There is currently a debate over the efficacy and safety of using progesterone to reverse the effects of Mifepristone, a drug used to induce abortions. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists referred to the procedure as “unproven and unethical.” //

On the other side of the debate, the Charlotte Lozier Institute discussed other studies showing that the treatment is safe and effective. //

DaveM
5 hours ago
I find it interesting that abortifacient agents intended to kill babies in the womb are considered "safe" but medications intended to stop the abortifacients from killing babies are considered "unsafe"

OK, that's a lot of text, but the writers raise an interesting point. If they are correct in how this is done, there's potential here that billions - billions of dollars may have been funneled to Democrat candidates, supporters, and donors. And here's the catch; that 1977 change in the law means it may actually be legal.

In an effort to stop Benson from implementing the first set of rules related to the conduct of election recounts ahead of November, the Republican National Committee (RNC) has threatened legal action. In an Aug. 7 communication, Luke Bunting of the RNC Election Integrity Counsel told Benson to “cease any attempt to adopt the proposed administrative ruleset … before the upcoming general election on November 5, 2024, or any other time prior to the effective date of Senate Bill 603, the statutory framework the proposed ruleset is designed to implement.”

“The disastrous SB 603 bill, which should never have been signed into law, does not go into effect until next year,” Gineen Bresso, Election Integrity Director for the RNC and Trump Campaign, told me in a statement. “Yet Jocelyn Benson has decided she can operate above and outside existing law, ram through illegal changes, and further weaken the remaining safeguards in Michigan.”

How the neon-filled glow lamps came to hold a special place in enthusiasts’ hearts

UPDATE 18 JAN. 2024: The nostalgic desire to experience the mid-twentieth-century aesthetic provided by the glow and design language of Nixie tubes has still not gone away. But this niche demand has not been nearly great enough to keep them in production. And now, the last backstock versions of true Nixie tubes, produced in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the 1980s, are at the end of their lifespans. At this point, anyone seeking that old-school glow can find it only in lookalikes made from more contemporary display technologies, like OLEDs that run on much lower voltages and whose manufacturing processes are much less labor intensive. //

Original article from 25 June 2018 follows:

On a cold December morning in the Czech village of Březolupy, a man stops his truck in front of a 17th-century castle. He puts on some heavy gloves, steps out of the truck, and opens the back hatch. Carefully, almost lovingly, he unloads crate after crate of heavy equipment and supplies—an industrial glass lathe, a turbomolecular vacuum pump, and glass. Lots and lots of glass.

The man is Dalibor Farny. In 2012, Farny began working to revive the manufacture of a display technology called the Nixie tube, the last commercial examples of which were produced when he was still a child.

These neon-filled glow lamps were ubiquitous in the late 1950s and 1960s, illuminating numbers, letters, and symbols in scientific and industrial instrumentation. Born in the basement of a German-American tinkerer in the 1930s and later commercialized by the business equipment maker Burroughs Corp., Nixies displayed data vital to NASA’s landing on the moon, lit up critical metrics for controlling nuclear power plants, and indicated the rise and fall of share prices on Wall Street stock exchanges, among thousands of uses. For many people, the warm glow of the Nixie came to evoke an era of unprecedented scientific and engineering achievement, of exciting and tangible discoveries, and of seemingly limitless progress. Remarkably, it continues to do so, even for people who, like Farny, grew up long after the tubes had faded from common use.

AcuteFinder will help you to find duplicate files on your system and delete them. It's simple, easy, and safe to use, and costs as little as $14 to buy.

AcuteFinder not only takes into account items like file name, size or timestamp, but reads through possible duplicates and calculates their checksums. This way, it is guaranteed that the files are really identical, and you can delete the extra copies with full confidence.

AcuteFinder can find files that have different names, like "my.doc" and "Copy of my.doc". Basically, if files are of the same size and have the same checksum, they are considered identical. AcuteFinder uses by default CRC32, a 32-bit checksum, but you can choose to use MD5 hash (128-bit) as a final step in file comparison for even more accuracy.

PeaZip is a free file archiver utility, similar to WinRar, WinZip, and 7-Zip (or File Roller, and Ark on Linux), based on Open Source technologies of 7-Zip / p7zip archiver, Facebook Zstandard compressor, FreeArc, Google Brotli compressor, PAQ family of compressors, PEA (archiving and encryption) project, and other Free Software file compression tools. //

When browsing a filesystem the file browser can show file checksum / hash value on demand in last column, allowing to identify binary identical files which have same checksum/hash value.

Clicking the name of the function (after rightclicking the file manager colum header) PeaZip file manager will display hash or checksum value for all (or selected) files. Clicking "Find duplicates" PeaZip file manager will work as duplicate finder utility, displaying size and hash or checksum value only for duplicate files - same binary identical content featured in two or more distinct files - and will report the number of non-unique files identified.

In a real world application, which is a house with a garden hose, heat pump, sprinkler system or the like, Amtrol's lab results would show the devastating cycling that has long been the cause of pump system failures. A worst-case scenario would be a continuous demand of 7.5 GPM. Using a 15 GPM pump with a tank having 15 gallons of draw down as in Amtrol's "study", there would be continuous cycling every 4 minutes. That would be 360 cycles per day or 131,400 cycles per year. It does not matter if the old pressure tank only system saves any energy or not, the equipment would not last long enough to get a good test. Even if these continuous demands were only required 25% of the time that would still be 32,850 cycles per year with the old pressure tank only system compared to 3,000 cycles per year when using a "cycle control valve".

The Cycle Stop Valve or CSV can save money and energy directly and indirectly. A Variable Frequency Drive or VFD system may use a little less energy than a CSV system at low flow, but the parasitic losses and reduced efficiency of the motor running on a VFD, means the VFD uses more energy at high flow. Over the full range of flow, the amp draw or energy reduction that happens as a CSV throttles the output of a pump can be almost exactly comparable to the energy reduction of a VFD system. To verify this you only need to use the standard Brake Horse Power equation. If you know your flow rate, head, and efficiency the horsepower can be easily figured using our Horse Power Calculator.

However, there is nothing more efficient that a properly sized pump running at it's best efficiency point. Any time you reduce the RPM with a VFD, or throttle the output with a valve, a pump is using more energy per gallon produced, than when the pump is running at it's best efficiency point and full RPM. There are cases where a CSV or VFD can save energy directly. When the flow rate required is between 60% to 90% of the max flow, and rapid cycling into a pressure tank causes multiple motor starts with high inrush currents, a CSV or VFD will reduce the energy consumption directly. The lower the flow rate required, the more energy per gallon is used with a VFD or a CSV. Because head is lost by the square of the pump speed, when a static head or constant pressure must be maintained, a pump cannot be slowed down enough with a VFD, to save anymore energy than a CSV.

To see the indirect ways that a CSV saves energy, we must compare it to the other types of pump control. Cycling on and off into a pressure tank is one of the fastest ways to destroy a pump system. Because of cycling, the average life of small submersible pumps is only about 7 years. Those that cycle the most only last 2 years, while those that cycle the least last about 12 years, hence a 7 year average. Even with a fairly large pressure tank, cycling destroys every component in a pump system. Cycling flexes the bladder in a pressure tank, until the bladder breaks like bending a wire back and forth. Cycling destroys pressure switches, start capacitors and starting relays. Cycling torques the pipe in the well, until the down hole wire is rubbed bare. Cycling can strip pump splines and loosen impellers. Cycling also destroys the motor or strips the motor splines. //

Since cycling is one cause of most pump system failures, eliminating 80% of the cycles with a Cycle Stop Valve, can triple or quadruple the life of every component in the pump system, compared to a pressure tank only system. Because a CSV system runs on standard sinusoidal power at a constant RPM, there are no voltage spikes, harmonics, resonance frequencies, or additional heat produced. A CSV system can more than quadruple the life of a pump system when compared to a VFD. A pump system that last 15 years, can save a tremendous amount of energy over having to replace the pump system every 5 years. Taking into consideration that the CSV system uses a pressure tank that is a fraction of the size and cost of larger pressure tanks, can add substantially to the savings. Reductions in square footage needed to house a large pressure tank, and saving the heat required for that extra square footage, can add even more to the energy savings. Lastly consider the energy used to mine, manufacture, transport, install, and recycle the additional pump systems destroyed by cycling or VFD's.

The biggest "green lie" of all is that VFD's "save energy". When the pumps speed is reduced using a VFD, the Affinity Law states, "horse power is reduced by the cube of the RPM." Many people use this to try and show energy is being saved, by reducing the RPM. This is absolutely not true (See figure #3)).

Figure 3
When running the pump at full speed and maximum flow, the energy used by the VFD itself, along with motor losses from the VFD's sub-standard voltage wave form, causes more energy to be used per gallon. //

The only real energy savings, comes from the system that will last the longest. It takes a lot of energy to mine, manufacture, transport, and install pumps and controls. The longer a system last, the more energy and money is saved. It is very harmful to the environment to install a system that was designed to only last a short time. Our landfills are being filled with electronic components like VFD's, and non-recyclable pumps and motors. This waste a lot of energy and natural resources, leaches heavy metals into our water supplies, and drains money out of your bank account.

Create or De-rate?
When the flow is reduced, the amps drawn by a pump controlled by a VFD, and a pump controlled by a CSV are almost the same. The difference is that a VFD creates a smaller motor from a larger one, and a CSV de-rates the motor load.

When a VFD slows down a 10 HP motor, until it is only drawing a 5 HP load, it has "created" a 5 HP motor from the 10 HP. Even though the motor is only drawing half of a 10 HP load, the harmonic content produced by the VFD increases heat in the motor. The motor must be cooled as if it were a fully loaded 5 HP, which still requires 1/2 a foot per second flow. According to the submersible motor cooling chart, a 6" motor in an 8" casing needs a minimum of 45 GPM to remain cool. So a 10 HP pump and motor in 8" casing, cannot be slowed to less than 45 GPM, or the motor will overheat and be destroyed.

The same 10 HP motor controlled by a CSV doesn't need as much flow to remain cool. This is because the 10 HP motor has been "de-rated" to a 5 HP load. When a CSV restricts a 10 HP pump, the amps can also drop to a 5 HP load.

Head produced by a pump drops off by the square of the speed. Pumps that must lift a certain distance or produce a specific pressure (or TDH) have a minimum speed that will accomplish this task. The speed of a correctly sized pump can only be reduced a small amount if a static head or constant pressure is required. Horse power reductions by the cube of the speed can be insignificant compared to a full speed pump simply pushed to the left of it's curve. Before you can use the Affinity Law the following steps must be taken to determine the minimum speed possible from your pump. The affinity law can then be used to determine the minimum horsepower possible from your pump when using a VFD.

GBenton
3 hours ago
We don't know if their scams to fake support for Kamala/Walz will work yet, but I don't think they would need to do this nonsense if she were actually leading or they were confident in her potential to win.

So far, her whole campaign has been fake, defensive, manufactured, and insecure. //

Chuck in TX GBenton
3 hours ago
If they were leading or there was a real chance she'd win, Beyonce would have showed up.

You knew it was likely to be bad when they had to pull a "bait and switch" to keep people in the seats to hear her, saying there was going to be a special guest appearing, with CNN and others suggesting it was Beyoncé. But then the special guest turned out to be Harris herself. What a letdown. But you know that they don't think much of what they have to present when they have to play games and gaslight people like that.

Bottom line? They're lying because they know what they really think/believe would never go over with the American people. //

The Free Press @TheFP
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“It is an insult to have an entire convention and not have any policy... Instead, all we get is ‘for the people’ and we're supposed to take that on faith. ”

@BUngarSargon reviews Kamala's DNC speech tonight on The Free Press #LIVE.

12:16 AM · Aug 23, 2024 //

Trump War Room @TrumpWarRoom
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Kamala says that she stood up "for seniors facing elder abuse."

That's ironic!

10:50 PM · Aug 22, 2024

Isn't this the same lady who helped to cover up Joe Biden's cognitive decline, who wasn't straight with the American people about it? //

myop2
a few seconds ago
How dare you talk about elder abuse. You and jb have cut medicare ( after accusing trump and republicans of doing the same thing) and reduced our Medicare advantage plans, causing doctors to refuse to accept these plans. You, Kamala are the worst liar, cheat, and thief, and abuser.

I served as an Army IG investigator for three years. I never encountered anyone engaged in epic misconduct who had not eased himself into that position with a series of baby steps. The panache with which Hamilton called members of the selection board on behalf of a particular officer is not something displayed the first time you do it. This is particularly true when meddling with a critical selection board strikes at the very heart of the integrity the system must have to be respected. Hopefully, the investigators are looking into other possible incidents of Hamiltion trying to influence a command selection board. Second, a male general breaking all known rules on behalf of a female subordinate looks like more was going on here than fighting racism unless that's what the kids are calling it this week. //

In short, given the public domain information available, there doesn't seem to be any empirical evidence to support Hamilton's claim that he was intervening to prevent an injustice to Black officers and a great deal of evidence to indicate that he was personally pushing the candidacy of one particular officer who happened to work directly for him and who appears to be totally unqualified to command.

If Wormuth removes Hamilton from command, the fallout from a liberal White woman sacking a Black man during an election year will make me a fortune in my popcorn futures investment. //

Chuck in TX
3 hours ago
That initial 0-5 vote should have been a red flag and warned him off. Five generals unanimously and without reservation put it firmly on the record she was unqualified. There was no way that was getting changed without setting off alarm bells. Hubris is a hell of a thing. //

flyovercountry
4 hours ago
We’ll soon find out he was having an unprofessional relationship with said LtCol, this was pay back on the investment.

streiff flyovercountry
4 hours ago
That's my bet, he was given an ultimatum by her to get her a battalion command slot or face the consequences.

Min Headroom llme streiff
4 hours ago
If it looks like a duck, and all that.

But as you note, an interesting thing is that the blatancy of this suggests he’s practiced at it. So he probably either doesn’t know or doesn’t care how it looks.

Laocoön of Troy
a minute ago
What Hamilton did was corrupt to the core. Sadly I cannot say that I haven't seen similar abuses in my beloved AF. However I don't hafta like it.

This entire thing is essentially out in the open and Hamilton is DARING the Army to do anything about his misbehavior. //

Laocoön of Troy
a minute ago
What Hamilton did was corrupt to the core. Sadly I cannot say that I haven't seen similar abuses in my beloved AF. However I don't hafta like it.

This entire thing is essentially out in the open and Hamilton is DARING the Army to do anything about his misbehavior.

With liberals, it often seems that it's opposite day. When they say they want to prevent the spread of misinformation, what they really mean is they want to spread propaganda and suppress truth. When they say they simply want people to be tolerant of other cultures and beliefs, they work to implement the most intolerant institutions imaginable. When they say they want to fortify an election, it means they want to ensure a pre-determined outcome.

Since January 6 they've been shouting that they need to protect democracy and taking action on multiple fronts to do the opposite, as Tucker Carlson and Victor Davis Hansen expertly outline in the newest episode of Tucker on X. In his monologue, Tucker said:

Liberals are now telling us they plan to protect American democracy, and that's the clearest possible sign that they intend to end it. //

This is not a legal proceeding. This is a grotesque parody of the system our forefathers created, the fairest in the world, that in the years since has been seized by power worshippers like Arthur Engoron. This is a dangerous moment. Without a legitimate legal system, people no longer follow the law, and the country will collapse.

This is not about Trump. This is about preserving the United States of America. But Trump is at the center of the story.

On Thursday night, following an evening that was cringier than a Zoom call with Jeffrey Toobin, Vice President Kamala Harris came on stage and actually spoke to a crowd of people. OK, they were friendly people who would never dream of fact-checking anything she says, no matter how ludicrous.

But former President Donald Trump harbors no such reservations. While Harris was speaking, so was Trump, calling out her claims, point by point, on his Truth Social media platform.

Here are some of the highlights.

The former president asked one great question right away:

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
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2h

WHERE’S HUNTER?

In this question, I would caution Pres. Trump against asking questions to which you really don't want to know the answer.

This set the tone, with the former president answering the current vice president, not live on video, but via social media posts. The replies came, if you will, fast and furious. //

The upshot? As always: Kamala Harris can't tell the difference between the truth and a lie. That's what it all boils down to. Donald Trump can think on his feet. He can react and answer unscripted questions, and react to unscripted talking points, quickly, smoothly, and accurately. Kamala Harris can do none of those things.

As RedState reported Wednesday, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s running mate, Nicole Shanahan, had quite a bit to say recently on the subject of how a terrified Democratic Party War Machine is working so hard to keep third-party candidates like Kennedy off the ballot headed into the November elections. //

On Wednesday after a court appearance in New York state to appeal a ruling that effectively would keep him off the ballot, Kennedy himself went off on Democrats who have talked big this week at the Democrat National Convention about voting rights and democracy but who behind the scenes have gone to unprecedented levels to suppress third-party candidates:

"The DNC is in Chicago talking about their commitment to voting rights, while they're spending tens, maybe hundreds of millions of dollars to keep me off the ballot."

"There's a million people in this country who have signed petitions trying to get me on the ballot. 145,000 at least people here in New York State. They want to see me on the ballot. Why is the Democratic Party trying to disenfranchise those people? What's happened to the party?"

"I don't think my father would recognize this party, and I don't think my uncle would recognize this party." //

Dr. Jill Stein🌻 @DrJillStein
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Stop the gaslighting. Right now @TheDemocrats are trying to sue us off multiple state ballots, hiring spies and infiltrators to sabotage us, and even withholding public funds we qualified for months ago.

Democrats ABSOLUTELY cheat and change the rules to maintain their grip on… Show more

HOT SPOT @HotSpotHotSpot
MICHELLE OBAMA: “We don’t cheat others to get ahead. We don’t get to change the rules so we always win”
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1:53 PM · Aug 21, 2024 //

Otpkr2
8 hours ago
MICHELLE OBAMA: “We don’t have the luxury of cheating others to get further ahead—We don’t get to change the rules so we always win.”
Leftists always tell us what they are doing. They always accuse everyone else of doing the things they are doing first and most. It is how they work. Yes, these people really are that bad.

As the grand illusion, otherwise known as the Democrat National Convention (DNC), continues, it is proving to be just a lollapalooza of lies, half-truths, and hatred of Donald Trump greater than their love of America on full display. They also continue to float the same old, tired, worn-out ideas like: Democrats are the party of the middle class, minorities, and women. Thankfully, middle-class and minority voters are realizing this is not the case. And if we take a look at Democrats' past and present, it is easy to see that they are certainly not the party of women.

Christine Flowers @flowerlady61
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The minute Monica Lewinsky’s molestor got on the stage, the Democrats lost the right to open their mouths about Donald Trump’s relationship with women.
9:33 PM · Aug 21, 2024

For instance, being a third-party candidate on a debate stage alongside Republicans and Democrats is borderline impossible thanks to rules that were created through a group founded by both Republicans and Democrats. I wrote of the Commission on Presidential Debates in 2016 and how it effectively pushed out the League of Women Voters to seize control of the debate stage:

The organization itself was founded in 1987 by a bipartisan Republican/Democrat effort, and has run the debates ever since. //

Before the CPD, the debates were run by the League of Women Voters from 1976 to 1984. The League withdrew when Republicans and Democrats made a deal that would give them full control over the debates, and how they were run.

Nancy Neuman, then head of the League, called the deal “outrageous,” and noted that the Democrats and Republicans wanted to control the questioners, composition of the audience, press access, and more. All of this was done behind closed doors. By the time the deal was done, the League was presented with 16 pages of non-negotiable rules for the debates.

The League departed with a statement that called out exactly what the dual parties were doing and remains accurate to this day:

“The League of Women Voters is withdrawing its sponsorship of the presidential debate scheduled for mid-October because the demands of the two campaign organizations would perpetrate a fraud on the American voter,” League President Nancy M. Neuman said today.

“It has become clear to us that the candidates’ organizations aim to add debates to their list of campaign-trail charades devoid of substance, spontaneity and honest answers to tough questions,” Neuman said. “The League has no intention of becoming an accessory to the hoodwinking of the American public.”

Even Walter Cronkite called it an "unconscionable fraud." //

No matter how insane you might think the person is, they deserve a fair shot at winning the people's affections. The rules should not be weighted against them, and the other parties should not be able to manipulate rules to keep them from reaching the people.

It's my honest opinion that a two-party system is incredibly dangerous and limiting. If America's economic system has taught us anything, it's that competition brings out the best in people and the best people overall. Yet, we're currently tied to a dual-party system so filled to the brim with corruption that sometimes it's hard to know where one party begins and the other ends.

Trump wrote:

"The highly overrated Jewish Governor of the Great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro, made a really bad and poorly delivered speech talking about freedom and fighting for Comrade Kamala Harris for President, yet she hates Israel and will do nothing but make its journey through the complexities of survival as difficult as possible, hoping in the end that it will fail. Judge only by her actions!" //

etba_ss
3 hours ago edited
This is a great example of Trump's lack of discipline and focus.

Trump is not antisemtic. That's absurd. The left is. They know it. We know it. They are lying.

If Trump had left off "Jewish", attacked Shapiro, and then said that the Democrats wouldn't pick him for VP because he was Jewish and they hate Jews, he would have made the point he needs to make. I think that's what he meant and that Shapiro was happy supporting a party that wants to see Israel destroyed. He could have mentioned that as well.

Instead, his sloppy rhetoric gives them an opening to lie. Then the right has to come to his defense and explain what Trump meant and how they lie instead of highlighting how antisemitic the left is.

It's just beyond frustrating that he can't stop doing this after 8 years of stepping on rakes. I want to win. This stuff doesn't help. We know we've got to fight against the media, pop culture and the Demonic party. We don't need to score goals on ourselves, especially on an issue we should be beating them with. They've got terrorists outside and inside their convention demanding genocide agaisnt Jews, not us.

However, for a legacy media that has been overly committed of late to the polishing and reinvention of every aspect of Kamala Harris' history, they continue to steer clear of the paterfamilias. Professor Donald Harris has a long history of scholarship at Stanford University and presently consults on economics. Why has no one asked Harris the daughter about her father and his work? //

Seven years later, one marriage, and being elected vice president hasn't even rendered a statement from him about how proud he is of his very accomplished daughter? It's a bit suspicious, particularly in their drive to paint her as the second coming. //

One fully understands wanting to avoid the media spotlight and to steer clear of the circus of politics. But the fact that Donald Harris is never mentioned and hasn't even made an appearance (even via video) at the DNC is troubling. It's as offensive as that Molech Mobile outside of the DNC. It's as if Kamala Harris wants to abort her own father from her history. Single mothers appear to be the ultimate GOOD with the Democrats. Practically every speaker has led with being the product of a single-mother home. Single motherhood is lauded above traditional marriage, and if there are any couples on the stage, it's couples who wanted abortions or who claim they were barred from IVF. //

But a father who was marginalized from his children's lives due to divorce? YAWN. Not worthy of Democrat's focus, and definitely not something the top Democrat nominee wants as part of her story.

This also gives insight into Harris complicated relationship with Black men, from WiIlie Brown, to Montel Williams, to the thousands she capriciously imprisoned when she was San Francisco's District Attorney and California's Attorney General. An Economist article probably came closest to hitting the nail on the head. Papa Harris is a proud Marxist economist and his philosophy is a window into Kamala's own socialist leanings. Donald Harris and Sen. Bernie Sanders would be sympatico on most everything, including being property owners while the rest of the world has to give their fair share. //

Mr Harris, for his part, retired from academia in 1998 to focus on policy work, including advising the Jamaican government. For all his earlier radicalism, he has recommended fiscal discipline and crime reduction, as well as export-led growth and industrial strategy. In the end, however, perhaps his greatest economic legacy will be his daughter. //

Betsy Ross anon-fl4c
17 minutes ago
Kamala is Obama. Educated, but not intelligent. Vapid, spoiled, narcissistic and all around void of the ability to lead. Both are are followers.