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SHERLOCK HOLMES AT THE MUSEUM OF LONDON
By early morning four-wheeler to the Museum of London, for the media preview of Sherlock Holmes: The Man Who Never Lived And Will Never Die, the museum's major exhibition of all things Sherlockian with opens tomorrow (17th). You might think, given the continuing appetite for Holmes, this would be a shoo-in as a blockbuster event. But, as lead curator Alex Werner has said: 'We found ourselves having to think hard about how you create an exhibition about a fictional character.'
That sentiment alone will raise some hackles. Werner does not subscribe to playing 'The Great Game', popular with many Sherlock Holmes societies around the world, in which all pretend that Watson, not Conan Doyle, wrote the stories and that Holmes was flesh and blood (albeit capable of Whovian-like regeneration). So you won't find a reproduction of the sitting room at 212b Baker St, like the one at the Northumberland Arms near Charing Cross, complete with Persian slipper, violin and a copy of Bradshaw, claiming this was where Holmes tackled his three-pipe problems. Instead, the curators have assembled cabinets of the sort of artefacts Holmes might have come into contact with, without claiming the great man actually handled them (and so you will find an 18th century violin, a selection of service revolvers of the sort Watson and Holmes might have carried, and a case of drug paraphernalia of the correct period).
Then there is question of which Holmes do you concentrate on when creating a show about the world's only Consulting Detective? There will be some visitors who will be disappointed to find this is not a Cumberfest, although he does appear on screens and his Belstaff 'Milford' coat and his dressing gown (originally used by Conan Doyle to suggest Holmes' "bohemian" qualities) are on display. But it is not a celebration of the BBC version of the Great Detective. In fact, nearly all the Holmes are represented, from the well-known (Brett, Cumberbatch, Rathbone) to the half-remembered (Ian Richardson, Christopher Plummer, Richard Roxburgh), the point being to demonstrate that no matter how many times he is re-imagined, re-located and re-booted, the immutable essence of Holmes lies within Conan Doyle's 56 short stories and four novels (rare examples of which are on display under glass). And, of course, it lies with the city where Holmes lived and so often worked.
This being the Museum of London it should come as no surprise that a large part of the show concentrates on the city that fed both Holmes and Conan Doyle, and it is very effective at conjuring up the gaslit, fog-bound streets that the author wrote about. Maps show Holmes and Watson's movements about the city in several of the tales, and contemporary paintings of a hansom cab stand, the Strand, Piccadilly and "The Bayswater Omnibus" – shown above, as mentioned in The Adventure of the Missing Three Quarter – give visual life to the architectural and cultural backdrop to many of the stories.
So Werner and his team have done an exemplary job of touching all the Holmes bases while maintaining a focus on the city that helped gave life to this remarkably resilient creation. Criticisms? Yes. Not enough Watson. But I would say that, wouldn't I?
* Sherlock: The Man Who Never Lived And Will Never Die" costs £12/£10 concessions (020 7001 9844, museumoflondon.org.uk/sherlock).
This entry was posted in Books, Travel and tagged Cumberbatch, Holmes, Museum of London, Sherlock, Watson on October 16, 2014 by Robert Ryan.
MY LUNCH WITH SHERLOCK
There are many sites of pilgrimage for Sherlock fans in London (The Criterion, St Bart's, Baker St), but one that is often overlooked is The Langham Hotel, which sits in splendid grandeur opposite the BBC in Portland Place. A regular haunt of Arthur Conan Doyle, not only does it feature in A Scandal in Bohemia, The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax and The Sign of Four, it was also the venue for a memorable dinner which, arguably, ensured Sherlock became the iconic character he is today.
It was on 30th August, 1889, that Conan Doyle accepted an invitation to dine with Joseph Marshall Stoddart, Managing Editor of Lippincott's Magazine, who was in town looking for UK writers for the US publication, and Oscar Wilde. It was, Conan Doyle, later said, 'a magical evening', and from it came The Sign of Four, Holmes's second outing, and, from Wilde, the not inconsiderable The Picture of Dorian Gray. (There are those who claim the playfulness in some of the Holmes stories was a direct result of Conan Doyle meeting the legendarily witty Wilde.)
As Nicholas Utechin, historian for the Sherlock Holmes Society of London, points out, at this juncture Holmes was a moribund character. He had appeared in A Study in Scarlet in Beeton's Christmas Annual of 1887, but it garnered scant attention, and it was by no means certain he would appear again. 'The Langham dinner revived a career that was all but comatose,' says Utechin.
Last Monday, the 29th of September, Chris King, Head Chef of Roux at the Landau restaurant in The Langham recreated (or rather re-booted) the type of menu the men would have enjoyed at dinner, using a Victorian menu from the archives as a template. I was fortunate enough to be invited. The lunch included a beautifully intense consommé with shaved turnips and seared foie gras; dover sole in vermouth, tarragon and shimeji (mushrooms possibly not on the original list); rib of beef from the trolley and cheese with straw, praline and dandelion (see below).
Original Victorian Langham menu… with ads…
Between the beef and the cheese was a surprise course – a chance to view the original first page of the manuscript of what was then called The Sign of The Four (the second definite article being dropped later). It, famously, opens with a description of Holmes and his notorious seven per cent solution:
This precious relic has been loaned by the University of California Audrey Geisel University Library at the University of California in San Diego. Sadly, the rest of the m/s is in the hands of a private collector, but that one page of meticulous, very lightly corrected handwriting will be on display in the Museum of London's "Sherlock: The Man Who Never lived And Will Never Die" (£12/£10) exhibition. This installation covers all aspects of Sherlock's career, from the writings to Gillette on stage, silent films, right up to Benedict Cumberbatch's Belstaff coat, and runs from October 17-until April 2015. See museumoflondon.org.uk.
This entry was posted in Books, Travel and tagged Cumberbatch, Holmes, Museum of London, Sherlock, Sign of Four, The Langham on September 30, 2014 by Robert Ryan.
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President George H.W. Bush's beloved service dog honored with statue
The beloved Sully will have a permanent home in College Station. Photo courtesy of Susan Bahary
By all accounts, President George H.W. Bush adored his service dog, Sully. The feelings were mutual — the devoted Labrador retriever was by the president's side from June 2018 until his death at age 94, on November 30, 2018.
While thousands made the pilgrimage to honor the beloved president during his public and private funeral ceremonies, few moments were more poignant than that of Sully guarding his master's flag-draped casket — an image that quickly became viral.
Fans of Sully will delight in the knowledge that the now-famous retriever will be honored with a bronze statue, appropriately titled Sully. The statue will be placed in the permanent collection George HW Presidential Library and Museum in College Station, Texas.
The unveiling will be held on December 2, featuring the artist, Susan Bahary in conjunction with the nonprofit organization America's VetDogs.
The life-size bronze portrays Sully holding his leash in his mouth. The pose was chosen because the artist wanted to "convey Sully's dedication to the president, while also depicting the 'retrieve' task Sully and all service dogs from VetDogs learn to perform for their handlers," according to a statement.
"I fell in love with Sully," said Bahary, in a release, "and wanted to capture in life-size bronze the beautiful loyalty and bond that our beloved president inspired in him and that was forever seared in our memories."
After December 2, fans of 41 and Sully can visit the memorial exhibit. And what of Sully himself? Word is he will carry on his legacy and assist wounded military personnel at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.
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Matt Monro - Live In Australia
Live In Australia was quite a challenge. The source for this concert was a 25 year old cassette recorded directly from the mixing desk.
The problem with such a recording is that the balance of instruments from the PA system is not necessarily the best sound. What is put through the PA balances out what can be heard naturally in the room so louder instruments, like the drums, carry better acoustically and therefore less is put through the PA. So the first challenge was to try and re-balance the sound – no mean feat when you're working with a mono tape. Not only that but the audience were not picked up very much at all.
Ok, first thing to do was get a decent tape transfer. Thankfully the tape was in very good condition and after a little bit of azimuth correction and a smidge of hiss removal it was time for the really hard work.
The recording was subjected to enormous amounts of processing to get the balance as good as possible the recording was still somewhat lacking. The problem was that there were no microphones picking up the audience and although this was now louder it wasn't enough. So I had to go through the entire recording and mark every single clap, laugh, titter and wild applause! Some I could bring up higher in the mix other parts needed help where overdubbed new audience sounds onto the recording. This was not used to replace the existing sound but to enhance it and make it sound more natural. The applause was easy to add to as all I needed was to find some applause for a suitably sized venue and treat it with eq to match the original.
The hardest part was any laughter that needed enhancing. Laughter is very hard to match and I looked everywhere to find it – I got there in the end but it took several weeks of going through different recordings (sound effects, lots of live recordings and even tv sitcoms!) till I find what i'm looking for.
There was one little section (and i'm not telling what it was!) that I couldn't find at all, so I pulled a small number of people into the studio and got them to copy what I wanted!
The next thing to do was mix the two sources together, but there was still no life to the recording. It needed some sort of ambience. I tried all sorts of reverb and ambience algorithms and although some helped it wasn't quite right.
I looked at other 'night club' type recordings and decided that what it really needed was the sound of "The Room". In other words, had microphones been placed in the room to pick up the ambient noise (as is standard practise) I needed to create the sound they would have heard.
Digitally this was not going to be possible. The sound needed to come from PA speakers and be picked up by microphones to sound right, so after a little bit of fiddling with different speakers and microphones I played the entire recording through a PA and recorded the ambient noise from an appropriate sounding room.
I now had a new multi-track recording that consisted of
Original unprocessed recording
Processed and rebalanced recording
Additional audience effects
The original unprocessed recording was not used directly on the finished mix but used to feed reverb on to Matt's vocal.
Section of unprocessed tape
The final mix was compressed and mastered, the track markers were added and delivered to EMI.
Same clip from the final master
Hopefully the final product is a good representation of what the concert would have sounded like had it been recorded properly.
Comments on the recording:
"I'm certain it is the next best thing to being there at one of Matt's live concerts"
"It sounds fantastic. A top job once again"
"It's hard to imagine that this concert originated from a cassette and again the painstaking work with the technical sound and getting the correct balance resulted in another excellent addition to our collection"
"Richard Moore was sound engineer on the project and has achieved remarkable results"


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Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - S
2022, Volume 15, Issue 4: 669-686. Doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2021070
This issue Previous Article A dictionary learning algorithm for compression and reconstruction of streaming data in preset order Next Article Stable numerical methods for a stochastic nonlinear Schrödinger equation with linear multiplicative noise
Solving the linear transport equation by a deep neural network approach
Zheng Chen1, ,
Liu Liu2, and
Lin Mu3, ,
Department of Mathematics, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, MA, 02747
Department of Mathematics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong
Department of Mathematics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602
* Corresponding author: Lin Mu
Received: December 31, 2020
Revised: March 31, 2021
Early access: June 2021
Liu is supported by the start-up fund by The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Abstract Full Text(HTML) Figure(15) / Table(1) Related Papers Cited by
In this paper, we study linear transport model by adopting deep learning method, in particular deep neural network (DNN) approach. While the interest of using DNN to study partial differential equations is arising, here we adapt it to study kinetic models, in particular the linear transport model. Moreover, theoretical analysis on the convergence of neural network and its approximated solution towards analytic solution is shown. We demonstrate the accuracy and effectiveness of the proposed DNN method in numerical experiments.
Linear transport equation,
deep neural network,
convergence analysis,
plane source,
two beams.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 65N22, 68T07; Secondary: 65M60.
Figure 1. Structure of the deep neural network
Figure 2. Example 5.2.1 with $ \sigma_s = 0.0 $ and $ \sigma_a = 1.0 $: (a). exact solution $ \rho $; (b). DNN approximation $ \rho_h $
Figure 3. Example 5.2.1 with $ \sigma_s = 0.0,\sigma_a = 1.0 $: DNN approximation to $ \psi $ at time = 1.0
Figure 4. Example 5.2.1: Plot of DNN solutions for $ \rho_h $: (a) $ \sigma_s = 1 $ and $ \sigma_a = 0 $; (b) $ \sigma_s = 1.0 $ and $ \sigma_a = 1.0 $
Figure 7. Example 5.2.2: Plot of DNN approximation to $ \psi $ for $ \sigma_s = 1.0 $ and $ \sigma_a = 0.0 $ at different time
Figure 9. Example 5.2.2: Plots of DNN solutions $ \rho_h $ for $ k = 100 $ and (a) $ \sigma_s = 1.0 $, $ \sigma_a = 0.0 $; (b)$ \sigma_s = 1.0 $, $ \sigma_a = 1.0 $
Figure 10. Example 5.2.2: Plots of angular average of discrete ordinate $ S_{100} $ solutions for $ k = 100 $: (a) $ \sigma_s = 1 $, $ \sigma_a = 0 $; (b) $ \sigma_s = 1 $, $ \sigma_a = 1 $
Figure 11. Example 5.2.3: The illustration of the boundary condition
Figure 12. Example 5.2.3: Case (1) $ \sigma_s = 1.0 $, $ \sigma_a = 9.0 $: (a). solution of $ \rho_h $ at different time; (b). 2-dimensional plot of DNN approximation to $ \psi $ on the $ x-\mu $ plane at $ t = 10 $
Figure 15. Example 5.2.3: Plots of DNN solutions of $ \rho_h $ at time = 10.0
Table 1. Example 5.2.1: Relative Errors in DNN approximations to $ \psi $
time $ \sigma_s = 0.0,\sigma_a = 1.0 $ $ \sigma_s = 1.0,\sigma_a = 0.0 $ $ \sigma_s = 1.0,\sigma_a = 1.0 $
0.0 2.3329e-4 2.7779e-4 2.8335e-4
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Zheng Chen
Liu Liu
Lin Mu
Structure of the deep neural network
Example 5.2.1 with $ \sigma_s = 0.0 $ and $ \sigma_a = 1.0 $: (a). exact solution $ \rho $; (b). DNN approximation $ \rho_h $
Example 5.2.1 with $ \sigma_s = 0.0,\sigma_a = 1.0 $: DNN approximation to $ \psi $ at time = 1.0
Example 5.2.1: Plot of DNN solutions for $ \rho_h $: (a) $ \sigma_s = 1 $ and $ \sigma_a = 0 $; (b) $ \sigma_s = 1.0 $ and $ \sigma_a = 1.0 $
Example 5.2.2: Plot of DNN approximation to $ \psi $ for $ \sigma_s = 1.0 $ and $ \sigma_a = 0.0 $ at different time
Example 5.2.2: Plots of DNN solutions $ \rho_h $ for $ k = 100 $ and (a) $ \sigma_s = 1.0 $, $ \sigma_a = 0.0 $; (b)$ \sigma_s = 1.0 $, $ \sigma_a = 1.0 $
Figure 10.
Example 5.2.2: Plots of angular average of discrete ordinate $ S_{100} $ solutions for $ k = 100 $: (a) $ \sigma_s = 1 $, $ \sigma_a = 0 $; (b) $ \sigma_s = 1 $, $ \sigma_a = 1 $
Example 5.2.3: The illustration of the boundary condition
Example 5.2.3: Case (1) $ \sigma_s = 1.0 $, $ \sigma_a = 9.0 $: (a). solution of $ \rho_h $ at different time; (b). 2-dimensional plot of DNN approximation to $ \psi $ on the $ x-\mu $ plane at $ t = 10 $
Example 5.2.3: Plots of DNN solutions of $ \rho_h $ at time = 10.0


Please plan to enjoy Dr. John Pickering's contribution to the Natural History Lecture Series, on Wednesday, April 6, 4:00 pm at the Special Collections Library in the Richard B. Russell Building.
Why fly now? Photographing moths at porch lights helps us understand their biology and potential environmental threats.
Discover Life's Mothing project is studying how weather patterns, urbanization and other factors affect insects. There is a wondrous diversity of over 2,700 moth species in Georgia. Dr. Pickering will show us how to use our cell phones to help find and map the dark dozen!
The lecture will be held at the Special Collections Library, Richard B. Russell Building, 300 South Hull Street, on the University of Georgia Campus. Parking is available at the Hull Street parking deck immediately adjacent to the Library.
The Natural History Lecture series is co-sponsored by the Friends of the State Botanical Garden of Georgia.
Friends of GMNH are invited to join Robert Wyatt and Philip Juras for a special field trip to Rock and Shoals granite outcrop off Barnett Shoals Road on Saturday, 16 April 2016. We will meet at 9 a.m. in the parking lot of the Athens Montessori School on Barnett Shoals Road to carpool to the site. Please wear sturdy shoes and bring water.
This outcrop is the best local example of one of the most interesting landscapes in the Piedmont of Georgia. These ancient habitats harbor a unique and beautiful flora. Philip spent several years capturing these and other natural areas described in William Bartram's Travels, including some paintings done at Rock and Shoals. Robert has published numerous papers over the past 40 years on the ecology, evolution, and systematics of plants endemic to granite outcrops.
Please indicate your interest in joining us by sending Robert an email by 9 April 2016 at rewyatt@uga.edu. There is no charge for current members of the Friends.


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Rebecca Solnit on Breaking Silence as Our Mightiest Weapon Against Oppression
Rebecca Solnit on Love, Purposeful Work, and the Meaning of Liberty: An Empowered Retelling of Cinderella
An Alternative View of Human Nature: Rebecca Solnit on Disaster as a Catalyst for Dignity, Agency, and Human Goodness
"The constellations of solidarity, altruism, and improvisation are within most of us and reappear at these times."
In his diary of moral development, young Tolstoy proclaimed: "This is the entire essence of life: Who are you? What are you?" The part left unspoken, perhaps because it is often unspeakable, is that there is no solid self to give a constant answer — we are many things and many people under different circumstances, situationally awakened into dormant multitudes we may not have suspected resided within us. The young Borges recognized this in one of his earliest essays. Paradoxically, the noblest and most beautiful of our potentialities of being can come alive under the ugliest and most catastrophic of circumstances — those moments and periods that cannot be described by any other word than "disaster."
This is what Rebecca Solnit, that mighty anchor of collective memory and champion of the human spirit, reminds us in the preface to the new edition of Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities (public library) — her timelessly, endlessly elevating manifesto for resisting the defeatism of easy despair.
Rebecca Solnit (Photograph: Sallie Dean Shatz)
Solnit writes:
The assumption behind much disaster response by the authorities — and the logic of bombing civilians — is that civilization is a brittle façade, and behind it lies our true nature as monstrous, selfish, chaotic, and violent or as timid, fragile, and helpless. In fact, in most disasters most people are calm, resourceful, altruistic, and creative. And civilian bombing campaigns generally fail to break the will of the people, making them a waste as well as a crime against humanity.
What startled me about the response to disaster was not the virtue, since virtue is often the result of diligence and dutifulness, but the passionate joy that shined out from accounts by people who had barely survived. These people who had lost everything, who were living in rubble or ruins, had found agency, meaning, community, immediacy in their work together with other survivors.
Art by Alessandro Sanna from Pinocchio: The Origin Story
Looking back on her earlier inquiry into who we became amid disaster — work drawing on disciplines as varied as sociology, psychology, economics, neurobiology, and political science to subvert the old myths of human nature and redefine it as "something more communal, cooperative, and compassionate" — Solnit adds:
[This] testimony … suggested how much we want lives of meaningful engagement, of membership in civil society, and how much societal effort goes into withering us away from these fullest, most powerful selves. But people return to those selves, those ways of self-organizing, as if by instinct when the situation demands it. Thus a disaster is a lot like a revolution when it comes to disruption and improvisation, to new roles and an unnerving or exhilarating sense that now anything is possible.
This rescue of our reputations from the social darwinists and the Hobbesians is important, not to feel positive about ourselves but to recognize the radical possibilities that can be built on an alternative view of human nature.
Illustration by Marianne Dubuc from The Lion and the Bird
Solnit plumbs the depths of these possibilities in her 2009 book A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster (public library) — an incisive investigation of the realities of "human nature," as distinctly and often shockingly different from its sociocultural myths, through five major disasters ninety-nine years apart, from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake to Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.
In the prelude, titled "Falling Together" — a beautiful counterpoint to the notion of falling apart — Solnit wrests from etymology an arresting and timely metaphor for the possibilities contained in catastrophe, be it natural or human-made, physical or political:
The word disaster comes from the Latin compound of dis-, or away, without, and astro, star or planet; literally, without a star. It originally suggested misfortune due to astrologically generated trouble, as in the blues musician Albert King's classic "Born Under a Bad Sign."
In some of the disasters of the twentieth century — the big northeastern blackouts in 1965 and 2003, the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake in the San Francisco Bay Area, 2005's Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast — the loss of electrical power meant that the light pollution blotting out the night sky vanished. In these disaster-struck cities, people suddenly found themselves under the canopy of stars still visible in small and remote places. On the warm night of August 15, 2003, the Milky Way could be seen in New York City, a heavenly realm long lost to view until the blackout that hit the Northeast late that afternoon. You can think of the current social order as something akin to this artificial light: another kind of power that fails in disaster. In its place appears a reversion to improvised, collaborative, cooperative, and local society. However beautiful the stars of a suddenly visible night sky, few nowadays could find their way by them. But the constellations of solidarity, altruism, and improvisation are within most of us and reappear at these times. People know what to do in a disaster. The loss of power, the disaster in the modern sense, is an affliction, but the reappearance of these old heavens is its opposite. This is the paradise entered through hell.
Complement with Albert Camus on strength of character through difficult times, Toni Morrison on the antidote to despair, Viktor Frankl on how we elevate each other, and Martha Nussbaum on the nuanced relationship between agency and victimhood, then revisit Solnit on the grounds for hope, the rewards of walking, what reading does for the human spirit, and how modern noncommunication is changing our experience of time, solitude, and communion.
https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/10/16/rebecca-solnit-disaster/
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WASHINGTON (Feb. 05, 2010) -- Language in the 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review, released Feb. 1, supports the Army's ongoing efforts to achieve energy security.
The review "resonates very well with what the Army has been promoting over the last year, and what our strategy is," said Dr. Kevin T. Geiss, program director for energy security in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations and Environment.
The QDR is produced every four years, as directed by Congress. It is a self-assessment of the Department of Defense, and a review of the department's strategy and priorities. The 2010 QDR reveals the department's insights on how the security environment is affected by climate change and energy availability and consumption.
Geiss said he believes the DOD's language in the report is in tune with what the Army has already been practicing in its efforts to achieve energy security.
"The first thing I would say is, they are singing our song," Geiss said. "We are very pleased to see how OSD is defining what energy security is. It is not just the supply piece, it is what if the grid fails, and also cyber security. It's being able to maintain and defend those logistical tails of fuel in theater. It's making sure those new technologies we are deploying are not breaking down, or that they are providing a sufficient amount to maintain our critical functions."
In the effort to bolster energy security, the Army is making efforts at places like Fort Irwin, Calif., and Hawthorne, Nev. In those places, the Army has engaged in projects designed to strengthen energy security -- to reduce the installation's reliance on the civilian power grid, while at the same time finding ways to reduce overall power use and to also ensure that critical missions are not hampered in any way.
At Fort Irwin, the Army -- in partnership with industry -- has embarked on a long-term project to build a 500-megawatt solar power plant that will help ensure energy security to the installation. Last year, the Army named the developer for the project, and that developer has now put together a preliminary plan on how the project will be completed, Geiss said.
"I believe the Corps of Engineers is in receipt of that formal plan that will lay out, over the timeframe of the project, which phases or which aspects of the project will be done when," Geiss said. After the final plan is submitted and approved, there will be an environmental evaluation of the project before it can proceed. That's expected to take 18 months.
A 30-megawatt geothermal power plant is also in the works at Hawthorne Army Depot, Nev., Geiss said.
"Right now we are looking at the development through a power purchase agreement," he said. "They would finance the project and we'd agree to buy a certain amount of power over a certain period of time."
The Army's efforts at finding security are also evident in the ongoing transformation of its 70,000-vehicle non-tactical fleet. More than 500 hybrid vehicles are currently in use, the QDR acknowledges, and the service is in the process of acquiring 4,000 low-speed electrical vehicles at state-side installations to cut down on fuel costs.
"With the LSEV, the six-year leasing contract allows Army to save over 111,000 tons of (carbon dioxide) emissions and about 11 million gallons of fossil fuel not burned," Geiss said.
The QDR also reiterates that DOD will implement the requirement set forth in the 2009 National Defense Authorization Act that the Secretary of Defense must include consideration for the "fully burdened cost of fuel" when considering purchases of new capabilities, for instance.
The fully burdened cost of fuel means not just what fuel costs at the point of sale, but also the cost incurred getting the fuel to where it will be used. That means the cost of moving that fuel in convoy, the cost of security to protect that convoy, and the cost in risk to lives while running such a convoy.
"As we look at acquisition of new weapons systems, the (Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology) put out a memo last year that they have to consider energy productivity in the acquisition of all new weapons systems," Geiss said. "They also have to consider the fully burdened cost of energy."
Also revealed Feb. 1: the Army's Fiscal Year 2011 budget includes money marked for energy-security projects. These funds are part of military construction, as well as installation sustainment, restoration, and modernization, Geiss said.
He explained that the Army Corps of Engineers is transforming military construction to follow energy-efficient design standards.
"MILCON can potentially have the biggest impact on what it is going to cost us for utilities in the long run," Geiss said. "Making that investment in that facility when it is built, and confirming that it is built to the design that will incorporate these standards, will impact how much it is going to cost to heat and cool and provide electricity for that facility for the lifecycle of that facility."
Efforts toward energy efficiency in new construction include such things as incorporation of renewable and alternative generation, like building-integrated photovoltaic cells and solar walls, which is a way to pre-heat air as it comes into a building, Geiss said.
Geiss said the budget contains funding for the Energy Conservation Investment Program, and for research projects such as small tactical grid systems, lightweight flexible photovoltaics, and advanced cogeneration systems.
The grid systems tie generators together for more efficiency. Flexible photovoltaics create solar energy, and cogeneration systems can reclaim heat produced by generators and use it for additional purposes.


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Feb. 9, 2019 9:00 a.m.
Money laundering in British Columbia has become a top issue for the federal and provincial governments with federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau vowing a "crack down" Friday, while the province considers a public inquiry.
Last year, an international anti-money laundering organization said in a report that up to $1 billion annually was being filtered through some B.C. casinos by organized crime groups.
The B.C. government also cited an RCMP intelligence report that estimated up to $1 billion from the proceeds of crime was used to purchase expensive Metro Vancouver homes. An RCMP official said Friday the Mounties are searching their data bases to find the report the government has cited.
Former RCMP deputy commissioner Peter German's review last year of money laundering at some B.C. gaming outlets found casinos served as laundromats that siphoned the money to organized crime groups.
B.C. Attorney General David Eby said Morneau's comments add support to recent commitments by the federal government to fight money laundering.
Eby and Minister of Organized Crime Reduction Bill Blair met last month to work together and share information to combat money laundering.
"I've seen a real shift in the interest from the federal government on this issue," Eby said.
Two B.C. government money laundering reviews are underway and are due in March. One probe will look to identify and close regulatory gaps that could be used by money launderers in the real estate and financial services sectors.
The second review will focus on identifying the scale and scope of illicit activity in the real estate market and whether money laundering is linked to horse racing and the sale of luxury vehicles.
Eby said the findings of those reviews, collaborations with the federal government on legal issues and public concern about money laundering will help the government decide if a public inquiry on money laundering is warranted.
Morneau said the federal government's focus on money laundering spreads beyond Canada's borders where there are global concerns with dirty money funding terrorist organizations.
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But Eby said many in the global community are looking at B.C. as a jurisdiction where money laundering by organized crime has flourished.
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Press Box Insider 11-17-2015
Podcast, Radio, Sports Betting
"Cyborg" (top) (Jeff Vulgamore/The MMA Corner)
A World of Difference: Cyborg's Elite Status in MMA Not Changed by Muay Thai Loss
Brian McKenna
The world of women's mixed martial arts is growing more rapidly each day, and more and more female stars are being born as a direct result of it. Before current UFC women's bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey emerged, Cristiane "Cyborg" Justino was the face of the sport.
Cyborg captured the inaugural Strikeforce women's featherweight championship by defeating Gina Carano via TKO. The championship was the first women's belt awarded in a major promotion, which is a feather in her cap that nobody will ever be able to take away from her. The Brazilian's credentials speak for themselves. Her only defeat was in her debut fight in 2005, and she currently holds the Invicta FC 145-pound championship belt.
But all is not well in the world of Cyborg. Last weekend, she lost a match-up to Jorina Baars, who was undefeated heading into the fight. Baars left the arena with the strap around her waist and all of the glory that comes along with a victory. Meanwhile, disappointment seems to be the sentiment of the moment in regards to the career of the Brazilian. Some folks are starting to think that Cyborg was overhyped, or that a potential star-studded match-up between Cyborg and Rousey, which is a fight that the MMA community has wanted for a long time, has gone with the wind.
But if you stop reading right there, you wouldn't have the entire story. Cyborg was defeated during a Muay Thai bout, not a mixed martial arts contest. Baars was an undefeated Muay Thai champion, not an undefeated mixed martial artist (she's actually 1-3 in MMA). The two ladies fought for the inaugural Lion Fight promotion's welterweight title.
Unfortunately, there are people out there that are freaking out about how Cyborg lost a fight, even though it wasn't a MMA bout. She has a reputation for completely controlling her fights, which more often than not results in the knockout of her opponent. However, it was different in this particular contest. Baars was the more dominant fighter when it came to Muay Thai.
What people need to realize is how different a Muay Thai bout is from a MMA bout. If the two had been fighting under MMA rules, Cyborg, realizing that she wasn't getting the best of the striking while on the feet, could have shot for a takedown to put her ground-and-pound skills and purple belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu to work. But, under the rules of a Muay Thai bout, a fighter is not allowed to work for the takedown and must stay on their feet.
MMA is unique because it is a mix of all combat sports wrapped up into one, almost a decathlon of the martial arts world. While London Olympic decathlon gold medalist Ashton Eaton proved that he was the best all around at the disciplines that encompass the sport, it would be shocking to see him beat two-time gold medalist Usain Bolt in the 100-meter dash, which is by far the Jamaican's best event. Considering the losing record Baars possesses in professional MMA contests, it would be equally as shocking to see her defeat Cyborg in MMA.
It is common for mixed martial artists to branch out and compete in other disciplines in an effort to hone all of their skills. Many a fighter has competed in the Abu Dhabi Combat Club submission wrestling event, for example. If a UFC champion competed and didn't win their respective tournament, it wouldn't be a big deal. That's because the skills that are required in the ADCC competition do not fully translate to the skills required to be successful in the Octagon.
The same can be said of Cyborg's defeat last week in Muay Thai. It was a competition in just one aspect of MMA, and it doesn't tarnish her reputation as a beast in the four-ounce gloves. Until Baars is able to do defeat Cyborg in the cage, at what Cyborg does best, we really have to pump the brakes on this story. The fact is that Cyborg ran into an elite Dutch kickboxer in the Lion Fight ring. In the cages of the MMA world, though, Cyborg is still the elite competitor.
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Brian McKenna was born and raised in the suburbs of Boston, Massachusetts. A sports nut from as long as he can remember, he came to be a fan of Mixed Martial Arts from a roommate watching The Ultimate Fighter while attending Westfield State College. Brian came to writing by starting his own blog, Four Down Territory, which focuses on Boston based sports, life, and of course MMA.
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Sometimes a town can be so full of things to do that the city becomes a destination in and of itself. The town of San Juan Capistrano is a perfect destination city that can make you feel as if you've travelled into another time or place. Just 55 miles south…
Missions of California- San Juan Capistrano
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There are many facets to California's history that make it an interesting place to explore. One of the most well known historical features that the land has to offer are the Missions, born from its historical connection to Mexico and the royalty of Spain. They were built as a way…
Murphy's Ranch – Abandoned Nazi Compound in Los Angeles
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The Wayfarers Chapel is an architectural masterpiece that was carefully designed to be a sanctuary of worship like no other. It has the beauty of a design masterpiece, creating an environment primed for worshipping a Creator, by being embraced by the creation itself. An Architectural Legacy is in the Genes Wayfarers Chapel is the design…
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Sitting atop an overlook surrounded by views of the Pacific ocean is the Korean Bell of Friendship. It has a beautiful architectural theme that reflects the culture that it symbolizes. The distinct triangular shaped roof is visible from afar, making it easy to find your way to it once you enter the area. A…
8 Hollywood Destinations in Under 8 Hours
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It is no mystery that Los Angeles is a town of many sights and destinations. Whenever people travel to the city of Angels, the one place that so many want to see is Hollywood. While there is so much to do, most of the sights in Hollywood do not require…
Love Abundant at Salvation Mountain
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Amidst the bleak desert, Salvation is to be found Imagine a road running through the desert, surrounded by parched dusty lands with barely a tree to be found. You're driving along when suddenly, on a distant hill, the richly colored mountain stands out like an oasis, quenching the thirst for color in the desert.…
The Enigma of The Salton Sea
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The Enigma of The Salton Sea The Salton Sea is a haunting place that is filled with the ghosts of its glory days that have tragically been lost. What started out as a man made accident over a century ago, quickly became the hope of an oasis in the desert. …


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Attitude toward homosexual couples' rights to get marry and adopt a child Chile 2021
Published by Teresa Romero, Sep 20, 2021
Chilean respondents generally agreed with the legal status of homosexual marriage, which was legalized in the South American country in July 2021. As of August 2021, around 75 percent of the respondents said they agreed that homosexual couples had the right to get married. However, the share of adults who supported the right of such couples to adopt a child was lower, slightly over 60 percent.
Attitude towards getting married and adopting children by homosexual couples in Chile in 2021
Right to get married 75% 24%
Right to adopt children 63% 36%
704 respondents
Telephone interview
Number of marriages in the UK 1887-2018
Homosexuality in the United Kingdom 2019, by region
Personality & Behavior
Attitudes towards gay marriage in Great Britain from 1975 to 2014
Homosexuals in the United Kingdom 2019, by age group
Statistics on "Sexuality in the United Kingdom (UK)"
Sexuality in the United Kingdom 2019
Male sexuality in the United Kingdom 2016
Distribution of sexualities in England 2014
Sexuality in Scotland (UK) 2014
Sexuality in Wales 2014
Sexuality in Northern Ireland (UK) 2014
Sexuality in London 2014
Sexuality in the South East region of England 2014
Sexuality in the South West region of England 2014
Sexuality in the West Midlands region of England 2014
Sexuality in the East Midlands region of England 2014
Sexuality in the East of England 2014
Sexuality in the Yorkshire and The Humber 2014
Sexuality in the North West of England 2014
Number of divorces in the UK 1858-2019
Divorce: Average age at divorce in England & Wales 2000-2018, by gender
Number of civil partnerships in the UK 2005-2019
Number of civil partnership dissolutions in the UK 2007-2019
Civil partnership formations in England and Wales by age 2018
Moral perception of homosexuality among adults in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2015
Moral perception of homosexuality according to British men and women in February 2015
Moral perception of homosexuality according to age groups in the UK 2015
Self reported view on sexuality in Great Britain (GB) in 2015
Self reported view on sexuality in Great Britain in 2015, by gender
Likelihood of same sex attraction in Great Britain (GB) in 2015
Likelihood of same sex attraction in Great Britain (GB) in 2015, by gender
Likelihood of having sex with the same-sex in Great Britain (GB) in 2015, by gender
Self-reported sexual experimentation in Great Britain in 2015
Self-reported sexual experimentation in Great Britain (GB) in 2015, by gender
Sexual orientation of middle aged and older people in the UK 2017
Self-reported sexuality in Great Britain (GB) in 2015
Self-reported sexuality in Great Britain (GB) in 2015, by gender
Self-reported sexual orientation in Great Britain (GB) in 2015
Self-reported sexual orientation in Great Britain (GB) in 2015, by gender
Opinions on abolishing gay marriage in the Netherlands 2016-2017
Opinion on same-sex marriage in Italy 2019, by age group
Opinion on same-sex marriage in Italy 2019, by gender
Opinion about same-sex marriage in Italy 2019, by macro-region
Americans' opinion on gay or lesbian relations from 2007 to 2017
Opinion on same-sex marriage in Italy 2019
Acceptance of homosexuality in selected countries 2011
Sexuality Homosexuality in the United States Weddings and Marriage Sexual health in Belgium Sexual health in Nigeria
Cadem. (August 16, 2021). Attitude towards getting married and adopting children by homosexual couples in Chile in 2021 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved January 20, 2022, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1263912/adoption-marriage-support-homosexualcouples/
Cadem. "Attitude towards getting married and adopting children by homosexual couples in Chile in 2021." Chart. August 16, 2021. Statista. Accessed January 20, 2022. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1263912/adoption-marriage-support-homosexualcouples/
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Test #1 - 33% said "Yes."
Test #2 - 99% said, "Yes" - AFTER they asked the following question.
instead of 1.00 bills or Lotto tickets.
the wall or SMACK it.
Page 25 - has a question better suited for women.
Page 26 - for men (33% to 99% Yes) - Wow.
Tonight I drew a guy waiter.
I asked, "Do you think of yourself as Adventurous and like to try new things?
Timothy the waiter said, "YES."
So I slammed the flying elephant on the table.
to TEST it out before I sent it out to my VIP Customers.
And some of the girl waitresses.
Employees and saying, "I'll bet you can't guess what I got as a TIP tonite."
pocket where he stuck the flying elephant.
Which resulted in LOUD - Elephant Noises!
And his fellow waitresses and waiters EYES Bugging out a bit.
reading this who want to Test Your SALES-Person-Ship.


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It is a hazard because if you do not take action soon and begin to reconsider your life, to alter your circumstances and to set in train change that must occur both within your own thinking and emotions and your outer circumstances, you will be at a great disadvantage. For the Great Waves are moving and are already impacting the world and are gaining strength every day.