tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91462150661829952392024-03-18T13:55:59.415-05:00Ennyman's TerritoryARTS, CULTURE AND OTHER LIFE OBSESSIONSEd Newmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12703797864648081829noreply@blogger.comBlogger5821125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146215066182995239.post-46321412613155266932024-03-17T09:00:00.000-05:002024-03-17T09:00:10.980-05:00How Immigration Contributed to the Fall of the Roman Empire<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyZNX0KgTLhYnogIstNfP8maP3bMlYlVlh6zCJZbzdeQvpsmkp4gBbpXRviN8lQnqXAg2rrbbFvKhiJbWZ_SRZ5j2Gz878jAht2RxmAwq4_MNma_5CD4_h5Tde8pnsbLxB1AsBjautWQRW-AOU35M9aU0WIJG0WRSX3hVMpv-KNamfpLnFtCZgDwHCg_s/s376/e%20IMG_6951%20Grief.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="376" data-original-width="319" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyZNX0KgTLhYnogIstNfP8maP3bMlYlVlh6zCJZbzdeQvpsmkp4gBbpXRviN8lQnqXAg2rrbbFvKhiJbWZ_SRZ5j2Gz878jAht2RxmAwq4_MNma_5CD4_h5Tde8pnsbLxB1AsBjautWQRW-AOU35M9aU0WIJG0WRSX3hVMpv-KNamfpLnFtCZgDwHCg_s/w339-h400/e%20IMG_6951%20Grief.jpeg" width="339" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">They say that those who fail to learn from history are destined to repeat it. When I learned several years back about the factors that contributed to the decline and fall of Rome, I was not surprised at the role immigration played. What did-and still does--surprise me is how the immigration issue is never brought up as something that has historical precedents. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Immigration was not the sole factor in the fall of Rome, but it was definitely one of the factors that contributed to the fall of this once-great empire. And when one looks back at this period of history, it all makes sense. (Common sense is no longer common, unfortunately.)</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">During the later years of the Roman Empire, particularly in the 4th and 5th centuries AD, the empire faced significant challenges from both external invasions and internal unrest. Here are a couple of the ways immigration played a role in these challenges. Look at the parallels to what's been happening in Europe and the U.S. today. </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Economic Strain</b><span> <br />The influx of immigrants placed strain on the Roman economy, particularly as the empire struggled to provide resources and employment for its growing population. <span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Immigrants often settled in urban areas, leading to overcrowding, unemployment, and social unrest.</span> This economic strain further weakened the empire's ability to defend itself against external threats. (Sound familiar?)</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Cultural and Social Change<br /></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Immigration also brought about cultural and social changes within the Roman Empire. As immigrants settled in Roman territory, they brought with them their own languages, customs, and beliefs, leading to increased cultural diversity and, in some cases, tensions between different ethnic and religious groups. These divisions weakened the sense of unity and cohesion that had been essential to the stability of the empire.</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">We constantly hear people extol the virtues of diversity, but how is that working out in real life over in the EU which has embraced diversity to almost a radical degree? According to Douglas Murray: </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">But the argument for mass migration on the grounds of 'diversity' as being a good in itself ignores one huge and until recently unspeakable issue. Just as most cultures have good and things to say for themselves, all have some bad and disagreeable things about them too. And while the positives can be stressed and exaggerated from the outset, any negatives take years to admit, if they are admitted at all.</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">It strikes me as strange that our culture has become so polarized that we cannot discuss anything with resorting to name-calling. If one argues against mass immigration, they are labelled a xenophobe.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In the last decades of the Roman Empire, there were all kinds of groups fleeing into Roman territory seeking a better opportunity. Visigoths, Vandals and Huns came because they were fleeing the conflicts in their own lands. According to historians the pressure from these migrations contributed to the weakening and eventual collapse of central authority. </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">* * * * </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Immigration wasn't the only thing that undermined the Roman Empire. There were other causes as well, including some quite familiar to us today like overexpansion, military overspending and government corruption. Nevertheless, immigration played a part.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I'm just sowing seeds here. There are reasons to be concerned about the direction things are going. Those speaking frankly may have useful contributions on this matter and ought not be dismissed out of hand. My gut tells me things will be getting worse before they get better unless honest discussions are allowed to take place in our communities, cities and highest levels of government. I'm less than optimistic.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Ennyman is a Life Under Construction.
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visit www.ennyman.com to put your mind at e's.</div>Ed Newmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12703797864648081829noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146215066182995239.post-40762458120789628382024-03-14T19:11:00.007-05:002024-03-14T21:01:48.257-05:00The TikTok Saga Illustrates How Andy Grove Was Right: Only the Paranoid Survive<p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; font-family: georgia;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJReHrhck4tZuIuDpLYqzdae2A_c45DnRmL4Soo1FUtNv6AKs6dpaP47V2DAgsfie810Ac4qX8fvggNcU4feSggkSbx9U-EhFJk5K6_Kl-DMKgy9fsBpDdMlBdcdKv0XSqsfIc7XQe-R_fxSs2YqM6MafBaZm5yXXR9iv4mWg8OmTNK9n8BNDD2TLY75Y/s640/Death%20of%20Gallileo%20IMG_9286.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJReHrhck4tZuIuDpLYqzdae2A_c45DnRmL4Soo1FUtNv6AKs6dpaP47V2DAgsfie810Ac4qX8fvggNcU4feSggkSbx9U-EhFJk5K6_Kl-DMKgy9fsBpDdMlBdcdKv0XSqsfIc7XQe-R_fxSs2YqM6MafBaZm5yXXR9iv4mWg8OmTNK9n8BNDD2TLY75Y/w300-h400/Death%20of%20Gallileo%20IMG_9286.jpeg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Do you want to hear one more?<br />This one's a real knee-slapper."</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The House of Representatives has approved a bill to cut off TikTok in the U.S. The bill, titled Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act (H.R.7521), will be signed by President Joe Biden as soon as the Senate approves it. </span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">This brief blog post is not about the pros and cons of TikTok, nor is it aboutthe pros and cons of our government shutting it down. Rather, it is about a lesson I learned the hard way on Facebook a couple years ago.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">At some point in time I was monetizing my blog with Google ads, and even though the revenue stream was mainly a trickle, there were monthly deposits made to my credit union account. It was daily habit to write, publish, then share on other social media, primarily Twitter and Facebook. Because I wrote frequently about the local arts scene, a large percentage of my readers came through the Facebook platform.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Suddenly, without explanation, I was unable to share my blog on Facebook. And since the Zuckerberg-founded enterprise also owns Instagram, my blog was also restricted there as well. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The lesson is this: if you do not own the digital real estate where you have established your business, you're vulnerable to having everything you've built get dismantled.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">This experience prompted me to see who are currently the biggest financial beneficiaries on TikTok. So I asked Google, which replied:</span></p><p><span color="var(--m3c11, var(--mc5))" face=""Google Sans", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium;">According to explodingtopics.com, the highest-paid TikTok influencers in 2024 are:</span></span></p><div class="WaaZC Zh8Myb" style="background-color: white;"><div class="RJPOee EIJn2" style="animation: auto ease 0s 1 normal none running none;"><ul data-hveid="CAgQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwiB9u2f7fSEAxXN1skDHQ6eCgYQm_YKegQICBAA" jsaction="jZtoLb:SaHfyb" jscontroller="M2ABbc" style="color: var(--m3c11, var(--mc5)); font-family: "Google Sans", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px; margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 24px;"><li class="PZPZlf" data-attrid="SGEListItem" style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Charli D'Amelio: Estimated earnings of $17.5 million</span></li><li class="PZPZlf" data-attrid="SGEListItem" style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Dixie D'Amelio: Estimated earnings of $10 million</span></li><li class="PZPZlf" data-attrid="SGEListItem" style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Addison Rae: Estimated earnings of $8.5 million</span></li><li class="PZPZlf" data-attrid="SGEListItem" style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Khaby Lame: Estimated earnings of $5 million</span></li><li class="PZPZlf" data-attrid="SGEListItem" style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Bella Poarch: Estimated earnings of $5 million</span></li><li class="PZPZlf" data-attrid="SGEListItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="oXzekf">Josh Richards: </span><span class="oXzekf">Estimated earnings of $5 million</span></span></li></ul><div style="color: var(--m3c11, var(--mc5)); font-family: "Google Sans", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I never heard of any of these people but superficial skim on Google shows that the top three are all young women. Addison Rae has 88 million followers.</span></div><div style="color: var(--m3c11, var(--mc5)); font-family: "Google Sans", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: var(--m3c11, var(--mc5)); font-family: "Google Sans", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">If you wonder how they make their money, it varies. Once they have become established as influencers, they can get ad revenue or payment for promoting other companies. Some become a brand themselves and profit from selling their own products. And many profit by sharing their videos on other platforms.</span></div><div style="color: var(--m3c11, var(--mc5)); font-family: "Google Sans", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: var(--m3c11, var(--mc5)); font-family: "Google Sans", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Not everyone is making the big bucks the six names above are pulling in, but if Congress pulls the plug I'm guessing that a lot of these social media personalities will take a financial hit, as will many of the smaller fish swimming in this cyber-sea of social media enterprises.</span></div><div style="color: var(--m3c11, var(--mc5)); font-family: "Google Sans", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: "Google Sans", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">According to Wikipedia the Senegal-born Khaby Lame has surpassed Addison Rae in number of followers and as of June 2022 had 142 million followers just by being an "everyman." You can <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khaby_Lame#" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">read Khaby Lame's story here</span></a>. Or <a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZbvAZnyzhpg" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">watch him do his comic antics here</span></a>. </span></div><div style="color: var(--m3c11, var(--mc5)); font-family: "Google Sans", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: var(--m3c11, var(--mc5));"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">142 million followers? Wowzer.</span></span></div><div style="color: var(--m3c11, var(--mc5));"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: var(--m3c11, var(--mc5));"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Lesson #2: When it's going good, don't take it for granted. Only the paranoid survive.</span></div><div style="color: var(--m3c11, var(--mc5));"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: var(--m3c11, var(--mc5));"><span style="color: #45818e; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>RELATED LINK:</b></span></div><div style="color: var(--m3c11, var(--mc5));"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><a href="https://reason.com/2024/03/14/tiktok-china-ban-federal-government-libertarians/" target="_blank">Banning TikTok Would Give the Feds Way Too Much Power</a></b></p></span></div><div style="color: var(--m3c11, var(--mc5));"><br /></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Ennyman is a Life Under Construction.
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visit www.ennyman.com to put your mind at e's.</div>Ed Newmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12703797864648081829noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146215066182995239.post-20518024422011872232024-03-12T08:59:00.003-05:002024-03-12T08:59:57.743-05:00Shrinkflation Is Not A Joke, It's Inflation<p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; font-family: georgia;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyrotF1dzmSgaBEODHYcGZUcF5MeHlpHVq2uP5zzv9lBIcGD-OPCC6E3CdlGYwd3m_Rv88VfoFuzXVnh13VmCTxnUCyVum0X3c6gFaRQQutOAnMgOkcP8-yHZBuW3pgFin2qFXN8xlZMFl3cSF2kEod5nf-asz07tOCqSlL1oFdhj_nx3TjEeFqdKdd4o/s1568/remember%202.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1568" data-original-width="960" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyrotF1dzmSgaBEODHYcGZUcF5MeHlpHVq2uP5zzv9lBIcGD-OPCC6E3CdlGYwd3m_Rv88VfoFuzXVnh13VmCTxnUCyVum0X3c6gFaRQQutOAnMgOkcP8-yHZBuW3pgFin2qFXN8xlZMFl3cSF2kEod5nf-asz07tOCqSlL1oFdhj_nx3TjEeFqdKdd4o/w392-h640/remember%202.jpeg" width="392" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>"Remembering" (AI-e collaboration)</i></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">If I am a baker and the cost of flour goes up, and the taxes on my bakery building go up, and the wages of my employees go up, it seems apparent that my prices would have to go up. </span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">If I own a cookie factory, and my taxes go up plus my costs for raw materials, and wages go up to keep my employees, I have very few options in order to break even. Option One: raise my prices. Option Two: reduce the number of cookies in the package, or... Option Three: reduce the size of the cookies in the package. This latter is what the president mockingly calls Shrinkflation.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">President Biden seems to get a kick out of deriding businesses that make their products smaller. Does he not understand that it's GOVERNMENT POLICIES that are causing this? A business has to make a profit in order to pay for the cost of doing business. When businesses fail to make money, they eventually go out of business. Why this is not obvious to most people is a mystery to me. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">So the president brags about his policies making life better while things keep getting worse and people living in the trenches, down on the streets, know it. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">President Biden wants to have the FDA punish companies that reduce the number of chips in a bag or the size of cookies in a package. Which means what? The prices for these products will have to go up. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">When I go through the grocery story lines and buy four items for twenty or twenty-five dollars, I see people fork over $200 for a couple bags of groceries. I'm not sure how they can do it. Eventually it will be $200 for one bag of groceries. In short, this is another form of "shrinkflation" in which grocery stories give us fewer goods for the same amount of cash. Should we punish the grocers also?</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">*</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Worth Reading (if able): <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/bidens-partisan-state-of-disunion-891a9a62?mod=djem10point " target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Biden's Partisan State of Disunion</span></a></span></p><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">As Ronald Reagan famously observed, the nine most terrifying words in the English language are, "I'm from the government and I'm here to help." </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">*</span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Ennyman is a Life Under Construction.
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Pastor Jordan had preached about it the previous Sunday, though Elias had been absent for one reason or another.</span></span><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">This morning Elias rose to the clatter of the kitchen, the aroma of frying bacon and the shrill tones of his wife's morning proclamations. He sat at the table, indifferent to the last hearty breakfast he would ever devour. His gaze lingered on the newspaper, the ink-stained fingers of history spreading tales of an era departing.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">As he swallowed the last remnants of his eggs, Elias harbored no inkling that this was his final meal, the last time his taste buds would dance to the rhythm of his wife's culinary melody. The banality of bacon and eggs concealed the gravity of the moment.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Venturing out into the wooded expanse that had been his sanctuary for years, Elias trod the familiar trails with an absent mind. The rustling leaves and the creaking sighs of ancient oaks went unnoticed, for he saw none of the intricate beauty displayed on this last walk through the woods. As the verdant cathedral of nature enveloped him in its silent farewell, Elias remained deaf to the hymns.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Returning home, he engaged in the age-old ritual of marital discord. This last argument echoed through the halls. The weight of unspoken farewells lingered in the air. Elias and his wife sparred with words, unaware that this was the culmination of years of verbal battles – the final skirmish before the silence that eternity promised.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In the evening, his children played in the fading light, their laughter echoing in the yard. Oblivious to the significance of the moment, Elias watched them with casual detachment. The last time he would witness their innocent joy slipped away in the useless passage of time, dissolving like a mist.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The day meandered into night. Elias retired to bed, closing his eyes to the world. Dreams of forgotten days and faces unseen danced through the corridors of his mind. Little did he know, as slumber claimed him, that these dreams would also be his last. Before dawn Elias would be absorbed into the silence of eternal rest.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">During these final minutes of the century Elias Carver's heart ceased its rhythmic dance as the world he'd known faded into the realm of yesterday. That last day, now passed, left behind the remnants of a life lived without appreciation or reverence, hours that slipped away unnoticed, like whispers in the wind. </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">As the new century dawned, friends from long ago were struck by the news. Each recalled how inspiring he'd once been, always talking about "living large" and making an impact on the world unfolding before them. How very small the footprint of his life had become in the end. </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Ennyman is a Life Under Construction.
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visit www.ennyman.com to put your mind at e's.</div>Ed Newmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12703797864648081829noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146215066182995239.post-89185919482600919442024-03-07T09:25:00.003-06:002024-03-07T13:59:28.991-06:00Copernicus, Galileo, and Free Speech -- There Are Lessons Here<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRRFiQr4Ag3sc93O9XFX8L43_OHQ_mAC-arFsELnM3U5w5mHzHGcNqD2zb_rzGkafM8m-cXZYmgK9wYcEFh-E-3jO_0tvLUh-BkzpKEzWXyuDpzX8hjvm4nWUwLcthjkMPXgSzszzo-0Uvc8dHEbP95cUu9gjaf0amVZdTlR7Tvmu03G7ndVbZZOjZgZs/s640/Galileo%20IMG_7859.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRRFiQr4Ag3sc93O9XFX8L43_OHQ_mAC-arFsELnM3U5w5mHzHGcNqD2zb_rzGkafM8m-cXZYmgK9wYcEFh-E-3jO_0tvLUh-BkzpKEzWXyuDpzX8hjvm4nWUwLcthjkMPXgSzszzo-0Uvc8dHEbP95cUu9gjaf0amVZdTlR7Tvmu03G7ndVbZZOjZgZs/w300-h400/Galileo%20IMG_7859.jpeg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At the Galileo Museum in Florence.</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">What do you do if you're an outlier, ahead of the curve on a matter of historical or social significance? Or someone who has made a discovery that goes against public opinion?</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">When Copernicus observed and then proved that the earth went around the sun, and not vice versa, he only published this revelation at the end of his life. Had there been freedom of speech, accompanied by free thought and free inquiry, the "Copernican revolution" may have begun much earlier.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Galileo paid a price for his inquiries into how the universe works. </span><span>His 1633 imprisonment was primarily due to his support for the heliocentric model of the solar system--that sun was the center of our solar system--which contradicted the geocentric model endorsed by the Church at the time. Galileo's advocacy for the ideas proposed by Copernicus, challenged the prevailing religious and scientific beliefs of the era. He was found guilty of heresy by the Roman Catholic Church and was placed under house arrest for the remainder of his life.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Today this power to elevate or destroy careers is no longer wielded by the Church. It belongs to the State and the mob. Free speech without repercussions appears to remain an unattainable ideal, like Quixote's impossible dream. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">These "Throwback Thursday" thoughts came to mind as I reflected again on <a href="https://pioneerproductions.blogspot.com/2018/11/ibsens-enemy-of-people-questions.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Ibsen's <i>Enemy of the People</i></span></a>.</span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Ennyman is a Life Under Construction.
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Based on a true story, it's about a man so mesmerized by opera that he wants to build an opera house in the jungles of Peru, with the hope of having Enrico Caruso perform there.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><i>Fitzcarraldo</i> is the crazy but true story of Brian Feeney Fitzgerald, and Irishman rubber baron who is determined to bring a steamship 1200 miles up the Amazon into the Peruvian rainforest. This event took place over one hundred years ago while there may have still been cannibalism, a time when native peoples produced shrunken heads to trade to museum collectors.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Herzog's making of this film proved to be as audacious as Fitzcarraldo's efforts, which included transporting their riverboat over a mountain at one point. The film itself became controversial due to the multiple deaths that occured while in the making, as well as two plane crashes and more. (You can find all the behind-the-scenes drama <a href="https://collider.com/werner-herzog-fitzcarraldo-true-story/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">here</span></b></a>.)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The real life Fitzcarraldo--Carlos Fitzcarrald--was indeed a rubber baron, but the steamship he transported up the river and over a mountain was 32 tons, and not the 320 ton behemoth in the film.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht6DqHaCMltPRHAlZdgQqIK-u-CthiE0wMYhaAsQKB_yRIY6OFZ4H2WDx-B6g9vBaQkQnSVuT5oUA_TtdK-TAmwdb2ipq4ywRu1645yRvHMU5uqdT2PQOClNPSYyEExJ5C2JXJuye86_Gi1g3VOpFhzNlBIRQSYS5qq2_9fgyQhXk2HOxVItSQ3mBbeto/s640/fitz%201.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht6DqHaCMltPRHAlZdgQqIK-u-CthiE0wMYhaAsQKB_yRIY6OFZ4H2WDx-B6g9vBaQkQnSVuT5oUA_TtdK-TAmwdb2ipq4ywRu1645yRvHMU5uqdT2PQOClNPSYyEExJ5C2JXJuye86_Gi1g3VOpFhzNlBIRQSYS5qq2_9fgyQhXk2HOxVItSQ3mBbeto/s320/fitz%201.jpeg" width="240" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The movie begins with several minutes of an Enrico Caruso opera which Klaus Kinski and his wife (?) Molly (played by Claudia Cardinale) have travelled 1200 miles to see. During the performance, Caruso points in Fitz's direction, which he takes as a sign to pursue the dream in his head.</span><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The film's breathtaking cinematography stood out to critics, earning praise for Werner Herzog's exceptional skill behind the camera. Herzog's mastery doesn't just capture stunning landscapes, it transports the audience into Fitzcarraldo's world, conveying the immense scale and daring of his ambitious endeavor.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: medium;">One of the film's themes was the clash between civilization and the wilderness. As Fitzcarraldo ventures deeper into the heart of the jungle, he grapples with the moral and ethical implications of his actions and the impact of his ambition on the indigenous people and the environment, issues that remain unresolved even today.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: medium;">Just as opera was a central feature of Fitzcarraldo's ambition so, too, it is a thread woven through the film from beginning to end. You don't like opera? I myself found it fascinating the manner in which this music formed a bridge between the "civilized" world and these isolated peoples almost untouched by the world we've created and known.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: medium;">By contemporary standards the pace of this film is too slow. The glorious vistas are also lost on the small screen. Nevertheless, as a metaphor for audacity, it excels. </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span style="color: #666666;">Post Script:</span></b> For younger theater-goers who do not know Herzog, you might recognize him from his appearance as The Zec in the film </span><i style="font-family: arial;">Jack Reacher</i><span style="font-family: arial;">. If you saw the film with Tom Cruise and Robert Duvall (among others), then you will recall the extremes to which the Zec had gone to obtain his freedom.</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #45818e; font-family: verdana;"><b>RELATED LINK</b></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></p><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="Ali, Dylan and Gorgeous George: Audacity as a Marketing Tool" target="_blank">Ali, Dylan and Gorgeous George: Audacity as a Marketing Tool</a></h3><div class="blogger-post-footer">Ennyman is a Life Under Construction.
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When the process was explained it stimulated many questions. How did doctors learn how to do this, to remove the lens in an eyeball and replace it with a better lens? When did people first begin to have cataracts and how did they deal with it? </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">For what it's worth, a cataract is a cloudy area in the lens of the eye. The formation of cataracts is a natural phenomenon in the aging process. It's different from glaucoma, an eye disease which damages the optic nerve.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The history of cataract surgery spans thousands of years. As you can imagine, humankind's earliest attempts to solve this eye problem were quite crude, especially compared to our modern advancements. I asked ChatGPT to outline the history of cataract surgery. I'm sure the earliest efforts would make you wince. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Here's an outline of this eye surgery's key milestones:</span></p><ul class="ul1"><li class="li1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"></span><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Ancient Times</b>: Cataract surgery has ancient origins, with evidence of attempts to treat cataracts found in Egyptian and Indian texts dating back to 29–30 BCE. Ancient surgeons often attempted to dislodge cataracts from the eye using sharp instruments.</span></li><li class="li1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"></span><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Medieval Arab Surgeons</b>: During the medieval period, Arab physicians made significant contributions to ophthalmic surgery. They developed techniques such as couching, where a needle or sharp instrument was used to displace the clouded lens to the bottom of the eye, allowing some vision to be restored. However, this method did not restore clear vision and carried a high risk of complications.</span></li><li class="li1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"></span><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>16th to 18th Centuries</b>: European surgeons continued to refine techniques for cataract surgery, but outcomes remained poor, often resulting in blindness or severe complications.</span></li><li class="li1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"></span><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>18th Century</b>: The introduction of the extracapsular cataract extraction technique by French surgeon Jacques Daviel in the 18th century marked a significant advancement. This technique involved making an incision in the eye and removing the lens while leaving the lens capsule intact.</span></li><li class="li1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"></span><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>19th Century</b>: The development of anesthesia and a better understanding of antiseptic techniques in the 19th century led to safer cataract surgeries. Surgeons began to experiment with intraocular lens implantation, but initial attempts were largely unsuccessful due to issues with biocompatibility and rejection.</span></li><li class="li1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"></span><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>20th Century</b>: The 20th century saw significant advancements in cataract surgery techniques and technology. In the 1940s, Sir Harold Ridley pioneered the use of intraocular lenses (IOLs), which are now a standard part of modern cataract surgery. The introduction of phacoemulsification in the 1960s revolutionized cataract surgery by allowing the lens to be broken up and aspirated through a tiny incision, leading to quicker recovery times and fewer complications.</span></li><li class="li1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"></span><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>21st Century</b>: Cataract surgery continued to evolve in the 21st century with the introduction of femtosecond laser-assisted cataract surgery, which offers greater precision and customization. Additionally, advancements in IOL technology have led to improved outcomes, including multifocal and toric lenses that can correct presbyopia and astigmatism.</span></li></ul><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Today, cataract surgery is one of the most commonly performed surgical procedures worldwide, with a high success rate and minimal risk of complications. As you can see, dealing with cataracts has certainly come a long way. Today it has become a cornerstone of modern ophthalmic practice.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Did you enjoy reading this? Did you learn something new? Feel free to leave a comment.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #7f6000; font-family: arial;">Photo at top of page may be subject to copyright.</span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Ennyman is a Life Under Construction.
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Free Speech, Too? <p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span color="inherit" style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span color="inherit" style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">RANDOM PICKINGS </span></span></span></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span color="inherit" style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;">1.<br /></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;">Blaze Media investigative journalist Steve Baker being taken into FBI custody for his J6 reporting.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span color="inherit" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;">Ex-Fox News reporter Catherine Herridge being held in contempt yesterday for refusing to reveal her sources about a Chinese-American scientist investigated by the FBI but never charged.</span></p><div class="css-175oi2r" style="align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="css-175oi2r r-1s2bzr4" style="align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; list-style: none; margin: 12px 0px 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="css-1rynq56 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-37j5jr r-1inkyih r-16dba41 r-bnwqim r-135wba7" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__gy4hdq7ed9n" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 24px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; text-overflow: unset; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-overflow: unset; white-space: inherit;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Those who pontificate about “threats to our democracy” should take a hard look at the threats to freedom of the press.</span></span></div><div class="css-1rynq56 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-37j5jr r-1inkyih r-16dba41 r-bnwqim r-135wba7" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__gy4hdq7ed9n" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 24px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; text-overflow: unset; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-overflow: unset; white-space: inherit;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="css-1rynq56 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-37j5jr r-1inkyih r-16dba41 r-bnwqim r-135wba7" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__gy4hdq7ed9n" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 24px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; text-overflow: unset; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-overflow: unset; white-space: inherit;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">2.
</span></span><span color="inherit" style="font-family: georgia; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;">This [Assange case] is a blatant attempt to send a message to real journalists that if you dare expose the darkness or the US Government then you will pay the price.</span></span></div><div class="css-1rynq56 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-37j5jr r-1inkyih r-16dba41 r-bnwqim r-135wba7" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__gy4hdq7ed9n" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 24px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; text-overflow: unset;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-overflow: unset;"><div class="css-175oi2r" style="align-items: stretch; background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="css-175oi2r" style="align-items: stretch; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="css-175oi2r r-1s2bzr4" style="align-items: stretch; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; list-style: none; margin: 12px 0px 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="css-1rynq56 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-37j5jr r-1inkyih r-16dba41 r-bnwqim r-135wba7" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__8mugodnz1ig" lang="en" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 24px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; text-overflow: unset; text-wrap: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" color="inherit" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-overflow: unset; white-space: inherit;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">It’s a sign that tyranny is only getting worse in this country.
Shame on this attack of our freedom of the press.</span></span></div><div class="css-1rynq56 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-37j5jr r-1inkyih r-16dba41 r-bnwqim r-135wba7" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__8mugodnz1ig" lang="en" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 24px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; text-overflow: unset; text-wrap: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" color="inherit" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-overflow: unset; white-space: inherit;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="css-1rynq56 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-37j5jr r-1inkyih r-16dba41 r-bnwqim r-135wba7" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__8mugodnz1ig" lang="en" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 24px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; text-overflow: unset; text-wrap: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" color="inherit" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-overflow: unset; white-space: inherit;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: inherit;">3.</span><span><i> </i></span><span style="font-style: inherit;">
</span></span></span></div><div class="css-1rynq56 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-37j5jr r-1inkyih r-16dba41 r-bnwqim r-135wba7" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__8mugodnz1ig" lang="en" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 24px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; text-overflow: unset; text-wrap: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" color="inherit" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-overflow: unset; white-space: inherit;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Like the plot to a dystopian movie, New York will now monitor social media writings, collect data, and use law enforcement to crack down on any expression it deems to be hate speech.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="css-1rynq56 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-37j5jr r-1inkyih r-16dba41 r-bnwqim r-135wba7" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__8mugodnz1ig" lang="en" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 24px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; text-overflow: unset; text-wrap: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" color="inherit" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-overflow: unset; white-space: inherit;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div class="css-1rynq56 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-37j5jr r-1inkyih r-16dba41 r-bnwqim r-135wba7" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__8mugodnz1ig" lang="en" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 24px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; text-overflow: unset; text-wrap: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" color="inherit" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-overflow: unset; white-space: inherit;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">4.</span></span></div><div class="css-1rynq56 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-37j5jr r-1inkyih r-16dba41 r-bnwqim r-135wba7" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__8mugodnz1ig" lang="en" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 24px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; text-overflow: unset; text-wrap: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">New Free Speech Gag Law in Canada: C-63</span></div><div class="css-1rynq56 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-37j5jr r-1inkyih r-16dba41 r-bnwqim r-135wba7" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__8mugodnz1ig" lang="en" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 24px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; text-overflow: unset; text-wrap: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="css-1rynq56 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-37j5jr r-1inkyih r-16dba41 r-bnwqim r-135wba7" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__8mugodnz1ig" lang="en" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 24px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; text-overflow: unset; text-wrap: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="r-b88u0q" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-weight: 700;">They created a Bill to fight hate without actually defining what is considered hatred.</span><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> In other words, this Bill C63 will let them make anything up they want, on the fly.</span></span></div><div class="css-1rynq56 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-37j5jr r-1inkyih r-16dba41 r-bnwqim r-135wba7" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__8mugodnz1ig" lang="en" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 24px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; text-overflow: unset; text-wrap: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="css-1rynq56 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-37j5jr r-1inkyih r-16dba41 r-bnwqim r-135wba7" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__8mugodnz1ig" lang="en" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 24px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; text-overflow: unset; text-wrap: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">5.</span></span></div><div class="css-1rynq56 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-37j5jr r-1inkyih r-16dba41 r-bnwqim r-135wba7" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__8mugodnz1ig" lang="en" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 24px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; text-overflow: unset; text-wrap: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);"><span style="font-size: medium;">It's about feelings...As the MOJ David Lametti mentioned he was "feeling threatened" during the "freedom convoy" so he invoked the Emergencies Act and joked about calling in a tank...</span></span></div><div class="css-1rynq56 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-37j5jr r-1inkyih r-16dba41 r-bnwqim r-135wba7" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__8mugodnz1ig" lang="en" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 24px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; text-overflow: unset; text-wrap: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="css-1rynq56 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-37j5jr r-1inkyih r-16dba41 r-bnwqim r-135wba7" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__8mugodnz1ig" lang="en" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 24px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; text-overflow: unset; text-wrap: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);"><span style="font-size: medium;">6.</span></span></div><div class="css-1rynq56 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-37j5jr r-1inkyih r-16dba41 r-bnwqim r-135wba7" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__8mugodnz1ig" lang="en" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 24px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; text-overflow: unset; text-wrap: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);"><span style="font-size: medium;">They don’t need to define what is hate speech, they just need to be the ones who decide what is hate speech.
I predict that politicians speaking out against this government will be charged.</span></span></div><div class="css-1rynq56 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-37j5jr r-1inkyih r-16dba41 r-bnwqim r-135wba7" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__8mugodnz1ig" lang="en" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 24px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; text-overflow: unset; text-wrap: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="css-1rynq56 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-37j5jr r-1inkyih r-16dba41 r-bnwqim r-135wba7" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__8mugodnz1ig" lang="en" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 24px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; text-overflow: unset; text-wrap: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);"><span style="font-size: medium;">7. </span></span></div><div class="css-1rynq56 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-37j5jr r-1inkyih r-16dba41 r-bnwqim r-135wba7" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__8mugodnz1ig" lang="en" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 24px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; text-overflow: unset; text-wrap: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-overflow: unset;"><span style="font-weight: inherit;">Online Harms Act Will Throw Authors, Columnists and YouTubers In Prison </span>- </span><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-overflow: unset;">Bill</span><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-overflow: unset;"> </span><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-overflow: unset;">C63</span></span></div><div class="css-1rynq56 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-37j5jr r-1inkyih r-16dba41 r-bnwqim r-135wba7" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__8mugodnz1ig" lang="en" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 24px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; text-overflow: unset; text-wrap: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-overflow: unset;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="css-1rynq56 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-37j5jr r-1inkyih r-16dba41 r-bnwqim r-135wba7" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__8mugodnz1ig" lang="en" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 24px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; text-overflow: unset; text-wrap: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-overflow: unset;"><span style="font-size: medium;">8.</span></span></div><div class="css-1rynq56 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-37j5jr r-1inkyih r-16dba41 r-bnwqim r-135wba7" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__8mugodnz1ig" lang="en" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 24px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; text-overflow: unset; text-wrap: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-overflow: unset;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-overflow: unset;">Under Online Harms Act </span><span class="r-18u37iz" style="flex-direction: row;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" color="inherit" dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-overflow: unset; white-space: inherit;">#BillC63</span></span><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-overflow: unset;">, the government can put you under house arrest or force you to wear an ankle bracelet if someone else believes that you *will* write something hateful online in the future.</span></span></span></div><div class="css-1rynq56 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-37j5jr r-1inkyih r-16dba41 r-bnwqim r-135wba7" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__8mugodnz1ig" lang="en" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 24px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; text-overflow: unset; text-wrap: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-overflow: unset;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-overflow: unset;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="css-1rynq56 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-37j5jr r-1inkyih r-16dba41 r-bnwqim r-135wba7" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__8mugodnz1ig" lang="en" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 24px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; text-overflow: unset; text-wrap: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-overflow: unset;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-overflow: unset;"><span style="font-size: medium;">9.</span></span></span></div><div class="css-1rynq56 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-37j5jr r-1inkyih r-16dba41 r-bnwqim r-135wba7" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__8mugodnz1ig" lang="en" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); 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font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-overflow: unset;">Being elected does not give one authority to violate Canada's constitution. This Orwellian piece of violent totalitarianism - </span><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-overflow: unset;">Bill</span><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-overflow: unset;"> </span><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-overflow: unset;">C63</span><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-overflow: unset;"> - has no place in Canada. There ought to be penalties for lawmakers who propose obvious violations of individual freedom, and "free speech".</span></span></span></span></div><div class="css-1rynq56 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-37j5jr r-1inkyih r-16dba41 r-bnwqim r-135wba7" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__8mugodnz1ig" lang="en" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 24px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; text-overflow: unset; text-wrap: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); 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box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-overflow: unset;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-overflow: unset;">10.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="css-1rynq56 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-37j5jr r-1inkyih r-16dba41 r-bnwqim r-135wba7" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__8mugodnz1ig" lang="en" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); 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padding: 0px; text-overflow: unset;">Bill c-63 is worse than imaginable
It is more ridiculous than thought police
</span><span class="r-18u37iz" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; flex-direction: row;"><a class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1loqt21" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/C63?src=hashtag_click" role="link" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d9bf0; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; text-overflow: unset; white-space: inherit;">#C63</a></span><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; 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font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-overflow: unset;">11.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="css-1rynq56 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-37j5jr r-1inkyih r-16dba41 r-bnwqim r-135wba7" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__8mugodnz1ig" lang="en" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal; 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box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-overflow: unset;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-overflow: unset;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-overflow: unset;">How does Fascism start?: First, they fascinate the fools. (Trudeau) Then they Muzzle FreeThinkers (</span><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-overflow: unset;">BillC63</span><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-overflow: unset;">)</span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="css-1rynq56 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-37j5jr r-1inkyih r-16dba41 r-bnwqim r-135wba7" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__8mugodnz1ig" lang="en" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 24px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; text-overflow: unset; text-wrap: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-overflow: unset;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; 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box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-overflow: unset;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="css-1rynq56 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-37j5jr r-1inkyih r-16dba41 r-bnwqim r-135wba7" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__8mugodnz1ig" lang="en" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 24px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; text-overflow: unset; text-wrap: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-overflow: unset;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-overflow: unset;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-overflow: unset;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-overflow: unset;">12.</span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="css-1rynq56 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-37j5jr r-1inkyih r-16dba41 r-bnwqim r-135wba7" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__8mugodnz1ig" lang="en" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 24px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; text-overflow: unset; text-wrap: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-overflow: unset;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-overflow: unset;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-overflow: unset;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-overflow: unset;">The first amendment protects speech you "don't" like. If it protects only speech you"do" like, then there is no free speech.</span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="css-1rynq56 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-37j5jr r-1inkyih r-16dba41 r-bnwqim r-135wba7" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__8mugodnz1ig" lang="en" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 24px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; text-overflow: unset; text-wrap: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); 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overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-overflow: unset;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="css-1rynq56 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-37j5jr r-1inkyih r-16dba41 r-bnwqim r-135wba7" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__8mugodnz1ig" lang="en" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 24px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; text-overflow: unset; text-wrap: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); 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box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-overflow: unset;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-overflow: unset;">BONUS TRACK:</span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="css-1rynq56 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-37j5jr r-1inkyih r-16dba41 r-bnwqim r-135wba7" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__8mugodnz1ig" lang="en" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 24px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; text-overflow: unset; text-wrap: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); 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visit www.ennyman.com to put your mind at e's.</div>Ed Newmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12703797864648081829noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146215066182995239.post-18918998869488276112024-02-28T19:51:00.001-06:002024-02-28T19:53:15.912-06:00James Wiita on Bud Wagner's And There Shall Be Wars<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd6KyWy5T5FhFdnnLi9A6J2SU83MPKNZRQ6kJejS4b2st10B5rLnLhQ_lLyRRc8ij5S9aN6yNDIa8kdoh1edNKqbhtAxRbNdsUXg-aYptb3xp815greY7YA2RNGrmRf1duiCU1K4qFZm5j3e3XoQav6TpzNFkH8rIyPeiDgn6Q2HGaGliYsANs4Qq8Y20/s1054/092americansburiedboobytrapped.TIF" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="899" data-original-width="1054" height="341" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd6KyWy5T5FhFdnnLi9A6J2SU83MPKNZRQ6kJejS4b2st10B5rLnLhQ_lLyRRc8ij5S9aN6yNDIa8kdoh1edNKqbhtAxRbNdsUXg-aYptb3xp815greY7YA2RNGrmRf1duiCU1K4qFZm5j3e3XoQav6TpzNFkH8rIyPeiDgn6Q2HGaGliYsANs4Qq8Y20/w400-h341/092americansburiedboobytrapped.TIF" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Nearly a half century ago, Bud Wagner (who would eventually become my father-in-law) shared with me his diaries from the time he enlisted in the army and went to war in Europe, first in North Africa and on to Italy. He asked my opinion regarding his record from that time, "Would anyone be interested in this?"</span><div><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I replied, "Absolutely." </span></div><div><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">As a market gardener, he had little time much of the year for this project, but each winter he remained dedicated to researching the global context of his personal experience and devoted his time to setting down in writing what I peronally believe is not only an insightful book but also a significant contribution to our understanding of what it was like to be a soldier during the Second World War.</span></div><div><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">What follows is an email from someone who recently purchased a copy of Bud's book, <i>And There Shall Be Wars</i>.</span><br /></span><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Just a note to say </b>how much I am enjoying the book about your Father-in-Law.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">You strike me as someone who ingests a lot of reading each week. I imagine you are always in the midst of a good book. With all the focus on my own project , I haven’t read a good, fat book for way too long.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> <br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: georgia;">I am now just getting back into that swing. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: georgia;">This book has truly launched the habit.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I’ve just started to dig into the story, and want to pick it up as my first read in the morning. It’s a few days after Pearl Harbor in the story.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Reading Bud is like a daily talk with someone, though one sided. You can pick right up where you left off, it’s so personal it shows his human characteristics, and what to anticipate with each entry.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">It seems to show every aspect of “army life “ -- the important details and accuracy mixed with the training -- moments with friends and music, faith, along with frequent headaches and times of boredom.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXcERqBZetjrC_uUoy1aUF50IQ5iLEGZcX8VPFIQOYJAKk8IrlNBjr5OYleNjCHg-P0hhpKX2qaPnmAA8RYP-RKGchBSO0VtYI2TdKynhjiTdZkXpoQXlPPJteSLPqZfc89_gO870muVs6w2QyL63vFymI3bbiB5WLoR95MKjQVQmVTxsXHCXJOfpWjuA/s239/00%20warcover.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="239" data-original-width="159" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXcERqBZetjrC_uUoy1aUF50IQ5iLEGZcX8VPFIQOYJAKk8IrlNBjr5OYleNjCHg-P0hhpKX2qaPnmAA8RYP-RKGchBSO0VtYI2TdKynhjiTdZkXpoQXlPPJteSLPqZfc89_gO870muVs6w2QyL63vFymI3bbiB5WLoR95MKjQVQmVTxsXHCXJOfpWjuA/w213-h320/00%20warcover.jpeg" width="213" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">You can easily see the kind of soldier he became, and how his superiors and others viewed him. The entries give vivid clues. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Not in a slighting way, but this man was </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">definitely on the spectrum. There are so many indicators it’s fascinating.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I could give many examples already of his definers. I’m no expert, but the fastidious behaviors and attention to detail tell a true daily approach to his obsession with detail.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">It adds a generous empathy to his storytelling. You feel as fulfilled in his chronicling as he did .</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Well, that sounded like a critique, but I wanted you to know I think preserving this story is as important to me as it was to Bud.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Before he ever left he knew he was going to be chronicling, the cameras alone tell the tale. The results are extremely impressive.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Thanks for bringing the book to me.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">James</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">* * * </span></span></div><div><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;">HERE'S AN EXCERPT that reflects how the book is organized. Bud recorded each of his daily handwritten diary entries and then added a commentary, amplifying the account recorded in his journals. The additional commentary often included details from other parts of the war theater, thereby giving context to his personal experience. </span></div><div><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><em style="background-color: white; color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Friday, January 7, 1944</b><br /></em><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Had to go to all battalions at midnight with firing orders. Moonlight so I didn't mind too much. Slept through breakfast. Were shelled twice here today. My nerves aren't able to take it anymore as well as they used to. Some shells came close enough.<br /><br /></span></span><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">151 moved tonight; I moved with them to the other side of San Pietro, a rubbled mess, a battlefield, to be sure. Back here at 10:00, just got nicely to sleep when the guard called, "Wag, get to Message Center," so there was another Firing Order to all battalions. It must have been after 2:00 when I got back.<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">San Pietro and San Vitorre were two towns literally blown off the face of the earth. There were many trees around that were totally devoid of all branches, and were just sticks left from all the shell fire. The city itself was piles of concrete rubble. I didn't see life of any kind left any time I drove through. About this time the II Corps took Mts. Porchio and Chiaia, two objectives necessary for our Division to have before our ultimate objective of Cassino.</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><p class="p1" style="font-family: Arial; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Photo Caption Top: <span style="text-align: center;"><i>Don and I went to Sbeitia with water truck. Saw 4 German graves, some old buildings that were failing down, and French garrison that had been bombed. --Tuesday, March 30, 1943</i></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Arial; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">* * * </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: white; color: #45818e; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>RELATED LINKS</b></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Arial; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: georgia;">James Wiita is author of the book </span><a href="https://ennyman3.substack.com/p/rock-on-duluth" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Rock On, Duluth</span></i></a></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://pioneerproductions.blogspot.com/2010/04/dogs-of-war-and-liberation-day-italy.html" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: white; color: #3d85c6; font-size: medium;">Dogs of War and Liberation Day, Italy</span></a></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Arial; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Arial; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">TO PURCHASE A COPY OF YOUR OWN, SEND A NOTE TO ENNYMAN3@GMAIL.COM</span></p></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Ennyman is a Life Under Construction.
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The first just came online and the second will soon follow. </span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: center;">By way of contrast, many countries are committed to significant growth in this field. I asked Google for details on some of these</span><span style="text-align: center;"> countries currently experiencing the fastest adoption of nuclear power, and one that has fled in the other direction.</span></span></p><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; text-align: center;">Here is what I learned.</span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></div><span style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-weight: bold;">China</b><b> </b>is one of the world's largest consumers of nuclear power and has been rapidly expanding its nuclear energy capacity in recent years. As of last year China had<span face=""Google Sans", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #001d35; text-align: start;"> </span><mark class="QVRyCf" style="text-align: start;">55 nuclear power plants in operation, with 22 more under construction, and more than 70 others planned</mark><span face=""Google Sans", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #001d35; text-align: start;">. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div></span><span style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Russia </span>has long been a major player in the nuclear energy sector and despite its Chernoble setback, Russia continues to invest in the expansion and modernization of its nuclear power infrastructure. The Russian government sees nuclear power as a key component of its energy strategy and exports nuclear technology to other countries. They currently have <span class="oXzekf" face=""Google Sans", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #001d35; text-align: start;"><mark class="QVRyCf">37 operable nuclear reactors with a combined capacity of 27.7 GWe</mark>. </span><span class="oXzekf" face=""Google Sans", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #001d35; text-align: start;">These reactors are located at 11 nuclear power sites, including a floating plant in Pevek. </span><span class="oXzekf" face=""Google Sans", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #001d35; text-align: start;">Russia's nuclear plants generate </span><span class="oXzekf" face=""Google Sans", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #001d35; text-align: start;">more than 19% of the country's electricity</span><span class="oXzekf" face=""Google Sans", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #001d35; text-align: start;">.</span></div></span><span style="text-align: left;"><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">India </span>has ambitious plans to expand its nuclear energy capacity to meet growing energy demand and reduce reliance on fossil fuels. <span class="oXzekf" face=""Google Sans", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #001d35; text-align: start;"><mark class="QVRyCf">As of February 2023, India had 22 nuclear power plants in operation</mark>, with a combined capacity of 6,780 megawatts electric (MWe). </span><span class="oXzekf" face=""Google Sans", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #001d35; text-align: start;">India </span><span class="oXzekf" face=""Google Sans", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #001d35; text-align: start;">plans to add 18 more</span><span class="oXzekf" face=""Google Sans", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #001d35; text-align: start;"> nuclear power reactors with a capacity of 13,800 MWe by 2031-32.</span></div></span><span style="text-align: left;"><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><b>The United Arab Emirates (UAE)</b> </span>has emerged as a significant player in the nuclear energy sector, with the construction of the Barakah Nuclear Power Plant, which became operational in 2020. Thought the UAE government views nuclear power as a crucial component of its energy diversification strategy they currently have only three reactors.</div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><b>South Korea,</b> </span>a<span class="oXzekf" face=""Google Sans", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #001d35; text-align: start;">s of July 2023, has <mark class="QVRyCf">eight active nuclear plants</mark>. </span><span class="oXzekf" face=""Google Sans", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #001d35; text-align: start;">The government has proposed </span><span class="oXzekf" face=""Google Sans", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #001d35; text-align: start;">adding six more nuclear plants</span><span class="oXzekf" face=""Google Sans", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #001d35; text-align: start;"> by 2036, and plans to increase nuclear generating capacity to 31.7 gigawatts (GW) by 2036. </span><span class="oXzekf" face=""Google Sans", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #001d35; text-align: start;">South Korea also plans to export 10 nuclear power plants by 2030. </span></div></span><span style="text-align: left;"><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">France, </span>a<span class="oXzekf" face=""Google Sans", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #001d35; text-align: start;">s of January 10, 2023, had <mark class="QVRyCf">56 active nuclear reactors, with 12 of them off the grid</mark>. </span><span class="oXzekf" face=""Google Sans", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #001d35; text-align: start;">In 2022, France announced </span><span class="oXzekf" face=""Google Sans", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #001d35; text-align: start;">plans to build six new reactors</span><span class="oXzekf" face=""Google Sans", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #001d35; text-align: start;">, and in November 2023, President Emmanuel Macron said France could build eight new nuclear plants by the end of 2026. </span><span class="oXzekf" face=""Google Sans", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #001d35; text-align: start;">France's nuclear power plants account for about </span><span class="oXzekf" face=""Google Sans", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #001d35; text-align: start;">70% of the country's electricity needs</span><span class="oXzekf" face=""Google Sans", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #001d35; text-align: start;">.<br /><br /></span></div></span></div></span><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="oXzekf" face=""Google Sans", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #001d35; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">* * * </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="oXzekf" face=""Google Sans", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #001d35; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">The U.S., on the other hand, seems stymied by numerous handicaps. In 1994 Minnesota passed a moratorium on building nuclear power plants. Even if this were lifted, the turnaround time to get a new reactor online will take ages, it seems. At least we're not going the route of Germany.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="oXzekf" face=""Google Sans", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #001d35; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="oXzekf" face=""Google Sans", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #001d35; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><span style="color: black; text-align: justify;"><b>Germany</b> at one time </span><span class="oXzekf" face=""Google Sans", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #001d35;">had <mark class="QVRyCf">nine active nuclear facilities, including six research reactors and three nuclear fuel cycle facilities</mark>. </span><span class="oXzekf" face=""Google Sans", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #001d35;">In November 2022, the Bundestag passed an amendment to the Atomic Energy Act to keep the remaining three nuclear power plants in operation for a limited time. </span><span class="oXzekf" face=""Google Sans", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #001d35;">On April 15, 2023, the three remaining nuclear power plants shut down, marking the end of Germany's nuclear era</span><span class="oXzekf" face=""Google Sans", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #001d35;">.</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="oXzekf" face=""Google Sans", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #001d35; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="oXzekf" face=""Google Sans", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #001d35; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Those countries actively investing in the expansion and adoption of nuclear power to meet energy demand, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and enhance energy security are to be commended. The world we live in requires energy. Not only are we dependent on energy, we're dependent on <i>cheap</i> energy. </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Of all these things much more can be said. </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #45818e; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>Related Links</b></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://pioneerproductions.blogspot.com/2021/10/putting-nuclear-power-in-perspective.html" target="_blank">Interview with David Watson: Putting Nuclear Power in Perspective</a></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://pioneerproductions.blogspot.com/2021/09/grid-fragility-and-book-by-meredith.html" target="_blank">Grid Fragility and a Book by Meredith Angwin</a></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://pioneerproductions.blogspot.com/2023/12/small-reactors-big-potenntial-impact.html" target="_blank">Small Reactors, Big Potential Impact</a></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: arial;">IF ANYTHING HERE IS INACCURATE, PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT</span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Ennyman is a Life Under Construction.
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visit www.ennyman.com to put your mind at e's.</div>Ed Newmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12703797864648081829noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146215066182995239.post-71193559068498064652024-02-23T10:40:00.006-06:002024-02-24T07:35:44.518-06:00Notes from the Julian Assange Saga<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxxGGGf9-kHdb12gPcA01B0BSiIzgAsaG0cSqZlbApzU0v6dRK5wqXxFlppgYSHSBiMx8QhLL_hkHA8u6WEpLKgsPpIYqYieG86jLcLOyWiq2mh-Qmmk8fgRWwQklk37X6GTVvzBhQMtJzRefB_Y1yhsKLsYhY1702mt69jMYLS4eJoOe77-nuOt5d6YY/s608/e%20IMG_2053%20cr.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="608" data-original-width="411" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxxGGGf9-kHdb12gPcA01B0BSiIzgAsaG0cSqZlbApzU0v6dRK5wqXxFlppgYSHSBiMx8QhLL_hkHA8u6WEpLKgsPpIYqYieG86jLcLOyWiq2mh-Qmmk8fgRWwQklk37X6GTVvzBhQMtJzRefB_Y1yhsKLsYhY1702mt69jMYLS4eJoOe77-nuOt5d6YY/w270-h400/e%20IMG_2053%20cr.jpeg" width="270" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Does the American public have a right to know what its own government is up to and has been up to these past many decades? Apparently not, when you look at how the government stomps down any reporter who strives to shine a light on what our veiled government entities--FBI, CIA, NSC, Homeland Security--are doing under cover of darkness. </span><p></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">This week, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was put on trial in England after having taken refuge for a number of years in the Ecuadorian embassy. What follows here are some quotes that I extracted from Wikiquotes and Twitter yesterday.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span style="font-size: medium;">“It is impossible to correct abuses unless we know that they’re going on.”</span><br /></span><i style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: large;">—Julian Assange</i></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>"That's what a journalists job is, to hold those in power, elected politicians and everyone else to account, we have got to protect journalists" </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> <br /><i>--</i></span><i><span>Jeremy Corbyn speaks to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s1" style="color: #dca10d;"><a href="https://twitter.com/SkyNews">@SkyNews</a></span><span> On </span><span>Assange</span></i></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>"The goal is to use Afghanistan to wash money out of the tax bases of the US and Europe through Afghanistan and back into the hands of a transnational security elite. The goal is an endless war, not a successful war.” <span class="Apple-converted-space"> <br /><i>--</i></span></span><i><span>Julian </span><span>Assange</span><span> speaking in 2011</span></i></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>"He should be given a medal -- he is contributing to democracy.”<br /><i>--</i></span><i><span>Noam Chomsky on Julian </span><span>Assange</span></i></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"To every political leader and journalist making and writing speeches: You can't save Navalny. You *can* still save Assange. If you're silent here, when and where you can actually influence the outcome, you were never standing up for principles—you were just hoping for applause. x.com/Snowden/status…"<br />--Edward Snowden</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Their fear of Assange and malice toward him tells us that the WikiLeaks documents were real. Anyone who read them had their world view changed forever. Guessing and knowing are two different things.”</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"As they lecture us endlessly about human rights in other countries, the Biden administration is trying to kill journalist Julian Assange for the crime of embarrassing the CIA. His wife Stella joins us from his extradition hearing", sad but very true!”</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>“It's crucial to untangle facts from politics in the Assange case. Yes, there were allegations that the CIA discussed actions against him, but that shouldn't overshadow the debate on press freedom. Assange's actions have raised complex questions about journalism and national security. While he may have broken the law by aiding hackers, the severity of his penalty should be assessed fairly. We need to consider the impact on freedom of expression and media accountability.”<br /><i>--</i></span><span><i>Quantica</i></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The contradiction of people screaming of the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>treatment of Alexei Navalny say nothing over the treatment of Julian Assange. Wonder why that is?</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>--</span><span>Eric Pistey</span></span></i></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Why punish julian assange who is only the messenger of truth, he is not the perpetrator of the crimes committed by the USA who is trying to cover up their crimes by attempting to shoot down the messenger to sweep their crimes under the carpet and out of view.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>--</span><span>Sweet Jennet</span></span></i></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“This is not justice; never could this be justice, the verdict was ordained long ago. Its function is not to determine questions such as guilt or innocence, or truth or falsehood. <span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">It is a public relations exercise, designed to provide the government with an alibi for posterity. It is a show of wasteful vengeance; a theatrical warning to people of conscience.”</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>—J. Assange</i></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“A Society that prohibits the capacity to speak in truth extinguishes the capacity to live in justice.”</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>—Chris Hedges</i></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>“The New York Times</i> reported that Assange’s lawyers contend that the U.S. is prosecuting him for political reasons. That is correct. Assange very publicly shamed the <a href="https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/U.S._Government"><span class="s1" style="color: #dca10d;">U.S. government</span></a>. And the U.S. government does not stand for humiliation. (Just witness its treatment of Iran for over 40 years because of the hostage crisis.) For that, Assange has been hounded, falsely accused, tortured, prosecuted and threatened with 175 years in prison. The same fate awaited whistleblower <a href="https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden"><span class="s1" style="color: #dca10d;">Edward Snowden</span></a>, had he not had the sense to flee to a place the U.S. could not follow, namely <a href="https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Russia"><span class="s1" style="color: #dca10d;">Russia</span></a>.... Had Assange died in Belmarsh prison, or should he, that would be fine with the United States, because there’s <b>one thing the </b><a href="https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/U.S._military"><span class="s1" style="color: #dca10d;"><b>U.S. military</b></span></a><b> and </b><a href="https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/National_security"><span class="s1" style="color: #dca10d;"><b>national security state</b></span></a><b> will not tolerate and that is publication of their crimes abroad, in other words, the </b><a href="https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Truth"><span class="s1" style="color: #dca10d;"><b>truth</b></span></a>.“<br />—<i><a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/02/19/the-atrocious-prosecution-of-julian-assange/"><span class="s2" style="color: #dca10d;">The Atrocious Prosecution of Julian Assange, by Eve Ottenberg, CounterPunch</span></a>, (19 February 2021)</i></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>WikiLeaks and Assange have done more to expose the dark machinations and crimes of the American Empire than any other news organization.</b> Assange, in addition to exposing atrocities and crimes committed by the United States military in our endless wars and revealing the inner workings of the Clinton campaign, made public the hacking tools used by the CIA and the National Security Agency. their surveillance programs and their interference in foreign elections... And WikiLeaks worked swiftly to save Edward Snowden, who exposed the wholesale surveillance of the American public by the government, from extradition to the United States by helping him flee from Hong Kong to Moscow...</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>—Chris Hedges</i></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #45818e; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>Related Links</b></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.npr.org/2019/04/12/712659290/how-much-did-wikileaks-damage-u-s-national-security" target="_blank">How Much Did WikiLeaks Damage U.S. National Security?</a></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://pioneerproductions.blogspot.com/2022/06/the-beginning-of-americas-imperialist.html" target="_blank">The Beginning of America's Imperialist Ambitions</a></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Ennyman is a Life Under Construction.
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visit www.ennyman.com to put your mind at e's.</div>Ed Newmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12703797864648081829noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146215066182995239.post-8779593968177331812024-02-23T08:50:00.000-06:002024-02-23T08:50:46.197-06:00Retraction Watch: Keeping the Science Trustworthy by Tracking Retractions<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; font-family: georgia;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQu9tKl0fv7C0lbRLza6A9eLZZMmJ0S9-3TZWrDZp1lI4xPOys2dBRnpKGU611YspEZvl0muIWgOlGe7JSyISn-THRgv_y_el39uDMpMVC_x9A15Kwe7PXuKhJT3BQY4lbZdYYXZRLaK-b0lth-NphvXugz_S_f9zYJQQDC2w5E6LTkhFN9qNnZlALAR0/s472/cancer%20research.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="472" height="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQu9tKl0fv7C0lbRLza6A9eLZZMmJ0S9-3TZWrDZp1lI4xPOys2dBRnpKGU611YspEZvl0muIWgOlGe7JSyISn-THRgv_y_el39uDMpMVC_x9A15Kwe7PXuKhJT3BQY4lbZdYYXZRLaK-b0lth-NphvXugz_S_f9zYJQQDC2w5E6LTkhFN9qNnZlALAR0/w400-h366/cancer%20research.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo National Cancer Institute on Unsplash</td></tr></tbody></table><i><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia;">"Whoever is careless with truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs."<br />--Albert Einstein</span></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">How many times do you see or hear stories in the news referencing "new findings" regarding this health matter, that climate issue or some other "significant" breakthrough? New results from new studies seem to be an almost daily occurrence in our contemporary culture which has now made science more authoritative than the sacred texts that have been a guide for countless millions through the centuries. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Today's new authorities are the scientific journals that publish findings or results from new research for the purpose of peer review. Getting published in journals gives research a patina of authority. News media then lauds these papers </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">as reliable, as research that has been sifted and proven. As a result, scientific journals offer us a new canon of purportedly trustworthy information. </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Except</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> when it isn't.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Sure, we're all aware that there have been occasional mistakes, or even hoaxes, that get published from time to time. Sometimes these even make the news. More often than not, however, new research findings are proclaimed loudly while retractions take place quietly, primarily because they are embarrassing.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>This is where Retraction Watch (RW) comes in.</b> RW tracks retractions and offers the public an opportunity to see the scientific process at work. The RW team, an independent agency beholden to no one, shares the work they are doing so that we, who lack the tools, can see patterns and learn more about the reliability of information we read about in the news.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Although retractions are nothing new, the problem of unreliable research is greater than ever. According to a podcast in The Guardian, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2024/feb/22/mistakes-fakes-and-a-giant-rat-penis-why-are-so-many-science-papers-being-retracted-podcast" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">a record 10,000 research papers were retracted in 2023</span></a>.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">It was the rise misinformation in scientific journal that prompted Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus to start their Retraction Watch blog. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">It's understandable that publishers would be embarrassed to discover they goofed when they announced something unreliable or off-the-wall. On the other hand, when newsmaking research gets widely disseminated, or widely cited in other journal articles, someone needs to speak out and shine on a spotlight on those occasions when the king has no clothes on.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In the realm of investing, it's called due diligence. Unfortunately, most of us lack access to the myriad journals whose contents influence the influencers. We just hear it in the news.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">For those interested, the RW team not only has <a href="https://retractionwatch.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">a Retraction Watch blog</span></a>, they also produce a daily Retraction Watch eNewsletter. If you're unfamiliar with the important work they've been sharing, I encourage you to check it out. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">* * * * * </span></p><ul style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; list-style-image: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles.legacy/images/bullet-icon.svg?d4515"); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;"></ul><div class="blogger-post-footer">Ennyman is a Life Under Construction.
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visit www.ennyman.com to put your mind at e's.</div>Ed Newmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12703797864648081829noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146215066182995239.post-59111925927739117102024-02-22T08:58:00.005-06:002024-02-22T09:05:44.834-06:00Throwback Thursday: A Brief Visit with David Cane on Happiness<span style="font-size: medium;"><em><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGwjXZZWaa8AiV7myVB48uBsKyLobp5zEZvdZYx4-2EpqcSW0Ldnq__70tNtkT4bbvnV7lyXJolG2BzSEBhVwnYTcECwGnYDrH72Ll_54un4ESAdcoY8pz4omTdQrokrxTryQ9ya0M_dyxzC5CRkbyOKh-KFQt4sKBNqgYpm3G3MXQDve1zGjQvbaUH-4/s246/CanePic.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="246" data-original-width="174" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGwjXZZWaa8AiV7myVB48uBsKyLobp5zEZvdZYx4-2EpqcSW0Ldnq__70tNtkT4bbvnV7lyXJolG2BzSEBhVwnYTcECwGnYDrH72Ll_54un4ESAdcoY8pz4omTdQrokrxTryQ9ya0M_dyxzC5CRkbyOKh-KFQt4sKBNqgYpm3G3MXQDve1zGjQvbaUH-4/w283-h400/CanePic.jpeg" width="283" /></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia;">“If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.” ~ W. Clement Stone</span></em><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The idea of happiness is something so basic that most of us desire it without knowing why. As Americans it is even written into our national creed as one of our basic entitlements: “Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” </span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The pursuit alone does not always result in happiness. That might be why there are so many books about happiness on the market. Many of them deal with our internal barriers and others offer practical tools for removing external barriers. The how of happiness, the steps to happiness, the psychology of happiness, the secrets of happiness… So when I was given a chance to review yet another book on this happy subject, <em>The Short Book on Happiness</em>, I took advantage of the opportunity to instead interview its author, David Cane. </span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Born in 1964, Mr. Cane is a graduate of The American University in Washington D.C. where he received his MBA. His life experience includes overcoming drug and alcohol addictions, unemployment, bankruptcies and other misfortunes. Like many, he knew why he was unhappy, but did not know how to find the happiness he saw others experiencing. </span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Today he has been a member of Alcoholics Anonymous for fifteen years and speaks routinely on the topic of addiction and recovery. It is apropos that his blogspot includes this quote from Henry Ford: “Whether you think you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.” Everything really does start right there.</span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><strong><span style="color: #990000;">EN:</span></strong> <i>What was your motivation in writing this book?</i><br /><strong><span style="color: #6600cc;">David Cane:</span></strong> For me, studying and learning about happiness was never enough. I’ve read many books that I thought would help me become happier. I learned a lot, and many of the books I read were extremely well written and valuable as they related to helping me understand why I was experiencing worry, fear, and low self-esteem. What was missing, however, was a simple, short, but substantive approach that I could apply to eradicate worry, acquire more confidence, and become a happier person. My heart was always in the right place, and I knew I could achieve more in my life, and I was certainly ready to do the work, but I just could not figure out the right actions to practice.</span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">It’s my belief that many people unwittingly procrastinate becoming happy due to spending an inordinate amount of time seeking out the reasons for their unhappiness. Too much time is spent figuring things out, and too little time is spent solving the problem. The problem, in essence, is that we have allowed our minds to become our masters, and must reclaim ownership of our minds in order to become happy.</span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><strong><span style="color: #990000;">EN:</span></strong> <i>Many people know most of these truths. Why don't they do them?</i><br /><strong><span style="color: #6600cc;">DC:</span></strong> That is correct. Things such as positive thought, gratitude, forgiveness, and faith are not new. I believe there are a variety of reasons why people do not practice these things and do not receive the associated benefits in their lives. These include:</span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">~ Difficulty in sorting through the vast amount of information and differing philosophies available on these topics<br />~ People want a quick fix, and give up if it results don't happen fast enough<br />~ People know what they need to do, but don’t know how to do it to get results<br />~ It takes a lot of energy and commitment<br />~ Thinking in a new way makes you "different"<br />~ It takes people out of their comfort zone<br /><br /><strong><span style="color: #990000;">EN:</span></strong> <i>In a world with so much suffering, is it right to be happy?</i><br /><strong><span style="color: #6600cc;">DC:</span></strong> Yes it is. I believe we deserve to be happy, and that is God’s intention for us. In fact, much of the suffering in the world is created by people who are unhappy to begin with. The more happiness there is, the less suffering there will be. People that are truly happy (i.e., have high self-esteem, are not consumed by worry and fear, and have a strong faith) are in a much better position to reduce suffering in the world.</span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><strong><span style="color: #990000;">EN:</span></strong> <i>Discontent can become a prod for motivating us to do something to make a bad situation better. (e.g. in a situation where social injustice is taking place.) Can we be both happy and discontent at the same time?</i><br /><strong><span style="color: #6600cc;">DC:</span></strong> Yes. In fact, a person who is truly happy understands that happiness does not mean that things around them have to be going well. That is, one can have financial difficulties, health issues, family issues caused by others, etc. and still be happy. Happiness is an “inside job” and is a reflection of how comfortable one is with who they are, not what they have, and for me starts and ends with faith in God.</span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;">* * * * </div></span><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The full title of David Cane's book is <em><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Short-Book-Happiness-Transform-Your/dp/059550860X/ref=sr_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.eALdw0kWCYh8BaDen2mXq9iU3ElvRtccZko-tmvbJb8.ohNzM4WmMP8fT6Ca6y7vjZkyd1G-o9qLLrpkCNJTm5k&dib_tag=se&keywords=The+Short+Book+on+Happiness%3A+Transform+Your+Life+in+10+Days&qid=1708573701&sr=8-1" target="_blank">The Short Book on Happiness: Transform Your Life in 10 Days</a></em>. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">For additional information on overcoming secret addictions be sure to check out the late John Prin’s website, appropriately called</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong> </strong></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="http://www.trueyourecovery.com/">True You Recovery</a><strong>.</strong></span></span></div></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #7f6000;">THIS INTERVIEW WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN 2008</span></div><div><span style="color: #7f6000;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">* * * * </span></div><div><span style="color: #7f6000;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #7f6000;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"Those who do not observe the movements of their own minds must of necessity be unhappy."<i>--Marcus Aurelius</i></span></span><ul style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; list-style-image: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles.legacy/images/bullet-icon.svg?d4515"); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;"></ul></span></div><div><span style="color: #7f6000;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Ennyman is a Life Under Construction.
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visit www.ennyman.com to put your mind at e's.</div>Ed Newmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12703797864648081829noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146215066182995239.post-18308523172391318482024-02-21T12:28:00.001-06:002024-02-21T12:28:20.500-06:0011 AI Snapshots of a Young Woman<p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Here are a dozen illustrations of a young woman. </b></div><b style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>The first eleven were created with an AI app.</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>The last is my original brush and ink drawing. </b></div></b><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhne-pPg7DMxwMZnxpFpUIkXk37JLZteUx04Jz2ifTuHy8qH2-YZUyQiXO6vUdhzirMUlB3a6qC50-4R8SpLctSgKiU9DxZyx-b60JV4qSqoS1cTgrqGcFXOswb53Ny5vFFaWsqBsTuzI6ULYXJUCsIoq4agvJT5Z0hSf6OHyM76XdO8toq5XmSahyphenhyphenq81k/s1568/a%20young%20woman.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;">Note he different ways the algorithm reads the information on the drawing.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Have an interesting day.</div><p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Ennyman is a Life Under Construction.
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It was an introduction of sorts to an article by Robert Bryce titled, <span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; color: #3d85c6;"><i><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertbryce/2021/12/27/why-is-solar-energy-getting-250-times-more-in-federal-tax-credits-than-nuclear/?sh=ce013be21cfa" target="_blank">Why Is Solar Energy Getting 250 Times More In Federal Tax Credits Than Nuclear?</a></i></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; color: #333333;">It wasn't the first time I read something by Robert Bryce. In 2011 he published a book titled </span><span style="background-color: white;"><i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Power-Hungry-Myths-Energy-Future/dp/1586489534/ref=asc_df_1586489534/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312038790168&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=603059270494149134&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9019515&hvtargid=pla-489548559738&psc=1&mcid=4ebddef6e5583af58303c31749b38402&tag=&ref=&adgrpid=62820904035&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvadid=312038790168&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=603059270494149134&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9019515&hvtargid=pla-489548559738&gclid=CjwKCAiAuNGuBhAkEiwAGId4amWxseNJKZ48CKFKtrMYN1WHypiii0sl8iRVHkZhHKtmCD1g0SH6bBoCoosQAvD_BwE" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Power Hungry: The Myths of "Green" Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future</span></a></i><span style="color: #0f1111;">, which I read some time afterwards.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In case you miss the connection, Robert Bryce is a contrarian.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">For some reason I am attracted to contrarian thinking. Perhaps that is why I invented the word <a href="https://pioneerproductions.blogspot.com/2023/06/ive-invented-new-word-and-why-you.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Herdwinked</span></a>. Perhaps that is why I purchased books by the Ad Contrarian, Bob Hoffman. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">When it comes to EVs, the power grid, crime, homelessness or world peace, I do not want to be correct. I would rather be wrong, because there's peril in the future I see, a peril that is not being talked about or addressed. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I really liked the opening line of <i>The Imitation Game,</i> which was about the machine Alan Turing created to break Germany's Enigma encryption code. The film begins with the words, "Are you paying attention?"</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">None of us can be experts in everything. On the other hand, to keep from being herdwinked requires constant vigilance. Each of us must learn to discern, to separate wheat from chaff when it comes to ideas. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Today's Substack eNewletter from Robert Bryce is titled<i> </i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040;"><i>Out Of Transmission Revisited</i>. He begins by presenting the Green energy optimist's vision of the future. Unfortunately, there is a disconnect between their rhetoric and reality. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #404040;">Bryce lays out the facts, with plenty of charts that demonstrate what we're up against. You can </span><b><a href="https://robertbryce.substack.com/p/out-of-transmission-revisited" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">read the story here</span></a></b><span style="color: #404040;">.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040;">If you can't make the time, then here is a brief snippet to munch on. </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">"T</span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">he high-voltage grid is expanding very slowly, the costs associated with it are soaring, and the opposition to such a vast expansion is real and growing."</span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And here's one more.</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Jenkins may be correct that [building out enough power transmission lines to meet future demand] “shouldn’t be viewed as impossible.” But the odds of the U.S. building 75,000 miles of new high-voltage transmission over the next 10 years are, as my father used to say, “slim and none, and Slim left town.”</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Open your eyes.</span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Ennyman is a Life Under Construction.
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visit www.ennyman.com to put your mind at e's.</div>Ed Newmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12703797864648081829noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146215066182995239.post-20135399191044809272024-02-19T13:49:00.001-06:002024-02-19T13:49:15.177-06:00A Holiday for Presidents with a Handful of Quotes from Our First<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijd_0Y8L93_F1UFK4KKc6g404wcmnbfNbMPuFs92ZAHYhDycVlXJhWw4FD7EXzlrvRTMEpmEQD13R4ofyh-FO9oYXHP6XnGr9m7t6V9yqZm_DPMZvYJ3SdSsDzrhm-VxS4sVyaOQ7OCdLtj89kpiEcD2Rcvbf3ohls7dma6i_9vo7mAXRkD1HhqhmobMs/s577/00%20Pennsylvania%20mapped%20life%20series.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="577" data-original-width="396" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijd_0Y8L93_F1UFK4KKc6g404wcmnbfNbMPuFs92ZAHYhDycVlXJhWw4FD7EXzlrvRTMEpmEQD13R4ofyh-FO9oYXHP6XnGr9m7t6V9yqZm_DPMZvYJ3SdSsDzrhm-VxS4sVyaOQ7OCdLtj89kpiEcD2Rcvbf3ohls7dma6i_9vo7mAXRkD1HhqhmobMs/w440-h640/00%20Pennsylvania%20mapped%20life%20series.jpeg" width="440" /></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">When I was a kid we celebrated both Abe Lincoln's and George Washington's birthdays. For convenience the two were merged into a Federal holiday called President's Day. The Washington illustration was created as part of my Mapped Life Series in which I painted faces on pages of a Rand McNally Atlas. Pennsylvania is where our Founding Fathers met to hammer out the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, one of the defining documents of our American experiment.</span><p></p><p>* * * </p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Here are some George Washington quotes to ponder and enjoy on this day.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">* * * </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"Example, whether it be good or bad, has a powerful influence."</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">* * * </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"We are either a united people, or we are not. If the former, let us, in all matters of general concern act as a Nation, which have national objects to promote, and a national character to support. If we are not, let us no longer act a farce by pretending to it."</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">* * * </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"There is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery."<br /><i>--Letter to Robert Morris</i></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">* * * </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth."<br /><i>--Letter to James Madison</i></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">* * * </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace."</span></span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;"></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">* * *</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one."<br /><i>--Letter to his niece</i></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">* * * </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"Rise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable. It may, for a while, be irksome to do this, but that will wear off; and the practice will produce a rich harvest forever thereafter; whether in public or private walks of life."</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">* * * </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"It is infinitely better to have a few good men than many indifferent ones."<br /><i>--Letter to James McHenry</i></span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Ennyman is a Life Under Construction.
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visit www.ennyman.com to put your mind at e's.</div>Ed Newmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12703797864648081829noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146215066182995239.post-88004780076819921782024-02-17T14:21:00.003-06:002024-02-17T14:22:15.241-06:00I'm On the Side of Civilians<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW-gygKXe0c05WMHqYSD4mJwl4ULYN7xke-UTOdjPUf9VN5cxQBNntQtpi1UQo-cort-Nt_DOyw9-_x-ZdE13_EX6KkH3g40HxSGwNf-3IYIFwdHlOm_GYmZVBwpstfXTdA7FyMPaTpu4D5rfEu8VUgZbhAJjwol9o0fsOE-5xIDwZBCPAqn9TOzCx4wY/s568/sorrow%2022.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="474" data-original-width="568" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW-gygKXe0c05WMHqYSD4mJwl4ULYN7xke-UTOdjPUf9VN5cxQBNntQtpi1UQo-cort-Nt_DOyw9-_x-ZdE13_EX6KkH3g40HxSGwNf-3IYIFwdHlOm_GYmZVBwpstfXTdA7FyMPaTpu4D5rfEu8VUgZbhAJjwol9o0fsOE-5xIDwZBCPAqn9TOzCx4wY/w400-h334/sorrow%2022.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">This week I was talking with a friend who made an interesting statement. "I'm not Conservative or Liberal, Republican or Democrat... I'm on the side of Civilians."</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">This resonated with me. And it reminded me of a statement I heard last fall: "The problem is the Bureaucrats." In fact, I heard that statement twice in two days, from different sources.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Whether it's Ukraine or Gaza, Israel or Somalia, it's apparent that the decisions made by those who wield power are going to have consequences that impact the powerless. America alone has been bombing countries since the beginning of World War II. The world was horrified by Guernica, a civilian village </span><span>in Spain </span><span>bombed by fascists during the Spanish Civil War, yet in how many times and places has this bombing of civilians taken place? </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>America alone has bombed China, Korea, Guatemala, Indonesia, the Congo, Peru, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Libya, Bosnia, Sudan, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and Iraq. American bombs and missiles are being generously supplied to Israel to destroy Gaza. I</span><span>n many of these cases w</span><span>e claim to have been liberators. I'm curious what the civilians whose homes have been pulverized have to say about all that. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>At the end of Joseph Conrad's novel <i>Heart of Darkness</i>, Kurtz, a central character who has descended into madness in the heart of Africa, utters these memorable, haunting words as he reflects on the darkness and depravity he has encountered: </span><span>"The horror! The horror!"</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>The statement encapsulates Kurtz's profound realization of the moral corruption and brutality that he has witnessed <i>and participated in</i> during his time in the Congo. It's all the more ironic because he is the one who supposedly came from a "civilized" culture. </span><span>Ultimately Kurtz serves as a chilling commentary on the human capacity for evil and the consequences of unchecked power and imperialism. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>While headlines herald the machinations of the powerful and the elites, let's not forget the civilians. </span><span>At the end of the day one must continue to ask, "What about the people?" </span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Ennyman is a Life Under Construction.
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visit www.ennyman.com to put your mind at e's.</div>Ed Newmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12703797864648081829noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146215066182995239.post-71788740246196512722024-02-13T21:44:00.006-06:002024-02-13T21:44:55.285-06:00Tech Tuesday: "Open the pod bay door, Hal"<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="giphy-embed" frameborder="0" height="216" src="https://giphy.com/embed/3osxYkCNNEucwFl5oQ" width="480"></iframe></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">There are people on Twitter (X) who ask questions for the purpose of generating engagement. Often it's about music, like what is your favorite album, or who is the greatest drummer, or what is the best guitar solo ever recorded. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Today someone asked, "What movie have you seen ten times or more." A couple of films came to mind, and there are quite a few that hurdled the "five times" threshold, one of which I watched again tonight. But this one came first to mind, which I saw at Radio City Music Hall when it was released in 1968. How many times have you seen <i>2001: A Space Odyssey</i>?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">It's a classic for many reasons, one being the realistic depictions of space flight. Another being Kubrick's mastery of visual storytelling. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">While looking up an image to go along with this blog post, I discovered a website in which someone has created 569 gifs extracted from this film, a pretty impressive feat. Here are a few of them, followed by a link at the end to the full catalog of 569 animated snippets.</span></p><div><p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="giphy-embed" frameborder="0" height="216" src="https://giphy.com/embed/3o7WTzx4RY3d3hHF16" width="480"></iframe></p><p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="giphy-embed" frameborder="0" height="216" src="https://giphy.com/embed/3osxYjJu4iV4fy3nck" width="480"></iframe><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="giphy-embed" frameborder="0" height="216" src="https://giphy.com/embed/3osxY9BXNoG8mkvqgM" width="480"></iframe></p><p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="giphy-embed" frameborder="0" height="216" src="https://giphy.com/embed/3o7WTDj3bHVyyJqmRi" width="480"></iframe></p><p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="giphy-embed" frameborder="0" height="216" src="https://giphy.com/embed/3o7WTAEyvpBvWfNe9O" width="480"></iframe></p><p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="giphy-embed" frameborder="0" height="216" src="https://giphy.com/embed/l2R011Ba0CzSXOmas" width="480"></iframe></p><p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="giphy-embed" frameborder="0" height="216" src="https://giphy.com/embed/3otO6sc6Smfowqxy5G" width="480"></iframe></p><p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="giphy-embed" frameborder="0" height="216" src="https://giphy.com/embed/l0D7iPhzhJpLsIpdS" width="480"></iframe></p><p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="giphy-embed" frameborder="0" height="216" src="https://giphy.com/embed/xT9DPy4sqKF8OsMRI4" width="480"></iframe></p><p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="giphy-embed" frameborder="0" height="216" src="https://giphy.com/embed/3ornjOVuRta16szpD2" width="480"></iframe></p><p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="giphy-embed" frameborder="0" height="216" src="https://giphy.com/embed/l2JJJ3RgmuTnNr6QU" width="480"></iframe></p><p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="giphy-embed" frameborder="0" height="216" src="https://giphy.com/embed/xT9DPr9ZOD1ZQr8f8A" width="480"></iframe></p><p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="giphy-embed" frameborder="0" height="216" src="https://giphy.com/embed/l0IpX2UFmnfs47VGE" width="480"></iframe></p><p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="giphy-embed" frameborder="0" height="216" src="https://giphy.com/embed/3o7absc07dzMwpt4Z2" width="480"></iframe></p><p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="giphy-embed" frameborder="0" height="216" src="https://giphy.com/embed/l2JJtM6Xqoeb1lxNm" width="480"></iframe></p><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="giphy-embed" frameborder="0" height="216" src="https://giphy.com/embed/l2JJx3LFao34AQzDy" width="480"></iframe></p><p style="text-align: center;"> <iframe allowfullscreen="" class="giphy-embed" frameborder="0" height="216" src="https://giphy.com/embed/3o7absRYrCWer3jQek" width="480"></iframe></p><p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="giphy-embed" frameborder="0" height="216" src="https://giphy.com/embed/xT9DPQxNPPOgMHaJ7W" width="480"></iframe></p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">CHECK OUT THIS SITE.... </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://giphy.com/channel/gifodyssey" target="_blank">2001: A GIF Odyssey </a></span></p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Ennyman is a Life Under Construction.
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Tim Walz signed Senate File 4, also known as the Minnesota Clean Energy Acceleration Act, pledging to lower greenhouse gas emissions by mandating a carbon-free electricity standard by 2040. Technically, the new legislation is a revision to previous energy targets with an updated renewable energy standard of 55% by 2035. The law also adds new carbon-free benchmarks that also must be met: 80% by 2030, 90% by 2035 and 100% by 2040.<br /><br /></span><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">For three months, from early November to mid-January I spoke with industry professionals, read books and other material, and assembled an article recently published in <i>Business North</i> titled, "Is Our Energy Grid at Risk?"</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">While the new legislation stresses the importance of reliable, affordable and safe energy resources, some energy experts have expressed concerns about the fragility of our energy grid including the North American Electric Reliability Corp (NERC).</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The bottom line: I'm concerned.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Here a link to the story, "<a href="http://www.businessnorth.com/businessnorth_exclusives/is-our-energy-grid-at-risk/article_8c762ece-c44b-11ee-a7e0-4f412ac3356d.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>Is Our Energy Grid at Risk?</b></span></a>"</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">* * * </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #45818e; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>Related Links</b></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://pioneerproductions.blogspot.com/2024/01/joe-miller-discusses-power-grid-where.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Joe Miller Discusses the Power Grid: Where Are We Now and Where Are We Going?</span></a></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://pioneerproductions.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-biggest-drawbacks-of-solar-panels.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The Biggest Drawbacks of Solar Panels</span></a></p><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="https://pioneerproductions.blogspot.com/2021/09/grid-fragility-and-book-by-meredith.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Grid Fragility and a Book by Meredith Angwin</span></a></h3><div style="background-color: white;"><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="https://pioneerproductions.blogspot.com/2021/10/putting-nuclear-power-in-perspective.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Putting Nuclear Power In Perspective: An Interview with David Watson</span></a></h3><div><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="https://pioneerproductions.blogspot.com/2021/10/tech-tuesday-thought-provoking-energy.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Tech Tuesday: Thought Provoking Energy Stories</span></a></h3></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Ennyman is a Life Under Construction.
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visit www.ennyman.com to put your mind at e's.</div>Ed Newmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12703797864648081829noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146215066182995239.post-51367290779415045482024-02-08T09:16:00.000-06:002024-02-08T09:16:31.113-06:00The Golden Triangle (A Short Story)<p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: right;"><b><span style="color: #45818e;">DISCLAIMER: THIS IS A WORK OF FICTION</span></b></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">The Golden Triangle</span></b></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgay9vCisk-wotxLBg0g_a7h4_zeUUAwE93BknPPS-C-s5CKbJ3ihdB2yvuLyOq_Ero5RJsytOG-jiV9oWJZT22OU9qJm-4_PvJplxk8nUDe3jzPOJ0O1iDvtRGKxgPnuXKXoBLWZFwWlOIhhjr4D8eVqkb4KK2ivyS2jhEBnE9xgrO8w0_7u0LL_w_w38/s1568/girl%20face%20wistful.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1568" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgay9vCisk-wotxLBg0g_a7h4_zeUUAwE93BknPPS-C-s5CKbJ3ihdB2yvuLyOq_Ero5RJsytOG-jiV9oWJZT22OU9qJm-4_PvJplxk8nUDe3jzPOJ0O1iDvtRGKxgPnuXKXoBLWZFwWlOIhhjr4D8eVqkb4KK2ivyS2jhEBnE9xgrO8w0_7u0LL_w_w38/w245-h400/girl%20face%20wistful.jpeg" width="245" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">A young woman in her early-30s attempts to reach out to a friend in Minneapolis whom she’d been visiting the week before. She accidentally connects with some old guy in Duluth. For some strange and improbable reason, they keep chatting.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <br /><br /></span></span><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">As it turns out he’s a writer, she’s a high-end, international jewelry dealer from Hong Kong, now living in L.A.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As they talk, they discover that each shares a common dream: Is there any possible way that one person alone could solve all the problems in the world? How much can one person accomplish if they have</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> unlimited resources and </span><span>a half century to do it in</span><span>?</span></span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p3" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">* * * </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Here's one possibility of how it plays out on the silver screen.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The movie opens with the Hong Kong woman, now very old, receiving a Nobel Peace Prize. In her acceptance speech, or maybe it's a press conference, she acknowledges someone who opened her eyes to the possibilities and responsibilities that come with wealth.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">As the movie’s opening credits finish rolliing, she is young again and the story begins.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">It’s an amazing story because together they rally the human race to work together, to put an end to poverty, hate, violence, etc. </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="p3" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">* * * </span></p><p class="p3" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span>In an alternate version, he’s the billionaire. He's also a retired secret agent, and she is the creation of an A.I., with </span><span>intentions initially </span><span>unclear. As it turns out, the contact wasn't an accident at all but a ruse. He's an avid art collector. The AI's objective is to acquire his two Vermeers and a set of original Da Vinci sketches that no one knows about, but which the AI discovered by deconstructing the details of his life. The Vermeers both turn out to be fakes. The sketches are anatomical studies, both delicate and daring. </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Tension in the story is generated by the AI's quest to carry out the art heist without a body. The backstory question is this: did the AI initiate the heist on its own? </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Should the crime be solved by an AI detective, an AI version of Columbo or an algorithmic Hercule Poirot? </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Ennyman is a Life Under Construction.
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visit www.ennyman.com to put your mind at e's.</div>Ed Newmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12703797864648081829noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146215066182995239.post-30223531498160772372024-02-07T09:58:00.000-06:002024-02-07T09:58:18.895-06:00Almost Wordless Wednesday: More AI Art Shenanigans<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #990000;">And now for something completely different.</span><br /><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPIqebff-QiSlpJ4YaFOJ07b9uY_m-y4DBDmlp9fUNjyCOFZoK5RUxCYkkZlYONvi645P2KOY8eIX1vWnneDbHlPmc6wIUbyJSeqBzUEuF1R5TmPsWo4OnQ2s2au3-rH6aMQg8kypQxQ1GOiQu2PhxOcWI7wsHE59_xUe_S98H2opLD8Xty5hc4mRa-IM/s620/00%20The%20Scream%20copy.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="620" data-original-width="406" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPIqebff-QiSlpJ4YaFOJ07b9uY_m-y4DBDmlp9fUNjyCOFZoK5RUxCYkkZlYONvi645P2KOY8eIX1vWnneDbHlPmc6wIUbyJSeqBzUEuF1R5TmPsWo4OnQ2s2au3-rH6aMQg8kypQxQ1GOiQu2PhxOcWI7wsHE59_xUe_S98H2opLD8Xty5hc4mRa-IM/w420-h640/00%20The%20Scream%20copy.jpeg" width="420" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">This is the original illustration, which <br />I called, "The Scream."</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Making selections using various prompts </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">produces different effects. Notice the way</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">outcome models the visual information </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">while creating </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">completely different results.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXXWrIJqJq8RuXk9rWH8DQw8iV6tee3lpZkpElGMOwCsnr91WucsGVO7Vpwa0MHkC4V54zZS4_6QKZBeeZe5LlUldTZg6_PJjVwyGM9khzL30yEDW4gin-FZKiPojfsQaWDvggql64kfQTrdDn8Ba9nsNWjPVvfAt9LAI9Jbfg18hpJBodtQRPs7wR3wA/s1568/cartoon%20face%201.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1568" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXXWrIJqJq8RuXk9rWH8DQw8iV6tee3lpZkpElGMOwCsnr91WucsGVO7Vpwa0MHkC4V54zZS4_6QKZBeeZe5LlUldTZg6_PJjVwyGM9khzL30yEDW4gin-FZKiPojfsQaWDvggql64kfQTrdDn8Ba9nsNWjPVvfAt9LAI9Jbfg18hpJBodtQRPs7wR3wA/s320/cartoon%20face%201.jpeg" width="196" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1568" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuKWKTOWRXdSUV5BqbAjFEarFyAFbpVHVi2cH1ih2ICKvSTV-zirQ-aPnlqrT5mkJ_BcD2XZ7SU1mIMTh9EkL8VHUN6HwCeXn8EsFarH-w5TxZrDN5MfkrqmcdpKrQ6Zv_ZMAN7ipDG1CRz-uqdvN5FYQ8EAwtc96pXEhu0GGwRI-Vvovlx53Hg56TI70/s320/cartoon%20face%207.jpeg" width="196" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Here are the same three images, expanded.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi69xoyYCTCKwy6lyRRq48uh3hcxWhIGp2KK5NofFhuh8uA9QQQsCpxnRdXJHH_95H-KelXAXvmy4u42iMkGSsl5DUrsXyPVi_nqWCRMkVG9rz98yJDzdkP8xmp9Ss_7U_vMhY_cJL53azyperffLUOixmxTSE-6tbmzKiZNQqc3gfXk1U3AWM-ZxjlRFY/s1568/cartoon%20face%201.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1568" data-original-width="960" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi69xoyYCTCKwy6lyRRq48uh3hcxWhIGp2KK5NofFhuh8uA9QQQsCpxnRdXJHH_95H-KelXAXvmy4u42iMkGSsl5DUrsXyPVi_nqWCRMkVG9rz98yJDzdkP8xmp9Ss_7U_vMhY_cJL53azyperffLUOixmxTSE-6tbmzKiZNQqc3gfXk1U3AWM-ZxjlRFY/w392-h640/cartoon%20face%201.jpeg" width="392" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ0dmxPvETaBUP1nR1-zAs0fxeciHdAMloWtzvuu9iFgKC0KAxDMJI2T-L8SMQSJLM2VfNeIKF5qabo0TEU2FXO0UDC8HkQ-kZkyXSEA2a7SLPp-7hyphenhyphen1eIGkeDMEWf1Bwzni5maLI6W4kObQR6fo50HgcUEALyjML4T-mHtLOru4fw5PngPaf0FDbh4sE/s1568/cartoon%20faces%204.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1568" data-original-width="960" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ0dmxPvETaBUP1nR1-zAs0fxeciHdAMloWtzvuu9iFgKC0KAxDMJI2T-L8SMQSJLM2VfNeIKF5qabo0TEU2FXO0UDC8HkQ-kZkyXSEA2a7SLPp-7hyphenhyphen1eIGkeDMEWf1Bwzni5maLI6W4kObQR6fo50HgcUEALyjML4T-mHtLOru4fw5PngPaf0FDbh4sE/w392-h640/cartoon%20faces%204.jpeg" width="392" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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visit www.ennyman.com to put your mind at e's.</div>Ed Newmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12703797864648081829noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146215066182995239.post-46876934429478017242024-02-06T09:12:00.000-06:002024-02-06T09:12:03.723-06:00Tech Tuesday: Seven Stories from This Week's EV News<p><span><span style="background-color: white; color: #783f04; font-family: helvetica;"><b><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG35Gd_-IRc4Sxa0BsR6kVOcXwspSR1fvoSUt05YF3Pj1vNJ6PTMpoyfklCBgXBhjFUOYs0HLS603BcSWgWDIokj8dJfof1wi6-yMBSLWIbKjSG-YIcLB_BrOTjcsJlOXUW7QnBp1ttZKeU_ez83stVq7K_Z_37wWAlJv7VLuL1RMOFwpus93lbhyphenhyphenuTtw/s1292/j-dean-msXC0_Z-k2Q-EVs.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="985" data-original-width="1292" height="305" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG35Gd_-IRc4Sxa0BsR6kVOcXwspSR1fvoSUt05YF3Pj1vNJ6PTMpoyfklCBgXBhjFUOYs0HLS603BcSWgWDIokj8dJfof1wi6-yMBSLWIbKjSG-YIcLB_BrOTjcsJlOXUW7QnBp1ttZKeU_ez83stVq7K_Z_37wWAlJv7VLuL1RMOFwpus93lbhyphenhyphenuTtw/w400-h305/j-dean-msXC0_Z-k2Q-EVs.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo courtesy J Dean via Unsplash</td></tr></tbody></table>My comments in italics</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525;"><b>TESLA VEHICLES GET A RECALL</b><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525;">Tesla is recalling almost all of its </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525;">electric vehicles</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525;"> in the U.S. for a software fix as it faces heightened scrutiny from the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2c30;">National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="color: #252525;">When you </span><span style="color: #0b5394;"><a href="https://thehill.com/business/4444364-tesla-recalling-almost-all-electric-vehicles-us-software-fix-warning-lights/" target="_blank">read the details regarding this recal</a>l</span><span style="color: #252525;">, it seems the recall involves something incredibly petty, though it will require Tesla to notify every car owner and schedule time to make the adjustment for each car. Is the government trying to disincentivize Elon Musk from selling cars to Americans? Did Ford or GM put a bug in the ear of the NHTSA? </span></i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #252525;"><b>EVs Are Too Heavy to Be Stopped by Guardrails <br /></b></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525;">Results from crash testing in the US have raised concerns that </span><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/02/01/crash-test-data-in-the-us-shows-evs-may-be-too-heavy-to-be-stopped-by-safety-guardrails-on" target="_blank">electric vehicles</a></span><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/02/01/crash-test-data-in-the-us-shows-evs-may-be-too-heavy-to-be-stopped-by-safety-guardrails-on" target="_blank"> may be too heavy</a> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525;">to be stopped safely by guardrails on roads.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><i>EVs must be heavier than we realized.... or guardrails flimsier. Is replacing guardrails part of the infrastructure plan?</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: arial;"><b>Building EVs Impacts the Environment, Too<br /></b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial;">"As the world embraces electric vehicles as a solution to carbon dioxide emissions, there is too little discussion of the environmental harm associated with the metals needed to build them, says one of Japan's foremost researchers in the field."</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: #333333;">This story from Tokyo draws attention to another side of the EV coin. In theory they are better for climate impact considerations, but </span><a href="https://asia.nikkei.com/Editor-s-Picks/Interview/Let-s-get-real-about-EVs-environmental-impact-rare-metal-expert-says" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;">there are other problems</span></a><span style="color: #333333;"> that the mining of rare metals exacerbates.</span></i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>GM Went All In on EVs. Dealers Say Buyers Want Hybrids.<br /></b></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/dealers-to-gm-we-want-hybrids-5387d2bf" target="_blank">Some auto retailers worry</a> </span>GM is missing an opportunity to nab buyers who aren’t ready for EVs</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><i>This is what happens when there is a government-generated mismatch between supply and demand. Will GM need another bailout in a few years? </i></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">More automakers are being <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/automakers-back-to-the-drawing-board-ev-plans-2024-2" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;">forced to rethink their EV plans</span></a></span></b></p><p class="p2" style="color: #dca10d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">EVs have been the shiny new toy in the auto industry, albeit an expensive toy, but the demand has not yet been generated for a variety of reasons. One of the biggest is the hassle of re-charging the batteries.</span></p><p class="p2" style="color: #dca10d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>77% of Americans have homes, but only two-thirds of these have a garage. Finding re-charging stations can become massively annoying, and even moreso when travelling. One recent study found that 40% of all charging stations in California were broken. (or maybe it was in L.A.)</i></span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><br /></i></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Why Americans Don’t Want Electric Vehicles</span></b></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Not long ago, pundits were telling us that gasoline-powered cars would soon vanish from the streets, replaced by sleek, space-age vessels powered by electricity. But consumer demand for electric cars never matched the hype.</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: #222222;">Why? Again, </span><a href="https://www.floridadaily.com/why-americans-dont-want-electric-vehicles/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;">charging stations are a hassle</span></a><span style="color: #222222;">. And in cold weather, it takes even longer.</span></i></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Keep Politics out of the EV Debate and Listen to the People</span></b></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b090a;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">People in Connecticut want to know the details of a plan: where will we get the extra electricity to power the thousands of new EVs, how will the transmission line infrastructure be built, who will pay for it all (your electric bill is already too high), where will people charge them throughout the state, will there be enough operational charging stations where people live and work, and will EVs be affordable? </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b090a;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: #0b090a;">This last was </span><a href="https://ctexaminer.com/2024/01/22/keep-politics-out-of-the-ev-debate-and-listen-to-the-people/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;">a letter to the editor</span></a><span style="color: #0b090a;"> of the CT Examiner. Many questions. I drive by our university paking lots and see a thousand cars, but only a half dozen charging stations, if any. At UMD Saturday I only saw one Golf utilizing a charger. Will we one day have a totally electric transportation fleet? Maybe, but probably not in my lifetime.</span></i></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Ennyman is a Life Under Construction.
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visit www.ennyman.com to put your mind at e's.</div>Ed Newmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12703797864648081829noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146215066182995239.post-19355918353087882532024-02-05T10:05:00.005-06:002024-02-05T10:07:54.592-06:00A Few Snapshots from the 64th Arrowhead Regional Biennial along with Everything & Nothing<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqFOAq6L6kBwcVDAZGqObfVtgrXB9jeyhYBrKJ8Z1vnOz2jhCFZYNoWXC652z7Omeh-a7r0O6YQO9nZhmUX9tbZSP8FyAerIYu-ciflFArHylHnhQiYuxRIbhtLi7wA4BD0HOQcnZSDS8BEdGGbNG7Gfq6NLucTD4dknrxkb9S5rt6pWTSrS9ugZlo_NE/s520/bicent%20IMG_2644.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="520" data-original-width="480" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqFOAq6L6kBwcVDAZGqObfVtgrXB9jeyhYBrKJ8Z1vnOz2jhCFZYNoWXC652z7Omeh-a7r0O6YQO9nZhmUX9tbZSP8FyAerIYu-ciflFArHylHnhQiYuxRIbhtLi7wA4BD0HOQcnZSDS8BEdGGbNG7Gfq6NLucTD4dknrxkb9S5rt6pWTSrS9ugZlo_NE/w369-h400/bicent%20IMG_2644.jpeg" width="369" /></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The Arrowhead Regional Biennial is a juried show that has been organized and administered by the Duluth Art Institute (DAI) for more than a century. The Biennial is a juried art show featuring painting, prints, sculptures and drawing. This year's event was curated by Awa Kawaguchi, and hosted by the Tweed Museum of Art on the campus of UMD. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">This year's Biennial conincides with a major event in the life of the DAI. This past year a decision was made regarding their home at the Depot, which will now be called their "former home" in a few months. In short, the DAI is in a time of transition as it seeks a new location while striving to seamlessly maintain its commitments to the local arts community. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">This past Saturday I was happy to be present for the closing of the 64th Biennial. UMD's annual Art & Design Faculty Staff Exhibition was also on display. Aptly titled <i>Everything & Nothing</i>, the Faculty/staff show never disappoints. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">What follows are some of the images I captured to share here. First, selections from the Biennial.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiolTwOP7JZ20RrIoTt0hskyAmUqWYv0Iz_k8Y-iQYcbWAD_2ZtFutNfLkR7Ai3GoiZmDAsiOZ5irgpmurTzqqLn-KUQtDfb49ZIZxygpvizltoFu5VHFiIgq0CLFYv0V1foFszI-5V4lp_K5K1S6cVT1j1HL-bJw_CC_tbGGsfii8TqqvcvvWibCLInW0/s462/bicent%20IMG_2645.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="447" data-original-width="462" height="388" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiolTwOP7JZ20RrIoTt0hskyAmUqWYv0Iz_k8Y-iQYcbWAD_2ZtFutNfLkR7Ai3GoiZmDAsiOZ5irgpmurTzqqLn-KUQtDfb49ZIZxygpvizltoFu5VHFiIgq0CLFYv0V1foFszI-5V4lp_K5K1S6cVT1j1HL-bJw_CC_tbGGsfii8TqqvcvvWibCLInW0/w400-h388/bicent%20IMG_2645.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMgi9bBTT9u-EUMmrcR7MUj8mYvkLfXt7Hvv_BA0NFVkQbx-VbEOHdCAf0JXcXzWw-oNrwOLQ3E4dYrvQikxrYxI1QtKPlPGrO6H97YTZI7qZnfUz0yYm1UR04SLd3vzW-C-8rKhjWaI6xxJJ4YYkxbZoN2Wyxkj8hbUINyHfjImHVT3tfPR7dU-Qz_XA/s624/bicent%20IMG_2647.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd0gkeyuJsAfiCnvwOuziKZqZznSkkYT10HabnDFW3svwG9oHUswIdx9gXEUGPiqpqcdjWJ6gin9Rc_Pd2lj5fqQ_BzE_QH1DP4ZcqbNv7u76YcE7QBxpmkRifHMeh80-WsuZ0D8k7LpQouYVB6eMHd9Nf2hPDwNszL35xGcDxOgm1MvUReR3CySS17WE/s640/bicent%20IMG_2667.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd0gkeyuJsAfiCnvwOuziKZqZznSkkYT10HabnDFW3svwG9oHUswIdx9gXEUGPiqpqcdjWJ6gin9Rc_Pd2lj5fqQ_BzE_QH1DP4ZcqbNv7u76YcE7QBxpmkRifHMeh80-WsuZ0D8k7LpQouYVB6eMHd9Nf2hPDwNszL35xGcDxOgm1MvUReR3CySS17WE/w480-h640/bicent%20IMG_2667.jpeg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was on a wall leading to another section of the gallery.</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8lOSSkcphrcW_ZPB-x7CKqYfxMZPlZLq8COC-Q_qDyNEfiB5C9815g9_hLf4x31oq-v7GstZe1ja67fUvJKBB15ZcHfCAl2H6N5m_XyuB4z_TFxAtcrL48v0ftfJguxmynFw5aRbIkkQSO0Jj5_UYQXfpLkzV2mdJKBc6OzZ_uyPU4z8i_PkS-F-1r-E/s428/bicent%20IMG_2670.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-size: medium;">Meantime, Art goes on all around you. 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visit www.ennyman.com to put your mind at e's.</div>Ed Newmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12703797864648081829noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146215066182995239.post-80678210258718022652024-02-01T08:59:00.004-06:002024-02-01T18:55:52.158-06:00Steven Cade and the Giving Guitars Foundation: A Patchwork of Challenges and Triumphs.<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSIpvSx7cTX2ZmJokzGPkD4-LK1r4ZfS-qvxWaP15AguhL7BucmrsNc1lWF__bZcrd-9AKwwCtsMYxMvKPs1yzZIRU9CuH_Ke3OOSfV53K1gPrc4spgWVUzTVDbzLHK0OddXveA715Qzk0l-5MOUwvodFj_a0JRTIKBI-NUvy_7Lxw1qNaBg_WMKc6npA/s2560/Steven-Cade-Alley-scaled.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2560" data-original-width="1709" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSIpvSx7cTX2ZmJokzGPkD4-LK1r4ZfS-qvxWaP15AguhL7BucmrsNc1lWF__bZcrd-9AKwwCtsMYxMvKPs1yzZIRU9CuH_Ke3OOSfV53K1gPrc4spgWVUzTVDbzLHK0OddXveA715Qzk0l-5MOUwvodFj_a0JRTIKBI-NUvy_7Lxw1qNaBg_WMKc6npA/w268-h400/Steven-Cade-Alley-scaled.jpeg" width="268" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">In January a friend introduced me to Steven Cade, </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: georgia;">founder of the nonprofit Giving Guitars Foundation. Like many people, at a certain point in his life he wanted to use his gifts to make the world a better place. So begins the story of his Giving Guitars Foundation. </span></span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"We bring hope to homeless families, foster children, at-risk youth, domestic abuse victims, and veterans by bringing brand-new guitars to shelters. We have been to 83 homeless shelters for families and youth, donated over 150 guitars across 16 states, impacted 1000s," Cade said. "And we started in October of 2021."</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #555555;">Steven Cade is a Nashville-based, award-winning, modern country artist and singer-songwriter who has won the Grand Ole Opry's</span></span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: georgia;"> Modern Country Artist of the Year Award and has been inducted into </span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: georgia;">California Music Hall of Fame.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">EN:</span></b> <i>When did you first get serious about a career in music and what, at that time, inspired you?</i><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Steven Cade:</span></b><span style="color: #222222;"> I got serious a couple of year out of High School, and having my first manager be Floyd Rose helped me be inspired to want to be the best songwriter, performer and musician possible.<u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;"></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTGfPdOZwP8aALEcw9Nt99GgumqeDtcKA1IGocAlrnl_HkLdnlmWroG9MTrCILxmFzSv3wcXgAotKt7R0wQn6OiaHNI4azjqSt9K68Nm97iAht6F0VJ5sOnvQbdvKNNFlB4sarCHHxp7_0XmkPPiRcgmJ0XTCGdwRBNSWY2qav1USZQAiG025bSLDTrqs/s2048/SY_109-1365x2048.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTGfPdOZwP8aALEcw9Nt99GgumqeDtcKA1IGocAlrnl_HkLdnlmWroG9MTrCILxmFzSv3wcXgAotKt7R0wQn6OiaHNI4azjqSt9K68Nm97iAht6F0VJ5sOnvQbdvKNNFlB4sarCHHxp7_0XmkPPiRcgmJ0XTCGdwRBNSWY2qav1USZQAiG025bSLDTrqs/w266-h400/SY_109-1365x2048.jpeg" width="266" /></a></span></b></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">EN:</span></b> <i>What were you doing before you got involved with Wyland's Water Conservation Awareness Tours? </i><u></u><u></u></span><p></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>SC:</b> </span><span style="color: #222222;">Before the Wyalnd Tours I was still the lead singer of a pop rock band in Southern California. We were touring the country, writing and creating music and performing.<u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">EN: </span></b><i>You mentioned that over a period of two years Wyland had done a West Coast and East Coast road show. Can you describe what those events were like?</i><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">SC: </span></b><span style="color: #222222;">Those events were summertime festival-like shows that took place on the coasts. I would perform while Wyland would paint. We did that from Seattle to La Paz, and then from Maine to Key West. <u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">EN:</span> </b><span style="color: #222222;"><i>How were they publicized? </i></span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">SC:</span><span style="color: #7f6000;"> </span></b><span style="color: #222222;">Mainly though Wyland's Foundation<u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">EN: </span></b><i>What was your role and what kind of impact did they make?</i><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">SC:</span></b><span style="color: #222222;"> I was singing while Wyland was painting. Music and art together are a powerful combination and it got a lot of people excited about Wyland’s push to raise awareness for clean oceans.<u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">EN:</span></b> <i>At the end you came down with encephalitis meningitis and spent 10 years in recovery. What lessons did you learn through that experience?</i><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>SC:</b> </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">My turning point came after a tour in Mexico where I faced the challenging ordeal of encephalitis/meningitis—a harrowing experience that nearly claimed my life. In the aftermath, a transformative journey led me to give my life to Jesus Christ, marking a profound shift in my perspective.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: georgia;">I learned that in the end I was not in control of my own health. It made me want to surrender to Jesus as my Lord and savior. I wanted to change my life and follow Christ.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">EN: </span></b><i>You grew up in Southern California. When did you come to Nashville and why?</i><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">SC:</span><span style="color: #38761d;"> </span></b><span style="color: #222222;">I actually grew up in Houston, Texas and moved to California for high school and college. I had been wanting to move to Nashville for quite some time to collaborate with the best songwriters in the world.<u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">EN: </span></b><i>After becoming a Christian you wanted to do more than just make music. What prompted you to create your Giving Guitars Tour?<u></u><u></u></i></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjJlPHIJsX2a6p71L7co_9qE7lGthfCsrb0F2NRck_3Q3LZn_ZtAvRi0JKzxZLzSnEJBN4-nF39j-znvo__Tllf66CzCzp9VGdFlphmu2deVgF96B1lmFpntJIqw_RaqPJiiwiUh1fU-1esAwaneHRfRTifD_Xj1-FykupTXMKKdrqPMkXsWSYsSN8V7w/s1024/banner4-1024x838.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="838" data-original-width="1024" height="328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjJlPHIJsX2a6p71L7co_9qE7lGthfCsrb0F2NRck_3Q3LZn_ZtAvRi0JKzxZLzSnEJBN4-nF39j-znvo__Tllf66CzCzp9VGdFlphmu2deVgF96B1lmFpntJIqw_RaqPJiiwiUh1fU-1esAwaneHRfRTifD_Xj1-FykupTXMKKdrqPMkXsWSYsSN8V7w/w400-h328/banner4-1024x838.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">SC: </span></b><span style="color: #222222;">After giving my life to Christ I began to lead worship in churches, but I knew that God wanted me to do even more than that and bring Him glory even outside of the church. Having compassion for those in need led us to Giving Guitars. There are a lot of people without homes, no food, abandoned and hurting in our country and all over the world. I know God gave us music for a reason. I wanted to use my gift to give back and that is what we are doing.<u></u><u></u></span></span><p></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">EN: </span></b><span style="color: #222222;"><i>Is it entertainment or a ministry? </i></span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #134f5c;">SC: </span></b><span style="color: #222222;">It is a combination of both. There are songs that I will play at the shelter, but I will say over the microphone that Jesus Christ is my savior and talk about that.<u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">EN:</span></b> <i>You've performed at more than 80 shelters. What kinds of shelters and how do these events come about?</i><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">SC:</span></b><span style="color: #222222;"> We visit homeless shelters for families, men, women, foster homes, domestic violence centers, drug addiction centers, at-risk youth and even help veterans. The shelters are starting to learn about what we are doing and they are requesting us to come and visit.<u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">EN:</span></b> <i>Homelessness is a major societal problem today. What insights have you learned from visiting homeless shelters around the country? </i><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">SC:</span></b><span style="color: #222222;"> Homeless people need to have voices too. They have feelings, emotions and even dreams. They need hope and inspiration. They love music and people who take a minute to hear their stories and just listen.<u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">EN:</span></b> <i>For people who want to follow what you're doing or be part of it, where can they go to learn more?</i><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">SC:</span></b><span style="color: #222222;"> They can go to </span></span><a href="http://GivingGuitars.org" style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">GivingGuitars.org</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-weight: 400;">. 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color: #500050; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><u></u>To read more about Steven Cade's work and his musical journey, <b><a href="https://canvasrebel.com/meet-steven-cade/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">visit the Canvas Rebel website</span></a></b>. </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">* * * </span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>Related Links</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="Wyland, the Marine Michaelangelo, Returns to New London to Re-Paint the Whaling Wall" target="_blank">Wyland: The Marine Michaelangelo</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.instrumentsforinspiration.org/" target="_blank">The Giving Guitars Foundation</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; 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