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Ayushmann Khurrana and Vaani Kapoor are gearing up for the release of their upcoming film 'Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui' these days. The film is now set to hit the theaters later this year. This is the first time that Ayushmann and Vaani will be seen sharing the screen together. Today, on 8th November, the trailer of the film has been released. Vaani and Ayushmann's chemistry is looking great in the trailer.
Ayushmann Khurrana recently released the new poster of the upcoming film 'Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui'. The colorful and artistic poster featured the Vicky Donor actor, in a ponytail and a hoodie, and Vaani Kapoor, clad in a blue jacket, in a loving pose. Sharing the latest poster, the actor also announced that the much-awaited trailer of the film will be released later today. The actor wrote, "Monday Motivation: Aashiqui Mere Naal. Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui, trailer out today!" Fans reacted to Ayushmann's post and said that they are excited to watch the romance drama.
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Ayushmann Khurrana is a busy actor. He and Vaani Kapoor shot the film in Chandigarh in 2020 and completed it by December the same year. The film was initially scheduled to release on July 9, 2021. However, due to the second wave that came after a sudden spike in COVID-19 cases, the makers had to postpone the film. The filmmakers locked the release date of Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui as soon as the Maharashtra government allowed theaters to resume running movies. The film will release on December 10, 2021. The film is directed by Abhishek Kapoor.
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A rescue cat went missing from her home from London 8 years ago. Now 8 and a half years later, the cat was found in Paris, 280 miles away from London.
Nobody know how the cat, named Moon Unit, got to France. She was found outside a train station.
The rescue place, L'Association d'Aide et de Defense des Animaux en Detresse, ADAD sent an email to Sean Purdy and Marna Gilligan, the owners of the cat informing them that they found their lost cat. They exchanged description, pictures and chip ID info and were shocked that they found their cat after such a long time.
"In the past few weeks, Moon Unit had been checked at the vet, and given rabies shots and worming tablets, and a Pet Passport organised for her. Two lovely ladies came over to our hotel with her on Saturday (we gave them some chocolates and flowers), and we took her to Calais by train (telling her story to the people around us), and our friends met us at the station and drove us onto the car ferry, and back to London. (There aren't many foot passenger services that take pets)." Moon's mom wrote.
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Saskatchewan's government-run auto insurer has won a victory of sorts before the Supreme Court of Canada arising from a disputed accident benefits claim, although the carrier lost its key argument. Canada's top court announced Thursday it will not hear an…
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Saskatchewan's government-owned insurer has been blindsided by its Ontario auto line. Regina-based Saskatchewan Government Insurance (SGI) reported Tuesday that SGI Canada's 2018-19 loss ratio in Ontario was 91.9%, up 16.5 points from 75.4% in 2017-18. That increase was "largely due…
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Trump Repeatedly Suggested Invading Venezuela, New Report Says
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US President Donald Trump repeatedly raised the idea of invading a neighboring South American country last year, despite the objections of his aides, a new report says.
In August 2017, Trump had a meeting in the Oval Office to discuss new sanctions against Venezuela and toward the end of the discussion the US president shocked his aides by asking why the US cannot simply invade the country.
Trump proposed a military intervention on the pretext that Venezuela's political and economic crises presented a threat to the region. The aim of the invasion would have been the forced removal of Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro.
According to an Associated Press report, both National Security Adviser HR McMaster and then-US-Secretary-of-State Rex Tillerson were stunned by the suggestion. After the initial shock, the two aides went out of their way to explain to POTUS that this would be a very bad idea.
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They argued that a military intervention would alienate other Latin American nations who have long worked together to punish and ostracize Maduro.
The aides did not convince Trump at the time, according to the report, as 45 pointed out that US invasions of Panama and Grenada during the 1980s were what the president considered to be big successes.
The next day, Trump publicly announced — without first consulting his cabinet — that a military option for Venezuela was on the table.
"We're all over the world and we have troops all over the world in places that are very very far away, Venezuela is not very far away and the people are suffering and dying. We have many options for Venezuela including a possible military option if necessary," he said, speaking from his New Jersey golf course at Bedminster.
Caracas reacted by calling Trump's idea "supreme extremism" and "an act of craziness."
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Later, Trump discussed the idea with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos in private. And later in September, Trump openly proposed the idea of invasion to a meeting of several Latin American leaders — Santos included — after a UN General Assembly summit.
"My staff told me not to say this," Trump remarked, before asking the South American leaders if they are sure that military operation was unnecessary. Everyone at the table affirmed that they were sure that the United States should not invade Venezuela.
The NSA's McMaster convinced Trump to let go of the idea, and 45's interest in it has now reportedly subsided.
Both McMaster and Tillerson later left the president's cabinet.
Between 1898 and 1994 the US has militarily intervened in Latin America at least 41 times, including direct interventions in Cuba, Guatemala and Panama, as well as providing indirect support for dictators in Chile and El Salvador, ThinkProgress notes.
Unlike Panama and Grenada, if Trump had been allowed to attack Venezuela, he would have been faced with a country with a population roughly equal to that of Iraq; the former two countries combined comprise only 13 percent of Venezuela's total number.
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Tough laws sharply reduce Bangladesh acid attacks on women
Dhaka, Bangladesh Published: Nov 04, 2019, 08.57 PM(IST)
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The crime first emerged in the 1990s, with scores of spurned or jilted men throwing sulphuric or nitric acid.
Acid attacks on women have declined dramatically in Bangladesh in recent years as tough laws and the closer monitoring of chemical sales have cut down the grisly crime, officials and activists said Monday.
According to Acid Survivors Foundation (ASF), there have been just eight such attacks this year, well down on the 494 cases reported in 2002 when new laws were enacted.
"It is a very good result, but our work hasn't finished yet," said Samanta Lal Sen, a prominent plastic surgeon and ASF trustee.
"We'll celebrate when the number of attacks will come down to zero," he told AFP.
The crime first emerged in the 1990s, with scores of spurned or jilted men throwing sulphuric or nitric acid in the faces of women who rebuffed their advances to "spoil them" for anyone else.
Victims are left with severely disfigured faces, including damaged eyes and skin. In many cases, parts of the face are lost completely.
Survivors also face being made social outcasts, especially in the rural areas of the conservative country that is home to 168 million people.
Officials and experts attributed the declining rate to a coordinated social, legal, and administrative campaign.
"The main reason is that we have enacted tough laws to fight the crime," Bangladesh's home minister Asaduzzaman Khan told AFP.
In 2002 the state enacted a law that threatened the death penalty for anyone convicted of an acid attack.
According to ASF, since then at least 14 people have been sentenced to death, while nearly 700 others have been arrested and 338 jailed.
Minister Khan said a massive public awareness campaign and strict monitoring of the sale of dangerous chemicals also contributed to the decrease.
The government and local charities have also moved to remove the stigma for victims. Since its establishment in 1999, the ASF has worked with nearly 4,000 survivors of acid violence.
In one of the most recent attacks, a man was arrested in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka for throwing acid at his ex-wife and her daughter.
Another survivor, Mosammat Jamila, told AFP she was happy that the number of acid attacks had come down to single digits.
"I never want to hear that the life of another girl is ruined like me. I don't want anyone to go through the nightmares that I suffer," she said through tears.
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Biografia

I primi anni
Konrad proveniva da una ricca famiglia di antiche tradizioni cavalleresche della Franconia, ma che risiedeva a Bad Berneck im Fichtelgebirge; "Wallenrode" era un cognome derivato da alcuni possedimenti nella regione della Prussia orientale. Egli aderì all'Ordine Teutonico nel 1370 circa. Il Gran Maestro Winrich von Kniprode lo nominò Komtur di Schlochau (Człuchów) nel 1377, ma la sua vera carriera non ebbe inizio sin quando Konrad Zöllner von Rothenstein non divenne Gran Maestro nel 1382.

Alla morte di Kuno von Hattenstein, Konrad divenne Gran Maresciallo e Komtur di Königsberg. Gli venne chiesto, come primo incarico, di riorganizzare le crociate contro il Granducato di Lituania. Egli divenne quindi Komtur di Marienburg (Malbork) e Grosskomtur dell'Ordine Teutonico (1387). Zöllner morì nel 1390, e solo poco tempo dopo Konrad sarebbe stato eletto Gran Maestro. Ad ogni modo, egli incontrò una notevole opposizione dal partito che sosteneva Walrabe von Scharffenberg, Komtur di Danzica (Gdansk). Wallenrode divenne infatti Gran Maestro il 20 agosto 1391, con il supporto di due potenti elettori, Siegfried Walpot von Bassenheim e Rüdiger von Elner, rispettivamente Komturs di Elbing (Elblag) e di Tuchel (Tuchola).

Il periodo di governo
I due anni di governo di Konrad furono costellati di campagne contro la Lituania. Egli si coalizzò contro l'unione Polacco-Lituana, che tentò di dissolvere. Konrad indisse una nuova campagna contro la Lituania nel 1392 e divise le sue armate in tre divisioni. La prima, sotto il comando di Arnold von Burgeln, Komtur di Balga, si occupò delle operazioni in Masovia. Le altre due, rispettivamente sotto il comando di Konrad stesso e del Gran Maresciallo Engelhard Rabe von Wildstein, si occuparono dell'area di Vilnius. Questi ultimi erano intenzionati a prendere il controllo di Vilnius, che era difesa da cavalieri polacchi, ma si ritirarono per uno scandalo causato dallo stesso Gran Maestro.

Von Wildstein fu un grande comandante ed uno stratega rispettoso dei propri uomini, ma egli non rivelò eguali doti come Gran Maresciallo. Le ragioni, non sono perfettamente conosciute, ma questo alcuni sostennero che il Gran Maestro era geloso dei successi che andava riscuotendo von Wildstein. Questo, ad ogni modo, causò la rivolta di molti cavalieri che si trovavano al comando di Wildstein. Malgrado questo, Konrad non cambiò le proprie decisioni e la campagna venne abbandonata. Questo aiutò von Wallenrode ad eliminare i dissidenti dell'ordine, specialmente nelle Komturs di Balga, Brandeburgo-Ushakovo e Ragnit che si trovavano sotto la supremazia del Gran Maresciallo.

Nel 1392 il Duca Ladislao di Opole offrì a Konrad di ripartire la Lituania tra la Polonia, il Sacro Romano Impero, i Cavalieri Teutonici, il Margraviato di Brandeburgo, il Regno d'Ungheria e i ducati della Slesia, ma il Gran Maestro rifiutò. Lo stesso anno, infatti, iniziò una nuova campagna contro la Lituania con i migliori soldati, tra cui Henry di Derby, il futuro Re Enrico IV d'Inghilterra. Cavalieri olandesi e francesi sotto il comando di Konrad attaccarono Gardinas, lasciando Vytautas a firmare la pace a Thorn (Toruń). Dopo dieci giorni di trattative, ad ogni modo, Konrad morì, il 23 luglio 1393, probabilmente di apoplessia.

Durante il suo governo, egli guidò numerose azioni economiche e di colonizzazione in Prussia. Egli concesse molti privilegi feudali ai tedeschi e costruì due castelli, Gottersweder e Mittenburg. Nel 1393 creò una nuova komtur a Ryn; il primo komtur della neonata provincia fu suo fratello Friedrich von Wallenrode, poi nominato Komtur di Mewe (Gniew), Strasburgo (Brodnica) e Gran Maresciallo di Königsberg, che morì nella Battaglia di Grunwald nel 1410. Un altro parente di Konrad fu Johann von Wallenrode, Arcivescovo di Riga dal 1393 a 1416.

Wallenrode nella letteratura
Adam Mickiewicz derivò molti elementi storici dalla vita di Konrad von Wallenrode per il suo poema patriottico del 1828, Konrad Wallenrod, nel quale Wallenrode è dipinto come un sostenitore dei lituani che, deliberatamente, portò l'Ordine Teutonico alla rovina per difendere la propria patria.

Il poema venne successivamente rappresentato in musica; I Lituani del compositore italiano Amilcare Ponchielli del 1874, e Konrad Wallenrod del compositore polacco Władysław Żeleński del 1885.

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Q: rails active-record: retrieve and combine similar data from two different tables/sources In my new rails (4.1) app, I have two data models:

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*Daily aggregated data (e.g., fields "sales", "date", ...), which is filled until yesterday

*"Live" data from an API, fetched every minute, with same content but named differently (e.g., fields "revenue", "timestamp", ...)

In one view, I want to display the daily data (1) + the current (last) value for today, which is the last value from the live stream (2) - this then updates whenever a user reloads.
Problem is, that naming in two tables is quite different, and also some data fields vary, so
data = daily_data + current_data.last

doesn't work. My thinking is as follows:

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*Take only the columns in question:
daily_data.select("sales, date")
live_data.select("revenue, timestamp").last

*Modify timestamp to date
live_data.timestamp.to_date

*Match "Sales" to "Revenue" and merge/combine the two (for the view only, not in ActiveRecord)
Is my thinking ok? How should I go about implementing it? Am I missing something on Associations? (I also ventured into Single Table Inheritance and thought about defining a parent data model "company_data", and make both daily_data and live_data sub-models of it, but that may be overkill -or is it?)
EDIT:
After the operation, I plan to use
.group_by_date

to display the data as a chart with ChartKick.
EDIT end
Sorry if the question is dumb, I'm still new at rails and searched for 1.5h...
Thank you in advance!

A: daily_data.select("sales as revenue, date as datadate")
live_data.select("revenue, timestamp as datadate").last

This way in both cases the attributes will be revenue and datadate.
EDIT:
Your comment about the group_by is additional information not in the original question.  Since group_by is evaluated by the database, you still need to send it the field names used in the database.  The select solution only changes the attributes in the ActiveRecord objects.
@data = daily_data.select("sales as revenue, date as datadate").group_by_date(:date)
@data << live_data.select("revenue, timestamp as datadate").last

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Former Danville bank teller pleads guilty to embezzling $600K, other crimes
by: Gary Boyer
DANVILLE, Va. (WFXR) – A Danville man pleaded guilty to federal charges stemming from his conduct in Virginia and North Carolina involving embezzling $600,000 from a Danville Credit Union.
He was later arrested for the incident in Durham, North Carolina.
On Monday, Jorge Omar Navarro, 30, pleaded guilty in federal court in North Carolina to one count of possession with intent to distribute cocaine and one count of possession of firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
Navarro also pleaded guilty to federal charges in the Western District of Virginia to one count of embezzlement and one count of using counterfeit currency with the intent to commit fraud for his conduct in Danville.
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Navarro was the head teller at a branch of URV Federal Credit Union in Danville.
As head teller, Navarro reportedly had access to the vault and had the authority to order money for the branch.
In Sept. 2018, the U.S. Attorney's Office says Navarro fled after taking $600,000 in cash from the credit union's vaults and replacing it with counterfeit bills.
Navarro remained a fugitive until March 2021 when the Durham Police Department in North Carolina responded to a report of shots fired and found a man, later identified as Navarro, covered in blood who claimed he was robbed at gunpoint.
After getting a search warrant of the premises, authorities located multiple firearms, kilograms of cocaine and marijuana, drug paraphernalia and $74,000 in cash.
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Navarro later admitted to investigators that he got the cash by selling drugs and confirmed his true identity – admitting he had been using an alias after an incident with a Virginia bank.
Navarro faces a minimum of ten years in prison and a maximum penalty of life in prison.
A federal district court judge will determine the final sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.
Claire spoke with NCDOT leaders ahead of possible inclement weather heading to the east later this week. They talked about road preparations and driver safety in order to keep the community safe and informed during severe winter weather.


I'm currently finishing my multivitamin(which is a pretty good formula, from an European bulk store, is a 4 capsule dose, with pretty good forms of ingredients and low folic acid, an i can control the dosage, i may add just one capsule) and i'm not interested in buying a new one, since i got my diet pretty dialed in.
Instead i would like a B-Complex, just to tap some deficiency here and there(mainly folate and thiamine). I also take some Vitamin C, ZMA( not for the sake of pseudo-muslce enhacing properties, but got a pretty good deal and its a way of geeting superior zinc and magnesium forms for low price, aswell as some extra B-6, which is good due to my high protein diet, whick may deplete it.
The issue: I've found these one by Thorne, which as folate not as folic acid. But it carrries a supradose of some B Vitamins: e.g: 40 mcg of B1(2600% RDA), 100mcg B-12(1600%RDA) B6 23mg is is 1600% Rda too.
The forms are excelent, but wouldn't these numbers be a litte too much, even if i only supplemented 1-3 times a week?
Or maybe getting these one which is lower dose plus a folate supplement?
Upvoted as I came here to say the same. I love the B-100.
Thank you so much. Actually i'm from Europe, so i'm limited in buying from the States. Iherb offer a flat rate of about 6 dollars, which is awsome to someone paying in euros. ;) The recomended brand by you would be awsome, because it the same quality as the one bu Thorne Research, just more reasonable amounts.
I use NOW brand B complex. I am very pleased with it. It's affordable and it works as it should.


Philippe never said that he wanted to leave.
Harry would often sit alone on the porch, reading a book.
You're acting very strange tonight.
Oliver is in the kitchen, cutting up some vegetables.
Fred was a really good kid.
I didn't know you felt that way about Debbie.
I should've known Lynne wouldn't do what we wanted him to do.
I suggest we take Eugene's advice and go home.
Matthieu has no other choice but to tell Mara.
Saad should've let me know earlier.
I helped Michael paint his garage.
As a lark, Randall bought Erik a plastic-grass hula skirt and a coconut-shell bra, momentarily forgetting that her opportunities to wear this colourful get-up would be somewhat limited.
I was on close terms with him.
Ramon is too old to do that.
I liked David better before he got married.
Rathnakumar and Yvonne arrived separately.
Edward came in second in the race.
I spoke to Mysore last night and she told me that she doesn't like you.
What's Saul hanging around for?
I was tired to death.
Thad isn't good at math.
What does Kristi have to do with this?
Grace said he would talk to Liz about what needed to be done.
I see no need to tell Michel.
Pim is here to protect me.
I knew Murat would be caught.
Kolkka speaks French much better than he speaks English.


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Joss Whedon speaks out against Gal Gadot, Ray Fisher and says he 'had' to have affairs
Joss Whedon at the premiere for "Bad Times At The El Royale" in 2018. (Sthanlee B. Mirador/Sipa USA via Associated Press)
Given the opportunity to answer allegations of grievous misbehavior — including claims of sexist remarks and racist actions — on his sets, Joss Whedon copped to affairs (saying he "had" to have them) and situations he "should have handled better" in his personal life but disputed claims from the likes of actors Gal Gadot, Ray Fisher and others. He dismissed Fisher's complaints as those of a "bad actor." In Gadot's case, he suggested the Israeli actor had misunderstood him because "English is not her first language."
In an extensive New York magazine profile by Lila Shapiro, Whedon offered his first detailed public responses to the negative reports, which began arising in the summer of 2020 and have encompassed not just the disastrous "Justice League" film but also "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," the television show that made his fame.
Ray Fisher, whose "Justice League" role as the superhero Cyborg was drastically reduced when the film's director reins went from Zack Snyder to Whedon, has made multiple public statements accusing the writer-director of "abusive, unprofessional" actions on set. In one tweet, he wrote the director's "on-set treatment of the cast and crew of Justice League was gross, abusive, unprofessional, and completely unacceptable."
Among Fisher's claims are that "the erasure of people of color from the 2017 theatrical version of 'Justice League' was neither an accident nor coincidence," as he told Forbes in an October 2020 interview. Several actors of color (including Harry Lennix, Joe Morton, Karen Bryson, Zheng Kai and Kiersey Clemons) did see their roles reduced or removed altogether from Whedon's version of "Justice League" when compared to the "Snyder Cut," though it's unclear how much those parts would have survived in a theatrical cut of standard length (the "Snyder Cut" is more than four hours long).
Fisher also told Forbes, "Race was just one of the issues with the reshoot process. There were massive blowups, threats, coercion, taunting, unsafe work conditions, belittling, and gaslighting like you wouldn't believe."
In the New York profile that published on Vulture.com on Monday, Whedon dismissed Fisher's claims, saying he made the changes because the storyline featuring Cyborg (who was perhaps the central character in the "Snyder Cut") didn't work — and that he did not think Fisher had delivered a good performance. "We're talking about a malevolent force," Whedon is quoted as saying in the New York article. "We're talking about a bad actor in both senses."
"Aquaman" star Jason Momoa, however, has backed Fisher, including in a September 2020 Instagram post that reads, in part, "Serious stuff went down. It needs to be investigated and people need to be held accountable. #IStandWithRayFisher. aloha j."
Gadot, who has played Wonder Woman in several DC movies, told Israeli outlet N12 that Whedon "kind of threatened my career and said if I did something, he would make my career miserable ... I was shaking trees as soon as it happened. And I must say that the heads of Warner Bros., they took care of it … . Going back to the sense of righteousness that I have … I just did what I felt like I had to do. And it was to tell people that it's not OK."
The New York profile quotes Whedon's response to the claim: "'I don't threaten people. Who does that?' He concluded she had misunderstood him. 'English is not her first language, and I tend to be annoyingly flowery in my speech.' He recalled arguing over a scene she wanted to cut. He told her jokingly that if she wanted to get rid of it, she would have to tie him to a railroad track and do it over his dead body. 'Then I was told that I had said something about her dead body and tying her to the railroad track,' he said. (Gadot did not agree with Whedon's version of events. 'I understood perfectly,' she told New York in an email.)"
The profile didn't specify which scene was at issue, but there have been reports that Gadot refused to shoot a sexual gag in which the Flash (Ezra Miller) lands on her body suggestively; in the finished product, Wonder Woman's face is not visible in that moment, possibly lending credence to reports Whedon resorted to a body double to get the shot.
The New York profile writer addressed Whedon's claim that he doesn't threaten people: "An actress on 'Angel' told me that hadn't been true back when she knew him. After her agent pushed for her to get a raise, she claims Whedon called her at home and said she was 'never going to work for him, or 20th Century Fox, again.' Reading Gadot's quote, she thought, 'Wow, he's still using that line.' (Whedon denied this too.)"
In the wake of these accusations, "Buffy" castmates publicly condemned their former boss. Michelle Trachtenberg, who joined the show's cast at 16, said there was a "rule" that he couldn't be alone with her. Trachtenberg wrote on Instagram in a post early last year, "I am brave enough now as a 35-year-old woman. Because. This must. Be known ... As a teenager. With his not appropriate behavior....very. Not. Appropriate. So now. People know. What Joss. Did. ... The last. Comment I will make on this. Was. There was a rule. Saying. He's not allowed in a room alone with Michelle again."
Whedon says in the profile he knew nothing of this; an unnamed castmate quoted in the article backs Trachtenberg's account but leaves open the possibility it may have been an informal rule of which Whedon himself was not aware.
In the New York piece, Whedon denies many of the charges, though the profile includes quotes from numerous people involved with the show corroborating some reports and making new accusations. One woman described as "a high-level member of the 'Buffy' production team" claims Whedon and an actress engaged in romantic activity in her office while she was working, prompting her to leave the production: "They were rolling around on the floor, making out," says the profile. The woman is quoted as saying, "They would bang into my chair ... . These actions proved they had no respect for me and my work."
While Whedon denied the "rolling on the floor" incident, he said of his now-documented affairs on the set of "Buffy" (while he was married), "I feel f—ing terrible about them ... it messes up the power dynamic." The New York piece continues: "... he quickly added that he had felt he 'had' to sleep with them, that he was 'powerless' to resist. ... He had been surrounded by beautiful young women — the sort of women who had ignored him when he was younger — and he feared if he didn't have sex with them, he would 'always regret it.'"
The New York profile is packed with disturbing accounts by women — some two decades or more younger than he — who'd had relationships with Whedon, describing manipulation and seemingly deliberate cruelty. To more than one of these accounts, his responses in the article were that he "should have handled the situation better" or similar variations.
Whedon told the magazine, "Could I have done marriage better? Don't get me started. Could I have been a better showrunner? Absolutely. Should I have been nicer?" Writer Shapiro describes him considering the question, then wondering if the problem had to do with being too nice. He decries the phenomenon of people using "every weaponizable word of the modern era to make it seem like I was an abusive monster," he said. "I think I'm one of the nicer showrunners that's ever been."


Environmental labelling on consumer goods definitely remains an burning topic to discuss. What happened in both France and Europe in 2015?
In France, discussions on how to build specific methodology for each product category are still ongoing within dedicated working groups. Members of GT2 – Working Group number 2 on Electronic and Electrical Equipment – led by Thomas Albisser, CEO of Hop-Cube, have developed two possible methodologies (on both tablets and laptops) that are still to be discussed.
English drafts will available within the next few weeks, do not hesitate in contacting us.
At European level, Hop-Cube attended presentations by the various stakeholders on their mid-term progresses for PEF (Product Environmental Footprint) and OEF (Organisation Environmental Footprint).
Organized by the European Commissions in Brussels on November 3rd and 4th, this event was an opportunity for our teams to consolidate participants' impressions and opinions.
Getting involved in these environmental labelling projects at a European level often involves recruitment of a person or even a dedicated team.
In 2016, ADEME will provide a framework for companies that wish to participate to pilot projects. The first results in terms of collection and analysis should be published during the first half of 2016.
Environmental labelling formats should also be presented to the Minister for Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy for approval.
We will make sure to get back to you as soon as we have more information!
Presentation by Alexandra Bonnet, from the French Ministry for Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy : how far should policy « standardise » communication ?
In Brussels at the mid-term PEF conference.


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Latest Voting machines News
Georgia says new voting system on track, critics skeptical
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia is on track to have its new election system ready for the presidential primaries in March, lawyers for the state assured a judge Friday, but critics pushed for a more concrete backup plan in case things don't go as planned. U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg tried throughout a...
Expert: Georgia election server showed signs of tampering
BOSTON (AP) — A computer security expert says he found that a forensic image of the election server central to a legal battle over the integrity of Georgia elections showed signs that the original server was hacked. The server was left exposed to the open internet for at least six months, a problem the...
Federal grant helps upgrade West Virginia voting systems
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Many voters casting ballots in West Virginia in 2020 will do so on new voting machines. Secretary of State Mac Warner announced Wednesday that the state has used a $6.5 million federal Help America Vote Act (HAVA) grant to help upgrade voting systems, Charleston Gazette-Mail...
Editorial Roundup: Pennsylvania
Recent editorials of statewide and national interest from Pennsylvania's newspapers: Take wait, see approach on state budget Altoona Mirror Jan. 12 For the past two fiscal years, Pennsylvania taxpayers have had cause for cautious optimism about the Keystone State's financial condition for the short and...
State House votes to stop drivers' use of hand-held phones
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A divided Pennsylvania House voted Wednesday to ban the use of hand-held phones for all drivers to make calls, although police would not be allowed to stop motorists for that reason alone. Representatives voted 120-74 for the proposal that would expand current law, which bans any...
Election officials look to launch security outreach plan
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin officials are considering spending more than a quarter of a million dollars on a public relations push to reassure voters that elections in the state are secure after nearly three-quarters of respondents to a survey this fall said they were worried about threats. Wisconsin...
ML King Day activities to emphasize voters and nonviolence
Jan. 9, 2020 7:18 PM EST
ATLANTA (AP) — As the nation prepares for the Martin Luther King Jr. national holiday amid a "dire" election year, the Atlanta center named for him will offer nonviolence training, voter registration and visits from politicians, entertainers and sports figures, King's daughter said...
Voting machine vendors get scrutiny at congressional hearing
Lawmakers expressed concern about foreign components in the nation's election equipment, as the top executives of the three major voting manufacturers appeared before Congress on Thursday to try to provide assurances that their products are secure. Thursday's hearing by the Committee on House...
Final Pennsylvania county OKs new paper-trail voting system
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A decision this week by Dauphin County to purchase new paper-trail voting systems means all 67 Pennsylvania counties have taken action under a state law that helps fund the upgrades, the Wolf administration said Tuesday. Officials called the vote a milestone toward ensuring the...
Carter, Isakson, voting are among state's top 2019 stories
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia's top stories in 2019 included a milestone for Jimmy Carter, as the state's former governor became the longest-lived president in U.S. history as he continued to face some health challenges. Other Georgia news that made national and international headlines: U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson...


Sea bass love terrible winter. And I get so excited when I see those merciless waves slap the shore like they hate it. While most of my lazy friends trying to get warmer in their women's arms, I find myself on a rock at the edge of a quiet but wild beach with pebbles.
I usually pick dark color poppers for calmer water but for rough sea this bright yellow chick is my favorite.
Is Storm's wild eye swim shad good for catching fish?
I have been thinking to try these wild eye shads for a while and finally I bought a pack of Pearl at Walmart. It was less then $5. 3 in a pack and all same size; 3"
I chose the Pearl color because I always catch bigger fish in sunny and hot afternoons with pearlish, whitish, silverish colors in lakes, deep ponds and rivers. Saltwater is a different subject..
When it came very close to the shore I noticed there were a lot fish chasing it.. small ones, big ones, bluegill, bass.. I loved seeing how they were all so curious about this crazy shad.
After a few cast, I understood how it behaves in the water. Then I started fishing. And bam! a decent size of large mouth bass was on it! but I missed it while trying to land as I was trying to move a bit away from there because I was so scared of a snake that I have seen on that spot couple of days ago.
Second cast and bam! a beautiful crappie! And another! And another! and a small bass! and another bass! I love this shad! Storm has done a well job!
This is the world's first polar icebreaker This is also one of the longest-serving icebreakers in the world.
Yermak was built for the Imperial Russian Navy in 1898. And it was scrapped in 1964.
It was 97.5 m long and 21.6 m wide and at the busiest times there was 102 crew on it.
An aggressive copperhead in Logan Lake, Hocking County, Ohio.
On a warm sunny afternoon, I came to Lake Logan for fishing.. While I was unpacking my tackle bag, I noticed something moving near my feet..
I think I disturbed the young one.. It slowly went into the water and started swimming around. It looked aggressive. It was swimming nonstop, coming closer and going away.. roaming around the boats and going underneath the docks. It continued swimming like this about 5 mins.. then disappeared.
I wanted to try Gambler Stinger Craw Flipping Bait for bass. So I ordered a pack on Ebay. A pack contains 7 lures. I picked Killer G without a specific reason. I have tried similar color of worms before in Lake Logan and different ponds in southeast Ohio and this kind of color always work well for me.
Gambler Stinger Craw is an attractive bait that I liked the texture and lively design of it. An ideal flipping and punching bait. It has an aggressive action in the water and easy to cast into the wind. The length of Killer G is 4.25" but it doesn't look so big because of perfect design.
I used it on a typical simple Texas rig. It was a very, very windy day but I still got a few bites.
Other colours: June Bug, Silver Shadow, Green Pumpkin, Shadow Blue, Florida Five-O, Black Blue Glitter, Gold Rush, Killer B, Backatya, Friendly Fire.
Have you ever seen how big squids attack those attractively coloured squid jigs?
Here an amazing underwater video that show squids chasing squid jigs and they cant stop biting and trying to taste them.


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Port Angeles Business Association
position Port Angeles as the premier place for business on the North Olympic Peninsula
DNR Letter: Marbled Murrelet Habitat Conservation Plan Amendment
PABA Letter: Tax Bill Views
Government Affairs Agenda & Issues
Testimony (HB1546): Marbled Murrelet
Testimony (SB5547): Marbled Murrelet
PA Council Housing Presentation
Morse Creek Curve
Forest trust lands column in Seattle Times 10/10/2016 by Jim McEntire
Jim Buck's 9/20/2016 presentation, "Predicted Effects of the Cascadia Earthquake Clallam County"
City Pier Parking
Icicle Seafood Pen Relocation
PA Decrepit Building
PA Restroom Restoration
Senator Hargrove – March 16 2016
White Paper Trust Beneficiary Expectations
Kilmer Collaborative
Main Street Program Letter
Meeting was called to order by Matthew Rainwater at 7:30am. Jack G. led the flag salute.
Brian Graff from Sequim and Janet Marks from Port Angeles.
Edna moved to accept Sept. 11th meeting minutes, seconded by Paul M. Motion passed.
There was discussion regarding PABA sending a letter supporting proposed Medicare cuts affecting OMC. Jack G moved that PABA submit a letter of support, Debbie F seconded. Motion passed.
Edna talked about the Port Angeles Winter Ice Village. They are using $35K in lodging tax, Lakeside Industries is prepping the lot, Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe is loaning their large tent, Andrew May is in charge of designing the decor. It is community working together to make this happen. Jim Haguewood added they are working with the school districts to bring kids in at $5 during school. The rink can be rented for company events. $100 from 1,000 people will make it happen. The rink will be open for 6 weeks and if successful enough, next year they can buy their own rink.
Stan moved to extend the meeting up to 15 minutes, seconded by Edna. Motion passed.
Program: Incumbent Ted Simpson and candidate Jim Waddell for PUD Commissioner
Matthew explained the rules: 5 minutes for opening remarks, 3 minutes each per question. 1 minute each for rebuttal.
Jim W (JW) spent 35 years with the Army Corps of Engineers. For the past 5-6 years he has been researching hydro in the PNW and retired 7-8 years ago. The cost of dams is expensive and there is a large amount of surplus power in the PNW. BPA is selling surplus power to CA keeping our rates down. Markets have shifted. Surplus power is being sold at a loss now. We pay CA to take it now. Bonneville is in trouble with a debt to asset ratio of 99%. PUD is about 60% of our power bill. Their strategic plan is not strategic. The 1940 charter says PUD wanted to reduce power rates and compel electric companies to reduce their rates. His background in hydro and other sources of energy is why he's running. He's asked what are we doing to compel electric companies? He will work with other PUD commissioners. Bonneville rates have been going up, open market is going down. Theoretically we should be trying to reduce rates.
Ted S (TS) operated a business in Port Angeles for 50+ years, was born and raised here. There were 5 agencies PUD approached to work with. Bonneville has been in trouble for years. He defends Bonneville, they do a lot for Clallam County. They follow our load and provide transmission.
Peggy asked what the pros and cons are of solar and wind power.
TS: Those forms of energy are intermittent and they need to back it up. Solar doesn't work at night, to date they don't have efficient storage.
JW: Hydro is intermittent, too. WA has fantastic hydro power capability. 9000mw were introduced to the grid, that energy is competitive with hydro power and is driving down wholesale rates of power. Reduced CA surplus is dropping the price of power and the imbalance could be a benefit. The biggest load is summer peaks, solar would be great for eastern WA. For every mw we don't have to buy from BPA it is a savings.
Kaj asked about the renewable energy initiative and if it is good as it stands, and about carbon tax.
JW: Carbon tax is a good opportunity to do what the bill says by balancing all resources. Wind and solar are excellent as renewable sources.
TS: The initiative is not a tax but a fee that transfers funds to low income and disadvantaged tribes. He opposes 1651, it is confusing. PUD has met the requirements and can only do so much conservation. PUD won't get credit for energy saved in the future and is held back.
JW: That's where taking initiative comes in. How can PUD optimize renewable resources internally and integrate them as quickly as possible. They should build resiliency in the grid. The more we have makes us less dependent on waiting for Bonneville.
TS: For residential solar is fine, if the system is down.
George asked about the long term growth of electric cars.
TS: It is a no brainer, people want to charge cars at home. Problems are locations, types of cars/plugs/adapters, and the public needs to get involved.
JW: NW Power Council reported an increase and he is predicting demand increase but because of conservation and renewables actual demand has not risen. The marketplace will take care of electric infrastructure just like the intro of gas cars.
TS: Was hoping for direction instead of chaos. If we convert from gas to electric how will it have an impact on the system. We can't remove hydro yet.
JW: Bonneville has too much hydro power. They need to figure which hydro should be decommissioned to make others more efficient. The problem for years is accepting the status quo. They are salesmen and we want to compel them to make business decisions.
Jon asked how much influence Clallam PUD can have on Bonneville.
JW: Has submitted a proposal on how to reduce a billion in debt using a credit swap with US Treasury. He'd work with other PUDs and associations. That's where he would exert leadership to put pressure on Bonneville.
TS: They have collectively tried to get together and influence Bonneville. Each year is a battle over increases, it is not unreasonable to see increases in an aging system that needs maintenance. The price of electricity is going to go up and the NW has the cheapest and cleanest power in the US. 95% of power is green, 10% nuclear, 85% hydro.
JW: Hydro is getting more expensive and other sources are getting cheaper. The idea that rates have to go up is wrong. Cheaper power is out there.
Jack asked about the background on BC Hydro.
JW: It's complicated because of the Columbia River treaty. We are sending power to BC Hydro to make up for their inability to provide power due to flood control.
TS: There was a proposal for an underwater feeder from Vancouver BC to here. They don't generate enough to serve the load they have now. BC Hydro's plan financially fell apart.
John B asked about the biggest challenge for Clallam PUD within 5 years.
TS: We have an aging system. The transmission line to Forks is from the early 60's with a lot of wooden poles and a single line. They are changing poles from the airport to Laird Rd. There will be an impact on our utilities with the advent of electric vehicles.
JW: We're spending more and more on paying Bonneville for power instead of us spending money on the ability to provide service. Our total power bills are not that much cheaper than the rest of the country and they have natural gas.
TS: It's difficult to compare other sources of energy. People use wood. We still have the cheapest power.
JW: Bonneville is sitting on $16B of debt. When does the debt get called? We'll have increases when Bonneville has to charge for their debt reduction.
Kevin asked what portion of utility costs are represented by maintenance / distribution of power and cost of acquiring of power?
JW: About 60% is the cost for acquiring versus internal operating costs from what he could learn by reviewing financials.
TS: A rule of thumb is 50/50 but it is not currently. There are budget increases each year, more customers, more expenses. Transfer the same thought to our national debt when you think about Bonneville. It's not a good idea but that's what we have.
A guest asked why the wind farm wasn't pursued after spending money with Pacific and Grays Harbor.
TS: They have not talked about funds from the VW settlement. Pacific County was threatened by the environmental community with a lawsuit if they continued.
JW: The PUD should take every opportunity to find a viable resource. Much could be done with their fleet of vehicles. They need to build resiliency.
Closing Statements:
JW: He has been a public servant all his life and has invested thousands of hours of research in to power implications. BPA administration is panicking saying it's time to sell their airplane to make up the deficit. His expertise as an engineer gives him the opportunity to do something as a rate payer and public servant. We have resources.
TS: He chose to run because of all of the challenges that face the utility company. He is proud of what they've done so far.
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Q: PhpMyAdmin running on Mac, but can't get php to connect Mac Catalina
Mysql server 8.02 community server
phpmyadmin 5.0.2
php 7.47

Phpmyadmin is working fine. See screen capture:

From phpmyadmin, I was able to create a local user and db, both called test on localhost.
However, I am not capable of connecting to it from my php program:
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$db_creds = array();
$db_creds['user'] = 'test';
$db_creds['pwd'] = 'xxxxxxxxx';
$db_creds['name'] = 'test';
$db_creds['host'] = 'localhost';

$mysqli = new mysqli($db_creds['host'], $db_creds['user'], $db_creds['pwd'], $db_creds['name']);

gives me the following error message:
Warning: mysqli::__construct(): (HY000/2002): No such file or directory in /Users/my-mac/Dropbox/joe/development/php/test_2.php on line 8 (last line)

Any ideas?


Be Part of Our Family. Volunteer!
You can make a difference in the lives of Oklahomans of all ages! Sunbeam Family Services depends on volunteers to bring help, hope and opportunity to our community. We offer several opportunities for volunteering. Look at our list below and let us know how you would like to help.
Get Involved. Volunteer. Make a Difference.
You can be a light to children, families and seniors!
A Very Giving Christmas is a Christmas Store hosted by Sunbeam Family Services and Catholic Charities. Families are given "Santa Bucks" to spend in the store. Volunteers help set the warm and inviting atmosphere of the store and make the holidays special for more than 600 families in the community who shop in the store. We are looking for greeters, personal shoppers, wrappers, and Spanish- speaking interpreters.
Come Play with Us! Volunteers are needed to provide childcare during Sunbeam's Foster Care In-Service Training. While foster parents attend necessary trainings, volunteers rock babies, play games, read to, and spend time with precious children. Sunbeam provides snacks and activities. This volunteer role does require fingerprinting.
Read a book to a child and help to foster a love for reading while building a consistent, caring relationship. This is a weekly, 30 minute to one-hour commitment October through May and does require fingerprinting.
OKC Educare hosts a family-style fall feast for students and their families. We need volunteers to help set up, decorate, serve and clean up. Great opportunity for corporate groups.
If you are interested in volunteering, email jmeeks@sunbeamfamilyservices.org or call at 405.609.1755.


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'Necromania': A Tale of Weird Love! è un film pornografico diretto da Ed Wood.

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Produzione e riscoperta
Ed Wood produsse, scrisse, e diresse il film sotto lo pseudonimo "Don Miller". Il titolo sembra suggerire che la pellicola sia incentrata sulla necrofilia, ma in realtà è maggiormente presente un'ossessione maniacale per la morte in quanto tale. Il film è basato sul romanzo The Only House (1970), anch'esso opera di Wood.

'Necromania': A Tale of Weird Love venne realizzato con un budget di 7,000 dollari. Secondo Charles Anderson, un collaboratore di Wood, il regista stesso interpretò un ruolo nel film. Anderson crede di ricordare che fosse il personaggio di un mago o di un dottore malvagio. Tuttavia, nessun ruolo di questo tipo appare nella versione finale del film.

Il film si situa nel filone dei primi hardcore. Pionieri di questo nuovo sottogenere furono film quali Mona the Virgin Nymph (1970) di Howard Ziehm e Sex USA (1970) di Gerard Damiano, anche se il porno salì alle ribalta mainstream solo grazie a La vera gola profonda nel 1972.

Ritenuto perduto per anni, il film di Wood ricomparve alla fine degli anni ottanta, quando venne rieditato dalla Something Weird Video di Mike Vraney. Nel 2005 è stato distribuito in DVD dalla Fleshbot Films. I titoli di testa recitano: "Prodotto & diretto da Don Miller. Il nostro cast ha espresso la volontà di restare anonimo". Circa il ritrovamento della pellicola, la rivista di cinema Cult Movies (numero 36) diede alle stampe un dettagliato articolo. L'articolo è scritto da Rudolph Grey, autore della biografia di Wood, Nightmare of Ecstasy.

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Q: How to find what git commit a given tf-nightly (tensorflow nightly build) is coming from? You can install the nightly build via:
pip install tf-nightly

How to figure out what code commit this is coming from? I have looked int he tags from the github tensorflow branch and do not see any corresponding to the tf.__version__ that is showing in the REPL.

A: python -c "import tensorflow as tf; print(tf.__git_version__, tf.__version__)"

printed the following in my experiment:
v1.12.1-25814-g2e81bc66c5 2.2.0-dev20200225

The SHA of the commit is the string at the end, after -g. In this case it was 2e81bc66c5.
The accepted answer did not work for me with tf_nightly-2.2.0.dev20200225. All I got was AttributeError: module 'tensorflow' has no attribute 'VERSION' and AttributeError: module 'tensorflow' has no attribute 'GIT_VERSION'

A: python -c "import tensorflow as tf; print(tf.GIT_VERSION, tf.VERSION)"

From the tensorflow new issue template:
https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues/new?template=00-bug-performance-issue.md


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America's Involvement in the International Space Station to End
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World News – It wasn't supposed to end like this.
When the Trump administration released its latest budget proposalon Feb. 11, fans of human space exploration were dismayed to learn that it included plans to end America's involvement in the International Space Station.
The proposal calls for the U.S. to sell its share of the ISS by 2025, treating the orbiting lab like some distressed piece of real estate in need of a buyer. Yet for much of the public — as well as to ardent space proponents, including former astronaut Mark Kelly — humanity's only permanent outpost in space is an institution that needs to be protected.
"Cutting funding for the station," Kelly said in an impassioned editorial, "would be a step backward for the space agency and certainly not in the best interest of the country."
Kelly's lament echoed loud across the internet. But a look back at the station's long, messy history offers a different perspective. In the original plan, the ISS wasn't supposed to end like this — because it was supposed to be a charred heap lying on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean by now.
REAGAN AND RUSSIAN ROOTS
Since the launch of the station's first component on Nov. 20, 1998, the ISS has logged 110,000 laps around Earth, covering more than 2.5 billion miles while hosting more than half of the 553 astronauts who have ever left our planet.
But the origins of the ISS date back to 1984, when President Reagan announced plans to build Space Station Freedom in a Kennedy-esque state of the union speech. "Tonight I am directing NASA to develop a permanently manned space station and to do it within a decade," he said.
Reagan promised that the station would bring "quantum leaps in our research in science, communications, and in metals and lifesaving medicines." It was also supposed to foster collaboration with Europe, Canada, and Japan while preserving America's preeminence in space.
Then came the harsh realities of translating Reagan's vision into hardware. Freedom's cost was initially estimated at $8 billion. That number quickly doubled, leading to a series of painful design compromises that still failed to stop the budget bloat.
The station might not have been built at all were it not for the fall of the Soviet Union.
In 1993 the U.S. and Russia signed an agreement to work together on a new International Space Station. The merger gained broad U.S. support as a way to keep Russian scientists gainfully employed (rather than, say, building bombs for the Taliban) while rescuing both nations from space station projects that had become embarrassingly unaffordable.
Yet even with the Russian assist, the "$8 billion" space station has wound up costing the U.S. roughly $90 billion in construction and transportation over the 19 years it's been operating. On top of that, we pay $3 billion to $4 billion a year to operate the station.
Those expenditures have put NASA in a bind: The ISS was designed to be a gateway to new deep-space missions, but the agency cannot afford such missions as long as it continues to fund the ISS. As a result, for nearly two decades, American astronauts and their international partners have had nowhere to go except a canned outpost circling just 240 miles above the ground.
That left the station with a lot of critics in the scientific community. "One unexpected side benefit of the ISS was in producing make-work projects for private industry like SpaceX to develop their rockets, and that would be useful down the road," says Arizona State University physicist Lawrence Krauss. "But they probably don't need that now, so no tears here if the project is terminated."
A SPACE STATION BORN TO DIE
Even as the ISS was still under construction in 2009, the Obama administration announced a six-year plan to defund the station and bring about its demise. "In the first quarter of 2016, we'll prep and de-orbit the spacecraft," ISS program manager Michael Suffredini said — "de-orbit" being a bureaucratic euphemism for "sending the thing to a flaming death."
Under this plan, NASA would end the regular rocket boosts that keep the station's orbit from shrinking as a result of atmospheric drag. As the ISS drifted lower, crew members would be evacuated and then powerful strapped-on rockets would execute a series of firings, steering the ISS deeper into Earth's upper atmosphere.
Ultimately, the station was to have been steered into the Pacific Ocean, where there was little chance that debris would rain down on someone's head.
Except that NASA and its congressional overlords kept giving the ISS reprieves. By 2014, the official line was that the U.S. would move out of the ISS but that the station itself would survive at least until 2024. The Trump administration's decision is hardly a new move against the ISS. It's just one more in a long list of death notices.
ANYBODY WANT A LIGHTLY USED SPACE STATION?
What happens to the ISS after 2025 is a complete unknown. "There are lots of potential uses," says former astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman, now a professor at MIT. "Other partners could continue scientific investigations. Private enterprise could turn it into a space hotel. However, I don't know how any of these schemes would provide the resources to keep the station going."
The space-hotel concept appeals to the Russian space contractor RKK Energia, which recently proposed building an orbiting luxury resort (priced at $40 million per visit) using ISS-related hardware. But the resort would be housed in a new module that need not be part of the station itself.
In the U.S., Robert Bigelow, CEO of Bigelow Aerospace, has proposed building space hotels, but his plans also do not revolve around the ISS. This week he announced a new company, Bigelow Space Operations, to build separate, private space stations, culminating in a supersized model with "over 2.4 times the pressurized volume of the entire International Space Station" late in the 2020s.
A DIFFERENT KIND OF RACE
If the future of the ISS remains murky, so is NASA's post-ISS strategy. At the unveiling of the 2019 budget proposal, acting administrator Robert Lightfoot declared that freed-up ISS funds would pay for "the return of humans to the moon for long-term exploration."
That's a new priority, but not exactly a new plan. Even before Trump came into office, NASA was pushing the Deep Space Gateway (since renamed the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway), a space station to be situated near the moon.
Krauss is more optimistic about this project. "There is, at least in principle, something to do on the moon that would be useful, from learning how to do remote construction projects to science projects on the far side of the moon," he says.
The problem is money. NASA's current five-year budget map shows zero growth, and in 2019 there is only a trickle of money for new space infrastructure.
Private companies may yet come to the rescue. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and Blue Origin CEO Jeff Bezos have both expressed interest in sending astronauts to the moon. Meanwhile, Bigelow Aerospace is seeking NASA support for another, more ambitious space station: an inflatable outpost, part hotel and part office park, located near the moon. Bigelow claims he can build it for $2.3 billion.
China is the wild card. Since the launch of its first astronaut, Yang Liwei, in 2003, the China National Space Administration has followed a slow but methodical strategy, sending up a pair of space stations with a third, larger station set to begin operations in 2023. In a recent interview with Chinese state media, Yang Liwei confirmed that the country is also making tentative "preparations for a manned lunar landing mission" in 2036.
In the long run, the end of NASA's decades-long ISS project may mark the beginning of a new kind of space race: capitalist entrepreneurs versus the last communist superpower.
by Corey S. Powell, NBCNews.com
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The Next Step in Social Security's Ponzi Scheme
By: Tenth Amendment|Published on: Mar 28, 2019|Categories: Current Events, Federal Programs, Social Security
by Gary M. Galles, Mises Institute
On January 30, Rep. John Larson and 200 Democratic co-sponsors introduced the Social Security 2100 Act. Portrayed as giving retirees long-overdue benefit increases, it would actually add another step to Social Security's long-running Ponzi scheme.
Despite Democrats' history of rejecting that term for Social Security, it has been the biggest series of Ponzi schemes in history, redistributing tens of trillions of dollars of wealth to earlier recipients from subsequent generations.
After Social Security's creation, those in or near retirement got benefits far exceeding their costs (Ida Mae Fuller, the first recipient, got 462 times total contributions made on her behalf). Those excess benefits inherently required that future Americans would have to pick up the tab for the difference.
Social Security has also been expanded multiple times. Each expansion meant those already retired paid no added taxes, and those near retirement paid a bit more for only a few years. But both groups received increased benefits throughout retirement, increasing the unfunded benefits whose burdens had to be borne by later generations. Thus, each such expansion started another Ponzi cycle benefiting older Americans at others' expense.
Social Security benefits doubled between 1950 and 1952. They were raised 15 percent in 1970, 10 percent in 1971, and 20 percent in 1972, in a competition to buy the elderly vote. Benefits were tied to a measure that effectively double-counted inflation and even now, benefits are over-indexed to inflation, raising real benefit levels over time.
Disability and dependents' benefits were added by 1960. Medicare was added in 1966, and benefits have been expanded (e.g., Medicare Part B, only one-quarter funded by recipients, and Part D's prescription drug benefit, only one-eighth funded by recipients).
The Social Security 2100 Act would be the next episode. It would increase all retirees' benefits (including current retirees who would pay nothing toward the boost) and increase the inflation (over)adjustment for benefits, picking future high-income earners' pockets to pay for the vast majority of it, by taxing wage income beyond the $132,900 ceiling now in place (eventually to all wage income).
With the multiple Ponzi giveaways to recipients creating Social Security's 13-digit unfunded liability and Medicare's far larger one, how can the proposed law be rationalized? Without the benefit of being in the startup generation of earlier Ponzi expansions, the present generation is being forced to begin bearing some of the costs.
This was illustrated by an Urban Institute study of lifetime payroll taxes and benefits. Especially with recent expansions, Medicare recipients were getting a great deal. In 2012 dollars, an average-wage-earning male would get $180,000 in benefits, $119,000 more than their contributions. A similarly situated female did even better. In sum, it yielded "excess" benefits of $105 trillion, with net benefits increasing over time.
However, for Social Security, whose major Ponzi expansions came further in the past, an average-earning male retiring in 2010 would make $300,000 in contributions, for only $277,000 in lifetime benefits. For women, with smaller average lifetime contributions and longer life expectancies, it was about a wash. And things are worsening. By 2030, that such men will be "shorted" 16 cents (10 cents for women) of every tax dollar paid.
Social Security is now a "bad deal" for current and future recipients precisely because the costs of its Ponzi structure are starting to be felt. But rather than admit that their "greatest accomplishment" relied on massive theft from future Americans, they want to restart the scheme, keeping restive seniors in their camp, by dumping even-greater burdens on future generations than they already have (hidden behind a flimsy cover story that high-income earners, actually big net losers from the system, would finally be forced to pay their "fair share").
Democrats think they can finesse older Americans out of their votes for still more elections with Ponzi Security. But if other Americans recognized the dishonest ploy aimed at their wallets, they might end up in the electoral wilderness instead.
Gary M. Galles is a professor of economics at Pepperdine University. He is the author of The Apostle of Peace: The Radical Mind of Leonard Read.
NOTE: This article was originally published at Mises.org and is reposted here under a Creative Commons 4.0 license
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