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Stohr Chassis
C & D Sports Racer, track day cars
Official Stohr DSR web site
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As featured in the February/March, 2002 edition, Issue 40, of RaceTech magazine.
This article is reproduced with permission from RaceTech editor Ian Bamsey, and the images are reproduced with permission from Lee Stohr.
Note: The information below is from early 2001.
Noted formula car designer Lee Stohr has announced he is building six D Sports Racers by the spring of 2001. After designing innovative and competitive Formula Fords for 10 years, Stohr has designed a revolutionary DSR. His Stohr FF99 has finished second and third in the highly competitive SCCA Runoffs for the past two years. The Oregon-based engineer is very excited by the new car and says, "DSR looks like a smart place to be."
The Stohr DSR will have very low frontal area following the Audi concept of low bodywork between fenders and cockpit. It is carried even further using the Stohr FF style low rear upper a-arm. The car will have an under nose venturi, dumping over a floor splitter, requiring a raised frame in the foot area, as on the Stohr FF. It will evacuate air from the front wheel wells as is done by the Audi. No rear diffuser is initially planned due to weight, cost and practicality (special jacking points, vulnerability to off-course damage, access, etc.)
The Stohr DSR will come equipped with state of the art Formula Ford suspension technology. The Stohr FF1600 uses a modern front steering geometry that reduces slow corner understeer. The uprights have a high caster, low kingpin angle, forward offset axle design which provides greatly increased camber in the outside front tire at higher steering wheel angles, without any chassis weight jacking. The DSR will employ the very advanced Formula car shock absorber technology. "Triple compression stage, velocity dependent pistons are used in our Penske shocks with great success," said Stohr.
Lee Stohr commented, "It is surprising how much room is needed to swing an 8" front tire lock-to-lock. Especially if the body is low between the fenders. Don't be surprised if my final body shape is a little different than the initial CAD renderings."
Long-time FF and FC racer, Sean Maisey, has purchased the first car, and two more have been sold. Only 3 production slots are left for 2001 deliveries.
Lee Stohr stated, "The design for the new Stohr DSR is now frozen. Final dimensions are being put on parts drawings. Parts are being built and ordered every day. Some small changes have been made since submitting info to Sports Car magazine.
The frame should be considered a steel tube frame, with pre-preg S-glass/honeycomb stiffening panels in the cockpit area. Aluminum panels elsewhere.
A rear diffuser is now part of the first cars, rather than an add-on later.
Outboard rear brakes are also standard. There wasn't space for an inboard single brake. The engine cover is so low, it barely clears the sprocket. In fact, the entire rear end assembly has become a work of art, with CNC machined aluminum plates carrying the rear shocks/springs, bellcranks, a-arm location and rear axle/sprocket unit, with eccentric bearing carriers for chain adjustment.
The suspension is still pushrod and bellcrank all around, with a 1:1 or better shock/wheel travel ratio.
The body and other composite work will be made by local Oregon shops specializing in experimental aircraft, RV's and such. The body has more rounded front fenders, with lower openings behind the front wheels. The body sides are lower, more like the new Bentley, which supposedly reduces drag (vs Audi channels on the body top side). The engine cover was widened slightly to accept the lower part of the stock Yamaha YZF R1 airbox.
We are also working on paddle shifters, mounted behind the steering wheel - mechanically operated to start with. We'll see how it works out."
Revised: January 20, 2006.
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History of Geology
Dinosaurs of the Atomic Age!
By David Bressan on July 16, 2012
July 16, 1945 marks the beginning of the Atomic Age, as the first Atomic Bomb was successfully detonated during the "Trinity" test in the desert of New Mexico. This event had an enormous impact on human history and influenced also the pop-culture of dinosaurs .
"The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms" is considered the first movie to introduce the atomic bomb as possibility to create monsters and a new kind of dinosaurs. The movie was produced by the small independent company "Mutual Pictures", Warner Brothers recognized the potential and released it in 1953, 8 years after the first U.S. atomic bomb and 4 years after the first Soviet nuclear test, just at the beginning of the arm race between the two superpowers.
In the movie during "Operation Experiment" (!) an atomic bomb is detonated in the atmosphere over the Arctic (the producers used real footage, a common trick to save costs, but maybe also to emphasize the "veracity" of the story). This movie also introduces the classic scientists and their pseudoscientific techno-babble, an element that will become standard in later movies. The radiation of the nuclear explosions melts an iceberg and releases the "Rhedosaurus" - an evil, unstoppable and indestructible dinosaur-creature, the first of a long series of later Atomic Age dinosaurs (most notable "Godzilla" 1954), created by the misuse of mankind of radioactive radiation and contamination of harmless organisms.
Strangely in the movie it is a nuclear scientist that will solve the troubles with the "Rhedosaurus" discovering a possibility to kill it, using a strange radioactive isotope. This element displays the contradictory relationship of society to the atomic technology already in the first years of the Atomic Age: The (mis-)use of science & technology creates problems, but also helps to solve them. However this positive message of "20,000 Fathoms" will go lost in subsequent movies, when the monsters created by science will only cause destruction and suffering.
EVANS, J.A. (1998): Celluloid Mushroom Clouds - Hollywood and the Atomic Bomb. Critical Studies in Communication and in the Cultural Industries; Westview Press: 212
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David Bressan
My name is David Bressan and I'm a freelance geologist working mainly in the Austroalpine crystalline rocks and the South Alpine Palaeozoic and Mesozoic cover-sediments in the Eastern Alps. I graduated with a project on Rock Glaciers dynamics and hydrology, this phase left a special interest for quaternary deposits and modern glacial environments. During my research on glaciers, studying old maps, photography and reports on the former extent of these features, I became interested in history, especially the development of geomorphologic and geological concepts by naturalists and geologists. Living in one of the key area for the history of geology, I combine field trips with the historic research done in these regions, accompanied by historic maps and depictions. I discuss broadly also general geological concepts, especially in glaciology, seismology, volcanology, palaeontology and the relationship of society and geology.
All Good Things must End...
How it all ends…
Geological Treasures in Ancient Egypt
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Halloween has come and gone which means Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas, and New Years are just around the corner. With these holidays come plenty of family and friends, traveling, decorating, baking, and more – and all the more reason to brush up on safety tips to protect yourself and your #HOA community.
Replace batteries in your smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors and check to make sure they're in proper working order.
Avoid overloading electrical outlets when plugging in decorations, whether indoors or outdoors.
If you're going away for the holidays, put a stop on your mail or ask a neighbor to collect it for you so it is not as obvious that you are gone. Also, set lights in your home on adjustable timers to give the impression that your home is occupied.
If you put up a live Christmas tree, ensure that it has plenty of water each day. Dry trees can be a dangerous fire hazard.
Stay close when cooking or baking in the kitchen and pay attention to what you are doing so food does not burn or catch fire.
Keep cords and decorations out of the way so that they do not become tripping hazards or fire hazards.
Have your chimney cleaned and your HVAC unit inspected or serviced to keep them in good shape and ready for use.
Lock your car doors and bring valuables inside to reduce interest from potential thieves. If possible, park your car in your garage or close to your home rather than along the street.
Pay attention to your surroundings, especially when out after dark. If you see something suspicious, notify authorities.
Stay alert when driving because there may be poor road conditions, increased traffic, or distracted pedestrians.
In the hustle and bustle of the holidays, make sure you're taking the time to slow down, think through what you are doing, and using common sense. It can be helpful to write yourself a daily to-do list such as watering the tree, unplugging lights, removing gifts or bags from your car, and double-checking that doors are locked or security systems are set. Also, if you are going to be away, let a trusted neighbor or friend know so that they can check in on your home and make sure that everything is secure and there is no suspicious activity.
If everyone works together, the HOA community can remain a safer, more enjoyable place during the holiday season and throughout the year. Don't forget to keep in touch with your community manager for more support and guidance in creating a safe environment.


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WHEN THE LAW IS AN ASS
Some topics keep coming up for discussion. Irrefutable evidence can be presented to settle the issue but it may not be what people want to hear. They may ignore the evidence or decry it.
Stephen Woodworth
The question of when life begins is such an example. In late April, Canadian Member of Parliament Stephen Woodworth put forth a motion to examine when life begins. He called for a special parliamentary committee to review Canada's federal Criminal Code's definition of when a baby becomes a human being. Canadian law says a baby only becomes a human being at the moment its birth is completed.
I am reminded of a famous line from Charles Dickens' book Oliver Twist: "'If the law supposes that,' said Mr. Bumble . . . 'the law is a ass - a idiot.'"
So it is. The law is based on pro-abortion ideology, not biological evidence which established decades ago that life reproduced sexually begins when sperm fertilizes egg. This is not a matter of taste or opinion, it is biological evidence.
If Canada truly believes in the concept of universal human rights then all human life must be included within that ideal. That's what "universal" means. Human rights begin when human life begins and ends with life's natural conclusion.
Thomas Mulcair
Canada's socialist leader in Parliament, the New Democratic Party Leader Thomas Mulcair adamantly opposed Woodworth's motion, or the establishment of a parliamentary committee. Mulcair said the entire New Democratic Party will vote against the motion.
In defending his motion, Woodworth said, "There's a diversity of opinion across Canada on the question of our definition of human being. But what does a parliamentarian do in the face of diversity? Rather than let opinions fester, one should expose them to the light of day."
Some opinions cannot be sustained in the light of day. They need the logic of darkness in order to be maintained. The light of biological science, unfiltered by pro-abortion ideology, would quickly establish that life reproduced sexually begins at conception. All one has to do is refer to the Carnegie Stages of human development.
Carnegie Stages of Human Development
The Carnegie Institute at John Hopkins University first described the initial stages of embryonic development back in the early 1900s. Canada's law's stating a human being's life begins at birth is ridiculous. It completely contradicts what we know about prenatal development.
Canada's law is backward and bigoted. It needs to change to finally recognize and include what we know about prenatal life.
Unborn children are not the first group of humanity that has not been recognized as legal persons. Until 1929, Canada's Supreme Court said women were not legal persons. There was a time in North America when aboriginal people were considered non-persons.
PROPERTY, NOT PERSONS
In 1857, the United States Supreme Court ruled in the Dred Scott decision that black slaves were considered property and not legal persons.
During the Third Reich, the personhood and humanity of Jews was questioned. Adolf Hitler said, "The Jews are undoubtedly a race, but not human."
History is marred with examples of people arbitrarily denying other groups of humanity legal personhood or even recognition as human beings. Now it is unborn children who are systematically denied their humanity and not recognized as legal persons. Prejudice makes civil society uncivilized.
Even if a parliamentary committee were to review the Criminal Code's position that a child only becomes human at the point of birth, it would still have to look at when biological science established when life begins. Unfortunately, too many parliamentarians will not accept the answer.
It would not be the first time a government has examined this important question. In April 1981, the U.S. Congress conducted a series of hearings to answer the question "When does life begin?"
SCIENTIFIC VALIDITY
A group of internationally recognized scientists appeared before the committee with a resounding collective statement that conception marks the beginning of a new human being. Fifty-seven witnesses appeared and only one scientist disagreed; his disagreement was based on philosophical, not scientific, grounds.
Did it change anything? No. Corrupt ideology and prejudice prevailed over truth. Millions of children have died by abortion across America since 1981. Why should we think it will be different 30 years later in Canada? Are we more open to truth now?
I fear the answer is "no," but pray it might become "yes." Until then, it remains important that God's people continue to proclaim the sanctity and dignity of all human life and prayerfully offer life-affirming alternatives to women considering abortion.
Posted by Mark Davis Pickup at 9:46 PM
MARK DAVIS PICKUP ON "THE BATTLES OF IDEAS"
ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF LIBERAL MEDIA BIAS
A PROPOSED MOTTO FOR BIOETHICS
THEY ASKED FOR A SPEECH
IN THE WORDS OF RONALD REAGAN
INCREASINGLY AMERICA'S YOUNG PEOPLE REJECT ABORTION
A CRITICALLY IMPORTANT CONFERENCE ABOUT EUTHANASIA
CALLING PEOPLE "VEGETABLES": WHERE DID IT COME FROM?


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Home > Transfer News > 27-goal striker rules out Arsenal move amid reports of £44.7m bid
27-goal striker rules out Arsenal move amid reports of £44.7m bid
By mac14 on January 8, 2016
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has ruled out joining Arsenal amid reports we've tabled a mammoth £44.7m bid for the Borussia Dortmund striker.
Aubameyang has been strongly linked with a move to the Emirates in recent months and the speculation intensified after he missed training with Dortmund earlier this week.
His absence came around the same time that the Metro carried a report from a Spanish journalist called Kike Marin who claimed that Arsenal had submitted a €60m offer – which equates to around £44.7m.
However, it looks like our pursuit may prove to be futile as Aubameyang has now publicly ruled out the possibility of moving to the Emirates Stadium this month.
When speaking after being announced as the African Footballer of the Year last night, the 26-year-old said he had no interest in joining Arsenal and he didn't see himself leaving Dortmund any time soon.
'I don't want to go to Arsenal. I won't leave Dortmund soon,' Aubameyang is quoted as saying by the Metro.
So there we have it. Aubameyang has categorically ruled out joining Arsenal. Does this mean it will be the end of the speculation? Certainly not. But I think it's a good indicator that a transfer won't happen this month.
I never got my hopes up anyway as pulling off his signing mid-season was always highly unlikely. However, I'd love to see Aubameyang join the club in the summer.
He's one of the best forwards in European football right now and has scored 27 goals in 27 games for Dortmund this season. Can you imagine how dangerous he'd be playing in front of the likes of Mesut Ozil and Alexis Sanchez?!
I hope Arsene makes him his No.1 priority in the summer. We have the money to force Dortmund in to a sale, so let's try and make it happen….
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hi gay's, please don't let Pierre aubameyang go enywhere ,consult, Mr.Wenger to strengthen forward plz.


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Obama Wins Mock Election
Matt Klein, Satff Writer
Since the majority of students, being under 18, were not eligible to vote in the presidential election, Leadership conducted a campus-wide mock election on Tuesday, November 8.
Students filled out the mock ballots on election day, voting not only for their preferred presidential candidate, but also on a variety of California propositions.
The motivation behind the mock election was to keep Campolindo students informed about contemporary politics and the economy. "We really wanted students to be a part of the election process," Leadership advisor Dino Petrocco said.
On the ballot, students were given the choice between Republican Candidate Mitt Romney and Democratic Candidate Barack Obama. Participation was optional; out of the 650 ballots turned in, only 567 had votes for a presidential candidate on them.
President Obama won in a landslide victory, with a final total of 380 votes versus 187 votes for his opponent, Mitt Romney. "I wasn't too surprised by the outcome, because it seems like most people around Campolindo are democrats," said leadership student and junior Marley Thuma.
Also noteworthy about the mock election was the variety of propositions included on the ballot. "Including the propositions was important because they are actual laws we are voting on," Petrocco said. "They could directly affect the students in the future."
Out of the 5 propositions on the ballot, 4 passed, including propositions 38, 34, 32, and 30, while 37 failed to pass.
The student ballot did spark some controversy. No third party candidates were included on the ballot, and a few students expressed dissapointment with the lack of options. "I wasn't a big fan of either of the candidates this year," said sophomore Eric Dunning. "I just decided to leave that one blank because I didn't really want to support either of them and no other options were given," he noted.
Leadership explained that there was just not enough room on the mock ballot, and "the propositions were more important," according to Petrocco.
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People may proclaim the name of God in many ways. They may profane it in utter rejection of their Creator. They may beseech Him with it, seeking deliverance from trouble or good favor in a time of need. Or they may call on the name of the Lord in belief and repentance, receiving the gift of eternal life. As John records the cries of the survivors in Revelation 11, it appears they acknowledge Him as the God of heaven, but it is less clear that they do so in humble obeisance. Remember, even the demons believe in God – and shudder (James 2:19).
How do supporters of the four major interpretations of Revelation view the two witnesses we encounter in chapter 11?
Preterists – who see the events of Revelation as fulfilled in the first centuries of the church age – concede the difficulty of interpreting this passage. Citing Zech. 4:11-14, which seems to speak of the high priest Joshua and the governor Zerubbabel, some preterists see the two witnesses as personal representatives of religion and government. Others see the two men as summarizing all the witnesses of the Old Covenant, culminating in the witness of John the Baptist, who is likened to Elijah. Still others state their belief that these two witnesses are James and Peter, both of whom die martyrs' deaths in Jerusalem (although many argue that Peter died in Rome).
Historicists – who view the events of Revelation as unfolding throughout the course of history – say the two witnesses represent the Waldenses, Albigenses, and others who stand for Christ during the 1,260 years of the papacy prior to the Reformation. The fire that proceeds from their mouths is not to be taken any more literally than the words of the Lord to Jeremiah: "I am going to make My words become fire in your mouth. These people are the wood, and the fire will consume them" (Jer. 5:14). Further, they argue, all sorts of plagues and other calamities befall those who persecute true believers, therefore John's words are fulfilled in the lives of the Lord's faithful witnesses and their papal enemies. Some even argue that there is a continuous shedding of blood recorded along the waterways of Europe during these days.
Futurists – who say the events of Revelation are largely unfulfilled, especially chapters 4-22 – generally understand the two witnesses to be two men who will emerge to prophesy in Jerusalem during the Tribulation. The similarity of their miracles to those of Moses and Elijah lead some to believe these witnesses are indeed these two men, standing for the law and the prophets. Their appearance with Christ on the Mount of Transfiguration provides further support of this view. Some, however, argue that the two men are Enoch and Elijah, the only individuals in scripture called into heaven without meeting the universal appointment of death (Heb. 9:27). Not all futurists say these witnesses are two men. Some contend they are symbols of the witnessing church in the last days, while others see a blending of the symbolic and the specific, with two actual men who lead a larger group of witnesses.
Some idealists, or spiritualists – who see Revelation setting forth timeless truths concerning the battle between good and evil – argue that the two men symbolize Christ's witnesses throughout the church age. Though the church is one, the two witnesses support the truthfulness of their testimony, since "the witness of two men is valid" (John 8:17; see Deut. 17:6; 19:15). The witnesses are clothed in sackcloth because they bring a message of repentance. The two olive trees remind us of the high priest Joshua and the governor Zerubbabel (Zech. 4), who are God's agents of restoration after the exile. The miracles suggest that the power once residing in the law (Moses) and prophets (Elijah) are now given to the church. The deadly fire coming out of the witnesses' mouths suggests the power of the Word of God; those who oppose it bring swift destruction upon themselves. And while the church age has offered up countless martyrs for the cause of Christ, the church itself is indestructible.
Satan has deceived the whole world until the woman of Rev 12 delivers the true word of God Rev 12:5. She is not a church, she is not Israel, and she is not Mary. She is the prophet like unto Moses and Elijah Matt 17:3, Acts 3:21-23, Luke 1:17 delivering the true word John 1:1 from the wilderness Rev 12:6 to prepare a people for the Lord's return. God our Father will not put any child of his into a hell fire no matter what their sins. It never entered the heart or mind of God to ever do such a thing Jer7:31, Jer 19:5. Turn your heart to the children of God. A gift is now delivered to the whole world as a witness Matt 24:14. A righteous judge gathers ALL evidence before making a judgment. If you are called to know the true word- Prove all things.


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Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame: George Poage
© Photographed August 14, 2016
Erected 1988
Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame
Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin
43° 2.55′ N, 87° 54.967′ W
GEORGE POAGE
Graduate of the University of Wisconsin (1903). First black athlete to compete in the Olympic Games. First black athlete to medal in the Olympics, 1904 Olympic bronze medallist (200- and 400-meter hurdles). La Crosse native.
Inducted - 1998
The marker is located at the Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame at the UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena, and is accessible from southbound North 4th Street, between West State Street (to the north) and West Kilbourn Avenue (to the south), at or near 400 West Kilbourn Avenue, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53203.
Inductees honored at this site are members of the Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame (established 1951). The Wisconsin Athletic Walk of Fame is a joint property of Wisconsin Sports Development Corporation and Wisconsin Center District.
Click here for an Alphabetical List of Inductees to the Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame.
Use the "Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame" label below to view all markers at this location; there are more than 100.
The marker is located at the Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame.
The Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame is located at the
UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena.
The Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame is located on the east side
of the UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Labels: Milwaukee 53203, Milwaukee County Wisconsin Historical Markers, Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame
Location: 400 W Kilbourn Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53203, USA


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IDEESE Online Ethics Cases for Science and Engineering Students
International Dimensions of Ethics for Engineering and Science Education (IDEESE) is an NSF-funded project at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The project develops on-line and classroom-based curriculum for science and engineering disciplines. This is the home page for the interactive on-line curriculum, a set of cases and related resources based on real events with international ethical dimensions. Some cases (listed below) include audio interviews with fictitious stakeholders showing different perspectives on the case. The resources listed below include guidelines for structuring online student discussion forums and activities, and "driving questions" for homework and/or discussion. To see the full set of curriculum materials visit the IDEESE Home page. This page can be accessed by students but is intended as the instructor's overview of our materials.
Site CONTENTS:
Descriptions of the cases (below)
Research report and formative evaluations: Online Curriculum and Dialog Design for Ethics Skills for
Science and Engineering Students (sections include:)
Pedagogy and Design Principles
Case Design Principles
Driving questions for case-based activities
Online Activity Types
Example Discussion Forum Questions: Dhopal Case
An Introduction to Principles of Ethics and Morality for Scientists and Engineers
Conference presentation slides (5.5 MB)
Links to the Online Cases:
Dhopal - Fictionalized exploration of the Bhopal Chemical Disaster [R L I A Q]
SARS - Reporting controversy over the SARS virus outbreak [R L I A]
GMOs - The EU-US Dispute over Regulation of GM Organisms and Foods [R L]
Cyber Censor - Citizen Privacy and Government-Mandated Cyber-Censoring [R Q]
Stem Cells - Recruitment of Egg Donors by South Korean Stem Cell Researchers [R L I]
Key: R= Includes case resources; L=Link to additional in-depth classroom resources; I=includes fictional interviewees; A=includes audio interviews with fictional interviewees; Q=includes sample discussion questions]
Cases:
Dhopal - The Dhopal Chemical Disaster
This case is a fictionalized version of the Bhopal India chemical plant accident of 1984, which raised questions about plant safety and corporate responsibility around the world. In the actual case—one of the highest-casualty industrial accidents of the 20th century—a nighttime leak of some 40 tons of methyl isocyanate gas, mixed with unkown other gases, occurred at a chemical plant owned and operated by a partly-owned subsidiary of the U.S.-based Union Carbide Corporation. At least 2000 people died and 300,000 suffered respiratory and other injuries of varying severity. The plant had been operating at a loss for some time, the parent company had begun pulling resources out, and working conditions and morale were low. Controversy still exists as to what happened and how to assign responsibility for the disaster. Victims were compensated after a series of lawsuits, but some assert that compensation was inadequate and that those responsible were never brought to justice. Our fictionalized version of the case tells the story from various perspectives and encourages students to consider how the types of dilemmas in which engineers, technicians, and managers found themselves have relevance to other, less dramatic, workplace contexts. The case illustrates, among other ethics topics, how various economic and political pressures from corporate, state, local, and international bodies, combined with inadequate oversight mechanisms, can lead to disaster.
(Additional in-depth materials available here.)
SARS - Reporting controversy over the SARS virus outbreak
Between the months of November 2002 and July 2003 there was a global scale pandemic of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). Within a matter of weeks SARS spread from the Guangdong province of China to rapidly infect individuals in some 37 countries around the world. Worldwide, there were 8,096 known cases and 774 deaths listed by the World Health Organization (WHO). Controversy erupted when it was discovered that Chinese scientists and engineers, under constraints imposed explicitly or implicitly by the Chinese government, did not at first report information about the possible epidemic to WHO authorities. In the spring of 2003, the Chinese began providing more information to WHO and subsequently revised their policies for dealing with large scale outbreaks of infectious diseases. In exploring the perspective of various stakeholders and why they made certain decisions at various stages, this case illustrates how differences in cultural norms can lead to unexpected consequences. As WHO policies were improved as a result of this pandemic, the case also illustrates how international bodies respond and adapt to real and potential global crises.
GMOs - The EU-US Dispute over Regulation of Genetically Modified Organisms and Foods
Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in the form of plants, animal feeds, and human foods, inspire heated debate because they involve both high knowledge uncertainty and high ethical concern. Concerns for the integrity and sustainability of the natural environment and as well as the social and economic consequences of allowing the supply of seeds or breeding stock to be controlled by large multinational corporations dominated the debate. This case focuses on the differences between how the United States and the European Union have responded to public opinion, scientific evidence, and industry pressures in creating regulations. In its policy decisions the EU relies very heavily on the "precautionary principle" which mandates avoiding a new activity or technology while its long-term consequences remain unknown. The US, on the other hand, does not rely as extensively on the precautionary principle; most policy decisions are guided by the rule that a new activity may proceed until it is shown to cause significant harm. The controversy was eventually taken to the World Trade Organization for resolution. This case illustrates the origins and consequences of regulatory policies diverging between different countries. It also illustrates the tensions in responding to diverse and strong opinions among citizens, scientists, and business interests when conclusive research results are not available.
Cyber Censor - Citizen Privacy and Government-Mandated Cyber-Censoring
In mid-2009 the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People's Republic of China publicly released a directive stating that beginning July 1, 2009 all computers sold in China would be required to include Green Dam Youth Escort software, an internet filtering program that, according to the government, is intended to prevent children from viewing violent and pornographic web sites. There was immediate international concern that the software could be used by the government to monitor and restrict all citizen internet use, including politically-sensitive material, and there is even suspicion that the software can be used to intrude on individuals' privacy and autonomy in other ways. The Chinese government postponed the deadline, and the outcomes of the case are still unknown (as of Fall 2009). Computer software and hardware companies and western governmental regulatory bodies are positioning themselves in different ways, as they balance their desire to uphold western ethical values of privacy and freedom, their aversion to a public relations backlash, and the significant current and future market share that China represents. In the "discussion topics" section of this case, we ask students to imagine themselves as software engineers who are working on small modules of a larger product. We then ask them to imagine their potential courses of action upon realizing that the codes they are working on could be misused for unlawful or unethical ends (especially if their supervisors instructed them to continue the work without thinking of the bigger picture).
Stem Cells - Recruitment of Egg Donors by South Korean Stem Cell Researchers.
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Q: Boot fails after upgrading from 20.04 to 22.04 on dmraid device, no partitons After upgrading from Ubuntu 20.04 to Ubuntu 22.04 I go into an initramfs command line, where I see my RAID device but no partitions.
ls -l /dev/mapper/
total 0
crw------- 1 root root  10, 236 Nov 30 09:42 control
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 253,   0 Nov 30 09:40 isw_dbejgbheca_Volume0

Then I run kpartx -a /dev/mapper/isw_dbejgbheca_Volume0 and the partitions appear.
ls -l /dev/mapper/
total 0
crw------- 1 root root  10, 236 Nov 30 09:42 control
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 253,   0 Nov 30 09:40 isw_dbejgbheca_Volume0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root        7 Nov 30 09:42 isw_dbejgbheca_Volume0p1 -> ../dm-1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root        7 Nov 30 09:42 isw_dbejgbheca_Volume0p2 -> ../dm-2

i can now type exit and the computer will boot Ubuntu.

A: i upgraded my System on Intel Software Raid yesterday from XUbuntu 20.04 to XUbuntu 22.04 and it came out with the same issue wich you discoverd.
Personally i think it could be a bug in/with dmraid.
I tried different Ubuntu Life Systems (XUbuntu & Ubuntu Mate, 20.04, 18.04, 22.04 & 22.10).
I found out that with Live Systems based on Ubuntu 18.04 or 20.04 my RAID Partitions appear as expected after the boot and are accessible.
But not with Live Systems based on 22.04 or 22.10. In this systems i need to run "sudo kpartx -a /dev/mapper/isw_ffiig8ggf_Volume0" in the Terminal. Only after that my RAID Partitions appear and where accessible.
A Rescue System based on Porteus OS show also my RAID Partitions after boot, but with the mdadm tool.
I also noticed that the Program "mdadm" (multiple disk administration) seems to be no longer present in Ubuntu Live Versions up from 22.04.
I could remember that this Package was installed (parallel to dmraid, i knew dmraid was in use because partitions where listed as /dev/mapper/isw_xxxxpx) on my XUbuntu 20.04 before the upgrade to 22.04.
"dpkg -l" shows that this Package was no longer installed on my system after the upgrade. "apt-cache search" shows it as available.
So i reinstalled this Package. Initramfs was updated automatic during installation process.
Grub needs manual update via "sudo update-grub".
"/etc/fstab" needs manual edit to set back to the UUID's of the partition's (some where listed as /dev/mapper/isw_xxxxpx).
After that changes my system starts now as expected. A check via lsbklid and blkid shows up that my system is now fully running on mdadm tool (Partitions shown as /dev/mdxxxpx) and no longer on dmraid.

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"Време разделно" е роман на българския писател Антон Дончев, издаден през 1964 г. Според твърдението на автора творбата е създадена само за 45 дни. Събитията, описани в романа, се развиват през 1668 г. в Кръстогорската област в Родопите. Достоверността на източниците, на които се основава романът, е подложена на сериозни съмнения.

Сюжет

През пролетта на 1668 г. еничарят Караибрахим заедно с отряд от 120 конници пристига в родопската долина Елинденя, за да потурчи (ислямизира) местните православни българи. Три села, Просойна, Заград и Подвис, са разположени покрай реката. Турците спират край гробища, където Манол и поп Алигорко, по местен обичай, изравят костите на мъртвец – починалата съпруга на овчаря. Турците ги разпитват пренебрежително за имената на селата и продължават пътя си. Двамата българи се връщат в Подвис при воденицата на дядо Галушко Белия, където са Елица и Севда. Поп Алигорко съобщава на стареца, че са пристигнали отряд от спахии. Караибрахим и хората му се настаняват в огромния конак на Сюлейман ага в село Просойна.

Селяните от Елинденя решават да скрият жените и децата. Караибрахим нарежда да се съберат първенците на селото, като заповядва за това да му съдейства Сюлейман ага. Село Чепино е опожарено. Жителите му търсят спасение в съседните планини. Манол търси помощта на Сюлейман ага за да ги поведе срещу еничарите. Но агата не може да се вдигне срещу падишаха. Първенците се събират в конака. Заявяват на Караибрахим, че вярата си няма да дадат. Дошло е време разделно.

Персонажи
 Караибрахим – спахия, пратен да потурчи долината Елинденя.
 Манол – силен и горд овчар, осиновен от дядо Галушко.
 Абдула Венецианеца – ислямизиран венецианец, пленник на Караибрахим. Преди италиански благородник, който се включва в защитата на Кандия.
 Дядо Галушко Белия – воденичар, осиновил Манол.
 Сюлейман ага – господар на долината Елинденя.
 Поп Алигорко – монах и свещеник от Атон.
 Момчил – син на Манол.
 Елица – годеница на Момчил.
 Севда – вдовица, влюбена в Манол.

Екранизация
Романът "Време разделно" е екранизиран през 1988 г. от режисьора Людмил Стайков. Премиерата на филма е с идентичното име на романа, но впоследствие филмът е преименуван, следвайки англоезичния превод за разпространение на филма, който е "Време на насилие" (Time of Violence). Филмът се състои от 2 части: "Заплахата" и "Насилието". Втората част на филма пресъздава събитията от втората половина на XVII век до 1668 г.
 "Вече две десетилетия продължава османската обсада на венецианска Кандия (днешния Ираклион на о-в Крит). Родопите са стратегически опорен пункт за битката, но християнското им население е потенциален източник на нестабилност. Султанът издава ферман то да бъде обърнато в правата вяра. Свещените гори и долини, където според преданието се е родил Орфей, пропищяват от ятаганите, налагащи чуждата религия с кръв и пожарища. В долината на река Елинденя е изпратена спахийска (наемна) войска начело с еничаря Караибрахим, който е родом от тези места."
 Актьорски състав:
 Караибрахим – Йосиф Сърчаджиев
 поп Алигорко – Руси Чанев
 Манол – Иван Кръстев
 Севда – Аня Пенчева
 Венецианеца – Валтер Тоски
 Сюлейман ага – Васил Михайлов
 Елица – Калина Стефанова

 Режисьор: Людмил Стайков,
 Сценаристи: Людмил Стайков, Георги Данаилов, Михаил Кирков, Радослав Спасов,
 Оператор: Радослав Спасов,
 Музика: Георги Генков,
 Художник: Георги Тодоров

Критика

Спорове около евентуална политическа поръчка
В редица съвременни изследвания се сочи, че "Време разделно" е поръчан от комунистическия режим като част от пропагандната кампания в подкрепа на насилствените преименувания на български турци и помаци през 60-те години на 20-и век, което се повтаря по-късно с филмирането на романа през 80-те години на 20-и век в подкрепа на т.нар. "възродителен процес".

На многократно отправяните критики за това, че романът е поръчков, Антон Дончев отговаря:

Писатели и журналисти твърдят, че събитията в романа се основават на недействителни исторически случки и подвеждащи документи.

При всички твърдения на Антон Дончев, че се придържа към историческата истина, съществуват основателни съмнения, че авторът възпроизвежда в своята творба не реални исторически събития, а историографски мит, който се основава на няколко недостоверни източника, публикувани през втората половина на XIX век. Единствено сигурно е, че еничарите потеглят от Истанбул заедно с Фазъл Ахмед паша и неговия антураж на 25 май 1666 г. отправяйки се за Одрин, откъдето преминават по суша през Македония и Тесалия, за да се натоварят на кораби в Евбея за участие в обсадата на Кандия по време на кандийската война. Султан Мехмед IV в края на 1667 г. пристига при еничарите, разположени в Тесалия, откъдето да получава по-бързо информация за хода на военните действия на Крит. На 25 септември 1669 г. османската армия влиза триумфално в крепостта на Кандия, а султанът се разплаква от радост.

Съмнения в авторството
На съмнение е подложено и авторството на романа. В публикуваните посмъртно "Дневници" на писателя Йордан Вълчев се твърди, че "Време разделно" не е написан от Антон Дончев, а от Фани Попова-Мутафова, но заради забраната ѝ да публикува след 9 септември 1944 г., го е дала на Антон Дончев.

Бележки

Вижте също
 Класицизъм
 Произход на турците
 Френско-османски алианс

Външни препратки

 "Акад. Антон Дончев: "Време разделно" не е поръчка", в. "24 часа", 29 декември 2013
 Мариела Балева: "Гавра с Антон Дончев и "Време разделно" , в. "Преса", 10 февруари 2014
 "Време разделно" е българският филм на столетието според зрителите на БНТ, Dnevnik.bg, 8 юни 2015

Български романи
Исторически романи
Ислямизация в България
Книги от 1964 година

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A new iOS app titled 'Noise 5D' with 3D Touch compatibility developed by music company Roli, has opened up new dimensions for musicians on the smartphone by turning the iPhone 6s / 6s Plus display into a responsive, miniature keyboard (via The Verge). For those who don't know, Roli is known for its range of soft, rubbery keyboards that let musicians bend and squish notes to change their sound, something which is pretty much impossible to achieve on a normal computer screen.
NOISE is the result of years of innovative research and product development that enabled us to create the Seaboard RISE, a uniquely expressive, award-winning MIDI controller that enables 5 dimensions of touch; and Equator, its powerful native sound engine. With NOISE, we have shaped the surface of the Seaboard to maximize playability on an iPhone and remapped the new dimensions of sonic control offered by Equator. NOISE is built with JUCE, the leading cross-platform framework for audio apps.
The app has 25 preset instruments, from "Dirt Organ" to "Smoky Rhode," and allows for a huge amount of customization. Each instrument's sound can be modified in terms of qualities like reverb and fuzziness, and in the case of looping synths. The pressure sensitive dimensions (strike, pressure, and lift) only work on the 6S and 6S Plus, but the other two (glide and slide) work on any iPhones or iPads touch running iOS 9.0 or later.


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The Swarthmore Worth Loving
May 2, 2019 May 1, 2019 Ash Shukla 0 Comment campus journal, swarthmore
When I came to Swatstruck in 2018, I made sure to ask the quintessential Spec question — "Why did you choose Swarthmore?" — to pretty much every student that I encountered. Generally, the answers either revolved around Swat's specific academic programs or the college's generous financial aid policies. Even now, nearing the end of my first year here, "Why did you come to Swarthmore?" remains a question ubiquitous in getting-to-know-you type conversations, and the answers are still the same.
To this day, despite the number of times that I've conversed with fellow students about why we came to Swat, there's only one answer that I found worthwhile, or memorable. When I asked a senior from the class of 2018 why he came to Swarthmore, he answered that after four years here, he felt that he wouldn't have necessarily been happier or less happy anywhere else.
After a year at Swarthmore, I still think about that answer frequently. I love Swarthmore, and at this point, it's difficult to imagine my life without the college's physical property and the people that I've met here. When push comes to shove, however, Swarthmore is an institution, and being here has forced me over and over again to critically reevaluate what it means to be so closely affiliated with an institution.
While we tend to conflate Swarthmore College with Swarthmore's disambiguated community, we are perhaps remiss in doing so. Institutions are formed to fulfill one or more purposes, and while they heavily rely on the people within them, they are inherently separate entities. In the long run, to an institution, all people are dispensable. Institutions cannot change because their existence depends on a status quo, and while a status quo can be flexible over time, the institution's dependence on it will always remain. Institutions can begin and end, but their rigidity can never fluctuate.
On the other hand, communities, even if they initially form around institutions, are based within people's minds and hearts. They are fluid collections of people seeking to form connections with and to love each other. We define our communities, and in turn, they define us as well. While communities oftentimes form spontaneously, it is deliberately that we find our own places within them. As individuals, we can alter communities and make ourselves indispensable to them in a manner that is fundamentally impossible with institutions.
I don't love the cold and clinical institution of Swarthmore College, and it definitely doesn't love me. I don't even love Swarthmore's wider community. I love the smaller communities in which I have found a place, because it is when all members of a community are salient to each other that everyone can grow together. And when we form communities centered on growth and love, we can change the status quo.
Like many other students, I spent the majority of my time from Saturday afternoon to Tuesday night huddled on grimy floor of Our House (formerly known as Phi Psi), singing optimistic chants and trying to help further the goals of the sit-in in whichever way possible. In that case, the sit-in was our institution, and all of us who participated formed a new community centered around the house and the sit-in. We took over the space. We hung up posters, made artwork, and decorated Our House's yard with flowers and a wishing tree. On Tuesday evening, we spent hours cleaning every inch of the house's public spaces. I don't know how long it had been since someone last scrubbed the floors properly, but layers of dirt and dried beer came off of the floors when they came into contact with soap and water. That cleaning felt cathartic, as if were physically alleviating the house of its history.
That night, within an hour of each other, Delta Upsilon and Phi Psi both announced their disbanding. There immediately erupted shouts and screams of joy, exhilaration among countless students, and near-universal celebration on campus. Swarthmore College, the institution, played no role in this victory. It was us humans of the sit-in, the community, who had endlessly promoted peace and positive, nonviolent change. The college as an institution did not change, but the status quo upon which it relies underwent a massive transformation during those four days.
After everything, and after all of the positive change that communities at Swarthmore have enacted during the past two semesters, I still don't think that I'm necessarily happier at Swarthmore than I would have been anywhere else. My skepticism regarding that ambiguity, however, has turned into positivity, because I no longer care whether I would have been happier or less happy anywhere else. It no longer matters to me why I'm here; rather, I focus on what I do to ameliorate my communities. Institutions are roughly the same everywhere, but here, I have found a place in countless communities who not only love about each other, but use the growth resulting from that love to impact the status quo.
Are such communities unique to Swarthmore's campus? Absolutely not. But I am happy to be a part of loving, forward-looking communities here, at Swarthmore, and that's all that matters.
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A. Shukla is is a freshman from Fort Wayne, Indiana, who plans to major in linguistics and economics, and is, furthermore, of the opinion that Carthage must be destroyed.


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The rooms are small in size, they are modern in style and air-conditioned all equipped with a flat screen television . Free wi-fi is also available. All rooms are fitted with bed mezzanine style (bunk bed) consist of a double bed and a sinlge bed on top. Please note single consist of the same and triple rooms as well : a bed mezzanine style (bunk bed) with a double bed and a sinlge bed on top.
Traditional cuisine is served in a bright and spacious restaurant. The decor is attractive with many green plants and large windows, giving a lot of natural light.
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South Africa Suffers From New Crypto Ponzi Schemes
By Denis Goncharenko, Konstantin Rabin
22.02.2019 | in Blockchain
Blockchain Education in Africa: An Establishment Of Global Talent Source?
Recently, we paid attention to Africa as a promising place for blockchain and crypto development, due to the educational activities led by companies and enthusiastic groups and associations. The educational programs should be popularized even more, because of fraud and scams following the path of technological growth as it already stormed in Asia in recent years.
Now, South Africa has been taken by storm by what clearly looks like a typical Ponzi scheme. A cryptocurrency company by the name of Bitcoin Wallet has been enticing the population of Ladysmith, a city in South Africa to deposit their hard-earned money with them with promises to make them 100% of their deposit within two weeks time.
The scheme has become extremely popular, to a point where people were sleeping outside the Bitcoin Wallet office in order to get on the crypto hype as soon as possible. According to local police reports Bitcoin Wallet was generating as much as $135,000 per day in revenue.
However, it's been 15 days for some investors and now they're spending their time outside of Bitcoin Wallet's offices waiting for an answer from the owner about what happened to their funds. Even if they do get an answer from the owner, assuming he's still in South Africa, it's going to be disappointing.
Police investigate
According to local police, they've conducted investigations about a potential Ponzi scheme in Ladysmith but were not able to come up with any tangible evidence against Bitcoin Wallet, therefore the investors have to sit outside the offices and wait for the confirmation. Many investors are accusing the police of conspiring with Bitcoin Wallet and trying to cover up the crime, but these are just accusation of frustrated investors, which are yet to be confirmed.
When did the scheme start and what could happen next?
18.02.2019 | in Innovations
Paxful To Establish 100 schools In Africa As Part Of The "BuiltWithBitcoin" Initiative
Bitcoin Wallet first appeared sometime in June 2019 and has already passed the 15-day threshold for early investors, but hasn't paid out the due profits. According to a local media outlet, African News Agency, the owner of Bitcoin Wallet is a man named Spelele "Sgumza" Mbatha, who had an interview with the agency in June and claimed that Bitcoin Wallet's actions were legitimate and that the company was indeed re-investing funds into the cryptocurrency market and making profits for their investors. Seeing how the 15-day threshold has already passed, Mbatha will have to address his investors with some kind of explanation, which is yet to come. But if Bitcoin Wallet is indeed a Ponzi scam, it's possible that he's already fled the country and is consolidating his funds in an offshore account somewhere.
South Africans were a good target
ICON Expands To Africa, Signing Partnership With UABA
South Africans are almost #1 in the charts for cryptocurrency queries on Google, a little bit behind Ghana and Nigeria. Targeting the population of Ladysmith may have been deliberate due to the already existing interest towards cryptos. In fact, South Africans have also been a target in past crypto schemes, but it was much more technical. Hackers were targeting peoples' devices to install mining malware and steal computing power.
Yaliwe SOKO, United African Blockchain Association Chairperson commented on recent scam activity:
"Such schemes target rural areas where people are uneducated on crypto and blockchain. This highlights the importance of education in Africa. By now, people are looking for a quick escape from poverty and get into traps."
When it comes to Bitcoin Wallet, it's a much more open business, but clearly lacks transparency. Hardly such schemes could prove to be a legitimate business, but it's highly unlikely to make 100% profits in 15 days regardless of one's experience, and especially keeping it consistent over hundreds of investors. It could be yet another fraud and,unfortunately, amid regulatory breaches, Africans are to face these activities just like the rest of the world did for several years.
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When I was a child, my mother tried in vain to teach me to knit. It wasn't that I couldn't do it, but I was soooo boooorrredddd. I thought it was boring. It took too long to achieve something small that I wanted so I gave it up.
When I was in 911 dispatch, the ladies there re-introduced me to the art once again and I enjoyed it in the downtime we had on slow nights, but I didn't do it at home and I found it tiresome after a while.
Fast forward to last November when I suddenly had the urge to pick up the needles once again.
This time – I fell in love. No word of a lie – within a short few months I had gone from knitting simple hats and scarves, to knitting stuffed animals for my youngest (and even my eldest asked for one). Then my depression smacked me hard and after April I set my needles down in despair.
Well…thankfully that lull is over and I'm picking up my needles again! Only this time, I have to wear carpel tunnel braces on both wrist while doing so. I was getting a lot of pain and numbness whilst knitting, but brushed it off as I was so enjoying it. You can only brush something off for so long. I have a TON of projects to catch up on. I have sweaters to knit, scarves, the second sock of a pair for my toddler (he keeps asking me about it poor bug!), hats, toys – so much knitting, so little time!!!
I have found knitting to be meditative in my aging process. It pulls me in like a good book and keeps me calm and focused. It's my happy place.
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Discussion in 'The OT' started by Bigg, Nov 15, 2018.
I think both of your imaginations' are a bit constrained by current conditions when it comes to thinking about what things may be like a decade from now. For instance, talking about the unreliability of internet-based video delivery when that is only ever going to improve as time goes by thanks to continuing advances in technology.
It's still going to rely on a whole chain of devices and different providers, whereas DirecTV is a system that gets the video right onto your roof without being dependent on anything else.
Meanwhile, rain fade (which is a real issue with DBS) is never going to get better. Sports bars would love not to have to deal with that problem any more. Likewise, trying to determine future business decisions based on the current costs of broadband for businesses. Also, isn't one of the reasons that lots of these businesses use DirecTV (rather than cable) because of sports packages that DTV exclusively offers? That could easily change too.
1. Rain fade is barely an issue today. It rarely happens, and only for a few minutes at a time.
2. Rain fade will be less of an issue in 2019 and beyond as DirecTV shuts down MPEG-2 SD and can move some of the major HD sports networks, like your ESPNs, TNT, TBS, TruTV (March Madness), FS1, FS2, and a few major conference channels over to Ku band, which is less susceptible to rain fade than Ka.
3. If it's that big of an issue, DirecTV could make it easier for commercial customers to get 1m dishes.
All sorts of little changes in technology, business and regulations will unfold in the years to come. I'm not saying they will wipe out the use of DBS among sports bars and other business establishments, I'm just saying that they could, or at least significantly decrease its use.
Further, I predict some businesses will refuse to put streaming TV on their networks due to security. After the Target breach that was done through an HVAC system, those types of things are moving to 3G and 4G cellular IoT connections, and TV will likely stay on totally isolated systems.
He did not detail the reasons behind this, but the likely explanation is that some rural areas are less likely to have quality broadband at high enough speeds to support video streams, particularly multiple video streams, while also supporting email, social media, telecommuting and other applications.
They investigated it, and they found no evidence of someone purposefully re-routing the traffic. It was clearly a big oops. But as the internet grows, this is absolutely a valid concern, even if they are accidental in nature.
I'm not saying the internet won't improve, but the situation TODAY is that you'll have more outage hours per year streaming that you will with satellite rain fade, and you won't have any idea when they come. Like you say, rain fade won't improve while streaming will but the situation that matters is the situation today. The situation 10 years from now is irrelevant, because that's getting to be around the time when Directv might have a satellite or two getting old - I have said many times I expect they will probably discontinue satellite in the early 2030s because they aren't going to replace any more satellites after T16 is launched early next year.
I think somebody will keep satellite service around beyond that. There will still be a niche, as long as there is live TV around to watch via the satellite. However, the pay tv market may be significantly consolidated by that point, with far fewer channels, and they may no longer need the entire 99c/101/103c arc, and if they drop locals, and go back to a niche national service, they might go entirely off of one orbital position.
It's probably cheaper and more forward thinking for ATT to invest in 5G in areas that they already have the greatest density of subscribers rather than deal with the expense of installers and massive customer service depts, including the massive amounts of service calls. Added major benifit being it also generated cell phone revenue and ISP sales.
I wish I had you guys optimism but this is the third hobby/work area that I have had crumble due to ever changing technology.
Eh, nothing in this world will ever be 100% reliable/perfect. What I do know is that, for myself, DTV Now (at least for live TV) was more reliable in early 2018, whether delivered over broadband from Comcast or AT&T, than was DTV satellite when I had it a few years ago, which went out on at least some channels every damn time it rained.
If your Directv went out "every damn time it rained" your dish wasn't properly aligned. Or somehow every time it rained it was big downpour.
Yeah, the battle over net neutrality is another factor. Right now, since there is no net neutrality, there is nothing stopping Verizon from throttling traffic from Directv to make it more desirable for their customers to get FIOS TV. Or even block it entirely, if they wanted AT&T to pay them for access to their network and AT&T refused. How many FIOS customers have broadband alternatives that are the equal of FIOS? Probably not many, so they'd end up dropping Directv rather than dropping FIOS in that case.
A larger dish would make almost no difference. Doubling the dish's area adds at most 3 db, but rain fade can attenuate Ka by 50 db or more during a really heavy rain. It would reduce the duration of outages a bit, and maybe prevent a few when the rain is just at the threshold of fade, but that would be worth paying a couple hundred bucks extra for some weird non-standard dish & LNB? It would also be more susceptible to wind damage.
Effectively you can do this today by getting an Alaska/Hawaii dish (which is more than double the area so should give more like 5 db extra, in theory at least) but no one does for the above reasons.
FiOS is a bad example, they have strong broadband competition in 99% of the places that they serve from Comcast, Charter, Cox, or Altice, unlike cable, which often doesn't have much of any reasonable competition over a significant portion of their footprint. Sure, cable doesn't have fast uploads, but that doesn't matter to most people if cable is cheaper or in some other way better.
Aren't most rain fade events near the threshold? They usually only happen for a few minutes, and very rarely at that. Although nothing much is on TV from 1500-1700 in the summer when the right atmospheric conditions for rain fade most often exist anyway.
Back in the late 1990s, we used to have a lot of rain fade information available that was based on the Crane Rain intensity model and adjusted to DBS's Ku band frequencies and link dimensions. I'll post a region map for now, and then see if I can find one of my print tables and maybe make time to scan and post it.
When it was announced that DirecTV would be going to Ka band, where the wavelengths were only 2/3s the length of Ku, it was feared that that small reduction in wavelength would be significant because it got closer to the size of the rain drops themselves. By that time, I no longer had a professional interest in updating my knowledge base and never did find comparable data for Ka attenuation and link failure.
C-Band dish business and I also had a pager company. I had both at the same time. The Pager business was the first one killed by cell phones and then came C-Band. At least I saw the writing on the wall with the pager business and got out with most of my money.
Guess all the schilling for Directv didn't pay off in the long run.
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Oh cool. C-Band is a sad story. Of course virtually everyone still uses C-Band, they just don't know it, whereas pagers... that network is totally dead, right?
Oh cool. C-Band is a sad story.
Sad for the lenders. I just searched for an article that I had read when it was published back in 1997. Here is as much as I can view without a Wall Street Journal subscription. Can someone with a subscription get the whole story?
I spent one week working for a C-band satellite system installation company in a major metropolitan area that was owned by a criminal. They screwed every installer and nearly every customer. After I left, a person who stayed with them said that they had 47 "pullouts" in one month.
I then went to work for another C-band company in another part of the country. More criminals. More defective installations. I only lasted three days there. Both companies set their masts with less than two bags of pre-mix.
Those maps are why Directv broadcasts stronger signals in the deep SE and weakest in the SW. Their power curve approximately follows what you've posted.
Yeah scanning the sky for wild feeds of sports, news and other shows. Good times.
I didn't even realize all that stuff was going on. I was just referring to the fact that the current C-Band consumer packages only have a few major channels available directly from the source without re-compression.
$4000+ for the system (single receiver without programming) is a steep price. The lack of major channels is not the beginning of the problems with C-Band. $4000 can go a long way with a smaller dish. Especially with both DBS providers providing free installations with commitment and approved credit. That is two years of DIRECTV's top tier or DISH's top tier with about $1000 left over. 330+ channels according to the DBS providers instead of 24.
At least the sellers are up front about the costs. 0% if paid of in 6 months at $750 per month. Much better than the open ended ~$60 per month payments referred to in the article AntAltMike linked. (Payoff at that rate in 9 years but the programming ended in one year.) That vs a $200 dish system. I had mine paid off as part of the monthly subscription (monthly bill credits compensating me for buying and installing a dish).


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No matter how you say it, URI is big into languages. And big into mixing languages with other disciplines to strengthen your career outlook with global companies in the U.S. and around the world. Take Alyssa Kolton '10, whose fluency in Hebrew helped land her a kinesiology internship with the Israeli National Soccer Team.
We've created innovative ways to dovetail our language degrees with other academic degrees in ways that make a lot of sense for your career future.
We have degree programs in French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Classics, just like everybody else. But URI was the first in Rhode Island to offer a major in Mandarin Chinese, the only New England university with a Chinese Language Flagship program, and the only school in Rhode Island offering a Spanish master's degree. If you're looking for something out of the ordinary, you can also take classes in Arabic, Hebrew, Japanese, Modern Greek, Portuguese, and Russian. And then there are the dual degree programs.
Not only do we encourage double- and triple-majoring, we've also created innovative ways to dovetail our language degrees with other academic degrees in ways that make a lot of sense for your career future.
For example, Textiles, Fashion Merchandising and Design majors can also earn a degree in a "fashion" language – French or Italian – and study abroad at such schools as Mod'Spe, a Parisian fashion marketing and merchandising school, or Accademia Italiana, considered one of the best fashion and design schools in Italy. We've also blended French with pharmacy, in a one-of-a-kind, six-year program that gets you a Pharm.D. and a B.A. in French, two hospital rotations in France, and a big advantage in the marketplace.
Our German program is the country's second-largest, thanks in part to our innovative and award-winning International Engineering Program, now a model for similar (but different) programs around the world. Earn two degrees in five years, and spend a full year abroad — half working in a paid engineering internship for such companies as BMW, Nokia Siemens, or Bayer, and half studying at a partner university in Germany, France, Canada, Latin America, Spain, or China. By breaking down language barriers to trade, research, and engineering, the program has a job placement rate of nearly 100%. But International Engineering isn't limited to German. You can study engineering alongside French, Spanish, and Chinese too.
If engineering isn't your thing, and business is, you can study French, Spanish, Chinese and German along business in our International Business Program, which is modeled on the engineering program. Designed specifically for global careers, International Business is a five-year, dual degree program focused on one of seven business disciplines. The global business major opens the door to even more language options.
In an age when fluency in many languages provides a competitive edge in many fields, URI graduates are perfectly poised to cross cultures.


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Beyond Lucrative: Jeffrey Epstein's Billionaire Tax Avoidance Assistance Business
The infamous financier's exploits cast a shadow on the one of Wall Street's favorite tax avoidance schemes.
Bob Lord, Daniel Hemel
Originally in Inequality.org
The sex-trafficking scandal surrounding the late Jeffrey Epstein already has tarnished the reputations of prominent politicians, businessmen, and the British royal family. Now it's casting a dark shadow on an estate tax-avoidance strategy popular among Wall Street CEOs and tech entrepreneurs.
The strategy exploits a loophole that Congress unintentionally left open when it passed provisions related to grantor retained annuity trusts, or GRATs, in 1990. Use of these trusts already has cost the IRS—by one estimate—well over $100 billion in just the last two decades. A recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission by the private equity firm Apollo Global Management reveals that the firm's longtime CEO, Leon Black, relied on Epstein's assistance to extract more than $500 million of tax savings from GRATs.
GRATs—which combine a trust and an annuity to generate supercharged tax benefits—are entirely legal. But they make no sense from a policy perspective, and they only work because Congress in 1990 enacted a valuation formula that defies economic reality. While GRATs aren't responsible for Epstein's predation, the appearance of GRATs in the most recent Epstein revelations is one more reminder that Congress and the Biden administration should scrap this tax shelter.
According to the report of an outside law firm hired by Apollo, Epstein advised Black on a range of matters between 2012 and 2017, generating $158 million in fees. The "most valuable piece of work Epstein provided Black," according to the report, concerned a GRAT that Black had set up several years earlier.
Epstein wasn't the only financial advisor helping high-net-worth individuals set up GRATs, and Black isn't the only one to take advantage. The strategy surged in popularity after a 2000 decision by the U.S. Tax Court rejected an IRS challenge to the Walton family's aggressive use of GRATs. Following the Waltons' lead, thousands of others—including Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon—have used GRATs to cut their gift tax and eventual estate tax liabilities.
Two of the most masterful users of GRATs are Zoom founder Eric Yuan and the late casino magnate Sheldon Adelson. SEC filings indicate that Yuan saved more than $2 billion with well-timed transfers to two GRATs around the videoconferencing company's April 2019 IPO. Adelson, a major Trump donor who died last month, reportedly reduced his family's tax liability by about $2.8 billion through GRATs.
Here's how it works. To set up a GRAT, an individual—called a "grantor," and almost always a multimillionaire or billionaire—makes a gift to a trust with a string attached. The string is that the trust must make a series of payments—a "retained annuity"—back to the grantor for several years. After the several-year period is over, the trust's assets go to its beneficiary, which is usually another family trust set up for the grantor's children and grandchildren.
A 1990 law allows the grantor to calculate her net transfer for estate and gift tax purposes by subtracting the value of the retained annuity from the amount that goes into the trust. Since these annuity payments happen in the future, Congress needed to set an interest rate that would be used to calculate the annuity's present value. Congress's error was to tie the rate to the interest rate on U.S. Treasury bonds. For February 2021, the interest rate for GRATs is just 0.6 percent.
The low interest-rate assumption gave rise to an easy planning opportunity. Wealthy individuals can stuff their GRATs with high-risk, high-growth assets that are likely to generate returns well above the Treasury rate. On top of that, they can structure their GRATs such that the present value of the annuity exactly equals—or "zeroes out"—the value of the transferred assets, resulting in a net gift of zero.
The upshot is that if assets in the zeroed-out GRAT grow faster than the Treasury-based rate, the GRAT will have money left over after it's done paying out the annuity, and that money will go to the GRAT's beneficiary free of any gift tax. If GRAT assets grow slower than the Treasury rate or dip in value, the trust will run out of money before it makes all of its annuity payments. The trust will cease to exist, and no one will owe any tax. From the grantor's perspective, this is a heads-I-win, tails-we-tie bet with the IRS.
Recognizing what a problem GRATs had become, President Obama repeatedly asked Congress to clamp down on these tax-avoidance trusts. After President Obama left office, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-Cal.) picked up the mantle of GRAT reform and introduced legislation that would shut down the strategy that the Waltons pioneered. But President Trump—who owes much of his fortune to transfers that his father made to him using GRATs—showed no interest in fixing the problem, and the Sanders-Gomez bill stalled under divided government.
Hopefully, the latest Epstein revelations will put GRATs back on the tax reform agenda. The easiest fix would be simply to repeal the 1990 law that allows GRATs to exist. Taxpayers who desire the steady stream of income that comes from an annuity can continue to buy those products from insurance companies. It's only ultra-rich taxpayers who are using annuities as an estate tax avoidance strategy who would be affected.
GRATs are not the most infuriating aspect of the Epstein saga, in which dozens of prominent individuals and institutions actively abetted or turned a blind eye toward Epstein's deeds. But by shining another spotlight on GRATs, the Epstein revelations remind us of the continuing damage from a tax shelter that never should have been allowed in the first place.
Daniel Hemel is a law professor at the University of Chicago. Bob Lord is a Phoenix tax attorney and associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies.
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Is it time to evict your grown kid?
My daughters, ages 27 and 29, flew the coop years ago. It happened long enough ago, in fact, that I've finally started to feel giddy when they return for visits.
As happy as I am they're gone, it's a good guess that they are much happier than me and their dad. Well, maybe not their dad, but I doubt even he would want to see them move back in for good.
Which gets me to Michael Rotondo, the 30-year-old who grabbed national and international attention a few weeks ago when he took his parents to court over an eviction notice.
Rotondo, you may or may not recall, had received cash offers and multiple orders to leave his family home, including five notices since Feb. 2.
That was the wrong answer, New York Supreme Court Justice Donald Greenwood told Rotondo and ordered him to move out of his parents' home.
That should have been the end of it, but the big kid plans to appeal. Before finally moving out last week, he called police over a toy dispute with his dad.
Guess any of us would find it hard to give up rent-free housing, but this happens to be quite common among millennials and males like Michael Rotondo, in particular.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, nearly 1 in 5 men ages 25-34 lived in their parents' home last year. That compares to 12.5 percent of women that age living at home.
In all, there are 4.3 million men and 2.8 million women ages 25-34 living with their parents, for a total of 7.1 million still living at home, roughly double the number living at home in 1960.
We owe this turn of events, according to the Pew Research Center, to the dramatic drop in the share of young adults who are choosing to settle down, and plummeting wages.
That jibes with the experts I talked to about this, but I couldn't help but wonder if this was a question of parents loving their sons and raising their daughters as Jawanza Kunjufu, an educational consultant and author of "Raising Black Boys," suggested years ago.
Jeffrey Arnett, research professor of psychology at Clark University who has directed several polls of emerging adults (ages 18-29) and their parents on this and other topics, said Kunjufu is partly right.
So did Stephanie Coontz, a professor of history and family studies at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash., and director of research and public education at the Council on Contemporary Families.
But neither Coontz nor Arnett believes trends in young adults living with parents should be related to that.
They say it's more economics than how they are raised.
In economic terms, he said that because millennials barely have enough money to live on, they aren't saving.
If you look at the historical trends, Coontz said that since at least 1940, more young men than women have lived at home. In good part that's because women tend to marry at a younger age than men, so in the same age group, there will be more women who move in with a spouse than men — even if a woman isn't self-supporting, she is more likely to marry an older man who is. This is much more rare for men.
I asked Coontz for a few tips that might help parents struggling with this.
She suggests parents distinguish between kids who are really using the respite at home to get ahead and the ones who are taking advantage.


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Arts+Movies » Features
Instagram executive Eva Chen to speak at the Gibbes' annual Art of Design luncheon
Eva Believ-a
by Melissa Hayes
Provided Eva Chen has been called the Anna Wintour of the digital age
Eva Chen is kind of a big deal. She has a really cool job at Instagram. She's funny. She's fashionable. And, most importantly, she keeps it real. On April 12, she'll step up to the podium at the Gibbes' annual Art of Design luncheon, a philanthropic event hosted by the Women's Council. Over the past nine years, the event has brought in VIPs like Downton Abbey jewelry designer Andrew Price, HGTV's Vern Yip, fashion critic Cathy Horyn, and Vogue's Hamish Bowles. Not that Chen needs any name dropping to prop up her succession to the Gibbes' mic. She may be one of their most inspiring and influential speakers to date.
"It's just completely blown up. Every year the speakers are getting better," says special events manager Jena Clem. "It's something we want to continue to grow, not only for the support of the Gibbes, but because we want people to have a good time and learn something."
Chen's career is a perfect marriage of both art and design. At Insta she's responsible for integrating fashion brands into the platform and has a big influence on how the technology operates. "Instagram just recently rolled out a feature where you can scroll and see something and purchase it right then and there. It's two clicks and done, kind of like Apple Pay," explains Clem.
Chen has been called the "Anna Wintour of the Digital Age," perhaps because Wintour hand selected her as editor-in-chief of Lucky Magazine. (She was the youngest editor in the magazine's history.) Or perhaps it's because both are badass bosses in the world of fashion. But if you follow Chen on Instagram, you'll discover a personality that seems a far cry from the emotionally detached mastermind represented by Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada. If Wintour is an earnest A-line dress paired with a sunglasses shield, Chen is sassy street-chic with playful shoes propped up on the backseat of a New York City cab. (Chen actually does snap pics of her stylish shoes during regular taxi commuting, prompting the Instagram trend #evachenpose.)
The Eva Chen we see today is not the Eva Chen she expected to become. As a kid, she never felt like she fit in. She was the loner on the playground reading a book. Following the route that she thought she was supposed to take in life, she ended up as a pre-med student at Johns Hopkins. Then along came an internship opportunity at Harper's Bazaar. Maybe it's time to try something different, she thought. She never looked back. She'd finally found a way to express herself and shed her awkward kid shell.
It makes sense that Instagram, which is all about personal branding, would be such a perfect fit for her. She shares every detail of daily life with her 1.1 million followers, but she admits she's somewhat of an introvert. Insta is a place to comfortably be social and expressive. With social media or with fashion, it's never been about the labels and trends for Chen as much as the rewarding pursuit of celebrating individuality. "It's funny when we'll get into planning meetings with the Art of Design committee, and someone will speak of Eva as though they know her because she's so real on social media," says Clem.
More importantly, Chen advocates for everyone to celebrate their individuality, making her the perfect speaker for the event. "Not only does she have the fashion and art background, but she also has a big platform for women's empowerment. That's something we really wanted to bring to the Art of Design luncheon this year," says Clem. "It was really important for the Women's Council and for the Art of Design committee to bring in someone who has the platform to really inspire others, to let people know it's OK to be who you are."
Chen's even authored two children's books: Juno Valentine and the Magical Shoes and A is for Awesome, both meant to teach young girls how to celebrate individuality in themselves and in others. It's fitting, then, that the proceeds from this event go toward the Gibbes' Education and Outreach Programs which support arts education for local students, often from marginalized communities. "The goal is to not let the art be lost with the next generation," says Clem.
This luncheon is sold out. Check out more Gibbes events online at gibbesmuseum.org.


Not so sure I would go in this guys boat. He must have been at sea too long and thinks he has to moor his truck to a buoy. .
We will be at the Duncan Home Show all weekend. Come and visit us at our booth on the south side of the agri-center.


This was the easy formula for SEO – people were writing articles and linking back to their site and bingo SEO done. Time changed and it was then article spinning which was used to submit the same article to different directories.
But with the recent Google algorithm 2011 change – it has all gone now. Now, you can't just submit one article or spin articles to the article directories and rank on search engines for the keyword.
Previously article directories were considered a good source for content and people could find useful and resourceful information on them; but with growing article directories in a verge to get the easy SEO done. It gave rise to spam.
Now, most of the article directories are not as resourceful, rich and useful content, but they look like link farms.
Mostly they have duplicated content and the content, which is written on them are just for the sake of getting backlink.
Google don't like this – so Google degraded the article directories – because they were doing no-good to the content community.
Search engines are mostly depended on the quality content and with article directories they were indexing all the duplicated and not-useable content.
Therefore, as directories are degraded – so if you are thinking of submitting article in a verge of getting quality ranking on search engines, then you need to think differently. As, this will not work in the current scenario.