But there may be a price to pay for a quiet Atlantic hurricane season. //
Last week, the Atlantic hurricane season blew through its traditional peak—which comes around September 10—with nary a tropical wave in sight, let alone a storm or hurricane.
This is remarkable. Usually this is the time of year when sea surface temperatures reach their warmest in the tropics, and with a favorable atmosphere it should be smooth skating for tropical systems. But this year, the main region where most tropical systems develop is choked with Saharan dust and wind shear.
A negative sequence current arises when the voltage and current in a power system are unbalanced. This type of current produces a reverse rotating magnetic field in the air gap, which has a synchronous speed but rotates in the opposite direction to the rotor. This reverse rotating field is detected by points on the rotor surface and can cause damage to rotating machinery if left unchecked. It is important to have Negative Sequence Current Ratings for generators as it is expected that they will not be connected 100% Negative-Sequence all the time, with three statements about the power system needing to be true for this to occur. Excessive negative phase sequence current can cause excessive heating, vibration, and bearing wear, leading to long-term damage or even machinery failure.
negative sequence current
What is pupillary distance?
Pupillary distance (PD) measures the distance between the centers of your pupils and is used to center a prescription lens accurately in your frames. Your optician will usually measure your PD or you can use our digital PD ruler to measure it quickly online.
Before you discovered Zenni, when you paid 10 times more for glasses you bought at the local optical store, the optician adjusted them for you.
But you can do it yourself, by following these easy-to-understand instructions.
Don’t worry. Your frame can stand a little bending. And when you’ve been wearing them for a while and they get out of shape again, just repeat the adjustments, and you’re good to go!
From custom taskbars to secret productivity tweaks, Windhawk gives you complete control over your PC, no registry hacks required. //
Windhawk is a free and open-source tool that helps you tweak aspects of Windows and your apps in ways that Microsoft and developers would never allow, combining a sophisticated code injection technique with an intuitive interface. The project's developer, Michael Maltsev, says it now has 1.5 million users, and Microsoft employees are increasingly enthusiastic about it, too. March Rogers, partner director of design at Microsoft, recently called it "amazing."
Freedom to build what you want
FreeCAD is an open-source parametric 3D modeler made primarily to design real-life objects of any size. Parametric modeling allows you to easily modify your design by going back into your model history and changing its parameters.
Create 3D from 2D & back
FreeCAD allows you to sketch geometry constrained 2D shapes and use them as a base to build other objects. It contains many components to adjust dimensions or extract design details from 3D models to create high quality production ready drawings.
For professional design needs...
FreeCAD is a powerful and evolving open-source parametric 3D modeler, well-suited for many professional and technical tasks. Each new release marks a milestone in stability and usability. FreeCAD puts you in control - no licensing fees, no vendor lock-in. It's not just cost-effective - it’s yours to adapt and build upon.
...And for everything else
Whether you're prototyping, 3D printing, designing furniture, or learning CAD, FreeCAD offers the tools to support your creativity. With a strong community, extensive documentation, and a growing ecosystem of add-ons, it’s a great place to start - and to grow. No sign-up, no paywall, no restrictions. Just open-source freedom at your fingertips.
AnyDesk is a remote desktop application distributed by AnyDesk Software GmbH. The proprietary software program provides platform-independent remote access to personal computers and other devices running the host application. It offers remote control, file transfer, and VPN functionality.
Each release is supported by the Security Officer for a limited time only.
The designation and expected lifetime of all currently supported branches and their respective releases are given below. The Expected EoL (end-of-life) column indicates the earliest date on which support for that branch or release will end. Please note that these dates may be pushed back if circumstances warrant it.
It's obvious this is an attempt to ban open-source AI so the new "FAA of AI" can control AI. Even if it's as dangerous as they say, they have no way to control what China does. Which means this campaign for regulation won't actually meet any of their stated aims. //
What we are seeing is a massive, pretty obviously coordinated campaign by AI researchers, companies, NGOs, and politicians to strangle competition in an industry and, as I will show, save the financial bacon of the top AI companies that are vastly overextended financially because they have made contractual commitments that they simply have no prospect of paying for. //
Today's "bull market" is almost exclusively driven by the rapid rise of AI-adjacent companies, and if the AI companies can't deliver massive growth, all these other companies are cooked as well. Data centers will have no customers, cloud compute will have nothing to do, and Nvidia chips won't be worth 10x gold. //
None of these companies is suggesting that AI be shut down; they are asking for a massive regulatory infrastructure that works with them, reduces their costs, possibly subsidizes their investments, and destroys competitors as insufficiently careful and secure. //
The solution is to ensure companies face liability for any damage they cause. Government regulators are utterly incapable of regulating anything as massively complicated and rapidly developing as AI, but you can be darn sure that if these companies face multi-billion-dollar liability claims, they will be quite careful about what they release.
Which do you trust more: a GS-12 based in Washington assigned to evaluate a model he could never understand, or a bank of lawyers warning CEOs that screwing up could cost them $20 billion? //
Will AI kill everybody off at some point in the future? I doubt it, but I can't say for sure. What I can say with certainty is that AI companies, because of their own financial mismanagement, face an existential threat and want (NEED) the government to bail them out, and need an excuse to get it to do so.
What you saw in this week's frenzy is the excuse they chose.
In the 1960s the sugar industry paid three Harvard scientists to publish a review blaming fat for heart disease and clearing sugar. The payments were discovered in 2016 by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, who found the internal industry documents and published them in JAMA Internal Medicine.
The documents showed that the Sugar Research Foundation, now called the Sugar Association, paid the equivalent of about 50,000 dollars in today's money to three Harvard researchers to write a review of the evidence on sugar, fat, and heart disease. The review, published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1967, concluded that fat was the dietary villain and that sugar was innocent. The funding was not disclosed.
The consequences lasted fifty years. Dietary guidelines in the United States shifted toward low-fat diets, and the food industry replaced fat with sugar in thousands of products. Americans ate less fat and more sugar for three decades, and rates of obesity and type 2 diabetes rose in parallel. The science that drove the shift was paid for by the industry that benefited from it.
The 2016 paper, led by Cristin Kearns, found that the Sugar Research Foundation had set the review's objective in advance, selected the studies to include, and reviewed drafts before publication. The Harvard researchers accepted the money and the direction without question, and the journal published the result without requiring disclosure of the funding.
Early warning signals of the coronary heart disease (CHD) risk of sugar (sucrose) emerged in the 1950s. We examined Sugar Research Foundation (SRF) internal documents, historical reports, and statements relevant to early debates about the dietary causes of CHD and assembled findings chronologically into a narrative case study. The SRF sponsored its first CHD research project in 1965, a literature review published in the New England Journal of Medicine, which singled out fat and cholesterol as the dietary causes of CHD and downplayed evidence that sucrose consumption was also a risk factor. The SRF set the review's objective, contributed articles for inclusion, and received drafts. The SRF's funding and role was not disclosed. Together with other recent analyses of sugar industry documents, our findings suggest the industry sponsored a research program in the 1960s and 1970s that successfully cast doubt about the hazards of sucrose while promoting fat as the dietary culprit in CHD. Policymaking committees should consider giving less weight to food industry-funded studies and include mechanistic and animal studies as well as studies appraising the effect of added sugars on multiple CHD biomarkers and disease development.
September 11, 2001: I started my daily commute routine from my apartment at 76th and Lexington in Manhattan’s Upper East Side to my World Trade Center (WTC) Tower 2 office. Getting to the 77th Street/Lexington Avenue subway station around my usual 7:40 a.m., I found that the downtown local was running late, but I was happy to see my three buddies on the train.
Charlie Kirk’s murder has left America reeling and asking, “Why, God?” Author Eric Metaxas joins PragerU CEO Marissa Streit to reflect on the life, faith, and courage of their dear friend, Charlie. Eric explains why Charlie’s legacy calls believers to confront evil with goodness, and how his death is igniting a revival of faith in America and beyond.
What really happened on September 11th—and why do so many 9/11 conspiracy theories still persist 25 years later?
In this episode of The Brief: Insights From The Inside, Shabbos Kestenbaum sits down with Gerald Posner, investigative journalist and author of Why America Slept: The Failure to Prevent 9/11, to revisit the September 11th terrorist attacks on their 25th anniversary.
Posner explains the official account of 9/11, the intelligence failures between the CIA and FBI, the missed warnings before the attack, and why he believes the evidence points to incompetence—not an inside job. He also responds to some of the most common 9/11 conspiracy theories, including “let it happen on purpose,” Donald Rumsfeld’s $2.3 trillion Pentagon statement, the “Dancing Israelis,” Larry Silverstein and “pull it,” World Trade Center 7, “jet fuel can’t melt steel beams,” the Pentagon missile theory, Flight 93, and unanswered questions about Saudi knowledge before the attack.
Gokapi is a lightweight server to share files that expire after a set number of downloads or days. It is similar to the discontinued Firefox Send, with the difference that only authenticated users are allowed to upload files — anonymous visitors can only download.
This lets companies or individuals share files easily and have them removed automatically afterwards, saving disk space and keeping control over who can access the content.
Key features:
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Expiring links — files are deleted after a configurable number of downloads or after a set number of days
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File Requests — generate a link that lets external users upload files to your server
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Multi-user support — multiple accounts with granular per-user and per-API-key permissions
By Hugh Ross
Published: February 5, 2023
Nearly 25 years ago, I wrote in a former RTB publication that “Big bang cosmology is an explosive topic.”1 It has led to heated reactions over the years from groups opposed to one another. However, the reasons for expressed rejection of big bang cosmology are not scientific. They are religious. Thus, it seems that establishing a biblical basis for the big bang may help turn down the heat.
The Front Pages of Sept. 12, 2001
Explore this collection of archived front pages showing how newsrooms around the world covered the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
September 11, 2001, will forever be remembered as a tragic day. However, in the midst of so much horror and loss, remarkable displays of human connection and support shined through.
All flights en route to the United States that day were diverted. One such flight, Delta Airlines Flight 15, heading from Germany to Atlanta, landed in Gander, Newfoundland. Hundreds of affected travelers were bused to Lewisporte, a tiny bayside town, where residents greeted them with open arms.
In 2002, inspired by the acts of kindness she witnessed, and with the assistance of fellow travelers and others, Shirley Brooks-Jones established the Lewisporte Area Flight 15 Scholarship Fund at The Columbus Foundation in appreciation for the hospitality shown to her and thousands of other stranded passengers. The fund pays grateful dividends in the form of hundreds of scholarships to those from the village and surrounding area.
This remarkable story of kindness and human connection has been written about and covered on television all around the world and even spawned a very popular Broadway play, Come From Away.
09 December 2010
The most people crammed into an old style Volkswagen Beetle is 20 and was achieved by the Asbury University Emancipation Project (USA) at the Lexington Rescue Mission in Lexington, Kentucky, USA, on 9 December 2010. A 1964 Beetle was used for the attempt, which was organised to draw attention to human trafficking.