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HOUSTON (CN) — The owner of the largest natural gas pipeline network in North America must rebut claims it caused an explosion at a Mexican plant that killed 22 workers, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
Houston-based Kinder Morgan owns or operates 69,000 miles of natural gas pipelines in North America, including some that run from Texas to a plant in Reynosa, Mexico, an industrial hub on the southern bank of the Rio Grande.
The plant is owned by Pemex Exploración y Producción, a subsidiary of Mexico’s state oil company Pemex.
A gas leak there sparked an explosion on Sept. 18, 2012 that accelerated into a fireball that overtook workers running for their lives, lead plaintiff Javier Alvarez del Castillo said in his fourth amended complaint.
“They were engulfed in fire that burnt and singed every inch of skin from their head to their ankles, taking every bit of hair from their head, laying the plaintiffs ‘skinless,’ like skeletons bare to the bones, with in most cases only their footwear, be it ‘Nike,’ ‘Converse’ or work boots, attached to the only portion of their body not reduced to skeleton,” the complaint states.
Dozens of injured workers and survivors of the deceased sued Pemex, Kinder Morgan and subsidiaries in Harris County Court in September 2014. The case was removed to Federal Court in December 2014.
They also sued U.S. companies Emerson Electric Co., Honeywell Analytics and Draeger Safety Inc., who they allege installed faulty operating systems that prevented Pemex from monitoring gas pressure and leaks, or were part of a technical committee Pemex assembled to advise it how to avoid such explosions.
U.S. District Judge Keith Ellison on Wednesday dismissed all the claims against Pemex and its subsidiaries. He agreed with Pemex that they are immune under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act because they are all owned by the Mexican government.
Del Castillo claimed that the “‘commercial activity’ exception,” which can overcome sovereign immunity if “the action is based upon a commercial activity carried on in the United States by the foreign state,” applies, since Pemex bought the gas in Texas.
Ellison disagreed. “This allegation is insufficient in two critical respects: first, it fails to provide any factual elaboration for the conclusory assertion that the gas purchased in Texas caused the explosion, and, second, it fails to allege that it was the Pemex defendants who purchased the gas,” the 42-page order states (emphasis in ruling).
He also dismissed all of del Castillo’s claims against the other defendants, leaving only gross negligence and negligence claims against Kinder Morgan intact.
Kinder Morgan vowed to “vigorously defend the suit,” highlighting how many times Del Castillo has had to amend his complaint.
“In amending his complaint against Kinder Morgan numerous times, plaintiffs are grasping for a set of facts and theory of liability where none exist,” the company said in a statement.
Del Castillo’s fourth amended complaint says responsibility for the initial safety of the natural gas fell to Kinder Morgan and the pipeline defendants. “They were the first line of defense for the workers killed and injured in this explosion,” the complaint states.
“In fact, it is believed the gas lacked odorant,” the complaint states.
Kinder Morgan also failed to remove water and solids from the gas at its processing plants that moved the gas into Mexico, and the impurities increased the chances of an explosion, del Castillo claimed.
Ellison dismissed the negligence per se claim against Kinder Morgan, agreeing with the company that because del Castillo did not tie the allegations to any particular statute or regulation he did not meet the pleading standard.
The court noted that negligence and gross negligence are easier claims to advance, as they require just three elements under Texas law: a duty owed by the defendant to the plaintiff, a breach of that duty, and damages proximately caused by the breach.
“A gas company may be liable if facts show that it fails to act reasonably after having notice of defects in the pipes through which gas flows,” the ruling states, citing the Texas appellate court case Entex, a Division of NorAm Energy Corp. v. Gonzalez.
Though Ellison discarded all the defendants but Kinder Morgan, the impact on the families and workers was not lost on him.
“The Court is fully sensitive to the tragedy that is at the heart of this litigation. The injured employees, their families, and the families of the deceased have the Court’s utmost sympathy. But, even when — perhaps, especially when — the facts speak of tragedy, the law cannot be made to conform so as to fit the facts,” he wrote.
Kinder Morgan is represented by attorney James Bettis with Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr in Houston.
Though Bettis did not return a request for comment, Kinder Morgan noted in its statement that the company “does not have any equipment, personnel, operations, or activity in that part of Mexico” where the explosion occurred.
“Nor did Kinder Morgan have any involvement in the design, construction, maintenance, or operation of the plant,” the statement continues.

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Literature is an important source of cultural knowledge for young readers. It helps shape their perceptions of reality and teaches them what to expect from the world and the people around them. Therefore, it is important to do a communicative analysis of the literature that is prescribed for schools, in order to determine how identities are ascribed and negotiated, and how this can bear on intergroup and interpersonal relations. The conclusions can then serve to guide the selection of new books and the teaching of existing selections. In this study, the eleven novels that were prescribed in 2000 for Afrikaans First Language in Grade 12 in the nine provinces of South Africa are analysed thematically with respect to ethnicity, gender, and religion. Theories of Intercultural Communication are used to examine these thematic analyses. I conclude that the lists were indeed compiled for the purpose of transformation, and that ethnicity in particular gets awarded prominent treatment. The voices that are heard, however, belong overwhelmingly to one group, so that theirs is central to all reality, and the reality of others is seen only in relation to their reality. More or less the same applies to the aspects of gender and religion. There is also little awareness of gender issues, and gender roles are stereotypical.
Scholtz, D. 2001. Die hantering van identiteite in Afrikaanse voorgeskrewe romans in Suid-Afrika na apartheid : 'n kritiese evaluering = The treatment of identities in Afrikaans prescribed novels in post-apartheid South Africa : a critical appraisal. University of Cape Town.

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Posted January 4, 2019 by Andrew Dexter & filed under Headlines, News.
The CW has formally announced that it is giving Ruby Rose a Batwoman pilot episode, following on from her introduction as the character in the Elseworlds Arrowverse crossover event late last year.
Fans may have assumed, since Ruby Rose showed up in the crossover as a version of Batwoman whose world already seemed fairly fleshed out, that a solo series for the character was already a sure thing. However, now it seems that it was less of a done deal at that stage.
Only now, according to The Hollywood Reporter, has The CW decided to order a pilot episode. Once the pilot is made, the decision on whether or not to make a full stack of episodes will follow.
Caroline Dries (formerly of The Vampire Diaries) has penned the pilot and will serve as showrunner if the series goes ahead. David Nutter (who’s shot episodes of Game Of Thrones, Arrow and The Flash) is set to direct the pilot. Greg Berlanti, as ever, is set to executive producer.


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Everleana Wilson Johnson, 78, of Bay City, Texas passed away on April 2, 2019 in Bay City.
Visitation and guest registry will be on Friday, April 12, 2019 from 2 p.m. until 8 p.m. at Duncan-Roberts Funeral Home Chapel in Bay City.
Funeral services will be held on Saturday, April 13, 2019 at 11 a.m. at New Home Baptist Church in Bay City with Dr. T.L. Richardson, eulogist.
Burial will follow at Eastview Cemetery.
Arrangements with Duncan-Roberts Funeral Home 2500 Avenue C (J.P. Davis Blvd.), Bay City, Texas 77414; 979-245-5197.


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Assange was arrested last Thursday.(Henry Nicholls/Reuters) WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is seen in a police van after was arrested by British police outside the Ecuadorian embassy in London, April 11, 2019.
Moreno also reiterated the claim made by the Ecuadorean government that Assange’s hygiene and behavior constituted an “aggressive campaign against Ecuador” from inside the embassy.(Dolores Ochoa/AP) Ecuador’s President Lenin Moreno attends the inauguration of the “Agua Para Todos” or “Water for Everyone” government program, in Latacunga, Ecuador, April 11, 2019.
Meanwhile, bizarre footage of Assange skateboarding inside the Ecuadorean embassy has been obtained by the Spanish newspaper El Pais. According to the newspaper, Assange behaved “eccentrically” and security guards who had dealings with Assange between 2012 and 2017 corroborated the claims made regarding his hygiene.(Frank Augstein/Frank Augstein/AP, FILE) WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange greets supporters from a balcony of the Ecuadorian embassy in London, May 19, 2017.

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As the name suggests the former milking parlour is now a luxuriously comfy holiday cottage. It’s perfect for young families as well as couples and friends. From the private parking space close to the cottage you’ll walk across the front patio, an afternoon and evening sun trap  great for BBQs  past the lawn and into the spacious porch. Enter the welcoming open plan living room / dining room / kitchen. To the rear a garden door opens to a fenced patio, a trap for the morning sun, perfect for an early cuppa.
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At this time of year I am busy offering a helping hand to many people who have already lost sight of their new year goals or who are struggling to move forward. If this sounds like you - you are already falling off the wagon or your will power has gone into hiding – then read on!
New Year’s resolutions are notoriously difficult to stick to, with most people having given up within the first few weeks. There are a few reasons for this. One reason is the 'new year, new me' idea. It starts off with great gusto, but often with unrealistic expectations that, because you want to change, then it will happen automatically simply because it's a new year.
I coach people to make significant and lasting changes to their lives by using innovative and exciting techniques, including positive psychology and clinical hypnotherapy. This enables clients to develop a positive and powerful mindset.
It’s really important to create change for the long term, not just the short term. There is no avoiding the effort and hard work needed to make long and lasting changes, so once this becomes apparent the initial rush of excitement fades along with motivation. Secondly, people often start with a mindset for failure, thinking ‘I will try’. Try is not the same as ‘I will’ and leaves room for doubt. If you don't have the underlying belief you will really do something, then you won't put in the 100% effort needed to make it happen. Beliefs drive everything we do and unless you spend time re-wiring your brain and behaviours, then you will often slip back into bad habits.
Lastly, society doesn't help. There are hundreds of “new year” deals such as cheaper gym memberships or diet plans, at least for the first couple of months. The prices then increase as people drop off. This re-affirms people's beliefs that no-one sticks to resolutions!
My advice is that the best way to make changes is not to make a resolution at all, but rather to make a commitment to make a realistic change. Don't make a resolution, make a commitment to make a change that you will realistically need to work on every day for the foreseeable future. Start with one goal and make it small and achievable. Don't set about overhauling your whole life in one go. If you want to quit smoking, just focus on that one day at a time. Set yourself up to succeed and it will motivate you and boost self-esteem. Recognise that New Year is not the only time of year you can make a change. You can make it happen any day at anytime, why wait?!

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Mariner XpertVu Care provides immediate, automatic diagnosis of several key issues that impact the customers’ service quality of experience (QoE). XpertVu Care uses ‘signatures’ Mariner has developed based on over a decade of experience, insight and feedback as the market leader in IP service monitoring.
XpertVu Care is built to incorporate this information into existing systems, call flow tools and business processes. Building the XpertVu Care signatures as a web service call allows Mariner to work with diverse and often unique customer needs. It is not necessary to have a standalone user interface for XpertVu Care.
Let XpertVu Care perform automated guidance to your Tier 1 agents today and see how we can combine increased customer satisfaction and decreased operational expense.
Customer service and support teams often face a lack of objective, fact-based information on the in-home experience. Being able to isolate a problem is an important part of the troubleshooting process and a crucial part of ensuring customer issues are resolved as quickly and efficiently as possible.
Mariner SupportVu™ provides your Tier 2 agents with a powerful toolset to investigate, isolate and address advanced issues that do not lend themselves easily to automation.
See what your customer sees. With dashboards designed to give a subscriber’s view of the service, your team can assess the customer experience in real time, without the need for your customer to describe it.
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Mariner SupportVu™ gives you a deeper understanding of performance inside and outside the home and the tools to find those intermittent, frustrating issues that drive repeat trouble calls and customer annoyance. See the health of the devices in the home relative to the neighbourhood and deployment – highlighting patterns and events that are correlated through time.
Mariner xVu™’s unique service oriented approach to service management can alert the Help Desk to widespread network, access or outside plant problems, allowing you to quickly inform impacted subscribers when they call or even divert calls to IVR outage recordings.

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Ipswich Building Society has made four new appointments to its senior management team. Ashley Burton has been appointed to the position of Head of Change, Chris Brook to Head of Retail Operations, Rebecca Newman to Secretary and Denise Wilson to Head of Risk & Compliance.
Having developed a specialism for Investment Performance & Risk during her 35 years working for the likes of Barclays, JP Morgan, Mercury Asset Management and Global Asset Management, Denise Wilson has been appointed to the position of Head of Risk & Compliance to bolster Ipswich Building Society’s existing risk management function.
Chris Brook, who has taken on the role of Head of Retail Operations, has over 25 years’ financial services experience with NatWest and more recently at Director Level at Barclays. He is currently in his final year of his Executive MBA at Ashridge Business School. Chris will be responsible for creating and implementing the Society’s retail distribution strategy.
Prior to joining Ipswich Building Society as Society Secretary, Rebecca Newman was previously employed at AXA as In-House Legal Counsel, Assistant Company Secretary and Assistant Compliance Officer. Rebecca provided advice on the company’s obligations in relation to FCA/PRA and assisted with the implementation of policy and procedures to ensure the company’s compliance with all aspects of UK law. Rebecca qualified as a solicitor at a regional law firm in September 2008.
Ashley Burton has been appointed to the position of Head of Change, and will be responsible for managing Ipswich Building Society’s continued investment in its IT infrastructure. Ashley has a strong background in I.T and has managed various IT projects as a consultant for large corporates such as O2, Royal Bank of Scotland and Aviva. Ashley has also worked in-house for Fred Olsen Cruise Lines and has operated as a Project Manager at eServe Global, a software company.

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As part of the Maryville Ministerial Alliance, we support the Maryville Outreach Center in its mission to help and love people — through the Food Pantry, Grandma’s Attic, and Residents’ Assistance Program (RAP).
The Food Pantry is a non-profit organization that helps meet the needs of people who live in our community, who attend a local church, or who have a child in a Maryville school. The Pantry provides emergency and supplemental items such as food, personal hygiene items, paper products, and laundry/cleaning supplies for qualified individuals and families. Thanksgiving and Christmas baskets are provided annually.
Anyone can shop at Grandma’s Attic, a resale shop. All proceeds support the Food Pantry, Residents’ Assistance Program (RAP), and building/program costs.
The Residents’ Assistance Program (RAP) assists Maryville residents and church members with emergency needs, such as rent, utilities, and medications on a temporary basis.
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The Food Pantry and Grandma’s attic are staffed by volunteers from local churches. Volunteers are always needed during operating hours.
Donations of non-perishable food, personal hygiene items, paper products, and laundry/cleaning supplies may be dropped off at church or at the Outreach Center during Food Pantry hours (see above).
Donations of household items suitable for resale may be dropped off at the Outreach Center during Grandma’s Attic hours (see above). Grandma’s Attic does NOT accept furniture or electronics.


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PLAINFIELD -- Despite the fact her team started the season with two losses, Plainfield South junior forward Gianna Dodaro took plenty of confidence into Monday’s game against East Aurora.
Dodaro scored a beautiful goal in the 17th minute to get the Cougars going as they accomplished their mission and picked up their first win of the season, a 2-0 score over the Lady Tomcats.
“This is a good win,” said new Plainfield South head coach Alfonso Lopez. “It’s good to get that first one under your belt.
Dodaro, Chicagoland Soccer’s MVP of the Match, collected a loose ball at the top of the box with her back to the goal in the 17th minute.
She quickly turned and fired, ripping a shot inside the left post to put the Cougars (1-2-0) up 1-0.
“I actually don’t even know how that went in,” Dodaro said. “I just got it and took a quick shot, and it just went in. Getting that first goal was huge for us. As soon as we scored, we picked things up a lot.
Plainfield South spent essentially the entire first half on the attack against East Aurora (0-4-0). The Cougars fired 10 shots in the opening 30 minutes and put three of them on goal.
The fast start was more impressive considering senior midfielder Lindsey Bond, one of the team’s most dynamic offensive players, was on the bench for the majority of the first half due to an illness.
Bond showed a lot, making an immediate impact when she got into the game. In the 31st minute, she fired a shot that East Aurora goalkeeper Daisy Quinonez saved.
Four minutes later, she broke down the right side of the box, took a pass from Adanelly Escamilla and buried a shot inside the far post to make it 2-0.
Bond did exactly what Lopez expected.
East Aurora put up a stronger fight in the second half, holding Plainfield South off the scoreboard and generating a couple scoring chances of its own.
The Lady Tomcats did not put a shot on goal, but Paola Segunda got a good look off a Marubeni Nieto corner kick in the 67th minute, sending a header just high.
Nieto, a junior captain, was active all game.
East Aurora coach Obed Mendoza said the second half was a big step for a team that’s been outscored 23-0 on the season.
Quinonez made six saves for the Lady Tomcats.
Plainfield South happy to keep a clean sheet.
“We’ve been plugging some people in here and there,” Lopez said. “We’ve been down three defensive starters all year, but we’re adjusting.
Despite the win, the Cougars know they still have things to work on. Most important is finishing their scoring chances.
Plainfield South will get a chance to do some more scoring, and start a winning streak, Tuesday as the Cougars host Joliet Catholic.


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Located in the heart of London, King’s College London and our associated NHS partner hospitals provide a vibrant and globally recognised biomedical research community. Our integrated and multi-disciplinary approach to medical research provides a wealth of cutting edge training opportunities in fundamental discovery science, translational research and experimental medicine.
Our students undertake projects from across all our Health Faculties in areas as diverse as: structural biology, drug development, in vivo imaging, population genetics and clinical trials. The cohort-focused philosophy of our programme ensures that our graduates experience the diversity of our science, learn how to collaborate and think creatively, and leave King’s equipped to tackle key biomedical challenges of a rapidly changing world.
The MRC DTP benefits from a wealth of external and internal partners. We collaborate with the KCL Health Faculties, NIHR Biomedical Research Centres, the Wellcome Trust, the EPSRC Centre for Medical Imaging, as well as numerous industrial and commercial partners. These collaborations make us uniquely placed to offer students a diverse selection of training and networking opportunities.
Human Health is a dominant and unifying theme of research, training and education at King’s. We have a distinguished history in biomedicine and continue to be at the centre of cutting-edge discovery and applied research. Innovation and cross-discipline collaboration sit at the heart of our postgraduate research programmes. Our International reputation as a centre of outstanding scholarship continues to grow.
Our students drive the growth of the DTP. The enthusiasm of our students to deliver project engagement activities, lead social events, share research, and contribute to the wider programme with the support of our academic and managerial team is a real strength of the the DTP. We champion a student-led approach ensuring that student feedback informs the evaluation and development of activities.


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Budapest, Hungary: Caeleb Dressel won an historic seventh gold medal in Budapest on Sunday as the USA claimed the men's 4x100M medley relay title at the World Championships.
After Dressel swam the third leg, Nathan Adrian touched the wall first for the USA at three minutes, 27.91 seconds with Great Britain taking silver at 1.04 while Russia earned bronze at 1.45.
The 20-year-old Dressel has now matched US swim legend Michael Phelps' record of seven gold medals from a single worlds set at the 2007 championships in Melbourne.
Dressel's seven golds include three individual titles in the 50M, 100 freestyle and 100 butterfly, plus relay golds in the 4x100 freestyle, 4x100 mixed freestyle, 4x100 mixed medley and Sunday's 4x100 medley.
He became the first swimmer to claim three world golds in one session on Saturday by winning the 50 freestyle, 100 butterfly and mixed 4x100 freestyle titles in a jaw-dropping 98 minute-spell.
Dressel's stunning display has earned comparisons with both Phelps and Mark Spitz, who won seven gold medals at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich.
His historic achievements earned the University of Florida ace the award for the best male swimmer at the Budapest championships.


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Did you know that for less than $20,000 you could build your very own password cracker that, under ideal conditions, could try out more than 100,000,000,000 passwords EVERY SECOND?
That means you could churn through every possible 8-letter password in just 2 seconds, and every 9-letter password in under a minute!
So here is a short and straight-talking video that not only shows you how to pick a proper password, but also explains why you should bother.
Two-factor authentication (2FA) is a way of making it harder still for cybercrooks to login to your accounts.
Generally speaking, it requires you to use a one-time code that’s different every time you login, usually sent by SMS or generated by a special app on your smartphone.
Indeed, we think you should turn on 2FA for every account that will let you, but because you don’t pick the 2FA codes yourself, we didn’t think it quite fitted into the video, which is about helping you to choose wisely for yourself.
By the way, we’ve had some questions, over in the Sophos Spiceworks community, about the value of online password checkers, those web sites that claim to help you to decide whether you picked a proper password or not.
Password strength meters may help a little, notably that if they say a password is weak, it’s probably very weak.
But some of the ones we’ve seen tend to be influenced by the wrong sort of detail, like how many different sorts of character you’ve used, not how hard the password might actually be to crack.
Fitted? Really? Try E-D-I-T-O-R next time.
I think that’s one of those words where American English and British English differ in how they write the past tense.
There are quite a few words where American English uses exactly the same form in the present and past tenses while British English either adds -ed or changes the vowel.
Anyway, I ain’t gonna change it now. I think it’s well-fitted as it is.
Aint? I didn’t know Brits use that word.
Go to 1:18 of the video.
DOOOOOOOOH! I RETRACT. I SHOULD BE PUT IN THE SHAME CORNER OF THE INTERNET FOR THE REST OF THE WEEK.
Some people insist it’s better, but there are a few of problems with it.
Firstly, the assumption is that it’s always easier to remember a sequence of bizarre words using mental images than it is to remember a mnemonic sentence. But different people remember things differently.
Secondly, password “complexity” rules these days tend to insist on not using only a-z letters, even if you choose 48 of them. So you have to do the digits and punctuations anyway, and the plain mental images are no longer enough.
Thirdly, some apps and websites limit the length of your password. Android, for instance, seems to have an annoying limit of 17 (for digit-only PINs *and* all-character passwords); Microsoft’s cloud services don’t go longer than 16. So for those you need the mnemonic approach anyway.
Fourthly, I am not convinced that you really do get the entropy claimed in XKCD. Assume you use a 1000-word vocabulary for the XKCD-style passwords – that’s only 1000^4 passwords, or 10 x the magic 100 billion number mentioned above.
Sure its long, obnoxious, and will take a little bit to type in, but it would take a pretty long time to crack that. I added in some coding too.
My laptop is essentially nothing more than a scratch pad which is accessible only to me. Therefore no password just the ever faithful power on/off button. Love it!
If crooks *do* manage to crack that password, you would have at least some small consolation.
Because you could claim, even as they made off with your money or posted unlikely ads to your social media wall, to have Rickrolled them.
The two-factor authentication, though not a silver bullet, could be reliable when it comes with a reliable password. 2 is larger than 1 on paper, but two weak boys in the real world may well be far weaker than a toughened guy. Physical tokens and phones are easily lost, stolen and abused. Then the password would be the last resort. It should be strongly emphasized that a truly reliable 2-factor solution requires the use of the most reliable password.
There’s no way I’m going to be able to manage typing a ridiculously long and complicated password every time I want to do something with my password manager. You say 14 characters, but they’re only going to get longer as computing power gets cheaper. This is not sustainable. Our brains can’t handle it.
Try it. It’s nowhere near as hard as you think. You just have to get used to a bit of extra hassle.
I was wondering about the comment about password managers recognizing the websites and this being an additional aspect of security. It is true of course – but (at least for KeePass(XC)) it requires to use a browser plug-in, doesn’t it? And I have been advised to avoid these plugins giving access to the password database for security reasons. Then, what is left, is using auto-type – and having to check the website link oneself. One can’t win it seems.
What’s your take on these two aspects: risk of a plugin vs. benefit of website/link check?
You could always split your passwords between two databases, one of which your browser can access and the other of which it can’t.
Your browser will never need to know the verbal backup code for your bank, or the SSH password you use for console logins.
Personally, I don’t use a browser plugin – the cost is that it generally takes me about 10 seconds longer to login each time that most people. I’m good with that but I have had people express surprise that I am willing to “waste” so much time with passwords.
Oh, and even if you do have hard-random, 99-character passwords for every site plus a browser plugin that checks domain names scrupulously – check everything again yourself anyway!
Thanks, Paul, for your thoughts and advice.
I’m with you on not using a plugin myself. It’s more for finding the right advice for people that are not that much into IT and security like we are.


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Designed for homeowners with more work to do than time to get it done; homeowners who appreciate the century of innovation and durability established by time-tested Toro products. Toro’s new family of cordless 40V PowerPlex® Lithium Ion yard tools give you more power and save you more time with an interchangeable T90 battery provides up to 60 minutes of run time** and this battery charges in approximately 60 minutes in the quick charger. Three of the five products in the PowerPlex line carry a Brushless Motor, providing a more powerful, more efficient, and longer life than their brushed motor counter-parts. Featuring a 3 Year Full Warranty, Toro’s PowerPlex products are backed by one of the best yard tool warranties in the industry, keeping you running season after season. Battery and Charger not included with bare tool model.
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The Federal Road Safety Corps Celebrity Marshals, made up of top entertainment practitioners and media executives have concluded plans to begin a nationwide awareness campaign towards ensuring safe driving during the yuletide and new year season.
According to the group’s National Co-ordinator, Mr. Chris Nwandu, the initiative is aimed at using the star power and various platforms of members to engage the populace with a view to creating awareness as well as helping to change bad habits of motorists that have the tendency of endangering the lives of other road users.
He noted that the decision to embark on this initiative was taken at a meeting held shortly before the November edition of its monthly road safety patrol and awaremess programme.
Explaining further about the campaign , Lagos Chapter Head, Segun Arinze said the creatives being produced will cover social media, radio and television.
He also revealed that the group has opened the @CSMFRSC handles on twitter, instagram and facebook to disseminate information as well as allow members of the public react to CSM activities.


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We engage, educate, and empower each client, enabling them to build stronger connections between goals and financial resources.
We engage investors and centers of influence who are looking for a custom-tailored approach and a deeper understanding of wealth management. Our relationship with you will be built on empathy, trust, and mutual accountability.
We’re dedicated to helping you expand your financial knowledge through one-on-one communication, seminars, newsletters, special reports, and blogs. We also can educate you on managing everyday finances and the technology that makes this easier.
We challenge each client to uncover what you value most in life and to bring those values into financial alignment. Our financial advice will be benchmarked by the specific goals and values of defined life stages.
Our combined experience of nearly 50 years in wealth management has shown us that one solution doesn’t fit all. That’s why we created Chrysalis Capital Management, a firm dedicated to highly personalized service for our clients.
We base our relationship with each client on a deep understanding of overall financial situation, goals, fears, and challenges. In listening, we come to understand your core values, beliefs, and constraints.
We are unrestricted by proprietary entanglements, which allow us to identify solutions based solely on the unique needs of each client.
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Benefit from our collective wisdom and experience.
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Developing a financial plan, implementing it, and consistently monitoring progress can be quite a challenge. That’s why we’re here.
Smart investing can benefit you at any age or stage of life, whether you’re young and just getting started, you’re wondering about retirement, or you’re already there.
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For those who have built wealth over one lifetime or several generations, our experience guides us in developing an estate plan so you can successfully pass on your wealth to others.
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www.worldwatchweb.com - On 25 November 2011 the first flagship store of JORDI Swiss Icon, the new brand of Michel Jordi, opened on Niederdorfstrasse in Zurich.
A VIP evening preceded the opening, where the general public were able to see the original scissor-cutting design by artist Bartholomé Imobersteg that was the inspiration behind the new brand.
A 1090kg rock is on display near the entrance. Found at 46.57330 degrees latitude and 8.3812 degrees longitude, it was airlifted from Gletsch in the canton of Valais before being engraved and then installed in the shop by crane. It represents the source of the Rhone river, where Michel Jordi found the inspiration for his new collection.
Inside the shop there are two distinct areas: one devoted to watches and another to accessories. The JORDI Swiss Icon watch collection includes ladies and gents watches with quartz and self-winding mechanical movements. The accessories include shirts, leather goods, ties and silk.
The store also has a “Wall of Icons of Switzerland” including portraits of Ursula Andress, Vreni Schneider, Ferdy Kübler, Denise Biellmann, Le Corbusier, Giacometti, Bernhard Russi and Emil Steinberger.


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Caring Transitions of Southern Du Page Co. is here to serve your estate sale needs.
Caring Transitions is the nation's largest professional resource for household liquidations and relocation. We will manage and execute all aspects of the downsizing and relocation process: de-cluttering, liquidation, estate sales, clean out, organizing, move planning,and re-settling.


text: Not sure whether to high-five bees or run away from them? Well, maybe you shouldn't high-five them, but you definitely don't have to run away from them. In this enthusiastic, hands-on approach to bees, the book's narrator will convince the pizza-loving bee skeptic-and you-of just how cool bees really are. Did you know that 98 percent of bees are girls? Or that they have two stomachs (which would come in handy for more pizza eating)? Bethany Barton's hilarious text and kid-friendly illustrations will have you singing the praises of our buzzing neighbors-or at least will convince you to give bees a chance.

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Do you have any problem with your a/c? It is not cooling properly – shutting off abruptly! How about installing new a/c for your home or office? We offer reliable air conditioning installation across Lee Point, Lyons, Murihead, Nakara, Tiwi, Wagman and Wanguri. Efficient service – no risk of faltering – affordable service!
Top End Chill is a reputed organisation offering quality maintenance and servicing for your cooling system. We provide the ultimate solutions to cool down Australian homes and help our clients enjoy the extreme summer in style.
If an a/c is underperforming, there is a huge possibility that it is due to poor installation works. Because of it, you can lose up to 50% of your indoor heat without even realising it. Annually, you are paying unnecessary amount of energy bills due to poor duct work and installation, which could have been easily controlled, if it was done by an expert professional. Our team of qualified technicians offer the best solutions to help solve any issues with your air conditioning installation at a very affordable price.
Besides proficient workmanship we are highly recognised for our excellent customer services that includes, meticulous service, flexible scheduling, friendly and pro-active technicians and a wide array of high-quality brands for the best possible results. We supply and offer warranty servicing for globally popular brands such as Mitsubishi, Panasonic, Daikan and Fujitsu to name a few.
Over the years we have gathered enough knowledge, experience and skills to keep your cooling systems running efficiently. We cover everything form sales, installation, cleaning and servicing for split and multi-spilt system air conditioner. So wait no further and contact a reliable professional like us to get your air conditioning installation done across Lee Point, Lyons, Muirhead, Nakara, Tiwi, Wagaman, Wanguri.

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Investing in real estate and managing those investments is a way to generate wealth. Like everything else you need to learn how to get started.
When: Sunday May 25, 2014 – 2:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
This course is aimed at those in the early stage of real estate investing. Spend an evening with an experienced landlord/investor who will help you get started.


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I'd like to leave creative license to this one, but in case you wanted to incorporate Nimae doing some sort of salute, feel free. Nimae doesn't have to be in the siggie, so work with whatever you wish. In case multiple people work on it (I'm not professing that this will be that popular, but just in case), I'll add each one to my rotation. Thanks much, and I'm happy to answer any additional questions!
Thanks to Xakaal, Kurenio, Vephriel, Serenith, Sookie, Rongar, & Mossed for the amazing sigs (rotating), and to Serenith & Sookie for the (rotating) avatars!
Awww, that poor little bat! He will not be forgotten in vain.
Since I don't really feel like typing it all out again.
Have at it those who want to! More thank you's for the work already completed.
D'aww, I'd never heard of the SpaceBat story before.
Ahamagad! That's GORGEOUS, Vephriel!!! Thank you so much, it does him justice!!! The background is a lovely shade, and the font matches and complements SpaceBat beautifully!!!
EDIT: Added and running in rotation!
Veph that is a gorgeous gorgeous signature.
Poor little bat. Cannot believe they just let the poor thing die. So sad.
Off topic I know but had to comment.
I know, it's a sad story... It sounds like from their report the bat didn't land on the shuttle until it was cleared for take-off. They hoped it'd just fly away once it started lift-off, but other reports indicate he probably held on up until the upper atmosphere. If so, he's probably the only bat in history to go so high. Poor little dude!
Awww that's lovely, Kurenio!!! I love the gear you chose, it reflects the colors and theme so well--and the wording is lovely! Awesome work, thank you!!!
EDIT: Added to the rotation! Man, I wish I could work with graphic design like everyone can here on Petopia. These siggies are absolutely gorgeous.
I'd like to request a sig as well, please.
Here is my character's armory: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/k ... rra/simple and all current gear is fine other than tabard and ranged...Tabard of Summer Skies, and Steelhawk Crossbow (from Attumen in Kara) or Amber Messenger from BRC (if it's too hard to get her changed from a bow to crossbow) please. Helm is off. Alternately, cloak off and Ramkahen tabard would work too, whatever is easier for you.
Furball and Spike are her original two primary pets, with (bronze) Madexx running a very close third.
As far as setting, Davarra's a NE, always had a strong fascination with reaching the Emerald Dream, so I can provide a screenie for that, but if that's not really practical, anywhere on Teldrassil is great.
Anything beyond those basics, surprise me. Thank you in advance, whoever picks this up!
Sig and av by the very talented Kurenio!
@ Davarra I'll add it to my list, but I have a few request at the moment so you won't get it right away.
I'd like to do these all, but you might have to wait a bit as I'm taking a break and I have some rl stuff to do.

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By the end of 2018, Drone Harmony’s users have logged over 50,000 autonomous flights. This milestone could be achieved due to our teams’ commitment to both our vision and our customers’ valuable feedback. So what have our users taught us? In this article, we summarize some of the most valuable lessons we’ve learned.
Drone Harmony has made it its mission to make drone data acquisition a one-click operation, even in complex industrial use cases. When our customers start using Drone Harmony, they immediately appreciate its added value. But they also realize the potential of automation and begin to envision how additional manual, error-prone aspects of their work can be automated. Drone Harmony is working vigilantly to make this vision a reality, as every new benchmark reached represents a new breakthrough in the potential of drone-based workflow to scale and reach new markets.
What is the single most valuable aspect of automating mission planning and flight execution to our customers? It turns out that it is not the reduced costs, risks and time on site. While all the latter are important advantages, the true value stems from the fact that autonomous flights guarantee high quality, complete, non-redundant data every single time.
Digital data about assets and environments is available in a variety of forms, both on a global scale, and on databases belonging to individual organizations and assets. In most cases, customers are more than willing to use this data to simplify their drone operations. The most common forms of such data include DEMs, CAD, and meshed shape data and aerial imagery. Drone Harmony is working hard on integrating new data formats into the Drone Harmony mission planning framework to enable our customers to make good use of this data.
Drone mission planning is a complex task, especially in the difficult environment of an industrial asset. It does not mean, however, that an automation tool can afford cutting corners on simplicity and intuitiveness. Needing to do 10 clicks when it is possible to achieve the same with 5, is just an unnecessary source of errors, especially when performed in the filed, under time pressure and unfavorable weather conditions. We have thus learned to always rethink what we consider to be “easy” and “intuitive”.
What cannot be visualized convincingly is a source of uncertainty and anxiety for the operator. There is a level of trust that an operator needs to have in a tool that operates her 10k$ drone. The more the tool is able to visualize the planned behavior, as it will play out in the 3d environment, the more confidence will the operator have in the tool, and the more manual control will she be willing to give up and achieve the benefits of automation.
We are learning new things every day from our community. We are grateful to all the customers that are sharing their opinions and ideas with us. We are listening and doing our best to make your wishes for Drone Harmony come true in 2019.

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On April 10, brothers and sisters around the country celebrate National Siblings Day to honor the special bond that exists between siblings. On this day, siblings spend time with each other and reflect on memories shared together. Many siblings also post stories, pictures, and videos on social media using the hashtag #NationalSiblingsDay.
National Siblings Day was created by native New Yorker, Claudia Evart, in 1995. According to the Siblings Day Foundation, Evart created National Siblings Day in honor of her siblings, Alan and Lisette, who passed away early in life in separate accidents (https://siblingsday.org/about-us). Since its inception, National Siblings Day has been acknowledged by three US Presidents and has been observed in several other countries, too.
National Siblings Day is important to me because it gives me a chance to celebrate the special bond I share with my twin brother Nik. It also presents an opportunity to provide much-needed support to a group of people who are frequently overlooked: siblings who have brothers and sisters with chronic illnesses and disabilities. However, National Siblings Day has not received the attention it deserves and more awareness is needed to recognize the importance of this day.
My twin brother Nik is my biggest inspiration. Nik is 21 years old and has a rare, genetic condition called Mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS) II, also known as Hunter syndrome. Because of his condition, Nik is nonverbal and struggles with chronic pain. He needs continual care and supervision, which comes mostly from our family. He also needs frequent assistance from health care professionals.
I try to help my brother whenever I can. At home, I help my brother with his personal care. I assist with bathing and toileting. I also help prepare my brother’s meals and check that he takes his medications. In addition, I also accompany my brother to many of his medical appointments. By attending these appointments, I have been able to learn more about my brother’s condition and have found information that has helped me provide better care for my brother at home.
While providing care for my brother is challenging, the majority of our time together is positive and fulfilling. We love to hang out together. We enjoy going out to restaurants and going for walks in our neighborhood. Despite the numerous symptoms that come with his condition, my brother smiles and laughs every day. He shows me the importance of being positive. He shows me what it means to enjoy every moment. While these are lessons that I am only beginning to learn, I am glad to have my brother as my teacher and my inspiration.
On National Siblings Day, I am celebrating my twin brother Nik. My relationship with Nik has transformed my life. Because of Nik, I have learned how to be patient and kind. I have learned how to be a friend, a caregiver, a supporter, a protector, and a brother. Along with teaching me valuable life lessons, my brother has also inspired many of my passions and interests. I am now a junior in college, where I am pursuing a major in biology and a minor in anthropology. In the future, I hope to work in the field of medicine where I can further help my brother and others like him. My brother has impacted my life in countless ways and I am so thankful for the experiences that we share together.
Given the impact that siblings have on each other’s lives, it is important to recognize and celebrate siblings. Siblings often have the longest relationships of their lives together and can significantly influence one another. However, National Siblings Day is not a federally recognized day and many people do not know about it. Whereas Mother’s Day and Father’s Day are federal observances that have received widespread recognition, National Siblings Day has not received this level of attention (https://siblingsday.org/about-us). I believe National Siblings Day must receive more recognition and support from families across the country and from the government. Recognizing National Siblings Day gives siblings like me an opportunity to officially honor the unique and life-changing bonds we share with our brothers and sisters.
In addition to increasing the overall awareness of National Siblings Day, we must also do more on this day to specifically recognize the unique experiences and needs of siblings who have brothers and sisters with chronic illnesses and disabilities.
National Siblings Day gives me a chance to celebrate the life-changing bond I share with my twin brother Nik and it also gives me an opportunity to recognize and support other siblings like me. It presents an unprecedented opportunity to draw attention to all siblings, including those who have brothers and sisters with illnesses and disabilities. By honoring and celebrating the sibling bond on National Siblings Day, I believe we all can shine a bright light on the unique experiences of siblings and provide support both in the near-term and long run to these unsung heroes.
Author Bio: Nathan Grant is a junior at Harvard College and the President and Founder of Siblings with a Mission, an organization dedicated to supporting siblings who have brothers and sisters with illnesses and disabilities. Nathan’s inspiration comes from his twin brother, Nik.
This Siblings Flaunt was published in partnership with the fabulously flaunting organization Siblings with a Mission!


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Recliners are designed for a reason, so if you happen to find big and tall recliner Lazy Boy. As the name suggests, the recliners are bigger and wider than usual. If you compare such a thing with the regular piece, then you will find such a significant difference in size and dimension.
Recliners are designed to provide support for both the bottom and the back area, and the comfort will extend to the legs. The plush back support, the armed section, and the foot rest are all designed to deliver the best satisfaction. Since you are dealing with the big and tall recliner Lazy Boy, you should expect spending extra because of the bigger design.


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Acer has announced its strategy for 2008 at its recent Q3 conference in Taipai, saying that it aims to ship 25 million units worldwide, as well as its plans for the Gateway brand.
Speaking at the conference, Acer’s president, Gianfranco Lanci said: "We believe for the PC industry, it is very important to [expand] scale to survive."
He also said that in Acer’s major markets, such as Europe and the US, both Acer and Gateway continue to be sold, while the positioning of other territories and brands would be announced in March.
As part of the repositioning announced at the conference, Lanci said that Gateway would increase its output of notebook computers while decreasing its production of desktops. "Gateway’s problem in the US is that it mainly sells desktops, but the notebook is the fastest growing segment."
Lanci, however, warned that the channel would see no changes until the first quarter of next year due to the period of time it can take to create new products source products.


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There are certain bars that seem perfectly suited to drinking whiskey. Some are rich with mahogany and leather, the kind of place you’d want to light up a cigar; others, relaxed and easy, with something of a julep-on-the-porch, laid-back Southern vibe.
But it’s hard to compete with a legitimate saloon as a whiskey bar.Elixir, in San Francisco, has been a continuously operating bar since 1858, making it the city’s second-oldest. (Rebuilt after the great fire of 1906, it then survived Prohibition as a “soda fountain.”) Its Victorian heritage is palpable.
And it’s a veteran bar in another sense, too. Under the ownership of H. Joseph Ehrmann (better known, to everyone, as H.) for the last fifteen years, it was at the forefront of San Francisco’s craft cocktail revival. Today it’s a city mainstay, a comfortable spot for an afternoon beer, an elaborate evening cocktail, or—always—an interesting whiskey.
Ehrmann estimates that the groaning shelves of Elixir hold around 250 bottles of American whiskey alone. A huge proponent of private barrel selections, Ehrmann offers quite a few at any given time: Currently, Elixir has seven of their own private barrels in rotation; limited supplies of another six past barrels; and eight bottles from private barrels of other bars.
Follow it up with Elixir’s signature Boot Black Stout—made for the bar by local favorite Standard Deviant Brewing—and you have yourself an evening.
The post Where to Drink: San Francisco’s Elixir Bar, Open Since 1858 appeared first on The Bourbon Review.

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On July 21, 1969, Buzz Aldrin climbed gingerly out of Eagle, Apollo 11’s lunar module, and joined Neil Armstrong on the Sea of Tranquility. Looking up, he said, “Beautiful, beautiful, magnificent desolation.” They were alone; but their presence on the moon’s silent, gray surface was the culmination of a convulsive collective effort.
Eight years before, President John F. Kennedy had asked the United States Congress to “commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth.” His challenge disturbed the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s original plan for a stepped, multi-generational strategy: Wernher von Braun, NASA’s chief of rocketry, had thought the agency would first send men into Earth’s orbit, then build a space station, then fly to the moon, then build a lunar colony. A century hence, perhaps, humans would travel to Mars. Kennedy’s goal was also absurdly ambitious. A few weeks before his speech, NASA had strapped an astronaut into a tiny capsule atop a converted military rocket and shot him into space on a ballistic trajectory, as if he were a circus clown; but no American had orbited the planet. The agency didn’t really know if what the president asked could be done in the time he allowed, but it accepted the call.
This required the greatest peacetime mobilization in the nation’s history. Although NASA was and remains a civilian agency, the Apollo program was possible only because it was a lavishly funded, semi-militarized project: all the astronauts (with one exception) had been Air Force pilots and naval aviators; many of the agency’s middle-aged administrators had served in the Second World War in some capacity; and the director of the program itself, Samuel Philips, was an Air Force general officer, drafted into service because of his effective management of the Minuteman missile program. In all, NASA spent $24 billion, or about $180 billion in today’s dollars, on Apollo; at its peak in the mid-1960s, the agency enjoyed more than 4 percent of the federal budget. The program employed around 400,000 people and demanded the collaboration of about 20,000 companies, universities, and government agencies.
If Apollo commanded a significant portion of the treasure of the world’s richest nation and the coöperation of all its estates, that was because Kennedy’s challenge required NASA to solve a bewildering number of smaller problems decades ahead of technology’s evolutionary schedule. The agency’s solutions were often inelegant. To escape from orbit, NASA constructed 13 giant, single–use multistage rockets, capable of lifting 50 tons of payload and generating 7.6 million pounds of thrust. Only an ungainly modular spacecraft could be flown by the deadline; but docking the command and lunar modules midflight, sending the lunar module to the moon’s surface, and then reuniting the modules in lunar orbit demanded a kind of spastic space dance and forced the agency’s engineers to develop and test a long series of astronautical innovations. Men died, including the crew of Apollo 1, who burned in the cabin of their command module. But before the program ended in 1972, 24 men flew to the moon. Twelve walked on its surface, of whom Aldrin, following the death of Armstrong last August, is now the most senior.
Why did they go? They brought back little—841 pounds of old rocks, Aldrin’s smuggled aesthetic bliss, and something most of the 24 emphasized: a new sense of the smallness and fragility of our home. (Jim Lovell, not untypically, remembered, “Everything that I ever knew—my life, my loved ones, the Navy—everything, the whole world, was behind my thumb.”) The cynical, mostly correct answer is that Kennedy wanted to demonstrate the superiority of American rocketry over Soviet engineering: the president’s challenge was made in May of 1961, little more than a month after Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space. But it does not adequately explain why the United States made the great effort it did, nor does it convey how the lunar landings were understood at the time.
To contemporaries, the Apollo program occurred in the context of a long series of technological triumphs. The first half of the century produced the assembly line and the airplane, penicillin and a vaccine for tuberculosis; in the middle years of the century, polio was on its way to being eradicated; and by 1979 smallpox would be eliminated. More, the progress seemed to possess what Alvin Toffler dubbed an “accelerative thrust” in Future Shock, published in 1970. The adjectival swagger is pardonable: for decades, technology had been increasing the maximum speed of human travel. During most of history, we could go no faster than a horse or a boat with a sail; by the First World War, automobiles and trains could propel us at more than 100 miles an hour. Every decade thereafter, cars and planes sped humans faster. By 1961, a rocket-powered X-15 had been piloted to more than 4,000 miles per hour; in 1969, the crew of Apollo 10 flew at 25,000. Wasn’t it the very time to explore the galaxy—”to blow this great blue, white, green planet or to be blown from it,” as Saul Bellow wrote in Mr. Sammler’s Planet (also 1970)?
Perhaps the most influential photograph from the Apollo lunar landings: Buzz Aldrin’s footprint in the moon’s gray, powdery surface.
Since Apollo 17’s flight in 1972, no humans have been back to the moon, or gone anywhere beyond low Earth orbit. No one has traveled faster than the crew of Apollo 10. (Since the last flight of the supersonic Concorde in 2003, civilian travel has become slower.) Blithe optimism about technology’s powers has evaporated, too, as big problems that people had imagined technology would solve, such as hunger, poverty, malaria, climate change, cancer, and the diseases of old age, have come to seem intractably hard.
I remember sitting in my family’s living room in Berkeley, California, watching the liftoff of Apollo 17. I was five; my mother admonished me not to stare at the fiery exhaust of the Saturn 5 rocket. I vaguely knew that this was the last of the moon missions—but I was absolutely certain that there would be Mars colonies in my lifetime. What happened?
That something happened to humanity’s capacity to solve big problems is a commonplace. Recently, however, the complaint has developed a new stridency among Silicon Valley’s investors and entrepreneurs, although it is usually expressed a little differently: people say there is a paucity of real innovations. Instead, they worry, technologists have diverted us and enriched themselves with trivial toys.
The argument, of course, is wildly hypocritical. PayPal’s capos made their fortunes in public stock offerings and acquisitions of companies that did more or less trivial things. Levchin’s last startup, Slide, was a Founders Fund investment: it was acquired by Google in 2010 for about $200 million and shuttered earlier this year. It developed Facebook widgets such as SuperPoke and FunWall.
But the real difficulty with Silicon Valley’s explanation is that it is insufficient to the case. The argument that venture capitalists lost their appetite for risky but potentially important technologies clarifies what’s wrong with venture capital and tells us why half of all funds have provided flat or negative returns for the last decade. It also usefully explains how a collapse in nerve reduced the scope of the companies that got funded: with the exception of Google (which wants to “organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful”), the ambitions of startups founded in the last 15 years do seem derisory compared with those of companies like Intel, Apple, and Microsoft, founded from the 1960s to the late 1970s. (Bill Gates, Microsoft’s founder, promised to “put a computer in every home and on every desktop,” and Apple’s Steve Jobs said he wanted to make the “best computers in the world.”) But the Valley’s explanation conflates all of technology with the technologies that venture capitalists like: traditionally, as Gibney concedes, digital technologies. Even during the years when VCs were most risk-happy, they preferred investments that required little capital and offered an exit within eight to 10 years. The venture capital business has always struggled to invest profitably in technologies, such as biotechnology and energy, whose capital requirements are large and whose development is uncertain and lengthy; and VCs have never funded the development of technologies that are meant to solve big problems and possess no obvious, immediate economic value. The account is a partial explanation that forces us to ask: putting aside the personal-computer revolution, if we once did big things but do so no longer, then what changed?
Silicon Valley’s explanation has this fault, too: it doesn’t tell us what should be done to encourage technologists to solve big problems, beyond asking venture capitalists to make better investments. (Founders Fund promises to “run the experiment” and “invest in smart people solving difficult problems, often difficult scientific or engineering problems.”) Levchin, Thiel, and Garry Kasparov, the former world chess champion, had planned a book, to be titled The Blueprint, that would “explain where the world’s innovation has gone.” Originally intended to be released in March of this year, it has been indefinitely postponed, according to Levchin, because the authors could not agree on a set of prescriptions.
Let’s stipulate that venture-backed entrepreneurialism is essential to the development and commercialization of technological innovations. But it is not sufficient by itself to solve big problems, nor could its relative sickliness by itself undo our capacity for collective action through technology.
The answer is that these things are complex, and that there is no one simple explanation.
Sometimes we choose not to solve big technological problems. We could travel to Mars if we wished. NASA has the outline of a plan—or, in its bureaucratic jargon, a “design reference architecture.” To a surprising degree, the agency knows how it might send humans to Mars and bring them home. “We know what the challenges are,” says Bret Drake, the deputy chief architect for NASA’s human spaceflight architecture team. “We know what technologies, what systems we need” (see “The Deferred Dreams of Mars”). As Drake explains, the mission would last about two years; the astronauts would spend 12 months in transit and 500 days on the surface, studying the geology of the planet and trying to understand whether it ever harbored life. Needless to say, there’s much that NASA doesn’t know: whether it could adequately protect the crew from cosmic rays, or how to land them safely, feed them, and house them. But if the agency received more money or reallocated its current spending and began working to solve those problems now, humans could walk on the Red Planet sometime in the 2030s.
We won’t, because there are, everyone feels, more useful things to do on Earth. Going to Mars, like going to the moon, would follow upon a political decision that inspired or was inspired by public support. But almost no one feels Buzz Aldrin’s “imperative to explore” (see the astronaut’s sidebar).
Sometimes we fail to solve big problems because our institutions have failed. In 2010, less than 2 percent of the world’s energy consumption was derived from advanced renewable sources such as wind, solar, and biofuels. (The most common renewable sources of energy are still hydroelectric power and the burning of biomass, which means wood and cow dung.) The reason is economic: coal and natural gas are cheaper than solar and wind, and petroleum is cheaper than biofuels. Because climate change is a real and urgent problem, and because the main cause of global warming is carbon dioxide released as a by-product of burning fossil fuels, we need renewable energy technologies that can compete on price with coal, natural gas, and petroleum. At the moment, they don’t exist.
Happily, economists, technologists, and business leaders agree on what national policies and international treaties would spur the development and broad use of such alternatives. There should be a significant increase in public investment for energy research and development, which has fallen in the United States from a height of 10 percent in 1979 to 2 percent of total R&D spending, or just $5 billion a year. (Two years ago, Bill Gates, Xerox chief executive Ursula Burns, GE chief executive Jeff Immelt, and John Doerr, the Silicon Valley venture capitalist, called for a threefold increase in public investments in energy research.) There should be some kind of price on carbon, now a negative externality, whether it is a transparent tax or some more opaque market mechanism. There should be a regulatory framework that treats carbon dioxide emissions as pollution, setting upper limits on how much pollution companies and nations can release. Finally, and least concretely, energy experts agree that even if there were more investment in research, a price on carbon, and some kind of regulatory framework, we would still lack one vital thing: sufficient facilities to demonstrate and test new energy technologies. Such facilities are typically too expensive for private companies to build. But without a practical way to collectively test and optimize innovative energy technologies, and without some means to share the risks of development, alternative energy sources will continue to have little impact on energy use, given that any new technology will be more expensive at first than fossil fuels.
Sometimes big problems that had seemed technological turn out not to be so, or could more plausibly be solved through other means. Until recently, famines were understood to be caused by failures in food supply (and therefore seemed addressable by increasing the size and reliability of the supply, potentially through new agricultural or industrial technologies). But Amartya Sen, a Nobel laureate economist, has shown that famines are political crises that catastrophically affect food distribution. (Sen was influenced by his own experiences. As a child he witnessed the Bengali famine of 1943: three million displaced farmers and poor urban dwellers died unnecessarily when wartime hoarding, price gouging, and the colonial government’s price–controlled acquisitions for the British army made food too expensive. Sen demonstrated that food production was actually higher in the famine years.) Technology can improve crop yields or systems for storing and transporting food; better responses by nations and nongovernmental organizations to emerging famines have reduced their number and severity. But famines will still occur because there will always be bad governments.
Yet the hope that an entrenched problem with social costs should have a technological solution is very seductive—so much so that disappointment with technology is inevitable. Malaria, which the World Health Organization estimates affected 216 million people in 2010, mostly in the poor world, has resisted technological solutions: infectious mosquitoes are everywhere in the tropics, treatments are expensive, and the poor are a terrible market for drugs. The most efficient solutions to the problem of malaria turn out to be simple: eliminating standing water, draining swamps, providing mosquito nets, and, most of all, increasing prosperity. Combined, they have reduced malarial infections. But that hasn’t stopped technologists such as Bill Gates and Nathan Myhrvold, the former chief technology officer of Microsoft (who writes about the role of private investors in spurring innovation), from funding research into recombinant vaccines, genetically modified mosquitoes, and even mosquito-zapping lasers. Such ideas can be ingenious, but they all suffer from the vanity of trying to impose a technological solution on what is a problem of poverty.
Finally, sometimes big problems elude any solution because we don’t really understand the problem. The first successes of biotechnology in the late 1970s were straightforward: breakthroughs in manufacturing, in which recombinant E. coli bacteria were coaxed into producing synthetic versions of insulin or human growth hormone, proteins whose functions we thoroughly understood. Further breakthroughs in biomedicine have been more difficult to achieve, however, because we have struggled to understand the fundamental biology of many diseases. President Richard Nixon declared war on cancer in 1971; but we soon discovered there were many kinds of cancer, most of them fiendishly resistant to treatment, and it is only in the last decade, as we have begun to sequence the genomes of different cancers and to understand how their mutations express themselves in different patients, that effective, targeted therapies have come to seem viable. (To learn more, see “Cancer Genomics.”) Or consider the “dementia plague,” as Stephen S. Hall has. As the populations of the industrialized nations age, it is emerging as the world’s most pressing health problem: by 2050, palliative care in the United States alone will cost $1 trillion a year. Yet we understand almost nothing about dementia and have no effective treatments. Hard problems are hard.
It’s not true that we can’t solve big problems through technology; we can. We must. But all these elements must be present: political leaders and the public must care to solve a problem, our institutions must support its solution, it must really be a technological problem, and we must understand it.
The Apollo program, which has become a metaphor for technology’s capacity to solve big problems, met these criteria, but it is an irreproducible model for the future. This is not 1961: there is no galvanizing historical context akin to the Cold War, no likely politician who can heroize the difficult and dangerous, no body of engineers who yearn for the productive regimentation they had enjoyed in the military, and no popular faith in a science-fictional mythology such as exploring the solar system. Most of all, going to the moon was easy. It was only three days away. Arguably, it wasn’t even solving much of a problem. We are left alone with our day, and the solutions of the future will be harder won.
We don’t lack for challenges. A billion people want electricity, millions are without clean water, the climate is changing, manufacturing is inefficient, traffic snarls cities, education is a luxury, and dementia or cancer will strike almost all of us if we live long enough. In this special package of stories, we examine these problems and introduce you to the indefatigable technologists who refuse to give up trying to solve them.


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We are all about spreading the word of Allah [i.e. the Qur’an] in our local community. Since the rise of the EDL and Britain First, there has been a increase of Islamaphobic in the public realm, and due to this, many people are being fed misguided lies about Islam.Since the word of Allah is the best of speech, and the guidance of Prophet Muhammad [sal Allahu alayhi wasallam] is the best of guidance, we thought that simply offering the general public an opportunity to obtain a free Qur’an and read it for themselves would dispel much of the propaganda. So we began this initiative with this objective in mind, and al hamdu Lillah it came from being a local effort to being a nationwide effort in a very short space of time.
With the responsibility of da’wah you will always be challenged by those who throw objections and false misconceptions. This is where defending the faith comes in.Therefore we have a dedicated section to dispel the many common myths that people spread about Islam. These articles are written giving satisfactory answers to new Muslims with troubled hearts about the many lies that they hear or will hear about Islam. They need solid answers to strengthen their imaan, and with Allah’s pleasure and grace, this is what we hope to do.We also aim need to set up a New Muslim Support Network – yet no man is an Island – what I often find when I am doing da’wah, is that other Muslims will bring me new Muslims to look after. Just to look after one new convert is a delicate matter and twenty new Muslims on the shoulders of one Muslim is very burdensome. We need a system, and what system is there better than that of the Prophet [sal Allahu alayhi wasallam] when he set up Muhajireen and the Ansaar system?
Do consider each new Muslim a Muhajir to this deen, as they possibly have left everything they have previously known to enter Islam whole-heartedly, no matter how strong they may seem, they need your help. They may even need a new family and financial assistance. Let us not be as tight and ungenerous, open your heart to a Muhajir and Allah will give you gardens in sha Allah. We need people to act as Ansaar to new Muslims, and help neuter them in the true teachings of the religion of Allah, the Merciful.
3. Tajweed programme in how to read the Qu’ran 4. Basic Aqeedah classes – Islamic beliefs and possibly more We also aim to host various opening days Islamic exhibitions in the many mosques around Nottingham, raising awareness in the community that the mosque is open to the general public, and that there are people in each area of Nottingham city that will act as a first point of contact should anybody need any type of help or if they have any questions answering. The exhibitions will also be informative about Islam, with giant posters explaining the beliefs of Islam, the Prophetic seerah, the history of compilation of the Qur’an and Ahaadeth, and other exhibition pieces. We also hope to provide free take away gifts and free food upon the day. If this sounds good to you, then please feel generous to donate money, time or any skills you may feel that would benefit the project.
If you’re looking for a great way to invest in your hereafter, then support the da’wah, the JHD of spreading the message of Islam fee sabeel Lillahi. This will merit you the mercy and forgiveness of Allah and some top class real estate in Jannat ul-Firdous in-sha-Allah.
This is an opportunity for you to spend some of yourhard earned cash in the way of Allah and earn His pleasure and reward thereby. We are not begging your donations, Allah will help us indeed, we have that trust in Allah, and we are sure there are good people out there ready to spend in the way of Allah.What will you do for Allah and His deen?
Will you help us spread the message by helping us?
Make a donation to help us print materials and keep this da’wah mission running? It is really up to you. How much do you value the message of Islam? How much do you love Allah and His Messenger [salAllahualayhiwasallam] – this is not for us, this mission is entirely selfless. We are all working for Allah and His pleasure, His forgiveness.If you cannot donate financially, at least dodu’a for us that we are provided the means to keep this project running so that we can do more good deeds and invite people to the way of Islam with beauty.


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Cross-channel shopping experiences have long been the norm for e-commerce end customers. However, the omnichannel trend is increasingly posing major challenges for logistics companies. Small-scale orders, short response times and high volumes of returns are pushing the logistics structures of industrial and commercial enterprises to their limits. The consequence is that a lot of companies are having to rethink their warehouse processes, which have developed incrementally over many years. In its latest white paper on “Efficient warehouse management for e-commerce”, the Ehrhardt + Partner Group (EPG) discusses what companies need to consider when they go about choosing their logistics software for e-commerce. The white paper is aimed at users who want to restructure their processes, as well as at companies looking to enter e-commerce. The white paper is freely available to download here.
e-commerce: Transparency and flexibility for logistics.
The expectations of e-commerce customers are constantly growing. Just a few years ago, customers were still happy to accept waiting times for online orders. Now, customers expect next-day delivery, and the demand for same-day delivery is growing steadily. Businesses have to access flexible and optimized logistics structure to continue to meet the high demands of customers in the future. One of the core requirements is to slim legacy process workflows down to the essentials and adapt them to the requirements of e-commerce. Ever smaller orders and the growing number of returns in particular call for a particularly high degree of efficiency from the logistics IT in place. In its new white paper, EPG provides an overview of how companies are making their logistics fit for e-commerce. The white paper provides guidance with practical tips on choosing an efficient warehouse management system that can handle the challenges of e-commerce in the long term.


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"Doth Job fear God for nought?"
T & J are serving in Africa. T is a consultant to Bible translation teams from multiple people groups. Pray today for God to give these missionaries the safety that they need to continue their work and for healing for T as he battles cancer. They are celebrating the recent completion of the Rendille Bible. Pray that God will use this new translation to change lives among the Rendille people.
Al Massira is an online course for groups to use that presents the Christian faith through a chronological overview of the Bible. It centers the Christian faith in its original Middle Eastern context and includes a variety of integrated activities: viewing the films, open discussion, prayer, food and companionship. Pray today for those just starting the course, that they will find Jesus through it and begin a new life with him.


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MathewBracken,what make u think to say that??
I got an unit wana sell off at Sri Teratai Apartment. RM120K nego Freehold.
It seem like public can easily access to it. is it safe to stay in?
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Mostly of the owners are buyer or rent it out?
How's Sutramas Puchong? Any comment ppl?
Property - "cashflow property investment"
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Как создать успешный инновационный продукт, причем быстро!
Product or service innovation is the result of bringing to life a new and better way to create customer value that benefits both the customer and the innovator.
Successful companies introduce new products faster that the competition and design new products for efficient manufacture.
Процесс дизайна новых продуктов в Apple Inc.

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