At Google's inaugural AI@ Event in New York, the company announced three new ways AI benefits humans: access to more languages, new avenues for creativity, and lifesaving alerts for natural disasters.
“Did you know that prior to 2012, computers had a really difficult time seeing, hearing, or understanding spoken or written language?” asks Jeff Dean, Senior Fellow and Senior Vice President, Google Research.
“In the last 10 years, we’ve made especially rapid advances in AI – not just on the technical side, but in responsibly deploying it in ways that help people around the world. That means deploying AI in Google Cloud, in products from Pixel phones to Google Search, and in many fields of science and other human endeavours.”
Dean then detailed how Google is utilising AI to create helpful technologies worldwide.
“We are building an AI model that will support the 1,000 most spoken languages to bring greater inclusion to billions of people in marginalised communities all around the world. We have recently announced voice typing for nine more African languages on Gboard. In South Asia, we are actively working together with local governments, NGOs and academic institutions to collect representative audio samples from across all the regions’ dialects and languages.”
Google is empowering creators and artists with AI to express themselves in ways they previously could not.
“You’ll soon be able to build themed cities and design friendly monster characters in AI Test Kitchen that can move, dance, and jump with ‘wobble’ - all by using text prompts,” he adds.
“With AudioLM, it can generate realistic speech and piano music by listening to audio and predict which sounds should follow after a few seconds of an audio prompt.”
Notably, Google is addressing climate change and health challenges through AI.
The company is helping communities in India and Bangladesh to forecast floods, another extreme weather pattern exacerbated by climate change. This is being expanded to more South America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and South Asia countries.
Using the Automated Retinal Disease Assessment tool (ARDA), Google is partnering with caregivers and public health agencies to expand access to diabetic retinopathy screening.
As part of Google Health’s broader vision, Google is exploring how AI helps our phones to detect respiratory and heart rates to make healthcare more accessible for anyone with a smartphone.
Google has also released and operationalised a set of AI principles that allow us to focus on making rapid progress on technologies that can be helpful to everyone.
“We believe AI should be socially beneficial, avoid creating or reinforcing unfair bias, be built and tested for safety, be accountable to people, incorporate privacy design principles, uphold high standards of scientific excellence, be made available for uses that accord with these principles," says the company in a blog post.


South baseball sweeps Valley Center
Last week’s four-game losing streak was tough to take for members of the Salina South baseball team. Especially when many of the Cougars didn’t expect to lose four games the entire season.
South had to find a way to get back on track and did just that in a Tuesday doubleheader with Valley Center at Dean Evans Stadium. The Cougars needed only five innings to win the opener 10-0, then got some key two-out hits for a 7-5 victory in the second contest.
“Last week we got away from doing the stuff we had been doing,” South catcher Cole Hoover said. “The big thing was just having fun because everything is connected.
“Instead of trying to do too much we sat back and played the game. Coach (Tyler) Burnett said before the game ‘You don’t work baseball, you play baseball.’”
After opening the season with four consecutive wins, last week’s league losses to Campus and Newton put the Cougars back at the .500 mark. South will now take a 6-4 record into Friday’s doubleheader at Evans Stadium with Salina Central.
“It was really big to get a couple of wins and get our feet back under us,” said South’s Jacob Foster. “We may have gotten a little cocky about ourselves and just taken things for granted, so this felt really good.”
“My takeaway from today is I’m proud of our guys,” South coach Kris Meis said. “Last week was a tough week. Even when we played well we couldn’t get things to fall our way.
“Today we were able to play our style of baseball and use our speed. When we got people on, we moved them around with bunts, hits and stolen bases.”
Foster, who threw in one of Friday’s losses at Newton, came back on short rest with a complete game, two-hit shutout in the opener. He did not walk a batter and faced the minimum 15 batters in the five-inning game.
Foster gave up a two-out single in the first but that runner was thrown out by Hoover trying to steal. The Hornets had another single in the second, but that base runner was erased on a 4-6-3 double play to end the inning. Valley Center went down in order in each of the final three innings.
“My fastball on the corner was working really good,” Foster said. “I was getting some easy ground balls and my teammates were fielding them and throwing them out.”
The Cougars had 12 hits in the opener, including five infield singles and another bunt single. Hoover was 3 for 3, with a leadoff triple in South’s two-run third and an RBI single in the fourth to make it 5-0.
South ended it with five runs in the fifth, getting two-out hits from Cole Calvert (RBI single), Dalton Wassenberg (two-run double) and Hoover (RBI single).
The Cougars opened the second contest by scoring three times in the first after there were two out and nobody on, with the big hit a two-run double by Trenton Baird. After Valley Center tied the game in the second, Calvert had a two-out, two-run single in the third in when South took the lead for good.
A single to right from Jacob Yarochowicz scored Hoover with South’s final run in the fourth and made it 7-3. Starter Tyler Short worked into the fifth inning and earned the win, getting relief help from Calvert and Wassenberg.
“We came into tonight waiting for it all to come together,” Meis said. “We’ve had games where the pitching was good or our defense was good or our hitting was good.
“Tonight we were able to put all three phases of the game together. When we do that we’re going to be pretty solid.”


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Still no answers
|By Sam Inglot|
Opponents to proposed Cristo Rey consolidation say they're still being left in the dark
Wednesday, Dec. 19 — A group of five community members opposed to a proposal to consolidate Cristo Rey Community Center and St. Vincent Catholic Charities met with the Cristo Rey board this morning and walked out as frustrated as they walked in.
Lorenzo Lopez, who is leading a group opposed to the consolidation, said the group hoped to accomplish three goals by attending a Cristo Rey board meeting this morning: Give the opposition group, which has been circulating a petition against the plan, a face; “adamantly” express the Hispanic community’s opposition to the consolidation; and try to get some answers to the questions outlined in several letters that they have sent to the leadership of the Catholic Diocese of Lansing and Cristo Rey administrators.
The petition being circulated by the group calls for Cristo Rey to continue as a “free-standing Latino agency, maintaining its original concept of Latino control and self-determination,” with “appropriate Latino leadership” and “a safe work environment for employees, clients and volunteers.” Read more on the petition here.
The group has asked for copies of the Cristo Rey board bylaws, a list of current board members, officers and committees, as well as the center’s personnel policies. Even after posing these questions — which they believe to be relatively simple — to the board directly, they still have no answers.
“They didn’t respond to any of our questions,” Elva Reyes said of the board meeting this morning.
“They have left the community in the dark,” added her husband, Rudy Reyes.
Diocese Spokesman Michael Diebold told City Pulse last week that he was “not aware” of any plans for diocese officials to meet with the group. He said Lansing Bishop Earl Boyea had asked the boards of Cristo Rey and St. Vincent Catholic Charities, “both of which are entities of the Diocese of Lansing, to come up with a consolidation plan. … The bishop’s wishes remain the same.”
Lopez said it’s obvious the Cristo Rey board will need to be pressured more before the community can get some answers about the consolidation plans and the inner workings of Cristo Rey.
“We made our points, but today shows how much more work we have to do,” he said.
The group plans to file a request under the state Freedom of Information Act to seek out answers to their questions, Lopez said. The group also plans on hosting an open community forum to discuss what little they know about the consolidation plan and their frustrations with the leadership of the Catholic Diocese and the Cristo Rey Board of Directors.

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An 80-room Holiday Inn Express and Suites in Welland will open three months later than expected, says general manager Karen Hardcastle.
Hardcastle said construction of the hotel — it will feature a gym and indoor swimming pool and be the largest hotel in the Rose City — has been set back due to the latest provincial lockdown to stop the spread of COVID-19.
“We were doing really well, this just knocked us back,” she said, speaking of the second provincial lockdown.
With an original opening date set for March 18, the hotel will instead open June 3.
It’s at 224 Power Dr., inside Niagara Centre Business Park, created by commercial, industrial and residential development company The Prime Way Group.
It sits in behind Walmart and Canadian Tire, northwest of Woodlawn Road and Highway 406, giving visitors access to the city and the rest of Niagara.
The hotel to be operated by JBT Hospitality Inc., an independent hotel management company, is being developed in conjunction with Burlington-based Chamberlain Architect Services Ltd.
Hardcastle comes to it as an international hotelier and global consultant with five-star and midscale property experience.
There are 16 suites and 64 standard rooms, and in addition to the pool and gym, it will also include three meeting rooms and a breakfast/patio area.
“Everything is just about complete on the outside, and we were doing quite well on the inside,” said Hardcastle Monday.
Once the lockdown is over, it will take two weeks to get all of the trades back on site, she said.
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Hardcastle said the process of hiring employees is underway, and she has met with people electronically.
Other hotels in the city include the 68-suite Best Western Plus Rose City Suites on Prince Charles Drive south of Lincoln Street and two others in the city’s north end, both on Niagara Street — Canada’s Best Value Inn by the Niagara Regional Exhibition grounds and Travelodge by Wyndham Welland close to Seaway Mall. Neither of those two hotels lists the number of rooms on their websites.

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Redefining The Dallas MALE
Zapped by the local economy, sapped by the Dallas woman, and wrapped up in a search for his identity, the Dallas man is more confused than ever.
I KNOW THAT THE STATEMENT I’M ABOUT to make regularly appears in women’s magazines every couple of months, and I know that no one believes a word of it. Men are going to roll their eyes and say, "Oh no, not again." A lot of women will think I’m making everything up. Men changing? Don’t be ridiculous. Maybe they’re changing in some place like New York or San Francisco, where it’s acceptable to be in an encounter group or nude therapy or something, but, come on, we’re talking Dallas. Men here want to do the same thing they’ve always done- make a million dollars, make a little small talk with the office secretary, and then lunge for her blouse buttons.
I’m sorry. You’re wrong. As uncomfortable as I am with such sweeping pronouncements, I must tell you there’s a new kind of man emerging in Dallas. That’s the good news. The bad news is that the new man could turn out to be more baffling and confused than ever.
Dallas, like most places, has been so aware of the onslaught of the "new woman" in her many incarnations-from the volunteer housewife who runs for city office to the liberated single woman to the powerbroker business figure- that we have often forgotten that men have been making some discoveries of their own. Dallas men, often against their will, have been forced to define their manhood with a new set of traits and attitudes. Curtains have fallen on ;old assumptions. A lot of men, frankly, aren’t sure how to deal with it. "If you simply look at what’s happened in the power structure of this city," says Dr. John Batrus, the well-known local consulting management psychologist, "and at an economy that is forcing thousands of men to rethink their entire lives, then you have !to believe that what’s happening in Dallas is revolutionary."
Just consider: a woman is mayor of Dallas. The number of women moving into Dallas’s professional and business life continues to increase. The old-boy network that ran this city for so long has broken up. Men from the city’s old-money families have little of the power they once did. And, most important, a poor local economy, weakened by the downturn in oil prices and the near-collapse of the real estate market, has significantly affected the lifestyles and aspirations of many affluent Dallas men. Suddenly, the dream of making a million dollars has grown dim. Men who have spent the last decade happily climbing from one tax bracket to another now find a lot of things crashing down around them. The ledgers they havt been keeping of their lives are not adding up the way they thought they would. "You cannot overestimate why so many men came to Dalla; in the late Seventies and early Eighties," says Dr Burton C. Einspruch, a psychiatrist who see; many conservative Dallas businessmen (he co founded Sherry Lane National Bank and puts; copies of Harvard Business Review in his waiting room). "They saw Camelot, a magica environment where the dream of riches seemed in everyone’s grasp. There was a tremendous material rush to overprovide, and in that, they sowed the seeds of their own destruction. In their wish to overprovide everything, many of them forgot to teach themselves how to live or at least handle conflict.’
This kind of statement, I have to admit, is a little strong. Though it’s obvious over the last few years that the clichéd mass media image of the "Dallas man" is finally disappearing-that frontier-legacy figure who barrels through life fighting for his money, spouting good-ol’-boy slogans, acquiring and multiplying, and slapping his little wife on the bottom-it’s difficult for me to imagine men in Dallas making enormous changes. I certainly haven’t seen much evidence of the new "sensitive male" we had all been promised in the Eighties. I still see a lot of hairy-chested Vanna Whites at the nightclubs I keep coming across the macho crowd whose language is part English, part Nautilus. There are middle-aged men who risk their families for the thrill of one hazardous affair with a younger woman. And there are men going through the same ritualistic conversations with other men, discussing the Big Three topics-sexual conquests, money making, and sports statistics. I see the native-born Texas men whose lives were so strongly hammered in traditional forms by what their fathers and grandfathers did, and I think, "What is really coming to an end?"
"A lot," says Steve Garrison, one of the most powerful executive recruiters in Dallas, a man whose reputation in part depends on the trends he can spot in the professional marketplace. "The image of Dallas as a ’young man’s city’ is about to end. In fact, the whole belief of youth in Dallas is tarnished somewhat. This has always been considered the success city where a young man can move in and accomplish anything he wanted. Well, that’s stopped real fast."
"What’s terribly sad," says Dr. Helen Hark-ness, a former university dean who now is a local career consultant, "are all these men who come in to see me, some of them twenty-six years old, and they’re already burned out, thinking their hopes will never be fulfilled. It’s something you usually don’t see in men until their late thirties. I think a lot of men are in a crisis, reevaluating what they are here for."
Men, of course, have been allegedly reevaluating themselves for a long time. The man debate-carried out in countless magazines, books, Donahue shows ("Our question today: can you wash dishes and still be a man?")-is an ancient ritual, begun no doubt among women huddled around Stone Age campfires. In an 1898 issue of The Critic, a leading magazine of the time, I came across an article titled, "The New Man," which studied the same problems and drew the same conclusion that a zillion articles to follow would make: men, sooner or later, would become more open and caring. Yes, well, don’t hold your breath.
AND YET (AH, YES, ALWAYS THE "yet"), it would be naive to say men in Dallas are the same as they were ten or even five years ago. In truth, the Dallas culture today offers fewer of the raw materials it once took to "be a man." The reason, certainly, has something to do with the inability to pile up material wealth the way we did a few years ago, but there is something else. There are growing numbers of Dallas men without meaningful romantic relationships: they are afraid of making a commitment while their own lives are still filled with a certain aimlessness. There are men whose thoughts linger more on Dallas’s 50 percent divorce rate than on the stability of a marriage. There are men who have no idea how to blend their hard-edged masculinity with any softer role. There are those who are deciding they can no longer play the traditional role of husband and father. In this post-liberation age, men are perceiving a changed sexual milieu, even here in Dallas, a city that has never been on the forefront of the women’s movement. The Dallas man realizes that his consciousness is indeed different from his father’s at the same age, though he may not be sure just what that difference is.
I say this because in a month I turn thirty, I’m right in the thick of the baby boom generation that has poured into Dallas (31.7 percent of the Dallas population is between twenty-five and forty-four, compared to 27.7 percent for the country as a whole). Across the Dallas landscape, you can see the men of this generation, running furiously, not sure where or why, but afraid to stand still. The problem, however, is that some of the rules are changing, which in turn will change us. Now, perhaps, might be the appropriate time to stop and see where we are headed. I admit, it’s not an easy task. As my lifelong friend Gregg Steward, who also turned thirty this year, says, "There are three rules to being a great man. Unfortunately, no one knows what any of them are."
I MENTION GREGG BECAUSE I REMEMBER the way we were when we came to Dallas in the late Seventies. Dallas, by then, had become the ultimate young man’s city. At night, the city was filled with the lights of their campfires-restaurants and nightclubs all aglow as men moved from table to table, on their faces the unshakable look of those meant for success. All the fame rested in the young. The Alt-American boy, Roger Stau-bach, was leading the Cowboys to Super Bowls. Billy Bob Harris had become one of the most famous bachelors in the whole country. Steve Bartlett, a mere kid in his thirties, was on his way to the city council and soon to the U.S. Congress. A new breed of button-down young executives began moving into the downtown banks; young, renegade blue-jeaned businessmen like Gene Street, of the Black-Eyed Peas and Dixie Houses, developed the golden touch. Was it impossible to fail? Jack Knox, now forty-nine, not only created a successful oil company, but a gourmet restaurant, Cafe Pacific, which quickly became one of the city’s most popular eating spots. "In Dallas," recalls George Kline, now thirty-eight, a Fort Worth native who came here to become rich as a producer of television commercials, "money-making became the equivalent of long hair in the Sixties. Everyone dijl it."
Gregg and I also showed up just in time to watch the eruption of a whole new breed of young real estate barons, from curly-haired Texas boy David Davidson (now forty-three) to a Jewish kid from New York named Paul Pilzer (thirty-two). The early Eighties saw an explo-sion of fresh-faced college graduates with their real estate licenses, running around trying to broker a deal. They were men who could credit-card anything, they always flew somewhere else on weekends, and they dated those polished women who seemed to pulsate under-neath with secret fires. Larry Cantrell, thirty-three, came to Dallas in 1978, ate at the free happy hour buffets at the Greenville Avenue bars to save money, and began making real estate deals of his own. "The peer pressure was so tremendous back then," says Cantrell, now a successful developer, "because every guy your age looked like he was rich. Everyone was moving up so fast that you felt like an idiot if you didn’t join the gold rush. And the easy thing was it didn’t take much to join."
The attitude was addictive: everyone thought it was just a matter of time before they made their own great impact on the world. "Listen," Gregg, totally serious, told me one night years ago, "if we stay in shape, by the time we’re thirty, we’ll rule this city."
We were not part of a generation in any self-conscious sense; there was no understanding among us that we were vastly different than the group that had preceded us. But no Dallas male under the age of forty can remain untouched by the memory of the sudden wealth that seemed so close and available so fast. It was like a mag-: let to even more young people. When the census was last taken in 1979, there were 228,438 people living in Dallas who were between the ages of twenty-five to thirty-nine. But, astonish-ngly, there were 102,673 residents (nearly half of the previous number) who were only be-:ween the ages of twenty and twenty-four. Now, nearly a decade later, that twenty to twenty-four group is hovering around the thirty-year-old mark. And guess what? Today’s thirty-year-olds are not ruling (his city.
"In fact," says Dr. Michael McGill, the SMU business professor and popular author, "the younger man at thirty is going to be floundering a lot more than the man ten years older than him. All those big-money, land-of-opporlunity myths he had heard about Dallas, that he saw embodied in the group of men who came right before him, well, they’ve all exploded." Moreover, says Einspruch, "all the bright people in their thirties and younger face withering times because the executive chambers of our companies are already filled with men in their early forties, and there is no place for the younger group to move up. They can’t make their big mark here like they thought, and so the dream declines."
As I move around this young man’s city talking to dozens of young men. I notice that a lot of them, even those well into their forties, are indeed taking stock of themselves, wondering about their obsessive chase of the bitch goddess of success. Some are able to admit to a panicky feeling, as if they are men on the run, the dogs baying not far behind. Others realize their lives aren’t going to make quite the difference they once thought. They won’t be famous and powerful, except perhaps in the narrow, contrived worlds of their chic nightclubs where they can charm women and spend money on champagne.
Something has moved closer to the bone-maybe it is a little sorrow, and maybe it is the knowledge that often comes with age. "The most important thing." says Batrus, "for men in Dallas has been their ambition. They’ve been hard workers, screwing each other to get ahead, kissing ass, doing everything they can to make it. And now, just when they figure it’s time to pluck the gold ring of success, they find that some son of a bitch has already run off with it. Now they’re trying to figure out some other way to make their lives seem important."
I don’t want to give the impression that there are no happy stories among the new young men of Dallas. I think of Paul Cog-gins, thirty-six, the renaissance man, a Harvard-educated lawyer and novelist, former president of the Dallas Democratic Forum, married to a woman who is probably more talented than himself. I talked to Bill Conley, thirty-six, the young computer venture entrepreneur, one of the first of (he new strain of high-tech men who are making their way to Dallas. Bright, glib, charming, Con-ley knows that out of his profession will come the powerbrokers of Dallas’s future. "But they will be men who are more quiet and strategic," he says. "They won’t have the Texas flamboyance of the earlier generations.’" I occasionally came across happy, prosperous young men in Dallas real estate, like Richard Boyd, twenty-eight, a man filled with such a sense of ease and confidence that others find themselves trying to imitate him.
There are just as many men as ever who have immersed themselves in the single life of the city, their fives cheerfully dominated by the mating urge, regardless of what time of day it is. One can find the usual number of young men who have inherited money- Boyd calls them the "Lucky Sperm Club’- as they zip around town, serene looks on their faces. Also, there are the notorious "young fogies" of Dallas, men who have adapted to a bedrock-conservative Highland Park life; apparently quite satisfied, they never look back.
This is, certainly, a city that still celebrates the young man-a half-dozen charity bachelor auctions have sprung up in the last year, in which women bid thousands for dates with handsome, successful men wearing tuxedos-and it’s rare to find a success-driven man who readily admits that he doesn’t have it all together. Men have always known how to assume stoic disguises and act with a staged, if unsettling, evasiveness. But Boyd himself admits that "the guys I know who look like they have everything in control are, deep down, asking themselves a lot of questions. They don’t know how long they can keep up the image, but you’ll never hear them say that."
MAYBE THAT’S STARTING TO CHANGE. HOW-ever. "Men in the late Seventies would never speak about themselves," says Dr. Lucia Gilbert, a University of Texas educational psychology professor who recently published a book on men in dual-career families. "But lately, they’ve been saying, ’Talk to us. We’re the ones who are changing, not women.’" I remember my conversation with Jim Henry, a successful Dallas corporate executive, who last year formed a small self-help group with other successful male executives ’’so that we could learn to share our vulnerabilities. Most of us had never tried to do that before." There are men like thirty-four-year-old Jimmy Roseman, a North Dallas bank executive. Aggressive, with uncanny business instincts, he shot upwards so fast in the city’s financial community that his future looked boundless. But now, he wonders about being a part of a very greedy young generation. "I don’t want this to sound arrogant" he says, "but I see such rampant desire for wealth, an unquenchable desire to make a million dollars, that I wonder if we’re forgetting to act like caretakers of the earth instead of guys trying to make money out of it. At some point, we need to sit down and talk about where our values lie."
In many ways, the new Dallas men today seem confused about the self they present to the world. We try to make such great strides under the category of "personal fulfillment"-working on our bodies in our yuppie gyms, eating pasta salad, cutting down on our drinking-that we often forget what it is we want to fulfill. What is the end we’re using all these means to reach? Stephen Page, a thirty-two-year-old partner with an executive recruiting firm, came to Dallas in 1980 to make his fortune. Now that he’s made it, he contemplates the price he paid. "There is no question that everyone in my age group who wanted to be successful did so mostly to the exclusion of their personal relationships." Tim Vaughan, a talented thirty-two-year-old attorney for the prestigious Gardere & Wynne law firm, concedes that he doesn’t think about getting married like he once did. "If someone asks me what I’ll be doing in twenty years, I say that I suppose I’ll be married. But I don’t consider it in the way that I, say, consider advancing in my career."
Oh, yes, the great Lack of Commitment issue. In their thirties, men today are still confused by the problems of freedom and commitment and responsibility that their fathers took care of by the age of twenty-one. Caught in that typical male oscillation between a desire for freedom and a desire for intimacy, they end up mostly looking silly. My friend Gregg Steward admits he is exactly this way-he puts on a suit and pretends to be a man, but he never feels grown up. "It’s like you don’t want to be captured," says Gregg, a copywriter for a large Dallas advertising agency. He develops a major infatuation with a woman, acts serious for a couple of months, talks about "being involved," then picks up and runs, feeling trapped.
A woman, of course, is the best barometer of a man: she invariably receives the bluntest of his emotions- Though the post-feminist thinking maintains that a woman’s sense of self is now defined less in terms of a man and what a man provides, like money and power, it is still true that women remain intrigued, and continually perplexed, by the odd mixture of manliness and sensitivity, the need for love and the desire for power, that couple in men, one element often hiding the other. "Through all the changes we’ve gone through in the last two decades," says Dr. Gilbert, "it is the woman who has to do the fighting for intimacy in a relationship "
The women I talk to from Dallas’s upscale environments don’t seem too encouraged with the progress of the new generation of men in their romantic relationships- especially now, in a limited economy, with so many men feeling stripped of their self-worth. "You know," a woman in her early thirties tells me about her husband, who was a rising young banking star at InterFirst, "I didn’t understand how much his job affected our marriage. But then word comes down that they’re merging InterFirst with Republic, that his job is changing, that he won’t get the big raises anymore, that he won’t be promoted as quickly as he was in his twenties, that he might be in his same position for the rest of his career. And it’s like something inside of him died. He doesn’t seem to care about me the way he used to."
Another woman friend says that she worries that her boyfriend, in real estate, will start trying to play around on her, substituting erotic gains for professional advancement. "He’ll try to pick up a fluffball woman just so he can say to himself that he hasn’t lost any of his bigtime manhood."
She isn’t far off the mark. For many a man, a new woman gives him an illusion of authority that was never really his in the First place. There are husbands, not yet in middle age, who have already tired of the well-regulated happiness of their home life, and so they cheat, believing in their hearts that they are capable of another act of great passion. None of this is new: anyone who has lived in Dallas for a few years can recite dozens of routine horror stories about couples whose relationships have failed. Sadly, the stories aren’t going to end. The local psychologists and psychiatrists I interviewed all predict a greater increase in Dallas divorces and affairs as relationships feel the pressures of a constricted economy. Says Einspruch: "People are willing to tolerate a lot of emotional problems as long as there’s some money around. When times are bad, those relationships bust up."
OF COURSE, THIS IS THE TOP END OF Dallas’s economic scale we’re talking about. One of the unpleasant little truths of our money-driven city is that we usually forget the people at the other end of the scale, the middle-class and blue-collar workers. According to demographic experts, more young blue-collar workers are now migrating to Dallas than affluent professionals who once flocked here as part of corporate relocations. With the blue-collar population, it’s normal to live in bad times, to try to keep a family together with a meager paycheck. I know it’s popular among the young professional class to talk about two-career marriages and shared domestic roles and day care and all that, but it’s in the middle class where you see both parents working because they have to, where you see dads with their kids at McDonald’s, where a "sensitive man" is born not from a trendy book, but from the realization that his love and affection might be the only things he has left to fight the tension that is knotting up his life.
Nevertheless, it is in the lives of the young upper-middle-class generation where you find the battleground of change. Here, couples are obsessed with the modern relationship and the choices and dilemmas it brings. Here, a different kind of power game is being played out, as men and women struggle with all the archetypes of manhood and womanhood, trying to figure out how their roles should mesh. Sure, there is still the comic mating-and-dating drama where the actors follow hackneyed scripts without ever stopping to ask why. But it’s obvious that for some men, the courting of women has turned. No other generation has been so concerned with keeping each other’s territory intact, with space, with unobtrusive intimacy. I came across men who now talk about learning to love without dominating. There is a New Age etiquette to which they seem to be paying some lip service. The question a lot of women ask is whether men, when they finish talking about change, really want things to be that different.
I talk about this from a bias, as one who has spent a lot of time going through horrible, ridiculous rituals trying to prove myself in a relationship. Almost every time, I come across as bumbling and potentially destructive. "That’s perfectly natural," says John Batrus. "It seems to me the new group of men today are more scared of women than ever before. A man’s roles aren’t clearly defined. He can’t be macho in the old dominating way. He can’t be a hard-ass. And he’ll probably fall for a woman who will be better in business than he is. These guys are looking around today and saying, ’Well, hell, now what?’"
Often it looks as if the men I know fall in love just to have someone in whom to confide all their uncertainties. The younger men seem to want numerous qualities out of a relationship, yet they are never quite able to pinpoint what those qualities are. I see a lot of Dallas men act as if they are simply passing through various stages of being single. They engage in what has been called "serial monogamy," a series of one love affair after another, all of them important, none of them amounting to anything that will entail marriage. More men confess a liking to a part-time relationship; to them, seeing the woman they love four or five times a week is more satisfying than seeing her seven.
I also watch men in the dual-career marriage, where husbands divide the domestic duties with their wives, try to find time for the children while sneaking in a little time for themselves, and in the end sag or snap under the strain. They quickly leam that the 50-50 life can be very constraining and can drain a lot of the romance out of things. Mary Emma Karam, thirty-three, the respected law partner of the Jackson Walker firm, is married to a pediatrician, Albert Karam. After working full days at their separate offices, they try to spend at least six hours each evening with their two young children, ages one and two, even if it means keeping them up past 10 p.m. The couple has not been to a movie since the first child was born, they never go out two consecutive nights, and they live under incredibly precise schedules. "It seems every other day," says Mary Emma, "my husband and I get into a long discussion about whose career is going to give first. We talk about how we are going to be able to make the family work, whether our lives are accommodating our children. We both know how important our work is to each other, but.. ." And then her voice trails off.
Mary Emma knows what the usual outcome is. She can cite examples of many of her young female friends who have given up their careers to save the family. Their husbands pressured them to quit. "Normally, when something has to be sacrificed," she says, "it’s going to be the woman’s work. My husband is rare because he refuses to ask me ’ whether I want to quit. He says that’s my decision to make. But, secretly, if I walked in and told him I quit, he’d be delighted."
Even in the best of the modern relationships, like the Karams, there is a palpable tension that was seldom found in the marriages of a generation past. For men, it is difficult to surrender the desire to be cared for and nurtured as their fathers were by their wives. Many men still commit themselves to a marriage with the conviction that the wife won’t change much, that the family will be the most important thing in her life, and that she will always find him an inspiring and beloved figure. It was not necessarily easier in the old days-there was still the conflict and torment-but at least the players knew the rules.
AND IF THAT CONFUSES WOMEN, IT IS IM-portant to remember that the men of my age feel they don’t get any clearer signals in return. Men see some women stretching their independence, yet they see just as many women returning to old-style self-help books: today, more than ever, women are buying simplistic bestsellers (Women Men Love/Women Men Leave. Smart Women, Foolish Choices) that tell women how to find the right man and how to keep him.
Though the landscape of the evolving male-female relationship is littered with the tragedy of divorce-the same old story of two people, beginning with the best of intentions, then sliding slowly into cynicism and despair-the truth is men want to be married . Sociological studies of the last decade have also found that men need marriage. Single men suffer worse physical health and more mental problems than married men (single men between the ages of twenty-five and sixty-five are more than 30 percent more likely than married men or single women to be depressed, and they’re almost twice as likely to show "severe neurotic symptoms"). They die earlier than married men. Most men build meaningful, satisfying lives only through institutions, and that includes marriage.
There are many times when I am convinced that a decent manhood is simply a matter of developing a good marriage. I have spent enough time being single to realize the advantages of being alone, how much more work you can get done, and how you don’t have to put up with the little annoyances of someone else. But I also realize what it means to get a look from across the room from someone who knows you so well, who laughs at you and cries for you, someone whose unspoken love suddenly seems far more important than a few hours of freedom. I get sentimental when I remember the definition someone once gave me of two people in love. "You can tell they are in love," my friend said, "because of the significance they give to one another."
AND SO, IN THE YUPPIE NEIGHBORHOODS of East Dallas, in the apartment complexes of the north, in little suburban homes, in the condominiums of Oak Lawn, the new generation of Dallas men is hard at work, trying to make terms with life. We are out there acting ambitious, passionate, adventurous, and virile, while at the same time displaying a real cute sense of humor. We consider ourselves honest and protective, with a bit of me charming scoundrel in us. We like to think that women see in us a kind of quiet power, even a superiority, as if we have something very important to teach them. There is still a little voice inside us that says we are destined to make a great dent in the world. We know that some day we will be able to fix the electric dishwasher, then cook French food, and then lie down on the living room floor to watch Monday Night Football.
The truth, as we all know, even if we’llnever admit it, is that we are one truly banalgroup of men, mostly baffled, often insecure, scared of the future. I know that manyof us, married or single, making a lot ofmoney or making nothing, will tread into ourthirties fearing maturity, because we wonderif the chapters in the remainder of our liveswill only get worse, and we fear that ourdreams will never come true. So we arestuck at the crossroads. Sometimes I think ofthe words of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes,who, upon looking back on his great career,said, "Alas, gentlemen, that is life. We cannot live our dreams. We are lucky enoughif we can give a sample of our best, andif in our hearts we can feel that it has beennobly done.


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According to the latest Sunday from The Associated Press, more than 156,000 people have been infected. In addition, an estimated 74,000 people have recovered from the coronavirus. Other estimates placed the number of infected individuals north of 162,000 Sunday evening.
According to a website maintained byJohns Hopkins University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering, there are 3,244 confirmed cases in the United States as of Sunday evening. These countries have more: China, Italy, Iran, South Korea, Spain, Germany and France.
Speaking at a White House press briefing Sunday night, Dr. Deborah Birx of White House Coronavirus Task Force, said, “We are going to see a spike (in cases) as we make more tests available.”
The number of deaths attributed to the coronavirus now exceeds 5,800, according to The Associated Press. Other estimates placed the number between 6,000 and 6,500 Sunday evening. In Spain, officials said the number of deaths more than doubled in one day, from 136 to 288. Here in the United States, there have been 62 deaths. Washington state has registered 40 of those deaths.
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New York state (729), Washington state (642) and California (374) have far more cases than any another state.
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One of the hardest barriers to overcome when knowing that we are the elect of God, is the knowledge that our family members may not be. When we truly have heart conviction from God, we acknowledge that apart from Him it is impossible to know peace, joy and hope.
It’s one thing to tell of God’s saving grace to those family members who have never shown any interest in the things of God. They either reject the message outright, as well as you, or the message they hear may be the seed planted that draws them to the Savior. It becomes much more difficult however, when we understand and embrace the sovereign grace of God while some of our family members are steeped in a man-made, works oriented gospel for salvation. They may be our own parents or grandparents. They have been church members for many years. But the gospel message they have heard and come to believe is altogether dependent upon what man can do for God. We see their passion for God and their zeal for good works. How do we know whether or not they are God’s own? So what if they believe a gospel message that is strange to you and unbiblical. Is it wrong to leave them where they are? After all you’ve tried to tell them whom God truly loves. They became very angry with you, and accused and reviled you. They told you that you don’t know God at all until you can realize that God is not a respecter of persons. They say that the God they serve loves all of humanity and that Christ died on the cross for the sins of the whole world.
Now you’ve done it! You’ve driven a wedge between your family, and family members are choosing up sides. But wait, was it you who drove that wedge or was it the truth? God assures us that the Word is power unto life and unto death. He promises that the truth will divide. Where does this leave us? What is our responsibility as a child of the King? We love our family, and we hate confrontation. Can’t we just leave them alone and tell ourselves that if they are God’s elect, then God will draw them to Himself? Is this showing love for our family? Do we really want to leave especially them in darkness and death, when we have been brought into the glorious Light and Life?
Our confidence and assurance must rest with the Lord. We are called to be ambassadors for the truth. When we hide from the truth that God has revealed to us because it makes us unpopular and unwelcome, we dishonor God and ourselves. How are we showing love to our family if we allow them to continue in darkness, which will bring them death? Yes, we love our families and we don’t want them to hate us, but our focus must be on their eternal good. We may never know what seeds of truth we plant today that may appear unfruitful but may be used by God to save our lost loved ones.

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Anyway, we spent most of last week in Queensland. It was about one and a half hours' flight from Sydney to Gold Coast and then another three-hour drive to our first destination - Gympie. Mama and Dad were on their annual abattoir duty while the felines were on escort duty. Merrier this year as we have grumpy Pingu and cheeky Ginger in the party as well.
Interestingly, Brad didn't do much of his "Are we there yet?" routine. Threats to feed him to the cows did it this time. har har har...he doesn't know the difference between omnivore and carnivore yet. And I'm not going to teach him otherwise. Pingu and Ginger? Equally clueless. Boys!
Day 1: Gympie and Sunshine Coast
Now, let's talk about the places we visited. First off - Gympie.
Gympie is a former gold mining town in country Queensland, about 260km northwest of Gold Coast. Now, the place relies heavily on agricultural produce, notably beef. It's where an abattoir called Nolan Meats is located.
We reached Gympie at around 1pm, slightly more than three hours after we started the journey from Coolangatta. Didn't take too many photographs of the town as Mama and Dad were trying to determine the exact location of the abattoir. It's a small town but unfamiliar territory definitely. Although equipped with a map, we managed to go round and round and lost our way a few times.
|A very welcoming sign - that the people of Gympie care for their animals.|
|We had this nicely presented seafood lunch....yummm....|
|The suburb leading to the abattoir....looks very peaceful and serene.|
|Cattle before the slaughter...what would they be thinking, eh? Sorry folks, I'm a carnivore.|
|OK, I skipped showing the slaughter pix here but this is quite gory too - the worker is taking out the internal organs of the slaughtered cow.|
|Mama inspecting the boxes of meat that were going into storage before shipping.|
|This is how meat going to local butcher shops is packed.|
The north-most town is Noosa (famous for its beaches and the Ironman series), and then on to Noosaville, Peregian, Coolum, Yaroomba, Marcoola, Mudjimba, Bli Bli and by mistake, Maroochydore, before making a U-turn to Twin Waters where the hotel is located.
Day 2: Sunshine Coast & Brisbane
|Downtown Coolum where we stopped to stretch our legs and bought some food stuff.|
|Hmmm...interesting art installations in downtown Coolum.|
|The only highrise in Coolum.|
|We stayed here, a luxury resort at Twin Waters, near Maroochy river. Our room faces the lagoon. Everyone snored coz everyone was dead tired.|
|No, Mama didn't take me cycling though those cute girls invited us. The hotel has a host of activities skewed towards families and small groups. Unfortunately we stayed for just one night.|
We had a lazy morning at the hotel. Everyone was reluctant to leave such a peaceful place. Wish we had stayed longer but Mama had other plans, as usual. We passed by small towns like Mooloolaba and Buderim before hitting Bruce Highway again. Then we took the Landsborough exit as Mama wanted to take us to an adventure of a lifetime, she said. Hmm....I was thinking perhaps Australia Zoo?
|Yummy mangoes...of course we stopped to buy heaps when we saw the sign. The good chap also sells lychees, strawberries and watermelons. Mama and Dad argues how many mangoes we can buy as we're supposed to travel light.|
|I was right! We made the detour coz Mama wanted to take us here - the Australia Zoo at Beerwah.|
|And saw this invitation. So, anyone happens to be in the 'hood on Dec 1....|
|But then this sign changed everything. Mama was mad as she won't be able to take us all in so all animal visiting plans were abandoned, including plans to feed Brad to the crocodiles.|
|We buried our sorrows by eating tons of nuts sold at a petrol station....and ice cream too...|
|This bridge at the Gateway Highway just before we took the exit to Brisbane reminds me of the movie Wars of the World. Don't ask me why.|
|We had rice and rendang at this small restaurant off Logan Rd in Mt Gravatt.|
|Then prayers at the Al Farooq mosque in Kuraby....hmmm...interesting architecture.|
|Interesting shop on Logan Rd....does it really sell what's written there?|
|Next stop: Gold Coast.|


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Preview: Ibeyi @ Shoreditch Town Hall (London, 19th October 2017)
In little more than two years, Ibeyi won everyone over with their seducing electro-Afro-Cuban sound and breezy approach. They released a successful self-titled debut album and just published the second one (Ash), they also collaborated with remarkable musicians (Kamasi Washington among others) and even featured in Beyoncè’s “Lemonade”.
Their upcoming London gig at the Shoreditch Town Hall is going to be one of the hottest events of this October’s event calendar in the UK capital and no doubt you’ll experience a honeyed and sleek show, combining R&B, hip-hop, Yoruba tradition, French-touch and Cuban character.
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A car slammed into a New Hampshire toll booth on Sunday after the Maine woman who was driving lost control of her vehicle, state police said.
Joann McCollum-Hubbard, 73, of Acton, Maine, was traveling northbound on Route 16 approaching the Rochester Toll Plaza when she lost control of her Subaru Outback around 4:10 p.m., according to police.
The car struck the concrete abutment in Lane 2 at the toll plaza, which sent the Outback airborne, police said. The vehicle crashed into the toll both, which was fortunately unoccupied at the time, before it came to a final rest north of the toll plaza.
Police say the vehicle sustained heavy damage.
McCollum-Hubbard suffered minor injuries in the collision and was taken to Frisbee Memorial Hospital for an evaluation, state police said.
Only one northbound travel lane was open at the toll plaza for approximately six hours while New Hampshire Department of Transportation officials replaced the toll booth and equipment following the crash.
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The cause of the crash remains under investigation.

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SpaceX confirms April 18th launch date(Launch is scheduled for 3:25 p.m. EDT.) with April 19th backup
Today’s launch has been scrubbed due to a Helium leak on Falcon 9’s first stage. A fix will be implemented by the next launch opportunity on Friday April 18, though weather on that date isn’t ideal.
Exciting First: First Stage Recovery. Landing legs will be deployed and an attempt at a soft landing over ocean.


TAMPA, Fla. — The Tigers probably have seen enough of the Yankees’ Gary Sanchez.
A week after the catcher homered and threw out a runner — from his knees no less — against the Tigers in Lakeland, the 24-year-old went 2-for-3, including a homer, with three RBIs in the Yankees’ 7-1 victory Saturday. He has a .346/.370/.769 slash line, three homers and nine RBIs in nine games.
Greg Bird has stood out with the bat, but he quietly has had a good camp at first base, too. On Saturday, he helped end the third inning with a fine stretch-and-scoop on a throw from shortstop Ronald Torreyes from deep in the hole, nipping Brendan Ryan by a step.
Bird helped end the fifth inning when he cut off Jacoby Ellsbury’s throw home from center and nailed John Hicks trying to make it from second to third. Bird doubled, too, and has a .417/.481/.958 slash line, three homers and five RBIs.
Mitchell bounces back
Bryan Mitchell, who didn’t help himself in the rotation competition Monday afternoon in Bradenton when he allowed four runs and six hits in 2 1/3 innings against the Pirates, rebounded Saturday.
The 25-year-old, who has his share of backers in the organization for one of those two open rotation slots, allowed one run and three hits in four innings. He walked one and struck out two in dropping his ERA to 3.97 in four outings.
Matt Holliday hit a three-run homer and has a .409/.458/.818 slash line and two homers in nine games . . . Jacoby Ellsbury went 2-for-3 in improving to 8-for-20 (.400) in eight games . . . The Yankees pushed their exhibition record to an MLB-best 13-3.


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The City of Victorias in Negros Occidental will soon open the province’s first “Dairy Box”, a one-stop outlet for carabao dairy products, with the assistance of the Department of Agriculture-Philippine Carabao Center and the Office of Senator Cynthia Villar.
The construction of the dairy processing plant and product outlet at the Bangga Daan Satellite Market, which are components of the P10-million Carabao-Based Business Improvement Network (CBIN) project, is currently ongoing.
Dr. John Michael Cabuguason, city veterinarian, said the San Antonio Farmers Multi-Purpose Cooperative (SAFMPC), an organization of agrarian reform beneficiaries, has been selected as the project’s conduit partner that will manage and operate the Dairy Box, which is worth about P3.7 million.
“It will be the first in Negros Occidental. The construction is ongoing after the groundbreaking earlier this month. It is targeted to be completed in four months,” he said.
Cabuguason said the SAFMPC will develop and distribute carabao dairy products under the brand name Victorias Dairy (ViDa).
“Once the milk outlet will be completed, they can formally sell the ViDa products,” he added.
Under the CBIN, the city government has been provided with 64 dairy carabaos as well as training and capacity development for the establishment of the Dairy Box outlet and milk processing center.*PNA

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This is the longest contraction in UK credit impulse since the early 1990s
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Summary: Our central scenario remains the extension of Article 50, that should be requested by October 19th, and new Parliamentary elections that could take place five weeks after the initial Brexit deadline.
Our favorite macro gauge UK credit impulse, which explains economic activity nine to twelve months forward with an “R2” of .60, is going through its eighth quarter of contraction, the longest period since the early 1990s. It is currently running at minus 3.9% of GDP versus a low point this cycle at minus 7.2% reached in early 2018. The length of the contraction is similar to that of the period 1990-1992 when the United Kingdom entered into recession due to high interest rates, an overvalued exchange rate and falling house prices.
The current situation is profoundly different since it is Brexit uncertainty that is driving the economic downturn. The uncertainty goes hand in hand with low interest rates, a GBPUSD exchange rate undervalued by 23% and lower house prices in real terms.
The outcome of the ongoing negotiations between the United Kingdom and the European Union is unlikely to change the future of the British economy. The prolonged contraction in the flow of new credit in the economy and the five straight quarters of contraction in business investment are the two key factors usually leading to a recession.
However, there is no guarantee that the UK economy will fall in recession this year as a jump in stockpiling ahead of October 31st could artificially spur economy activity, as was the case in Q1 2019.
Strategic view :
- Our central scenario remains the extension of Article 50, that should be requested by October 19th, and new Parliamentary elections that could take place five weeks after the initial Brexit deadline, ie end of November/beginning of December. At this stage, the polls favor the Conservative Party, but we cannot exclude a wide coalition gathering the Labour Party, the LibDem and the pro-European Scottish.
- The risk of Brexit accident has increased in recent weeks due to Brexit fatigue on the European side but is still unlikely.
- There is still extreme positioning on the GBP. The speculative community remains widely short GBP, though it has slightly compressed since mid-September on the hopes of a new extension. If this scenario is confirmed, it could be immediately followed by a technical rebound of the GBP. However, the long-term view is still gloomy for the British pound as Brexit uncertainty and unsupportive fundamentals (such as the wide current account deficit and negative net FDI flows) remain.
- Based on these assumptions, we expect GBP/USD to re-test for the third time this year the 1.21 level, and EUR/GBP to move back to 0.93.
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This is a brilliant play and while Cynthia Nixon was competent in the role, I felt as if something were lacking. After discussing with friends we came up with gravitas for lack of a better word. Vivian Bearing uses her fierce intelligence as a shield and a weapon, and somehow the weapon part seemed lacking. Nixon lacks the precise iciness that is usually associated with the role. It's still a touching play with some brilliant use of language, but this production seems a little flat. I was happy to see that the New Yorker reviewer agreed with me. I think that was a very accurate review. Sometimes I wonder if the reviewer and I saw the same play, but not this time.
Beautiful play. Great ensemble. Bravo, brava!

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People are wasteful. It’s why we need a mantra like “reduce, reuse, recycle,” after a century or two of “consume, throw out, set on fire.”
We’re also generally content to keep doing things the way we’ve always done them, even when that way is dumb. So over time, we made a system that can provide us with heat, and we made another system that can provide us with electricity, and we just plodded along, running these two separate systems, living our dumb human lives.
And then a few people wised up, recognizing that we could combine these two systems into one: cogeneration, or combined heat and power (CHP). Make gas hot, spin a turbine for power, use the hot gas to heat up (or cool off) a building. Maximize the efficiency of a fuel source. Less waste, less being dumb.
Here’s how such a system works. (Apologies in advance; this was literally the most interesting video I could find.)
Such a system would be cool to have in our houses, saving energy costs. But in massive industrial facilities, huge rooms that use a ton of power, the efficiency increase could be enormous.
Which is why President Obama today signed an executive order that aims to vastly increase the use of CHP systems in industrial facilities.
The industrial sector accounts for over 30 percent of all energy consumed in the United States, and, for many manufacturers, energy costs affect overall competitiveness. While our manufacturing facilities have made progress in becoming more energy efficient over the past several decades, there is an opportunity to accelerate and expand these efforts with investments to reduce energy use through more efficient manufacturing processes and facilities and the expanded use of combined heat and power (CHP). Instead of burning fuel in an on site boiler to produce thermal energy and also purchasing electricity from the grid, a manufacturing facility can use a CHP system to provide both types of energy in one energy efficient step. Accelerating these investments in our Nation’s factories can improve the competitiveness of United States manufacturing, lower energy costs, free up future capital for businesses to invest, reduce air pollution, and create jobs.
The executive order sets a target of 40 gigawatts of CHP in the U.S. by 2020. The order also outlines ways in which the government can bolster the effort — raising awareness through workshops and sharing best practices, for example.
As ThinkProgress notes, the U.S. lags in CHP deployment. Meeting the president’s target would mean massive investments by the private sector, to the tune of tens of millions of dollars, and save $10 billion a year in energy costs.
Incremental innovation isn’t terribly thrilling. (Nor are videos about incremental innovations.) So we’ll have to settle for a little bit of quiet pride at figuring out a better way to do things, at long last. And then find some more interesting videos to watch.