Richer Vouilloz is from France. Richer was born in Lyon. Richer is an alumni of St Michael College , Brussels. Richer was born on February 19, 1991. Richer receives email at vouilloz@gmail.com. Richer is a barrister. Richer has the unique identifier c1cfaae3e8f84672b482bcf5a538b0f6.<|endoftext|>empowers the poor comes about because of lobbyists. But the president wants to restore our democracy. He understands that legislation is supposed to be for the people and not the corporations, not for exploiting the people but empowering them.

That's the number-one reason to put President Obama back in office: He will represent the people.

What's the number-two reason?
To keep Mitt Romney out of office. So we don't continue to support the old ways of working against the middle class and the poor.

You know, poor is not a popular word. Because everyone thinks they're not poor. But all of America's underserved communities, including the middle class, will be disenfranchised if Mitt Romney is elected.

Already, the rich keep getting richer and the poor keep getting poorer. There is a lack of educational opportunities and health care ... This stuff is barbaric. No country in the world should tolerate it. Yet we keep saying that we're "number one." I won't knock the president or Mitt Romney for saying it on television. But they're not telling the truth.

We are not number one in education. We are not number one in health care. We need to improve. We need to educate our middle class. We need to take care of our sick. Those are big issues for me. And unlike Romney, I think the president is working and will continue to work for the people, moving toward all those goals. And that's why I go to work for him.

The '80s and early '90s was a sort of golden era for hip-hop in politics. But is rap today as politically active as it should be?
It comes in stages. But you can't put the whole community in one box. We've gotten people involved in so many issues. All the work that Jay-Z has done to fight anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. Then there's Diddy and his efforts to change drug laws. And we're not only political, we're very socially engaged.

Every rap artist has a charity! I don't give a shit what name you come up with ... Chingy for Change, the Ludacris Foundation, Daddy's House, the Shawn Carter Foundation, the Shady Foundation. Rappers are way more social, they do more in their communities than the average elected official. You can name all these charities for every rapper. But you can't name no charity for none of these congressmen.

There's always this burden put on rappers: Why don't these guys do more? Well, they do a lot. They don't escape their communities. They don't try to. They're always working for the people.
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Private-market real estate and private real estate investing refers to the universe of non-traded real estate investments; illiquid by definition and typically characterized by investment in a discrete property. Private-market real estate investments stand in contrast to publicly-traded REITs (real estate investment trusts) which are liquid but tend to correlate with public equities markets.

EquityMultiple and other syndication platforms allow individual investors to access private real estate at relatively low minimums. This form of real estate investment is often considered an “alternative asset”.

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"3 drops of sweat" conversations...

stargal: *grumble*grumble* company making money, and yet force us to take unpaid leave...
bossboss: must think positively. this way, u can go home more often mar
boss: yeah, must spend more time with ur parents...

a few days later...

bossboss: wah, u're taking so many days off for cny?
boss: yeah lar. how can take such a long stretch?
stargal: must spend more time with the parents...
bossboss & boss: *sweat*

KL: hello, i won't be going for practice tonight ok?
stargal: har? then how?
KL: so u all just do ur own sectional lar
stargal: sien lor. why u can't come???
KL: my car broke down lar. u wanna buy me a new car?
stargal: ok, so u dun have to come lar! bye-bye!
KL: *sweat*

aunty: why u keep carrying your backpack like that? put it down lar...
stargal: hehe... it's ok. i'm used to it
aunty: don't you feel very "san-fu" (canto: difficult) carrying your bag like that while eating?
stargal: no lar, i'm always doing this. besides, i'll be the first to go if we need to "jao-lou" (run away)
aunty: *sweat*

stargal: KL, those extra cake, u bring home for your Tiger lar
KL: har? who is Tiger?
stargal: ur dog's name is not Tiger meh?
KL: since when? no lar...
stargal: eh?? then Tiger is whose dog?
KL: how i know ar?
stargal: i dun care! ur dog is Tiger!
KL: *sweat*<|endoftext|>Premature Babies In ICU Celebrate Carnival Weekend In Superhero Costumes

BARCELONA, Spain — The parents of a set of premature babies had a special day at a Barcelona-based hospital’s intensive care unit after the babies were dressed up in their superhero costumes to celebrate the Carnival weekend.

Erika Sanchez, 44, coordinator of the Intensive Care Unit, said all the parents burst into tears when the nurses brought the babies in with the superhero costumes, including Superman, Captain America, and Batman, as well as various cute animals.

“The families did not expect that since they didn’t know it was the Carnival day already,” Sanchez said. “It was a very touching moment, as staying here is a very monotonous situation, all the days are the same, yet that day was different!”

The premature babies with their parents at the hospital. (Hospital Clinic Barcelona/Real Press)

The babies were under observation at the Clinic Hospital of Barcelona, in the eastern Spanish province of Catalonia, and they celebrated Carnival weekend with amazing handmade superhero and animal costumes that surprised their parents.

Referring to the coronavirus pandemic that has rocked the country since last year, Sanchez said they wanted it to be a special day for everyone.

“Once again the newborns of the Maternity Hospital #CLÍNIC they have surprised their parents with their costumes this Carnival morning,” tweeted the hospital sharing the from the carnival day. “An initiative by the nursing team, so they can celebrate this holiday despite being in a hospital.”

The idea of dressing up the babies as superheroes and animals came about two years ago, in 2019 when a nurse who loved sewing decided to do something different.

Since then, the Carnival weekend has turned into something of a tradition. This year, the nurses had to use the costumes they used last year, as it is currently banned to bring outside items into the hospital, but it was worth it.

“The smallest babies being cared for there were born at only 26 weeks of the pregnancy and weigh around 500 to 600 grams (1.1 to 1.3 lbs), as they were twin girls, but now with the costumes they weigh more, around 1 kilogram (2.2 lbs)” Sanchez said.

The idea of dressing up the babies as superheroes and animals came about two years ago. (Hospital Clinic Barcelona/Real Press)

Premature babies with extreme health conditions “need to be assisted ventilated as they stay in an incubator to give them heat.”

However, the hospital encourages as much skin-to-skin contact between parents and their babies as possible.

Sanchez explained that the parents give them heat and comfort, as well as stability, and it helps to create a link between the babies and the parents. It also helps with the production of breastfeeding milk.

“Holding your baby close to your chest is a special experience that can help build the bond between you and your new family member,” as per the Cleveland Clinic. “This type of touch isn’t just good for bonding — it’s also medically beneficial for your baby.”

The initiative has also created a link between the hospital and the babies being looked after there. In fact, Sanchez explained the first babies with superhero and animal costumes in 2019 still wear similar costumes now, as

empowers the poor comes about because of lobbyists. But the president wants to restore our democracy. He understands that legislation is supposed to be for the people and not the corporations, not for exploiting the people but empowering them.

That's the number-one reason to put President Obama back in office: He will represent the people.

What's the number-two reason?
To keep Mitt Romney out of office. So we don't continue to support the old ways of working against the middle class and the poor.

You know, poor is not a popular word. Because everyone thinks they're not poor. But all of America's underserved communities, including the middle class, will be disenfranchised if Mitt Romney is elected.

Already, the rich keep getting richer and the poor keep getting poorer. There is a lack of educational opportunities and health care ... This stuff is barbaric. No country in the world should tolerate it. Yet we keep saying that we're "number one." I won't knock the president or Mitt Romney for saying it on television. But they're not telling the truth.

We are not number one in education. We are not number one in health care. We need to improve. We need to educate our middle class. We need to take care of our sick. Those are big issues for me. And unlike Romney, I think the president is working and will continue to work for the people, moving toward all those goals. And that's why I go to work for him.

The '80s and early '90s was a sort of golden era for hip-hop in politics. But is rap today as politically active as it should be?
It comes in stages. But you can't put the whole community in one box. We've gotten people involved in so many issues. All the work that Jay-Z has done to fight anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. Then there's Diddy and his efforts to change drug laws. And we're not only political, we're very socially engaged.

Every rap artist has a charity! I don't give a shit what name you come up with ... Chingy for Change, the Ludacris Foundation, Daddy's House, the Shawn Carter Foundation, the Shady Foundation. Rappers are way more social, they do more in their communities than the average elected official. You can name all these charities for every rapper. But you can't name no charity for none of these congressmen.

There's always this burden put on rappers: Why don't these guys do more? Well, they do a lot. They don't escape their communities. They don't try to. They're always working for the people.
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I loved this Q & A. Twas insightful for the times (we are in) & something that is good for minority communities to read.

@JacIOR @Crossfade_SFL @UncleRUSH @BarackObama @MichaelSkolnik beautiful girl jacqueline ^^

Seriously, hip-hop is on the decline and so is this aged has been....

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From the Vault<|endoftext|>Private-Market Real Estate

Private-market real estate and private real estate investing refers to the universe of non-traded real estate investments; illiquid by definition and typically characterized by investment in a discrete property. Private-market real estate investments stand in contrast to publicly-traded REITs (real estate investment trusts) which are liquid but tend to correlate with public equities markets.

EquityMultiple and other syndication platforms allow individual investors to access private real estate at relatively low minimums. This form of real estate investment is often considered an “alternative asset”.

Back to Glossary<|endoftext|>Thursday, March 05, 2009

"3 drops of sweat" conversations...

stargal: *grumble*grumble* company making money, and yet force us to take unpaid leave...
bossboss: must think positively. this way, u can go home more often mar
boss: yeah, must spend more time with ur parents...

a few days later...

bossboss: wah, u're taking so many days off for cny?
boss: yeah lar. how can take such a long stretch?
stargal: must spend more time with the parents...
bossboss & boss: *sweat*

KL: hello, i won't be going for practice tonight ok?
stargal: har? then how?
KL: so u all just do ur own sectional lar
stargal: sien lor. why u can't come???
KL: my car broke down lar. u wanna buy me a new car?
stargal: ok, so u dun have to come lar! bye-bye!
KL: *sweat*

aunty: why u keep carrying your backpack like that? put it down lar...
stargal: hehe... it's ok. i'm used to it
aunty: don't you feel very "san-fu" (canto: difficult) carrying your bag like that while eating?
stargal: no lar, i'm always doing this. besides, i'll be the first to go if we need to "jao-lou" (run away)
aunty: *sweat*

stargal: KL, those extra cake, u bring home for your Tiger lar
KL: har? who is Tiger?
stargal: ur dog's name is not Tiger meh?
KL: since when? no lar...
stargal: eh?? then Tiger is whose dog?
KL: how i know ar?
stargal: i dun care! ur dog is Tiger!
KL: *sweat*<|endoftext|>Premature Babies In ICU Celebrate Carnival Weekend In Superhero Costumes

BARCELONA, Spain — The parents of a set of premature babies had a special day at a Barcelona-based hospital’s intensive care unit after the babies were dressed up in their superhero costumes to celebrate the Carnival weekend.

Erika Sanchez, 44, coordinator of the Intensive Care Unit, said all the parents burst into tears when the nurses brought the babies in with the superhero costumes, including Superman, Captain America, and Batman, as well as various cute animals.

“The families did not expect that since they didn’t know it was the Carnival day already,” Sanchez said. “It was a very touching moment, as staying here is a very monotonous situation, all the days are the same, yet that day was different!”

The premature babies with their parents at the hospital. (Hospital Clinic Barcelona/Real Press)

The babies were under observation at the Clinic Hospital of Barcelona, in the eastern Spanish province of Catalonia, and they celebrated Carnival weekend with amazing handmade superhero and animal costumes that surprised their parents.

Referring to the coronavirus pandemic that has rocked the country since last year, Sanchez said they wanted it to be a special day for everyone.

“Once again the newborns of the Maternity Hospital #CLÍNIC they have surprised their parents with their costumes this Carnival morning,” tweeted the hospital sharing the from the carnival day. “An initiative by the nursing team, so they can celebrate this holiday despite being in a hospital.”

The idea of dressing up the babies as superheroes and animals came about two years ago, in 2019 when a nurse who loved sewing decided to do something different.

Since then, the Carnival weekend has turned into something of a tradition. This year, the nurses had to use the costumes they used last year, as it is currently banned to bring outside items into the hospital, but it was worth it.

“The smallest babies being cared for there were born at only 26 weeks of the pregnancy and weigh around 500 to 600 grams (1.1 to 1.3 lbs), as they were twin girls, but now with the costumes they weigh more, around 1 kilogram (2.2 lbs)” Sanchez said.

The idea of dressing up the babies as superheroes and animals came about two years ago. (Hospital Clinic Barcelona/Real Press)

Premature babies with extreme health conditions “need to be assisted ventilated as they stay in an incubator to give them heat.”

However, the hospital encourages as much skin-to-skin contact between parents and their babies as possible.

Sanchez explained that the parents give them heat and comfort, as well as stability, and it helps to create a link between the babies and the parents. It also helps with the production of breastfeeding milk.

“Holding your baby close to your chest is a special experience that can help build the bond between you and your new family member,” as per the Cleveland Clinic. “This type of touch isn’t just good for bonding — it’s also medically beneficial for your baby.”

The initiative has also created a link between the hospital and the babies being looked after there. In fact, Sanchez explained the first babies with superhero and animal costumes in 2019 still wear similar costumes now, as the parents tend to send the nurses and the hospital team pictures of them every year at Carnival time, with the same costume.

(Edited by Ojaswin Kathuria and Vaibhav Vishwanath Pawar.)

The post Premature Babies In ICU Celebrate Carnival Weekend In Superhero Costumes appeared first on Zenger News.<|endoftext|>Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy


John Stockham is from the United States. John was born in Houston. John is an alumni of Coffeyville Community College. John was born on February 26, 1972. John receives email at john@gmail.com. John is a politician. John has the unique identifier 2a42225e46874329a05074ef1738c21c.<|endoftext|> claims with adequate discernment, so it is important that we address how some claims are morally wrong and incorrect. But it is also as important to discuss why they do not represent anything inherent about evolutionary psychology as a discipline.

We can illustrate the first way that evolutionary psychology can be wrong by using the problem of eugenics. Eugenics is theoretically sound, in as much as we know that we can selectively breed to a criteria and expect a predictable result; we’ve been doing it with dogs for 10 thousand years. This is also morally wrong and should not be attempted in humans. Just because eugenics is morally reprehensible, however, doesn’t mean we say the principles of artificial (or natural) selection aren’t true. Nor should this be the case for evolutionary psychology as a field; that it has been misapplied/misinterpreted within our social context (or just says something that we don’t like) simply does not speak to how scientifically correct it is. Another way that the interpretation of these studies can be grossly wrong is the Naturalistic Fallacy; the idea that if something is natural, it is inherently good or should be normative. This is obviously untrue; my human body is adapted to long-distance running, but I reject outright the idea that this is something I ought to engage in.

While citing the naturalistic fallacy is a good answer to most any claim about innate human proclivities, I think it’s also necessary to refute specific claims on their own grounds where possible. The final way for evolutionary psychology to be wrong is simply that rationalisation isn’t science, and instances where it is being passed off as such can be exposed for what they are. To illustrate, we generally do not dismiss the entirety of modern medicine as false because of the historical mistreatment of pregnant women in childbirth by doctors. Here, we  can see that those occurrences are indeed morally wrong. However, it’s also the case that those instances are bad medicine by medicine’s own standards. Similarly, instances of bad science in evolutionary psychology, where latent misogyny and racism rears its head, can be refuted on their own grounds. This can and should be done without blithely dismissing the entire field.

It is a disaster that large factions of social justice movements are on the verge of outright anti-intellectualism when it comes to evolutionary psychology. Preserving ignorance about the field with out-of-hand dismissal neglects the potential for this tool to contribute to worthwhile political goals. We don’t have to stop at simply refuting the harmful instances of bad evolutionary study; there is also a positive agenda to be highlighted here. In the spirit of this, I’d like to share a preview of some work I’ve been hobbying with Justin Quillinan, inspired by a recent paper called “Asia’s Missing Women: A Problem in Applied Evolutionary Psychology?”. The paper aims to explore sex-preferential parental investment, which is a prolific problem in parts of Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, where the population’s sex-ratios are heavily male skewed as a result. It is already well documented that women suffer like this, so what can an evolutionary analysis can bring to the table? The problem, as presented in the paper, is this:

Asia’s missing women are, in economic terms, an aggregate outcome of millions of parenting decisions. The individual drivers behind those decisions emerge from interactions between our evolved parenting preferences and social and economic circumstances.

How do we untangle this seemingly nebulous problem? How do we determine why many self-perceived individuals act in such a similar way that the net result is the literal eradication of the female class? The approach of the paper seems to be largely influenced by economics, which is fairly central to a lot of evolutionary work. Game theory can be paraphrased as something like “given that the rules of the game are (x, y, z), which strategy should I employ to reap the most advantageous outcome?”. The most successful strategy is the one that is most likely to survive in the population, and hence it is the one we most expect to find. If we treat the problem of parents favouring boys over girls as a solution to the problem of parents’ circumstances, the question then becomes “what are the parameters that make this survival strategy worth employing such that it is so common?”

By comparing the commonalities in cultures that have this problem, Brooks identifies some ecomonic and social factors that may reward preferential parental investment. This is important: it means that campaigners for change don’t have to simply say the reason that girls are selectively aborted or neglected starts and ends with “girls are undervalued in these cultures”. Despite how true that is, it is also true of many cultures who do not have skewed sex ratios, and doesn’t really point to any concrete way of tackling the problem. If we can identify the driving factors that make parents behave this way with an evolutionary analysis, it means we can target specific structures with a specific end goal in mind.

In an interesting and  wide-ranging investigation, the paper compares skewed parental investment occurence in non-human animals with the social and historical particulars that have led to this behaviour in disparate human populations. In doing so, Brooks proposes that male sex-biased populations are the systematic result of a population’s patrilineage, patrilocal kinship systems, and the dowry system. It was my hunch that the sex-biased population ratio could be reducible to patrilocality alone; that is, the system whereby women leave their blood relatives in order to live with (and care for) their husband’s family when they marry. Let us assume that the number of blood relatives in your family is a proxy measure of fitness. In a patrilocal social order, it is necessarily the case that having a son is more advantageous than having a daughter – precisely because daughters will always leave. Let us now also factor in the effects of infanticide and abortion; the option to neglect/kill your male/female offspring according to whether or not the most successful families you know had a boy or girl, will lead to the preferential elimination of females.

So we’ve implemented a model (source code available here) demonstrating exactly this:
We start with a population of agents separated into a number of families of a single breeding pair each single individuals. At each time-step, the following events occur:
1. Reproduction: fertile breeding pairs of agents have a new agent ‘child’ of random sex. A fertile pair is one that does not have an unmarried child that is younger than the age of maturity.
1.2. Abortion: Now, the pair can choose to either keep or to abort their new agent. To make this decision, they choose a random family, with larger families having a proportionally higher probability of being chosen. If the sex ratio of that family is a mismatch to the child they have just had, they will abort the child. Otherwise, they will keep it. (ETA: the abortion decision is based on the sex ratio of all the offspring of the chosen family).
2. Marriage: Every single, mature agent attempts to pair with a random, opposite sex partner from a different family, to form a breeding pair. In patrilocality, the female leaves her family and is appended to her husband-agent’s family to form a breeding pair. (In the matrilocality sanity check, the situation is vice versa and male agents join their wives’ families).
3. Death: Agents above a certain age are removed from the population. If a family no longer has any members, we generate a new breeding pair individual so that the population doesn’t die out.

The first null model was as above, with the omission of step 1.2. We later implemented one that is as above, but minus patrilocal marriage (ie, married agents simply form a new family pair) because this is a better comparison.

At each time-step, we measure the sex ratio of the population. This is what happens (wordpress is terrible, click for a clearer image):

Average of 500 runs, seeded from 50 family breeding pairs

The sex-ratio of the population is skewed in the direction of the sex that determines family locality – that is to say, patrilocality alone systematically results in the preferential abortion of female offspring, and a higher ratio of males in the population to females. This model will hopefully lend itself to some further work exploring the role of the dowry in maintaining the system by offsetting the costs of giving away offspring, preferential marrying, and how a shift toward “nuclear” family arrangements may have lifted the cost-benefit situations disadvantaging females (and thus making dowry systems redundant).

UPDATE (09/02/12): Here is the data using an amended null model:

Average of 1000 runs, seeded from 50 individuals

Average of 1000 runs, seeded from 50 individuals

The ‘bump’ at around time-step 20 in the first graph noticed by Sean (see comments section) doesn’t appear here; this was an artefact of seeding with identical pairs that breed and die at the same time. Seeding with individuals has smoothed out that curve; staggering the ages of agents would likely smooth it out further. The extra noise in this model means that the skew is less pronounced than before; note the Y axis is zoomed in to ~0

 claims with adequate discernment, so it is important that we address how some claims are morally wrong and incorrect. But it is also as important to discuss why they do not represent anything inherent about evolutionary psychology as a discipline.

We can illustrate the first way that evolutionary psychology can be wrong by using the problem of eugenics. Eugenics is theoretically sound, in as much as we know that we can selectively breed to a criteria and expect a predictable result; we’ve been doing it with dogs for 10 thousand years. This is also morally wrong and should not be attempted in humans. Just because eugenics is morally reprehensible, however, doesn’t mean we say the principles of artificial (or natural) selection aren’t true. Nor should this be the case for evolutionary psychology as a field; that it has been misapplied/misinterpreted within our social context (or just says something that we don’t like) simply does not speak to how scientifically correct it is. Another way that the interpretation of these studies can be grossly wrong is the Naturalistic Fallacy; the idea that if something is natural, it is inherently good or should be normative. This is obviously untrue; my human body is adapted to long-distance running, but I reject outright the idea that this is something I ought to engage in.

While citing the naturalistic fallacy is a good answer to most any claim about innate human proclivities, I think it’s also necessary to refute specific claims on their own grounds where possible. The final way for evolutionary psychology to be wrong is simply that rationalisation isn’t science, and instances where it is being passed off as such can be exposed for what they are. To illustrate, we generally do not dismiss the entirety of modern medicine as false because of the historical mistreatment of pregnant women in childbirth by doctors. Here, we  can see that those occurrences are indeed morally wrong. However, it’s also the case that those instances are bad medicine by medicine’s own standards. Similarly, instances of bad science in evolutionary psychology, where latent misogyny and racism rears its head, can be refuted on their own grounds. This can and should be done without blithely dismissing the entire field.

It is a disaster that large factions of social justice movements are on the verge of outright anti-intellectualism when it comes to evolutionary psychology. Preserving ignorance about the field with out-of-hand dismissal neglects the potential for this tool to contribute to worthwhile political goals. We don’t have to stop at simply refuting the harmful instances of bad evolutionary study; there is also a positive agenda to be highlighted here. In the spirit of this, I’d like to share a preview of some work I’ve been hobbying with Justin Quillinan, inspired by a recent paper called “Asia’s Missing Women: A Problem in Applied Evolutionary Psychology?”. The paper aims to explore sex-preferential parental investment, which is a prolific problem in parts of Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, where the population’s sex-ratios are heavily male skewed as a result. It is already well documented that women suffer like this, so what can an evolutionary analysis can bring to the table? The problem, as presented in the paper, is this:

Asia’s missing women are, in economic terms, an aggregate outcome of millions of parenting decisions. The individual drivers behind those decisions emerge from interactions between our evolved parenting preferences and social and economic circumstances.

How do we untangle this seemingly nebulous problem? How do we determine why many self-perceived individuals act in such a similar way that the net result is the literal eradication of the female class? The approach of the paper seems to be largely influenced by economics, which is fairly central to a lot of evolutionary work. Game theory can be paraphrased as something like “given that the rules of the game are (x, y, z), which strategy should I employ to reap the most advantageous outcome?”. The most successful strategy is the one that is most likely to survive in the population, and hence it is the one we most expect to find. If we treat the problem of parents favouring boys over girls as a solution to the problem of parents’ circumstances, the question then becomes “what are the parameters that make this survival strategy worth employing such that it is so common?”

By comparing the commonalities in cultures that have this problem, Brooks identifies some ecomonic and social factors that may reward preferential parental investment. This is important: it means that campaigners for change don’t have to simply say the reason that girls are selectively aborted or neglected starts and ends with “girls are undervalued in these cultures”. Despite how true that is, it is also true of many cultures who do not have skewed sex ratios, and doesn’t really point to any concrete way of tackling the problem. If we can identify the driving factors that make parents behave this way with an evolutionary analysis, it means we can target specific structures with a specific end goal in mind.

In an interesting and  wide-ranging investigation, the paper compares skewed parental investment occurence in non-human animals with the social and historical particulars that have led to this behaviour in disparate human populations. In doing so, Brooks proposes that male sex-biased populations are the systematic result of a population’s patrilineage, patrilocal kinship systems, and the dowry system. It was my hunch that the sex-biased population ratio could be reducible to patrilocality alone; that is, the system whereby women leave their blood relatives in order to live with (and care for) their husband’s family when they marry. Let us assume that the number of blood relatives in your family is a proxy measure of fitness. In a patrilocal social order, it is necessarily the case that having a son is more advantageous than having a daughter – precisely because daughters will always leave. Let us now also factor in the effects of infanticide and abortion; the option to neglect/kill your male/female offspring according to whether or not the most successful families you know had a boy or girl, will lead to the preferential elimination of females.

So we’ve implemented a model (source code available here) demonstrating exactly this:
We start with a population of agents separated into a number of families of a single breeding pair each single individuals. At each time-step, the following events occur:
1. Reproduction: fertile breeding pairs of agents have a new agent ‘child’ of random sex. A fertile pair is one that does not have an unmarried child that is younger than the age of maturity.
1.2. Abortion: Now, the pair can choose to either keep or to abort their new agent. To make this decision, they choose a random family, with larger families having a proportionally higher probability of being chosen. If the sex ratio of that family is a mismatch to the child they have just had, they will abort the child. Otherwise, they will keep it. (ETA: the abortion decision is based on the sex ratio of all the offspring of the chosen family).
2. Marriage: Every single, mature agent attempts to pair with a random, opposite sex partner from a different family, to form a breeding pair. In patrilocality, the female leaves her family and is appended to her husband-agent’s family to form a breeding pair. (In the matrilocality sanity check, the situation is vice versa and male agents join their wives’ families).
3. Death: Agents above a certain age are removed from the population. If a family no longer has any members, we generate a new breeding pair individual so that the population doesn’t die out.

The first null model was as above, with the omission of step 1.2. We later implemented one that is as above, but minus patrilocal marriage (ie, married agents simply form a new family pair) because this is a better comparison.

At each time-step, we measure the sex ratio of the population. This is what happens (wordpress is terrible, click for a clearer image):

Average of 500 runs, seeded from 50 family breeding pairs

The sex-ratio of the population is skewed in the direction of the sex that determines family locality – that is to say, patrilocality alone systematically results in the preferential abortion of female offspring, and a higher ratio of males in the population to females. This model will hopefully lend itself to some further work exploring the role of the dowry in maintaining the system by offsetting the costs of giving away offspring, preferential marrying, and how a shift toward “nuclear” family arrangements may have lifted the cost-benefit situations disadvantaging females (and thus making dowry systems redundant).

UPDATE (09/02/12): Here is the data using an amended null model:

Average of 1000 runs, seeded from 50 individuals

Average of 1000 runs, seeded from 50 individuals

The ‘bump’ at around time-step 20 in the first graph noticed by Sean (see comments section) doesn’t appear here; this was an artefact of seeding with identical pairs that breed and die at the same time. Seeding with individuals has smoothed out that curve; staggering the ages of agents would likely smooth it out further. The extra noise in this model means that the skew is less pronounced than before; note the Y axis is zoomed in to ~0.3 – 0.7. The null model here is of the null hypothesis; abortion still happens, the only difference is that instead of a married agent appending to their spouse’s family, the married couple form a new family pair (ie. no matri/patrilocality). This means that any single given population’s sex ratio is susceptible to drift;


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          Look further at who stands to benefit – pull up gas pipelines and prospective ones. Israel is getting into the oil business, their lobbying has been touting the Turkish Cypriots in DC for off shore drilling off the coast of Syria to supply Europe. Israel also propped up a fake government called the Kurdistan Regional Government. The KRG has their own oil business department, parliament and militia. Last week the first oil export to Israel was completed.
          They all want a piece of the Iraq, Syria, Iran alliance and tried to make a sectarian divide in Syria but it didn’t work. Syrians are way too united. So now it’s about creating chaos. Iraq is easier to divide. Many believe it will be a shatter belt.

  3. Hratch said:

    Most likely the assault on Armenian neighborhoods in Aleppo is also not intended directly for us. We are probably just caught between the fighting factions. Therefore, we must not have knee jerk reactions and start taking sides, which also means not waving Syrian flags during April 24 protests. The ultimate winner must not see us as collaborators.

    • Bedros said:

      you know what Hratch you are really a great thinker may be also we were not victims of the Genocide we died as many others during world war I from starvation turks tried to give us food and water but Turks and Kurds and Circassians, and non ghavurs basically did not have enough bread to everybody no? Man please be descent. Destroying Nor Koogh the Churches the school is not accidental targetting Deir Ez Zor Monumernt is not accidental it is our Aushwitz i say our cause i still beleive you are an Armenian, eventhough your words are in contrast with your name. obliging only the Armenians in Rakka to pay the Jeziah islamic Taxe is not accidental… do you need more get informed you can today if you want, and do it before saying void words.

      • Hratch said:

        How self-centered we must be to believe that the rebels are in fact directing their whole war efforts against a minority who constitute no more that .05% of the total population. Truth be told, I don’t even think they know we’re alive!

        By making noise and taking sides, we’re only attracting negative attention. Since Syria is not our homeland, there is no reason to get involved. Armenia and Artsakh are desperately in need of people to tend the land and protect the borders. But in our infinite wisdom, we rather stay in a place where we don’t belong, get robbed, killed and pillaged and then complain that we are not being protected? How crazy and naive is that. The fact is that we are mired in a victim mentality. We would rather cry and scream rather than do the right thing and build our future with our two hands and in our native lands. Pathetic !

        • Bedros said:

          Talk about yourself according to’ me you Are not an Armenian your name hratch must be’ face you think and write like a turk

  4. Bedros said:

    Thanks to Syrian Arab Army if it was for Armenians Kessab would have had the same fate of Western Armenia, oh sorry eastern turkey anatolia, I feel ashamed of being Armenian where are our modern day Nejdehs, our Aram Manookians, our Dros? They are all word sellers now…

    • Armenian said:

      They’ve been forced to Russia’s peripheries because the Armenian government finds their presence in the country to be a threat to their unchecked oligarchy.

        • Hratch said:

          We would rather praise and rely on the Russian and Syrian armies than our own. History repeats itself every so often, but the tragedy is that we don’t seem to learn anything from it each time.

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  6. Atam Meghryan said:

    Guys, it is the ISLAMIC PIPELINE and the Syrian-Lebanese potential Mediterranean oil fields which are associated with Super powers and their allies strategic and economical interests. Kassab and Aleppo are one of those.

    • Bedros said:

      Do you think also Mossul Armenian Church is like kessab and Aleppo? How can not you see evidences before your eyes all Armenian placet Are singled out and targeted Turkey and Azerbaijan Are behind all this . Continue to’ put your head unger the knife of your enemy and when they CUT your troat you say it was not him it was the faune of an earthquake that mo’ ed the head unger the knife and the troad was CUT ajajaj that is your logic! And USA media justification they eat the grass and think We Are the donkeys

  7. Hratch A. A. said:

    I am so glad and surprised to see we have so many politicians. Stop insulting each other. One thing we should have learned by now, odarneren chga houis. Let us say this ten times a day and be mishd badrasd for anything. In the meantime, let us be grateful to our hosts, no matter what, until we are all, including the renegades, gathered in our Motherland.

Leave a Reply to Hratch Cancel reply<|endoftext|>Different Crimes, Different Criminals book cover

Different Crimes, Different Criminals

Understanding, Treating and Preventing Criminal Behavior

This book focuses on the importance of incorporating both sociological and psychological viewpoints in the understanding of criminal behavior. It identifies and explains emerging criminal offenders within the criminal justice system, examining the individual differences that make different types of offenders unique.

Paperback, 350 Pages

Published: October 2006

Imprint: Anderson Publishing

ISBN: 978-1-59345-334-3

  • 1. Understanding Criminals and Crime: Theory and Research

    Section I: Relational Crime

    2. Infanticide

    3. Domestic Battery

    4. Stalking

    SectionII: Sex Crimes

    5. Child Molestation

    6. Rape

    Section III: Youth Crime

    7. Violent Juvenile Offenders

    8. Juvenile Drug Offenders

    9. Gangs

    Section IV: Complex Motivations

    10. Serial Murder

    11. Arson

    Section V: Special Offender Population

    12. Violent Offenders with Schizophrenia

    13. White-Collar Crime

    Section VI: Conclusion

    14. Final Thoughts: What Have We Learned and Where Are We Going?

advert image<|endoftext|>Saturday, May 13, 2017

Jerusalem: Jordanian tourist stabs Israeli police officer, shot dead; Jordan blames Israel

(Reuters) A Jordanian citizen stabbed and wounded an Israeli police officer who then shot him dead in Jerusalem's Old City on Saturday, Israeli police said, the latest in a string of street attacks.

Police spokeswoman Luba Simri said the officer was walking down a street when he was attacked by a 57-year-old Jordanian who had arrived in Israel for a visit a few days earlier.

"The terrorist rushed toward him, whipped out a knife that he had in his possession, stormed him and began stabbing him. The police officer responded with determination and in a professional manner, managed to activate his weapon and neutralized him," Simri said.

Ten seconds of security camera footage released by the police appeared to show a man, knife in hand, lunging toward a policeman falling backwards onto the ground, then jumping on him while wielding the knife and making stabbing motions.

Israel's ambulance service Magen David Adom said the police officer was not severely wounded.

Jordanian government spokesman Mohammad al Momani disputed the Israeli account of the incident, which he described as an "ugly crime."

"The Israeli government as the occupying power bears responsibility over the shooting of a Jordanian citizen in occupied eastern Jerusalem today that caused his martyrdom," al Momani told Jordanian state news agency Petra.

Update: The hero police officer is recovering in the hospital.<|endoftext|>Politicians' Intelligence | The Straight Dope | Salt Lake City | Salt Lake City Weekly

News » The Straight Dope

Politicians' Intelligence

Are politicians dumber than everyone else?

1 comment
  • Slug Signorino

Most politicians seem dumb as doorknobs and the current lot even more than usual. But are they really? Have there been any serious studies comparing politicians' personality traits or intelligence to that of the common population?

—Knut Borge, Oslo, Norway

Surely no discussion of dumb politicians can be complete without reference to dearly departed George W., who left behind not just a tanked economy and one or two intractable military misadventures but volumes worth of great lines—you'll recall "Is

 right thing to do.
          Look further at who stands to benefit – pull up gas pipelines and prospective ones. Israel is getting into the oil business, their lobbying has been touting the Turkish Cypriots in DC for off shore drilling off the coast of Syria to supply Europe. Israel also propped up a fake government called the Kurdistan Regional Government. The KRG has their own oil business department, parliament and militia. Last week the first oil export to Israel was completed.
          They all want a piece of the Iraq, Syria, Iran alliance and tried to make a sectarian divide in Syria but it didn’t work. Syrians are way too united. So now it’s about creating chaos. Iraq is easier to divide. Many believe it will be a shatter belt.

  3. Hratch said:

    Most likely the assault on Armenian neighborhoods in Aleppo is also not intended directly for us. We are probably just caught between the fighting factions. Therefore, we must not have knee jerk reactions and start taking sides, which also means not waving Syrian flags during April 24 protests. The ultimate winner must not see us as collaborators.

    • Bedros said:

      you know what Hratch you are really a great thinker may be also we were not victims of the Genocide we died as many others during world war I from starvation turks tried to give us food and water but Turks and Kurds and Circassians, and non ghavurs basically did not have enough bread to everybody no? Man please be descent. Destroying Nor Koogh the Churches the school is not accidental targetting Deir Ez Zor Monumernt is not accidental it is our Aushwitz i say our cause i still beleive you are an Armenian, eventhough your words are in contrast with your name. obliging only the Armenians in Rakka to pay the Jeziah islamic Taxe is not accidental… do you need more get informed you can today if you want, and do it before saying void words.

      • Hratch said:

        How self-centered we must be to believe that the rebels are in fact directing their whole war efforts against a minority who constitute no more that .05% of the total population. Truth be told, I don’t even think they know we’re alive!

        By making noise and taking sides, we’re only attracting negative attention. Since Syria is not our homeland, there is no reason to get involved. Armenia and Artsakh are desperately in need of people to tend the land and protect the borders. But in our infinite wisdom, we rather stay in a place where we don’t belong, get robbed, killed and pillaged and then complain that we are not being protected? How crazy and naive is that. The fact is that we are mired in a victim mentality. We would rather cry and scream rather than do the right thing and build our future with our two hands and in our native lands. Pathetic !

        • Bedros said:

          Talk about yourself according to’ me you Are not an Armenian your name hratch must be’ face you think and write like a turk

  4. Bedros said:

    Thanks to Syrian Arab Army if it was for Armenians Kessab would have had the same fate of Western Armenia, oh sorry eastern turkey anatolia, I feel ashamed of being Armenian where are our modern day Nejdehs, our Aram Manookians, our Dros? They are all word sellers now…

    • Armenian said:

      They’ve been forced to Russia’s peripheries because the Armenian government finds their presence in the country to be a threat to their unchecked oligarchy.

        • Hratch said:

          We would rather praise and rely on the Russian and Syrian armies than our own. History repeats itself every so often, but the tragedy is that we don’t seem to learn anything from it each time.

  5. Pingback: Кесаб освобождён от террористов

  6. Atam Meghryan said:

    Guys, it is the ISLAMIC PIPELINE and the Syrian-Lebanese potential Mediterranean oil fields which are associated with Super powers and their allies strategic and economical interests. Kassab and Aleppo are one of those.

    • Bedros said:

      Do you think also Mossul Armenian Church is like kessab and Aleppo? How can not you see evidences before your eyes all Armenian placet Are singled out and targeted Turkey and Azerbaijan Are behind all this . Continue to’ put your head unger the knife of your enemy and when they CUT your troat you say it was not him it was the faune of an earthquake that mo’ ed the head unger the knife and the troad was CUT ajajaj that is your logic! And USA media justification they eat the grass and think We Are the donkeys

  7. Hratch A. A. said:

    I am so glad and surprised to see we have so many politicians. Stop insulting each other. One thing we should have learned by now, odarneren chga houis. Let us say this ten times a day and be mishd badrasd for anything. In the meantime, let us be grateful to our hosts, no matter what, until we are all, including the renegades, gathered in our Motherland.

Leave a Reply to Hratch Cancel reply<|endoftext|>Different Crimes, Different Criminals book cover

Different Crimes, Different Criminals

Understanding, Treating and Preventing Criminal Behavior

This book focuses on the importance of incorporating both sociological and psychological viewpoints in the understanding of criminal behavior. It identifies and explains emerging criminal offenders within the criminal justice system, examining the individual differences that make different types of offenders unique.

Paperback, 350 Pages

Published: October 2006

Imprint: Anderson Publishing

ISBN: 978-1-59345-334-3

  • 1. Understanding Criminals and Crime: Theory and Research

    Section I: Relational Crime

    2. Infanticide

    3. Domestic Battery

    4. Stalking

    SectionII: Sex Crimes

    5. Child Molestation

    6. Rape

    Section III: Youth Crime

    7. Violent Juvenile Offenders

    8. Juvenile Drug Offenders

    9. Gangs

    Section IV: Complex Motivations

    10. Serial Murder

    11. Arson

    Section V: Special Offender Population

    12. Violent Offenders with Schizophrenia

    13. White-Collar Crime

    Section VI: Conclusion

    14. Final Thoughts: What Have We Learned and Where Are We Going?

advert image<|endoftext|>Saturday, May 13, 2017

Jerusalem: Jordanian tourist stabs Israeli police officer, shot dead; Jordan blames Israel

(Reuters) A Jordanian citizen stabbed and wounded an Israeli police officer who then shot him dead in Jerusalem's Old City on Saturday, Israeli police said, the latest in a string of street attacks.

Police spokeswoman Luba Simri said the officer was walking down a street when he was attacked by a 57-year-old Jordanian who had arrived in Israel for a visit a few days earlier.

"The terrorist rushed toward him, whipped out a knife that he had in his possession, stormed him and began stabbing him. The police officer responded with determination and in a professional manner, managed to activate his weapon and neutralized him," Simri said.

Ten seconds of security camera footage released by the police appeared to show a man, knife in hand, lunging toward a policeman falling backwards onto the ground, then jumping on him while wielding the knife and making stabbing motions.

Israel's ambulance service Magen David Adom said the police officer was not severely wounded.

Jordanian government spokesman Mohammad al Momani disputed the Israeli account of the incident, which he described as an "ugly crime."

"The Israeli government as the occupying power bears responsibility over the shooting of a Jordanian citizen in occupied eastern Jerusalem today that caused his martyrdom," al Momani told Jordanian state news agency Petra.

Update: The hero police officer is recovering in the hospital.<|endoftext|>Politicians' Intelligence | The Straight Dope | Salt Lake City | Salt Lake City Weekly

News » The Straight Dope

Politicians' Intelligence

Are politicians dumber than everyone else?

1 comment
  • Slug Signorino

Most politicians seem dumb as doorknobs and the current lot even more than usual. But are they really? Have there been any serious studies comparing politicians' personality traits or intelligence to that of the common population?

—Knut Borge, Oslo, Norway

Surely no discussion of dumb politicians can be complete without reference to dearly departed George W., who left behind not just a tanked economy and one or two intractable military misadventures but volumes worth of great lines—you'll recall "Is our children learning?," etc. Bush also memorably described looking into Vladimir Putin's eyes and getting, quite romantically, "a sense of his soul."

I bring it up because we'd need to give a lot of lawmakers some very thorough eye exams to even begin to answer your question. Are politicians dumb? Who the hell knows? I suspect you'd find that results vary, as with most folks, but that what expresses itself in politicians as apparent dumbness might often reflect a certain kind of savvy. Sure


 part of a global energy future.

“While clean, renewable resources also preserve the world’s natural resources, they also reduce the risk of environmental disasters, such as fuel spills or the problems associated with natural gas leaks,” the article states. “With fuel diversification, through different power plants using different energy sources, it is possible to create reliable power supplies to enhance energy security, ensuring there is enough to meet our demands.”

With that as a backdrop, Energy Fuels does much more than just product uranium, which is the fuel for nuclear energy, producing 50% of all clean, carbon-free electricity in the U.S. “Energy Fuels is proud to produce the raw materials that make numerous clean energy and advanced technologies possible, all in the U.S. at the highest global standards for health, safety and environmental protection,” noted UUUU president and CEO Mark Chalmers ( In addition to producing uranium, the fuel for carbon- and emission-free nuclear energy, UUUU began operations to recover rare earth elements (“REEs”) in 2021, which are used in electric vehicles, renewable energy, batteries and other clean technologies.

Also worth noting is that, in 2019, the company was the largest U.S. producer of vanadium, which is used in steel, high-strength alloys and grid-scale batteries. Finally, in addition to its efforts to produce material, Energy Fuels is committed to preserving global resources and addressing climate change through industry-leading recycling programs.

Not a company to rest on its laurels, Energy Fuels is also exploring other business opportunities, including evaluation the recovery of medical isotopes for use in emerging cancer therapies from existing process streams.

Energy Fuels is the leading U.S.-based uranium mining company, supplying U3O8 to major nuclear utilities. The company also produces vanadium from certain of its projects, as market conditions warrant, and began commercial production of REE carbonate in 2021. Its corporate offices are in Lakewood, Colorado, near Denver, and all of its assets and employees are in the United States.

Energy Fuels holds three of America’s key uranium production centers: the White Mesa Mill in Utah, the Nichols Ranch in-situ recovery (“ISR”) Project in Wyoming and the Alta Mesa ISR Project in Texas. The White Mesa Mill is the only conventional uranium mill operating in the U.S. today, has a licensed capacity of over 8 million pounds of U3O8 per year and has the ability to produce vanadium when market conditions warrant, as well as REE carbonate and uranium from various uranium-bearing ores. The Nichols Ranch ISR Project is currently on standby and has a licensed capacity of 2 million pounds of U3O8 per year. The Alta Mesa ISR Project is also on standby and has a licensed capacity of 1.5 million pounds of U3O8 per year.

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VMware brings Linux VDI out of obscurity with Horizon for Linux

VMware takes advantage of Sun Microsystems' loss by bringing the once-niche Linux VDI out of the shadows and into the sun with Horizon 7 for Linux.

As most virtual desktop infrastructure personnel know, Horizon 7 is out in general availability and much has been written about it. What hasn't been covered as much is Horizon for Linux. For those unaware, there is now improved support for Linux VDI desktops. Sure, Linux virtual desktop infrastructure may seem niche, but it's out there and it works.

Some of you may be wondering, why use Linux on virtual desktop infrastructure? The most obvious answer to that question is that Linux VDI is often free, though this isn't always the case -- most Linux VDI customers use paid versions of distributions, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and SUSE.

Historically, a lot of powerful workstation-type workloads run on Linux with applications that do serious 3D rendering or some form of big compute.

So, who buys Horizon for Linux? The short answer is that a lot of vertical markets use Linux on VDIs and VMware Workstation. Sun Microsystems used to cover this territory almost exclusively, but after its merger with Oracle in 2009, software vendors and customers were left scrambling to make up the difference. Linux provides an easier path for most applications developers to migrate to rather than Windows.

Linux VDI under VMware

VMware saw Sun's loss as an opportunity, picking up the pieces for major customers looking for an easy way to simultaneously move away from Sun's legacy platforms and virtualize.

At the same time, migrating to virtual desktops seemed like a no-brainer, especially where computer-aided design, computer-aided manufacturing and other sensitive or proprietary information is used. It is easier to restrict undesired operations in a VM than in a physical box.

Linux on VDI is no longer the poor relation in terms of support for VDI.

Although Linux on the desktop is pretty new, VMware has confirmed that it supports Linux VDI and aims to have a release every quarter that brings new functionality to the environment. Linux on VDI is no longer the poor relation in terms of support for VDI.

It is fair to say that the supported Linux VDI OS matrix is pretty small, with just a handful of supported distributions, including Ubuntu, RHEL, CentOS, SUSE and NeoKylin, a popular Chinese language distribution.

The beauty of Linux VDI under VMware is that its connection options are fully supported with the Blast protocol rather than some arcane X11 virtual network computing-type viewer. This means you can access the Linux desktop anywhere, so long as you can connect Blast to it, providing a modern, responsive experience regardless of the connection device.

The current release of Horizon for Linux, version 7.2, supports cloning from snapshots. This brings Linux manageability into the same realm as Windows in terms of basic functionality.

If you intend to work with Linux on Horizon, we need to talk licensing. There is a separate stockkeeping unit for those who wish to run just Linux on Horizon. Purchasing the Enterprise version will provide an administrator with the ability to run both Windows and Linux in the same environment.

Tips for running Linux on Horizon

First and foremost, in order to use Horizon for Linux you'll to have the latest version of Horizon, Horizon 7.2. This isn't just a suggestion, it's critical. Things in the Horizon for Linux space are moving so fast that there are major functionality additions even between sub point releases. For example, version 7.2 introduced full clone functionality.

You'll also need to be careful when setting up tools. Different distributions use either tools provided by VMware or open-vm-tools. Regardless of which you use, errors in the configuration process can cause a serious headache. I recommend consulting with the distribution vendor to see how they prefer tools to be configured.

Just as with Windows VDI environments, don't mix multiple Linux distributions in the same VDI pools. Doing so will cause issues and is not recommended -- and perhaps not even supported -- by VMware.

Be sure to correctly configure VM display settings, including video RAM; don't be afraid to refer to a support guide. You should also make certain that the domain name system (DNS) is working correctly. Don't leave your DNS to default to Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. This is critical: If you want to integrate DNS into Active Directory (AD), you need to manually set your search domains in your DNS settings file. There is a known bug in the latest release of AD that will cause issues if not corrected before joining an AD domain. Both RHEL and CentOS require extra strings in VMX. RHEL has recommended settings for Linux on Horizon.

A lot of Linux distributions -- Ubuntu in particular -- come with services that provide negligible benefits or are just unnecessary in a VDI environment. You can remove items such as Compiz, Bluetooth, Postfix and mdmonitor. Removing these services will reclaim some system resources. For example, removing Compiz will significantly improve system CPU load on the host. Removal varies from distribution to distribution, but disabling the services is a straightforward task.

When adding new users, take care that their names don't clash with the names of existing users. This will cause all sorts of issues if you try to integrate with AD. This is one of the top causes of problems when setting up Horizon 7 on Linux.

When it comes to the management side, however, there is still some work to be done. Horizon for Linux doesn't support instant clone technologies. Building Linux VDI desktops is very much reliant on old-fashioned bash scripting or external tools that are brought in-house.

This will change as time goes on. VMware is working hard to make the Linux VDI functionally equivalent to its Windows counterparts.

Next Steps

Linux VDI desktops are a niche market

What features does Horizon

 clean energy are the environmental benefits as part of a global energy future.

“While clean, renewable resources also preserve the world’s natural resources, they also reduce the risk of environmental disasters, such as fuel spills or the problems associated with natural gas leaks,” the article states. “With fuel diversification, through different power plants using different energy sources, it is possible to create reliable power supplies to enhance energy security, ensuring there is enough to meet our demands.”

With that as a backdrop, Energy Fuels does much more than just product uranium, which is the fuel for nuclear energy, producing 50% of all clean, carbon-free electricity in the U.S. “Energy Fuels is proud to produce the raw materials that make numerous clean energy and advanced technologies possible, all in the U.S. at the highest global standards for health, safety and environmental protection,” noted UUUU president and CEO Mark Chalmers ( In addition to producing uranium, the fuel for carbon- and emission-free nuclear energy, UUUU began operations to recover rare earth elements (“REEs”) in 2021, which are used in electric vehicles, renewable energy, batteries and other clean technologies.

Also worth noting is that, in 2019, the company was the largest U.S. producer of vanadium, which is used in steel, high-strength alloys and grid-scale batteries. Finally, in addition to its efforts to produce material, Energy Fuels is committed to preserving global resources and addressing climate change through industry-leading recycling programs.

Not a company to rest on its laurels, Energy Fuels is also exploring other business opportunities, including evaluation the recovery of medical isotopes for use in emerging cancer therapies from existing process streams.

Energy Fuels is the leading U.S.-based uranium mining company, supplying U3O8 to major nuclear utilities. The company also produces vanadium from certain of its projects, as market conditions warrant, and began commercial production of REE carbonate in 2021. Its corporate offices are in Lakewood, Colorado, near Denver, and all of its assets and employees are in the United States.

Energy Fuels holds three of America’s key uranium production centers: the White Mesa Mill in Utah, the Nichols Ranch in-situ recovery (“ISR”) Project in Wyoming and the Alta Mesa ISR Project in Texas. The White Mesa Mill is the only conventional uranium mill operating in the U.S. today, has a licensed capacity of over 8 million pounds of U3O8 per year and has the ability to produce vanadium when market conditions warrant, as well as REE carbonate and uranium from various uranium-bearing ores. The Nichols Ranch ISR Project is currently on standby and has a licensed capacity of 2 million pounds of U3O8 per year. The Alta Mesa ISR Project is also on standby and has a licensed capacity of 1.5 million pounds of U3O8 per year.

For more information, visit the company’s website at

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310.299.1717 Office

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VMware brings Linux VDI out of obscurity with Horizon for Linux

VMware takes advantage of Sun Microsystems' loss by bringing the once-niche Linux VDI out of the shadows and into the sun with Horizon 7 for Linux.

As most virtual desktop infrastructure personnel know, Horizon 7 is out in general availability and much has been written about it. What hasn't been covered as much is Horizon for Linux. For those unaware, there is now improved support for Linux VDI desktops. Sure, Linux virtual desktop infrastructure may seem niche, but it's out there and it works.

Some of you may be wondering, why use Linux on virtual desktop infrastructure? The most obvious answer to that question is that Linux VDI is often free, though this isn't always the case -- most Linux VDI customers use paid versions of distributions, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and SUSE.

Historically, a lot of powerful workstation-type workloads run on Linux with applications that do serious 3D rendering or some form of big compute.

So, who buys Horizon for Linux? The short answer is that a lot of vertical markets use Linux on VDIs and VMware Workstation. Sun Microsystems used to cover this territory almost exclusively, but after its merger with Oracle in 2009, software vendors and customers were left scrambling to make up the difference. Linux provides an easier path for most applications developers to migrate to rather than Windows.

Linux VDI under VMware

VMware saw Sun's loss as an opportunity, picking up the pieces for major customers looking for an easy way to simultaneously move away from Sun's legacy platforms and virtualize.

At the same time, migrating to virtual desktops seemed like a no-brainer, especially where computer-aided design, computer-aided manufacturing and other sensitive or proprietary information is used. It is easier to restrict undesired operations in a VM than in a physical box.

Linux on VDI is no longer the poor relation in terms of support for VDI.

Although Linux on the desktop is pretty new, VMware has confirmed that it supports Linux VDI and aims to have a release every quarter that brings new functionality to the environment. Linux on VDI is no longer the poor relation in terms of support for VDI.

It is fair to say that the supported Linux VDI OS matrix is pretty small, with just a handful of supported distributions, including Ubuntu, RHEL, CentOS, SUSE and NeoKylin, a popular Chinese language distribution.

The beauty of Linux VDI under VMware is that its connection options are fully supported with the Blast protocol rather than some arcane X11 virtual network computing-type viewer. This means you can access the Linux desktop anywhere, so long as you can connect Blast to it, providing a modern, responsive experience regardless of the connection device.

The current release of Horizon for Linux, version 7.2, supports cloning from snapshots. This brings Linux manageability into the same realm as Windows in terms of basic functionality.

If you intend to work with Linux on Horizon, we need to talk licensing. There is a separate stockkeeping unit for those who wish to run just Linux on Horizon. Purchasing the Enterprise version will provide an administrator with the ability to run both Windows and Linux in the same environment.

Tips for running Linux on Horizon

First and foremost, in order to use Horizon for Linux you'll to have the latest version of Horizon, Horizon 7.2. This isn't just a suggestion, it's critical. Things in the Horizon for Linux space are moving so fast that there are major functionality additions even between sub point releases. For example, version 7.2 introduced full clone functionality.

You'll also need to be careful when setting up tools. Different distributions use either tools provided by VMware or open-vm-tools. Regardless of which you use, errors in the configuration process can cause a serious headache. I recommend consulting with the distribution vendor to see how they prefer tools to be configured.

Just as with Windows VDI environments, don't mix multiple Linux distributions in the same VDI pools. Doing so will cause issues and is not recommended -- and perhaps not even supported -- by VMware.

Be sure to correctly configure VM display settings, including video RAM; don't be afraid to refer to a support guide. You should also make certain that the domain name system (DNS) is working correctly. Don't leave your DNS to default to Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. This is critical: If you want to integrate DNS into Active Directory (AD), you need to manually set your search domains in your DNS settings file. There is a known bug in the latest release of AD that will cause issues if not corrected before joining an AD domain. Both RHEL and CentOS require extra strings in VMX. RHEL has recommended settings for Linux on Horizon.

A lot of Linux distributions -- Ubuntu in particular -- come with services that provide negligible benefits or are just unnecessary in a VDI environment. You can remove items such as Compiz, Bluetooth, Postfix and mdmonitor. Removing these services will reclaim some system resources. For example, removing Compiz will significantly improve system CPU load on the host. Removal varies from distribution to distribution, but disabling the services is a straightforward task.

When adding new users, take care that their names don't clash with the names of existing users. This will cause all sorts of issues if you try to integrate with AD. This is one of the top causes of problems when setting up Horizon 7 on Linux.

When it comes to the management side, however, there is still some work to be done. Horizon for Linux doesn't support instant clone technologies. Building Linux VDI desktops is very much reliant on old-fashioned bash scripting or external tools that are brought in-house.

This will change as time goes on. VMware is working hard to make the Linux VDI functionally equivalent to its Windows counterparts.

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Schools: The first one I bought was Deep Purple performing the song “Kentucky Woman,” a Neil Diamond tune. It was on Tetragrammaton Records, their early label, and it was backed with an instrumental called “Hard Road,” which is also called “Wring that Neck.” The A-side was very yelly and screamy, with a lot of “yeah, yeah, yeahs,” heavy organ, and guitar. The B-side was an instrumental. I still have it, although I wouldn’t deign to play it on any real turntable. Another that got a lot of play was Canned Heat’s “Going Up the Country,” which was backed with a fuzzed out, acid-rock version of the traditional blues song “One Kind Favor.”

Deep Purple's "Kentucky Woman," written by Neil Diamond, was Schools's first 45.

Deep Purple’s “Kentucky Woman,” written by Neil Diamond, was Schools’s first 45.

Collectors Weekly: I loved Canned Heat’s version of that song.

Schools: It’s very hard to find on a record. I think what happened to me after listening to all that stuff a thousand times was that my parents couldn’t handle the acid rock. So they began to encourage me to buy Creedence Clearwater Revival singles. I had a steady diet of one a month of those for years: “Proud Mary,” “Up Around the Bend,” “Down on the Corner,” “Green River.” Most people will say they started with The Beatles, but I didn’t get Beatles exposure until I had a sleepover party in third or fourth grade. The “troubled” kid brought over a cassette of “Sgt. Pepper’s,” and we listened to it. For us, it was like taking an acid trip, sitting up late at night, listening to it on one of those little, portable cassette players. We felt like we were doing something wrong just by listening to it. It was amazing.

Right now I’m really into original pressings of dub reggae, and I’m not the only one. When I was a senior in high school and a freshman in college, reggae bands were the only ones other than punk rock and cover bands playing bars. The bands would hawk their 12-inch records in plain white sleeves at the shows. But the reggae records that are worth the most were pressed in Jamaica, where there was little or no quality control. The vinyl is crap, the labels are off-center and full of dimples, and, generally, the covers were handmade silkscreens. And if you look on the inside of the covers, you’ll see that they were actually seconds of other covers. They’d just flip the cover around and do another silkscreen on the other side.

I could go on forever about the reasons why I like the sound of vinyl. Mostly it’s visceral. There’s a needle reading two sides of a groove wall that are actually peaks and valleys. It’s like a mountain range that describes the sound, a geographical, topographical representation of the sound. It’s the same way on a piece of magnetic tape. It’s pieces of metal stuck to Mylar, peaks and valleys, not ones and zeroes.

One of Schools's favorite songs as a kid was "One Kind Favor" by Canned Heat. It was actually the B-side of their hit "Going Up the Country."

One of Schools’s favorite songs as a kid was “One Kind Favor” by Canned Heat. It was actually the B-side of their hit “Going Up the Country.”

Collectors Weekly: But today, when most people hear vinyl, they’re actually comparing it to an MP3, where much of the data is missing. They’re not necessarily comparing it to a compact disc.

Schools: Exactly. And they’re listening to this music on earbuds or Beats. I mean, God love you, Dr. Dre, you’ve made some amazing music and some forward steps in the digital era, but that sound is fake. The bass you’re hearing, if you listen to an MP3 through Beats headphones, is fake. I’ve still got my Klipsch speakers from the ’80s and an old Denon turntable with a good cartridge and a good tube amp. I was talking to someone in my house the other day, and she just stopped and said, “Why does this music sound so much better?” It was that Kenny Dorham “Afro-Cuban” record from the ’50s. And I said, “Well, because you can feel it.” That was really all I could say.

Collectors Weekly: Do you think people also like vinyl because it feels handcrafted?

Schools: Absolutely. You feel like there’s been a human hand involved in its creation, not only of the record itself and the music, but even the packaging. You’ve got a 12-by-12 inch chance for art. If it’s a gatefold, you got a 24-by-12 inch chance, two sides’ worth, plus the sleeves and labels. Some bands would insert posters and stickers in their albums. You just got a great package.

There’s also a ritual about playing records. You’ve got to get up and lift the needle and decide whether or not to flip the record to listen to the other side, or pick a new one. And there’s a badge of honor that comes with being hip to something that you have to earn the money to go out and get. I had to deliver papers for a week to buy one record. I don’t know if there’s as much appreciation for something when you can just download an entire lifetime’s worth of collecting in a matter of minutes. And it bugs me that a prolific artist like Frank Zappa, with 75 records to his name, that his entire career can go by in the wink of an eye.

When Schools's parents tired of all the acid rock blaring out of his bedroom, they steered him in the direction of Creedence.

Collectors Weekly: But you wouldn’t consider yourself a purist, would you?

Schools: David Cross and Bob Odenkirk had a program called “Mr. Show.” In one of the skits, Cross is telling Odenkirk in a very pretentious way that he only listens to “gramophone music,” and he pulls out a gramophone with the big brass horn and plops it on the table. They’re at a doughnut shop, and he’s like this uber-pretentious hipster who refuses to get in step with what’s happening with modern technology. I’m not one of those guys. Music is always something that has brought me great joy. Like I said, I still have the first 45 I ever got, although I can’t listen to it because I didn’t take good care of my stuff when I was a kid. But I love old records. I love the smell of them. The only thing I don’t like about collecting records is how dirty my hands are after a couple of hours at a pawn shop in Omaha, going through crates. It’s just like filthy, horrible, but I can put up with that.

Collectors Weekly: Do you still hit local record shops when you are on the road?

Schools: Yeah, especially when it’s a side-project thing, like when I was out on tour with Mickey Hart. There would be long periods during the day when the bus would be at the venue and we might not be able to get into it yet. If I didn’t feel like going back to the hotel, Mickey’s drum tech, Mark Alspaugh, and I would go off and search for things. He’s a Beatles fanatic, so he was always looking for Beatles vinyl, of which there’s a lot. I’d be looking for things that I knew were hard to find, to fill in a hole in the collection. It’s fun, because you get a little local color. Sometimes people knew what they had, and boy, did they let you know it. Sometimes people didn’t, though, and you’d get that rush from popping down $3 for something you know damn well could fetch $50 in that condition on eBay or Discogs. That feels good; you feel like you won that day.

This spring, Schools heads back out on the road with Widespread Panic after playing a series of winter shows with the Hard Working Americans.

Collectors Weekly: It sounds like you like the stuff, but you also like the hunt.

Schools: I do like the hunt, but really just for vinyl these days. There was a time when if I was in a city where I had a friend that had some Wheels, we’d go around and try to find some places. But eBay knocked a lot of brick-and-mortar places out of business. Why would somebody want to pay property tax, or rent and maintenance, when they can store their stuff at their house and have an online store

?

Schools: The first one I bought was Deep Purple performing the song “Kentucky Woman,” a Neil Diamond tune. It was on Tetragrammaton Records, their early label, and it was backed with an instrumental called “Hard Road,” which is also called “Wring that Neck.” The A-side was very yelly and screamy, with a lot of “yeah, yeah, yeahs,” heavy organ, and guitar. The B-side was an instrumental. I still have it, although I wouldn’t deign to play it on any real turntable. Another that got a lot of play was Canned Heat’s “Going Up the Country,” which was backed with a fuzzed out, acid-rock version of the traditional blues song “One Kind Favor.”

Deep Purple's "Kentucky Woman," written by Neil Diamond, was Schools's first 45.

Deep Purple’s “Kentucky Woman,” written by Neil Diamond, was Schools’s first 45.

Collectors Weekly: I loved Canned Heat’s version of that song.

Schools: It’s very hard to find on a record. I think what happened to me after listening to all that stuff a thousand times was that my parents couldn’t handle the acid rock. So they began to encourage me to buy Creedence Clearwater Revival singles. I had a steady diet of one a month of those for years: “Proud Mary,” “Up Around the Bend,” “Down on the Corner,” “Green River.” Most people will say they started with The Beatles, but I didn’t get Beatles exposure until I had a sleepover party in third or fourth grade. The “troubled” kid brought over a cassette of “Sgt. Pepper’s,” and we listened to it. For us, it was like taking an acid trip, sitting up late at night, listening to it on one of those little, portable cassette players. We felt like we were doing something wrong just by listening to it. It was amazing.

Right now I’m really into original pressings of dub reggae, and I’m not the only one. When I was a senior in high school and a freshman in college, reggae bands were the only ones other than punk rock and cover bands playing bars. The bands would hawk their 12-inch records in plain white sleeves at the shows. But the reggae records that are worth the most were pressed in Jamaica, where there was little or no quality control. The vinyl is crap, the labels are off-center and full of dimples, and, generally, the covers were handmade silkscreens. And if you look on the inside of the covers, you’ll see that they were actually seconds of other covers. They’d just flip the cover around and do another silkscreen on the other side.

I could go on forever about the reasons why I like the sound of vinyl. Mostly it’s visceral. There’s a needle reading two sides of a groove wall that are actually peaks and valleys. It’s like a mountain range that describes the sound, a geographical, topographical representation of the sound. It’s the same way on a piece of magnetic tape. It’s pieces of metal stuck to Mylar, peaks and valleys, not ones and zeroes.

One of Schools's favorite songs as a kid was "One Kind Favor" by Canned Heat. It was actually the B-side of their hit "Going Up the Country."

One of Schools’s favorite songs as a kid was “One Kind Favor” by Canned Heat. It was actually the B-side of their hit “Going Up the Country.”

Collectors Weekly: But today, when most people hear vinyl, they’re actually comparing it to an MP3, where much of the data is missing. They’re not necessarily comparing it to a compact disc.

Schools: Exactly. And they’re listening to this music on earbuds or Beats. I mean, God love you, Dr. Dre, you’ve made some amazing music and some forward steps in the digital era, but that sound is fake. The bass you’re hearing, if you listen to an MP3 through Beats headphones, is fake. I’ve still got my Klipsch speakers from the ’80s and an old Denon turntable with a good cartridge and a good tube amp. I was talking to someone in my house the other day, and she just stopped and said, “Why does this music sound so much better?” It was that Kenny Dorham “Afro-Cuban” record from the ’50s. And I said, “Well, because you can feel it.” That was really all I could say.

Collectors Weekly: Do you think people also like vinyl because it feels handcrafted?

Schools: Absolutely. You feel like there’s been a human hand involved in its creation, not only of the record itself and the music, but even the packaging. You’ve got a 12-by-12 inch chance for art. If it’s a gatefold, you got a 24-by-12 inch chance, two sides’ worth, plus the sleeves and labels. Some bands would insert posters and stickers in their albums. You just got a great package.

There’s also a ritual about playing records. You’ve got to get up and lift the needle and decide whether or not to flip the record to listen to the other side, or pick a new one. And there’s a badge of honor that comes with being hip to something that you have to earn the money to go out and get. I had to deliver papers for a week to buy one record. I don’t know if there’s as much appreciation for something when you can just download an entire lifetime’s worth of collecting in a matter of minutes. And it bugs me that a prolific artist like Frank Zappa, with 75 records to his name, that his entire career can go by in the wink of an eye.

When Schools's parents tired of all the acid rock blaring out of his bedroom, they steered him in the direction of Creedence.

Collectors Weekly: But you wouldn’t consider yourself a purist, would you?

Schools: David Cross and Bob Odenkirk had a program called “Mr. Show.” In one of the skits, Cross is telling Odenkirk in a very pretentious way that he only listens to “gramophone music,” and he pulls out a gramophone with the big brass horn and plops it on the table. They’re at a doughnut shop, and he’s like this uber-pretentious hipster who refuses to get in step with what’s happening with modern technology. I’m not one of those guys. Music is always something that has brought me great joy. Like I said, I still have the first 45 I ever got, although I can’t listen to it because I didn’t take good care of my stuff when I was a kid. But I love old records. I love the smell of them. The only thing I don’t like about collecting records is how dirty my hands are after a couple of hours at a pawn shop in Omaha, going through crates. It’s just like filthy, horrible, but I can put up with that.

Collectors Weekly: Do you still hit local record shops when you are on the road?

Schools: Yeah, especially when it’s a side-project thing, like when I was out on tour with Mickey Hart. There would be long periods during the day when the bus would be at the venue and we might not be able to get into it yet. If I didn’t feel like going back to the hotel, Mickey’s drum tech, Mark Alspaugh, and I would go off and search for things. He’s a Beatles fanatic, so he was always looking for Beatles vinyl, of which there’s a lot. I’d be looking for things that I knew were hard to find, to fill in a hole in the collection. It’s fun, because you get a little local color. Sometimes people knew what they had, and boy, did they let you know it. Sometimes people didn’t, though, and you’d get that rush from popping down $3 for something you know damn well could fetch $50 in that condition on eBay or Discogs. That feels good; you feel like you won that day.

This spring, Schools heads back out on the road with Widespread Panic after playing a series of winter shows with the Hard Working Americans.

Collectors Weekly: It sounds like you like the stuff, but you also like the hunt.

Schools: I do like the hunt, but really just for vinyl these days. There was a time when if I was in a city where I had a friend that had some Wheels, we’d go around and try to find some places. But eBay knocked a lot of brick-and-mortar places out of business. Why would somebody want to pay property tax, or rent and maintenance, when they can store their stuff at their house and have an online store that’s available to the entire world? And the chances of finding good things are less and less because people are aware of what’s collectible, so they’ll basically patrol the waters of Goodwills, Salvation Army stores, and pawn shops like sharks. I’ve asked a lot of pawn-shop owners if they ever get any vinyl in, and they’ll be honest with me, they