Learning a recommender system model from an item's raw modality features (such as image, text, audio, etc.), called MoRec, has attracted growing interest recently. One key advantage of MoRec is that it can easily benefit from advances in other fields, such as natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision (CV). Moreover, it naturally supports transfer learning across different systems through modality features, known as transferable recommender systems, or TransRec. However, so far, TransRec has made little progress, compared to groundbreaking foundation models in the fields of NLP and CV. The lack of large-scale, high-quality recommendation datasets poses a major obstacle. To this end, we introduce NineRec, a TransRec dataset suite that includes a large-scale source domain recommendation dataset and nine diverse target domain recommendation datasets. Each item in NineRec is represented by a text description and a high-resolution cover image. With NineRec, we can implement TransRec models in an end-to-end training manner instead of using pre-extracted invariant features. We conduct a benchmark study and empirical analysis of TransRec using NineRec, and our findings provide several valuable insights. To support further research, we make our code, datasets, benchmarks, and leaderboards publicly available at https://github.com/westlake-repl/NineRec.
Recommender systems (RS) have achieved significant success by leveraging explicit identification (ID) features. However, the full potential of content features, especially the pure image pixel features, remains relatively unexplored. The limited availability of large, diverse, and content-driven image recommendation datasets has hindered the use of raw images as item representations. In this regard, we present PixelRec, a massive image-centric recommendation dataset that includes approximately 200 million user-image interactions, 30 million users, and 400,000 high-quality cover images. By providing direct access to raw image pixels, PixelRec enables recommendation models to learn item representation directly from them. To demonstrate its utility, we begin by presenting the results of several classical pure ID-based baseline models, termed IDNet, trained on PixelRec. Then, to show the effectiveness of the dataset's image features, we substitute the itemID embeddings (from IDNet) with a powerful vision encoder that represents items using their raw image pixels. This new model is dubbed PixelNet.Our findings indicate that even in standard, non-cold start recommendation settings where IDNet is recognized as highly effective, PixelNet can already perform equally well or even better than IDNet. Moreover, PixelNet has several other notable advantages over IDNet, such as being more effective in cold-start and cross-domain recommendation scenarios. These results underscore the importance of visual features in PixelRec. We believe that PixelRec can serve as a critical resource and testing ground for research on recommendation models that emphasize image pixel content. The dataset, code, and leaderboard will be available at https://github.com/westlake-repl/PixelRec.
Adapters, a plug-in neural network module with some tunable parameters, have emerged as a parameter-efficient transfer learning technique for adapting pre-trained models to downstream tasks, especially for natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision (CV) fields. Meanwhile, learning recommendation models directly from raw item modality features -- e.g., texts of NLP and images of CV -- can enable effective and transferable recommender systems (called TransRec). In view of this, a natural question arises: can adapter-based learning techniques achieve parameter-efficient TransRec with good performance? To this end, we perform empirical studies to address several key sub-questions. First, we ask whether the adapter-based TransRec performs comparably to TransRec based on standard full-parameter fine-tuning? does it hold for recommendation with different item modalities, e.g., textual RS and visual RS. If yes, we benchmark these existing adapters, which have been shown to be effective in NLP and CV tasks, in the item recommendation settings. Third, we carefully study several key factors for the adapter-based TransRec in terms of where and how to insert these adapters? Finally, we look at the effects of adapter-based TransRec by either scaling up its source training data or scaling down its target training data. Our paper provides key insights and practical guidance on unified & transferable recommendation -- a less studied recommendation scenario. We promise to release all code & datasets for future research.
Text-based collaborative filtering (TCF) has become the mainstream approach for text and news recommendation, utilizing text encoders, also known as language models (LMs), to represent items. However, existing TCF models primarily focus on using small or medium-sized LMs. It remains uncertain what impact replacing the item encoder with one of the largest and most powerful LMs, such as the 175-billion parameter GPT-3 model, would have on recommendation performance. Can we expect unprecedented results? To this end, we conduct an extensive series of experiments aimed at exploring the performance limits of the TCF paradigm. Specifically, we increase the size of item encoders from one hundred million to one hundred billion to reveal the scaling limits of the TCF paradigm. We then examine whether these extremely large LMs could enable a universal item representation for the recommendation task. Furthermore, we compare the performance of the TCF paradigm utilizing the most powerful LMs to the currently dominant ID embedding-based paradigm and investigate the transferability of this TCF paradigm. Finally, we compare TCF with the recently popularized prompt-based recommendation using ChatGPT. Our research findings have not only yielded positive results but also uncovered some surprising and previously unknown negative outcomes, which can inspire deeper reflection and innovative thinking regarding text-based recommender systems. Codes and datasets will be released for further research.
Recommendation models that utilize unique identities (IDs) to represent distinct users and items have been state-of-the-art (SOTA) and dominated the recommender systems (RS) literature for over a decade. Meanwhile, the pre-trained modality encoders, such as BERT and ViT, have become increasingly powerful in modeling the raw modality features of an item, such as text and images. Given this, a natural question arises: can a purely modality-based recommendation model (MoRec) outperforms or matches a pure ID-based model (IDRec) by replacing the itemID embedding with a SOTA modality encoder? In fact, this question was answered ten years ago when IDRec beats MoRec by a strong margin in both recommendation accuracy and efficiency. We aim to revisit this `old' question and systematically study MoRec from several aspects. Specifically, we study several sub-questions: (i) which recommendation paradigm, MoRec or IDRec, performs better in practical scenarios, especially in the general setting and warm item scenarios where IDRec has a strong advantage? does this hold for items with different modality features? (ii) can the latest technical advances from other communities (i.e., natural language processing and computer vision) translate into accuracy improvement for MoRec? (iii) how to effectively utilize item modality representation, can we use it directly or do we have to adjust it with new data? (iv) are there some key challenges for MoRec to be solved in practical applications? To answer them, we conduct rigorous experiments for item recommendations with two popular modalities, i.e., text and vision. We provide the first empirical evidence that MoRec is already comparable to its IDRec counterpart with an expensive end-to-end training method, even for warm item recommendation. Our results potentially imply that the dominance of IDRec in the RS field may be greatly challenged in the future.
Existing benchmark datasets for recommender systems (RS) either are created at a small scale or involve very limited forms of user feedback. RS models evaluated on such datasets often lack practical values for large-scale real-world applications. In this paper, we describe Tenrec, a novel and publicly available data collection for RS that records various user feedback from four different recommendation scenarios. To be specific, Tenrec has the following five characteristics: (1) it is large-scale, containing around 5 million users and 140 million interactions; (2) it has not only positive user feedback, but also true negative feedback (vs. one-class recommendation); (3) it contains overlapped users and items across four different scenarios; (4) it contains various types of user positive feedback, in forms of clicks, likes, shares, and follows, etc; (5) it contains additional features beyond the user IDs and item IDs. We verify Tenrec on ten diverse recommendation tasks by running several classical baseline models per task. Tenrec has the potential to become a useful benchmark dataset for a majority of popular recommendation tasks.
Large-scale Protein Language Models (PLMs) have improved performance in protein prediction tasks, ranging from 3D structure prediction to various function predictions. In particular, AlphaFold, a ground-breaking AI system, could potentially reshape structural biology. However, the utility of the PLM module in AlphaFold, Evoformer, has not been explored beyond structure prediction. In this paper, we investigate the representation ability of three popular PLMs: ESM-1b (single sequence), MSA-Transformer (multiple sequence alignment) and Evoformer (structural), with a special focus on Evoformer. Specifically, we aim to answer the following key questions: (i) Does the Evoformer trained as part of AlphaFold produce representations amenable to predicting protein function? (ii) If yes, can Evoformer replace ESM-1b and MSA-Transformer? (iii) How much do these PLMs rely on evolution-related protein data? In this regard, are they complementary to each other? We compare these models by empirical study along with new insights and conclusions. Finally, we release code and datasets for reproducibility.
Learning big models and then transfer has become the de facto practice in computer vision (CV) and natural language processing (NLP). However, such unified paradigm is uncommon for recommender systems (RS). A critical issue that hampers this is that standard recommendation models are built on unshareable identity data, where both users and their interacted items are represented by unique IDs. In this paper, we study a novel scenario where user's interaction feedback involves mixture-of-modality (MoM) items. We present TransRec, a straightforward modification done on the popular ID-based RS framework. TransRec directly learns from MoM feedback in an end-to-end manner, and thus enables effective transfer learning under various scenarios without relying on overlapped users or items. We empirically study the transferring ability of TransRec across four different real-world recommendation settings. Besides, we study its effects by scaling the size of source and target data. Our results suggest that learning recommenders from MoM feedback provides a promising way to realize universal recommender systems. Our code and datasets will be made available.


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A Nate Clements interception set up Shaun Hill's 23-yard touchdown pass to RB Frank Gore early in the fourth quarter helped give the San Francisco 49ers enough cushion to withstand a late rally and notch a 21-19 upset of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday at Monster Park.
With the loss, Tampa Bay (9-6) dropped out of the race for the No. 3 playoff seed, as Seattle (10-5) defeated Baltimore to clinch the No. 3 seed outright.
Tampa Bay is now the No. 4 playoff seed and will face the No. 5 playoff seed at home in the first weekend of January in the Wild Card playoffs. At the moment, that opponent would be the New York Giants, who clinched a playoff berth with a victory over Buffalo.
Tampa Bay drove for a touchdown in the final minutes, as QB Luke McCown connected with TE Jerramy Stevens for a 24-yard touchdown pass with 1:20 left. McCown completed his 2-point conversion pass, but WR Michael Clayton's back foot was out of bounds when he came down with the catch. That would have tied the game.
The TD catch was Stevens' second of the day.
San Francisco (5-10), playing out the string, continued their mastery of the Buccaneers at home, where the Niners are now 11-1 against the Buccaneers.
The Buccaneers chose to rest many of their starters in the second half, and the Niners took advantage of that — plus a break late early in the fourth quarter — to give themselves an 8-point lead.
On the second play of the fourth quarter, McCown threw a slant to TE Alex Smith, who was unable to hang onto the football. Smith's tip ended up in the hands of Niners CB Nate Clements, who took the catch 62 yards to the Bucs 23-yard line.
On the next play, Hill threw his third touchdown pass of the day to Gore in the flat, who ran easily into the end zone to give the Niners an 8-point lead.
Hill connected with TE Vernon Davis for a 5-yard touchdown pass in the third quarter to give the 49ers a 14-13 lead over Tampa Bay, along with a first-half touchdown pass to Darrell Jackson. Otherwise, his stellar numbers of the past game and a half took a tumble.
The Buccaneers turned the ball over on the doorstep of their end zone at 10:57 of the third quarter, as 49ers LB Patrick Willis forced a fumble while trailing McCown. The 49ers recovered the fumble inside the Bucs 20-yard line.
Two plays later Hill left the game after taking a big hit from Bucs DE Gaines Adams. Adams led with his helmet into Hill's ribs, leading to a roughing the passer penalty. Chris Weinke replaced Hill for one play, and then Hill returned for the touchdown pass to Davis.
Tampa Bay led the game at halftime, 13-7, after Bucs starting QB Jeff Garcia to connect with Stevens for a touchdown.
Garcia hit Stevens on a sideline route, using a pump fake to freeze the defender and allow Steven the time to create enough space to make the catch and the 24-yard touchdown with 3:49 left before halftime.
The Buccaneers got the football back after Bucs S Jermaine Phillips forced Davis to fumble after a first-down catch, a fumble Bucs LB Barrett Ruud recovered to give the Bucs possession at the 49ers 36-yard line with 5:33 left.
Tampa Bay appeared to be resting several of its veterans as the first half ended. Garcia, WR Joey Galloway and RB Earnest Graham were all on the bench at the end of the half. Also, WR Maurice Stovall left the game early in the second quarter with an injury. He left on a cart and with his right forearm and elbow immobilized.
Hill, who entered the game with a 78.2 completion percentage and 107.4 passer rating in his last six quarters, was 5-of-13 for 57 yards with a touchdown and an interception at halftime.
The Buccaneers' failure to score touchdowns on their first two drives of the game came back to haunt them, as the 49ers took a 7-6 lead on the first play of the second quarter.
The 49ers failed to do anything on their first two drives. But on their third possession, a mix of strong running by Gore and short passes by Hill led to Hill's 21-yard touchdown pass to Darrell Jackson just four seconds into the second quarter.
Tampa Bay dominated yardage and time of possession in the first quarter, but failed to score a touchdown on either possession, settling for field goals of 34 yards and 22 yards by Matt Bryant.
The second field goal was especially unfortunate, considering Garcia set up the Bucs up at the 49ers 5-yard line with a 34-yard pass to TE Alex Smith up the seam. But the Bucs were unable to convert on the next three downs leading to Bryant's short field goal.
Tampa Bay received a nice break in the second quarter as the 49ers tackled Bucs punt returner Micheal Spurlock, forcing an apparent fumble recovered by San Francisco. The Buccaneers challenged the call, saying Spurlock was down by contact and game officials reversed the call, giving the Buccaneers the football.
The Bucs traveled west short-handed, as they left FB B.J. Askew and DE Patrick Chukwurah behind in Tampa due to injury. Rookie FB Byron Storer started for Askew.
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DONEGAL, PA. Roaring Run is a pretty place to hike on the western slope of rugged Laurel Ridge in the mountains of western Pennsylvania.
The state owned tract of nearly 3,600 acres in Westmoreland County is officially known as the Roaring Run Natural Area. It is 45 minutes east of Pittsburgh, and easily accessible off the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
The well known and popular preserve, part of the 60,000 acre Forbes State Forest, protects the entire splashy mountain stream with its Air Jordan 2010 watershed, a very untypical conservation development.
It is the largest of Pennsylvania’s 61 state forest natural areas.
Roaring Run is typical of the small streams in the Laurel Highlands. It Air Jordan 8s tumbles about 1,220 feet off Laurel Ridge with lots of pretty cascades and mini waterfalls. The five mile pristine stream is formed by numerous springs near the summit of Laurel Ridge.
Roaring Run empties into Indian Creek, itself a tributary of the Youghiogheny River, at the village of Champion.
The stream is designated as a Wilderness Trout Stream and an Exceptional Value Stream. The area is a designated Reptile and Amphibian Protection Area.
At the heart of the Roaring Run preserve is the 3.3 mile Roaring Run Trail that winds up the narrow valley with lots of stream crossings.
There are no bridges and the crossings can get tricky at high water.
From the trailhead off County Line Road on the preserve’s southern edge, the Roaring Run Trail follows an old railroad bed to the stream. It is an easy hike.
The valley is filled with oak, sassafras, hemlocks, mountain laurel, rhododendron, beech, jewelweed, blackberries, ferns, hawthorns, basswood and moss covered rocks.
The hike gets a little tougher as you make the 900 foot climb up the valley. After 3.3 miles, you can return along the trail or create a loop of 7.8 miles on other preserve trails: the Nedrow Road, McKenna and Painter Rocks trails. That requires some uphill hiking but offers some top of the ridge views.
In all, Roaring Run offers six short trails covering 14.5 miles that repeatedly interconnect. The trails are not always easy to follow. They are blazed yellow for hiking only trails and blue for cross country ski trails.
Roaring Run is a great place to explore in the late summer, when the stream is low and early fall when the leaves are changing and dropping. Spring wildflowers usually peak in late April.
Two of the attractions in the natural area are vistas from Painter Rock Hill on the north side of the Roaring Run valley and Birch Rock Hill on the south side.
One of the strangest is a monument Nike LeBron 12 off Nedrow Road to three children who were killed in an 1896 sleigh accident.
You can also get to Roaring Run at trailheads off state Route 31 or off Fire Tower Road.
Roaring Run was acquired by Pennsylvania in 1975. Before that, numerous roads had been built into the valley for logging.
Northern hardwoods can be found on north facing slopes, valley bottoms and in protected coves. Oaks dominate on south and west facing slopes.
Narrow bands of old growth chestnut oak occur along rock breaks, left behind by loggers because of the wood’s poor quality and the trees’ difficult location.
The area was initially logged in the early 1900s, when a railroad was built along Indian Creek to the town of Jones Mills. That line was later extended to Kregar. A tram road was then built along Roaring Run by the Blair Lumber Co.
There is no record of additional logging on Roaring Run until the mid 1960s, when a large area on Painter Rock Hill was clear cut.
After the logging, that land Jordan 9 Retro was sold to the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy and later to the state.
Today the forest is still growing back. Most of the preserve is wooded with second and third generation growth forests. There are some recently abandoned farm fields and some that have reverted to woods.
Roaring Run is closed to all vehicles but is open for hiking, cross country skiing and, in season, hunting and fishing.
Long pants are recommended because of the heavy briar patches along the Roaring Run Trail.
To get to Roaring Run from Akron, take Interstate 76 east to the Ohio and Pennsylvania turnpikes. Exit the Pennsylvania Turnpike at Donegal. Take state Route 31 to the east. Turn right at Jones Mill on state Route 3 8/711. Go 1.1 Air Jordan 5s miles. Turn left on County Line Road. Look for a parking lot on the left after 1.8 miles.

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No Diabetes Benefit from Soy Supplements: New Study
April 23, 2010
Soy supplements may not improve blood glucose control in women with prediabetes (a condition in which blood glucose levels are elevated, but not high enough for a diagnosis of diabetes) or recently diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, according to a recent study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Past research into soy’s effects on diabetes has yielded conflicting results.
Laboratory research has suggested that estrogen-like compounds in soy known as soy isoflavones might help to lower blood glucose levels. To test this theory, researchers at the Chinese University of Hong Kong recruited 180 postmenopausal women who either had prediabetes or had recently been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes and had not yet begun treatment. The women were randomly assigned to one of three groups: one took a supplement containing milk protein, one a supplement containing milk protein and soy isoflavones, and the third a supplement containing soy protein and additional soy isoflavones each morning for six months. Aside from the addition of the supplement, the participants were instructed to maintain their usual diets.
At the end of the trial period, neither the soy protein with additional isoflavones nor the milk protein with isoflavones showed any clear benefit in controlling blood glucose or insulin levels. According to the researchers, the soy supplement had a “marginally favorable benefit” on the women’s blood glucose levels two hours after eating, but not enough to indicate that soy or isoflavone supplements are useful for lowering blood glucose in older women with prediabetes or Type 2 diabetes.
Nonetheless, the researchers note that this appears to be the first controlled clinical trial investigating the use of soy supplements in people with prediabetes and early Type 2 diabetes and suggest that “Additional studies that are based on longer trials using different soy and phytoestrogen regimens are warranted.”
To learn more, read the article “Soy supplements show no diabetes benefit in study” or see the study’s abstract in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
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Mary Patricia Tully, Bryony Dean Franklin, "Safety in Medication Use"
2015 | ISBN-10: 1482227002 | 340 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Each chapter is written by one or more authors from around the world who were chosen because of their standing in their field. The book covers three broad areas: problems in the medication use process, approaches to understanding and resolving them, and putting solutions into practice.
Topics discussed include:
Measuring medication errors
Incident reporting and feedback approaches
Communication between health care professionals
Interventions for safer work systems
Electronic prescribing and medication administration record systems
Innovations in dispensing
Patient involvement in medication safety
Each chapter is a primer on the topic, drawing on the international literature, with the chapters on solutions followed by an "expert summary" of the implications for practice. This valuable resource describes an international body of work that shows not only how widespread medication errors are, but also discusses interventions that can reduce such errors to improve patient safety.

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Turning windy with low wind chills Tuesday morning
Winds will increase tonight making for a very cold start on Tuesday
As one system exits, another weaker disturbance dives into the southwestern portion of our region overnight. Winds are expected to increase overnight with 20-30 mph gusts possible. A few 40 mph wind speeds can’t be ruled out in the mountains. Aside from a few mountain snow showers, skies turn partly cloudy and it remains rather cold with lows getting into the low/mid 20s. Wind chill values will be in the teens and low 20s early Tuesday.
Clear and cold conditions are expected early Tuesday morning. Winds will continue to be gusty and wind chills will be in the teen and 20s. We’ll keep gusty winds throughout the day, especially in the higher elevations. Even with sunny skies, highs barely reach the low 40s.
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY
A dry stretch of weather is expected through the end of the week as temperatures begin warming near/above normal by Thursday. Highs climb to the low 50s with overnight lows staying near freezing.
Our next cold front should arrive over the weekend delivering a chance of showers late Saturday followed by increasing sunshine late in the weekend along with the return of the windy and cooler conditions. We’ll have a better idea on the timing of showers as we get closer, but neither day appears to be a washout.


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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Local UFC light heavyweight champion Jon ‘Bones’ Jones checked himself into MDC Friday. In March Jones was arrested a second time for driving under the influence. Jones pleaded guilty and as part of his plea agreement, Friday he began serving four days in custody in the community custody program. The program allows Jones to serve outside of MDC while wearing an ankle monitor.
- Jon ‘Bones’ Jones, Steve-O team up to hand out care packages
- VIDEO: UFC’s Jon ‘Bones’ Jones takes away spray cans from vandals
- APD releases more video of Jon ‘Bones’ Jones DWI arrest
- ‘I got stir crazy’: Police lapel video shows Jon Jones DWI arrest
- Jon Jones says he’s done fighting for now
- Video shows woman accusing Jon ‘Bones’ Jones of battery

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The artists who reached the top six have all been allocated a song which they will be competing with to represent Spain in the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest! The top five acts are taking part with three songs each, whilst the sixth place act competes as part of one duet.
The line-up of the Spanish Eurovision final is as follows:
- Aitana – Arde (written by Alba Reig)
- Alfred – Que nos sigan las luces (written by Nil Moliner)
- Amaia – Al cantar (written by Rozalén)
- Ana Guerra – El remedio (written by Nabález)
- Miriam – Lejos de tu piel (written by Steve Robson, Ina Wroldsen, and Diego Cantero)
- Agoney & Miriam – Magia (written by David Otero, Funambulista and Tato Latorre)
- Aitana & Ana Guerra – Chico malo (written by Morgan, Will Simms and Brisa Fenoy)
- Alfred & Amaia – Tu canción (written by Raúl Gómez and Sylvia Santoro)
- Aitana, Alfred, Amaia, Ana Guerra & Miriam – Camina (written by the finalists of Operacion Triunfo and Manu Guix).
The Eurovision final of Operacion Triunfo will take place on Monday, 29th of January. The winner will be selected in two rounds of voting – first the top three acts are going to be selected, and then in the second round, the winner(s). The decision on who will represent Spain in Eurovision 2018 is solely in the hands of the public.
You can give a listen to all of the songs right here:
Aitana – Arde
Alfred – Que nos sigan las luces
Amaia – Al cantar
Ana Guerra – El remedio
Miriam – Lejos de tu piel
Agoney & Miriam – Magia
Aitana & Ana Guerra – Chico malo
Alfred & Amaia – Tu canción
Aitana, Alfred, Amaia, Ana Guerra & Miriam – Camina

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After something of a war of words, the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) have resumed negotiations for a new collective bargaining agreement. This agreement will cover writers for film, TV and digital productions.
Residuals for series and feature-length productions made for streaming services are expected to be among the most critical issues under negotiation. The Directors Guild was able to reach agreement with the studios including an increase of up to 50% on residuals for such shows. The DGA is traditionally the first of the above-the-line guilds to complete its three-year deal with the studios. Most of the time, the DGA terms serve as a benchmark in negotiations for the WGA and for SAG-AFTRA, the performers union, both of whose agreements also expire in the same year. COVID-19 has disrupted business as usual, however, and that precedent may not apply this year.
The parties will also be discussing another issue, unique to the pandemic. The WGA asked the AMPTP to agree to extend the period during which union members could earn the threshold amount to qualify for health coverage, since many were out of work. It appeared for a moment that this might derail negotiations entirely. When AMPTP President Carol Lombardini responded to the WGA’s request that she would need to take it back to the AMPTP member studios, chief WGA negotiator David Young fired back with an email saying, “You people are despicable.”
Fortunately for labor peace, both sides have expressed a willingness to address the extension as part of the overall contract negotiations. Lombardini has asked the WGA to tell her how many writers have actually been affected by shutdowns due to the pandemic. Many writers are working in remote writers rooms, while pilot development and screenwriting has always been solitary work well suited to sheltering in place.
The current expiration date of the WGA Agreement is June 30. An objective observer might say that this is not an opportune moment for either writers or studios to want a writers strike. Before the lockdown, there was widespread speculation that a strike was coming; less so now. I will not predict but I can hope.

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7 days ago
I like how he told her to relax 😂
I’m cool if they cancel student loans, but why can’t they pay a percentage of paid off loans back to the folks who did work like crazy to pay them off?
8 days ago
I’m not trying to be disrespectful to you, but I showed the CEO of the hospital I work at all of the things you and I wrote to each other, and he said that you are incorrect on how physicians get paid, and he agreed with what I wrote. He has worked at seven hospitals over his career and he never paid someone more or less based on payer source. Now, physicians might get paid differently based on services and complexity, but that doesn’t have to do with payer source. Like the example I used, if there are two doctors who do the same job, one isn’t going to just show up and say I’m taking only private so I can get paid more, you really think the other doctor would go for that? In private practice this may be true, but in a hospital system that is not how it works.
I work in physical therapy and showed my DOR this and she also didn’t agree with you. We get paid the same regardless of payer source.
I’m not saying private insurance doesn’t pay more per service. I’m saying that since every hospital accepts Medicare your physicians aren’t taking a cut compared to another physician. If you have two ICU doctors one isn’t getting paid more than the other because he signed some contract saying I’m only going to see private patients and the other one gets Medicare. If that’s how you run it then that’s pretty messed up.
You pay 1.45 percent in tax. Not that much
I didn’t say you said that hospitals don’t accept Medicare. I said Medicare isn’t affecting physicians pay because every hospital accepts Medicare. There isn’t a way to prove they get paid less because there isn’t an example to compare it to. It’s not like one doctor gets dibs on all the private patients and the new guy gets only Medicare, so the new doc gets paid less.
No because every hospital accepts Medicare. They aren’t tallying up each doctors Medicare to private patient ratios then giving them a salary based on that. The physician accepts the salary prior to taking the job.
You’re scenario isn’t how they get paid. So what’s your point?
It would pay 100 percent if we funded more.
They’re still affected as opposed to what? What hospital system doesn’t accept Medicare?
9 days ago
I suppose it depends on the practice. I don’t believe every doctors salary is tied into Medicare. For example, if a physician works at a hospital his salary is paid to him by the hospital. Maybe in like an outpatient clinic this would be different.
There isn’t a political push to have a VA system for all in America. There is a push to have Medicare for all, which is just an insurance program where the money to support it is collected through taxes. The VA has its own hospitals and physicians, which is weird to me. Medicare doesn’t have any of that. The idea is for the hospitals and medical staff to remain as they are and just expand Medicare insurance to everyone. You don’t hear many stories of people complaining about their Medicare coverage. I hear way more people complain about their private coverage though
Are the hospitals private or government?
Maybe you’re referring to the VA and it’s system, but there are no “Medicare” doctors. Doctors who take Medicare aren’t paid low. They are paid by the private hospitals who accept Medicare. Not sure what you mean here.
The majority of people in the USA that get hip and knee replacements are on Medicare, the US version of universal healthcare for people 65 and older. So let’s not crap too hard on universal healthcare when the majority of these types of surgeries are being cover by it in both countries.
I dunno, I’m just saying that I don’t know how they can have you perform cognitive and balance tests without having a baseline.
Yeah. Not everyone can do those things at baseline
In my opinion, I don’t think those field tests should be allowed unless they have a pre-test. You shouldn’t fail something like that unless you have a baseline measurement.
14 days ago
So what’s the agenda
So Fauci isn’t credible and the vaccine is experimental gene therapy? Who are you listening to?
It’s better than Joe’s
15 days ago
What’s their agenda?
You saying “forever” is dramatic. They are continuing to open things up all the time.
I agree that it is reducing transmission. They probably do to. They are likely waiting for more evidence just to make sure how well it does. Their timeline is slower, sure, but there is no agenda.
What in the world are you talking about? The effectiveness of the vaccine was about reducing the severity of the disease. They are now finding out how well it prevents transmission. They were worried that vaccinated people could still be carriers and spread it to unvaccinated. Pretty simple.

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Nollywood actress, business woman and latest restaurant owner in Lagos Iyabo Ojo has opened up on how she was able to get money to establish her new business, the ‘Abula spot’ on the island.
Rumours have been peddled since the lavish opening of the restaurant that the actress had spent nothing less than 200milion to achieve the splendour and ambience of her empire Fespris World.
Naturally, many have attached her success to an imaginary ‘sugar daddy’ who helped the actress achieve the big feat.
In reaction, the actress and mother of two has opened up that no sugar daddy funded her business, rather her desire and dream to own a restaurant pushed her to do the extra ordinary by selling some of her landed properties and her jewelries.
According to Iyabo Ojo, the Island was suffering for lack of a good ‘Buka’ and she had to quickly grab the business opportunity.
The Abula Spot was opened for business two weeks ago after the official launching.
“People now call me Iya alamala” she said adding that she does mind.


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PETALING JAYA: The Inland Revenue Board (IRB) has seized RM126 million from Country Heights Holdings Bhd (CHHB) executive chairman and major shareholder Lee Kim Yew.
It is believed that the money, which Lee had placed as a fixed deposit in a foreign-owned bank, had been seized in connection with RM22.5 million worth of tax liabilities incurred by Country Heights’ wholly-owned unit, Country Heights Sdn Bhd (CHSB), for the years of assessment 1997 and 1998.
According to a report in The Star, CHHB had informed Bursa Malaysia that it had received notification of the seizure of money from Lee in a letter dated May 8.
The filing with Bursa Malaysia said: “Tan Sri Lee further informed that he has requested a confirmation from the IRB of the seizure, and whether the seized funds have been or will be applied to settle the tax liability, but the IRB has yet to respond.
“Notwithstanding the absence of acknowledgement from the IRB, Tan Sri Lee has informed that he is agreeable to allow his fixed deposits seized by the IRB to be used to settle the tax liability, provided that the company acknowledges the sum used to settle the tax liability as an amount due and owing to Tan Sri Lee, and that the company undertakes to settle the amount as soon as the company has sufficient funds to do so.”
The filing said Country Heights’ board of directors, who held a meeting yesterday, had agreed to this. Lee has agreed that the sum will be non-interest bearing.
The Star reported that on April 17, CHSB had been served with a winding-up petition initiated by the government in relation to a judgment sum of RM22.71 million.
This amount, it said, was for a claim in relation to CHSB’s purported tax obligations, along with interest and costs.
The Edge reported that in an announcement last month, Country Heights had said the finance ministry had accepted a cash settlement proposal from CHSB in January, but that the IRB had declined and counter-proposed a settlement.
Though CHSB agreed to the terms of the counter-proposal, the report said, the IRB rejected it and suggested, on April 6, that the sum be settled via cash payment within four months.
Although CHSB had agreed to this, too, it was slapped with a winding-up petition from the government in mid-April.
The Edge reported that last December, Lee had loaned Country Heights RM10.76 million, interest-free, to settle tax liabilities of three of the group’s subsidiaries in a lump-sum payment to the IRB.
It said Country Heights, which slipped into the red since financial year ending Dec 31, 2015, saw its cash pile shrink to RM12.87 million in end-2016, from RM20.81 million a year ago.

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Obama: Broncos would be ‘lucky’ to get Peyton Manning
President Barack Obama said Monday that the Denver Broncos "would be lucky" if they can convince former Colts quarterback Peyton Manning to sign on — and joked that the Rockies could help the team seal the deal.
"Peyton Manning is one of the best of all time and anybody would be lucky to have him. I know the Broncos are going after him pretty hard, so we'll see," Obama told Denver CBS affiliate KCNC, one of a series of interviews he did with local media.
"If natural beauty has anything to do with it, then I'm sure Denver will do pretty well," Obama said.
Manning's future has been the subject of fevered media speculation since he was cut last week by the Indianapolis Colts.
On the same topic, Mitt Romney--the man most likely to face Obama in the general election--dealt another blow to his attempts to play the everyman when he told an Alabama radio host that "I've got a lot of good friends - the owner of the Miami Dolphins and the New York Jets - both owners are friends of mine."


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Standardised Questionnaires for Outcomes in Yoga Therapy
We are really looking forward to the printing of this paper on the implementation of patient-reported outcome measures in yoga therapy.
I am really looking forward to the printing of this paper on the implementation of patient-reported outcome measures in yoga therapy. The description of the paper, linked below, was released yesterday. It describes how yoga therapists are interested in knowing whether their therapeutic interventions are helpful in improving health and well-being in their yoga therapy clients, despite few of them, according to these researchers, using standardised, reliable, and valid questionnaires to determine the therapeutic effectiveness of their treatments.
Patient-reported outcome (PRO) measures are questionnaires used to assess an individual's perceptions of their symptoms and/or quality of life. These are based on three domains of interest: physical, mental, and social health and are reliable, valid, easy to read, easy to complete, are available in multiple languages and come in both adult and child versions. The postulation is that the use of standardised questionnaires such as these may improve yoga therapy implementation in healthcare and accelerate translation of clinical research by allowing yoga therapists to conduct in depth symptom assessments using tools that allow for comparisons to other therapeutic clinical and research interventions. I definitely like the sound of this and will post the full paper when it is released. Have a lovely weekend everyone :)

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When Accessing the Autosampler plugin (ASX-7400 in this case), Qtegra freezes up and must be closed using Task Manager.
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Enable the MSMQ features using this knowledge article as a guide to do so: Microsoft Message Queue Server - MSMQ - Features
Upon inspecting the log file, the following error was observed at the time the autosampler plugin was trying to be accessed in the Dashboard:
"StatusHubMessages are faster received than they can be processed. This is an indication of problem which should be fixed."
Upon inspection of the HubService log file, the following error in reference to the message queue was observed:
"Fatal Error! A message queue (private$\IMHTKronos.CoreStatusClient309b50b9-d787-401f-bc03-fc79cf66e4d3) stopped dequeuing its messages. This message queue is now killed"
In this case 3 automatic Windows update had occurred before the issue started occurring and since the last time the customer was able to run successfully. It is a good idea to disable Automatic updates (Disabling Automatic Updates in Windows 10) and instead manually install them one-by-one, each time verifying operation of the software after doing so.


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The Battle of Bunker Hill, 1775
Bunker's Hill [Bunker Hill] near Boston, Massachusetts, in 1775
From The Popular History of England by Charles Knight, Vol. VI (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1860)
In the first months of the siege of Boston neither side attempted to occupy and fortify either Charlestown or the Dorchester Peninsula which dominated Boston harbour.
On the 13th June the Americans learned that the British intended to do so, and to forestall them occupied Bunker and Breed Hill and began to erect fortifications. The British Generals decided that for their own safety it was necessary to clear the Americans off the Hills. On the morning of the 16th June General Gage called a council of war, and rejected both Sir Henry Clinton's pieces of advice, that the attack be mounted at dawn, and that he with 500 troops be landed in the rear of the American position to cut off any possibility of retreat. The plan adopted was a frontal assault on the American position.
After a heavy naval bombardment British troops were landed on the peninsula at 1.00 p.m. on the 17th. The British regulars marched straight up the Hill, where they were met by heavy and accurate fire from the American defenders, who were protected by trenches and breastworks. The first attack failed, as did the second one. Reinforcements had to be summoned from Boston to help.
For a time the battle seemed to be going badly for the British, but Clinton, with his commander's approval crossed over, rallied the remnants of the first two attacks, and was able to support the third attack which overwhelmed the American defences and took the position.
Although a British victory, there were about 1,000 British casualties in the 2,500 troops engaged. The battle of Bunker Hill showed the British that they were in for a fight, and showed the American Congress that American militia properly led and trained would be a match for the regulars. The immediate threat to the British garrison of Boston was lifted, but the siege continued and General Gage could not consider any further military action until he had been reinforced from England. Document 1 is Sir Henry Clinton's account of that day to Charles Mellish.
Next page: Sir Henry Clinton's War, Long Island and New York, 1776-1777


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Related to the last Kp blog post about this, Ian and Jeff Smith point out that X-ray laser explains the effects seen here.
The comments also point to a Chinese connection and that this is the reason Obama received an icy reception in China before the G20. Two videos which commenter pyotr may have been referring to are here and here.
Apparently, based on Ian’s replies in the comments section, he intends to publish a follow up article about this.
Here’s the snippet of interest from the comment section:
Pyotr September 4, 2016 at 4:29 pm: Youtube channel (mlordandgod) has it that the space X rocket was taken out on Pres. Obamas’ order to prevent the energy transfer inherent in Israels plans to sell their communications Co to the Chinese (Xinwei Co.). So an X47B navy drone equipped with a GE airborne systems laser did the job, launching from an aircraft carrier operation off the eastern seaboard (George Washington). The channel reports that this is why Pres Obama got such a bad reception from the Chinese at the G20.
Ian Greenhalgh September 4, 2016 at 4:38 pm: Hmm, sounds like someone leaked some info because that sounds like exactly what happened – a drone with a pulsed x-ray laser did it, no aliens, ets or ufos remotely involved.
Here are a few highlights from this VT article.
“…this was a strictly terrestrial, explainable event where no aspect requires an esoteric, alien or other-worldly theory to explain away… I noticed right away that the explosion of the rocket was not a conventional molecular explosion, the white hot plasma ball was the give-away that this was a nuclear explosion
“…if you hit the lithium ion battery on a rocket with enough x-rays it will explode creating a small nuclear chain reaction as seen with this space-x explosion… this was a small nuclear explosion. Space-X does indeed use lithium batteries on the Falcon-9 rocket, as noted on page 8 of the Falcon-9 User’s Guide
“The lens flare (X) was produced by x-ray thermal heating of the air surrounding the optical / x-ray target. I.E. the rocket.
“This explains the mechanism used to create the explosion – intense bombardment by x-rays of the lithium batteries on the rocket. Jeff even knew how you would achieve this – by using an X-ray laser. X-ray lasers have been around for some time, the concept dates to the 1970s and development of x-ray lasers began in the 1980s as part of the Strategic Defense Initiative or the ‘Star Wars Program’
“Therefore we can state with a good degree of certainty that the Space-X rocket was destroyed because someone targeted an X-ray laser weapon at the on-board lithium batteries.”
Because someone fired an x-ray laser at it
A Veterans Today Exclusive
This is not the plot of a Bond movie although it very well could be, it has all the hallmarks of a cold war spy thriller. Already, the conspiracy-minded folks are having a field day with this, my inbox overflowing with emails proferring potential scenarios, most of them with a distinctly extra terrestrial flavour.
Well, let me disappoint everyone, this was a strictly terrestrial, explainable event where no aspect requires an esoteric, alien or other-worldly theory to explain away.
Let’s begin with the actual explosion itself and what that could teach us about the event. I noticed right away that the explosion of the rocket was not a conventional molecular explosion, the white hot plasma ball was the give-away that this was a nuclear explosion:
Ian if you hit the lithium ion battery on a rocket with enough x-rays it will explode creating a small nuclear chain reaction as seen with this space-x explosion.
So Jeff confirms it – this was a small nuclear explosion. Space-X does indeed use lithium batteries on the Falcon-9 rocket, as noted on page 8 of the Falcon-9 User’s Guide:
Both the first and second stages host their own multiple redundant lithium-ion batteries to minimize the complexity of the electrical interface
There is more to be discerned from what we can see in the video, as Jeff went on to explain:
Lithium 6 when exposed to large amounts of x rays can create a small fission-fusion reaction called a nuclear trigger. The lens flare (X) was produced by x-ray thermal heating of the air surrounding the optical / x-ray target. I.E. the rocket.
This explains the mechanism used to create the explosion – intense bombardment by x-rays of the lithium batteries on the rocket. Jeff even knew how you would achieve this – by using an X-ray laser.
X-ray lasers have been around for some time, the concept dates to the 1970s and development of x-ray lasers began in the 1980s as part of the Strategic Defense Initiative or the ‘Star Wars Program’ as it was more commonly known. This work has doubtless continued since then and matured in the intervening decades into a practical weapon. See Appendix A for more info on the SDI work on x-ray lasers.
Therefore we can state with a good degree of certainty that the Space-X rocket was destroyed because someone targeted an X-ray laser weapon at the on-board lithium batteries. We know the US has X-ray lasers and it is highly likely that they possess a working X-ray laser weapon, given the 30 years of development time since the first working prototypes.
[ BTW, a humourous aside to this story – when I received the email from Jeff explaining that the rocket had blown up in a nuclear explosion caused when x-rays irradiated the on-board lithium batteries I happened to have a 15 pound lithium battery pack sat on my lap.
I made this pack myself from 18650 type cells, it is to power the electric bicycle I’ve also built. Both Space-X and Elon Musk’s other company, Tesla, use exactly the same lithium-ion technology, for example a Tesla S motor car has just over 6,000 18650 lithium-ion cells.
Anyways, when I read that bombarding these cells with x-rays could create a nuclear explosion I had to laugh as I had a pile of them sat 2 inches from my genitals. Good job there were no x-ray sources nearby! ..Ian]
The concept for x-ray lasers goes back to the 1970s, when physicists realized that laser beams amplified with ions would have much higher energies than beams amplified using gases. Nuclear explosions were even envisioned as a power supply for these high-energy lasers.
That vision became a reality at the time of the Strategic Defense Initiative of the 1980s, when x-ray laser beams initiated by nuclear explosives were generated underground at the Nevada Test Site. From fiscal years 1986 through 1993, SDIO spent $138 million for nuclear directed energy technology.
[ Editor’s Note: VT has a deep bench when it comes to some of these old programs, via personal contacts. SDI was preceded by a somewhat forgotten High Frontiers effort led by the famous Lt. General Dan Graham, who had a long Cold War resume.
He was deputy director of the CIA under William Colby and later of the Defense Intelligence Agency. When he retired from his 30-year military career, one of his big projects was pushing for the development of nuclear missile defense technology. It was named High Frontiers, and Graham was part of Ronald Reagan’s kitchen cabinet, asked to develop space-based kinetic energy weapons.
“As you know, Dan, you and I were talking about missile defense before you set up High Frontier in September of ’81… You and a small group of dedicated, determined people helped us move the SDI concept over all the roadblocks put up by people of less vision and belief in American capacity. God bless you!” — President Ronald Reagan, March 1993
As with all new big programs, one has to go to Congress for funding, and with a project of this scale, a major scientific research presentation had to be put together, and there was the age-old issue of how to raise the seed money. My long time friend and mentor, Jeff Davis of Atlanta was in DC at the time, when Graham went to him for advice about raising the funds.
Jeff Davis was an old Jaycee “crew member”, the alumni association of all the past state, national and international presidents, and a who’s who of successful Americans, from Supreme Court judges, to business, science, the military and even presidents like Richard Nixon. The Jaycee crew had its own annual convention, and General Graham knew that Jeff was well known there.
When Graham told him he needed a million-dollar budget to do the proposal, Jeff had an instant answer — to throw an invitation luncheon with tables at $100,000 each. He carried through on putting this together, and this launched High Frontiers, which was a private effort.
Kinetic energy weapons did not work out, but SDI certainly is still with us, especially after Bush (43) withdrew from the nuke treaties. The old time cold warriors are still pushing for their nuclear defense shield and reversing the disarmament efforts subsequent to the end of the Cold War.
Many feel High Frontiers to be a booster club for the Defense Industry, which has plenty of money and access to Congress to promote any defense initiative it wants, while High Frontiers continues to operate from a 501(c)3, as a grass-roots PR operation.
VT considers this somewhat comical with all we have learned about the technologies that have been suppressed for decades, if they were a financial threat to an established monopoly or trade group. Whether something is really needed for the national defense, or whether its purpose is to defend high defense expenditures has to be watched very carefully.
Frankly, I would have all these people testifying before Congress to take lie detector tests after their testimony. I suspect it would substantially reduce the number of experts willing to testify… Jim W. Dean ]
The Lawrence Livermore program to research nuclear-pumped x-ray laser systems accelerated after President Reagan’s “Star Wars” speech to introduce the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) in 1983. Teller* thought such a laser system would provide a shield for the United States against Soviet missiles. He championed the x-ray laser effort and numerous other R&D activities, including guided antimissile missiles called Brilliant Pebbles.
Livermore’s Novette, the precursor of the Nova laser, was used for the first laboratory demonstration of an x-ray laser in 1984. In the early 1980s, researchers were exploring how to produce x-ray laser beams initiated by nuclear explosives at the Nevada Test Site. At the same time, success was achieved creating a soft-x-ray (about 200 angstroms) laser in a laboratory setting using the Novette laser, which was a test bed for the design of Nova. Nova became operational in December 1984.
One of the weapons that had been considered under President Reagan’s SDI program was a nuclear powered X-ray laser. It would have been powered by a small nuclear explosion that produced a pulse of intense X-rays. Therefore, the weapon could not be placed in orbit, installed on a celestial body, or station in space under the Outer Space Treaty.
Even if the United States could use such a weapon without it being orbited, installed, or stationed in space, and thus not subject to the literal Article IV prohibitions, the United States still would have to show the world community that the spirit of the Outer Space Treaty was not violated.
In its 1984 directed energy plan, SDIO planned to pursue the development of nuclear directed energy to provide a base of knowledge that would permit the United States to better judge potential Soviet capabilities and to provide the basis for a ground-based or pop-up nuclear directed energy capability should it be needed at some point for the strategic defense system follow-on phases.
SDIO’S contributions included theoretical computational research along with contributions for diagnostic packages for Department of Energy underground nuclear tests and related laboratory experiments. SDIO and the Department of Energy have conducted a cooperative program that has included mission analyses as well as exploring system engineering concerns.
Based on their understanding of the physics of an X-ray laser, LLNL scientists developed computer models, which were used with other means to predict the results of underground tests. If the results of an underground test agreed with the predictions, LLNL scientists concluded that they generally understood the physics of how the aspect being measured worked. If there were significant differences, this meant that the physics were not well understood. In general, quantitative means that the results were “close” to the predictions, and qualitative means the results were “not as close.”
The X-ray laser is important to the SD1 program because the final SD1 design could depend upon whether the x-ray laser is feasible. If the Soviets could build an X-ray laser, then the survivability of American space assets could be questioned. Therefore, the United States would have to design its ballistic missile defense system to either survive or counter a Soviet X-ray laser attack. X-ray lasers have several potential military applications including counterdefense, booster kill, post-boost vehicle kill, reentry vehicle kill and discrimination of reentry vehicle decoys. The technology requirements for each mission are different.
LLNL official channels, which included Mr. Roy Woodruff, former LLNL Associate Director for Defense Systems, made statements about the status and potential of the X-ray laser, which were similar to most of the statements identified by Mr. Woodruff as being “overly optimistic and technically incorrect.”
The initial LLNL X-ray laser design concept was referred to as Excalibur and had an established brightness (power intensity) goal. Theoretical calculations on a different idea evolved into the Super-Excalibur concept in early to mid-1984, which had a brightness goal significantly higher than Excalibur. Brightness is the amount of power that can be delivered (per unit solid angle) by a directed-energy weapon. Brightness of the laser beam can be measured either at the laser device (source) or at the target, where the brightness would be less than at the source due to the source-target separation.
The Super-Excalibur concept “seems likely to make X-ray lasers a really telling strategic defense technology. For instance, a single X-ray laser module the size of an executive desk which applied this technology could potentially shoot down the entire Soviet land-based missile force, if it were to be launched into the module’s field of view.” (letter to Nitze from Teller) According to LLNL Director, Dr. Roger Batzel, there was nothing in Dr. Edward Teller’s letters that violated any laws of physics. In addition, Dr. Teller identified the Super-Excalibur concept as “in principle,” and the letters contained many qualifiers.
Although Super-Excalibur was conceptually much simpler, the physics may prove to be more difficult. According to Mr. Woodruff, the statement concerning the number of independently aimable beams was an example of Dr. Lowell Wood “selling Super-Excalibur.” He also felt that Dr. Wood’s use of artist’s drawings depicting possible x-ray laser usage implied an unwarranted reliability to something that did not exist other than as a theoretical calculation.
There are four properties of the x-ray laser that determine its performance: (a) the total power in the laser beam; (b) the color of the laser light; (c) the size or spreading (diverqence) of the laser beam; and (d) when the laser beam turns on and how lonq it lasts. The measurement of these properties is a difficult task because of the nuclear environment, and the hiqh intensity, short timescale of the 1asing nq process.
There was no “design flaw” in these experimentaal measurements. The hiqh intensity laser pulse interaccts stronqly with the measuring device during the time of observation. A scientific question was how accurately DOE could make the measurements and, thus, whether the quoted aboslute power was correct.
- 1978 Diablo Hawk–failed test of x-ray laser
- November 1980 Dauphin-test including Hagelstein’s design
- March 1983 Cabra x-ray laser test-failure because data garbled
- December 1983 Romano test-length of rods vs. gain showed x-ray lasing
- August 1984 Correo Test by Los Alamos-false brightness from interaction of sensors with bomb
- March 23, 1985 Cottage test-one sensor modified to look at brightness problem-Teller hailed as success
- December 1985 Goldstone test in spite of bent canister showed brightness less than expected by factor 10
- September 1986 Labquark – focusing seemed to work
* Edward Teller, father of the hydrogen bomb. The use of x-rays to power lasers grew out of the research he lead into the Hohlraum effect which lead to the two-stage hydrogen bomb.


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Mariah Carey needs no introduction. I mean, she’s topped the charts, she’s won the awards, and in her new memoir she dishes about all of it—and let’s just say, like her performances, her book has rhythm, drama, and sparkle.
As she says, the book “is composed of my memories, my mishaps, my struggles, my survival, and my songs. Unfiltered. I went deep into my childhood and gave the scared little girl inside of me a big voice.” It is with this big voice that the global icon, singer, songwriter, producer, mother, and sister divulges some of her most intimate moments—her relationship with her obsessive and, frankly sometimes scary ex-husband, Tommy Mottola, her clandestine relationship with Derek Jeter, the infamous 2017 New Year's Eve live performance, and so much more.
With the publication of The Meaning of Mariah Carey, we took the opportunity to ask Mariah Carey about the books she’s read and loved recently:
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
Recommended and sent to me by Ms. Oprah herself, this masterful book should be required reading for all. I’m currently rereading it. Isabel is such an incredible writer, and I’m actually going to read her first book next!
Becoming by Michelle Obama
I am hardly the first person to recommend this book, but if you have yet to read it, I suggest listening to our amazing former First Lady read her beautiful memoir to you. At a time when it’s so hard to feel joy and hope—learning, remembering, and hearing her story makes me feel so lucky that we have heroes like Mrs. Obama.
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
I absolutely love this book. Trevor beautifully articulates not only his challenges of being born into a society where your very existence is literally a crime but also an incredible story about coming of age and stepping into your power and identity.
Bossypants by Tina Fey
Bossypants helped keep me going during my pregnancy! Tina is brilliant and hilarious! I could really relate to her as a woman in an industry dominated by men. She's risen to the top with style and grace. “You let it out, honey. Put it in the book!"
The star opens up about some of her favorite books, including one that Oprah sent her.


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UPDATE: 8:32 p.m.
CHICAGO (CBS) — Protesters marched on fast-food restaurants on the west and south sides, and in the Loop, staging a Tax Day protest demanding an increase in the minimum wage to $15 an hour.
The protesters first marched on a restaurant at 8321 S. Ashland Av., which closed briefly while demonstrators rallied outside.
“We need a living wage. We’re really just asking for a living wage, so that we can be able to provide for our families, just like everyone else,” said Donald Jenkins, who makes $8.30 an hour working for McDonald’s.

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On May 24, 2023, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York held that ordinary horse breeding, without more, does not constitute farming activity under chapter 12 of the Bankruptcy Code. Certain creditors filed a motion to dismiss the case or, in the alternative, for relief from the automatic stay. Specifically, they contested the debtor’s eligibility under sections 109(f) and 101(18) of the Bankruptcy Code. In defense, Leonaggeo maintained that she qualifies for chapter 12 relief because she operates a horse farm and derives all her income from the farm. The court noted that Leonaggeo is a serial filer.
The court considered whether the debtor is a “family farmer,” defined as someone “engaged in a farming operation.” Most courts look to whether the activity in question involves risks similar to traditional farming, such as raising crops or livestock.
The court noted that there is a split of authorities over whether whether horse breeding, boarding, and training can be categorized as a “farming operation.” Ultimately, the court distinguished the authorities on one side of the split because they involved debtors engaged in other operations in addition to horse raising.
Here, the debtor was involved in breeding, training, and boarding horses as well as rider instruction. But the court found this to be insufficient. Accordingly, the court dismissed the case.


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We - 3 of us - have planned on dec 11th-25th to learn scuba diving and explore northern thailand + also attend FMP in Koh Pha Ngan. The schedule is already fixed and flexible. After 25th dec, let's see what can be done. Agree to share the accomodation costs equally but still low budget. Interested to join us?
[ Edit: no personal e-mail addresses in the forums please, use the mc instead ]
I will arriving in 28th dec and have no plans where i will be heading as travelling solo....do let me know your plans accordingly i will take up from there..may be we can spend new years togather...what do you say???
I was about to reply to this thread but realised I've been emailing you anyway!
I arrive in Thailand on the 30th of December and am spending a month in rhe region so if anyone wants to get together for a drink then give me a shout as I'm travelling solo and am looking forward to makin' some new friends.
Hi There...where are you at this time ....i am going back to bangkok 2nd january and will stay there for few days.....i was in Koh samet island!!!!Had a great time there!!!!


Updated, 3:50 a.m. ET| As news spread in China that a Chinese fishing boat had rammed and sunk a Vietnamese fishing boat about 20 miles from a deep sea oil rig that China has placed in waters contested by both countries, the reaction in social media appeared overwhelmingly supportive — even bellicose.
Critical voices appeared to be censored, including one that sharply criticized the Chinese Foreign Ministry, saying a comment it made about Vietnam after the incident calling into question the country’s credibility was “beneath the dignity” of a major power. But most commentators whose opinions were permitted to remain online by China’s tens of thousands of censors in the police and Internet companies, seemed excited by the action.
“Chinese fishermen are mighty! There are still heroes among the people!” wrote a person with the online handle Hou Ning on his Sina Weibo account. According to Vietnamese accounts, the 10 fishermen aboard the boat that sank on Monday were all rescued.


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