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A pro-life hero and friend Chris Danze alerted me this morning he and his wife will travel to Colorado in 10 days to help “get a construction boycott off the ground” at the site of Planned Parenthood’s 50,000 sq. ft. planned mega-mill in Denver.
Little did Chris know in 2003 that his effort to block the construction of a Planned Parenthood mill in his home town of Austin, TX, would have such a long-lasting nationwide impact.
It was Chris’s boycott that PP has acknowledged caused it to go stealth with plans for future mills, including Aurora, Denver, and Portland, OR.
You may not know what Chris accomplished. Here’s a little history….
CNN, November 14, 2003:
Weeks into the project, the contractor hired to build an abortion clinic hit a brick wall: Plumbers and carpenters would not work for him. Drywall installers and heating subcontractors would not do business with him. Cement suppliers for miles around would not touch the job.
He had been hit with a boycott organized by abortion foe and construction-industry executive Chris Danze.
The builder finally quit the job this month, stopping the clinic project in its tracks, in what national Planned Parenthood officials said was the first such boycott they have ever seen.
Danze, a 48-year-old who has protested outside clinics, compares the building of an abortion clinic to construction of a concentration camp during the Holocaust….
The decision by Browning Construction Co., one of the state’s largest contractors, to pull out of the project stunned Planned Parenthood, which denounced the boycott and said it will press on with construction to discourage similar tactics elsewhere….
Danze, an owner of Maldonado & Danze Inc., a concrete-foundation contractor, oversaw a telephone and letter-writing campaign urging more than 750 Austin- and San Antonio-area businesses not to provide supplies or services for the project. He recruited contractors to join what he called the Texas Contractors and Suppliers for Life Association.
Soon, contractors were flooded with phone calls from the public warning them to stay away from the clinic project or face losing business….
Danze said hundreds of subcontractors agreed to boycott the project, though not all of them said whether they were anti-abortion. Some simply did not want to get involved in a controversial project, he said.
Newsweek, April 18, 2004:
On a Web site designed for the protest… Danze posted the phone numbers of each company involved in the clinic’s construction [and photos, see right], many of them mom-and-pop businesses with a lot to lose.
The calls started immediately, and became so overwhelming that one subcontractor reported receiving 1,200 phone calls in one week. Other companies received faxes of aborted fetuses.
After six weeks, the main contractor pulled out, halting the project. Construction resumed in January after Planned Parenthood took over as general contractor, fueled by what it says was an outpouring of monetary and moral support.
But Danze’s disruptions had earned the organization’s attention. “In the beginning, we did regard Chris Danze as some[one] that was simply nipping at our heels,” says Danielle Tierney, spokeswoman for the group’s Texas Capital Region. “There was no way we could have predicted his ability to convince our general contractor to withdraw from the project.”…
Since then, her affiliate has become more organized, stepping up volunteer recruiting, talking to the media and calling on local and state political allies, including former Texas Governor Ann Richards, to reassure subcontractors that they wouldn’t be put out of business for aligning with Planned Parenthood.
(Side note: Ann Richards, now deceased, was mother to Cecile Richards, PP Federation’s current president.)


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Stand Out of the Shade
The band's second album sees them in a more well-rounded light, with songwriter Martin Selman at the helm. With the help of the rest of the band, Martin has turned out a group of finely crafted, thoughtful songs, which tell stories, some fictional, of life, love and music. Chiltern Hills : a storming tune about the band's love of their local area in England, or some kind of metaphor? Broken is an upbeat song about a man wronged in love, learning to love again. I Know and Move On show a more mature songwriting style, with elements of gospel and rock... Throughout the album, the band blend a mixture of influences, and employ modern song structures that would be more commonly found in classic pop. Strong riffs on banjo, guitar and mandolin, pepper this collection. Vocal hooks and three part harmonies abound. A worthy follow-up to their debut album, which was recorded two years earlier.

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POUGHKEEPSIE – Police in the Poughkeepsie area caught a man who allegedly committed a home invasion burglary at a residence on Rinaldi Boulevard in the City of Poughkeepsie late Monday morning. He stole the victim’s vehicle and fled into the Town of Poughkeepsie where he crashed it into a tree and took off on foot.
A dragnet of officers from the City of Poughkeepsie, towns of Poughkeepsie and Hyde Park, Dutchess Sheriff’s Office and State Police combed the woods in the area of VanWagner and Bedell roads.
Jerome Elting, 33, of the City of Poughkeepsie was later caught and was
charged with the felonies of burglary and assault.
Anyone with information about this home invasion is asked to call Poughkeepsie City Police at 845-451-7577.

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When Tom Daley and his diving partner Pete Waterfield failed to take a medal in the synchronised 10m platform event yesterday afternoon, the British fans who’d been willing them on were understandably disappointed. But while most continued to show their support, one person took to the internet to post abuse on Daley’s Twitter page.
Twitter user @Rileyy_69 left a message about Daley’s father, who died of brain cancer in 2011, telling the diver he had let his dad down. He then made an apparent apology before unleashing a stream of abuse and personal threats.
“After giving it my all…you get idiot’s sending me this…” responded Daley, via his Twitter handle @tomdaley1994.
A campaign aimed at naming and shaming the user quickly sprang up on the social media site, accompanied by the hashtag #getrileyy_69banned, with one Twitter user even sharing a phone number they claimed belonged to the owner of the account.
@Rileyy_69’s account was subsequently suspended, and police have since arrested a teenager in connection with the incident.
“A 17-year-old man was arrested by Dorset Police officers in the early hours of this morning, Tuesday, at a guest house in the Weymouth area on suspicion of malicious communication,” police said in a statement.
“He is currently helping police with their enquiries.”
As well as support from the general public – not least on Twitter, where the hashtag #WereProudOfYouTom was attached to posts – Daley also received messages from his fellow athletes.
His diving partner Waterfield tweeted: “For all the haters out there, come do what we do then have ur say,” while Team GB open water swimmer Keri-Anne Payne posted: “Ignore the idiots! Not worth it.”
Waterfield and Daley were in gold medal position for the first three dives, before a mistake by Waterfield during their fourth dive saw them drop into fourth place, where they remained for the rest of the competition.
Following the event yesterday, Waterfield said he had apologised to Daley for the error that cost them the chance of a medal.
“After that dive, I said sorry, but Tom told me not to worry,” he said.
Daley will attempt to win his first Olympic medal once more in the individual 10m Platform event, which reaches the final stage at 8:30pm on Saturday 11 August.


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Ahead of the forthcoming governorship election in Anambra state which is scheduled to hold on November 18, the Nnamdi Kanu-led Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has warned voters in the state not to participate.
Recall that few months ago, IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu, had said there would be no election in Anambra unless the federal government calls for a referendum, adding that the south-east would also not participate in 2019 general election.
“There will be no senator, there will be no house of reps, there will be no house of assembly and there will be no councillorship elections in Biafra land if they (federal government) fail to call for a referendum,” he had said.
Kanu’s whereabouts are now unknown. His disappearance followed a clash between IPOB members and soldiers close to his family home in Abia state, but in a video clip that has gone viral, an IPOB member could be heard saying that anybody who comes out to vote “will die” as they engage in mass rally.
He threatened that if the federal government fails to produce Kanu, there would be no peace. “Today, the 10th day of November, we are here to tell the people we are not afraid of the zoo,” the individual in the video clip said.
“We are not terrorists, IPOB is not terrorist, we are the Indigenous People of Biafra. As you can see, there will be no election. We are not going to vote. Nothing concerns us with election.
“We are not going to participate. As you can see, we are formidable. We want the federal government to produce Nnamdi Kanu with immediate effect or there will be no peace. They should release Biafrans. Come vote and die. If you vote, you will die.”


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JOHN McCORD flew back to the United States last Friday, insisting that he was not to blame for bad feeling among the squad this season.
Tigers' top scorer is furious that some fans regard him as responsible for centre Chandar Bingham's sudden mid-season departure.
McCord claims that the confusion is down to Tigers' assistant coach, saying: "Mike Hayles is going around telling people that we ran Chandar out of town. I do not think that is right."
The 6ft 6ins forward, linked with a move to arch rivals London Towers, declined to rule out joining the Basketball League Southern Conference winners, saying: "Maybe. They are a top-notch club. But at the moment it is just a rumour. I have not spoken to Rick Taylor or anybody at the Towers about a move."
He added: "Everybody wants to talk about loyalty and family and yet when we started losing a lot of people forgot about those things."
McCord also jumped to the defence of team-mate Tony Christie, who looks set to follow him out of the club.
He said: "Tony played most of the season with an injured shoulder and was always the player to step up when I was out. He was the club's second top scorer, averaging 21 points per game and yet people were still talking bad about him. He did not get the credit he deserved."


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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Witty, entertaining and so cleverly written,
This review is from: Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home (Paperback)
I developed a fascination about the Mennonite religion after reading this book. I have to echo everything that has been said about it from the blurb to the other reviews. The author has a wonderful voice and how she can remain so upbeat and cheerful is a testement to the stability and solidness of her upbringing.
I loved this book, and I want to meet her mother! She sounds like such a warm, loving and just plain kooky character.

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An apparatus for applying, without folds or trapped air pockets, a metal foil to an underlying plate of board comprises a pair of parallel elongate suction wedges juxtaposable to the plate and reciprocatable parallel thereto a vertically reciprocatable bar for clamping the foil to the plate along a line extending between the suction wedges and parallel thereto. The wedges are each provided with a multiplicity of apertures in a linear array along the vertex of the wedge and a textile web extending from the respective wedge parallel to the plate for supporting the foil during a withdrawal stroke of the wedge.
1. In a device for assembling a stack of pressed material including a synthetic resin impregnated mat, a press plate and a metal foil, in the formation of laminated board, wherein a cyclically displaceable assembly table is provided, means cooperates with said table for depositing the press plate thereon, means cooperates with the table to deposit said mat upon said press plate, and means cooperates with said table to apply said foil to said mat so that a foil layer is applied to one side of said mat, each of said means operating cyclically in production of pressed board, the improvement which comprises the combination therewith of:
a pair of suction boxes displaceable parallel to the table and having rows of suction openings turned toward each other; and
a bar extending transversely of the direction of displacement of said suction boxes and displaceable relative to said table to press said foil against a surface whereby mutual displacement of said suction boxes away from said bar and from each other applies suction to said foil drawing same against said surface.
2. An apparatus for depositing a foil on a plate, comprising:
support means on said frame for holding said plate;
a clamping bar extending parallel to said plate and shiftably mounted on said frame for reciprocation perpendicular to said plate, said bar being engageable with said plate along a line spaced from edges of said plate;
a pair of elongate hollow bodies justaposeable to said plate on a side thereof facing said bar, said bodies extending parallel to said bar and being shiftably mounted on said frame for reciprocation in a direction parallel to said plate and substantially perpendicular to said line, said bodies each being provided with a plurality of apertures;
transfer means on said frame for conveying said foil prior to a deposition thereof on said plate into a space between same and said bar and for coacting with said bar to place at least part of said foil on said plate whereby said bodies are disposed between said foil and said plate;
suction-pump means connected to said bodies for producing a vacuum therein; and
drive means operatively connected to said bar for shifting same downwardly to clamp said foil to said plate along said line upon conveyance of said foil into said space, said drive means being operatively connected to said bodies for moving same outwardly across said plate from respective initial positions proximate to said line upon clamping of said foil to said plate, said bodies being each provided with a multiplicity of apertures distributed along the length of the respective body and opening toward a region of the foil lying against said plate.
3. The apparatus defined in claim 2 wherein said bodies are in the form of hollow wedges with vertex edges facing one another across said line, said wedges having flat sides engageable with said plate.
4. The apparatus defined in claim 3 wherein each wedge has a multiplicity of apertures disposed in a linear array along the vertex of the wedge.
5. The apparatus defined in claim 4 wherein each wedge is provided with holder means for supporting a portion of said foil upon a withdrawal stroke of the respective wedge.
6. The apparatus defined in claim 5 wherein said holder means is in the form of a textile web attached to the respective wedge and withdrawable therewith from a space between said foil and said plate.
7. The apparatus defined in claim 6, further comprising first deposition means on said frame for placing said plate on said support means and second deposition means on said frame for placing a pressure plate on said foil upon deposition thereof on said plate.
8. A method for applying a foil to a plate comprising the steps of:
juxtaposing to said plate entirely between the foil and the plate a pair of parallel elongate suction members;
clamping said foil to said plate between said members along a line parallel thereto; and
drawing said members perpendicularly away from said line and parallel to said plate while the members apply suction to the foil to smoothly draw the foil onto the plate.
Our present invention relates to the production of laminations. More particularly, our present invention relates to a method of and an apparatus for forming a stack of lamination layers including at least one foil section, prior to compression by a press.
In the production of printed-circuit boards a thin metal foil is juxtaposed to a board or plate impregnated with a synthetic resin, the two layers subsequently being heated and pressed together. Generally, a plurality of laminations each including at least one base board and at least one metal foil are interleaved with pressure plates prior to a single compression operation.
The foil sections, the base boards and the pressure plates are stacked in a predetermined order at a stacking station which includes a vertically shiftable support table, conveyance devices for depositing the plates and the boards on the table and a tensioning device for stretching each metal-foil section out over an underlying plate or board and subsequently depositing the section thereonto. The conveyance devices and the tensioning device operate in alternating phases of a stacking cycle. The support table is frequently the lower platen of a press.
The resin-impregnated base boards or carrier mats are generally fabricated from glass or paper fibers and a resin such as a phenolic.
Assemblies are known, such as German patent document (Deutsche Patentschrift) DE-PS No. 2,209,691, for forming a stack of fiber boards and heat-treated veneers or foils which are then pressed together to form wall paneling. The conveyance device for depositing the fiber boards on the support table comprises a pair of tongs for gripping opposite ends of each board and bending the same in a downwardly convex curve, whereby a central linear portion of the board makes contact with the underlying surface along a line. The tongs or grippers are then opened or spread apart, whereupon the uplifted lateral portions of the board flap down onto the respective underlying surfaces and engage the same in a center-to-outer-edge wave-type motion which forces air from the space between upper and lower lamination layers. As described in German patent document DE-PS No. 2,209,691, the tongs or grippers of the conveyance device may be provided with actuators.
Stacking assemblies of the above-mentioned type are unsuited for depositing a thin foil onto an underlying plate or lamination layer. Frequently the foil has folds or crimps upon placement and pockets of air are trapped between the foil and the plate. Such folds and air pockets are largely unacceptable in printed-circuit boards.
An object of our present invention is to provide an improved method for applying a foil to a plate or board.
Another object of our present invention is to provide an apparatus of the above-described type for implementing such a method.
A more particular object of our present invention is to provide such an apparatus which is effective in applying to a plate or board a foil without folds or trapped air pockets.
An apparatus for depositing a foil on a plate or board comprises, according to our present invention, a support table on a frame or base for holding the plate, a clamping bar extending parallel to the plate and shiftably mounted on the frame for reciprocation perpendicular to the plate, and a pair of elongate hollow bodies juxtaposable to the plate on a side thereof facing the clamping bar. The bar is engageable with the plate along a line spaced from the edges of the plate while the hollow bodies extend parallel to the bar and are shiftably mounted on the frame for reciprocation in a direction parallel to the plate and substantially perpendicular to the contact line. Each body has a plurality of apertures.
A transfer device is provided on the frame for conveying the foil, prior to a deposition thereof on the plate, into a space between the same and the bar and for coacting with the bar to place at least part of the foil on the plate. A suction pump is connected to the hollow bodies for producing a vacuum therein, while a drive is operatively linked to the bar for shifting the same downwardly to clamp the foil to the plate along the contact line upon conveyance of the foil into the afore-mentioned space. The drive moves the suction bodies outwardly across the plate from respective initial positions proximate to the contact line upon the clamping of the foil to the plate.
According to further features of our present invention, the suction bodies are each provided with a multiplicity of apertures distributed along the length of the respective body and these bodies are in the form of hollow wedges with vertex edges facing one another across the cotact line, the wedges each having a flat side engageable with the plate. Preferably, the apertures are disposed in linear arrays along the vertex of each wedge.
According to another feature of our present invention, each wedge is provided with a support in the form of a textile web attached at one end to the respective wedge and withdrawable therewith from a space between the foil and the plate, the web serving to hold a portion of the foil upon a withdrawal stroke of the respective wedge. Deposition means are provided for placing the plate on the support.
Pursuant to another feature of our present invention, a method for applying a foil to a plate comprises the steps of: (a) juxtaposing to the plate a pair of parallel elongate suction members, (b) clamping the foil to the plate between the suction members along a line parallel thereto, and (c) drawing the suction members perpendicularly away from the line and parallel to the plate.
An apparatus operating according to this method can apply, without folds and air pockets, a very thin foil to a surface of a plate or board, even the edges of the foil being flush with the plate surface.
These and other features of our present invention will now be described in detail, reference being made to the accompanying drawing in which:
FIG. 1 is a partially schematic and partially cross-sectional side view of a lamination-layer stacking assembly including an apparatus according to our present invention for applying a foil to a plate;
FIG. 2 is a detail view from FIG. 1, showing a stage in the operation of a foil-applying apparatus according to our present invention;
FIG. 3 is a detail view from FIG. 2; and
FIG. 4 is a schematic side view of part of the lamination-layer stacking assembly of FIG. 1, showing a stage in the operation thereof.
Juxtaposed with or incorporated in a laminating station at which metal-foil sections 3 and resin-impregnated boards 2 interleaved with pressure plates 4 are compressed to form a plurality of laminations to be used, for example, in the production of printed circuits is a stacking station 1 at which is disposed a support table or platform 5 mounted on the plunger 16 of a hydraulic cylinder 17 for vertical reciprocation, as indicated by a double-headed arrow 18 in FIG. 1. The hydraulic cylinder is imbedded in a base or foundation 19 which also carries a pair of piers 20 and 20' supporting respective pairs of grippers 6, 7, and 6', 7', grippers 6 and 6' coacting to deposit pressure plates 4 on support 5 and grippers 7 and 7' coacting to place boards or base plates 2 on the support.
The grippers 6, 6' and 7, 7' comprise respective clamping bars 9 and 10 hinged at pivots 21 and 22 to function as tongs or jaws for grasping boards 2 or pressure plates 4 at opposite ends thereof (see FIG. 4). The grippers 6, 6' and 7, 7' are mounted on carriages represented in FIG. 1 by wheels 23 and 24, the carriages being carried on respective rails 25 and 26 extending from feed stations (not shown) to stacking station 1.
An apparatus at stacking station 1 for depositing the metal-foil sections 3 on base boards 2 or on pressure plates 4 comprises according to our present invention a gripper assembly 8 for clamping a foil section 3 at opposite ends thereof, for transporting the foil to the stacking station and for holding the foil during at least an initial phase of a deposition operation. The deposition apparatus according to our present invention further comprises a clamping bar 14 extending parallel to support 5 and connected to the plunger 27 of a pneumatic cylinder 28 for reciprocating in a direction perpendicular to support 5, as indicated by a double-headed arrow 29. Cylinder 28 is connected via a pair of air hoses 30 and an electromagnetic valve 31 to a source 32 of pressurized air, the valve being controlled by a programmer 33.
The deposition apparatus according to our present invention also includes a pair of elongate hollow wedges 12, 12' (see FIGS. 2 and 3) extending parallel to bar 14 and having vertices provided with a linear array of apertures 13, as indicated in FIG. 3. Each wedge 12, 12' has a surface 34 engageable with a base board 2 or a pressure plate 4 and another surface 35 to which a textile web 15 is attached for supporting a portion of metal foil 3 upon a withdrawal stroke of the respective wedge. Wedges 12, 12' are connected to a suction or vacuum pump 36 and to drive devices such as fluidic cylinders 37, 37' and pulley-guided weights 38, 38', while the textile web 15 extend from respective uptake spools or rolls 39.
As schematically illustrated in FIG. 1, programmer 33 is connected to a drive mechanism 40 for actuating pressure-plate grippers 6, base-board grippers 7 and foil grippers 8 at successive instants in a predetermined operating program. At the beginning of an operating cycle, for example, drive 40 may move the carriages of grippers 6 and 6' along tracks or rails 25 in order to convey a pressure plate 4 from a feed station to stacking station 1. Upon the reaching of this station by grippers 6 and 6', programmer 33 induces drive 40 to swing the tongs or grippers about axes 21, thereby enabling a downwardly convex bending of the pressure plate and a consequent engagement between the plate and support 5 along a center line K, as shown in FIG. 4. Upon a subsequent release of the ends of the pressure plate 4 by the grippers 6 and 6' in response to a command from programmer 33, the uplifted portions of the pressure plate 4 fall toward support 5 and push air outwardly from the spaces between the plate and the support, as indicated by arrows 41 and 41'.
Programmer 33 then commands drive 40 to actuate foil-gripper and-transport members 8 and 8'. These members convey a foil section 3 in an open state into a space between the raised clamping bar 14 and the pressure plate 4 deposited on platform 5. Fluidic cylinders 37 and 37' are also controlled by programmer 33 (FIG. 2) to shift suction wedges 12 and 12' into respective initial positions flanking center line K (see FIG. 1). Upon a positioning of the wedges and of the foil, programmer 33 emits to electromagnetic valve 31 an energizing signal causing the extension of plunger 27, whereby the foil section is subsequently clamped to the pressure plate along center line K, as illustrated in FIG. 2.
Grippers 8 and 8' may then be actuated by programmer 33 via drive mechanism 40 to release the ends of the foil section 3, whereupon the two uplifted portions thereof fall or float down onto textile webs 15 (see FIG. 3), and cylinders 37 and 37' may be depressurized, whereupon weights 38 and 38' pull wedges 12 and 12' from the spaces Z between the foil portions and the underlying pressure plate.
Upon the complete withdrawal of the suction wedges from spaces Z, programmer 33 emits a signal to drive 40 for inducing the same to shift grippers 7 and 7' along tracks 26, whereby a base board 2 is conveyed to stacking station 1. This base board is placed upon the deposited metal foil by the heretofore-described procedure for placing a pressure plate (FIG. 4).
As shown in FIG. 1, hydraulic cylinder 17 is connected via an electromagnetic valve 42 to a source 43 of hydrostatic pressure. Programmer 33 is connected to valve 42 for raising support platform 5 prior to the deposition of a first pressure plate thereonto and for periodically lowering the platform during the formation of a stack of base boards 2, foil sections 3 and pressure plates 4.


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Field instrumentation has, traditionally, not focused on security. A small number of role-based access levels may afford some protection: for example, Viewer, Operator, and Supervisor access levels, each protected by a basic password/code.
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Use of a Supervisor level of access can become commonplace because it unlocks everything and means passwords are seen not to ‘get in the way’. A side-effect of this can be the increased risk of an unintentional change to the safety configuration. This can, in turn, either allow dangerous conditions to go undiagnosed, or cause unintentional process shutdown, both of which result in unnecessary costs.
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However, times have changed. Connectivity has rapidly increased, bringing considerable benefits but also increased risk. Industrial cybersecurity has become a significant concern, with external threats, supply chain threats and, unfortunately, also industrial insider threats. Resource constraints are largely a thing of the past with high-performance microcontrollers and high capacity memory readily available at low cost.
Instrumentation, including gas analysis equipment, must now carefully consider both security and safety. Without adequate security, safety cannot be adequately assured. Although, it is also worth noting that security controls can also hinder safety, so both must be considered jointly.
For now, in terms of change management, increased availability of Ethernet at the field device level, particularly with the advent of Advanced Physical Layer (APL) Ethernet, allows field instruments to more easily tap into existing Enterprise Identity-based access management systems.
Instrument access permissions could be assigned to individuals. Consistent identity-based access will better restrict access to instrumentation configuration and enable traceability at an individual level.
Human-machine interface (HMI) design aims to minimize operator error at high-stress moments. This could be improved to minimize inadvertent safety configuration changes by requiring a second re-authentication, in the same way that online banking requires re-authentication before transferring funds.
A further layer of protection could be added using dual-identity authentication, requiring any two sufficiently privileged individuals to log in, to confirm a change to safety-related configuration.
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As far as the world knows, Cruel Winter is an urban legend, and like any story traveling through the rumor mix, there are several versions of exactly what’s going down. Common and Hit-Boy have both denied the release of the G.O.O.D. Music collaboration, but Travi$ Scott begs to differ.
Scott suspiciously tweeted “Cruel Winter is still comin,” before deleting the post. He then opted to be more inconspicuous by tweeting “
#winter”and “ #cw” in place of the aforementioned post.
During his interview with LA radio station Power 106, Hit-Boy took a somewhat diplomatic approach as well, saying that final word has to come down from Yeezy. “Until I get that word from Kanye himself like ‘we doin’ this,’ then it’s not real. So it is what it is.”
Of course, no one really know what’s going on in Ye’s mind, and his Twitter diarrhea of random words, last week, further proved that theory.
When it comes to Kanye the only project we can confirm he’s worked on is that bun in Kim Kardashian’s oven. Everything else is up in the air.
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Mr. Torre is a great manager, but it sounds like Mr. Steinbrenner is going to send him packing. In case there is a vacancy at the Yank helm Toaster wants to nominate Bwana.
- Bwana knows a lot about baseball.
- Bwana has a lot of baseball cards.
- Bwana looks good in pinstripes.
Need we say more?
Toaster will even wear his Yankees hat in honor of Manager Bwana (even though Toaster likes the Mets better than the Yanks).
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That crash was made up for by a rally in October and November of that year. By early October, Bitcoin was at about $100, and it hit $195 by the end of the month. In November alone, Bitcoin had an unbelievable rally, going from $200 to more than $1,120. The causes of this rally were fairly obvious to most people, as more miners and exchanges were supporting Bitcoin. In addition, China had entered the marketplace.
In January 2009, the bitcoin network was created when Nakamoto mined the first block of the chain, known as the genesis block. Embedded in the coinbase of this block was the following text: "The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks." This note has been interpreted as both a timestamp and a comment on the instability caused by fractional-reserve banking.:18
In July 2013, a project began in Kenya linking bitcoin with M-Pesa, a popular mobile payments system, in an experiment designed to spur innovative payments in Africa. During the same month the Foreign Exchange Administration and Policy Department in Thailand stated that bitcoin lacks any legal framework and would therefore be illegal, which effectively banned trading on bitcoin exchanges in the country. According to Vitalik Buterin, a writer for Bitcoin Magazine, "bitcoin's fate in Thailand may give the electronic currency more credibility in some circles", but he was concerned it didn't bode well for bitcoin in China.
In the early days, Nakamoto is estimated to have mined 1 million bitcoins. Before disappearing from any involvement in bitcoin, Nakamoto in a sense handed over the reins to developer Gavin Andresen, who then became the bitcoin lead developer at the Bitcoin Foundation, the 'anarchic' bitcoin community's closest thing to an official public face.
Josiah is an assistant editor at CCN. A former ancient and medieval literature teacher, he has been reporting on cryptocurrency since 2014. He lives in rural North Carolina with his wife and children. He holds investment positions in bitcoin and other large-cap cryptocurrencies. Follow him on Twitter @Y3llowb1ackbird or email him directly at josiah.wilmoth(at)ccn.com.
On 3 March 2014, Flexcoin announced it was closing its doors because of a hack attack that took place the day before. In a statement that once occupied their homepage, they announced on 3 March 2014 that "As Flexcoin does not have the resources, assets, or otherwise to come back from this loss [the hack], we are closing our doors immediately." Users can no longer log into the site.
Bitcoin is the first cryptocurrency, a concept that was discussed in the late 90s. The first Bitcoin specification and proof of concept was published in 2009 in a cryptography mailing list. The concept was presented by a person or group known as Satoshi Nakamoto. The real identity of Nakamoto has been a mystery since that time, with various theories on who the individual or group may be.
The price of bitcoins has gone through cycles of appreciation and depreciation referred to by some as bubbles and busts. In 2011, the value of one bitcoin rapidly rose from about US$0.30 to US$32 before returning to US$2. In the latter half of 2012 and during the 2012–13 Cypriot financial crisis, the bitcoin price began to rise, reaching a high of US$266 on 10 April 2013, before crashing to around US$50. On 29 November 2013, the cost of one bitcoin rose to a peak of US$1,242. In 2014, the price fell sharply, and as of April remained depressed at little more than half 2013 prices. As of August 2014 it was under US$600. During their time as bitcoin developers, Gavin Andresen and Mike Hearn warned that bubbles may occur.
Jump up ^ "Crib Sheet: Neptune's Brood – Charlie's Diary". www.antipope.org. Archived from the original on 14 June 2017. Retrieved 5 December 2017. I wrote Neptune's Brood in 2011. Bitcoin was obscure back then, and I figured had just enough name recognition to be a useful term for an interstellar currency: it'd clue people in that it was a networked digital currency.
The whole process is pretty simple and organized: Bitcoin holders are able to transfer bitcoins via a peer-to-peer network. These transfers are tracked on the “blockchain,” commonly referred to as a giant ledger. This ledger records every bitcoin transaction ever made. Each “block” in the blockchain is built up of a data structure based on encrypted Merkle Trees. This is particularly useful for detecting fraud or corrupted files. If a single file in a chain is corrupt or fraudulent, the blockchain prevents it from damaging the rest of the ledger.
The most recent exciting news in Bitcoin history began in November 2017 and led to the current all-time high for the cryptocurrency. In 2017, Bitcoin went from trading at just over $900 to about $20,000. This was a journey with many ups and downs along the way, a drop in trading volumes due to the People’s Bank of China tightening oversight of Bitcoin exchanges and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission rejecting a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund.
Bitcoin can even be purchased as a long-term investment through a Bitcoin IRA. A Bitcoin IRA can provide the same profit potential and investment opportunity as a regular Bitcoin purchase, but it can do so with the added benefits of an IRA account. Some of the primary benefits of purchasing Bitcoin in an IRA include tax-deferred growth and a possible tax deduction. For more information on Bitcoin IRA accounts, visit cyrptoira.com.


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For this project you will need some old wooden pallets, a few shades of paint and a couple of basic tools. I was able to find this pallet for free, and I found samples of "oops" paint at the hardware store for 50 cents each, bringing my total cost for this project in at less than $2.
Remove the boards from the pallet, then cut them down to 6 different lengths.
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Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have shown, for the first time, that blocking the action of a critical protein can improve multiple inflammatory pathways in patients with the metabolic syndrome – a cluster of symptoms associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. If supported in future studies, the findings may suggest new strategies for improving the cardiovascular risk in patients with the metabolic syndrome. This preliminary report appears in the April 24 Archives of Internal Medicine.
"This proof of principle sheds light on the physiology of inflammation and its relation to cardiac risk in obese patients," says Steven Grinspoon, MD, of the MGH Program in Nutritional Metabolism and Neuroendocrine Unit, the report’s senior author. "And it’s the first study of the medication etanercept, currently prescribed to treat arthritis and psoriasis, used in patients with the metabolic syndrome."
Metabolic syndrome is a group of symptoms that includes abdominal obesity, high triglycerides and LDL ("bad") cholesterol along with low HDL ("good") cholesterol, insulin resistance or glucose intolerance, and abnormal levels of several inflammatory proteins. The occurrence of the syndrome is increasing, and it is estimated to affect more than 50 million Americans currently. Also called insulin resistance syndrome, metabolic syndrome increases the risk of heart attack, stroke and other cardiovascular disorders, as well as type 2 diabetes. While there are many questions about the mechanism behind metabolic syndrome, current evidence suggests that inflammatory proteins released by abdominal fat may be an underlying cause of the increased cardiovascular risk.
One of the key inflammatory proteins released by fat cells is tumor necrosis factor (TNF), which is known to increase insulin resistance and the production of other inflammatory markers. Etanercept, marketed under the brand name Enbrel, treats several inflammatory disorders by blocking the action of TNF. The current study was designed to see whether using the drug might also reduce the inflammatory effects of metabolic syndrome, as measured by levels of C-reactive protein (CRP), which also has been associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease.
The researchers enrolled 56 patients ages 37 to 54 who met standard criteria for metabolic syndrome but did not have diabetes, cardiovascular disease or any other inflammatory disorder. Half of them received weekly injections of etanercept and half received a placebo during the four-week study period. On each weekly visit, participants also had a physical examination and blood tests for levels of glucose, insulin and various markers including CRP.
At the end of the study period the CRP levels of participants who received etanercept were 34 percent lower than those of participants receiving the placebo. Levels of Interleukin-6 and fibrinogen, other inflammatory factors associated with increased cardiovascular risk, were also reduced in those who received the active medication; but levels of adiponectin – a factor that reflects reduced inflammation – had increased, also suggesting lower risk. No significant side effects were reported.
"It has been speculated that blocking TNF could reduce systemic inflammation in abdominally obese people, and we are very excited that giving this drug had such a dramatic effect on these major markers," Grinspoon says. "We were surprised that it didn’t also affect insulin resistance, but that could be because the study was only four weeks long. We’re planning longer term studies to get a more complete picture of how this strategy might someday be used to reduce the risks associated with metabolic syndrome." Grinspoon is an associate professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
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The Fraunhofer IWS Dresden and Technische Universität Dresden inaugurated their jointly operated Center for Additive Manufacturing Dresden (AMCD) with a festive ceremony on February 7, 2017. Scientists from various disciplines perform research on materials, additive manufacturing processes and innovative technologies, which build up components in a layer by layer process. This technology opens up new horizons for component design and combinations of functions. For example during fabrication, electrical conductors and sensors are already able to be additively manufactured into components. They provide information about stress conditions of a product during operation.
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What are the three current technology trends that will have the greatest impact on our future?
“AI, AI and AI.”
That’s according to the former CEO of Cognea and AI expert, Liesl Yearsley.
“What we are going to see in the next five to ten years is a big shift in the way people make choices about what they do in their lives,” she said.
“I believe we’re going to see a big emergence in personal AI…the news about Amazon Alexa coming is just the beginning.”
Yearsley joined an expert panel to discuss the emergence of new technologies and how they will shape our lives, as part of the Reimagination Thought Leaders’ Summit at the Star on Thursday.
In 2014, Yearsley sold her AI start-up Cognea to IBM for an undisclosed sum. Following the acquisition, she was appointed as Leader of IBM’s AI project, Watson Life, a position she held for 18 months.
“We were doing 60 million interactions at the time we were acquired, and I saw this shift that people were making where they were treating sophisticated AI more and more like a real significant other in their lives.
“They were telling them everything and expecting them to handle tasks.”
Joining Yearsley on the panel was Managing Director at carsales.com, Ajay Bhatia.
“AI has probably had a lot of hype in the past,” he said. “There was hype that it would take over the world and then it died, then it came up again, then it died.”
“But I think it’s very different this time.
“The advances in computing power and the amount of data that is coming through, those two things combined offers a unique opportunity for AI to survive.”
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As Chairman of the Board at CSIRO, and a former CEO of Telstra, David Thodey knows exactly what current technology is capable of.
What he isn’t sure of is whether we are ready to use it.
“I think we really need to look at the skillset we’ll need in the future to be able to apply technology to big, audacious problems.”
For Thodey, education is not simply building technical capabilities, rather it is making sure professionals understand how they can use their skills to enact change.
“I think that the skillsets are very different. Yes, you need some good analytical skills and you do need to have digital familiarity, but it’s the integration of technology into solving problems.
“I’m not sure everybody does need to learn coding. But they do need understand the principals of computation and the impact of technology.
“If I’m a geneticist, I don’t need to be an expert in AI, but I need to know what the possibility is of applying AI to that particular issue and that’s why we have specialists in AI, like Liesl.”


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Watching last week’s debate between Republican U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers and her challenger, Democrat Daryl Romeyn, most viewers likely had the same thought. This is depressing.
First, there was the congresswoman saying the stimulus was “a huge missed opportunity to actually address more of that infrastructure need” in Eastern Washington. “Only 7 percent of the stimulus actually went to funding infrastructure,” she said.
Wait a minute. About one-third of Obama’s stimulus went to cutting taxes, the first priority for many Republicans, including, presumably, McMorris Rodgers. Income taxes were slashed by $116 billion, reducing the tax burden for 95 percent of working American families. And she voted against it. Now she says she wanted more of it to go to infrastructure?
Did Romeyn point out this contradiction? Nope. He decided to make some other point, first talking about the North-South Freeway before criticizing McMorris Rodgers’ ability to pass legislation.
Which was Romeyn’s approach for the night: barely staying afloat while totally missing the boat.
Not quite halfway through the debate, Northwest News Network’s Doug Nadvornick (and former Inlander staffer) pressed McMorris Rodgers to be specific on what programs she’d cut to support the balanced budget amendment, which would require $1 trillion to be slashed. “Nibbling around the edges isn’t enough here,” he told her. “Whose ox do you gore?” The Defense Department, Social Security or Medicare?
She replied that she’d roll back federal spending to 2008.
Did Romeyn take her to task for wanting to return to days of George W. Bush? To roll back spending on the war in Afghanistan, which was grossly underfunded when Bush left office? Back to the days of a cratering economy, when the country was on the brink of a new Great Depression?
Nope. He said, “We heard grandiose statements but no details,” then went on to give a statement with no details. “We have a lot of waste in government that’s not being addressed,” he said, answering the same question. “That will be one of my priorities: to find that wasteful dollar and turn it around, bring it here to Eastern Washington to invest in our people, our community, our future. That’s what I’ll be doing when I’m elected to Congress.”
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With Republicans going all-out to regain control of the House of Representatives, it appears their recent attention to Idaho’s 1st Congressional District is giving a boost to challenger Raul Labrador.
Labrador, a Tea Party-ish candidate who was not the first choice of the GOP, has cut incumbent Democrat Walt Minnick’s lead from 10 points to 3 in the last month. The most recent poll by Mason-Dixon, commissioned by seven newspapers that serve Idaho including the Spokesman-Review, shows Labrador has pulled within the poll’s 5-point margin of error.
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On tonight’s episode of Parenthood, Sarah and Julia both make decisions regarding their relationships, and Adam and Crosby decide whether or not to give the Luncheonette another chance.
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The Fate of the Luncheonette
Previously on Parenthood, The Luncheonette was robbed, and Adam and Crosby contemplated whether to take the insurance money and walk away from their business or try to save it. In tonight’s episode, Crosby is all for continuing with his dreams, but Adam is more practical and decides, after talking to his father about his choices, that maybe cutting their losses is the better option.
Even after Crosby hangs a photo of the two brothers at the Luncheonette and goes on and on about working together there, Adam tells him he thinks they need to let the place go. Crosby is understanding about it, but clearly devastated while talking to Jasmine about it later.
Later on in the episode, Jasmine goes to Adam privately and asks him to reconsider. She explains how much the business has meant to Crosby and their family, and Adam is clearly affected. He’s going over the numbers again when Kristina walks in, and she’s very confused when he tells her he’s rethinking his decision. Which is fair, since he seemed pretty set in it before.
But, as Adam explains, he feels Crosby saved him with the Luncheonette opportunity when he lost his job, and he feels that now it’s his turn to help his brother. Eventually, Adam returns to the Luncheonette just as Crosby is taking the photo of them down, and he lets his brother know he wants to give the place another chance. They hug, it’s real cute, all very Parenthood-y, you understand.
Joel and Julia Sittin’ in a Tree
Early on on tonight’s Parenthood, Joel and Julia talk on the phone, and that leads to him coming over to talk, which really just leads to the two of them sleeping together. He spends the night, which creates a very awkward situation when Sydney knocks on her mother’s bedroom door the next morning! Luckily, Joel pulls the old “hide under the bed” routine, and they aren’t discovered — yet.
They have coffee later, and talk over just a few of the complications surrounding the two of them possibly getting back together. These include, but are not limited to: communication, the nature of Julia’s job and the fact that she’s still working with an ex, etc. She’s clearly nervous getting back together won’t work, but Joel promises her he will never leave her again. That’s a win for the Joel/Julia camp! Are they the J/J shippers? Joelia? Juel? Anyway.
By the end of the episode, Joel shows up at the ice rink where Julia and the kids are skating, and in front of God and everyone, they share a couple of kisses. The kids of course see this, but instead of the more complicated reactions I was expecting, they are pretty thrilled about it. Guess that just about wraps up that storyline for the season/series!
On last week’s Parenthood, Hank asked Sarah to marry him rather unexpectedly. This week, she wants to talk about the proposal, but Hank feels he’s already said what he needed to: he loves her, and wants to marry her. Sarah takes the better part of tonight’s episode to answer him which, while responsible of her, is still not much time considering. But the writers do have a show to wrap up, so might as well throw everything into the pot, right?
Julia and Sarah talk a little about the proposal, and Julia encourages Sarah to make a pros and cons list about Hank and the decision. Sarah names off all sorts of lovely things about him, but we never do hear any of the bad things she mentions to her sister. Interesting.
In a cute moment, Sarah and her mother talk about the possible marriage as well, and her mother only asks whether she knows Hank and whether he makes her happy. Both answers are yes, so Camille thinks Sarah has her answer.
The Crib of Confusion
Amber’s Dad sends his daughter a very nice crib for his impending grandchild, which she acknowledges is a very nice gift, but one that kind of fits his usual behavior — he’s not exactly around to do the hard part of putting the thing together, after all. Sarah and Amber struggle with it for most of the episode, and Sarah runs into Hank for one of their discussions about his proposal while she’s retrieving a hammer from his studio.
Hank goes over to Amber’s to help her put it together, much to her delight, and pretty much ends up doing it himself when she falls asleep. That’s how Sarah finds them — Amber fast asleep on her couch and Hank hard at work on the crib. That’s the moment that convinces her, at last, to marry Hank, and she says “yes.”
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Blast from the Past
While looking for an old, treasured baseball to give his great-grandchild, Zeek and Millie find a bunch of undeveloped film that they bring to Max to work his magic on. He develops the rolls in Hank’s dark room, and they are full of never-before-seen family photos. Hank and Max bond a little bit in the dark room, Millie and Sarah bond a little bit while looking at the photos, everybody’s happy!
It should be noted that the photos they found? Appear throughout the Parenthood opening credits. Planned from the beginning? Or crazy random happenstance? You decide.
Zeek and Drew get to bond a bit too when they go to Zeek’s storage shed in search of the baseball. They don’t find it, but Drew brings up feeling badly about spilling the beans about the France trip. Zeek tells him all is forgiven and forgotten, and they hug a bit. Parenthood does love to bring the touching moments.
Finally, Zeek remembers that he hid the ball in the rafters of the old barn once while being driven crazy by younger versions of Adam and Crosby, who had wanted to play with it once when they were little. Zeek and Millie make a trip back to the old house to retrieve it, and catch a glimpse of the new family now living there: two kids playing in the yard, a pregnant mother, and a dog to boot. Zeek decides to leave the “treasure” of old baseball things for the new kids to find one day, and they leave their old home behind once more.
That’s all, folks! Just two episodes of Parenthood left to go. What do you think is going to happen? Did Parenthood show us Zeek coming to terms with letting go of something he loved to help us prepare to let go of Zeek too? Leave your predictions in the comments below.
Parenthood airs every Thursday night at 10pm on NBC.
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