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A good way to deal with tinnitus is by trying to find sounds/background noise to tone it down or drown it out (and by drowning out I mean not loud, more like a gentle distraction). This can be anything from the sound of the rain, a shower, car with windscreen wipers on, the tumbling and rumbling of a dryer, a train, the winds, birds chirping, waves etc..

There are plenty of white noise generator apps available, just experiment and if you find something that seems to help set a timer. It will help getting to sleep. Rest is so important.

For some good examples how to teach technical and mechanic concepts concerning maintenance check Out PS, The Preventive Maintenance Monthly. It's a series of US Army technical bulletins published since June 1951 as a monthly magazine with comic book-style art to illustrate proper preventive maintenance methods.

Comic Legend Will Eisner’s Work Influences Military Training http://www.military.com/video/off-duty/humor/comic-legend-wi...

Also check out the PS archives. It's one of Will Eisner's hidden gems.

http://dig.library.vcu.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/psm

Have you tried the Amiga version? Back in the days. It had the same mechanics but it was a lot more polished with graphics and sound. Plus loading was a lot faster!

I was a backer on "buy Jeri some coffee"-level. Too bad it didn't pan out but they tried.

At least we have a chance that Jeri might do a few new videos now.

...are "technically incapable of blocking off groundwater with the frozen wall"...every day 300 tons of contaminated water leak from the crippled nuclear plant...

That article is out of date. The frozen wall has been working for quite a while but TEPCO wasn't (isn't) allowed to completely close it.

June 29, 2017

    Tepco applies to the NRA for permission to finish the Fukushima Daiichi ice wall. Closure of the wall has been throttled down by Tokyo’s Nuclear Regulation Authority due to fears concerning groundwater outside the turbine buildings falling below the level of water inside. Tepco has been forced to freeze the last half-dozen seven-meter-wide sections individually, wait to see what it does to external groundwater levels, and then proceed to the next section if groundwater level is maintained according to plan. One section on the inland side of the 1.5 kilometer ice structure is all that needs to be activated to complete the wall. To date, the sequential closure of Tokyo-mandated gaps has dropped the groundwater influx from 400 tons per day down to about 100 tons per day. No projections are being made as to how much more the in-flow will abate after the last part of the wall is frozen.

I would also like to give a pointer to the "Fukushima Accident Updates" blog-page at hiroshimasyndrome.com. It collects and summarizes a lot of Japanse news and updates concerning Fukishima and related on a regular basis that will never reach the mainstream/ international press.

http://www.hiroshimasyndrome.com/fukushima-accident-updates....

It's a neat product comparison site but it seems to be missing various models. At my first try I already missed the Renkforce 3D printer series from Conrad Electronic (EU/German) (rf100, rf500, rf1000, rf2000). Maybe it's too US/UK-centric?

Extra option could be to check if the system uses proprietary cartridges. (example: da Vinci)

Dr. Steve Savage's blog: "Applied Mythology" is a good start.

http://appliedmythology.blogspot.com/

But I wonder what is "subtle anti-ag" or "blatantly pro-ag" means in this context. Can you give some examples?

I remember this from when I stumbled upon it way back (2003?). Back then under the title "when zeppelins attack".

It is indeed a nice internet evergreen. Once in awhile these pop up (in original or updated form) for a new generation.

Most readers only know him as a statistician, gapminder (which he founded) and the ted talks but he also had a medical background and was prepared to go straight to work during the Ebola outbreak in Monrovia. He called and jumped right in.

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/12/star-statistician-han...

"After he arrived in Monrovia, Rosling started by doing simple things, such as proofreading the ministry's epidemiological reports, which he says nobody had time for. He changed an important detail in the updates: Rather than listing "0 cases" for counties that had not reported any numbers—which could be misleading—he left them blank. Next, he tackled the problem behind the missing data. Some health care workers couldn't afford to call in their reports, because they were paying the phone charges themselves; Rosling set up a small fund to pay for scratch cards that gave them airtime."

Rosling says he's tired of the portrayal of Africa as a continent of incompetence, superstition, and rampant corruption. “I am astonished how good people are that I work with here, how dedicated, how serious,” he says. When The New York Times reported that governmental infighting was hampering the Ebola response, Rosling tweeted: “Don McNeil misrepresents Liberia’s EBOLA-response to win the MOST INCORRECT ARTICLE ABOUT EBOLA AWARD.” His self-assurance and impatience with opinions he disagrees with can grate on others. “I find him quite irritating,” says one Western colleague. “Mostly because he turns out to be right about most things.”

That last line is the ultimate compliment.

He will be missed.

Agreed, an iPad with goodreader is the way to go (in particular its notetaking and extensive file management options). I might even go for the 12.9" pro model at some point but the standard 9.7" model is enough for most pdf's.

This has been coming for quite a while. The IARC seems to have its own agenda and it isn't always based on scientific integrity.

Good start for those who want to know what's been going on should check out David Zaruk's site. He's been following the machinations at the IARC (NGO activist engagement) for quite a while.

https://risk-monger.com

He also microblogs at his facebook site https://www.facebook.com/riskmonger/posts/550309911838746:0

"...IARC is a mess. They do not represent a balanced membership of the research community (for their 50th anniversary event, of the 1000 guests, not a single cancer researcher from industry was invited). Rather than retract their biased glyphosate monograph, they have attacked other science institutions like EFSA and the German BfR; they have publicly criticised scientists, they have allowed an activist from the Environmental Defense Fund to advise their panel and campaign on their behalf, they have provided data to journalists to attack EFSA ... and now this! Wild, Straif and Guyton continue to attack - they don't see the scandal they have caused - they will not go nor will they retract the glyphosate monograph..."

I concur, this was one of those classic series I had planned to see for years and recently bought the blu-ray edition. I wasn't disappointed. Thanks to 35mm it really shines on Blu-ray.

It's remarkable that McGoohan got a free hand with this project. I'm not sure if an actor today would have the freedom to lay out his vision in such a way.

What is an individual?

McGoohan’s series hooked a mass TV audience with its intelligent, clever, thrilling and entertaining scripts. Each episode was an event that left the audience either bewildered and angered, or enthralled and inspired. This was part of McGoohan’s intention, to create debate, have the viewers question their own reality. As McGoohan put it in this interview:

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/we_are_all_prisoners_patr...

And the the book that accompanies that interview "The Prisoner Puzzle" can be found here:

It does come come with interpretations for all of the 17 episodes which some might consider spoilers.

https://www.scribd.com/doc/22260199/The-Prisoner-Puzzle

I'm reminded of this cartoon about an inventor who demonstrates a teleportation device. Shows you don't have to go all technical or write an economic treatise about emulated humans for important philisophical questions. It can be fun as well.

"To be" (by John Weldon) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdxucpPq6Lc

For a more serious answer to these questions (or at least some) you can look up the work " i am you" By Daniel Kolak.

Turbo/fastloaders for the Commodore C64 Datassette.

https://www.c64-wiki.com/index.php/Datassette

And just be glad you don't have to use these anymore.

Loading programs from cassette was a pain. A game from tape could take 15-30 mins! Fast-loaders that could speed up loading by a factor of 10 were a godsend in those days.

I recognize and played a lot of them all back in the day. Only things missing are Commando and Ghost & Goblins (I can still hum the tune!).

Amazing what they could do with the SID chip back then. Most PC's and homecomputers in the early 80's had to make do with bleeps and bloops. Literally.

There's a quite a subscene for those interested in SID music. You can find a lot of new C64 cover versions (some by the original musicians) and new work at Chris Abbott's www.c64audio.com. He's done a lot of work in keeping the C64/SID scene alive.

Thanks, the Amplio used the original Civ2 sprite resolution and colour palette as a starting point. It seems to have hold up well.

There's also some layout logic at work. If you look at the way the units are aligned in the tileset you may notice that defensive units point right and offensive units point left.

Old Freeciv unit graphic developer speaking up here...The current Freeciv graphics you see in-game set is called "Amplio". It has been tweaked throughout the years (10?) but still based mostly on the original Amplio set.

Creating a decent looking tileset (GPL licence)from scratch (no Civ2/official scenario units or derivatives allowed) isn't easy. Luckily I knew some scenario makers & graphic designers from the Civ2 scenario community and received their permission to use some of their work in Freeciv. They made some amazing stuff* in their days and a selection of their work is included in the Amplio set.

There a few units in there by me as well. If you look closely you'll even find a small easter egg.

*For those who still have a copy of Civ2/ToT lying around and have some time to burn. Check out Captain Nemo's "Red Front" scenario. It's a full blown civ2 re-enactment of operation Barbarossa from start to finish with changing rulesets & tiles (summer and winter conditions). Too bad that Freeciv didn't really have any proper scenario tools. "Red Front" would have been a perfect showcase.

Are we talking about classic incinerators (simply burn stuff) or plasma arc (gasification)incinerators? With plasma arc gasifications the temperatures are so high (2,200 to 13,900 °C) that all the waste and any resulting toxic byproducts, the very molecules themselves, are broken down to individual atoms. There are no toxic compounds left.

All that remains at the end is ash that contains various metals and syngas that is produced in the process. Which can be used for generating electric power.

I hope plasma arc gasification becomes the standard for managing and disposing municipal solid waste. It really works. But you do need a certain scale (enough waste) for it to be effective.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_gasification

http://www.waste-management-world.com/articles/print/volume-...

The scans are also available on archive.org

https://archive.org/details/zzap64-magazine-087

Glad to see Mort's (zzap64.co.uk) scanning efforts were not for nought. He has scanned a lot of British comp magazines not just Zzap64.

And Zzap64 was pure gold in it's heyday (mid-80's). Do check out the earlier issues. Especially things like the developer diaries (Andrew Braybrook's "Birth of a Paradroid") or the special columns like Mel Croucher's "classic computer cock ups".