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Emirates Optimistic it Can Operate 70% Normal Capacity Within Months On Back of Vaccine Rollout
U.S. Pilots Union Vows to Oppose New Transatlantic Low-Cost Airline
Emirates plans to reach 70 per cent of pre-pandemic capacity by the end of 2021 even as a slew of new travel restrictions weigh down the Dubai-based airline, its chief commercial officer Adnan Al Kazim says. The airline is betting on the successful rollout of vaccines in the United States, Europe and the UK to revive its business – something that Al Kazim says he is "optimistic" about.
"We already have a plan to get back to almost 70% of our capacity to be recovered by winter 2021," Al Kazim told reporters at the Arabian Travel Market on Tuesday. "That's an objective we have… and we're committed to achieving, but again, many of these factors are determined by various governments," he continued.
On Tuesday, the UAE's national emergency committee extended a ban on flights from India following an explosive surge in COVID-19 infections in the country that has stretched India's healthcare system to breaking point.
Authorities did not say when the ban would be lifted. India is traditionally one of Emirates' most important markets for both direct and connecting passenger traffic.
Dubai is also subject to a travel ban by the United Kingdom – another important market for Emirates that has been cut off since late last year when the UAE was put on a high-risk 'Red List'. The UK has not indicated when the travel ban might be lifted despite the UAE's success in inoculating a large percentage of its population.
Al Kazim did not say what capacity Emirates was currently operating at but the airline is only operating between 30-40 of its massive Airbus A380 fleet due to a lack of demand.
Emirates has rebuilt its network to around 130 destinations and is heavily dependent on long-haul international travel.
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In our community, a 60th birthday is celebrated as a second wedding, with the husband actually tying a fresh "thAli" for the wife….but since we hardly have any family members nearby, he was rather adamant that he didn't want a "fuss" made over his birthday; he does not celebrate birthdays in general, and couldn't see why there should be a departure this time. But I secretly asked my sister-in-law to come over from Chennai. And then, out of the blue, he said, "Shall we go to B R Hills that day?" and, truly delighted, I rushed to comply. I made the booking at JLR, and we were all set to leave at 5am.
At 4.30am, he said he had a sore throat and didn't want to go! But at 9am, when he got up looking quite OK, I insisted that we should go…and certainly, it turned out into a memorable trip, even though just for a day!
We reached the K.Gudi (Kyathadevararyana Gudi if you want to twist your poor tongue into knots be precise ) Camp of JLR at about 3pm and this too, turned into a mini NTP meet, with Nahar, R Narayan and G S Narayan all being there…and yours truly of course.) Nahar had organized a lovely tree-planting ceremony for KM, and sampige (champa,magnolia) saplings were planted…I do hope they grow and thrive!
As chirdeep_shetty called up and said he, anirudhc and a couple of college friends were going to the K.Gudi property of Jungle Lodges and Resorts , the temptation to visit this favourite property of ours, and also spend a little time with Chirdeep and Anirudh was too much to resist…so we quickly made our bookings and executed a quick sneak very early on the morning of the 3rd, accompanied by amoghavarsha for whom the combination of Chirdeep, Anirudh, B R Hills, and a chance to drive the CR-V was also irresistible!
I will have to do a separate post on the Biligiri Ranganathaswamy Temple at B R Hills, and one on Ranganathittu….there was just so much to see and I captured about 1/1000th of it on camera…!
Chirdeep had indicated that it was a kind of old boys' get-together for them, and they would prefer to be separate…but we still managed to bump into each other at Kamath Lokaruchi on the highway! We did both the safaris together, though, and since I had not been able to meet him on his last trip, and his stay in Chicago has been extended further, it was nice to say hi to him. It was also a JLRNTP meet, with Chirdeep,Nahar and myself from the March 06 batch (Vikrant from our batch was in Blr and we couldn't meet him, alas) , and Anirudh from the March 07 batch…and an INW meet as KM, myself, Amogh,Chirdeep, and Anirudh all post there!
We entered the Biligiri Ranganathaswamy Temple Wildlife Sanctuary,sorry, Sanctury….
"Well, the Bird Survey conducted by Jungle Lodges and Resorts was warm, wet, and wonderful, several "w"s that I will be explaining in the future, when I have a more time (it's midnight, and I am going on another trip tomorrow)…..
Here's the Gaur, the Indian wild bison . Don't you like his cool haircut? Male Gaurs can weigh up to 750 kg….and all that muscle is developed on a diet, as you can see, of grass!
This photo is, I must add, not photoshopped or post-processed, so it may not be very clear or good in terms of colour temperature…Well, to me, documentation is the goal, not the perfect photograph!
Q .How did I take this photograph?
Will post my account of both the bird survey and our lovely trip to BR Hills and back…meanwhile, "Gaur" means "attention", too, in Hindi…so…iskO gaur sE dEkhO!


The Brussels Institute for Journalism Studies (BIJU) takes a distinctively multi- and interdisciplinary approach, bringing together scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds such as linguistics, literary studies, communication studies, political sciences, legal studies, and logopedics, around the heterogeneous subject of journalism.
As such, our research agenda is premised on the multifaceted nature of journalism, with a primary focus on news production and journalism practice, and on the news product or 'text', essentially located within broader socio-historical, political, judicial, technological and economic contexts. Additionally, we look into different sorts of media, both print, broadcast and online journalism, and mainstream as well as alternative news outlets, while accounting for the multimodality of journalistic discourses. In terms of journalism's topical areas, BIJU's multidisciplinary profile covers a broad range of domains, including (international) politics, environment, lifestyle, and culture.
Questions and issues related to journalism's role in mediating and shaping public discourse(s) and, so doing, in the representation and social construction of 'reality'. Key topics include gender, national, and cultural identities, and the societal, highly politicized issue of climate change. Methodologically, research in this strand uses (a combination of) linguistic, visual, or critical discourse analysis; conversation analysis; (multimodal) framing analysis; systematic-quantifying and qualitative content analysis; and qualitative (in-depth) interviews or ethnographic fieldwork.
Questions and issues related to the (ever-evolving) codes and conventions defining journalistic genres and styles, and to the forms and implications of hybridity. Examples of research topics are storytelling and the mythological role of journalism, forms and processes of popularization and (genre) hybridization, and infotainment and political satire. These topics are primarily examined through narrative, linguistic discourse, genre or semiotic analyses, often in combination with qualitative (in-depth) interviews.
Questions and issues related to (developments in) methods of news gathering and news dissemination, and the legal and moral issues involved in the process (professional ethics). Research topics include analyses of the use of social media and user-generated content by mainstream news media and professional journalists; the impact of business models and professional ideology on news production of traditional versus alternative news media; working conditions of (starting) journalists; the ethics of press photography; and case studies of the tension between freedom of speech and the right to privacy. Typically, the methodology consists of (combinations of) in-depth interviews and surveys, ethnographic fieldwork, quantitative and qualitative content analyses, and legal analyses, applied within a (socio)linguistic, (media)sociological or communication studies framework.
Members of BIJU have consistently presented their work at conferences of, amongst others, the International Pragmatics Association (IPA), International Communication Association (ICA), Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE), and the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA).


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Percival Bradshaw Fay (* 4. August 1890 in Martha's Vineyard; † 15. August 1971) war ein US-amerikanischer Romanist und Mediävist.

Leben und Werk
Fay studierte am Haverford College. Er promovierte 1912 an der Johns Hopkins University mit der Arbeit Elliptical partitive usage in affirmative clauses in French prose of the XIVth, XVth and XVIth centuries (Paris 1912). Über die University of Michigan in Ann Arbor und die University of Arizona in Tucson kam er 1914 als Französist an die University of California at Berkeley und wurde dort 1958 emeritiert. Von 1927 bis 1939 war er Chairman.

Weitere Werke
 (mit Algernon Coleman) Sources and structure of Flaubert's Salammbô, Baltimore 1914
The use of tu and vous in Molière, Berkeley 1920
 (Hrsg.) Guillaume de saint Pathus (confesseur de la reine Marguerite), Les miracles de saint Louis, Paris 1931
 (Hrsg. mit John L. Grigsby) Jouffroi de Poitiers. Roman d'aventures du XIIIe siècle, Genf 1972

Literatur
 Percival B. Fay Testimonial, in: Romance Philology 11, 1957, S. 191 ff (mit Schriftenverzeichnis)

Weblinks

 http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~fayfamily/barnabas_maynard.html
 http://texts.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb9t1nb5rm&doc.view=frames&chunk.id=div00022&toc.depth=1&toc.id=

Romanist
Hochschullehrer (University of California, Berkeley)
US-Amerikaner
Geboren 1890
Gestorben 1971
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"Today's kids expect photography to be digital and see film as antique. They want to see their photos instantly, share them digitally, and modify them in all sorts of creative ways. The Disney Pix Micro was designed specifically to let this new generation use photos to unleash the power of their imaginations," said Chris Heatherly, vice president, Disney Consumer Products, Global Electronics. "Until now, digital cameras have been too complicated for kids and have generally been priced out of reach. The Disney Micro delivers the functionality and creative play that kids are looking for in a variety stylish designs at affordable price points that parents can say 'yes' to."


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Q: Installing Zend_Barcode I'm not having any luck getting Zend_Barcode to work in Magento 2.
Zend_PDF is working, and I notice that it has a class in:
/vendor/zendframework1/library/Zend/

but Zend_Barcode does not.
I've tried:
composer require zendframework/zend-barcode

But that isn't a version that's compatible with Magento's Zend_Pdf.

A: Okay, so it turns out it was removed in version 2.3. Which is a shame.
https://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.3/release-notes/backward-incompatible-changes/#application-framework-libraries

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This is a cutout kit with connectors and 2 welded tube corners to create an open egg cutout in a 4 or 5 ft straight module.
I used the BBQ Coach system and it is a great product! I used the open egg kit and it worked well. It seemed easier than the diagonal corner module for my xl green egg to place into position. Also I was tight on space otherwise I probably would have used the diagonal corner module for it. I give 5 stars for the product but they do not always answer the phone so I rate them at 4 stars. Email support thru your account is best when you need help. My neighbor was also impressed with the product.


We used to visit our godsister Min V. in Kekaha, Kauai, for a long weekend getaway from our home island of Oahu. We would take a morning flight from Honolulu over to Lihue where Min was waiting for us. She did not greet us locals with a lei but she showed her Hawaiian hospitality by treating us to the famous hula pie at Duke's restaurant instead. It was filling for famished travelers before heading to her house (about an hour's drive).
We also split a hula pie whenever we wander around Waikiki playing tourists. We even bought the iconic plate from Duke's restaurant (but the special spork was not available at the time).
Hula pie is simply an ice cream pie. It was developed a long time ago at Kimo's restaurant, a sister (brother?) eatery to Duke's in the TS Restaurant family ('ohana). According to their website: "Hula Pie is made with Kimo's favorite macadamia nut ice cream piled high on a chocolate cookie crust and topped with chocolate fudge, whipped cream, and more macadamia nuts." The website also gives suggestions on how to eat a hula pie. Sometimes the chefs serve a specialty hula pie in their menu (variations of the classic recipe using different flavored ice creams).
Home chefs can prepare hula pie themselves and indulge in an abundance of aloha. Especially on a hot summer day, hula pie is perfect for National Ice Cream Pie Day!
Freeze the chocolate pie crust until ready to use (this prevents the crust from cracking too much and leaving too many crumbs). In a large bowl, mix the ice cream with ONE cup of the nut pieces until well blended. Work quickly so the ice cream will not melt too fast.
Pile the ice cream mix on the pie crust, making a dome. Freeze until firm (overnight is best). In a microwavable bowl, melt the semi-sweet chocolate and butter. Stir until smooth.
Mix in the ground instant coffee powder. Let this chocolate sauce cool for about 15 minutes at room temperature. Remove the frozen pie from the freezer. Pour the chocolate sauce over the top of the pie. Use a spatula to quickly smooth the sauce all over the top of the ice cream dome (it sets and hardens fast). Freeze again for a couple of hours.
When ready to serve, remove the entire pie from the foil plate and place on a large tray. Warm a sharp knife in hot water, wipe dry and slice the pie in six serving pieces. Put an individual slice on a dessert plate.
Drizzle some fudge sauce on top, allowing it to pool on the bottom of the plate. Sprinkle with remaining macadamia nut pieces. Decorate the edge of the pie with a generous piping of whipped cream. Serve immediately.
Some recipes for hula pie say to spread the fudge sauce over the ice cream. But some sauces are too runny so we used a homemade chocolate sauce that sticks to the surface of the ice cream dome and sets into a sort-of shell.
We had used lactose-free vanilla ice cream before but it has a soft-serve consistency that does not work too well when spreading the chocolate sauce on top. Sometimes if the ice cream is not frozen firmly, the sauce will pick up the softened ice cream and makes a messy mix (see the Food Flop photo).
The whipped cream decoration looks like the white foam from the waves of the ocean but it is supposed to represent the sway of the hula skirt—hence, the name "hula pie".
See how the real hula pie is made at Duke's. Watch a TS Restaurant video from the Cooking Channel's "Ice Cream Nation" segment on YouTube.


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Former Pentagon official: The United States has lost China in the field of artificial intelligence.
According to a report by VOA, Nicolas Chaillan, the former chief software officer of the Pentagon, stated that the United States has lost out to China in the field of artificial intelligence due to the slow pace of technological transformation. In an interview with the Financial Times, he said that China is moving towards global dominance due to advances in emerging network capabilities.
Xia Lan was the first chief software officer of the Pentagon to resign to protest the slow pace of technological transformation of the US military. Xia Lan said that he resigned because he couldn't bear to see China surpass the United States. The United States failed to respond to China's progress and put the United States at risk.
He told the Financial Times: "In the next 15 to 20 years, we will not have a chance to compete with China. Now, this is a fait accompli. In my opinion, (competition) is over."
Xia Lan was interviewed for the first time after resigning a week ago.
Xia Lan is 37 years old this year and served as the first chief software officer of the US Air Force. He has participated in the overall improvement of cyber security by the US Department of Defense in the past three years.
He believes that China's advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and network capabilities have enabled it to become a global leader, and these emerging technologies will have a far greater impact on the future of the United States than high-budget hardware projects such as the fifth-generation fighter F-35. important.
He told the Financial Times that the cyber defense measures of some US government departments are at the "kindergarten level." He criticized Google for reluctance to cooperate with the Department of Defense in the field of artificial intelligence. The widespread debate on artificial intelligence ethics has dragged the United States back. Chinese companies are obliged to cooperate with the government and invest heavily in the field of artificial intelligence without considering ethical issues.
Britain joins the ranks of electric car competition and announces the establishment of a super factory
This strategic investment is critical to the future of electrification in the UK, especially for the automotive industry with gasoline and diesel engines that will be discontinued from 2030.
The new super factory covers an area of more than 500,000 square meters-equivalent to the size of 74 standard football fields. Page will become one of the largest single industrial facilities in the UK, with an annual full-load output of up to 60GWh.
In addition, this super factory will use 100% renewable electricity, including a combination of solar and renewable energy grids. The factory also has the ability to recycle used batteries and create new batteries in an industry-leading way. This method is called "cradle to cradle" (cradle to cradle).
From cradle to cradle, also known as C2C, industry is regarded as a natural process, and materials are regarded as nutrients in cyclic metabolism; product materials are regarded as nutrients, and from the beginning of the design, it is envisaged how to completely recycle back to the manufacturing end. , So it is called cradle to cradle.
The process of traditional industries is classified as "from cradle to grave", and it moves toward abandonment after it is produced.
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Mike Murray, project director of the super factory, said, "The factory has a unique mission to build the most advanced battery super factory in the center of the British automotive industry."
Coventry is the historical hometown of the British automobile industry. Many of the cutting-edge technologies that defined the global automobile industry in the last century were created here. Now, with the advent of the new electrical era, Coventry is expected to become the forefront of green industry.
China Balvenie Global was raided by the FBI's Florida office suspected of being involved in a cyber attack
Shenzhen-based PAX Technology Co., Ltd. issued a statement on Friday (October 29) confirming that US federal investigators raided the company's office in Florida, the United States, but did not explain why. According to media reports, the search may be suspected of the company being involved in cyberattacks in the United States and Europe. Experts believe that the Chinese government may use the company's payment terminals for information theft.
PAX Global Technology Co., Ltd. is an electronic payment point-of-sale terminal supplier in China. Its products are used by millions of companies and retailers around the world. It has tens of millions of point-of-sale terminals in 120 countries and regions around the world.
Officials from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Customs and Border Protection executed a court order on Tuesday (October 26) to search the offices and warehouses of PAX Global subsidiaries in Florida. A statement submitted by the company to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on Friday confirmed that some items were confiscated.
The FBI said in a statement to local media: "The Jacksonville branch of the Federal Bureau of Investigation is cooperating with the Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection, Department of Commerce, and Naval Crime Investigation Bureau, with the support of the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office. , To perform a court-authorized search at this location to facilitate the federal investigation. We did not find any actual threats to the surrounding communities during this search. The investigation is still ongoing and no more information can be confirmed at this time."
According to local media reports, the FBI did not have a precise timetable on how long it would take to find evidence, and said that the British MI5 also launched an investigation into the company.
Independent cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs (Brian Krebs) first reported on the raid. He quoted an anonymous source on his blog KrebsOnSecurity as saying that in the United States, a major payment processor from PAX Global Payment After the abnormal network data packet of the terminal raised doubts, the FBI began to investigate PAX Global.
Krebs quoted a source as saying: "There is technical evidence that (PAX Global) terminals are used for attack operations. The packet size does not match the payment data they should send, and it may also be possible for these devices to update their software. The telemetry data displayed is not relevant."
According to the source, the payment processor discovered that the PAX Global Terminal was used as a malware "dropper" and as a "command and control" location for launching attacks and collecting information.
Nicholas Effidiades, a retired senior US intelligence official and an expert on Chinese intelligence affairs, told VOA, "If the PAX Global Terminal is really used as a malware dispenser, then they can use their Internet access rights to change Malware spreads to servers that manage credit card transactions around the world. If they are used to command and control malware, they may collect, manipulate, or even destroy financial data. Because there are 57 million PAX terminals in 120 countries and regions, These actions can be done as a coordinated effort on a global scale."
U.S. and British financial providers remove PAX Global equipment
According to sources, the two major financial providers in the United States and the United Kingdom have begun to withdraw from the PAX Global Terminal from their payment infrastructure.
According to Bloomberg News, Worldpay, a subsidiary of FIS in the United States, told its partner companies on October 8 that it had decided to remove PAX's equipment and replaced it with two competitors, Verifone and Ingenico. Point of sale equipment.
A spokesperson for Worldpay said in a statement that it no longer installs PAX point-of-sale devices, "because PAX Global has not received a satisfactory response regarding this matter… Although we have no evidence that PAX is operating through PAX Global's POS equipment The data has been leaked, but we have been working directly with customers to replace these devices with other devices without adding any cost to them, and to minimize interference with their business."
According to Bloomberg News, PAX Global President and CEO Andy Chau fought back on October 19. He responded to Worldpay customers, condemning "confusing and incorrect information about the reason for the suspension."
In response, Chau said: "PAX Global wants to assure all customers that we support the safety of our products and services. Every PAX Global equipment undergoes rigorous internal testing and external certification to ensure that it is protected in accordance with industry safety standards. Payment data. Our policy is to ensure that information sent through PAX's equipment is only safely transmitted to the intended recipient."
PAX Global stated in a statement to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange: "As far as the board of directors knows…Nowhere in the world, PAX Global's products and services have received any reports of cyber attacks, and there have been no complaints about cyber attacks, including Any violation of the security agreement."
Krebs quoted a source as saying: "Baifu Global now claims that the investigation was motivated by ethnic and political motives."
Since Wednesday, PAX Global's shares on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange have suspended trading after plummeting more than 40%. The company said on Friday that trading will resume on November 1.
VOA tried to contact the FBI branch in Jacksonville, Florida, but did not get a reply before the deadline.
Efedi Miades: The United States needs to develop a unified strategy with its allies
Dakota Cary, a research analyst at the Center for Security and Emerging Technologies at Georgetown University, believes that the current investigation is to determine whether PAX Global participated in the attack deliberately or unknowingly.
Lei Kerry told VOA: "If PAX Global intends to support these actions, it will be the most shameless use of China's military-civilian integration so far. If PAX Global does not know it, then they have proved an unfortunate reality. That is, the Chinese government will sacrifice Chinese companies to complete cyber attacks."
It is not uncommon for payment terminals to be remotely hacked by malicious software to collect and transmit stolen information. In fact, some of the largest online thefts in history have involved point-of-sale malware. For example, a vulnerability in Hartland Payment Systems in 2008 leaked 100 million payment card information, and Target, Home Depot, etc. from 2013 to 2014 The theft of data and information suffered by merchants resulted in the disclosure of information on approximately 100 million cards.
The Federal Communications Commission announced on the 26th and 26th that the Order on Revocation and Termination (Order on Revocation and Termination) was revoked by China Telecom Americas to provide domestic interstate and international communication services in the United States. Stop any domestic and international communication services within 60 days.
The committee pointed out that China Telecom Americas is a US branch of a Chinese state-owned enterprise and is the subject of use, influence, and control by the Chinese government, and it is very likely to be forced to implement the requirements of the Chinese government.
Last year, the committee listed Huawei and ZTE as national security threats to communications networks, and prohibited US companies from using US$8.3 billion in government funds to purchase equipment from these companies.
Effi Di Miades, a Chinese intelligence affairs expert, believes that the United States should cooperate with allies to develop strategies to prevent the recurrence of hacking activities.
He told VOA: "The United States and its allies have not formulated a unified strategy and deterrence posture to deal with state-sponsored hacking activities. So far, their collective response has been mainly defensive in nature, fearing an escalation. These actions have not prompted Violating countries such as China and Russia have stopped active cyber attacks."
"The United States must cooperate with allies to use all the elements of political, information and economic power to provide comprehensive countermeasures to curb criminal hacking activities in China and Russia." Efedi Miades said.
At a regular press conference on the 28th, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin asked reporters about PAX Global's raid and China Telecom's license being revoked by the United States. Enterprises carry out mutually beneficial and win-win cooperation in accordance with commercial principles and international rules, and on the basis of abiding by local laws." Wang Wenbin called on the United States to "provide a fair, just and non-discriminatory business environment" for Chinese companies operating in the United States.
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Frère Orban ist der Name eines Fahrgastschiffes, das ursprünglich auf Rhein und Mosel und dann lange auf dem Neckar im Einsatz war, ehe es nach Belgien verkauft wurde.

Geschichte
Das Schiff wurde 1955 für Ferdinand Braun, der Ausflugsfahrten und einen Fährbetrieb zur Insel Nonnenwerth anbot, auf der Schiffswerft Schmidt gebaut. Braun gab ihm den Namen Rolandsbogen, den bereits zwei Vorgänger getragen hatten: die 1952 gebaute Rolandsbogen und die deutlich ältere Rolandsbogen, die er beide nur kurz in Betrieb gehabt hatte. Mit der dritten Rolandsbogen, die einen geschlossenen Aufbau und eine deutlich größere Kapazität hatte, war seinen Ansprüchen dann Genüge getan. Laut Alex Bohrer war diese dritte Rolandsbogen ursprünglich 23 Meter lang und 5 Meter breit.

1963 wechselte das Schiff den Besitzer. Als Burg Eberbach fuhr es drei Generationen lang für die Familie Kappes, der die Eberbacher Personenschiffahrt gehörte. In Zeiten, in denen die Personenschifffahrt florierte und auch Linienfahrten auf dem Neckar angeboten wurden, hatte die Eberbacher Personenschifffahrt zahlreiche Schiffe im Einsatz, etwa bis 2008 die Otto Kappes, außerdem die Marion, die Katzenbuckel und die Stolzeneck. Doch die Verhältnisse änderten sich und für die Burg Eberbach wären schließlich so hohe Investitionen nötig gewesen, dass Andreas Kappes um das Jahr 2013 beschloss, sich von dem Schiff zu trennen.

Unter anderem verhinderte die feste Bestuhlung eine Umgestaltung für individuelle Feiern auf dem Schiff, und die Tatsache, dass die Burg Eberbach keinen zweiten Motor besaß, stellte bei Anlegemanövern eine Herausforderung dar, der man sich mit moderneren Schiffen nicht zu stellen hatte. Dennoch hatte Kappes einiges in das Schiff investiert. So besaß die Burg Eberbach, als sie zum Verkauf ausgeschrieben werden sollte, eine neue Maschine von Iveco, neue Toilettenanlagen und ein neues Steuerhaus, wurde aber nach wie vor ohne maschinelle Unterstützung über einen Seilzug gesteuert. Andreas Kappes erinnerte sich gerne an Sondereinsätze mit dem Schiff zurück. Zum Beispiel hatte die Burg Eberbach beim Stuttgarter Hafengeburtstag als Fähre gedient und war alljährlich von den Adlerfreunden zum Auftakt der Eishockeysaison für die Fahrt nach Mannheim verwendet worden. Aber da 2019 neue Richtlinien in Kraft treten sollten, die umfangreiche Veränderungen an dem Schiff erfordert hätten, sah er sich lieber nach einem Käufer im Ausland um. Alternativ hätte das Schiff komplett umfunktioniert werden müssen, um z. B. als schwimmendes Vereinsheim weitergenutzt zu werden. Die Burg Eberbach war, als sie verkauft werden sollte, 26,55 Meter lang und für den Transport von 200 Personen zugelassen. In früheren Zeiten waren 250 und zeitweise sogar 300 Personen gestattet gewesen.

2016 wurde bekannt, dass Kappes einen Käufer in Belgien gefunden hatte, der zwar selbst kein Schifferpatent hatte, aber bereits für genügend Personal gesorgt hatte, um das Schiff weiter betreiben zu können. Er stellte sich eine nur behutsame Umgestaltung vor, um die ehemalige Burg Eberbach im "Vintage-Look" nutzen zu können. Andreas Kappes, der das Schiff zusammen mit einigen Eberbacher Rentnern auf die Maas überführen wollte, hatte zu diesem Zeitpunkt bereits für ein Nachfolgeschiff gesorgt: Die Petra Kappes war 2015 getauft worden. Ob Kappes damals die als Kaufpreis geforderten 180.000 Euro für sein altes Schiff erhalten hatte, teilte er nicht öffentlich mit.

Am 15. November 2016 lief die Burg Eberbach zum letzten Mal aus Eberbach aus. Ziel war ihr künftiger Heimathafen Liège.

Doch wenige Wochen später wurde das Schiff auf einer Werft in Maasbracht in den Niederlanden durch ein Feuer großenteils zerstört. Bei Schweißarbeiten im Maschinenraum hatten Kabel und Schweröl Feuer gefangen, zeitweise bestand auch die Gefahr, dass Gasflaschen an Bord der Burg Eberbach explodieren könnten. Laut einem Artikel in der Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung wurde das Schiff bei dem Brand vollständig zerstört, doch dies stellte sich später als Übertreibung heraus.

Gerettet wurden allerdings nur die Schale und der Motor. Da der Besitzer einen Vertrag mit der Stadt Liège zu erfüllen hatte und der Rechtsstreit nach dem Brand zu lange dauerte, kaufte er 2017 noch das Fahrgastschiff Stuttgart. Dieses 1957 unter der Baunummer 109 auf der Schiffswerft Schmidt in Oberkassel gebaute Schiff fährt mittlerweile unter dem Namen Atlas V.

Die weitgehend zerstörte ehemalige Burg Eberbach wurde als Eindecker wieder aufgebaut und 2018 auf ihren neuen Namen Frère Orban getauft. Obwohl der Schiffsrumpf bei dem Feuer nicht zerstört worden war, war das Schiff nach dem Wiederaufbau nur noch 25 Meter lang und für 150 Personen zugelassen.

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Protest condemns Gergiev over Ukraine & gay rights
11 April 2014 18 May 2016 Peter Tatchell Foundation
Maestro faces the music for supporting Putin regime
Huffington Post UK – London – 10 April 2014
http://huff.to/1oSfHYU
Peter Tatchell, Director of the Peter Tatchell Foundation, writes:
Russian conductor Valery Gergiev was the focus of a noisy protest last night at the Barbican concert hall in London. Ukrainian campaigners and allies accused the principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) of "supporting President Putin's tyranny, the invasion of Ukraine and the persecution of gay Russians."
PHOTOS: http://bit.ly/1ggPD42
Ahead of the protest, they delivered an Open Letter to the Board Chair and Managing Director of the LSO, Lennox Mackenzie and Kathryn McDowell.
It stated that Gergiev's support for Russian intervention in Ukraine and for discriminatory anti-gay legislation renders him unfit to be the LSO's lead conductor and to receive public funding.
The LSO, which employs and pays Gergiev, receives over £2 million in Arts Council public money every year. It was also on the receiving end of protesters wrath. They accused the orchestra of collusion and urged supporters to bombard the LSO with protest emails.
http://lso.co.uk/contact-us
The Open Letter challenged the LSO to explain:
Why is the London Symphony Orchestra employing a man whose public support for anti-gay policies and illegal military action clearly goes against the values of diversity, tolerance and respect that the UK's artistic community prides itself on? This anomaly can only serve to be detrimental to the reputation of the London Symphony Orchestra, and by association, the Barbican, Arts Council England, and DCMS (Department of Culture, Media & Sport) as providers of funding.
How can the London Symphony Orchestra justify using public money to employ Valery Gergiev as Principal Conductor when he is still publicly allowing his name to be used in support of Putin's military aggression in Ukraine, and is yet to row back from his endorsement of President Putin and his regime's active discrimination against gay people? Arts Council England lottery money is meant to be distributed to 'good causes'. How can a man prepared to publish messages of support for a regime like the one currently in the Kremlin be considered a 'good cause'?
Intolerance, aggression, disregard for the rule of law and democratic processes – are these the values we want reflected in our leading cultural institutions? How many people in audiences at the Barbican would support Gergiev's unquestioning endorsement of a militaristic authoritarian like Vladimir Putin?
The letter concluded:
"It is our view that Mr Gergiev's current position is untenable and he should be suspended with immediate effect until he officially withdraws his name from the list published on the Russian Culture Ministry's website and fully explains his position on the Anti-Homosexual Propaganda Bill.
"If he decides he is not prepared to do this, his employment should be terminated as he is not an appropriate person to be in receipt of UK public funding. He supports discriminatory legislation which goes against the UK values of equality and diversity, and he supports Russian military action which the Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary have unequivocally condemned."
Gergiev is one of more than 500 celebrity signatories of a recent statement on the Russian Ministry of Culture's website that backs the Russian president's policies in Ukraine and Crimea.
http://bit.ly/1cwKJ36
He has defended Russia's anti-gay law which prohibits gay visibility or advocacy; falsely claiming the law is a crackdown on paedophilia, not homosexuality.
http://bit.ly/1i1Ug2j
Gergiev is a long-time supporter of President Putin and endorsed his 2012 election campaign; publicly stating that he was voting for Putin.
http://bit.ly/x75w5W
Indeed, he released a video entitled: Why I am voting for Putin
http://bit.ly/w3QuT4
Andrew Lewis, Head of Public Affairs at the Ukrainian Institute in London, said:
"With the full extent of Valery Gergiev's support for Putin now known, the London Symphony Orchestra really has to make a decision about his future as its principal conductor. If Mr Gergiev is not prepared to remove his name from the letter in support of Putin's illegal military invasion of Ukraine, or to clarify his controversial position on Putin's discriminatory anti-gay legislation, this confirms he is a wholly inappropriate person to be receiving public arts funding in the UK and should be replaced with immediate effect by someone far more deserving."
Protesters last night condemned Gergiev for supporting "neo-imperialism in Ukraine." They also berated him for backing Putin, despite the Russian president's repression of civil liberties and the victimisation of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community.
Putin's regime incarcerates political prisoners in jails that resemble gulags. It harasses journalists, lawyers and human rights defenders. Peaceful protesters, environmentalists and opposition leaders are arrested, often on trumped up charges, in a bid to silence and intimidate critics.
Gergiev is a great conductor but he colludes with an expansionist tyrant. He seems to have little respect for freedom and equality. He is not fit to conduct the LSO.
Thursday night's protest was organised by London EuroMaidan, with the support of the Ukrainian Institute, the Association of Ukrainians in Great Britain and the Peter Tatchell Foundation.
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Valery Gergiev condemned for supporting Ukraine invasion – Barbican, 10 April 2014
Iran: Persecution of Arabs intensifies under Rouhani


Summary: The information engineer and the businessman need to have common agreement on the purpose of the enterprise data warehouse. Once it's understood, IT must make it happen. The enterprise data warehouse should be able to perform profitability analysis.
To make it happen, let's start by addressing the following: what do we have already, and what are we missing to get the job done? Those of us with some experience around various enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems know that these systems do a good job of linking together financial transactions (accounting records) with their associated operational transactions (purchase orders, deliveries, inventory movements, invoices, etc.) such that there is a join path back to the data points we need to determine the actual cost of acquiring a product from a supplier. The ERP may even do a good job capturing manufacturing and inventory holding costs. Furthermore, the ERP may drop these valuable bits of financial data right onto the operational transactions themselves, greatly simplifying our ability to do ubiquitous gross margin reporting within the EDW. We can build line-item fact tables right off our order, shipping and invoice records with the two perfectly additive measures we need (revenue and cost) handed to us directly out of the ERP with little to no transformation required.
The solution should not merely capture those numbers, but should also expose the drivers behind them. It's not really sufficient or defensible to show that Customer A is a sugar daddy while Customer B is dead weight without providing the data that supports those conclusions.
If the problems or the promise of a solution described herein resonate, stay tuned! This series will continue in DM Direct on June 8, June 15 and June 22. Go to www.dmreview.com/newsletter if you are not already a subscriber.


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Pacific Cultural Night showcases Filipino and Polynesian dances
April 30, 2019 / Thomas Peterschmidt, Staff Writer
Getting to experience the world in a lifetime can be difficult to accomplish, but being able to have a global experience come to you allows for an opportunity unlike no other. The Pacific Celebration Night (PCN) is a performance put on by the Filipino American Association of Sonoma State University (FAASSU). They will be hosting a large number of cultural dances representing the Filipino and Polynesian cultures. This club is run by students from diverse backgrounds. The performance starts on May 4 at 7:30 p.m in Person Theater. this year they will be celebrating its 10 year anniversary.
With a large and vibrant culture, the Pacific Cultural Club (PCC) has to be accurate in their traditional recreations of dancing style and costume design.
"It takes a lot of practice and, sometimes, research for the dances because they are cultural dances. This is my first year choreographing a dance," Dedmon said. "I had to do a lot of research to prepare."
With all the work and dedication to the PCC, freshman Joshua Francisco has to set up a normal routine to balance his busy life.
"Physically, since I am in seven dances I need good endurance. You need to contribute all your energy into it to make each dance the best one." Francisco continues.
With the physical challenge being the most obvious, being apart of the PCC can make your life very complex and stress-inducing as a student.
"Mentally, balancing the activities of the club with my school work can be hard sometimes, but it's definitely worth it," Francisco said.
With many different cultures represented in FAASSU, many members get to bond over the dances as they prepare for the celebration. With a strong sense of community in FAASSU, the members feel proud of making it all the way as a group.
"Dancing with partners, you become really close friends with them and we'll be there for each other like family," Francisco said.
As the club makes their final preparations for the celebration night they need those strong bonds with each member of the club.
"With a strong sense of family, the club has created, the members care for each other deeply. I'm Japanese, but they make it feel like a home away from home," Dedmon said.
The FAASSU club is the largest cultural group at Sonoma State. They represent the Filipino and Polynesian communities while accepting all. Anybody can join, and with a lot of hard work and commitment, the club will showcase a week-long cultural celebration of traditional dances for the Sonoma State community.
"I'm proud that I'm still able to learn about my culture, despite being a non-native born Filipino. I was raised in a predominantly Caucasian background so to be able to learn about my home culture is an honor I get to have," Zapanta said.
Clubs like the PCC have a great opportunity to make many students that are not Caucasian find a community at Sonoma State. Showing the strength of other cultures its an opportunity for a student to learn about another culture they might know much about. With an emphasis on making this event open and available to all the PCC shows their commitment to Sonoma State is unwavering.
"This event isn't necessarily meant to differentiate us, but simply to educated the student population at Sonoma State," Zapanta said.
With an event that has taken months to prepare and offers great insight into a diverse community on campus tickets will be sold a week before May 4. Admission for students is $5 and $10 for the community.
April 30, 2019 / Thomas Peterschmidt, Staff Writer/ Comment
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SAM Center provides food, other items to veterans and their families
Amy L. KnappIndependent staff writer
Thomas Davenport put his life on the line for his country.
The Navy veteran served in Beruit with American forces during the Lebanon Civil War.
But since returning to civilian life, Davenport has had his ups and downs, struggling with the impact of his time in the Navy and trials in his personal life.
Things came to a head when his fiancée of six and half years died nearly two years ago and he found himself homeless.
"That took me to an area I didn't want to be," Davenport said.
For a year and half, Davenport went from place to place, sometimes living off the land to survive. He had the will but some days were just a little bit harder.
On Thursday, the Canton resident gained a little of his life back. He slept in his own apartment.
The next day he visited the SAM Center, 413 Lincoln Way E.
The volunteers at the center were there to welcome Davenport and help give him a leg up in the next chapter of his life.
SERVING OUR HEROES
Serving Area Military, Veterans and Widows (SAM) aims to help local military members, veterans and their families with whatever their needs might be.
The nonprofit organization run by volunteers opened its doors May 4. In its first nine months, it has seen 756 clients walk through the doors. As of Dec. 31, volunteers had logged 2,017 hours.
"We are still living our mission," Executive Director Melissa Seibert said. "Our red floor and carpets greet them. I put my hand out (to shake) and tell them, 'We are here to thank you for your service.' They are not getting a handout, but we are paying it forward."
Seibert is passionate about the work done at SAM but won't take credit for what the organization is doing.
The community, she said, is taking care of the area's heroes and the SAM Center is the conduit to assistance.
Numerous organizations have partnered with the SAM Center and many, including the Massillon Eagles 190, which donated $2,500 on Friday, are providing funding to help meet the needs of veterans.
Groups like the American Legion Ladies Auxiliary Unit 221 — which has taken on providing items for lodging kits — have gone the extra mile to help, Seibert said.
On Friday, Davenport was presented with a kit filled with the things for his new apartment including pots and pans, dishes, sheets, pillow, towels, measuring cups, utensils and a shower curtain.
He also picked up essentials such as soap and cotton swabs, food to fill his cupboards, a pair of slippers and long underwear.
"I got some jogging pants to lay around the house. I can actually do that now," Davenport joked.
Sylvia Thomas, a Community Referral and Resource Center social work associate with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs office in Akron, has been working with Davenport for the last year to get him back into his own place.
Places like the SAM Center, Thomas said, help fill the gaps in veterans' lives.
After paying for rent, a deposit, repaying past due utility bills and other expenses including cremation costs of his daughter, Davenport's monthly income from Social Security was pretty much used up, she said.
"This gives him a sense of belonging," Thomas said. "It makes him feel human again."
Thomas will continue to work with Davenport at his pace as he is still working through things, she said.
"There are issues with being there (Beirut) and there are issues here, it gets to me sometimes," he said. "You go there but you're never the same when you come back."
COMMUNITY EFFORT
The community, Seibert said, has stepped up to provide for its heroes.
Donations of food, clothing, toiletries continue to roll into the Massillon center. No donation is too big or too small, Seibert said.
Seibert's husband, Mark, is hoping to get word out to those needing the center's help.
"This town, Canton has been amazing," Mark Seibert said. "You always hear the bad but there is so much good."
Massillon Municipal Judge Eddie Elum said Stark County is blessed to have organizations that care for veterans.
"We are blessed not to have very large homeless veteran community but between the Eagles, VFW, American Legion and the Sam Center we aren't letting anyone fall between the gaps," he said.
"We are all working in the same direction to serve our heroes," Seibert said. "We are working with various organizations here that represent the love that each hero should be embraced with."
Reach Amy at 330-775-1135
or amy.knapp@indeonline.com.
On Twitter: @aknappINDE


The target to deliver all government services electronically by 2005 could be jeopardised by a shortage of e-business skills. One feature of the problem is that no one knows the overall picture of what skills are available. In a move to get this information the Cabinet Office has issued a toolkit which allows departments to identify the level of skills currently available to them.The toolkit is based on the Skills Framework for the Information Age which has been developed by a consortium of companies, government and professional bodies, under the management of the IT National Training Organisation. The framework lists the jobs that exist in the information and communication technologies and the skills required to perform them. Users of the toolkit work through a series of questions which identify existing skills and reveal where further development is needed to take forward e-business strategies.
Departments will send their completed toolkits to the Cabinet Office so that a service wide assessment can be made. Decisions will then be made on what action to take to reduce the skills gap.
The toolkit is available at www.iagchampions.gov.


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Posts Tagged 'CO2 Emissions'
2012/02/27 omnologos	Leave a comment
Summary of the latest email edition of "Science In The News Weekly", "a digest of science news stories appearing in the mainstream media. It is delivered every Monday afternoon (or Tuesday afternoon in the case of a Monday holiday) as part of Sigma Xi's public understanding of science program area, in conjunction with American Scientist magazine"
Science-y news
Another science-y news
Yet another science-y news
World to end(*)
More science-y news
More more science-y news
In particular the (*) bit is of the form:
Scientists say that if carbon dioxide emissions don't begin to decline soon, the complex fabric of marine ecosystems will begin fraying–and eventually unravel completely.
Evidently reason takes a momentary leave of absence at American Scientist like in many other places, whenever carbon dioxide is mentioned.
BTW the link is to the study that used naturally-occurring CO2 seeps to try to figure out what might happen in 2100, an impressive collection of "might's" if you ask me.
Categories: AGW, Catastrophism, Climate Change, CO2 Emissions, Global Warming, Omniclimate, Science, Skepticism Tags: American Scientist, CO2 Emissions, Global Warming, Science, Skepticism
Humans Are Not Vermin
2012/01/23 omnologos	5 comments
Letter sent to the IHT-
Dear Editors
So you've finally realized there's a set of simple innovations that could save the lives of millions right now, help the environment and perhaps even slow down global warming (see John Tierney's "A renegade climate idea that could work", IHT, Jan 18, 2012).
The fact that those actions have been neglected thus far because of lack of "glamour" and an obsession with cutting carbon dioxide emissions tells everything one needs to know about the inhumanity sadly intrinsic to many environmental activist organizations.
Humans are not vermin. Children dying as we speak because of black carbon filling their lungs in windowless huts are not trade-offs to sacrifice in a fight to convince the world to use fewer SUVs.
Prof Roger Pielke Jr's "iron law of climate policy" says CO2 emission cuts policies always lose against economic growth pushes. Such a rule ought to be expanded : because we're humans, and we should remember our humanity. Therefore policies that save human lives have to take precedence over attempts at defining global environment-related treaties. Always.
Categories: AGW, Climate Change, CO2 Emissions, Global Warming, Omniclimate, Policy, Science Tags: CO2 Emissions, Global Warming, History, Science
If The Skeptic Society Were Not Fast Asleep On AGW (Anecdotes Do Not Make A Science)
This is what the Skeptic Society would write regarding the constant barrage of reports, blog posts, news items, peer-reviewed articles about the current and future (lack of) catastrophes related to man-made CO2 emissions – they would write it, that is, if the Skeptic Society were not fast asleep on the topic, most of the time – but not always – seeing itself as Defender of the Orthodoxy of Established Science rather than, shock! horror!, a society of skeptics:
Anecdotes Do Not Make a Science:
The ThisShouldBeWhatSkepticsAreAbout Reply
by non-Michael Shermer, non-Arthur Benjamin & non-James Randi
We realize that hour-long "Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming (CAGW) demonstrations" do not a scientific experiment make, but there is no question that you warmists present them as if it were a scientifically known fact that "we are experiencing or going to experience Catastrophic AGW" to some degree. In your blog posts and articles, in fact, you state that these "physical phenomenon" is "something that is happening to us all," thus stating your support of the "fact" of the existence of catastrophical man-made global warming. But scientifically speaking, the "facts" of the matter are that there is no positive evidence whatsoever for the existence of any of the increase in exceptional weather you discuss, when records are compiled in controlled scientific conditions.
Even the pro-AGWers who do serious responsible research on the matter are now admitting that their entire research program, after over fifteen decades of data collection, has produced nothing statistically significant. The few "blips" in the data that appear, quickly disappear when conditions were instead expected to replicate. This is one of the beautiful components of the scientific method—its self-correcting nature. For those who are corrected, however, it may not seem so attractive.
(Of course, Mr. Warmist, if your arguments for the validity of CAGW claims are based upon religious, rather than logical, scientific reasoning, many of these arguments may not apply to your statements. In that case we are arguing about a preferred belief system rather than a provable—or disprovable—claim).
Our position is not meant to be scornful or condescending. We only want to make the point that under controlled measurements over many decades, there has never been a proper and statistically significant finding of catastrophic increase in exceptional weather events. What CAGW people have are anecdotes about hurricanes or Arctic sea ice, and anecdotes do not make a science. Anecdotes are stories related by participants: "I saw a tornado and thought 'this is what CAGW is about'." Or: "I spotted some maybe-dead polar bears and made a guess about how many more have died because of CAGW." And so on.
The simple fact is that thousands and thousands of CAGW stories, as impressive as they may seem, do not make a science. Ten anecdotes are no better than one anecdote, and a hundred anecdotes are no better than ten. Actually, a hundred anecdotes are worse than ten, if you do not also have statistically significant data showing a worrisome change in weather patterns and events somewhere in the world. It is a fact, Mr. Warmist, that NO results shown so far have been adequately obvious and clear-cut. In the case of old data—and the reputation of CAGW rests almost entirely on old, dubious paleoclimate data—those requirements often cannot be applied, obviously. But if your CAGWers are able to NOW produce data, we can show you how standard statistics can be applied. We await, with interest, your response to this suggestion.
Anecdotes are only useful to illustrate a phenomenon that already has been proven scientifically, in this case, statistically. If you do not have this, and as far as we can tell you do not, then all those anecdotes indicate is that there is something else going on that has absolutely nothing to do with CO2 emissions. To repeat the six-word phrase that should be memorized by every CAGWer and skeptic (it is difficult for all of us to understand), and repeated every night before bed:
ANECDOTES DO NOT MAKE A SCIENCE.
(freely inspired to the Skeptics Society reply to the Association for Research and Enlightenment, an ESP advocacy group)
Categories: AGW, Catastrophism, Climate Change, CO2 Emissions, Global Warming, Omniclimate, Science, Skepticism Tags: CO2 Emissions, Global Warming, Science, Skepticism
(Failure at the New York Times and ClimateWorks) Why So Many People Are So Unperturbed
It says a lot about contemporary "green" journalism when a report that links the Permian extinction to "methane burps" using a Baltimore Sun article of Dec 2004 is described as "the best job I [Justin Gillis of the NYT] have seen of explaining, in layman's terms, why scientists keep pressing the issue".
Perhaps we simply shouldn't have anymore laymen writing about environmental stuff.
Anyway, here's my comments to "The Costs of Delay" by Hal Harvey and Sonia Aggarwal for the ClimateWorks Foundation:
How many times can the same concepts be regurgitated before people recognize they don't lead anywhere?
The report says "A delay—of even a decade— in reducing CO2 emissions will lock in large-scale, irreversible change". Ironically, this same sentence has been heard first more than TWO decades ago.
It then goes on to "Carbon "sinks" are disappearing" but "the proportion of total emissions soaked up by the oceans between 2000 and 2007 _MAY_ have declined by as much as 10 percent." I am afraid such weaselry with words is very 2008.
"the more CO2 [the seas] absorb, the more acidic they become": a physical impossibility due to all that salt. Seawater could become less alkaline, but to call that "more acidic" is again a trite, old way of playing with words.
The pages on "impacts" only deal with future stuff that "may", "is likely", etc etc happen. That means it "may not". "Estimates" are so 2008 too.
It gets even more ridiculous when the Permian extinction is linked to a "methane burp" by way of a Baltimore Sun article of 2004. Is that a joke? And the authors proceed to mention two studies that depict adaptation in worse terms than even the Stern Review, thereby forgetting all the research that points in the other direction.
In conclusion the Climate Works report shows exactly why so many people are so unperturbed. The case for mitigation against climate change should be made in a less amateurish, less partisan, and decidedly more scientific way. IF that's possible, that is.
Categories: AGW, Catastrophism, Climate Change, CO2 Emissions, Global Warming, Omniclimate, Policy, Science, Skepticism Tags: CO2 Emissions, Global Warming, Politics, Science, Skepticism
Will CO2 Cause Bieber Fever In Fish Worldwide?
No, I am not talking about this Fish. Or that Phish. I am talking about fish of the swimming variety, recently in the news as under multiple lines of attack by (you guessed it right) increased CO2 in the atmosphere.
Poor little ocean inhabitants will run out of breath, or go deaf. Or maybe not, as both papers compensate with novelty what they lack in robustness.
In the meanwhile, though, there are some indications that, at least for now, great white sharks are into AC/DC. That could be useful news (if under threat of attack, just convince a fellow diver to burst into a watery version of "Back in Black" and you'll be fine. You, that is, not the fellow diver).
Why stop there, though? We can combine all these pieces of evidence to come up with a realistic scenario (as realistic as anything ever written by the likes of David Suzuki or Paul R. Ehrlich, that is): with human-caused CO2 emissions apparently unstoppable, fish the world over will experience irregular heartbeats, and hearing difficulties causing a decline in musical taste.
That is, they will all suffer "Bieber Fever".
Please help prevent such a tragedy, by reducing your CO2 emissions.
Categories: AGW, Catastrophism, Climate Change, CO2 Emissions, Humor, Omniclimate, Science, Skepticism Tags: banded morwong, CO2 Emissions, Culture, finding nemo, great white sharks, Justin Bieber, Science, Skepticism
Reports of UK Demise Greatly Exaggerated – Just Don't Trust A Word The Government Says
UPDATED with BBC News link
"Pray for Britain"? UK "off a cliff"? Yesterday, I thought not.
omnologos says:
Hey, it's the UK Government, they'll fiddle with the figures and tamper with the reports of independent panels appointed by them, declare "victory!" and move on without having achieved any practical goal at all.
the UK has a long history of bummer pledges met by creative accounting. This'll be another example.
And in fact…the BBC flagship "Today" programme had Roger Harrabin pondering a few hours ago how the new "legally-binding" emission targets can be dependent on what the rest of EU will do (mysteriously, there's little on the BBC website as yet). And the FT reports that it's all going to be about a fantastic "2030 target", and Chancellor George Osborne made it known that "nothing has been agreed".
So the rule is as usual…especially when "targets" are involved, do not trust a word that comes out of the UK Government. Ever.
Categories: AGW, Climate Change, CO2 Emissions, Global Warming, Omniclimate, Policy Tags: Business, CO2 Emissions, Global Warming
Andy @Revkin Points To The End of The Line For The IPCC And Its Lot
2011/03/27 omnologos	10 comments
Thanks Andy!
Beginning in the 1980s, [University of Pennsylvania Professor Philip] Tetlock examined 27,451 forecasts by 284 academics, pundits and other prognosticators. The study was complex, but the conclusion can be summarized simply: the experts bombed. Not only were they worse than statistical models, they could barely eke out a tie with the proverbial dart-throwing chimps. […] The least accurate forecasters, [Tetlock] found, were hedgehogs: "thinkers who 'know one big thing,' aggressively extend the explanatory reach of that one big thing into new domains" and "display bristly impatience with those who 'do not get it,' " he wrote. Better experts "look like foxes: thinkers who know many small things," "are skeptical of grand schemes" and are "diffident about their own forecasting prowess."
So there we have it…experts of the "big thing" called "climate change", aggressive (to the point of hiding declines, preventing publication of competing ideas, inserting unsubstantiated critiques in the IPCC report, etc etc) and definitely "impatient" with us little humans wondering aloud about their certitudes (any post at RC, Connolley, Deltoid, Romm, etc etc keeps confirming this point).
Note how none of the above can be defined as "gross negligence" or "conspiracy", and yet despite all the whitewashing by the Climategate inquiries, there is a scientific consensus, and the best of our scientific knowledge demonstrates, that all that bunch, and pretty much all the bigwigs around the IPCC, they ARE "least accurate forecasters". QED.
For more discussion about "wrongology": here and here. Read also here a critique-essay by Tetlock himself, listing a set of criteria suggested by David Freedman, author of Wrong: Why Experts* Keep Failing Us—And How to Know When Not to Trust Them as signs of claims we should be "especially wary of"
dramatic ("claiming to have invented the psychological equivalent of the telescope qualifies")
a tad too clear-cut ("devoid of qualifications about when propositions do and do not hold")
doubt free ("portraying findings as beyond reasonable doubt and one's measure as 100 percent pure")
universal ("implying that one is tapping into powerful unconscious forces that, hitherto unbeknownst to us, drive all human behavior")
palatable ("likely to appeal to one's favorite ideological constituencies")
receiving "a lot of positive" media attention ("widely covered in the mass media and millions have visited the website")
actionable implications ("claims about what employers now need to do to guarantee true equality of opportunity in workplaces")
Let me now make a statement that is dramatic, very clear-cut, doubt-free, universal, palatable (to most of my readers), yet likely media-ignored and hardly actionable: the "scientific consensus" on climate-change (rather, the unscientific stuff that constitutes the IPCC–led propaganda bandied about as "scientific consensus"), scores 7 out of 7 on the Freedman scale and therefore should lie at the bottom of anybody's trust level:
dramatic (having reached the computational power needed to project future climate just as CO2 emissions got to a previously-unknown "dangerous" level)
a tad too clear-cut (with climate change almost completely due to a "thermostat" called CO2)
doubt free (the IAC spent an inordinate amount of time complaining about the absurd IPCC policy of underplaying uncertainties)
universal (everybody will feel the (bad) consequences of climate change, and everybody is guilty of it)
palatable (as it happens, the usual evils of capitalism and freedoms are the underling cause of climate change)
receiving "a lot of positive" media attention (shall I really comment this?)
actionable implications (every ha'penny worth of a politician understands how many things can be pinned upon the bandwagon called "climate change")
And I find one sentence by Tetlock as especially relevant to the climate debate:
Whatever may be the merits of the underlying science in the peer-reviewed literature, in the public forum, the ratio of pseudoexpertise to genuine expertise is distressingly high.
ps Yes, I might be wrong. On the other hand, I am not asking for billions of dollars for dubious research, have never attempted to restrict anybody's liberty, don't use the 'net to show off my superiority complex, do let almost every comment free on this website, etc etc)
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Predicting Draft Pick Compensation, Destinations For Antonio Brown
By: Trevor Sikkema February 19th, 2019 2019-02-19T00:00:00-05:00 The Draft Network
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If you've been able to keep up with the Antonio Brown saga in Pittsburgh through its entirety over the last four months, please send the Sparknotes our way, because it's getting hard to follow -- both chronologically and logically.
Most recently Brown has done things like post tweets, videos and Instagram pictures of himself telling Steelers fans goodbye and announcing that he will go to the team that gives him the most guaranteed money -- which isn't really up to him since he's not in any way a free agent, nor will he be cut to become one. To this point, all of that just seemed like ill-advised tactics to gain leverage for Brown to move on, but identifying the actual weight of those posts and actions was hard to gauge. But on Tuesday Brown posted a picture of he and Pittsburgh Steelers owner Art Rooney saying that both had talked, are on good terms, but will be parting ways.
The reality of that seems crazy, especially on the Steelers side of things.
First and foremost, the Steelers are not an organization that has ever been pushed around or given into the demands of players who put themselves before the team. It's just not something they have ever budged on as a franchise. That's why when Brown was late for meetings and was causing a scene at practice last year, I was shocked they did not take more discipline than what they eventually did, which was just benching him for the final game of the season. But there are a lot of numbers that make this a tricky situation.
Brown is owed $21M whether he's on the Steelers or not. He'll get a roster bonus if he's not traded before March 17, and his contract for the next few years reads: $12.6M in 2019, $11.3M in 2020 and $12.5M in 2021. Oh, and by the way, Brown turns 31 years old this July.
The age and the contract numbers make this hard on the Steelers to get anything near what his production deserves back in a trade, but this thing is happening. Antonio Brown -- arguably the best receiver in the game -- has played his last down for the Steelers.
That's where the draft comes in.
The Steelers aren't going to want a player deal, because there's no way any team would give up a player who is anywhere near Brown's contract numbers or production numbers to make it worth it. So that leaves only draft picks to be the preferred form of compensation.
"They will want a 1," an NFL general manager told ESPN back in January, meaning a first round pick. But that was then, and now the Steelers have almost no leverage to their name in this predicament. Because of that, their tune has changed, and teams have started to call their bluff.
Pelissero of NFL Network said he polled seven different NFL executives who said the Steelers are now shooting for a mid-round pick for Brown's services. That means Brown could be moved for a pick like a third or fourth rounder, certainly a bargain for the kind of production Brown can bring, if you can afford it.
So what teams can?
The 49ers are the hot name to land Antonio Brown, and the reason is because not only do they have the cap space to absorb him with $65M free right now, pulling the trigger on a player of his talent could be what puts them over the top with a strong draft around him in 2019.
The 49ers aren't that many pieces away from being a really good football team on paper, and now that Brown's price tag is much lower than it was before, as long as you can make sure he won't go haywire like he did in Pittsburgh, this one makes a lot of sense.
Imagine an offense with Aaron Rodgers, Davante Adams, Antonio Brown and T.J. Hockenson/Noah Fant/Irv Smith. Yep, give me that all day.
The Packers currently have $35M in cap space, so though they would have to make some tough decisions around him, pairing Brown with a guy like Rodgers would create an electric duo. But, we know Rodgers bumped heads with the old coaching staff, and Brown did with the Steelers staff. Would it be a time bomb waiting to go off?
Better question: Even if it is, would it be worth it for a year or two?
After trading away Amari Cooper, the Raiders need a true offensive star badly.
Brown makes sense here due to the fact that the Raiders have so many draft picks in the Top 100, and the fact that they have $71M in free salary cap space, but would this locker room work for Brown? If he wants to be the savior of the offense and the focal point of everything they do, this is his place to be that. But he if truly wants to win, I'm not sure Oakland is the situation is where he wants to be.
According to Bet Online, the Jets are actually the odds-on favorite to land Antonio Brown, and that was even before his price tag went down to what it seems to be today.
The Jets have the second-most cap space in the NFL at $95M. They also have two third round picks to play with to potentially out-bid other teams for Brown's services. But the logic of this one all depends on Sam Darnold.
Right now Darnold is the young starting quarterback for a Jets franchise that has needed leadership, stability and potential from that position for a long time. Brown is an alpha in many ways. He doesn't like to share spotlight, and likes his voice to be heard loud and clear. Would that stunt Darnold's leadership on the team? If the team thinks such a move would shrink Darnold's presence, Id' be very hesitant about it. But if they think Darnold can handle it, Brown would be one heck of an offensive weapon to help accelerate Darnold's NFL progression.
This one is the ultimate wildcard, but it might not be as crazy as you think.
It has been reported that the Patriots aggressively tried to trade for Odell Beckham Jr. last year -- who would have had a cap hit of $21M this year, just like Brown. So we know the Patriots are interested in a splash at that position. Also take into account the fact that Rob Gronkowski doesn't have many years left, if any. That would free up $11M in cap space. Then, for the cherry on top, the Patriots not only have two second round picks, but they'll also get two extra third round picks in the form of compensatory picks for losing Nate Solder and Malcolm Butler last year.
A long shot? Maybe, but don't count the Pats out as a landing spot for Brown.
Trevor Sikkema
Senior NFL Draft Analyst
Senior NFL Draft Analyst for The Draft Network. Co-Host of the Locked On NFL Draft Podcast.


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FINALLY. I was able to nab a Cocona for a decent price and she's here! Sadly, her right leg broke off in transit from Japan. :( I'm going to try to fix her up since it's a pretty clean break and I need her in my collection. Luckily it was a good seller and they gave me a partial refund for the damage instead of having to hash it out with USPS. Thank you Japan Online Shop.
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The word "deceitfully" would be better understood if we considered the definition of the Hebrew word "rem-ee-yaw'", which is: to delude, to fool others about the work; to cheat on the job, or to betray the work of the Lord which is by doing something treasonable or disloyal, to be remiss in doing the work of the Lord; working deceitfully, lying about it; falsely claiming to be a worker, working with fakeness, working carelessly with slackness, slothfulness on the job, being negligent, NOT doing God's work which we are expected to do.
Here it has reference to the vengeance to be taken on Moab, and denounces a curse on that soldier(s) who failed to do his duty in the most thorough and terrible manner. No pity, no motive of any kind, was to lead them to spare the doomed nation. But whilst such dread work may be at times the work of the Lord, the expression more commonly points to that which is spiritual, and tends to man's highest good. In the NT Epistles we have constant reference to the work of the Lord in this happier sense.
We are THINKING today about the Slackness of service by Christians everywhere, but especially those who attend our church. Exactly what are we doing to serve the Lord?
Now don't look at any of your fellow friends in the pews around you to judge them whether or not they are negligent serving the Lord. This is not about them, it is about YOU, US, OUR CHRUCH MEMBERS & attendees.
This is important because our text makes clear the mind of the LORD concerning those of US who DO NOT COMMIT WITH OUR WHOLE HEART TO DO the WORK HE COMMANDS HIS FOLLOWERS TO DO. "Cursed be he that doeth the work of the Lord negligently."
We may derive from this extreme instance a most forcible argument against any kind of slack service in the work of our Lord. If such slackness could deserve such a curse in OT times, how much more that incriminates us of the NT times who are guilty of neglecting Christian works of obedience, faith and service of love to our Savior and to our church!
I. WHAT ARE SOME INDICATIONS OF NEGLEGANT SERVICE.
1. Negative goodness. Negative goodness is when Great care is made to avoid all forms of impure conduct, don't cuss, smoke, talk filthy, do drugs or alcohol, etc., and that is a good thing; but when coupled together with a reluctance to make any sacrifices for Jesus or to put forth any exertion to do right things, good things, things worthy of recognition and rewards for serving Him, is pure and simple negligence. God is displeased with that.
2. Working at half power. The service that is rendered does not come up to the level of the requirement nor to the measure of one's ability. It is service done in a shallow, disconnected, half our brain in it, style.
II. WHAT ARE SOME CAUSES OF SLACK SERVICE?
1. Worldliness. The clay of selfishness is mingled with the strong metal of devotion. A man would serve God and mammon. He tries to do the work of God with one hand, while he advances his own interest with the other. But no work for God is acceptable which is not done with both hands.
2. Unbelief in our own individual importance in the work to be done when considered with the whole scope of things as done by all Christians who are involved. It is the thought that plenty of other Christians are doing a much better job than what my small effort would contribute. This paralyzes much of the workers from doing a better job, more I am persuaded, than we are willing to admit. God won't miss our few works of service; God is too busy, He will not notice that we are idle while the fields are white unto harvest. He loves us and will not judge us for our failures to do the work. Hey, no wonder the service of some Christians is so feeble. They've excused themselves from service, but nevertheless want rewards when they get to heaven.
3. Lack of devotion. The service of the hands may be given without the love of the heart. This mechanical work is a poor, spiritless thing. It is love and love only that can inspire a service of unwearyingly vigor.
4. Cowardice. There is a fear to do something new or difficult. We pity this for its weakness. We should condemn it as wicked. The servant of Christ must be willing to suffer all inconveniences for his Lord who suffered and died for him. "Be thou faithful unto death."
5. Mere inactivity. Some people are habitually tardy and dilatory. They may be lazy by nature and should learn to resist these tendencies as temptations to unfaithfulness.
III. WHAT ARE THE EVILS OF SLACK SERVICE? This is no slight failure which needs to be gently rebuked. The curse of God lies upon it. "Cursed be he," etc.
1. Negligence is a very damaging characteristic. It ruins our testimony of love for Jesus. We are God's servants, and bound by ties of spiritual birth and of gratitude for saving us.
3. It injures the man who works negligently. Our manner of work reacts upon ourselves and the church where we attend where we may or not be members. Indifferent service produces coldness, lethargy, low spirituality, dead services with no enthusiasm! Some churches have such formal ritualistic services which are so cold you could ice skate on them. Membership at those places is falling apart. Hear this quote from a Southern Baptist source, Harold Vaughn: A group of SBC leaders consulted with a prominent independent pastor. They were seeking advice on ways to reduce the number of young people leaving church after high school graduation. Reportedly, they estimated they were losing around 93% of their students while perceiving that the independents were losing only 73% of their young people. Seven in ten evangelical young people ages 18-30 stop attending church by age 23 according to one survey. " Hear this new article from the Paul Prather's observances.
IV. WHEN IS THE WORK OF THE LORD DONE DECEITFULLY OR WITH NEGLIGENCE?
1. When it is not done thoroughly. When we shirk our work; do no more than we can help; get away from it as fast as we can. And how much of the "work" is thus done! Evidently counted a drudgery rather than a delight. Do we not all know that there is danger of such working?
2. When it is not done sincerely from the heart. How questionable the motive may be which leads people to engage in the work of the Lord! It is not done out of live, but out of custom to do something; a way to receive the praise of men; the fear of reproach if they don't; a sting of conscience of guilt; the hope of an earthly gain, etc. These and such as these may crowd out the only right and sincere motive—the love of Christ. All others make us more or less hypocrites, and can find no acceptance of the Lord in the great day. But is there no peril from such motives? We know there is.
3. When the work is not done earnestly; when our heart is not in our work. When it is not laid hold of, as it should be, "with both hands earnestly," but, as it were, with one of the fingers. Some work like that; others as with one hand; others, indeed, with both hands, but slowly, loosely, not earnestly. Scripture says, "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might." Only such as obey that Word are sincere workers.
4. When it is done hypocritically. In the days of sore persecution there was but little chance of any Christian serving the Lord hypocritically; however, when Christianity gained in popularity there was real peril of persons taking up with the Lord's work in order to further, not the work of the Lord, but their own worldly gain. The most popular church in town is where all the business people go to scratch each other's backs! What they do is mostly pretence. God keep us all that!
V. THE SEVERITY WITH WHICH THE LORD LOOKS UPON HIS WORK DONE DECEITFULLY. "Cursed be he," etc. (ver. 10). Now, why this severity?
1. It is an insult to God. It is as good as saying to him that his work does not deserve true labor; that it is of so little importance that any little effort will do for it. What could be a greater affront to God?
2. He knowsThe work is so great and urgent that it is traitorous NOT to engage in it. What do we say of the watchman sleeping at his post? Of all who betray their trust or neglect it?
3. He knows that examples of such negligence is contagious. How many a young servant of Christ is hurt by the poor influence of professed older servants of Christ who are guilty of that which is here denounced! Such disloyal acts demoralize many in the army of the Lord.
4. He knows It renders the work itself far more difficult. For the world sees clearly and judges keenly those who say they do the work of the Lord. They know what that work is, what it professes to aim at, what the interests involved in it. But they who do that work deceitfully cause others to laugh at all such work, to disbelieve all its claims, and to refuse more stoutly than ever to surrender their hearts to it. Is this the cause that atheism is increasing and the church declining? 1 Tim 4:1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;" Serious question: Have LETHARGIC CHRISTIANS CAUSED THIS? ? ?
5. Some such negligent workers deceive their own hardened hearts, and keep themselves in a fatal slumber, from which there is no waking. Never has Satan a firmer hold on a person than when he can get him to merely THINK he is saved because of a decision made, perhaps as a child, but struggle with it his whole adult life doing the work of the Lord deceitfully without any passion; without any conviction; without any joy.
He hopes that he is all right, that his work was good enough, but dies without an assurance of heaven in his heart, and is not undeceived till, to his awful amazement, he hears the Lord say to him and to all such, "I never knew you; depart from me ye that work iniquity."
VI. OUR SAFEGUARDS AGAINST SUCH SIN.
1. Solemn recollection and pondering of God's severe anger against it.
2. And chiefly by continually seeking and cherishing in our hearts that love of Christ which the Holy Spirit creates and maintains there, and which alone, but ever, makes all our work sincere, acceptable, effectual, and true.
3. This curse is a solemn warning. The evils that necessitate it should terrify us from incurring it.
4. "We are not our own; we are bought with a price." Even when we do our best we are unprofitable servants. Solemn voices of time and eternity bid us "work while it is day." "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might."
5. Our Christian service is no profitless treadmill drudgery. It is for the good of mankind. The call in the text was to execute wrath; ours is to do deeds of mercy. The world in its darkness, its misery, its sin, cries loud for the Christian mission of consolation and redemption. Can we sleep while such calls pierce our ears?
6. Consider the constraining love of Christ. He died for us; he only asks that we shall live for him. But the least we can do is to live faithfully, earnestly, and devotedly, serving the Saviour with all earnest zeal.
Conc: Think about this. Here is a great work of judgment, entrusted to the hands of men. Jehovah effects such works either through operations of his own or through agents to whom he give the commands. What he has done himself is sufficiently illustrated in many OT visitations. But men have also been called to visit upon others their iniquity in a solemn and thorough way. That men have made the command of God a pretext for the greatest cruelties, and for indiscriminate slaughter on an extensive scale, does not in the least alter the fact that such commands have been given, given out of the greatest wisdom and with the best results.
Every nation reckons that the temporal life of its subjects is at its disposal; they must be ready to serve with life or in death, as may be required. And shall not the God of all the earth dispose of temporal life according as his all-comprehending wisdom sees may be best for the whole world and for all ages to come?
Okay, may I say to the self righteous critics of the things God did when He destroyed nations in OT History. I speak now of Mr. Phil Greer of Frankfort, Ky., who wrote critically against Gideons handing out Bibles to school children because of its accounts of the killing of the first born in Egypt and other accounts of destruction like Sodom & Gomorrah and Joshua's conquest of the promised land.
I say, have we not witnessed atrocities in our own times which involved the killings of both children and adults, but were reacted against by the rest of the world for the good of all peoples? Should the world have allowed Germany and its Adolf Hitler to continue the quest for a super race of Germans by killing all the Jews and conquering the world? Or should the world stand by and allow Muslims extremists to essentially do the same as Hitler and rule the world for the religion of Islam? Or should we allow Iran to destroy Israel and wipe them off the face of the earth? I say NOT.
It needs to be always borne in mind that the Word of God requiring severity and suffering is only a part of God's work. We shrink from it through mere horror of the pain inflicted, but there is another large sphere of work where there is plain benefit, where we have to make no one suffer, where we are contributors to something positive. The husbandman is not forever plucking up weeds; his main work is to sow good seed and reap it.
"Cursed be he that doeth the work of the Lord deceitfully" is a word that has its correspondence in Paul's remark, "Woe is me if I preach not the gospel."
Jesus put his servants through an exacting discipline, a self-revealing one, in order that they might do his work thoroughly, uprooting all evil, getting down to proper foundations, making no compromises, ready for all persecutions.
Are any of us doing the work of the Lord neglectfully? Which means we're not doing it at all. Or is this text a challenge sufficient enough to put our hands to the plow and not look back? Luke 9:62 And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God." ARE WE FIT? IF WE ARE, WE MUST SHOW IT BY THE GOOD WORK OF A CHURCH LIFE AND PERSONAL LABOR FOR HIM.


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Can you have Autopilot without the Tech Package?
Discussion in 'Model S' started by jgarcia540, Apr 15, 2016.
I found a 2014 85 model that I want to buy and the description from the seller says that the car does not have the tech package, but it has the sensors and Autopilot hardware. And yes, from the pictures, i can see this. I know that if I buy this car, I can then purchase the AP software for about $3k, but does this mean that I will then have the tech package? If not, what would I be missing?
I doubt you would be getting any other Tech Package features turned on with Autopilot. Some of the Tech Package features were hardware like folding mirrors.
Nope. They can activate the AP over the air. The tech package includes hardware.
Yes you can have autopilot without the tech package. Take it you looking at a blue Tesla with the weirdest configuration ever.
What a strange combination of tech... auto pilot but no navigation.