her!!!! Sessions has already said he will not do any investigations on her . When the attorney general will not have anything to do with investigating her it will never happen!!
REPORT: CNN criticized for not identifying women on panel as Trump supporters


In many ways, this episode can be considered a continuation of the conversation in our last episode with Rose Maljanian.
In this episode of the Crux Points podcast, we have the privilege of speaking with Paul Roemer. Many of our listeners know Paul from his well-regarded patient experience blog on Pale Rhino Consulting. Paul is also the Global Healthcare Consumerism Leader for IBM, working to reimagine healthcare consumerism and patient and consumer access.
Paul brings over 30 years of experience in customer experience to the table. His focus is on how the patient and consumer access the hospital or health system – which is most often through the web site or phone.
We can look forward to a lively conversation with Paul, as he shares his insights and opinions on how organizations can best optimize the patient journey to care.
Why Paul believes that organizations often deliver a 2.0 care experience, while delivering just a ".2" pre and post care experience.
Why he doesn't believe the HCAHPS is a true barometer for the patient experience.
And why he believes it's important to ensure that a hospitals call center is more than just a scheduling center.
This is a great conversation with Paul. We hope you enjoy it.


We have almost reached the point where the country can be referred to as "totalitarian".
We have almost reached the point where the country can be referred to as "totalitarian" in accordance with the definition provided.Incrementally, it creeps forward: the "soft" tyranny. Curing, refining itself, and hardening, there will be a point of no return that is reached… a point where it has metastasized until it is both all encompassing and ubiquitous.


Museums have no political power, but they do have the possibility of influencing the political process. This is a complete change from their role in the early days of collecting and hoarding the world to one of using the collections as an archive for a changing world. This role is not merely scientifically important, but it is also a cultural necessity.
After all, isn't the purpose of the novel, or of a museum, for that matter, to relate our memories with such sincerity as to transform individual happiness into a happiness all can share?
Eventually, all great paintings end up in museums.
There are moments when one feels a desperate gratitude for museums, whatever their own ambiguous histories. Their objects from lost cities lead us back to who we are.
I believe in walking out of a museum before the paintings you've seen begin to run together. How else can you carry anything away with you in your mind's eye?
In poetically well built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but by losing all sense of Time.
The best introduction to art is to stroll through a museum. The more art you see, the more you'll learn to define your own taste.
When in a museum, walk slowly but keep walking.


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import io.github.retz.cli.ClientCLIConfig;
import org.junit.BeforeClass;

/**
 * Simple integration test cases for retz-server / -executor.
 */
public class H2OnMemTest extends RetzIntTest {

    @BeforeClass
    public static void setupContainer() throws Exception {
        // Starting containers right here as configurations are static
        setupContainer("retz.properties", false);
    }

    @Override
    ClientCLIConfig makeClientConfig() throws Exception {
        return new ClientCLIConfig("src/test/resources/retz-c.properties");
    }
}

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The striker passed the 20-goal milestone with a double against Dundee at Dens last weekend.
Derek McInnes has heard every criticism of Sam Cosgrove in his 14 months at Pittodrie – but is proud to have stuck with him and proven the doubters wrong.
And the Aberdeen manager said: "It tells me a lot about him because I knew what everybody was saying about him – that he wasn't good enough.
"The fact he has proven so many people wrong and proven me right gives me great satisfaction.
"Youngsters are much more aware of criticism and what people are saying about them nowadays.
"If somebody is saying something about you, it's there and in your face. I feel for players who have to deal with it.
"But the fact Sam has dealt with it and brushed himself down, I can see the merits in a Cosgrove playing for my team.
"Even when he doesn't score goals he can still be effective.
only way they're going to test the Hoops' Treble bottle.
The Dons boss knows Celtic can handle Hampden and the big occasion after losing the Betfred Cup Final to them in December.
But as the burden of making history with a third straight clean sweep piles up, he wants his players to find a a way to make the pressure count against a side who have won 25 successive domestic cup games.
But stopping the Bhoys this afternoon isn't Del's target – winning the Scottish Cup for Aberdeen is.
He said: "I wouldn't see stopping them as an achievement. When the draw was made, we still had Rangers to beat in the replay and we seemed a million miles from the trophy – I don't know what odds we'd have been then to beat Rangers away and Celtic at Hampden.


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UN OKs Mission to Monitor Future Cease-Fire in Colombia
By Cara Anna	• Published January 25, 2016 • Updated on January 25, 2016 at 7:48 pm
The U.N. Security Council on Monday unanimously approved a resolution to establish a political mission to monitor and verify a future cease-fire in Colombia that would end Latin America's longest-running guerrilla conflict.
The resolution welcomes the progress in negotiations between Colombia's government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia and notes their joint request last week for a U.N. monitoring mission. In a rare move for the often-divided council, all 15 members co-sponsored the resolution.
The request sent a strong signal that a March 23 deadline to wrap up peace talks could be within reach.
"Finally, our continent will have life without conflict," the country's foreign minister, Maria Angela Holguin, told reporters. She said her country hopes to meet the March deadline.
The resolution establishes a political mission for 12 months, and the council can consider an extension if asked by the two parties. The mission will be made up of unarmed observers from Latin American and Caribbean nations.
Decades of fighting between guerrillas, right-wing paramilitaries and the armed forces has left more than 220,000 dead, some 40,000 disappeared and over 5 million driven from their homes.
"It isn't common for a country to refer itself to the council. But it's exactly the kind of role the United Nations should be playing" in conflict resolution, British Ambassador Matthew Rycroft said. "I hope today will mark the start of the final stage of peace talks."
The resolution asks U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to present detailed recommendations on the political mission's size and operation to the council for its approval within 30 days of a cease-fire. The Secretary-General in a statement said he's sending Under Secretary-General Jeffrey Feltman to a summit this week in Ecuador of regional leaders to begin preparing for the mission's deployment once a peace agreement is signed.
President Juan Manuel Santos, who heads to the White House next week to commemorate 15 years of U.S. support for Colombia, celebrated the resolution and thanked Pope Francis as well as all 5 veto powers of the Security Council for their support.
"Colombia is today in the world synonymous with hope," said Santos in a nationwide televised address, emphasizing that the country's conflict is the only one in the world being defused.
U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power warned, however, that plenty of work lies ahead, including the removal of land mines and the re-integration of fighters into the population. The U.N. says that globally, Colombia has the second-highest number of new victims of mines registered each year.
Critics in Colombia also noted that the formula for laying down the weapons, and whether they'll be destroyed, has yet to be devised. Santos said that while the exact location of where rebels will congregate once a final deal is signed is still being negotiated, the U.N. will set up monitoring offices in 8 locations nationwide.
Though nominally Marxist at its founding, the FARC's ideology has never been well defined and the group lost popularity as it turned to kidnapping, extortion and taxes on cocaine production to fund its mostly peasant-based insurgency.


"America the Beautiful" – we'll be singing this song on Sunday and also praying a prayer for our nation. Holy Communion will be celebrated. There will be a prayer journey. The Bible story for the service has some every surprising – and inspiring – heroes. Join us at 8:45 a.m. on Sunday. You'll be glad you did.
There will be no NEW Worship tomorrow night because it is a national holiday.
We know of two people who are hospitalized: Jim Mitchell in Fond du Lac and Lola Shady in Madison. Please pray that they will experience God's comforting presence as they heal from surgery.
The July Messenger is now available in the narthex at the church and on line (subversivecinema.com).
If you want to attend the TimberRattlers game with the United Church of Christ Northeast Association on July 13th, you can call Jackie for a link to sign up. It is a fun time for all ages.
A prayer for today: O God, I am grateful that you have given me life in this country where I am able to worship you in safety. I pray that you will bless our whole nation with a stronger moral sense and a deeper concern for those in need. Show me how to be a good disciple of Jesus and a good citizen at the same time. I pray that your healing light will shine within Jim Mitchell and Lola Shady and upon all who are sick or sad. I pray these things in Jesus' name. Amen.


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SpaceX Just Launched 57 New Starlink Satellites With Controversial Sun Shades
showrunner August 8, 2020
After a two-month gap, SpaceX has resumed launching batches of dozens of satellites in its gambit to blanket Earth with high-speed internet access.
The satellites are a new "VisorSat" variety to make them less shiny to the ground and especially to astronomers' telescopes. But researchers say the spacecraft's experimental new feature, while helpful, won't fully solve problems posed by the existence of Starlink itself (or other planned thousands-strong satellite fleets, for that matter).
SpaceX, founded by Elon Musk, calls its internet project Starlink, and may deploy tens of thousands of the broadband internet-beaming satellites into low-Earth orbit. On Friday at 1:12 am ET, one of the company's Falcon 9 rockets launched a new batch of them, along with two Earth-imaging spacecraft built by BlackSky Global.
SpaceX fitted all 57 of its desk-sized Starlink satellites with a new feature: sun visors or shades.
The visors should deploy after launch and block sunlight from reflecting off the satellites' surfaces – glare that makes Starlink spacecraft appear as bright, moving trails in the night sky that can photobomb telescope observations, blot out faint astronomical objects, and even hinder searches for killer asteroids.
The visors will probably make the satellites less bright, but it won't stop them from interfering with astronomy, says astronomer Jonathan McDowell.
"If you figure out where to put the visors, you should be able to really cut down those reflections. And that will make the satellites no longer naked-eye objects, which is good," he told Business Insider in June. "It won't, probably, make them so faint that they won't be a problem for professional astronomers."
SpaceX did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
An illustration of the Starlink satellite. (Space X)
Astronomers fear that SpaceX's bright satellites could outshine the stars
After SpaceX launched its first set of Starlink satellites in May 2019, many astronomers were alarmed by how bright the new objects were. In the days after the launch, people across the world spotted the train of satellites, like a line of twinkling stars.
"I felt as if life as an astronomer and a lover of the night sky would never be the same," astronomer James Lowenthal told The New York Times in November.
"If there are lots and lots of bright moving objects in the sky, it tremendously complicates our job," Lowenthal added. "It potentially threatens the science of astronomy itself."
Telescopes on Earth that look for distant, dim objects could pick up these false stars and ruin astronomers' data. A single satellite can create a continuous streak of light across a telescope's long-exposure images of the sky, blocking the objects astronomers want to study.
"It takes just a couple seconds for the satellite to cross the telescope's field of view, but we take really long exposures with our cameras. So in that couple of seconds, a whole 10- or 15-minute exposure is ruined," McDowell said.
The satellites can especially affect telescopes that observe close to the horizon near dawn – the kind of observations that help astronomers track asteroids flying close to Earth.
SpaceX is sharing Starlink's orbital-path data with astronomers so that they can plan their telescope observations around the satellites' movements. Briefly shutting off the camera as the satellite passes overhead can save a long-exposure image.
To date, SpaceX has flown nearly 600 Starlink spacecraft to orbit – the most of any satellite operator. But Musk's grand ambitions could make it practically impossible for astronomers to avoid the fast-moving satellites.
SpaceX already has permission to launch nearly 12,000 satellites, and last year sought additional clearance to put up to a total of 42,000 satellites into orbit. And that's not counting other providers' plans.
"If they're coming over all the time, then knowing when they're coming over isn't helpful," McDowell said. Even now, he added, sometimes astronomers can't avoid the photobombers.
It's not yet clear how well a VisorSat works
It's unclear how effective the SpaceX's new visors will be, though the company launched an experimental "VisorSat" to test the concept on June 3. SpaceX has yet to report the results of that test.
"We're still waiting for the satellite to reach its operational orbit," Youmei Zhou, an integration and test engineer for SpaceX's Crew Dragon spaceship, said during a live broadcast of the launch early Friday morning.
Launching a whole fleet of visor-equipped satellites without widely sharing, or possibly knowing, the results of the experimental spacecraft visor seems like "a gusty move" to McDowell.
"I think what it reflects is that they have much more confidence now that they understand the sources of the problem," he said.
The company doesn't expect earlier, visor-free Starlink satellites to complete their five-year life span, Patricia Cooper, SpaceX's vice president of satellite government relations, told Spaceflight Now in May. That means that, in a few years, the brightest satellites may no longer appear in the sky.
Satellite constellations pose larger problems that visors can't fix
The Starlink fleet caught astronomers' attention for how bright it was, but it revealed a much larger problem: The skies could soon be swarming with false stars.
SpaceX isn't the only company building a massive fleet of satellites. Companies like Amazon and OneWeb have similar aspirations to establish their own fleets and rake in billions of dollars each year.
"If OneWeb goes ahead and launches its proposed constellation without mitigation, that is going to have very severe impacts on ground-based astronomy to the point that, for at least four months out of the year, it's going to be pretty impossible to do most observations," McDowell said.
"You might as well just shut the observatory down for the summer months, because there's going to be so many satellites screwing up your data."
Mitigating solar reflections also goes only so far. Astronomers also worry about invisible wavelengths of light that stand to compromise other forms of astronomy.
The Federal Communications Commission, which authorizes the flight and use of internet-beaming satellites in the US, says preventing disruption to astronomy is "not a condition" for licensing – so SpaceX is pursuing solutions on its own accord. Sources known to Business Insider also say Amazon's Kuiper satellite-internet project is working with astronomers to reduce those satellites' impact.
But SpaceX and others have yet to announce potential harm-reduction measures for radiowaves the satellites will broadcast, or for the infrared light they emit by producing heat. Both can interfere with telescopes on Earth that observe the skies using radio or infrared.
"We're in a new phase of space utilization. It's a new space industrial revolution, things are different, and astronomy's going to be affected," McDowell said.
"We just have to make sure we're part of the conversation so we can keep it down to the 'pain in the neck' level and not the 'give up and go home' level."
Dave Mosher contributed reporting.
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Softimage Announces SOFTIMAGE|3D Version 3.8
April 6, 1998	 |
LAS VEGAS, April 6, 1998 — Softimage Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft Corp., today announced version 3.8 of its 3-D modeling, animation and rendering software package, SOFTIMAGE® |3D, at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB'98) conference and exhibition. SOFTIMAGE|3D version 3.8 combines new features and capabilities for character animation, games development and texturing. In addition to providing greater control for current users of SOFTIMAGE|3D, these new tools introduce several technologies fundamental to "Sumatra," the code name for the next-generation of SOFTIMAGE|3D. SOFTIMAGE|3D version 3.8 is also designed to work in conjunction with "Twister," the code name for the Softimage interactive rendering system, which will be integrated into "Sumatra." "Twister" is scheduled to ship later this year.
"With version 3.8, we're introducing character animation features that make production significantly faster," said Dan Kraus, SOFTIMAGE|3D product manager. "Version 3.8 solidifies our recognized leadership in character animation and delivers the most robust end-to-end solution for 3-D production."
An industrywide need for tools that facilitate productivity and creativity is the starting point for the new features and capabilities available in SOFTIMAGE|3D version 3.8. Contact with customers in production environments has been invaluable in determining the direction of the latest version of the software. New animation features in SOFTIMAGE|3D version 3.8 include the following:
Animation Sequencer. This tool provides a high-level interface to character animation. It allows users to work with groups of animation called "Actions," which can be managed independently. Groups of Actions can be defined for any character in a scene, then sequenced together on a time line, making management of complex character animation much easier.
Enhanced Character Skinning tools. These tools facilitate character animation by allowing the user to quickly and easily copy envelope weights between multiple envelopes, including envelopes of different resolution, saving time during character creation. Additionally, significant optimizations of both Inverse Kinematics and envelope calculations now provide greatly increased performance.
Audio support. SOFTIMAGE|3D version 3.8 incorporates dopesheet-level support for sound data, allowing users to manipulate sound and animation data independently for the purpose of synchronization.
New game development features in SOFTIMAGE|3D version 3.8 help speed the game development process. A radically new interactive polygon reduction tool allows users to maintain surface attributes, such as materials, textures and weights, eliminating the need to reapply attributes once a model is reduced. The ASCII file export/import viewer allows users to convert data between Softimage and a new, easily customizable file format based on the Microsoft® DirectX® API. The export/import viewer provides a quick and easy way for game developers to integrate SOFTIMAGE|3D models, textures and animations into their existing workflow. An efficient new color reduction tool makes use of an improved palette-generation algorithm to display 256 palette entries at once, reduce all the textures of selected models simultaneously and resize source images, speeding the overall color reduction process. And, the new GameFilter tool allows game developers to perform both hierarchy filtering and animation compression on a current scene, lightening the overall scene as necessary for download to a target platform.
Integration With Next-Generation Tools
SOFTIMAGE|3D version 3.8 is designed to work in conjunction with "Twister," the interactive rendering product that combines the power of the next generation of the mental ray® renderer with the interface and architecture of "Sumatra." "Twister" fits neatly into the version 3.8 workflow and provides a transition platform to the next generation of Softimage products. "Twister" is targeted for release in the third quarter of 1998, and "Sumatra" is expected to be released at the end of the year.
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About Softimage
Founded in 1986, Softimage develops software for media-rich applications including video, film, interactive games and CD-ROM applications. Products include SOFTIMAGE|DS
(video production), SOFTIMAGE|3D (high-end animation), SOFTIMAGE|EDDIE (compositing) and Toonz (2-D cel animation). The company was acquired in 1994 by Microsoft. Additional information about Softimage and Microsoft can be found on the Internet at (http://www.softimage.com/) and http://www.microsoft.com/ , respectively.
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT") is the worldwide leader in software for personal computers. The company offers a wide range of products and services for business and personal use, each designed with the mission of making it easier and more enjoyable for people to take advantage of the full power of personal computing every day.
Softimage is a registered trademark of Softimage Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft Corp.
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DCP Approved HDCP Compliance Test Equipment for HDCP 2.2 implementing the tests described in HDCP 2.2 IIA Compliance Test Specification. UCD-400, UCD-340, UCD-323 and UCD-301 as test equipment platforms (www.digital-cp.com/compliance).
The HCDP 2.2 CTS tool is an extension to Unigraf's wide selection of compliance test tools for DisplayPort interface. The new HDCP 2.2 compliance tests use UCD-400 or UCD-300 series test equipment as their hardware platform.
The new tests allow for testing DP Sink, Source and Repeater DUTs. UCD-400 (DP 1.4), UCD-340 (DP over USB-C) and UCD-323 (DP 1.2) test equipment function as a Reference Source and a Reference Sink. UCD-301 functions as a Reference Sink only. UCD-400 allows for simultaneous Source and Sink functionality enabling the Repeater tests.
In addition to the Compliance Tests, UCD-301 features Functionality Testing of HDCP 1.3 and HDCP 2.2 encryption.


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Horta de Sant Joan ist eine spanische Stadt in der Comarca Terra Alta in der Provinz Tarragona der Autonomen Gemeinschaft Katalonien.

Die Gemeinde hat eine Fläche von 119 km² und  Einwohner (Stand ).

Ein mehrmonatiger Aufenthalt Picassos im Jahr 1909 war bedeutsam für die Entwicklung seiner kubistischen Periode.

Persönlichkeiten
 Manuel Pallarès i Grau (* 1876 in Horta de Sant Joan; † 1974 in Barcelona), Maler, Jugendfreund des Malers Pablo Picasso

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 Website der Gemeinde
 Information der Generalitat de Catalunya
 Information des Institut d'Estadística de Catalunya

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Ort in Katalonien
Weinbauort in Spanien

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Melania Trump Be Best on road: First lady taking 'Be Best' children's campaign.
Melania Trump is going on the road to promote her "Be Best" campaign to help children. The first lady planned to promote the campaign today in Tennessee during a visit to Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt in Nashville. It will be her first domestic trip to highlight the initiative. Mrs. Trump will participate in a discussion about babies born addicted to drugs, tour a neonatal intensive care unit and visit with patients.
The first lady unveiled "Be Best" at the White House in May, saying it will focus on children's well-being, social media use and opioid abuse. She was hospitalized soon after the announcement following surgery to treat a kidney condition and spent several weeks out of the public eye recuperating before resuming a public schedule.


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Abba Caused 'Glee'; 'Glee' Ruins Everything
Alex Eichler
Glee, apparently, is a Fox dramedy, now in its second season, about a group of telegenic high school students who burst into song all the time. (We have never watched Glee, but our 13-year-old cousin really likes it.) Some people are big fans of Glee, like Bruce Springsteen. Other people feel less warmly about it, like the editors of Newsweek, probably.
Jim Shelley belongs in the latter camp. Writing in The Guardian this week, Shelley torpedoes a recent episode of Glee, or, as he says it should be called, Horror, because "that's what it fills me with." (Hey, why don't we call it Everybody Hates Raymond?) Shelley goes on to list some offenses committed by Glee during the hour he watched. None of these mean anything to us, but we offer them in the hopes that someone, somewhere, might understand them:
The episode Shelley watched was built around "the sort of simplistic plot even Friends would have frowned upon," and involved a religious visitation via a grilled cheese sandwich.
Another plot point hinged on whether a "Rachel" would let a "Finn" touch her boobs. "And lo!" Shelley writes. "She did place his hand on her boobs, and they were good. 'Awesome' in fact."
The show has certain philosophical problems in common with "Ugly Betty, Desperate Housewives, Sex and the City," all programs that "purport to be about 'strong' women -- who are coincidentally obsessed with men, love shopping and have Lovely Hair."
Shelley also isolates the musical and cultural DNA at the heart of the Glee genome. "I blame Abba," he writes. "If they hadn't retired, the whole mania for tribute bands would never have become so big." Jeez, dude. Somebody's forgotten the fateful night we crossed the Rio Grande.
Alex Eichler is a reporter at The Huffington Post and a former staff writer at The Atlantic Wire.


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Living together intentionally since 1974
place Yarra Valley, Victoria, Australia
The Moora Moora Community Co operative
A Friendly Spirit
An Alternative
We are a group of people concerned with developing an alternative to the suburban nuclear family living with its particular pressures and limitations. Many of us are discontented with the noise, foul air, water and food of the city, with our polluted environment. We are concerned with getting away from the overcrowding of city life.
Others are particularly concerned about the isolation and loneliness of suburban living, its increasingly high cost, the narrowness of the isolated nuclear family, the lack of community facilities and co-operative living. We regret the superficiality of our human relationships within the suburban street, living near neighbours we didn't choose, the isolation of the non-working wife and the lack of continuous playmates for the children. Others primarily concerned with education are dissatisfied with the alienation between learning and living as well as with the forms and content of education. They see our intended community as an educational community: a community that finds life and richness in the pursuit of individual and community development.
We plan to create a community education environment, a centre for learning how to live. We seek to create a learning environment that facilitates full realisation of the members potential, a centre that involves people of all ages, where learning is throughout life and integrated within one's living situation. We base our learning on our environment and the people with whom we live.
In a more general sense, many of us are discontented with the mainstream of our society, the direction in which we are going. We dislike the over-centralised nature of our society, our non-participation in the decisions that most personally affect us. We resent being manipulated to 'keep up with the Joneses' and the competitive, violent and materialistic values that permeate the wider society.
Out of this concern we are creating a co-operative community with a diversity of personalities and lifestyles that enable us to shape our environment and live with people of our own choosing. Our primary concerns are social, educational and ecological.
The mode of learning will be as diversified as possible to suit the needs of all of us. Particularly where children are concerned, parents have different ideas on the learning of basic skills. The emphasis, however, will be on the apprentice/learning exchange approach where all who wish to learn would seek out those who have some skill or insight to offer. In short you learn how to do it yourself with the help of some friends.
Visitors may wish to visit us for a specific purpose rather than desire to immerse themselves in our whole way of living and learning. They might take part in apprentice-style learning or seminar/workshops. The influx of people for weekends and holidays may provide employment, full or part time, for members of the community.
However, we do not seek to create a tribal village with its restrictions on personal growth. We cannot expect to be self-sufficient in knowledge and wisdom. We will go beyond our community whenever it is beneficial. The interchange should be fruitful to the members of the co-operative as well as to society at large.
This community is registered with the Registrar of Co-operative Societies as a "Community Settlement Society" as required by the Co-operative Act 1959. A set of rules are required by this Act and these are available from our secretary or treasurer.
Membership and Shareholding
(Please note: The figures here are not current. Please contact the Membership Committee for further information.)
The most important qualification for membership of the community will be the concern of the individual for the aims of the community and his/her personal compatibility with other members. This will not be determined by any formal 'entrance interview' but rather by extended social contact between members prior to full participation. It will be as much up to the individual himself/herself to determine his/her own compatibility as it will be up to the existing members. We request that potential members share our concerns, and spend some time getting to know us before asking to join. The first concrete expression of a desire to pursue membership is to become a 'friend' of Moora Moora. The symbol of this is the payment of a non-interest bearing $100 loan to the co-operative at 3 months call.
There are two types of membership available. Residential membership requires a share holding of a minimum of 6000 $1 shares. This represents a share in the land of the community and the services available as well as eligibility for a building lease. In order to gain a lease a member must either join together with at least one other residential shareholder or hold a minimum of 9000 shares. Before a lease will be issued the member must be accepted by mutual agreement by the members of the cluster which he wishes to join.
Non-residential membership is available for those who do not wish to build on the land and requires a share holding of 4000 $1 shares. These members are entitled to full membership rights, except a building lease and farming rights.
All people over the age of 18 years are eligible for full membership of the community. Members' offspring over 18 will have priority over other applicants when we achieve our planned community size.
Initially 360,000 $1 shares were issued and were held by members. The shares are not paid up to their full value and quarterly calls are made to pay off the property. An incoming member buys his shares at their current paid up value from either a member who wishes to leave the co-operative or a member who holds an excess number of shares. All share transfers must be approved by the co-operative. The planned membership is 60 residential members holding 6000 shares each and 20 non-residential members holding 4000 shares each. Some financial assistance may be available to assist people with limited financial means.
We do not desire a rapid turnover in membership of this community. A member wanting to sell his shares and any assets he holds in the co-operative (such as a home and his share of the cluster development) must continue honouring membership commitments until the sale can be arranged. Every effort will be made in helping the leaving member sell within a reasonable time. A member wanting to leave promptly may forfeit his shares and assets to the co-operative.
The actual form of the community cannot be known until we have all begun to live in it together.
Our basic needs, in order to realise our goals and enhance our own power over our own lives, are sufficient space, land, time and people. With a style of living that involves diversity, openness, freedom and participation, we aim to continually work on the balance of our diverse and often conflicting individual and collective needs. We seek a dynamic balance between privacy and community, homogeneity and diversity, co-operative and private ownership, and between our inner community life and our wider social involvement.
We need complexity and diversity to find freedom; commonality and similarity for community, and openness for growth. Each we feel is vital to the meaning and richness of the other, and the dynamics of combining the three will give our lives the richness and meaning we all strive for.
Building and Services
We're planning for a range of buildings in clustered houses, communal buildings, and a learning centre, integrated practically and aesthetically with the natural landscape and allowing us scope for a diversity of lifestyles. We will have 30 housing units grouped in six clusters each of between four and six units.
We are looking for ways of accommodating our own changing needs – for solitude, for shared living, for comfort, for wanting to feel close to nature. The whole community is involved in advising and deciding on what is planned. This is guided by an overall plan based on our careful study of the land. While the community has planned the shape of the cluster, the member plans his own house, individuals may wish to get together and plan an integrated cluster design.
Some of the pitfalls we would like to avoid are the over-planning and inflexibility of most private and public buildings and a lifetime of financial slavery to a lending institution.
We want to explore:
a variety of materials such as mud brick, simple maintenance free finishes, "natural" forms of heating and cooling.
different patterns of grouping buildings – as windbreaks, as structurally part of a stand of trees, designed to fit in with the character of the terrain and bush.
ways of integrating inside and outside using pergolas, verandahs, screens, courtyards.
the use of private areas, their size, and their relation to the boisterous shared spaces.
innovating design features which ensure safety of children but allow them maximum independence.
experimenting with means of introducing flexibility into design of buildings to allow for natural expansion or contraction.
A cluster arrangement will make the provision of services simpler and cheaper than in a typical suburban development. We anticipate the cost of running the services to the cluster would be paid by the community. The access road to the property is a four kilometre, gravel government road.
Road construction will be kept to a minimum, with the main criteria being access to the clusters for the largest necessary vehicles and adequate room for fire fighting equipment.
The provision of water will be from several natural springs on the property and from roof tank water. The sewage treatment is fairly simple, designed so that excess water and nutrients do not get into natural water courses. The first stage of treatment is a septic tank for each dwelling unit. The outflow tanks will be connected to oxidation ponds.
We plan to run the telephone and any electricity services underground. Any gas service in the foreseeable future will be liquid propane.
Nature and Agriculture
Protecting the Natural World
Not only do we wish to achieve a highly "social" community but also a community that will exist in harmony with nature. We plan to minimise our impact on the complex ecosystems.
We are constrained in what we do on the site by consideration of natural features. Buildings, gardens and tracks are located in areas of low environmental impact. Particular attention is given to minimise the amount of land we develop. cluster housing which promotes social interaction also fulfils ecological aims. Our long term impact will be minimised by the lifestyle we adopt. Our waste will not be "discharged" but treated for use if possible.
Native flora and fauna will be encouraged by restraining domestic animals, controlling exotic flora and re-planting as necessary. Dogs and cats are not allowed on the property.
We intend to use nature's resources as much as possible, particularly solar energy and wind power.
We want to demonstrate how man can work with nature as well as live from it. Our aim is not to create isolated sanctuaries surrounded by general destruction but to care for nature while gathering food from it and enjoying it.
Our land has a survival potential. Those wanting to can become subsistent. We plan to keep domestic animals separated from the bush. Cattle, poultry, horses, sheep, goats and pigs will at least supplement supplies with fresh dairy produce, eggs and meat. Some members hope to develop dams for fish and yabby farming. Others want to keep bees. Many of us want to become close to self-sufficient in vegetables and fruit, grown organically and bio-dynamically. Surplus could be traded within the co-operative or the local community.
The Natural Environment
Mt. Toole-be-wong is the lyrical name of our 245 hectares, which is 700 metres above sea level and has a rainfall of 1075 millimetres a year. The climate is temperate with occasional snow in winter.
On top of the mountain is 40 hectares of undulating grass pastures. Most land is cleared in this area, except for some clumps of trees, one of which surrounds a natural clear spring which supplies the property with year-round water. The spring flows down a gully into a small dam surrounded by trees. Walking the winding driveway leads to about half a hectare of English garden surrounding the Lodge.
The property is an original Crown land subdivision of 1901. The original guest house was burnt down in 1939. Now all that remains is the mound onto which the ladies used to alight from their Cobb & Co coaches, to save their long skirts. The present house, built after the war, is of clinker bricks, has 13 rooms, and is well-suited on the basis of an education centre. Views are to Melbourne on one side and down the Warburton Valley on the other.
Past the house and down the overgrown track is more bush, amongst which are patches of cleared land which were used for growing potatoes. The bush, about 150 hectares, is rapidly re-establishing itself after the bushfires of the past. Some of the cleared patches we plan to re-afforest. Others are our cluster sites.
On the top of the mountain the soil is brown and fertile. The side of the mountain is largely bush, and at the bottom, semi-cleared, is 20 hectares of flatter land with several springs. The property was left to itself in the years before we bought it.
Because of our location, transport is a particular problem. It takes at least one and a half hours to reach the city. We intend to create car pools, reducing the number of cars, the environmental impact and saving resources. It may well be profitable to purchase a small bus. Healesville railway station is about 15 minutes drive away, while Lilydale is about half an hour's drive. The train from Lilydale takes 54 minutes to reach Melbourne.
Children, Work and Recreation
The happiness of our children is one reason we are creating this community. Many of us are committed to zero population growth but we are aware we and our children need closer contact with a wider group of children and adults. We feel children need more than one playmate, more space free of urban dangers and greater scope for creative play. Adults and children cannot be autonomous if each is forced to be dependent on the other. With the mother who is tied to the house and cannot go out at nights, neither mother nor child can enjoy each other fully. In the co-operative, members will babysit knowing and caring for the children. Inevitable in the community environment, children and adults will have more possibilities to learn. We are eager to learn a great deal from our children, in fact they can teach us of spontaneity and abandoned joy.
Members may have to re-evaluate the balance and priorities of their employment and living. Some may want to continue working professionally from the co-operative. They may be able to organise their occupations into less than five days a week. Some may wish to work in the city on an irregular basis. Others may well be able to work nearby. We hope that some members will be engaged in cottage industries such as carpentry, pottery, spinning and weaving. We hope too that some members will be able to work on and for the co-operative – farmers, teachers, mechanics and builders. All work necessary for the co-operative will be performed as far as possible by the members themselves. At an individual level members will cooperate in building their homes.
As our working week grows shorter, our lifestyle becomes more focussed around leisure activities. We plan recreational facilities at the co-operative level. A swimming pool, a barbecue area, a volleyball and basketball court, an arts and craft centre with a pottery kiln and a double tennis court are possible. Some activities may be directly linked with the education centre.
The Wider Community
As a community, we are involved with the wider society. We are interested in local council affairs. We desire to provide services and share resources within the locality. We anticipate outside participation, opening a learning centre and or environment for outside use.
We hope that a co-operative store will enable the exchange of our surplus and provide economic savings by collective purchase. We hope to continue holding gatherings such as barbecues, sporting fixtures and festivals, where local residents are invited. We also hope to share joint activities with those outside our community with similar ideas and interests.
We are planning to become involved with an urban community in the inner city. Our distance from the city enables us city involvement. We hope to create a community there affiliated with Moora Moora. We aim to develop an interchange of members, shared educational aspirations and action in the wider community. Our non-resident membership caters for these people. In addition we plan to establish close ties with similar groups.
Links will also be established with groups and organisations consistent with our aims.
For our co-operative to survive, and certainly for our relationships to be rich and satisfying, it is essential that we aim and practise at being honest, caringly concerned and tolerant in our efforts to reach fellow members. Living in such an environment provides us with an unparalleled opportunity to be aware of ourselves, gain feedback from others, and grow in areas of our choosing. We want each person to feel free to approach others in the community in an atmosphere of friendliness, openness, flexibility and sharing.
Our aim is to bring together a diversity of personalities and lifestyles to form a co-operative community. We are seeking members who are diverse in their ages, occupations, interests and backgrounds; members who seek to relate with others and are interested in promoting their own growth and learning.
We are aiming not only for a diversity of styles of living but for a variety of social groupings. We envisage four types of social grouping within the co-operative: the individual, the family unit, the cluster , and the community. This allows for individuals, single parent families, nuclear families, communal or extended family groupings. We hope that the community will have roughly equal numbers of children and adults.
The basic unit of the community is the cluster, in which dwellings are grouped together on a two acre site. The cluster lends itself to a variety of expressions – any arrangement of single or communal dwellings. The more communal the buildings, the greater the degree of shared facilities and the closer the interpersonal relationships. We have a permit for six clusters with four to six dwellings in each cluster.
The broad social grouping is the co-operative community involving all shareholders and their dependents. The co-operative is not one community but several. Each cluster has its own space and activities, each fulfils different needs for its members but is interrelated with others to help fulfil common needs and desires. This may be through the learning centre, co-op equipment and recreational facilities, farming activities or outside relations.
Within the co-operative's framework, we equally value privacy and community. Life within each cluster and within each unit of the cluster is the prerogative of those involved.
We believe that relationships will develop naturally within our environment given people with compatible ideas and aspirations. We hope that some members will work at home, so that their working and living are integrated. We believe that a wide range of choice in how we live and who we live with is available, enabling us to live more fully. The breakdown of the extended family and the neighbourhood show us the need for community. We believe that community and co-operation on much wider levels are becoming necessary for the survival of mankind.
We believe that Moora Moora will help us to move towards a more human and co-operative world and will give each person a greater degree of power over his life.
Decision-making and Finance
The Co-operatives Act requires a board of directors elected annually. Policy decisions are made at policy meetings open to all members. Directors' meetings handle the continuing business of the co-operative. Our seven directors are assisted by informal committees, making suggestions about issues such as works, the farm and membership.
Control will be spread between the cluster and the community levels. At the cluster level, individuals may make decisions which affect the cluster. But at the community level, the legally-required directors will represent individuals at meetings. Important decisions will be made by all members, who wish to participate.
We accept conflict as a part of life, and hope that those involved will be able to resolve most conflicts, perhaps with the help of their friends. Where this is not possible, the community may be called upon as a conciliator.
The Co-operatives Act requires an annual audit of the financial affairs of the co-operative which are recorded in the specified books and registers. These and the annual report are available for perusal by members. A treasurer is elected annually from the members and is assisted by a finance committee.
The income of the community is made up of quarterly calls on the shares, rent from residents in the Lodge and Old House, income from the farm, and dues paid by members. These dues are to cover recurrent expenses such as rates, insurance, maintenance and secretarial expenses.
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Dear EarthTalk: How do hybrid cars get better fuel efficiency than traditional cars?
Hybrid cars get better gas mileage and pollute less because their highly efficient electric motors run on recycled waste energy generated during normal driving. These cars actually have two engines under the hood—a traditional gasoline-powered motor used for acceleration, and an electric motor that kicks in and out of service when the car is maintaining cruising speeds and when the car is idling or backing up. Excess power generated by the gasoline engine is stored in batteries and used to fuel the electric engine, so owners never need to plug the cars in.
Hybrids have two complex drive trains, so consumers can expect to pay a premium of $3,500 or more for one, depending upon extra options ordered. But, as with most new innovations, as demand for hybrids rises (there is a long waiting list for the Toyota Prius) and manufacturers increase production accordingly, prices are likely to come down. And the demand will surely rise as long as gas prices continue to soar.
Despite the price premium, owners can expect to earn back the extra investment of going hybrid within three to five years of ownership through savings at the gas pump—especially if their hybrids are replacing gas-guzzlers like big SUVs. Hybrid owners who drive the average 12,000 miles per year can expect to save anywhere between $600 and $1,000 each year on gasoline, depending upon their driving patterns. High-mileage commuters will see their savings mount even faster. Also, the federal government currently offers hybrid owners a tax credit of up to $1,500 for purchasing a "clean fuels" vehicle, though this incentive is set to expire after 2006. And several U.S. states—including Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, New Mexico, New York, Oregon and Utah—offer their own incentives and tax rebates for hybrid owners.
Those ready to take the hybrid plunge have more options than ever at their disposal. The first two hybrids to hit the U.S. market in 2000 were the Honda Insight and the Toyota Prius, both of which claim fuel efficiencies of up to 60 miles per gallon and are available today in updated forms. In the meantime, Honda has also introduced a hybrid version of its popular Civic model, and is soon to introduce a hybrid Accord.
American automakers are slated to release new hybrid SUVs this fall, beginning with Ford's hybrid Escape, which boasts 40 miles per gallon. Lexus is also offering a hybrid SUV, and a full hybrid Saturn Vue is coming. Meanwhile, Chevrolet has a hybrid version of its full-size Silverado pick-up truck for fleet buyers, though it only gets 10 to 12 percent better fuel economy over its standard GM 1500 pickup. Given all the choices—not to mention the savings at the pump—there's never been a better time to get behind the wheel of a fuel-efficient hybrid.
CONTACTS: HybridCars.com, www.hybridcars.com; Clean Car Campaign, www.cleancarcampaign.org; GreenerCars.com, www.greenercars.com; Electric Drive Transportation Association, http://www.electricdrive.org.
Dear EarthTalk: How much land has Congress designated as wilderness since passage of the Wilderness Act 40 years ago?
When Congress passed the Wilderness Act in 1964, it designated 9.1 million acres across the United States permanently off limits to development. Since then, lawmakers have added an additional 96.5 million acres—including more than 50 million acres in Alaska alone—or a total of 105.6 million acres, spread over some 662 different areas and constituting roughly five percent of total U.S. land mass.
Only Congress has the power to designate lands as federally protected wilderness. Typically, parcels of land need to be 5,000 acres or larger to be included. The Bureau of Land Management, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the U.S. Forest Service and the National Park Service each oversee different areas of wilderness within their respective holdings.
It was a group of influential policymakers, scientists and outdoorsmen that banded together in the mid-1930s whose advocacy work ultimately led to the passage of the Wilderness act 30 years later. Calling themselves the Wilderness Society, they included: Benton Mackaye, known as "father of the Appalachian Trail"; Robert Sterling Yard, at the time a National Park Service publicist; visionary ecologist and author Aldo Leopold; and Robert Marshall, then chief of recreation and lands for the Forest Service. Today the Wilderness Society is thriving, with a quarter million dues-paying members and wilderness preservation campaigns running from Alaska to Florida.
Despite protections provided by the 1964 law, wilderness areas face many threats today. Excessive human recreational activity takes a toll, as do air and water pollution from sources that originate outside wilderness boundaries. Non-native plants and animals that have been introduced over time threaten the native species that have evolved over thousands of years. Wildlife habitat in adjacent "buffer zones" is shrinking as development moves closer and closer to the boundaries of these wild lands. And ill-advised land management practices—such as widespread fire suppression—disrupt naturally functioning ecological systems.
This year, numerous government agencies and non-profit organizations are celebrating the 40th anniversary of the passage of the Wilderness Act and assessing how to best work together to protect wilderness lands in perpetuity. Conferences are exploring the important role wilderness plays in the American psyche, and "walks for wilderness" are scheduled on weekends this fall from coast-to-coast to raise public awareness about the role wilderness plays in the quality of life and the health of our environment. To find an event near you, log on to Wilderness.net.
CONTACTS: Wilderness Act of 1964, www.leaveitwild.org/reports/wilderness1964PF.html; Bureau of Land Management, www.blm.gov; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, www.fws.gov; U.S. Forest Service, www.fs.fed.us; National Park Service, www.nps.gov; Wilderness Society, (800) 843-9453, www.wilderness.org; Wilderness.net, www.wilderness.net.


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In Scientology, going Clear is like leasing a car, and David Miscavige is Repo Man
By Tony Ortega | June 29, 2018
["I take back Clear certs from dildos who don't pay their bills."]
Jeffrey Augustine was so excited about a software upgrade to his podcast, he immediately used it to interview Karen de la Carriere, his wife! And although Underground Bunker readers are pretty familiar with each of them, we think you're going to get a lot out of this conversation.
Here's how the topics break down:
In this video Karen discusses Hubbard's secret instructions on what a Scientologist is supposed to do when he or she is dying, and then what they are to do immediately after death. She next discusses Disconnection in terms of Scientology's ethics policies. Scientology's claim that Disconnection is a "personal choice" is shown to be a lie. The State of Clear is examined. Karen and Jeff review how unstable and completely revocable the State of Clear is in Scientology. Clear is essentially a leased state that depends upon a Scientologist remaining in good standing with the Church, not friending the wrong people on Facebook, and other whimsical and arbitrary conditions imposed by Scientology. The podcast concludes with a discussion of the fraudulent nature of refunds and repayments in Scientology. "Advanced Payments" actually means "We in Scientology will never give you back one penny if we can possibly avoid it by a long time-wasting series of tricks, stratagems, and devices."
Dig in, and let us know what you think about the conversation.
Harlan Ellison, 1934-2018
Because we're fortunate enough to share a mutual friend, Harlan Ellison invited us over to lunch one day, and after that he spoke to us on the phone a few times. We treasure every moment we spent talking with him. A hugely influential writer known primarily for his science fiction, Harlan died yesterday in his sleep, his lovely wife Susan revealed. He was 84.
When we had lunch at his house, we asked about L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology, and his answer caught us by surprise. Harlan knew Hubbard, liked him, and liked very much a couple of his books — especially 1940's Fear — but he thought Scientology was a lot of nonsense. Because they had been friends back in the day, Harlan figured Hubbard had told his minions to leave him alone, and he was grateful for it.
Later, when we had started a new series with Jon Atack and we were going over some old Scientology lore to separate fact from fiction, the infamous quote by Hubbard about starting a religion for the money came up — did it really happen? Atack assured us that it did, and he backed it up with documentation. But we were also aware of a fun interview between Harlan and Robin Williams about the origins of Dianetics and Scientology, and we remembered some of the things Harlan had said to us in person about it — but at an off-the-record lunch. So we called him up, asking if we could reveal what he'd said that day.
To our surprise, he told the story all over again on the phone, and in such rapid-fire manner we struggled to get it all down. Besides the parts he had told Robin Williams, about being around when Hubbard talked about forming a religion with some of his writer friends, Harlan told us a riot of a story about how much trouble telling his Hubbard anecdote at parties got him into. One night, at a swank Hollywood affair, he told his tale about Hubbard inventing a religion for the money, and a woman went ballistic on him. It was opera singer Julia Migenes, a lifelong Scientologist, and Harlan said that she launched herself at him in a manic rage. (Migenes never answered our queries about it.) Susan was at the party and backed up Harlan's tale. And we all got a good laugh out of it.
"She really went after me. She'd have taken my head off if she'd had an axe. I was completely taken by surprise. It took two people to get her off me," he told us.
We loved that story, and we're so grateful that Harlan shared it with us.
When your proprietor turned 50, Harlan called us up and told us we were old and washed up. It was the best present we could have received.
Posted by Tony Ortega on June 29, 2018 at 07:00
June 29th, 2018 | Category: R.I.P., Scientology Studies


Bring dawn all ingredients and reach 100000 points to complete the level.
This level is hard as it have lot of chocolate machine and you need to take down 10 ingredients. You should first break all chocolates and play near to any chocolate machine unless you have chance to make special candy anywhere or need to take down ingredients. You should play till last moves as you could chance get chance any time to reach requirement.
We completed this level with 164960 score by playing near to chocolate machine and use special candies plus moon stuck help to take down all ingredients to bottom with three star score at the end.


Blue Yonder lead singer John Lilly has been putting out strong albums of mostly his own compositions for a quarter century. On State Songs Ð exactly what the name implies Ð he used the largest backing bands of career including at times Sonny Landreth and Joel Savoy. In these homages to various states, Lilly features not only the classic, honky-tonk groove that fits his vocals so well, but uses to horns, keyboard, fiddle, and electric guitar to explore styles ranging from Cajun to jump blue[ to rockabilly.


Kodagu or Coorg (as the British called it) also known as the 'Scotland of India' or 'Kashmir of the South' is one of most beautiful hill stations you can visit. Nestled among the lush greens of the Western Ghats, it is in Karnataka, about 260 kms from the capital city Bangalore. It is quite easily reachable.
Though a small area(about 4100 sq kms), the region boasts of a very distinct culture. The Kodavas speak a different dialect of Kannada(called Kodava), have a unique dressing style found nowhere else in India, food habits are different, only Indian community with no dowry system, marriages performed by elders instead of Priests and so on. Coorg was one of the British favorites and was directly ruled by them till Indian Independence and was a separate province called Coorg Province till it was merged with State of Mysore in 1956 which later became the modern State of Karnataka. The region is well-known for Coffee plantations and the Brave-Warriors. Field Marshall K.M. Cariappa, first Indian Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army who led the Indian forces on the Western Front during the Indo-Pakistan War of 1947, hails from here.
Of the very few places that I have traveled from the time I have come to Bangalore, Coorg is one of them. It has been a long time now but I didn't feel like writing about it as it wasn't exactly a nice trip. Everything that could go wrong did go wrong. I even lost my new phone and my contacts and photos along with it. But the place is too beautiful to not visit or to visit and not share it with others. So here are a few pics from my friend's camera and an account of places we visited.
We chose to stay in a home-stay instead of a hotel to get a feel of the place and it was pleasure being there. Our place was in the midst of a coffee-estate with a lake of it's own(though we only got to see the small pond. It was raining and we couldn't go near the bigger one) . A wonderful house with a very warm family as the hosts. It couldn't get better.
One of the main tourist attractions in Coorg is the Abbey falls. And since we went at the end of July, we could see the falls in its full splendor.
The waterfall is inside a coffee estate and the small trail leading to it is beautiful too. The waterfall appears suddenly, giving you a feel that is you have discovered a hidden treasure and stand looking wide-eyed. There is also a hanging bridge right opposite to the waterfall and a Kali mandir at the other end of the bridge.
We made it a point to roam around the coffee estate and see the beautiful coffee plantations, small and big flowers of various kinds, the small pond inside it and the small red chilies growing in the backyard to come back to a sumptuous breakfast.
Another attraction in the city of Madikere(the capital of Coorg district), is the park called as the Raja seat. Along with one another park beside it, these parks are well-maintained with beautiful flowers and benches and makes you want to stay there for a long time. The park gives a beautiful view of the paddy fields below and the mountains around.
Also, if you are planning to eat something, Madikeri is the place. Elsewhere you will keep driving for hours to only see green trees around you. Also, if you want to buy anything, the place is famous for honey, spices and coffee. Few of my experimental friends also tried home-made oil for hair and other such things. I stuck to the traditional options.
Guess this is enough for one post. Will post more pics from Coorg in another part-2.
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looks beautiful, I have not had much luck with going around the south of india although I have vistied bigger cities all over the country.
Yeah have a project with one if the IT companies there, LEts see if it all goes through fingers crossed ..
I visited Madikeri last December. One of the favourite places I've visited. It's almost exactly like my ancestral town back in Kerala. I didn't know it was called 'Kashmir of the South'. I will be visiting the actual Kashmir soon, so after that I can say I've visited Kashmir of the South and Kashmir of the North! 😛 Hehe.
I had been there in Aug-Sep 10, but this home-stay concept is nice!
So do they rent out the place of one has to have ties with them?
Yeah It is a nice concept. You should try it out once and make sure you spend some time there and relax. Plus you also get to eat some traditional Coorgi homemade dishes.
Lovely! Sad that you lost your phone, indeed a bad experience. You had an army of beautiful girls at Coorg! Hahaha….
By the did you try the recipe from the other post? 🙂 after all, coffee estates are so beautiful. If you see the dried coffee plant, painted stands as one of the decorative items.
Nope. haven't been able to try it yet.Yeah Coffee estates are indeed beautiful. The life staying in an estate is so very different from a life we know.
I just felt the proudest reading this post. Amazing post btw! I am natively from Coorg …bought up and setttled in Delhi though….Parents settled in Coorg now and running a small homestay…plan to go back soon for a long eventful vacation and fulfill my parents dreams of a resort there.
Next time you go…get hold of some local jeep guy and ask them to take to some hidden beauties….Because there are a couple or more bigger waterfalls than Abbey and you can have a dip too unlike the must publicized falls like Abbey and Irupu. Lots of small river streams flow through some of the estates….maybe a picnic or camping by the riverside next time….!!!
Keep writing and Keep Posting!
Thanks Vandana 🙂 We played in the water at abbey when I had been to Coorg like ages ago. I was kinda sad to see it is no longer possible now.
Nice to read about your experience.
Can you share the contact details of the place of stay. I am planning to visit this November.
The place we stayed in is called Maracad Home stay. We had booked the place in advance as there are only 4 rooms available for occupancy.
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