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Aerospace & Defense Sector Market forecast 2020-2027 interpreted by a new report: Thales Group, Defence Research & Development Organization,…

Posted on July 17, 2020 by Danzig

The recent research report on theGlobal Aerospace & Defense Sector Marketpresents the latest industry data and future trends, allowing you to recognize the products and end users driving Revenue growth and profitability of the market.The report offers an extensive analysis of key drivers, leading market players, key segments, and regions. Besides this, the experts have deeply studied different geographical areas and presented a competitive scenario to assist new entrants, leading market players, and investors determine emerging economies. These insights offered in the report would benefit market players to formulate strategies for the future and gain a strong position in the global market.

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The report begins with a brief introduction and market overview of the Global Aerospace & Defense Sector Market industry followed by its market scope and size. Next, the report provides an overview of market segmentation such as type, application, and region. The drivers, limitations, and opportunities for the market are also listed, along with current trends and policies in the industry.The report provides a detailed study of the growth rate of every segment with the help of charts and tables. Furthermore, various regions related to the growth of the market are analyzed in the report. These regions include North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East & Africa. Besides this, the research demonstrates the growth trends and upcoming opportunities in every region.Analysts have revealed that the Global Aerospace & Defense Sector Market market has shown several significant developments over the past few years. The report offers sound predictions on market value and volume that can be beneficial for the market players, investors, stakeholders, and new entrants to gain detailed insights and obtain a leading position in the market.Additionally, the report offers an in-depth analysis of key market players functioning in the global Global Aerospace & Defense Sector Market industry.

Major market players are:Thales GroupDefence Research & Development OrganizationBoeingBharat Dynamics LimitedLockheed MartiTata Advanced Systems LimitedBAE Systemsand Mahindra GroupHindustan Aeronautics LimitedBharat Earthmovers LimitedReliance DefenceISRO

The research presents the performance of each player active in the global Global Aerospace & Defense Sector Market market. It also offers a summary and highlights the current advancements of each player in the market. This piece of data is a great source of study material for the investors and stakeholders interested in the market. In addition, the report offers insights on suppliers, buyers, and merchants in the market. Along with this, a comprehensive analysis of consumption, market share, and growth rate of each application is offered for the historic period.

The end users/applications listed in the report are:LandAirSea

The key product type of Global Aerospace & Defense Sector Market market are:Cyber securityBorder securityHomeland security

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The report clearly shows that the Global Aerospace & Defense Sector Market industry has achieved remarkable progress since 2027 with numerous significant developments boosting the growth of the market. This report is prepared based on a detailed assessment of the industry by experts. To conclude, stakeholders, investors, product managers, marketing executives, and other experts in search of factual data on supply, demand, and future predictions would find the report valuable.

The report constitutes:Chapter 1 provides an overview of Global Aerospace & Defense Sector Market market, containing global revenue, global production, sales, and CAGR. The forecast and analysis of Global Aerospace & Defense Sector Market market by type, application, and region are also presented in this chapter.Chapter 2 is about the market landscape and major players. It provides competitive situation and market concentration status along with the basic information of these players.Chapter 3 provides a full-scale analysis of major players in Global Aerospace & Defense Sector Market industry. The basic information, as well as the profiles, applications and specifications of products market performance along with Business Overview are offered.Chapter 4 gives a worldwide view of Global Aerospace & Defense Sector Market market. It includes production, market share revenue, price, and the growth rate by type.Chapter 5 focuses on the application of Global Aerospace & Defense Sector Market, by analyzing the consumption and its growth rate of each application.Chapter 6 is about production, consumption, export, and import of Global Aerospace & Defense Sector Market in each region.Chapter 7 pays attention to the production, revenue, price and gross margin of Global Aerospace & Defense Sector Market in markets of different regions. The analysis on production, revenue, price and gross margin of the global market is covered in this part.Chapter 8 concentrates on manufacturing analysis, including key raw material analysis, cost structure analysis and process analysis, making up a comprehensive analysis of manufacturing cost.Chapter 9 introduces the industrial chain of Global Aerospace & Defense Sector Market. Industrial chain analysis, raw material sources and downstream buyers are analyzed in this chapter.Chapter 10 provides clear insights into market dynamics.Chapter 11 prospects the whole Global Aerospace & Defense Sector Market market, including the global production and revenue forecast, regional forecast. It also foresees the Global Aerospace & Defense Sector Market market by type and application.Chapter 12 concludes the research findings and refines all the highlights of the study.Chapter 13 introduces the research methodology and sources of research data for your understanding.

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Innovation in flight test instrumentation and data networks – Aerospace Testing International

Posted on July 17, 2020 by Danzig

The data that flight testing provides to the aerospace industry is a valuable commodity. It is used to develop better and more efficient aircraft and to ensure that once developed, aircraft can be used in a safe and effective manner.

The tools used to acquire, store and transmit flight test data flight test instrumentation (FTI), data acquisition networks and telemetry are therefore a vital part of the aerospace sector. These tools require a high level of maturity because they must be reliable and accurate. In addition, flight test engineers face commercial pressures to reduce the certification cycle of aircraft and optimize resources for cost reduction. Innovation in flight therefore often aims to make FTI and data acquisition networks more flexible, easier to install and use and more accurate.

Within FTI and data acquisition, the use of wireless networks is one of the strongest areas for innovation.

Ghislain Guerrero, business development and innovation director at Safran Data Systems says, The flight test community has been asking for wireless for at least 10 years. In the beginning it was mainly the big airframers, because of the size of their FTI, but there is now a real call for it across the industry.

FTI systems are often too heavy, complex in terms of cabling and expensive, contradicting the trend in flight testing and certification to minimize time to market. During the last decade aircraft and rotorcraft manufacturers have strived to reduce the flight test and certification period of development with the use of multiple test aircraft and other techniques.

Guerrero says, This means FTI has to measure more things in less time. Wireless can help address this challenge because it has flexibility, you can add and remove measurements more easily.

The community wants to be able to land in the evening after a flight and then the next day take off with a modified FTI because the test engineer wants to see something else. We have to design and develop the tools for the instrumentation engineer to make that possible and wireless is part of the answer.

Paul Hart, chief technology officer at Curtiss-Wright sees demand for wireless from the flight test community being met already. There is take up of wireless because it can solve lots of problems, he says. For example, wiring a strain gage on a wing tip takes a lot of invasive work. The use of wireless for this type of application is tried and tested, almost routine.

Curtiss-Wright has done some work with wireless sensors, particularly using ZigBee, which is one of the more widely-used protocols used for wireless FTI. ZigBee has proved useful with rotating machinery like helicopter rotor blades, where circular data acquisition units, essentially accelerometers have been developed and installed on a rotor blade to measure dynamics. You could use slip rings and commutators for a wired installation, but youd have to modify the aircraft itself, so wireless is useful for rotors. says Hart. You also have to get power to the electronics and that can be fulfilled now by piezoelectric energy harvesting technology.

One of the challenges for applications that use accelerometers such as rotor blades is the high data rate required, around 32 kilosamples per second, he explains. However, Zigbee has a short range and a relatively small bandwidth and so is only useful where data acquisition is required at lower rates. Another potential downside is timing.

A lot of the networks are Ethernet-based and the data acquisition has to be put into lock step using a switch with a grandmaster clock. Otherwise you can get a skew to the data, he says.

As a way around this problem, Curtiss-Wrights latest generation of FTI, the Axon family uses plug-in modules that can be put on extender cables up to 20m long to create what the company calls an Axonite. The modules have around a 2in footprint, can be placed in an environmentally sealed enclosure and mounted close to sensors such as accelerometers. The acquisition of data on to an Ethernet bus close to the source minimizes the amount of noise from sources such as electrical cables and switches. You distribute the data acquisition around the aircraft to overcome the problems of the wiring and electrical noise that is a concern when acquiring an analog signal, Hart says.

Curtiss-Wrights Axons use smaller Axonite module to place the DAQ close to the sensors (Image: Curtiss-Wright)

Guerrero agrees that there are some constraints to the application of current wireless technology in flight test data acquisition networks, such as the relatively poor performance and EMC. Every aircraft is designed to be a large Faraday cage, because electronics need to be protected. We are asked to make radio communications work within this environment its a big challenge, but we are working with airframers and manufacturers, testing in the field to understand what is possible and not possible, to find the right frequencies and antennas, he says.

Today wireless systems bring with them too much compromise, usually in terms of accuracy. We want to eliminate that and deliver fully transparent data, the same as they would get with a wired system.

MA future micro-modular acquisition unit, which is natively wireless and low power (Photo: Safran Data Systems)

Safran Data Systems aims to facilitate the widespread use of wireless networks in flight testing via three main steps. The first step is the current situation, where most FTI is wired. Step two is the development and the deployment of wireless networks that are capable of replacing any wired connection without any compromise in performance. But, at this stage there are still some drawbacks with wireless networks that mean most FTI is wired the largest being timing synchronisation. Although as an aside, there may still be situations where a more direct link is possible with wireless than a wired connection and the use of wireless gives better results than wired at this time.

We can synchronize a remote device to an accuracy of 30 to 50 nanoseconds, better than you can achieve with a wired connection that uses multiple Ethernet links with switches, where you are within 50 to 100 nanoseconds, says Guerrero.

An example is the acquisition of a high-speed vibration signal from an engine to the aircraft cabin. With a wired system the link has to go from the engine to the pylon then along the wing and into the cabin, with multiple switches and steps causing complexity and cost. If you establish a direct link a virtual wire between the cabin and the engine can be directly and more easily established.

The third step is currently being developed in the laboratory. Guerrero says, We are working towards the goal of a massively wireless FTI architecture. In this step, the backbone of the network would be wireless with the use of wires as the exception, perhaps only where two devices are very close to each other.

MA prototype mounted in the nose cone of a Vulcanair P68 (Photo: Safran Data Systems)

According to Guerrero, the technology to enable this is similar to consumer LTE 5G networks, but adapted to be private without any exterior network operator. LTE networks can manage hundreds of devices on a network with high bandwidth and transfer speeds. He says it is possible to reach step three within five years. It will be possible in the future to have a massively wireless FTI.

We want to exploit this technology on frequencies that are available and compliant with the aircraft. The first and most important requirement is to ensure we do not interfere and jam any important systems on the aircraft.

The new materials and systems being used throughout modern aircraft are also a spur for innovation in FTI and data acquisition networks. A corollary of the use of composites in fuselages is an increased interest in the use of fiber-optic sensors, such as the use of Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) for strain gages, especially in high EMC environments. FBG strain sensors are more reliable, but the signal conditioning is completely different. They use a technology called interrogators and a different protocol, says Hart.

There is also an increasing use of electronics and electrical systems in modern aircraft, particularly in areas such as flight controls and hydraulics. FTI is also having to evolve to measure and check electronics and flight control computers. Engines are associated with this, such as the move towards geared turbofans (GTF), which are designed to output electrical power more efficiently and at variable frequencies.

GTF engines are more efficient but create the need for engineers to test the performance of systems at variable frequencies, says Hart.

The MDR-GT very high speed and capacity recorder will offer native wireless interfaces (Photo: Safran Data Systems)

Guerrero agrees that the move to more electric aircraft will have an impact on the instrumentation that is used to monitor aerodynamic and structural aspects of aircraft and that it will become more difficult to accurately monitor the aircrafts electrical network. However, he doesnt believe that the higher voltages and currents will cause complications for wireless data acquisition networks the frequencies are different enough to not affect the network. More electric aircraft will impact the kind of acquisition that happens more, he says.

In the coming months and years the wireless revolution will continue. New solutions will become available to address the pain points in current data acquisition networks and to unleash the capabilities of instrumentation systems, achieving the goals of engineers.

Flight test datas main use in modern aerospace may be to validate computer modelling of tweaked iterative aircraft designs, new aeronautical ideas and concepts, but in this role it is no less important than it ever has been.

The medical data of patients during an emergency flight is of the utmost importance. Transmitting patient data accurately, reliably and as early as possible to a hospital so it can be analyzed can be the difference between life and death for a patient in critical condition.

Flight data and communications technology company Skytrac and medical transport organization STAT MedEvac earlier this year successfully transferred patient data via inflight cellular and satellite connections on an emergency flight for the first time.

Engineers from Skytrac configured a Zoll X patient monitor / defibrillator with an onboard wifi network enabled by the companysDAL-200 wireless data link, enabling theZoll X to connect to its own servers to relay the data on to the destination hospital. When cellular connectivity was unavailable, as is the case for most remote emergency medical missions, the DAL-200 redirected the medical data to an ISAT-200A avionics system that encrypted it and sent it through the Iridium satellite network to Skytrac, where it was then forwarded to Zolls secure medical servers. This enabled healthcare practitioners to access 12-lead reports before patients arrived in the emergency room.

Dr Leonard Weiss, assistant medical director at STAT MedEvac sees immediate real-world applications. He says, Transfer of care of critically ill patients is one of the riskiest phases of care, where up to 20% of patients in the USA may experience a harmful event. Current emergency and 911 communication systems are limited, using archaic technology.

Our work is critical to developing future systems that allow early and robust coordination of care and alert waiting medical and surgical teams of inbound patients.

Jan van der Heul, vice president of sales at Skytrac Systems said, Weve proven that AI and big data arent the only ways to revolutionize the healthcare industry andare excited to introduce this technology to the market.

This article was originally published in the June print edition of Aerospace Testing International. Read the article in its original format here and register to receive future print and digital issues before everyone else for free here.

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Solvay and Lockheed Martin to organise selection of university projects to boost Belgiums aerospace industry – Aviation24.be

Posted on July 17, 2020 by Danzig

Today, Solvay and Lockheed Martin announced their collaboration on a newly-signed agreement for the selection of the most innovative projects in the aerospace sector from Belgian universities.

On July 1 and 2, Solvay and Lockheed Martin, together with seven Belgian aerospace companies (Asco, Coexpair, Feronyl, SABCA, Safran Aeroboosters, Sonaca and Thales Belgium) participated in the selection of projects for the Innovative Growth University Challenge. Supported by the Belgian government, this initiative is part of a strategy to reinforce Belgiums defence, industrial and technological base.

More than 20 projects were presented by seven Belgian universities, recognised for their high-level expertise in advanced materials, to showcase the next generation of composite designs that will advance the aerospace industry in Belgium.

Solvay, Lockheed Martin and the seven other companies intend to make their selection of the final projects by the end of August. The projects relate to five common areas:

These projects will also include the participation of one or more members from the nine companies involved to help the teams develop high technology products for the aerospace industry.

Last year, Solvay, Lockheed Martin and the seven other companies agreed to an umbrella agreement to develop the University Challenge and its R&D projects related to another agreement between the U.S. and Belgian governments to replace its ageing F-16 aircraft with new generation air combat capability on F-35. The University Challenge projects serve as a unique and cutting-edge opportunity to support specific aerospace research and innovation in Belgium.

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High Altitude Platforms Market Ongoing Trends and Recent Developments | Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd.; TCOM, LP; ILC Dover; Lindstrand Technologies…

Posted on July 17, 2020 by Danzig

Data Bridge Market Research introduced the report on theHigh Altitude Platforms Market, with complete overview of the market, covering various aspects of product definition, segmentation based on various parameters, and the prevailing vendor landscape. It compiles in-depth information and research methodologies. It is also combined with relevant charts and tables to enable readers to get a better perspective of this global market.

Global high altitude platforms market is expected to rise to an estimated value of USD 6.87 billion by 2026, registering a substantial CAGR in the forecast period to 2026. This rise in market value can be attributed to the growing levels of terrorism globally and a rise in the levels of illegal trafficking.

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Top Key Players in the High Altitude Platforms Market are as Follows atIsrael Aerospace Industries Ltd.; TCOM, L.P.; ILC Dover; Lindstrand Technologies Limited; Lockheed Martin Corporation; Raytheon Company; Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd.; Northrop Grumman Corporation; AeroVironment, Inc.; Thales Group; Airbus S.A.S. and Aeros.

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Bitcoin (BTC) Adoption is Crawling Walking Running or Rocking Based on Opportunity – The Cryptocurrency Analytics

Posted on July 17, 2020 by Danzig

There were days when investors put their money in to Bitcoin and the money simply doubled in just a couple weeks. However, those times are now over. The Market has matured. Investors are looking in to the why of the price movement. Prices tend to move sideways for too long than day traders would like to see it be that way.

The Bitcoin mining difficulty has its part to play. Several bitcoin miners very clearly display what is under their hoods and this gives an insight into what those who are mining Bitcoin are up to.

The logic behind cryptocurrency per some propaganda is that everyone will be able to be their own bank. However, that need not be the actual case. Bitcoin is all about freedom of choice. Those who do not like it need not use it. Those who think they can improve Bitcoin can contribute to it. If those in the network are not able to convince the rest in the network about a particular technological upgrade, they simply fork off.

Several thought leaders are popping up in social media channels. Cryptocurrency influencers as named by Bitcoin.com in terms of their follower count on Twitter for instance Justin Sun (2M), John McAfee (1M), Vitalik Buterin (892.7K) and Charlie Lee (831.3K).

This just means the cryptocurrency influencers have a method of creating an impression in the minds of the people about the Bitcoin. Named above, are just a few from a big bunch of them doing the spreading the news about crypto capabilities in one way or the other.

Sydney Ifergan, the crypto expert tweeted: Bitcoin (BTC) does not wait for anyone to come or go. It is here and those who are smart make use of it. Those who naysay continue to do it while others make hay while the sun shines.

There is a golden period for every token. The days of hype of Bitcoin are over. Though several other cryptos are coming to win their share of investors, Bitcoin continues to be the king.

The most recent news is that it is becoming possible to buy Bitcoin in India and the demo videos are available in several Indian languages through Wazirx. Though the regulatory scene is not clear, adoption is either crawling, walking, running, or rocketing based on opportunity.

Bitcoin is getting a multi-linguistic exposure in a country like India where the population is super high. The results are yet to unfold. When the adoption happens, it is sure going to be dramatic.

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The fundamental clock of the Universe is much faster than we imagined – InTallaght

Posted on July 17, 2020 by Danzig

As a metronome keeps the tempo for a musician, a fundamental clock which holds the time of the entire Universe. Typically time is seen as a dimension, similar to spatial ones, but according to some theorists it could derive from a physical process, like a clock.

If the Universe possessed a fundamental clock this should tick more than one million billion billion times per second.

Second particle physics, the latter can obtain properties by interacting with fields: the particles acquire a mass by interacting with the Higgs field, carried by the homonymous boson. In the same way bodies could feel the passage of time in a similar way, interacting with an oscillating field, each oscillation would correspond to a tick of the clock.

Time is a difficult concept to handle in physics: for quantum mechanics, it is a background, an entity external to the particles we want to describe; for General Relativity it is a dimension comparable to the 3 spatial ones and whose flow can be altered by the presence of a gravitational field.

The problem of time is quite important, says Flaminia Giacomini, of the Perimeter Institute of Waterloo in Canada, about the possibility of unifying General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics. Studying the different mechanisms that can reproduce time, including the fundamental clock, can help the creation of new theories (for now, no time travel, however).

Theories are very important but need to be proven experimentally; scientists, therefore, speculated the effects of the fundamental clock on atomic clocks.

If the fundamental metronome is too slow, atomic clocks would quickly go out of sync and tick at irregular intervals. This does not happen, in fact, atomic clocks are the most precise method to measure the passage of time and, evidently, the eventual fundamental stopwatch must oscillate very quickly. How much?

Physicists suspect that there is a limit on the parts into which a second can be divided. Quantum mechanics prohibits divisions smaller than 10 to minus 43, the Planck scale. An interval equal to Plancks time seems reasonable for a possible fundamental clock.

To test their idea, researchers need to increase the oscillation frequency of current atomic clocks about 20 billion times. A considerable but not impossible increase, at least according to some scientists, and perhaps the Large Hadron Collider, the closest instrument to the Planck scale currently available, could help.

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Newsom, Cosmetology Board should open minds, heads, and doors to the great outdoors – OCRegister

Posted on July 17, 2020 by Danzig

On March 19, 2020, Gov. Newsom issued a stay-at-home and shutdown order, dramatically changing our way of life. The shutdown order was catastrophic for many businesses and their employees, and even worse for the personal services industry, as salons, barbershops, nail salons, and other personal care providers were among the last allowed to reopen.

Just as these businesses were beginning to get back on their feet, the governor announced this week that in response to the increasing rate of COVID-19 infections, personal care services in 30 at-risk counties would be required to stop offering a variety ofindoorservices. This was devastating news for personal care providers who had already endured an extensive shutdown.

But there appeared to be a small silver lining. Based on Gov. Newsoms announcement and a subsequentorderby the Director of Public Health, many businesses understood that they would be allowed to offer their servicesoutdoorsso long as they could do so cleanly and hygienically and in harmony with public healthguidanceissued by the Department of Public Health and local authorities. For instance, a barber could set up a tent and offer haircuts outside to maintain some income while indoor services remained off limits.

The providers themselves were not the only ones who understood the governors announcement as allowing outdoor services. The city of Long Beach, for example, put out apress releasethat noted that personal care providers may conduct outdoor operations.

Unfortunately, the California State Board of Barbering and Cosmetology did not interpret Gov. Newsoms announcement or the public healthorder as requiring, or even authorizing, the Board to allow outdoor services. Instead, it issued a statement which interpreted the Business and Professions Code narrowly and stated that since licenses were issued for a particular establishment, no outdoor services were permitted. Any personal care provider who offered outdoor haircuts or styling could face a fine, the loss of a license, or even a criminal misdemeanor conviction.

The practical impact of the boards interpretation will be devastating. Personal care providers will once again be required to close. Many technicians and stylists will lose their jobs. Some establishments will never open again.

There is simply no need for this unduly narrow interpretation and its cruel consequences for the industry, and those in charge should do what they can to avoid it.An outdoor tent or canopy placed right outside of the place of business could reasonably be considered to be part of the licensed establishment. And as a policy matter, if the purpose of the Business and Professions Code is to protect the public, then restricting the use of this outdoor space makes no sense where hygiene and safety requirements can be met outdoors.

Fortunately, there is hope that this irrational decision will be changed or that the Governor can step in and overrule it. The governor has the authority in light of the pandemic tosuspend . . . the orders, rules, or regulations of any state agency, where he determines that strict compliance would in any way prevent, hinder, or delay the mitigation of the effects of the emergency.The governor should do so here, and our public interest law firm, the Pacific Legal Foundation,has askedthe Governor to do just that. Denying personal services providers the opportunity to operate outdoors would hinder, or delay the mitigation of the effects of COVID-19 by forcing providers to completely shut down and lose any means of earning income rather than simply finding new ways of staying afloat.

The governor and other state agencies have already provided similar relief to other businesses in California who are allowed to offer their services outdoors. The governor and Alcoholic Beverage Control have previouslyauthorized,for instance, restaurants and bars to serve food and alcohol in adjacent outdoor areas like parking lots or sidewalks. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has even spearheaded a program to allow restaurants to apply for apermitto operate outdoors in public spaces, and Pasadena soonfollowed suit. Gyms have alsomoved outdoors. Hair salons, barbershops, and personal care services are merely asking for the same kind of relief that has been extended to others.

During the pandemic, public bodies should interpret regulations in a way that allows businesses to operate in innovative ways, so long as they are safe. The board doesnt need to cling to its narrow interpretation of what constitutes an establishment. But if it does, this exactly the type of situation where the governor should intercede to get the unnecessary red tape out of the way of continued suffering.

Anastasia Boden and Daniel Ortner are attorneys at Pacific Legal Foundation, where they represent individuals pro bono in constitutional challenges to irrational and anti-competitive barriers to earning a living.

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Manchester United Transfer News Roundup: Inter offer crucial Alexis Sanchez update, Red Devils preparing mass clearout and more – 17th July 2020 -…

Posted on July 17, 2020 by Danzig

It is expected to be a busy transfer window for Manchester United, as Ole Gunnar Solskjr looks to overhaul his current squad to challenge the likes of Liverpool and Manchester City next season.

Here are the rumours and quotes regarding player transfers from 17th July 2020.

Alexis Sanchez, who seems to have rekindled his form after yet another injury-laden season in the Serie A, is finally turning heads.

Inter Milan director Beppe Marotta confirmed after the game against SPAL that the Italian giants will look to sign him on a permanent deal this summer.

The former Arsenal man has been restricted to 17 league appearances due to a knee injury, contributing three goals and eight assists. However, the Chilean seems to be getting back to his best and has been in good form since the restart.

Inter Milan manager Antonio Conte described him as an 'extra weapon,' as they aim to sign him permanently in the coming months.

The Chilean is on loan at the Serie A side till the end of the league season. However, arecent report in the Mirrorsuggests that the Nerazzurri are looking to extend the deal till the end of the Europa League campaign.

According to the Telegraph, Manchester United are looking to sell as many as six first-team players in the upcoming transfer window.

Ole Gunnar Solskjr will reportedly look to part ways with Chris Smalling, Phil Jones, Alexis Sanchez, Jesse Lingard, Marcos Rojo and Diego Dalot - all of whom have either been on loan or in the fringes of the squad since he arrived at the club.

Smalling and Sanchez might be snapped up Roma and Inter respectively, but it remains to be seen if the Red Devils get significant offers for the rest of the players.

Manchester United legend Ryan Giggs thinks that his old side are close to challenging Manchester City and Liverpool for the Premier League title. However, the Welshman believes the Red Devils are 2-3 players short.

Newcastle United winger Allan Saint-Maximin has been warned off a move to Manchester United by club legend Chris Waddle.

Manchester United are in the market for a right-sided winger, with Jadon Sancho being touted as the first choice target in the upcoming transfer window.

However, the Frenchman's form could make the Red Devils consider him if they are unable to agree a deal with Dortmund.

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Donald Trumps Niece Dishes the Dirt – The Nation

Posted on July 17, 2020 by Danzig

Mary Trump's new book about President Donald Trump on display at a book store in Brooklyn. Although President Trump litigated to stop the release of his niece's book, a New York Supreme Court ruled it could be published. (Stephanie Keith/ Getty)

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The title of Mary Trumps tell-all book about her family, Too Much and Never Enough, expresses my feelings perfectly. Ive read way too much about her uncle Donald and his awful relatives, to say nothing of his wives and girlfriends, but somehow its never enough. I keep thinking Im finally going to understand him as a thinking, feeling human being, but I never do. Or is it that I only pretend to want understanding, when what I really want is just more dirt?Ad Policy

Theres plenty of both in this well-written tell-all by Mary Trump, daughter of Donalds older brother, Fred. A psychologist with a PhD, she offers a portrait of family dysfunction that rings grimly true: Fred, the cruel, egotistical, tyrannical father, aided by his wife, the distant, sometimes sickly, and probably very miserable Mary Anne, destroyed in his five children much (or in Donalds case, all) of their capacity for empathy, curiosity, kindness, or independent action. Winning paternal approval was all that mattered, but only Donald managed to get a smattering of it. He managed it by becoming a flashier version of his Dad, whose depredations as a builder and landlord in Brooklyn and Queens were so notorious that one of his tenants, Woody Guthrie, wrote a song about him.

Mary Trump may be out for revenge, but who wouldnt be? She blames the sociopathy of Fred Sr. for destroying her father, Fred Jr. The oldest son was a happy-go-lucky guy who wasnt cut out for the family business and made a bid for freedom by trying to become an airline pilot, before being claimed by the alcoholism that killed him at only 42. Young Freds downward slide is chilling: He was all but ignored by his parents, who had grudgingly taken him inat one point they made him sleep on a cot in the attic of their enormous mansionbut failed to get him the high-quality medical care to which they had ready access as major hospital donors. His siblings abandoned him as well, and he died alone, while Donald and his sister Elizabeth went to the movies.

Years before, Fred Sr. essentially arranged for Marys mother to be massively cheated in her divorce settlement, leaving her and her childrenFreds grandchildren!trapped in a drafty, rundown apartment in one of his Queens developments. To cap it off, Fred Sr. cut Mary and her brother out of his will, and her aunts and uncles eventually forced her and her brother to accept a comparatively modest settlement. (You may remember a stray news item or two about the family cutting off their health insurance when her brothers baby son was desperately sick.) Years later, Mary took many boxes of legal paper to The New York Times, which in 2018finally!published a long, damning investigation of the Trump familys fraudulent tax dodging.ill-gotten gains

Theres a lot of psychiatric talk here about emotional child abuse and family dysfunction. In Mary Trumps view, Donald is still a terrified little boy. There are lessons, too: For example, if the only reason you want kids is to perpetuate your empire, do the world a favor and stay childless. Probably some version of Marys diagnosis is correctsomething, after all, makes monsters out of sweet little babies. But if you just want to hate the president, theres no shortage of fresh material. His older sister, Maryanne, did his homework for him, and he paid someone to take his SATs. He and Ivana were cheapskatesthey gave Mary and her mother regifted items for Christmas, including a handbag with a used Kleenex inside and a food basket with a missing tin (could it have been caviar?). He reportedly helped Maryanne, a now-retired federal judge, get a position on the federal bench by summoning help from Roy Cohn. Fred Sr. floated one of Donalds failing Atlantic City casinos by buying millions of dollars worth of chips and not gambling with them. There has to be some kind of Nobel Prize in hypocrisy, though, for Donalds treatment of his sister-in-law. The book recounts his saying that it might have been better to cut Marys mother Linda off from the relatively modest family support she got after the divorce and make her stand on her own two feet. This is from a man whose family fortune was based on funding from government housing programs, plus millions in tax finagling, and whose entire career was bankrolled by his father.

Over the course of the book, Mary Trump has many ways of describing her uncle. He is completely unqualified, crass, irresponsible, despicable. He is a narcissist, afflicted with what might be antisocial personality disorder or dependent personality disorder. He is perpetually lying, spinning, and obfuscating, telling the lies, misrepresentations, and fabrications that are the sum total of who my uncle is. He acts with both cruelty and possibly criminal negligence. He understands nothing about history, constitutional principles, geopolitics, diplomacy (or anything else, really). And thats just the first 15 pages.

His rise to the highest office in the land she blames on the media, which bought the myth of him as a brash, can-do self-made man and sexual dynamo; the banks, which funded his dubious ventures; and his siblings, none of whom warned the public what a disaster he would be as president. Maryanne, who as a respected public figure Mary Trump thinks might have made a difference had she spoken up during the campaign, not only remained silent (she had her own secrets to keep) but voted for him out of family loyalty.

Mary Trump, who supported Hillary in 2016, worries about the upcoming election. A large minority of people still confuse his arrogance for strength, his false bravado for accomplishment, and his superficial interest in them for charisma. This is true. Amazingly, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic Trump has botched so completely, with unemployment reaching highs not seen since the Great Depression, and the specter of mass evictions on the horizon, Trumps support hovers around 40 percent. That may not be enough to win the election, even with the disenfranchisement of many likely Biden supporters and the wild card that is our disastrous Electoral College system. But when the election is over, we will still have to face the fact that four in 10 Americans took his side.

Will Mary Trump succeed in changing minds where so many others have failed? I wish.

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China vows retaliation after Trump slaps sanctions on it for interference in Hong Kong – CNBC

Posted on July 17, 2020 by Danzig

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he signed legislation to impose sanctions on China in response to its interference with Hong Kong's autonomy.

Trump also said that he signed an executive order ending the preferential treatment that Hong Kong has long enjoyed.

"Hong Kong will now be treated the same as mainland China," Trump said during a lengthy speech in the White House Rose Garden that quickly drifted away from that legislation to touch on a variety of campaign issues.

"No special privileges, no special economic treatment and no export of sensitive technologies. In addition to that, as you know, we are placing massive tariffs and have placed very large tariffs on China."

China's foreign ministry said on Wednesday Beijing will impose retaliatory sanctions against U.S. individuals and entities in response to the law targeting banks, though the statement released through state media did not reference the executive order.

"Hong Kong affairs are purely China's internal affairs and no foreign country has the right to interfere," the ministry said.

The law, dubbed the Hong Kong Autonomy Act, would slap mandatory sanctions on Chinese officials and companies that helped back Beijing's imposition of a security law that clamps down on dissent in Hong Kong. The sanctions bill passed both houses of Congress earlier this month.

U.S. President Donald Trump attends a news conference in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, U.S., July 14, 2020.

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The Trump administration has been openly critical of Beijing'ssweeping national security law aimed at limiting Hong Kong's autonomy and banning literature critical of the Chinese Communist Party.

Earlier this month, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo described the new law as an "Orwellian move" and an assault "on the rights and freedoms of the people of Hong Kong."

The security law is the latest issue to ratchet up tensions relations between Washington and Beijing. The Trump administration has previously blamed China for the unfolding health crisis caused by the coronavirus, and it has criticized Beijing for its illegal territorial claims in the South China Sea.

The world's two largest economies are also struggling to mend trade relations, with intellectual property theft proving to be a major sticking point.

Trump began his speech in the Rose Garden focused on targeting China's actions, but quickly pivoted to lash out at an array of his political opponents especially presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.

Biden's "entire career has been a gift to the Chinese Communist Party," Trump said, adding that "it's been devastating for the American worker."

"Biden expressed more fawning praise about China on an ordinary day than about America," Trump claimed. He quoted Biden saying recently that the U.S. has "never lived up to" its founding ideals.

Trump also spent a significant chunk of the speech railing against what seemed to be the bulk of Biden's campaign platform. The president attacked Biden on issues including immigration, energy policy, school choice and military funding, among others.

"There's never been a time when the two candidates were so different," Trump said.Trump also said he will be signing a "very powerful" merit-based immigration act, without providing specific details. The Supreme Court recently ruled against Trump over his effort to end the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival program, known as DACA, which shielded hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from deportation and allowed them to receive work permits.

Biden's campaign did not immediately provide a response to the president's attacks.

The Trump administration for months has hinted that the U.S. would take steps to punish China for failing to prevent the virus, which was first observed in the Chinese city of Wuhan, from spreading throughout the globe.

The pandemic has killed more than half a million people worldwide and wrought havoc on the global economy, with leaders at every level of government imposing extreme measures to try to slow the spread of the disease. The United States has reported more deaths and infections from Covid-19 than any other nation, and a recent surge of new cases in numerous states suggests the crisis is far from over.

Trump has placed the blame for the devastation squarely with China, and has frequently referred to the coronavirus in terms that associate it with the country such as the "Chinese Virus" over the objections of critics who call those names xenophobic.

"China's secrecy, deceptions and cover-up allowed it to spread all over the world ... and China must be held fully accountable," Trump said in anIndependence Day speech at the White House.

The pandemic has thrown into question the status of Trump's long-sought trade deal with Beijing, the first phase of which was signed by both nations earlier this year. Trump said last week that America's relationship with China has been "severely damaged" and that he isn't even thinking about the next stage in possible trade negotiations.

In a CBS News interview earlier Tuesday, Trump doubled down: "Look, we made a great trade deal but as soon as the deal was done, the ink wasn't even dry and they hit us with the plague. So right now I'm not interested in talking to China about another deal. I'm interested in doing other things with China."

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Donald Trump, In CBS News Interview, Defends His Retweet Of Chuck Woolerys Claim That CDC Officials Are Lying About COVID-19 – Deadline

Posted on July 17, 2020 by Danzig

Donald Trump defended his retweet this week of Chuck Woolerys claim that Centers for Disease Control officials and others are lying about the coronavirus.

CBS News Catherine Herridge asked Trump, You reposted a tweet yesterday saying that CDC and health officials are lying. You understand this is confusing for the public. So who do they believe? You, or the medical professionals like Dr. Fauci?

I didnt make a comment, Trump told Herridge. I did. I reposted a tweet that a lot of people feel. But all I am doing is making a comment. Im just putting somebodys voice out there. There are many voices. There are many people that think we shouldnt do this kind of testing, because all we do, its a trap.

Portions of the interview aired on CBS This Morning on Wednesday and CBS Evening News with Norah ODonnell on Tuesday.

In a tweet on Sunday, Woolery wrote, The most outrageous lies are the ones about Covid 19. Everyone is lying. The CDC, Media, Democrats, our Doctors, not all but most, that we are told to trust. I think its all about the election and keeping the economy from coming back, which is about the election. Im sick of it.

Trump retweeted the comment, which triggered questions from White House reporters on whether Trump was attacking his own health officials about the coronavirus.

On Wednesday, USA Today published an op ed from Trumps trade adviser, Peter Navarro, in which he attacked Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases who is a member of the White Houses coronavirus task force.

Navarro wrote that Fauci has a good bedside manner with the public, but he has been wrong about everything I have interacted with him on.

So when you ask me whether I listen to Dr. Faucis advice, my answer is: only with skepticism and caution, he wrote.

Alyssa Farah, the White House director of strategic communications, wrote on Twitter that Navarro op-ed didnt go through normal White House clearance processes and is the opinion of Peter alone. @realDonaldTrump values the expertise of the medical professionals advising his Administration.

In her interview, Herridge also asked Trump why he thought African Americans were still dying while in law enforcement custody.

So are white people. So are white people. What a terrible question to ask. So are white people. More white people by the way. More white people, Trump said. He said that the killing of George Floyd was terrible, but also said, what a terrible question to ask.

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Donald Trump is destroying the Post Office – The Week

Posted on July 17, 2020 by Danzig

The United States Postal Service has long been the most popular government agency. The last Gallup poll on the question found 74 percent of Americans rated it as excellent or good as compared to 60 percent for NASA or 50 percent for the IRS. Despite years of cash trouble (mainly the fault of Congress), most people like their good old mail carrier. Indeed, as I have written, this country could not function without the USPS.

So it should come as no surprise that President Trump is taking the agency apart. Jacob Bogage reports at The Washington Post that the USPS is facing huge problems under Louis DeJoy, a big Trump donor who was recently appointed postmaster general. DeJoy supposedly wants it to run more like a business, and has implemented structural changes that have fouled up deliveries. It's yet another example of how Trump's authoritarian rot is dissolving the American state and raising the possibility of interference with the 2020 election.

Let me start with some background. As noted, the USPS has struggled since 2006, when Congress and President Bush imposed absurd retirement benefit funding requirements in the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act. As my colleague Jeff Spross writes, this required the agency to pre-fund its retiree health benefits over the next 75 years, and immediately knocked its budget into the red. As I have argued before, fully pre-funding even normal pensions is absurd for a permanent government agency, but this is even worse requiring the USPS to sock money away for future employees who aren't even born yet.

As a result, the collapse in ordinary mail volume thanks to the coronavirus pandemic landed on an agency that was already struggling to keep its head above water. More than half of its mail trucks are outdated Grumman Long Life Vehicle models, kept in service long past their planned retirement dates, and have an alarming habit of catching on fire. They also have no air conditioning as a result, hundreds of mail carriers have suffered heat exhaustion over the last few years, and some have even died of heatstroke.

Now, as the Post reports, the USPS has also seen a huge spike in demand for package delivery as people shop more online under quarantine, which has cushioned the blow somewhat. But the agency is still reeling, and now the Trump administration is making the problems worse. Congress authorized USPS to borrow $10 billion as part of a coronavirus relief package, but Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is refusing to hand over the money until it turns over much of its operations to him. (This was not remotely stipulated in the law and is probably illegal.)

Meanwhile, DeJoy is pushing a lot of business consultant mumbo-jumbo on the agency. He has limited overtime, instructed mail carriers to leave mail behind that will slow down their delivery routes, and required that they park no more than four times along their delivery routes. Trump, meanwhile, has demanded the USPS quadruple its rates on packages.

This betrays an alarming lack of understanding about what makes the USPS work. Its primary advantage is daily, inexpensive service to almost every house and business in the country. Efficiency is important, but reliability is even more so. People will not turn to it if their mail is randomly delayed or lost, which is liable to happen if it is left behind, much less if it costs four times what it currently does. Indeed, several cities are reporting severe problems with mail service of late. And limiting parking along the delivery route is simply bizarre it could easily make the route take longer by forcing mail carriers to walk longer distances. (It sounds very much like the plutocrat knee-jerk belief that the way to improve efficiency is to abuse one's employees.)

It is hard to explain what is going on here. Part of it is surely the Republican hatred of public services of any kind. GOP dogma holds that government is bad by definition, and if there is a popular and successful agency, by God they will ruin it out of spite. Part of it is just the general malicious incompetence that saturates every part of the Trump administration. Part of it probably has to do with Trump's feud with Jeff Bezos he seems to think that by punishing the USPS he can hurt Amazon.

But it's also impossible not to notice that Trump has been screeching paranoid lies about voting by mail for the last few months, falsely portraying it as some kind of Democratic conspiracy to commit voter fraud. The pandemic will surely still be raging come November, and people will therefore want to vote by mail if they can. Indeed, the USPS is already warning people to submit their ballots early. Trump or his toadies may be calculating that Democrats are more likely to vote by mail, therefore ruining mail delivery might mean enough ballots are lost or unable to be delivered in time to tip the election to Trump.

If that were to happen, it would be straight-up election theft. However, it might actually boomerang on Trump and other Republican candidates, which have historically relied on mail-in ballots to drive turnout among their elderly voters. Trump's own campaign has a large absentee ballot operation, but Trump's howling has apparently made his crackpot base leery of mail-in voting themselves missing the intended message that mail-in voting is fraud only when Democrats do it. And if the pandemic is bad enough, many older Republicans may not vote at all for fear of catching COVID-19.

Whatever the reason, it's just one more potential accelerating catastrophe to add to the pile caused by Trump's disastrous misrule. The U.S. could not possibly have become a rich country without the connective social tissue of efficient mail service. But it seems the president is determined to cause as much destruction on his way down as he can.

Editor's note: This piece originally mischaracterized the nature of the 2006 USPS reform law. It has been corrected. The Week regrets the error.

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Russian hackers have given Donald Trump his chance to refight the last election – Telegraph.co.uk

Posted on July 17, 2020 by Danzig

Meanwhile, the foreign hackers havent been in hibernation. The APT acronym stands for Advanced Persistent Threat. The Fancy Bear and Cozy Bear groups are persistent ursine offenders. Theyre doing this the entire time, a Washington, DC cyber-security expert familiar with political campaigns tells me. But the media are interested now because theres an election coming.

Nor were the American media much interested in Russian hacking before the Trump campaign of 2016. There are grounds to believe that Russian hackers were inside American servers during Obamas first term. During his second term, the evidence could no longer be denied. In 2014, Dutch intelligence infiltrated the Fancy Bear group and concluded that it had hacked the Obama White House, the State Department and the Democratic Party. In August 2015, the Cozy Bear group was linked to a spear-phishing attack on the Pentagons email system which caused the temporary shutdown of the Joint Chiefs of Staffs communications.

The Obama administration knew this, but the Democrats didnt declare Russian hacking to be a national security crisis until Donald Trump won the 2016 election. In American politics, truth is a partisan commodity. So Robert Muellers failure to implicate Trump in the 2016 leaks hasnt stopped the Democrats and most of the American media from claiming that Trump is dubiously accommodating to Vladimir Putin.

Its the height of responsible statecraft for Hillary Clinton to have committed Obamas first-term State Department to a reset with Russia, but its treason for Trump to try the same. Its statesmanlike of Obama to have looked the other way in 2014 and 2015, when Russian hackers were inside the servers of the White House and the Pentagon. But its somehow irrelevant that Trump defended the integrity of the 2018 midterms by directing the US military to block the Internet Research Agency, the St Petersburg-based troll farm that had spread misinformation during the 2016 campaign.

No wonder that Trumps base will look for the hands of the deep state in the timing of this latest expos of Russian hacking. Americas intelligence agencies seem to have shaped much of the Russian hacking narrative. They might be doing it again now.

If a Covid-19 vaccine is found, the recipe will be shared quickly. The opportunity the Cozy Bear hackers see in the Covid-19 honeypot might not be strategic, but commercial: the chance to get ahead in the manufacture and sale of vaccines. This looks more like a criminal enterprise than a political one, but if the Democrats use it to attack Trump, they will make a political error.

Donald Trump Jr to self-publish book about Biden will he fix the typo first? – The Guardian

Posted on July 17, 2020 by Danzig

Donald Trump Jr has announced plans to self-publish a book about Joe Biden. Unfortunately, the cover image he released contained a grammatical mistake.

The presidents oldest son announced Liberal Privilege: Joe Biden and the Democrats Defense of the Indefensible by tweet, writing: Blown away by what Biden has gotten away with, more details next week! Libs already triggered!

He expanded, a little, in an interview with the news site Axios, promising to provide a picture of his fathers challenger for the presidency that the press ignores, in time for the party conventions in August.

He was self-publishing, he said, in order to fire a shot across the bow of the traditional publishing industry, confident he can reach more than 5m followers on Twitter and more than 3m on Instagram without outside help.

The internet, alas, was quick to notice that such help often includes basic editing.

The released cover for Trump Jrs book included a misplaced apostrophe, Democrats instead of Democrats.

Sharp-eyed users also contended that a reference to the authors first book, Triggered, failed to hyphenate best-selling although whether that is an error is up for debate. The Guardian style guide, for instance, counsels the use of bestselling as one word.

Trump Jrs first book, subtitled How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence Us, did indeed reach No 1 on the relevant New York Times bestseller list, although the same paper revealed that the Republican National Committee helped get it there by buying copies in bulk.

Reviewing Triggered, the Guardian offered a taste of what might be to come in Liberal Privilege and its likely reception: As for the Bidens, Don Jr had this to say on Fox News: I wish my name was Hunter Biden. I could go abroad, make millions off of my fathers presidency Id be a really rich guy! It would be incredible!

Where to start? Moscow?

But the review also noted Trump Jrs effective work as a surrogate for his father, saying his book was best viewed as the opening salvo of the Trump child with real political chops. Trump Jr features prominently on lists of possible Republican presidential candidates for 2024.

Trump Jr, 42, told Axios his girlfriend, Fox News host turned Trump campaign official Kimberley Guilfoyle, would narrate the audio version of his new book.

Guilfoyle recently tested positive for Covid-19.

While his father attempts to govern during the pandemic, Trump Jr has been in quarantine, using the time to write.

Thats how we came up with the idea for her to do the audio book, he said. We would take turns reading the chapters out loud for flow Love in a time of Covid.

In a statement, Bidens press secretary, TJ Ducklo, said Trump Jrs book would be filled with disgusting lies and smears the latest in a series of desperate and pathetic attempts to distract from the presidents historic bungling of the coronavirus response.

Donald Trump Jr to self-publish book about Biden will he fix the typo first? - The Guardian

Scoop: Coming Up on a Rebroadcast of MATCH GAME on ABC – Sunday, July 26, 2020 – Broadway World

Posted on July 17, 2020 by Danzig

"Sam Richardson, Jane Krakowski, Ben Schwartz, Caroline Rhea, James Van Der Beek, Vivica A. Fox" - There is something for everyone on this week's "Match Game." We've got singing, a world record-holding strongman and host Alec Baldwin battling celebrity panelist Caroline Rhea for the title of "America's Sweetheart," airing SUNDAY, JULY 26 (10:00-11:00 p.m. EDT), on ABC. (TV-14, DL) Produced by Fremantle, "Match Game" features four contestants each week vying for the chance to win $25,000, as they attempt to match the answers of six celebrities in a game of fill-in-the-blank. Episodes can also be viewed on demand and Hulu. (Rebroadcast. OAD: 6/7/20)Celebrity panelists include the following:Sam Richardson ("The Tomorrow War"; "Superintelligence")Jane Krakowski (Tony winner; "30 Rock"; "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt"; "Dickinson")Ben Schwartz ("Space Force"; "Middleditch & Schwartz")Caroline Rhea("Women of a Certain Age"; "The COMEDY CENTRAL ROAST of Alec Baldwin")James Van Der Beek ("Varsity Blues"; "What Would Diplo Do")Vivica A. FOX ("Empire"; "Arkansas"; podcast "Hustling with Vivica A. Fox")Joining the celebrity panelists are contestants Marisa Aull (hometown: Lexington, Kentucky), Adam Burnes (hometown: Sacramento, California), Shirene Warner (hometown: Stafford, Virginia) and Vincent Panico (hometown: Whitehouse Station, New Jersey)."Match Game" isexecutive produced by Scott St. John, Alec Baldwin, Mallory Schwartz and Fremantle's Jennifer Mullin.From This AuthorTV Scoop

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Consciousness Existing Beyond Matter, Or in the Central Nervous System as an Afterthought of Nature? – The Daily Galaxy –Great Discoveries Channel

Posted on July 17, 2020 by Danzig

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Does human consciousness exist separate from matter, or is it embodied in the body a critical player in anything that has to do with mind? We are not thinking machines that feel; rather, we are feeling machines that think. answers neuroscientist Antonio Damasio, who pioneered the field of embodied consciousness the bodily origins of our sense of self. We may smile and the dog may wag the tail, but in essence, he says. we have a set program and those programs are similar across individuals in the species. There is no such thing as a disembodied mind.

Consciousness is considered by leading scientists as the central unsolved mystery of the 21st Century: I have a much easier time imagining how we understand the Big Bang than I have imagining how we can understand consciousness, says Edward Witten, theoretical physicist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey who has been compared to Isaac Newton and Einstein about the phenomena that has been described as assuming the role spacetime did before Einstein invented his theory of relativity.

Some scientists have asked how can we be sure that the source of consciousness lies within our bodies at all? One popular, if mystical, idea, writes astrophysicist Paul Davies in The Demon in the Machine, is that flashes of mathematical inspiration can occur by the mathematicians mind somehow breaking through into a Platonic realm of mathematical forms and relationships that not only lies beyond the brain but beyond space and time altogether.

The English astronomer, Fred Hoyle, infamous for his rejection of the Big Bang theory, suggested an even more radical hypothesis: that quantum effects in the human brain leave open the possibility of a superintelligence in the cosmic future using a subtle but well-known backwards-in-time property of quantum mechanics in order to steer scientific progress.

Four billion years ago, writes Damasio, in The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of the Cultural Mind, the first primitive organisms monitored changes in their bodily state equivalent to hunger, thirst, pain and so on and had feedback mechanisms to maintain equilibrium. The relic of those primitive mechanisms is our autonomic nervous system, which controls bodily functions such as heartbeat and digestion, and of which we are largely unconscious.

Consciousness is Like Spacetime Before Einsteins Relativity

Then, about half a billion years ago, the central nervous system, featuring a brain, evolved an afterthought of nature, says Damasio who a proposes three layered theory of consciousness based on a hierarchy of stages, with each stage building upon the last. The most basic representation of the organism is referred to as the Protoself, next is Core Consciousness, and finally, Extended Consciousness.

Damasio, who is an internationally recognized leader in neuroscience, was educated at the University of Lisbon and currently directs the University of Southern California Brain and Creativity Institute. The human brain, he argues, became the anchor of what had once been a more distributed mind. Changes in bodily state were projected onto the brain and experienced as emotions or drives the emotion of fear, say, or the drive to eat. Subjectivity evolved later again, he argues. It was imposed by the musculoskeletal system, which evolved as a physical framework for the central nervous system and, in so doing, also provided a stable frame of reference: the unified I of conscious experience.

Ultimate Mystery of the Universe Human Consciousness: Were Like Neanderthals Trying to Understand Astronomy

Life was regulated at first without feelings of any sort; here was no mind and no consciousness. There was, Damasio writes, a set of homeostatic mechanisms blindly making the choices that would turn out to be more conducive to survival. The arrival of nervous systems, capable of mapping and image making, opened the way for simple minds to enter the scene. During the Cambrian explosion, after numerous mutations, certain creatures with nervous systems would have generated not just images of the world around them but also an imagetic counterpart to the busy process of life regulation that was going on underneath. This would have been the ground for a corresponding mental state, the thematic content of which would have been valenced in tune with the condition of life, at that moment, in that body. The quality of the ongoing life state would have been felt.

Enter Sarah Garfinkel, at the University of Sussex, UK, who joins Damasio in arguing that our thoughts, feelings and behaviors are shaped in part by the internal signals that arise from our body. But, she reports in New Scientist: it goes beyond that. It is leading her and others to a surprising conclusion: that the body helps to generate our sense of self and is a key part of consciousness. This idea has practical implications in assessing people who show little sign of consciousness. It may also force us to reconsider where we draw the line between life and death, and provide a new insight into how consciousness evolved.

Since 2000, concludes Damasio, I have been defending the idea that the body is a critical player in anything that has to do with mind.

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Astronomers Want to Figure Out What the Hell Planet Nine Is Once and For All – Futurism

Posted on July 17, 2020 by Danzig

Is there a ninth planet lurking beyond the orbit of Neptune?

Astronomers have been observing strange gravitational patterns of a cluster of bodies known as trans-Neptunian objects, or TNOs, that could be explained by the presence of massive ninth planet in our solar system.The hypothetical planet, dubbed Planet Nine, would orbit our star at hundreds of times the distance between the Earth and the Sun.

Its been a contentious topic, with some writing off the odd behavior of TNOs as being caused by a cluster of much smaller space rocks. Others predict that such a planet would be five times the mass of the Earth, orbiting our star at about 400 times the Earths distance from the Sun.

Finally, theres the possibility that Planet Nine is actually a teeny-tiny black hole left over from the Big Bang. So tiny,in fact, that itd only measure about five centimeters across basically impossible to see with any kind of telescope.

There has been a great deal of speculation concerning alternative explanations for the anomalous orbits observed in the outer solar system, explained Amir Siraj, a Harvard undergraduate student, in a statement. One of the ideas put forth was the possibility that Planet Nine could be a grapefruit-sized black hole with a mass of five to 10 times that of the Earth.

So which is it then? In a new paper accepted into the The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Siraj, alongside a team of astronomers from Harvard University and the Black Hole Initiative outlined a newly developed methodthat could hopefully answer that question once and or all.

Their plan is to look for accretion flares given off as the tiny black hole gobbles up matter surrounding it. If they find some, itd mean that Planet Nine is actually a black hole. In the vicinity of a black hole, small bodies that approach it will melt as a result of heating from the background accretion of gas from the interstellar medium onto the black hole, Siraj said.

Because black holes are intrinsically dark, the radiation that matter emits on its way to the mouth of the black hole is our only way to illuminate this dark environment, added Avi Loeb, professor of science at Harvard who was also involved in the research.

The team is placing their bets on the upcoming Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) mission taking place at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile. Astronomers involved in the mission are hoping to answer questions about the nature of dark energy and dark matter as well as the formation and properties of planets in our solar system.

LSST has a wide field of view, covering the entire sky again and again, and searching for transient flares, Loeb said. Other telescopes are good at pointing at a known target, but we do not know exactly where to look for Planet Nine. We only know the broad region in which it may reside.

According to Loeb, the LSSTs unprecedented depth will be able to spot even the smallest of flares.

Its not the only attempt to uncover the mysteries behind Planet Nine. Most recently, a different team of astronomers announced its hoping to launch a fleet of thousands of nanospacecraft to search for the mysterious object.

Unfortunately, that vision is still a moonshot, with cost estimates breaking the $1 billion mark that is, if its even feasible from a technological standpoint in the first place.

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5 Things To Know On Friday, July 17, 2020 – WPTV.com

Posted on July 17, 2020 by Danzig

While you were sleeping, we compiled the biggest stories of the day in one place. Each story has a quick and easy summary, so you're prepared for whatever the day brings. Just click on the links if you want to know more! You can watch the latest LIVE on WPTV here from 4:30 a.m. to 7 a.m.

1. Florida led the nation in coronavirus deaths on ThursdayFlorida led the nation with a state-record 156 additional deaths and 13,965 cases, the second most ever in the state.

Florida represented 19.0 percent of the nation's cases and 16.2 percent of the deaths.

Palm Beach County is second in the state for deaths, increasing by 60 in one week.

2. Supreme Court ruling limits felons voting in FloridaThe Supreme Court is allowing Florida to enforce a law that bars ex-felons from voting who still owe court fees or fines.

Amendment 4, passed by Florida voters in 2018, allowed most ex-felons to register to vote, with exceptions for those convicted of certain crimes.

In 2019, Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law additions to Amendment 4 that required fines, fees and restitution be paid first before ex-felons could register to vote.

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Cherry blossom trees bloom on the grounds of the U.S. Supreme Court.

3. Will there be football in the fall? The NCAA released a set of guidelines member schools should follow as athletic teams prepare for fall sports but in releasing the guidelines, President Mark Emmert seemed less than optimistic about the return of college athletics in the coming weeks.

"Today, sadly, the data point in the wrong direction," Emmert said. "If there is to be college sports in the fall, we need to get a much better handle on the pandemic."

In the professional football world, Miami Dolphins fans won't be allowed to attend training camp or preseason games this year.

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4. Palm Beach County schools' start will be delayed and virtualParents, the school year in Palm Beach County will be delayed, but by how long is still unclear.

The superintendent said many factors need to be considered in planning a school calendar including union contracts, employee and parent schedules, and the number of days students need to take part in learning.

Fennoy said he'll present options to the school board at next week's meeting on July 22, and board members will officially vote on a start date then.

5. You won't be sailing away: 'No Sail Order' for cruise ships through SeptemberThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has extended its 'No Sail Order' for cruise ships through September due to ongoing coronavirus outbreaks.

The original order, placed on March 13, has since been extended twice. The latest order was due to expire on July 24.

According to CDC data, there was a total of 2,973 Covid-19 or COVID-like illness cases aboard cruise ships, in addition to 34 deaths, between March 1 and July 10.

Today's ForecastIsolated morning showers and a few t-storms moving in from the coast.

Latest Weather Forecast 11 p.m. Thursday

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On This Day In HistoryDisneyland, Walt Disneys metropolis of nostalgia, fantasy and futurism, opens on July 17, 1955. The $17 million theme park was built on 160 acres of former orange groves in Anaheim, California, and soon brought in staggering profits. Today, Disneyland hosts more than 18 million visitors a year, who spend close to $3 billion.

Remember, you can join Mike Trim and Ashleigh Walters every weekday on WPTV NewsChannel 5 beginning at 4:30 a.m.

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Space Station Upgrades Nearly Finished After Spacewalk | Living – Greeneville Sun

Posted on July 17, 2020 by Danzig

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) Spacewalking astronauts completed their part of a three-year power upgrade to the International Space Station on Thursday, replacing six more outdated batteries with powerful new ones.

It was the third spacewalk in as many weeks involving battery work by NASAs Bob Behnken and Chris Cassidy.

Running more than an hour ahead of schedule, they managed to complete the battery swaps in a single spacewalk rather than two. Their fourth spacewalk next week will now focus on other chores.

Great job, Mission Control radioed.

Behnken and Cassidy swiftly removed six of the remaining old nickel-hydrogen batteries and plugged in three new lithium-ion units.

The lithium-ion batteries big, boxy units with a mass of more than 400 pounds (180 kilograms) are so powerful that only half as many are needed. The batteries store power gathered by the stations solar panels for use on the nighttime side of Earth.

The effort to replace all of the space stations 48 aging batteries began in January 2017, requiring 11 spacewalks to date.

One new battery shorted out in 2019 and the old ones had to be re-installed. One more spacewalk remains, likely this fall. NASA is putting it off instead of tackling it next week because it would involve powering down that power channel.

Besides, the two remaining old batteries are working well with all the new ones, said Rob Navias, a spokesman at Johnson Space Center in Houston. We are fat with power and there is no rush, he said in an email.

NASA expects these new batteries to last the rest of the space stations operational life another four years from now at least.

Much of Thursdays six-hour spacewalk unfolded more than 260 miles (420 kilometers) up under the bright glare of daylight. Cant control the sun, Cassidy noted. Small price to pay for it not going away, I guess. Its nice to be in daylight the whole time.

Behnken arrived at the space station at the end of May on a SpaceX capsule, the companys first astronaut flight. He and Doug Hurley are scheduled to return to Earth in the Dragon capsule in early August.

Cassidy, the space stations commander, is halfway through a six-month mission. A Russian Soyuz capsule is his ride to and from the orbiting outpost.

Both Behnken and Cassidy each now have nine spacewalks to their credit.

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With ‘Palm Springs’, Andy Samberg Proves He’s Always Been Ahead of the Curve – Complex

Posted on July 17, 2020 by Danzig

For millennials such as myself, Saturday Night Lives run from 2008 through 2013 largely defined our generations comedic personas. The core, absurdly talented MVPs of that era like Kristen Wiig, Bill Hader, Seth Myers, and Fred Armisen have left the show and springboarded to greater heights. But for as memorable as those performers are, the cast member who quickly came to represent the millennial sense of humor, and in some ways help define it, was Andy Samberg. And while the actor/comedian/producer is getting his flowers for his work in Hulu and NEONs newly released Palm Springs, diehards will tell you Samberg has always been this goodand hes still getting better.

It was Sambergs now-infamous Lazy Sunday which attuned meand many viewersto his particular brand of comedic stylings. At the core of the video was Samberg; his goofy, expressive face contrasted with his sincerity about getting hyped for Sunday movie matinee. The whole video felt like Samberg and his childhood friends turned collaborators Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Tacconecollectively known as The Lonely Islandhad mined my skull, cherrypicking all the right things I loved, and rolling them into a perfect bit of comedy. The sketch is just as funny 15 years laterand thats even before you get to a weirdly prescient Aaron Burr/Alexander Hamilton joke. Samberg and the rest of The Lonely Island gleefully expanded their ambition, scope, and talent with no premise too far afield. A riff on Bonnie and Clyde wherein Clyde has performance anxiety? Gold. Pansexual dudes who are enjoying one last frat-tastic Spring Break ahead of committing themselves to their future husbands? Amazing satire. On and on the brilliance went as Samberg helped to define both YouTube and viral videos in equal measure while establishing SNL as appointment viewing to see what the groups chaotic reign would bring next.

In spite of The Lonleys Islands anarchy, Sambergs leading presence in these sketches provided an ever-persistent goofiness balanced by an everyman affability. Its a useful skill that helped to ground the groups most absurd moments. Its also a tightrope thats taken larger audiences some time to fully suss outespecially when looking at his projects outside of Saturday Night Live. Hot Rod is a ridiculous comedy about the arrested development of a wannabe stuntman in a small town. Its also a moving story about the search for paternal acceptance. Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping is just as much a This is Spinal Tap (with excellent jokes and incredible musical numbers) for the Justin Bieber generation as it is an exploration of why Schaffer, Taccone, and Samberg will always work well together creatively. Even projects that are seemingly disposablelike Netflixs 2019 The Unauthorized Bash Brother Experiencemange to be deviously smart in the way it garners absolute hilarity out of being too roided out to finish having sex or the burdens of being a successful athlete.

In many ways, time has been Sambergs best friend. Hot Rod and Popstar eventually flourished after theyd been stripped of their initial expectations. Samberg seems happy to plant (cool) beans and let them sit until suddenly, without warning, they explode into fully formed comedic beanstalks. But in those films, the characters arent dissimilar from the roles that defined his SNL Digital Shorts. Samberg isnt changing for audiences but instead waiting for them to catch up. Some of that has happened already; while Brooklyn Nine-Nine will certainly change in the wake of recent events, the show functions best when Sambergs Jake Peralta (a role in which he won a Golden Globe) gets to be as weird as possible within his own surreal work family. The show creates a Cheers-esque environment by just being a deeply pleasant hangout show, complete with a tone thats equal parts warm and hilarious in its own way.

But if the initial reaction to Palm Springsis any indication, audiences have finally caught up. [Ed. note: Spoilers for Palm Springs follow.] The biggest Sundance seller of all time by a nice amount features the actor at his most Sambergian, clad in a bathing suit and a Hawaiian shirt. Sambergs Nyles has already been living in one of those infinite-time-loop situations that you might have heard about for quite some time before Cristin Miliotis Sarah inadvertently joins him. Nyles has fully accepted his fate, declaring to Sarah in between sips of beer, I decided a while ago to sort of give up and stop trying to make sense of things altogether because the only way to really live in this is to embrace the fact that nothing matters. Nyles cynical affect may appear to fly in the face of what we typically expect from a Samberg character, but hes explored nihilism before in his work with Lonely Island (Bash Brothers, in particular, has heaps of it). But its typically been deployed in service of a joke. In Palm Springs, the dourness stands in equal measure with the comedy; neither part ever threatens to overtake the other. This helps to foster a tone for the film thats serious but never depressing or joyless. Its a deeply smart execution of two opposing ideas that Samberg masterfully balances, making the whole movie feel like a watershed moment for him in terms of showing audiences the true breadth of his range.

Palm Springs is full of contradictions. Its heartwarming in the face of an oppressively dour circumstance, equal parts comedy and drama, immature yet adult, and trenchant in a way hes always been. After all, who hasnt felt like theyre living their own version of Groundhog Day as quarantine continues? Palm Springs, based on premise alone, was always going to draw comparisons to Bill Murrays breakthrough hitbut theres far more overlap than youd anticipate. Palm Springs fashions a more dramatic role for Samberg to play in the same way that Groundhog Day did for Bill Murray. Murray was 42 when Groundhog Day came out;Samberg is 41. Not quite an infinite time loop, but a loop nonetheless. Where the two films differ, however, is where the brilliance of Springs arises. Including Miliotis Sarah adds a breath of fresh air to a well-worn premise and she serves as an excellent partner for Sambergs inherent goofiness. The duo doesnt break the loop by letting the universe determine what happens, rather, the characters conclusively go their own way. The results are staggeringly refreshing.

Palm Springs doesnt seem reversed engineered to be a hit vehicle for Samberg. Its just focused on being the best film it can be by leveraging whats always made the comedian great. Thats a lesson more films could stand to take as the actor looks at whats next. The more dramatic portions of Springs prove Samberg is more than capable of handling weighty material while still managing to find moments that speak to his sense of comedic timing. Its not hard to imagine him working with a creative who could really help Samberg tap into the potential of something seriousperhaps in a similar way that Wes Anderson leveraged Bill Murray in Rushmore for example. But even if thats not the direction Samberg decides to head, hes still a creative force to be reckoned with; his track record as a producer on Hulus PEN15 and Netflixs I Think You Should Leave highlight his expertise at finding new voices in the realm of comedy to spotlight for a new generation.

Regardless of what he chooses to do next, the future seems wide open and exciting for the comedian in a way that it quite hasnt before. Palm Springs reconfirms Samberg as a major talent, sees him level up in an exciting way, and proves hes capable of so much more than raps about being on a boat. But as he famously reminded us in that song, anything is possible. It might have been a joke back thenbut its certainly a fact now.

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