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Google Probem Writeup
Physics Today Ad for a Job at Google ("the Google FAX problem")
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August 27, 2004; posted here 110805
Solution by T.D. Gutierrez.
I never did apply for this job, but had fun doing the problem over a weekend back in August of 2004. Ironically, I solved the problem in a few hours but spent the rest of the time hunting down a bug which turned out to be spelling error in my word-to-number lookup table! Ouch. Silly, silly me. Anyway, I'm only now (Nov 2005) getting around to posting my solution.
There are certainly better solutions out there. I like my solution (I keep calling it "my" solution, but it is clearly just "a" solution) for a few reasons discussed below. If it doesn't make sense to you then I'm sure there are other variations out there that do. Just Google it (which is probably how you found this page in the first place)!
For example, a really great writup by Patrick Mock (that independently used a similar method as me, but doesn't involve lots of personal ranting and asides like I'm doing now) can be found here. Also, some nice clean code by Samuel Santiago (is it python?? Sorry, I'm still living in the 90's, man) outlining and solving the problem can be found here.
Helpful code
A Mathematica notebook to do the calculation is provided below. Details of how to use it are poorly noted in the notebook as comments. I used Mathematica, but in no way do I believe this was the best code forum for this project. It was the first thing I grabbed and I just ran with it.
Be warned of a couple things. There are spoilers in the comments of the notebook. My answer is at the bottom of this page and in the header of the notebook.
Also, while I think my core solution is "reasonably" elegant, my code is not. The notebook is not well written and makes the problem look more complex than it really is. The notebook doesn't really explain how to use itself (when you see the damn thing, you'll see why I am a physicist and could never be a programmer at Google!), but if you know Mathematica, you can probably muddle your way through it and get it to work. There are some fun plots of some of the functions at the bottom of the html version. But the html conversion truncated at a fixed tab, so a bunch of information is missing. Crap. The text output version seems to show promise initially, but then starts adding lots of spacing commands, making the output unreadable. Good luck trying to sort it all out. Sorry about the mess. Look for my summary at the bottom of the page.
Note on number standards: I adopted the standard that "and" would not be used in the name of the number. For example, 1234 is "one thousand thirty four" not "one thousand and thirty four". I don't use "hundred" to describe numbers above 900 (however, I did try it for fun at one point). Nor did I count hyphens. For example, 1450 and 4576 are "one thousand four hundred fifty" (27 letters) and "four thousand five hundred seventy six" (33 letters) not "fourteen hundred fifty" (20 letters) and not "forty five hundred seventy six" (26 letters)
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E(x)=number of letters in the NAME of the number, x, using American English
f(x)=3 E(x)^3-x
The four digit value of x given f(f(f(x)))=60097
The (four digit?) value of x given f(f(x))=1
Solution outline:
Create a database/lookup that converts a number to its name in American English (e.g. 5="five")
Expand the database/lookup so it counts the number of letters in the name: i.e. have a means to generate E(x) (e.g. E(5)=4)
With f(x)=3E(x)^3-x=a where a is a given constant, create a hypothesis value of x, xh, by selecting E (e.g. as an iterater in a loop): xh=3E(xh)^3-a -> xh=3E^3-a.
For the hypothesis, xh, to be the "real x" that solves f(x)=a, the statement E(xh)==a must be true. As you iterate over E, when you find this value of x, then you have found the inverse of f(x)=a.
Apply this method again on the output of a previous iteration for nested versions of f(x). For example, let f(f(x))=a. First find y such that f(y)=a. However, y=f(x) so then let a=y and repeat.
Sounds pretty convoluted, but let's do an example:
Let's say you are given f(x)=71 and you want to find x. In the case a=71. The test value of xh=3E^3-71.
Now, iterate over values of E and calculate xh. Then, with a given value of xh, calculate E(xh) and compare to a.
E=1; xh=-68; E(-68)=something nasty (x will probably be greater than zero anyway) is E(-68)=71? No.
E=2; xh=-47; E(-47)=same as above; is E(-47)=71? No.
E=3; xh=10; E(10)=71; is E(10)=71? Yes! We have inverted f(x)=71 and got x=10.
The advantage to this method is you cover a lot of ground quickly by iterating over E and using the constraint of a rather than doing a brute force iteration over x.
The brute force method, even in this simple case where x was only 10, would require you to do 10 calculations and a logical comparison (to a). Iterating over E only required 3 interations and a logical comparison.
The reason this method is generally faster is that the number of letters in a number grows very slowly with the value of the number. Even really giant numbers might only have 300 letters in it (more on this below). This, of course, assumes there is actually a name for the number you are interested in.
Here is another example:
If you were given f(x)=-997000, a=-997000 so the test xh=3E^3-(-997000) or just xh=3E^3+997000.
E=1; xh=997003; is E(997003)=-997000? No.
E=10; xh=1000000; is E(1000000)=-997000?. Yes! So the inverse of f(x)=-997000 is x=1000000. After only 10 iterations, you have found an answer. There could be degeneracy (multiple x answers for a given value of a). But this method would quick find them. If you were willing to iterate up to E=300 you would cover all answers for x less than about 10^27 (assuming your database had a number-to-name lookup table that went that high).
Issues and tricks:
Be sure and spell all the numbers' names correctly!
If you are going to construct the database of number names from scratch, you have to select some minimal set of words to describe a number (not hard). You will naturally have to pick some maximum number your algorithm can process. This is fairly straightforward. Above a certain number, the numbers stop having coherent names, so this isn't necessarily an infinite process (unless you decide "a trillion trillion trillion" is a reasonable "American English name for 10^36).
There are some degeneracy issues in language that could make a difference in the solutions depending on what numbers you were using. For example, is 1400 "fourteen hundred" or "one thousand four hundred"? E(x) is obviously different for each of these and will lead to different answers when solving for x. Are negative numbers required? If you want, you can try and include them.
One could, of course, just brute force the solution by simply testing f(x)==a (or f(f(f(x)))==c or whatever) and iterating over x, evaluating f(x) each time. For numbers less than x=10k, this is actually fine. Since you are given that the solutions are four digits, a brute force effort pays off. However, mine iterates over the NUMBER of letters parameter, E. This quirky function scales very, very crudely as the log of the number (of some base). So, for example, by iterating E from 0 to 200, you pretty much cover all numbers from zero to, well, pretty big. Take the number 777,777,777,777. This is both a pretty big number and it has the most letters possible between zero and numbers less than one trillion. But there are only 121 (or so) letters. If you are sick, you can add a minus sign and call it "negative seven hundred seventy seven billion ..." and pick up another 8 letters.
To help really set the scale with the size of the names and the size of the number (as discussed above), the number with the longest name in English is tied between:
777, 777, 777, 777, 777, 777, 777, 777, 777, 777, 777, 777, 777, 777, 777, 777, 777, 777, 777, 777, 777
and the rest of the 2^65-2 permutations of 7s and 8s. Seven and eight have the most letters for numbers less than ten. The second number above is same number with sevens replaced by eights. The name for the first number is
Seven hundred and seventy seven vigintillion seven hundred and seventy seven novemdecillion seven hundred and seventy seven ocodecillion seven hundred and seventy seven septendecillion seven hundred and seventy seven sexdecillion seven hundred and seventy seven quindecillion seven hundred and seventy seven quattrodecillion seven hundred and seventy seven tredecillion seven hundred and seventy seven duodecillion seven hundred and seventy seven undecillion seven hundred and seventy seven decillion seven hundred and seventy seven nonillion seven hundred and seventy seven octillion seven hundred and seventy seven septillion seven hundred and seventy seven sextillion seven hundred and seventy seven quintillion seven hundred and seventy seven quadrillion seven hundred and seventy seven trillion seven hundred and seventy seven billion seven hundred and seventy seven million seven hundred and seventy seven thousand seven hundred and seventy seven
According to my count this has 822 characters. Compare this to the 10^65 order of magnatude! By iterating E over less than a thousand numbers, you cover all the numbers in the English language that have writable names. Of course, there are numbers like google (10^100), centillion (10^303) and googleplex (10^google). But since there aren't names for 10^3 steps down from these, you can't easily give a name to a number larger than or equal to 1000 vigintillion (you could, naturally, start saying "one thousand vigintillion", "one quadrillion vigintllion" etc., but that convention isn't used elsewhere -- even if you did, the scaling rule-of-thumb I describe would just continue). You could include negative numbers (with the word "negative" or "minus" out front), but this would just be a perturbation. You might try getting fancy and introducing complex numbers too (1+2i="one plus two i"), but this will give you only roughly a factor of two in name size
An even better way would to be only iterate E over allowed values and not waste your time with values of E that don't exist. For example, E=1. No number has a name with one letter. The smallest is E=3. But as you get to bigger numbers, it is hard to say what is allowed versus not.
The four digit value of x given f(f(f(x)))=60097; x=2465; writeup coming soon
The four digit (tacit from first part) value of x given f(f(x))=1; x=6808 (there are other solutions that are not 4-digits)
First find f(y)=1 for y
For numbers still in my database, there are three values of E that accomplish this. Notice you only have to iterate up to E=47 to get actual numbers as high as 300k.
E=27, y=59048 (i.e. "fifty nine thousand forty eight" has 27 letters in it), and 3*(27)^3-59048=1
E=41, y=206762 (i.e. "two hundred six thousdand seven hundred sixty two" has 41 letters in it), and 3*(41)^3-206762=1
E=47, y=311468 (i.e. "three hundred eleven thousand four hundred sixty eight" has 47 letters in it), and 3*(47)^3-311468=1
Keep on slogging. Now go through each of the above values of y and solve f(x)=y for x. It turns out in this case that y=206762 and y=311468 give numbers outside my database, if the inverse,x, exists at all for those numbers. There are two values of E for y=59048 that returned answers:
E=28, x=6808 (i.e. "six thousand eight hundred eight" has 28 letters), 3*(28)^3-6808=59048
E=53, x=387583 (i.e. three hundred eighty seven thousand five hundred eighty three" has 53 letters), 3*(53)^3-387583=59048
This means f(f(6808))=1 and f(f(387583))=1. Since you are told in the statement of the problem that the answer is 4 digits, the answer is 6808.
For the nested problem f(f(x))=1, using my method, since you are only going on to do new iterations on the values you find solutions for, there are only a total of 27+28=55 iterations before you bumped into a 4 digit solution. The brute force method (i.e. just systematically test f(f(x))=1 for all values of x) would have required 6808. If you were told it would be a 6 digit solution, my method would have required 47+53=100 iterations while the brute force way would have required 387583. For larger and larger number of digits in the final answer, my method wins almost exponentially.


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Super World Interview Time: The Wrecking Queens
Posted by The Scarlet Switernel on May 6, 2017 May 6, 2017
Hailing from Helsinki, Finland, The Wrecking Queens are – Nöpsy (lead vocals and keyboards), Jenni (guitar and vocals), Maria (bass guitar and vocals) and Katja (drums and vocals). They've been releasing music since 2011 and we featured their wonderful new EP "A Different Kinds Of High" not so long ago.
"The new EP A Different Kind of High is the result of our years spent together making music. It makes the listener drift into a real life dream, where you move from the embrace of love, bitter sweet tears and sun kissed fields to streets lit by neon lights.
We couldn't agree more and we were delighted when the girls agreed to answer some questions for us.
Why did you decide to be in a band?
We all probably had a dream that someday we would be in a band. When we found each other from high school the dream came true as we started to play together. Music has always been a very important part of our lives. – Jenni
What was the first piece of music you loved, and why?
For me it was Michael Jackson´s album Dangerous. It was the first "real" cassette I got from my parents. There was something magical about it at that time. And it still does. – Katja
What is your favourite song that you've written and why?
Well all of the songs in our new EP are super good, of course. Pigeons is an important song because it was the first song where our new sound really found it's place. But then songs like Golden and Beverly are perfect for dancing. It's hard to pick just one. – Jenni
How do you know when a song you've working on is complete?
Well, we don't always know. Sometimes it's very easy to tell when we've reached that point where the song is complete and everyone is happy about it. But not every time. It can also need a longer break from focusing on the song and after that it's easier to see and hear where the song is heading and what it might need more/less. – Jenni
What song by another artist do you wish you had written and why?
We all love Fleetwood Mac so maybe some of their songs. They all are so good it's hard to choose. We just made a cover version of Everywhere so maybe that. Or Dreams. And then there's Prince and other classics, could be also one of their songs. – Jenni
What artist(s) has been your biggest influence and in what way?
It's hard to just pick one. We've got a long list of different artists and bands that we have listened and who have probably influenced in our music in a way or another. Just to mention couple: Prince, Fleetwood Mac, The Xx, Daft Punk, Grimes, Tame Impala, Beach House, New Order, Beck and Glass Candy. – Jenni and Katja
Name a song that makes you happy and why does it have that effect?
One of my all-time favourite happy songs is Journey´s Don´t Stop Believing. I just have to sing along like crazy every time I hear it. Maybe because it´s so genuine and powerful. – Katja
What is the best new band that you've heard recently?
It´s hard to say what is the best, but the band called The Holy (also from Finland) is something I´ve been listening to this year. – Katja.
I would say that at the moment one of the most interesting new band is a space kraut duo The Black Metal Raccoons (also from Finland). –Malla
Do you think bands from Finland get enough exposure in the British/US press? Is it important to you?
Of course it's important to us, but there are so many great bands in the UK (and all over the Europe) as well so it is quite hard to get much exposure in the US press as a foreign band, I think. But not impossible. Maybe you just have to have a good manager or promotion agency which has wide network and are eager to do their job. – Malla
What do you think of music streaming sites like Spotify and Deezer?
They are important channels for spreading new music to all over the world, but of course users have to find the music and artists first. I think the playlists are quite a handy way to find new music and good promotion for the new artists as well. For bands like us, who distribute their music themselves, online streaming is the best way to publish music. – Jenni and Katja
What's your idea of success?
First of all you have to trust and believe your music and what you do.
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"In this powerfully argued book, Duncan Green shows how we can make major changes in our unequal and unjust world by concerted action, taking full note of the economic and social mechanisms, including established institutions, that sustain the existing order. If self-confidence is important for the effective agency of deprived communities, so is a reasoned understanding of the difficult barriers that must be faced and overcome. This is a splendid treatise on how to change the actual world—in reality, not just in our dreams"—Amartya Sen, Nobel Prize-winning economist and author.
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Prior to law school, Jesse was an organizer for 1199 SEIU where he led several significant organizing campaigns. From 2004 - 2007 he was a staff attorney for District Council 37's Municipal Employees' Legal Services Plan ("MELS") where he defended union members facing eviction in summary housing court proceedings. In 2007, Jesse joined the DC 37 Legal Department as Assistant General Counsel where he provided counsel and legal representation to DC 37 and its affiliated locals. His practice included advising union officers, staff and members on legal, collective bargaining and strategic issues. In addition he represented the union and its members in arbitration and a wide array of administrative hearings and handled complex litigation in both State and Federal Court where, amongst other matters, he litigated claims under discrimination and wage and hour laws.
Jesse joined Himmelstein, McConnel, Gribben, Donoghue & Joseph LLP as an associate in 2016 and became a partner in September 2019.
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A: The purpose of taking blood to establish paternity deals with the issue of the DNA of the child. DNA paternity testing is considered to be 99.99% accurate. The genetic material of each individual is unique. Each child receives 50% of his or her DNA from the biological father and the other 50% from the biological mother. By taking blood samples of each parent, the court can determine with an extremely accurate degree of certainty whether the man, who is tested, is the biological father of the child.
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REVEALED: This Bollywood celebrity might be the first contestant of Bigg Boss Season 13!
Niharika Chauhan Posted On July 18, 2019
Half of the year is already over and Bigg Boss fans are waiting for the next season of the controversial show. The show is rumored to go on-air at the end of September and keeps the audience glued to it. Bigg Boss is aired on Colors TV resulting in getting the channel great TRP. A total of 23 contestants are shortlisted every year and the work has been done for the next season as well. According to rumors, the first contestant that has been locked for the show is the Bollywood celebrity, Chunky Pandey.
Hey, control your excitement! While it is being said that Chunkey Pandey is one out of the 23 contestants, the information has not been confirmed yet. Neither the makers of the show nor Chunkey Pandey has confirmed it officially yet.
Does Salman want a female co-host for Bigg Boss?
Before every season, Salman Khan gets dicey towards being the host of the show. Obviously, the show gains TRP because of Salman Khan but also hosting Bigg Boss is a stressful job. But, we hope Salman will host this season too. Talking about this season, the Bhai of Bollywood is planning to have a female co-host. And supposedly Katrina Kaif will be co-hosting Salman Khan in Bigg Boss Season 13.
Bigg Boss comes up with a new theme for the show every year. The last season was themed as "Double Trouble" in which the contestants were paired in Jodi's. This seasons theme is said to be a horror theme. Also, the last three seasons were a mix of celebrities and commoners as contestants. The makers have decided to keep this season all about celebs because the audience slammed the makers that season 12 was a boring one.
As the Pollywood industry is growing, the famous Pollywood singer Ranjit Bawa was also offered to become one of the contestants but he refused to become a part of Bigg Boss Season 13. He turned the offer down mainly because of his prior commitments and projects.
The show serves as a major source of entertainment and controversial stuff. After all, 'Masala' is all the audience wants.
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Lai Mohammed Attack SGF: Our Hospitals Are The Best Except You're A Blind Man, Please Stop Telling People That Our Healthcare Infrastructures In Nigeria Are Bad Or Else
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The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, has decried the poor state of Nigeria's healthcare infrastructure.
, Boss Mustapha, has decried the poor state of Nigeria's healthcare infrastructure.While he noted that the pandemic has provided the opportunity to examine the state of the national health care systems which is in dire need of reforms and funding, he said the weaknesses in Nigeria's health systems became more glaring given the way more established health systems in Europe and America collapsed under pressure.
Direct development and delivery of critical infrastructure to states by donors; direct procurement and delivery of personal protective equipment and other critical equipment by donors; deployment of rapid response teams to states for capacity building and support; and expansion of the testing capacity in the country.
"However, all non-cash donations shall be duly received by the PTF, acknowledged, documented and appropriately deployed," he said.• Strengthen the legislative framework for economic growth through domestic manufacturing;• Be part of community mobilization and enlightenment efforts.
"First of all, you are supposed to be the custodian of all the challenges that we face as far as COVID-19 is concerned. If any state has a challenge, I am sure there is a proper structure and route for reporting, so that you take down the situation and take the necessary steps.
(NNPC), I was told had 28 million dollars; CBN and the banks, I don't know how much they have. The National Assembly, the ministers and so many individuals and Institutions have also made donations," he said."I believe we must have a central body and not the PTF nor the corporate groups should receive and manage the funds but based on what the constitution provides for.
The meeting, he said, is aimed at ensuring that performance is improved and service delivery is effective and efficient.The ministry of humanitarian affairs has since announced the distribution of the first tranche of five billion naira.
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In this course we will seek to understand Einstein, especially focusing on the special theory of relativity that Albert Einstein, as a twenty-six year old patent clerk, introduced in his miracle year of 1905. Our goal will be to go behind the myth-making and beyond the popularized presentations of relativity in order to gain a deeper understanding of both Einstein the person and the concepts, predictions, and strange paradoxes of his theory. Some of the questions we will address include: How did Einstein come up with his ideas? What was the nature of his genius? What is the meaning of relativity? What's special about the special theory of relativity? Why did the theory initially seem to be dead on arrival? What does it mean to say that time is the fourth dimension? Can time actually run more slowly for one person than another, and the size of things change depending on their velocity? Is time travel possible, and if so, how? Why can't things travel faster than the speed of light? Is it possible to travel to the center of the galaxy and return in one lifetime? Is there any evidence that definitively confirms the theory, or is it mainly speculation? Why didn't Einstein win the Nobel Prize for the theory of relativity?
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It's All About Ukraine
Matthew Rojansky, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, August 2014
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If you tried to form an understanding of the current crisis in U.S.-Russia relations solely based on TV coverage, you would come away with the impression that the crisis basically began earlier this year when Russia invaded Ukraine, seized its territory, and started a war. You might further glean that Russia denies its real responsibility for the invasion, instead working through reckless and dangerous proxies who have done many despicable things, including shooting down a civilian airliner with almost 300 innocent people on board. In varying degrees, all of the foregoing is true, yet it omits one exceptionally important foundational detail—namely that this crisis has its origins in the dysfunction of Ukraine itself—a situation that is very far from resolution and that poses serious risks of deepening the conflict between Russia and the West in the near future.
The Ukrainian dimension of the story is essential for Americans to understand for two main reasons. First of all, it explains more than anything else the motivations of Mr. Putin for intervening in a neighboring country despite suffering great harm to Russia's regional and global standing, and of a large majority of Russians in supporting that intervention. Second, paying attention to what happens in Ukraine itself is key to forging an effective U.S. policy response to the immediate crisis, managing the deterioration in U.S.-Russia ties to prevent irrevocable damage, and laying the foundations for future success.
To understand why Putin and his fellow Russians feel compelled to intervene in Ukraine, you must understand that the crisis in that country began from the deep anger of all strata of Ukrainian society toward the corrupt, incompetent, and increasingly authoritarian regime of former President Viktor Yanukovych.
To understand why Putin and his fellow Russians feel compelled to intervene in Ukraine, you must understand that the crisis in that country began from the deep anger of all strata of Ukrainian society toward the corrupt, incompetent, and increasingly authoritarian regime of former President Viktor Yanukovych . Yanukovych, who had been elected in 2010 in a contest seen as free and fair by the international community, including the U.S., basically stole anything he could get his hands on in Ukraine, such that after four years of his misrule, economic growth and investment were obliterated, standards of living for ordinary Ukrainians were among the lowest in Europe, and the public lacked any confidence whatsoever in the country's courts, police, ministries, and all other governing institutions. Yanukovych's predecessors had hardly done better—each one was dogged by corruption scandals and appeared over matched by Ukraine's vast problems—but Yanukovych added fuel to his own fire by consistently lying to the Ukrainian people.
Yanukovych's biggest lie by far was his promise to deliver Ukraine into an Association Agreement with the European Union—not exactly EU membership, but a consolation prize that most Ukrainians thought would lead to major reform, economic opportunity, and rising standards of living. When in November 2013 Yanukovych made clear he did not intend to fulfill that promise, Ukrainians exploded onto the Maidan (Kiev's central square) in protest, and when that movement was met by the authorities with new repressive laws and bloody violence, the protestors transformed into revolutionaries determined to remove Yanukovych from power. By the end of February 2014, Yanukovych fled the country, leaving opposition politicians to pick up the pieces, which included Yanukovych's broken promise to pursue integration with the West.
From Putin's perspective, Yanukovych's failure to hold it together in Ukraine created an existential crisis for his own government in Russia. Superficial similarities aside (both were duly elected authoritarian-leaning leaders of East Slavic former Soviet states), Putin and Yanukovych could hardly have been more different and could hardly have disliked one another more. Yet if by violently deposing their president, Ukrainians managed to bring change that would improve their standard of living while shifting their country's geopolitical orientation toward the West, the implicit message to Russians would be deeply dangerous for Putin and his own "power vertical." In fact, Putin was already convinced since at least 2011 that the West—mainly the U.S.—was behind "color revolutions" in Georgia (2002), Ukraine (2004), and Kyrgyzstan (2005), and that Russia was next on the list.
From Putin's perspective, Yanukovych's failure to hold it together in Ukraine created an existential crisis for his own government in Russia.
Of course, regime preservation is not the most compelling argument for the majority of Russians to support intervention in Ukraine. For them, it is a potent combination of empathy for the perceived suffering of Russian speakers in Ukraine (underscored by relentless slanted coverage on Russian TV), resurgent nationalism cultivated by skilled Kremlin-backed propagandists, and deep anger that the West continues to expand its sphere of influence around Russia through deceit and disrespect. Ironically, a half century of Cold War enmity followed by a quarter century of American triumphalism and indifference to their concerns has primed even ordinary Russians to accept their own government's manipulation of events in Ukraine, while dismissing the West's stated support for Ukrainians' sovereignty and security as mere artifice.
This brings us to how important an understanding of the situation in Ukraine is to forging a more effective U.S. policy response. U.S. policy priorities can be thought of in short, medium and long term dimensions. In the short term, there is an urgent need to de-escalate the violence in southeastern Ukraine and prevent further deterioration of the political and security situation in the country as a whole. Here it is important to recognize that even though Yanukovych has fled, and Ukrainians voted in a new president in May, the revolution is far from over. The very center of Kiev is still an armed encampment, with soot-faced "self-defense" units manning roadblocks on all the major thoroughfares, and heavily armed, camo-clad volunteers surrounding key government buildings. Most of these Maidan veterans are without jobs and many are far from their homes in other parts of Ukraine. Together with the volunteer paramilitary units now fighting alongside the regular army in the southeast, they represent the "hard place" against which the fledgling Ukrainian government may be smashed at any time by the "rock" of Russian aggression.
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In the middle term, as the United States and Europe develop and implement a sanctions strategy designed to pressure the Russian leadership into changing course, they should be certain about the goal of the sanctions being contemplated. If it is to force a Russian defeat in southeast Ukraine, then it will probably backfire simply because an outright defeat would be unacceptable to Mr. Putin, as it would exacerbate precisely the catastrophic, regime-ending precedent he fears most. If on the other hand the goal is to compel Russia to help resolve the conflict through negotiation and compromise, as U.S. officials have stated, then it is essential to ensure that both the willingness and the capacity to agree to and implement such a compromise exists on the Russian as well as the Ukrainian side—which suggests the urgent need for dialogue in addition to threats and warnings. Western policymakers should also consider whether the effect of "isolating the Russian economy" through sanctions might be to underscore most Russians' confidence in the Kremlin's paranoid anti-Western propaganda rather than weaken it. Even if it has decided to shelve the political relationship, Washington should tread carefully to avoid damaging the handful of vital institutions that underpin U.S.-Russia economic, scientific, cultural, intellectual, and social engagement, as these will be essential to weathering this crisis and restoring productive partnership in the future.
Finally, distinct from merely checking Russian moves in Ukraine, Ukraine's successful post-revolutionary development over the long term should be a strategic priority for the United States, since that success will strengthen U.S. power and influence and help secure U.S. interests in the region and beyond. To ensure that outcome will take a level of U.S. engagement with Ukraine that has been apparent only in fits and starts over the past quarter century. Engagement in this context must entail both a willingness to help Ukrainians afford the high costs of modernizing their defunct economy and brittle infrastructure, and tough conditionality to prevent a repetition of the old post-Soviet story in which elites siphon off international assistance funds until the accounts run dry and the donors depart exasperated and exhausted.
Rather than cutting U.S. government investment in regional scholarship and exchanges…how about announcing investments at least commensurate with the tens of millions the U.S. has promised to spend on body armor and night vision goggles for the Ukrainian army?
Long term success will also demand deeper and more sustained attention to Russia and the region as a whole. Americans can hardly hope to exert influence, exploit opportunities or respond to threats effectively without a sophisticated awareness of the fundamental factors at work in the region–which is not provided by news coverage. Rather than cutting U.S. government investment in regional scholarship and exchanges (the Title 8, Title 6, and Open World programs have all been slashed over the past few years), how about announcing investments at least commensurate with the tens of millions the U.S. has promised to spend on body armor and night vision goggles for the Ukrainian army?
One of America's great strengths is that we are problem solvers, and the age of television has conditioned us to speak in sound bites and expect solutions before the commercial break. Yet experience has and will remind us that in foreign policy, there are no easy answers, just as TV's well-worn plot lines and convenient caricatures are seldom accurate in the real world. We can begin by recognizing that the current crisis is not just about Russia and the West, but about Ukraine—where tragic drama, heroic ambition, and even the occasional moment of comedy deserve our full attention.


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Learn how and why we sense, including the biological processes of other senses beyond the traditional five in this interactive experience.
Watch walls lit with alternating colored lights that reveal just how much a world bathed in white light can differ from one illuminated in blue, green or red.
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Happy 95th birthday, Stan Lee
Posted on December 28, 2017 by The Spy Commander
Stan Lee on a 1971 episode of To Tell The Truth
Dec. 28 is the 95th birthday for Stan Lee, the long-time editor and writer at Marvel Comics. More recently, he has been part of the marketing of Marvel Studios movies.
Stan (born Stanley Martin Lieber) has outlived many of his collaborators, including Jack Kirby, Wally Wood, Gene Colan, Don Heck and John Buscema. Others, including Steve Ditko and John Romita Sr. are hanging in there. Also, Stan's wife Joan passed away earlier this year.
As the blog has remarked before, Stan's legacy is a complicated one. He has been depicted as the creator of the Marvel Universe while Kirby, Ditko, et al. did considerable work in devising those stories.
That legacy remains complicated today. There's plenty of time to analyze that again later. Today? The blog wishes Stan a happy birthday.
With that in mind, here's one of Stan's many comic book cameos (along with Joan) in an issue of Daredevil from 1971:
Stan Lee (and his wife Joan) make a cameo in Daredevil No. 79, written by Gerry Conway, drawn by Gene Colan and inked by Tom Palmer
Filed under: Comic book movies | Tagged: Daredevil, Don Heck, Gene Colan, Jack Kirby, Joan Lee, John Buscema, John Romita Sr., Marvel Comics, Stan Lee, Steve Ditko, Wally Wood |	2 Comments »
Spider-Man Homecoming goes for the Romita look
Posted on June 21, 2017 by The Spy Commander
John Romita Sr.'s cover to Amazing Spider-Man No. 52 in 1967
The publicity machine is gearing up for Spider-Man: Homecoming. There are stories about how this third movie version of the character came about, how Marvel Studios is collaborating with Sony Pictures, etc.
Less attention is being paid to something more basic. Namely, how, with Marvel actually producing the movie for Sony, the cinematic Spider-Man looks more like Spider-Man in the comics. Specifically, how he looks more like the version drawn by John Romita Sr. starting in 1966.
Romita, now 87, assumed the assignment after Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko quit Marvel that year. Romita essentially got a try out when he drew a two-part Daredevil story featuring Spider-Man as the guest star.
The change didn't hurt Spider-Man's popularity. Romita had a long run on the title. At times, other artists such as Gil Kane were brought in, with Romita doing the inks to maintain the basic look.
Romita also helped launch a Spider-Man newspaper comic strip in the 1970s. Eventually, Romita became Marvel's art director before retiring.
Sony eventually got the film rights to Spider-Man as the result of a 1999 deal with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Prior to Spider-Man: Homecoming, Sony made five Spidey films from 2002 to 2014.
In all five, the costume crew put its own spin on the Spidey suit. For example, the one worn by Andrew Garfield in two of the movies had a spider design more elaborate than the one in the comics. You can view previous the Sony versions in this video:
Now, with Marvel and Sony collaborating (Sony is financing and distributing, Marvel is handling the production), there's yet another new movie look for the character.
Spider-Man: Homecoming poster
This version, with Tom Holland as the character, made its debut in last year's Captain America: Civil War.
Spidey in full costume looks almost like a Romita drawing come to life. There were a few changes, including some blue stripes not in the original. The web shooters are visible outside the gloves.
Still, the resemblance to the Romita version is there.
It is perhaps strongest on the poster for the new movie, where the largest image is Spider-Man in costume.
All of this may be overthinking the topic. It's natural that Marvel Studios would want its Spidey to look different than the five previous Sony films. Still, consider this post a kind of shoutout to one of the stalwarts of the Marvel bullpen.
Filed under: Comic book movies | Tagged: John Romita Sr., Marvel Studios, Sony Pictures, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Steve Ditko |	Leave a comment »
Wally Wood's influence on Daredevil extends to 21st century
Posted on January 19, 2017 by The Spy Commander
Excerpt from Wally Wood's definitive 1965 Daredevil story, In Mortal Combat With Sub-Mariner
One of the most acclaimed comic book adaptations on television has been the Netflix series Daredevil.
The show, which has run 26 episodes over two seasons, is violent. If it were a movie, some episodes would definitely receive an R rating.
But one person who doesn't get mentioned much in connection with the series is comic book artist Wally Wood (1927-1981).
Wood worked as an artist on seven issues of the original comic book and did uncredited story work. He did not work on the first issue, which was done by Stan Lee and Bill Everett. However, Wood designed Daredevil's distinctive red costume (which debuted in issue 7), which has mostly continued on to this day.
But Wood's primary contribution goes beyond that. In a 1965 story, Wood's Daredevil tackles a much more powerful foe, Namor, the Sub-Mariner (created in 1939 by none other than Bill Everett), the half-human ruler of Atlantis. Namor had super strength and wings on his ankles.
Marvel (via The Fantastic Four title by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby) revived the Namor character in the early 1960s and established that he wanted to conquer the surface world.
Wood's take on Daredevil was how the hero (who was blind, but had whose other senses were heightened following an accident) never, ever gave up. In Mortal Combat With Sub-Mariner was issue 7, the first issue with Wood's red costume.
Wally Wood's cover to Daredevil No. 7 in 1965
Over the course of the 1965 comic book story, Daredevil absorbed a beating at the hands of Namor. But DD always kept coming back for more until he finally fell exhaustion. But DD was more heroic in defeat than Namor was in victory.
The Netflix Daredevil series relies on those who followed Wood, especially artist-writer Frank Miller, who worked on the title in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Oddly, Wood is not included among the writers and artists who receive a "special thanks" credit in the end titles of the Netfilx series
Those who do receive recognition (among them Miller, artists Gene Colan, John Romita Sr. and John Romita Jr.) do deserve the credit they receive. But it's strange that Marvel's television arm doesn't note Wood's contribution. The Facebook page Wally Wood's Daredevil has called for Marvel to recognize Wood.
Regardless, aging comic book fans who remember Wood's short, but influential, run on the title are aware of his contributions to Daredevil that have extended into the 21st century.
Filed under: Comic book movies | Tagged: Bill Everett, Daredevil, Gene Colan, John Romita Jr., John Romita Sr., Marvel, Netflix, Stan Lee, Wally Wood |	1 Comment »
Our scorecard on comic book creators and '14 movies
John Romita Sr.'s cover to Amazing Spider-Man No. 121, written by Gerry Conway
Sorry, Gerry Conway.
Last month, we carried a A POST wondering if comic book creators would get their due with 2014's bumper crop of comic book-based films.
So far, the creators are 1-for-2. Captain America: The Winter Soldier carried a creator credit for Cap (Joe Simon and Jack Kirby) and included a "special thanks" credit for a number of comic book writers and artists, including scribe Ed Brubaker who devised the Winter Soldier storyline that's the spine of the movie.
This weekend, saw the release of Amazing Spider-Man 2. Stan Lee and Steve Ditko got a "based on the comic book by" credit, as they have with past Spider-Man films. But others, mainly Gerry Conway, who authored an early 1970s story whose outcome is incorporated into the movie, didn't get a mention. The closest reference in Amazing Spier-Man 2 is how there's a "Principal Conway" character.
Also going unmentioned is John Romita Sr., co-creator of the Rhino; a much different version of the character appears in Amazing Spider-Man 2.
This isn't that surprising. Movies produced by Marvel, now a Walt Disney Co. unit, have for the most part provided some kind of recognition for those who created characters and stories used by film writers and directors. Studios that license Marvel characters, such as Sony with Spider-Man, haven't been as diligent.
Later this month, Fox will release another X-Men movie. Much of that film is based on a Chris Claremont-John Byrne story. The X-Men were originally created in 1963 by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, and a 1975 reboot with a number of new characters was started by Len Wein and Dave Cockrum. It remains to be seen whether any of them will get a mention in the 2014 film.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged: Amazing Spider-Man 2, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Dave Cockrum, Ed Brubaker, Gerry Conway, Jack Kirby, Joe Simon, John Romita Sr., Len Wein, Marvel, Sony Pictures, Stan Lee, The Other Spies, Walt Disney Co. |	Leave a comment »


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Silverstein: Green Bay Packers must prove they can hold their own against NFL's elite
Tom Silverstein
GREEN BAY – By the time the Green Bay Packers complete their five-game whip around the country they will have done more than elevated themselves to platinum frequent-flyer status.
They will have declared their intentions for 2018.
This journey, which started with a flight Friday afternoon to Los Angeles for a Sunday afternoon game against the Los Angeles Rams, bounces them around time zones like they're long-distance cellular signals.
With a home game sandwiched between a pair of two-game road trips, their next five games will kick off at, in order, Pacific time, Eastern time, Central time, Pacific time and Central time.
There will be four plane rides home during that span, all of them overnight flights that will land at Austin Straubel Airport somewhere between 1:30 a.m. and 6 a.m.. And just to make things interesting, a switchover to daylight savings time will take place while they're in their beds in another time zone.
This stretch of games stands out as the most difficult a Mike McCarthy team has faced both because of the travel and the quality of opponent it will be facing – the combined winning percentage of the Rams (7-0), New England (5-2), Miami (4-4), Seattle (3-3) and Minnesota (4-2-1) is .671.
But with all of that looming, no one is saying McCarthy needs to come out of that gauntlet 5-0.
In fact, it wouldn't be fatal for the Packers to lose their next two games and hit the halfway mark 3-4-1. McCarthy's teams typically play better later in the season, and at the same time the Packers are playing four straight non-division opponents, the rest of the NFC North will be beating up on each other.
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The most important part of the next two games isn't that the Packers pull off major upsets, it's that they give the two conference powerhouses all they can handle. It's that they start building some capital for the final three games of that five-game stretch and a favorable December schedule.
If the Packers get blown out against the Rams, the team is going to splinter. There have already been signs of it with quarterback Aaron Rodgers' veiled shots at McCarthy after the Bills game, safety Ha Ha Clinton-Dix's declaration he'll be playing somewhere else next season and rumblings about why running back Aaron Jones isn't being used more.
If you go back to 2010, the year McCarthy won his only Super Bowl, the Packers sustained a huge blow to their season when Rodgers suffered a concussion and the team got blown out in Detroit. With their playoff chances dwindling in what looked to be a promising season, the Packers went into New England with Matt Flynn as their quarterback.
McCarthy started the game with an onside kick, which the Packers recovered. The defense challenged the Patriots receivers at the line of scrimmage and had Tom Brady frustrated. If not for a horrendous special teams gaffe, the game might have gone in the Packers' favor.
The loss dropped the Packers to 8-6, but it turned into a validation that the team could compete with anybody and it led to a late-season rally and run through the playoffs that saw the Packers become the best team in the NFL. Everything came together when the chances of it falling apart looked so likely.
If the Packers get blown out against the Rams, McCarthy is going to have to pull off a miracle to keep this team afloat. Maybe there's a repeat waiting to happen when the Packers face the Patriots on Nov. 4, but it would be best not to chance it.
McCarthy has been extremely good at refocusing his team after a bye. The Packers are 9-3 under him coming out of the bye and have some signature post-bye victories, including big division blowout wins vs. Chicago in 2014 and at Minnesota in '10, as well as a season-changing victory at Miami in '06.
The Packers have some things going for them going into this game.
The bye week allowed them to get healthy. Receivers Randall Cobb and Geronimo Allison should play. Their return could allow McCarthy to get back to some of the no-huddle offense that he has had to abandon first because of Rodgers' knee injury and then because he was playing with rookie wide receivers.
The best thing that happened during that stretch is that two of those rookies, Marquez Valdes-Scantling and Equanimeous St. Brown, received valuable snaps and made enough plays that McCarthy can sneak them in anytime he wants without hesitation.
On defense, first-round cornerback Jaire Alexander appears ready to return from a hamstring injury, which could be a huge plus given he's the only one in the secondary who can run with Rams receivers Brandin Cooks and Robert Woods. He was starting to play like a first-round pick when he got hurt.
In the meantime, fellow rookie Josh Jackson played a ton of snaps and didn't appear overwhelmed as many rookie cornerbacks are. The team also added veteran cornerback Bashaud Breeland, who may get his first action this weekend, and athletic rookie inside linebacker Oren Burks is getting more and more snaps.
But for all those positives, one can't ignore what happened in the first six games. Rodgers isn't himself and it isn't clear whether that's because of the injury he suffered in Week 1, discord between him and McCarthy over how the offense should be run or general decline.
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McCarthy has abandoned the run game and been negligent with Jones, the second-most dangerous skill player on offense behind receiver Davante Adams. If he wants to get to the kind of play-action game that the Rams are so good at, he must present the defense with a running threat.
Rodgers is complicit in ignoring the run game and needs to stop taking the pass option every time it's there and let Jones or Jamaal Williams pound the ball.
McCarthy and Rodgers have been short-sighted in not running the ball even in those games when the Packers were behind by more than one score. If you have no run game and refuse to use it when you're behind, you're destined to never run it and never have a play-action game.
There is more at stake Sunday than just the run game. Defense and special teams better start winning more downs than they're losing.
It has been said in this column that this team is set up for reigniting into the upper echelon of the NFL in 2019 because general manager Brian Gutekunst's first draft has a chance to be outstanding, his next draft now includes two first-round picks and his freedom to sign free agents won't be encumbered by a lack of cap space.
But as foreign a thought as it might be for McCarthy, someone else could be the one inheriting that opportunity if the Packers collapse during this five-game stretch. If his team is still playing like it did the first six weeks of the season, his future could be in doubt.
For now, the most important thing is making the Rams feel like they've just played one of the best teams in the NFL. Nothing else matters.


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Q: Why does dir of a module show no __dict__? (python) For example:
>>> import os
>>> '__dict__' in dir(os)
False

But os.__dict__ shows there is a __dict__ attribute.

A: Because dir uses a specialized implementation for modules, which returns all the keys in the module's __dict__, and thus neglects to include the __dict__ attribute itself.
It is not clear from reading the source code whether this is intentional.

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For me, nothing captures childhood's essence more than kids flying kites. We all, and especially children, yearn to fly. There's something about the sky above. It beckons us to soar. It's endless. To be able to put together this simple contraption, tear some cloth for a tail, tie it to a tether and watch it take off upward is nothing short of magic for kids.
To feel the power of the wind through the string–and of course, then to feel the string snap and we've had to chase our kite down through the fields or neighborhood. This sculpture is a symbol of those simple and magical times of childhood.


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How progress between Cross-Gen and Collections works in NBA 2K22
Aug-04-2021 PST
NBA 2K22 is the next game in a long-running 2K basketball simulation series. Like NBA 2K21, the game is supported on both last-generation and current-generation consoles. This means that gamers can upgrade from PS4 to PS5 or Xbox One to Xbox Series X | S without fear of buying the game twice when it is released 10. September.
However, the only important thing to keep in mind is how 2K handles generational evolution. Like many other sports, the 2K22 has an Ultimate Team mode called MyTeam. Here, players can earn new cards to their favorite stars from the past and present in the NBA. If they had to start over when upgrading to a new console, it would be a huge hurdle for dedicated 2K fans.
Fortunately, the game supports intergenerational progression. Players can bring their entire MyTeam collection to generations of consoles when they decide to upgrade. This means that each player joins, as well as all the in-game currencies that someone has bought or earned. The only caveat here is that the 2K22 only supports cross-progress in the same console family - which means that PS4 progress cannot be saved and transferred to an Xbox Series X, for example. Similarly, Xbox One progress cannot be saved and transferred to PlayStation 5.
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Rapid changes in the regulatory environment as a result of growing pressure from civil society are leaving organisations struggling to keep up with compliance overload.
This trend is set to continue as civil society becomes increasingly conscious of business and government activity, and grows its appetite for accountability and transparency.
Mark Andersen, operations manager for LexisNexis Compliance, said organisations had to become accustomed to frequent regulatory changes and must find ways to incorporate the notion of uncertainty into their compliance strategies.
"It is challenging to manage the complexity of compliance – even more so when the regulatory environment experiences regular changes, or when new areas of compliance are introduced," said Andersen. "However, organisations will lessen their load if they commit to preparing for the future instead of only responding to changes when they occur.
"By focusing on regulatory change management and tracking changes before they come into law, companies would be in a far less chaotic position and reduce their risk of non-compliance," he added.
While it is not always financially viable to employ a team to track and monitor regulatory changes in-house, there are online tools that provide the same function at a fraction of the cost.
"One such product is LexisAssure – a product that alerts users to any changes in their regulatory environment that would be relevant for their company," Andersen explained. It was developed by LexisNexis Compliance, who not only recognised the complexity of managing compliance and rapid changes in the regulatory environment, but the sheer cost of doing so.
"In addition, the alerts contain risk ratings as well as details of penalties for non-compliance, enabling compliance officers to prioritise operational changes. The solution also has a handy compliance calendar which enables users to keep track of important effective dates of legislation, regulations and penalties," said Andersen.
LexisAssure is part of the Lexis Library portfolio of legal research and digital products. It also integrates with LexisNexis Practical Guidance to deliver a robust collection of case law commentaries, precedents and checklists. With a professional team of experts and its comprehensive database of subject matter, LexisAssure takes the pressure off seeking and interpreting information and helps ensure 100 percent compliance.
LexisNexis Legal & Professional is a leading global provider of content and technology solutions that enable professionals in legal, corporate, tax, government, academic and non-profit organizations to make informed decisions and achieve better business outcomes. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis and Nexis services.
Today, LexisNexis Legal & Professional harnesses leading-edge technology and world-class content to help professionals work in faster, easier and more effective ways. Through close collaboration with its customers, the company ensures organizations can leverage its solutions to reduce risk, improve productivity, increase profitability and grow their business. LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 175 countries with 10,000 employees worldwide, is part of RELX Group plc, a world-leading provider of information solutions for professional customers across industries.
In South Africa LexisNexis has been assisting companies and professionals to remain abreast of changing legislation and shifts in the regulatory environment for over 80 years, using leading-edge technology, tools and online solutions. LexisNexis South Africa combines the best of local knowledge in Butterworths with leading-edge online solutions.
South African investment firm, Tsiya Group, chaired by Fani Titi, acquired a minority interest in the company in July 2012. In November 2015 LexisNexis South Africa's acquisition of Korbitec (Pty) Ltd established the company as the leader in conveyancing solutions in the South African legal market, as well as expanded its reach to other spheres and stakeholders within the property transfer process.
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Despite setting up Find My iPhone, losing an iPhone could mean that you�d lose all of your precious photos and videos. It�s always a good idea to back them up and you can do very easily if you transfer photos and videos from your iPhone to a Mac or PC.... Despite setting up Find My iPhone, losing an iPhone could mean that you�d lose all of your precious photos and videos. It�s always a good idea to back them up and you can do very easily if you transfer photos and videos from your iPhone to a Mac or PC.
Despite setting up Find My iPhone, losing an iPhone could mean that you�d lose all of your precious photos and videos. It�s always a good idea to back them up and you can do very easily if you transfer photos and videos from your iPhone to a Mac or PC.


Many drivers are not aware of the number of fluid service needs their vehicles require to run at peak performance. Engines, transmissions, brakes, power steering, and windshield washers all use fluids or oils as they do their job.
Gasoline, though different from other fluids or oils, is another fluid the engine uses to do its work.
With the extremes of temperature and dirty conditions of normal, day-to-day driving, lubricating fluids degrade and become contaminated over time so they no longer protect your car's components as they should. Their detergent properties no longer stop build-up of harmful residue and prevent clogging that can cause premature failure of internal parts. This is why periodic fluid service for your car's lubricating fluids is necessary if they are to remain clean and protective.
As vehicle owners purchase newer vehicles, the need to follow fluid service requirements that meet manufacturer standards is even more critical. With the precise machining of internal components on new vehicles, failure to perform timely maintenance may result in premature malfunction of these expensive components.
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